Indian Institute of Technology Delhi(IIT Delhi)

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान दिल्ली

Type	Public engineering school
Established	1961
Chairman	Shri Kumar Mangalam Birla^[1]
Director	Prof. V. Ramagopal Rao^[1]
Undergraduates	3590
Postgraduates	4239
Location	New Delhi, Delhi, India Coordinates: 28°32′42″N 77°11′32″E / 28.54500°N 77.19222°E / 28.54500; 77.19222
Campus	Urban
Acronym	IITD
Website	www.iitd.ac.in

The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (abbreviated IIT Delhi or IITD) is a public engineering institution located in Delhi, India. It was declared to be Institute of National Importance by Government of India under Institutes of Technology Act.

History[edit source]

The Government of India negotiated with the British Government for collaboration in setting up an Institute of Technology at Delhi. The British Government agreed in principle to such a collaboration, but were inclined initially to start in a modest way. It was therefore agreed that a College of Engineering & Technology should be established at Delhi with their assistance. A trust called the Delhi Engineering College Trust was established with the help of the UK Government and the Federation of British Industries in London. Later H.R.H. Prince Philips, Duke of Edinburgh, during his visit to India, laid the foundation stone of the College at Hauz Khas on January 28, 1959. The first admissions were made in 1961. The students were asked to report at the College on 16 August 1961 and the College was formally inaugurated on 17 August 1961 by Prof. Humayun Kabir, Minister of Scientific Research & Cultural Affairs. The College was affiliated to the University of Delhi. The school was later accorded the status of a University and was renamed as Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Campus[edit source]

Delhi Campus[edit source]

IIT Delhi is located in Hauz Khas, South Delhi. The campus of 325 acres (132 ha) is surrounded by the beautiful Hauz Khas area and monuments such as the Qutub Minar and Lotus Temple.^[2] The campus is also close to other educational institutions such as the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, National Institute of Fashion Technology, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and Indian Statistical Institute.

Multi-Storey Building (MS) facing the front lawns

The inside of the campus resembles a city, with gardens, lawns, residential complexes and wide roads. The campus has its own water supply and backup electricity supply along with shopping complexes to cater to the daily needs of residents.

A garden in IIT Delhi

The IIT-D campus is divided into four zones:

Student Residential Zone
Faculty and Staff Residential Zone
Student Recreational Area, that includes the Student Activity Center (SAC), football stadium, cricket ground, basketball courts, hockey field, lawn tennis courts and swimming pool
Academic Zone that includes department offices, lecture theatres, libraries and workshops.

The student residential zone is divided into two main sectors—one for boys hostels and another for girls hostels.

Hostels[edit source]

There are 13 hostels (11 for boys and 2 for girls), There are also apartments for married students. All the hostels are named after mountain ranges in India. These are:

Boys

Jwalamukhi Hostel
Aravali Hostel
Karakoram Hostel
Lecture Hall Complex at IIT Delhi

Nilgiri Hostel
Kumaon Hostel
Vindhyachal Hostel
Shivalik Hostel
Satpura Hostel
Classroom In IIT Delhi

Zanskar Hostel
Girnar Hostel
Udaigiri Hostel

Girls

Kailash Hostel
Himadri Hostel

The residential apartments are named after ancient Indian universities

Takshashila
Nalanda
Vaishali
Indraprastha
Vikramshila

Girnar House had the highest number of residents in 2011 with more than 700 students.^{[citation needed]} Each Hostel has its distinct culture of sports and cultural activities. Hostels compete in inter hostel events to bring home various trophies which include the BRCA trophy for cultural activities and GC for Sports. BRCA trophy was won by Kumaon in 2016 when it was reinstated after being non-competitive for the previous 2 years. The GC was won by Jwalamukhi hostel in 2016 bringing an end to the 5-year reign of Kumaon hostel. Academic year ends with an annual function of hostels known as 'House day' in which the passing out batch and the freshers give various cultural performances and awards are distributed for outstanding contribution to various hostel activities.

Student Activity Center[edit source]

The Student Activity Center or SAC is a part of the Student Recreation Zone in IIT Delhi. The SAC is for the extracurricular activities of the students. The SAC consists of a gymnasium, swimming pool, pool and billiards rooms, squash courts, table tennis rooms, a badminton court, a music room, a fine arts room, a robotics room and a committee room used to organise quizzing and debating events. The SAC also has an Open Air Theatre where concerts are hosted. Students can use the radio broadcasting facility (HAM) in the SAC although its use has declined over the years.

Student bodies[edit source]

There are a number of student bodies in IIT Delhi, each with its own set of responsibilities. The highest student body in IIT Delhi is the Student Affairs Council (SAC). All the other student boards are included under the SAC, as listed below:

Board for Student Welfare(BSW)^[3]

As the name suggests BSW works for the welfare of all the students of IITD.The BSW shall organise welfare activities from time to time and look into other aspects of student welfare. The BSW shall provide financial aid to the needy students as per the decided rules.^[4] BSW has the responsibility of organising Speranza,the annual youth festival of IIT Delhi.

Board for Recreational and Creative Activities (BRCA)^[5]

Under new structure, the BRCA consists of 9 clubs: Literary Club, Debating Society (DebSoc), Dramatics Club, Dance Club, Music Club, Photography and Films Club (PFC), Indoor Sports Club (ISC), Quizzing Club (QC), the Fine Arts and Crafts Club (FACC), in addition to the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth SPIC MACAY Delhi. Each club has a hostel representative working under the aegis of the hostel cultural secretary. The BRCA has the responsibility of organising the annual cultural festival of IIT Delhi, called Rendezvous.

Board for Student Publications (BSP)^[6]

BSP is the student managed board responsible for all journalistic and creative publications at IIT Delhi, bringing out 4 magazines, the Inception, the Muse, Sync I and Sync II; and 4 newsletters, the Inquirer, annually. The BSP also conducts the IIT Delhi's annual Literary festival – Literati each September, hosting a plethora of events that include panel discussions, guest talks, poetry recitations and literature quizzes. The Board serves both as a creative outlet, and as a platform to voice student opinion, organising numerous competitions and workshops throughout the year.

Board for Sports Activities (BSA)^[7]

BSA is the Sports Board of IIT Delhi. It provides facilities for many sports such as Aquatics, Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Cricket, Football, Hockey, Lawn tennis, Squash, Table-Tennis, Volleyball, Weight Lifting. The Board Council consists of President, Vice-President, Sports Officer, Sports Administrators. Also there are the posts of General Secretary and Deputy General Secretary, the candidates for which are elected from amongst the students by themselves. Besides this, there are 13 sports secretaries, one from each of the 13 hostels.
The Board monitors the sports domain of the institute. It is responsible for maintaining the sports grounds of different sports, conducting Inter Hostel sports competition, participation of IIT Delhi in InterIIT Sports Meet (the annual sports event of all the IITs). Apart from this, BSA is also responsible for conducting Sportech, the annual Sports Festival of IIT Delhi.^[8]
The other student council is the Co-curricular and Academic Interaction Council (CAIC).^[9] which deals with the academic and co-curricular activities of the students. There are 45 student representatives to the CAIC: 22 from the UG students and 23 from the PG students, apart from 2 representatives from each co-curricular body. The co-curricular activities under the CAIC are:

Robotics Club^[10]
Entrepreneurship Development Cell^[11]
Technocracy (consisting of Astronomy Club, Economics Club, Electronics Club and Tech Workshops)^[12]
Automobile Club (consisting of Formula SAE, Mini Baja, and HPV)^[13]

The annual technical festival of IIT Delhi, Tryst is organised by the CAIC.

Entrepreneurship Development Cell, IIT Delhi[edit source]

The Entrepreneurship Development Cell (eDC), IIT Delhi^[11] is a cell which aims to support and augment the efforts of budding entrepreneurs in the college level to get established as a successful and independent entrepreneurs. eDC IIT Delhi wishes to inculcate and Enrich the entrepreneurial environment in India by creating an easily accessible and exhaustive set of resources for the entrepreneurs, which including the students, the budding professionals, mentors, angel investors and the venture capitalists through various fun-filled yet educating sessions such as Startup Showcases, competitions, eTalks and so on and so forth.
E-summit^[14] One of the biggest entrepreneurial platforms for academicians,newage entrepreneurs,eminent business personalities,venture capitalists and the students to gather at one place and share their entrepreneurial endeavours and experiences,and to pledge to take entrepreneurship to greater scales.

Sonipat Campus[edit source]

This campus will be located in the Rajiv Gandhi Education City, Sonipat.^[15] The Campus in Sonipat will be focusing on Executive MBA and Faculty Development programs and is under construction.^[16]

Programs[edit source]

Undergraduate programs[edit source]

IIT Delhi offers a Bachelor of Technology in nine areas that include:

Biochemical Engineering and biotechnology
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Engineering Physics
Mathematics and Computing
Mechanical Engineering
Production and Industrial Engineering
Textile Technology.

Undergraduate-cum-postgraduate dual programs[edit source]

The dual degree B.Tech-cum-M.Tech program is offered in following areas:

Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology,
Chemical Engineering,
Computer Science and Engineering, and
Electrical Engineering.(Discontinued from 2013)
Mathematics and Computing (Integrated M.Tech.)

The admission to these programs is done through Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) which is an all India entrance examination. Admissions to the IIT programs are done on the basis of merit list of JEE-Advanced (second phase of JEE). Roughly about a million students take this exam every year with only few thousands of them actually crossing the bridge.

Postgraduate programs[edit source]

IIT Delhi offers many postgraduate programs (M.Tech(by coursework), M.S.(by Research), M.Sc., M. Des., MBA under various departments and centres. The school of MBA in IIT Delhi is Department of Management Studies.^[17] The admission to M.Tech and M.Des programs are carried out mainly based on Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). M.Sc. admissions are through Joint Admission Test for Masters (JAM) and MBA admissions are through Common Admission Test (CAT). Students securing very good scores in these exams are called for personal interview.

Inter-disciplinary centres[edit source]

IIT Delhi has 11 multi-disciplinary centres. An inter-disciplinary centre differs from a department in the fact that it deals with an overlap of two or more disciplines of engineering or science. Similar to the departments the centres also offer programs though they offer these courses only at the post-graduation level. The following multi-disciplinary centres are located in IIT Delhi:

Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE)
Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS)
Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CBME)
Computer Services Centre (CSC)
Centre for Energy Studies (CES)
Educational Technology Services Centre (ETSC)
Industrial Tribology, Machine Dynamics and Maintenance Engineering (ITMMEC)
Instrument Design Development Centre (IDDC)
Centre for Polymer Science and Engineering (CPSE)
Center for Natural Resources and Environment
Centre for Rural Development and Technology (CRDT)
National Resource Centre for Value Education in Engineering (NRCVEE)
Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP)

Schools of excellence[edit source]

IIT Delhi has 3 schools of excellence. A school of excellence is an externally funded (either from an alumnus or an organisation) school functioning as a part of the institute. There are three such schools in IIT Delhi which are:

Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management
Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology^[18]
Kusuma School of Biological Sciences^[19]

Rankings[edit source]

University and college rankings
General – international
QS (World)^[20]	172
QS (BRICS)^[21]	15
QS (Asian)^[22]	36
Times^[23]	401-500
Times (BRICS)^[24]	32
Times (Asia)^[25]	54
General – India
NIRF^[26]	5
Careers360^[27]	5
Engineering – India
NIRF^[28]	4
India Today^[29]	1
Outlook India^[30]	1
Careers360^[31]	AAAAA
Business – India
NIRF^[32]	6
Business Today^[33]	19
Careers360^[34]	6
Outlook India^[35]	14

Internationally, IIT Delhi was ranked 172 in the QS World University Rankings of 2018^[20], the top ranked university in India. The same institute ranked it 36 in Asia ^[22] and 15 among BRICS nations^[21] in 2016. It was ranked 401-500 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings in 2016-2017,^[23] 54 in Asia^[25] and 32 among BRICS & Emerging Economies University Rankings in 2017.^[24]
In India, Careers360 ranked IIT Delhi fifth among all universities in 2017^[27] and has given it the top rating "AAAAA" among engineering colleges in 2017.^[31] IIT Delhi ranked first among engineering colleges in India by India Today in 2017,^[29] as well as by Outlook India.^[30] It ranked fourth among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2017^[28] and fifth overall.^[26]
The Department of Management Studies sixth among management schools in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2017,^[32] 19 by Business Today's "India's best B-schools 2016",^[33] sixth by Careers360's "Top MBA Colleges in India 2017", fifth among government institutes,^[34] and 14 in India by Outlook India's "Top 100 Management Schools" of 2016.^[35]

Alumni association[edit source]

The IIT Delhi Alumni Association^[36] is the association for the 33,000+^{[citation needed]} alumni of the institute. It has an office on the campus and chapters across the world.^{[citation needed]}

Notable alumni[edit source]

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Predhiman Krishan Kaw, Founding Director of Institute for Plasma Research, first PhD graduate of IITD, completed at the age of 18.
Kiran Seth, founder of SPIC MACAY
Avinash Kumar Agarwal, mechanical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Soumitro Banerjee, electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Manvinder Singh Banga, Former Chairman, Unilever
Binny Bansal, Co-founder of Flipkart
Sachin Bansal, Founder of Flipkart
Swami Mukundananda,Spiritual Teacher
Kiran Bedi, first female IPS officer of India
Chetan Bhagat, Indian novelist^[37]
Vikrant Bhargava, Co-founder, Partygaming
Somnath Bharti, Lawyer and politician
Yogesh Chander Deveshwar, Chairman at ITC
Anurag Dikshit, Co-founder, Partygaming
Sameer Gehlaut, Co-founder of Indiabulls
Rajdeep Grewal, Distinguished Professor of Marketing at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rajat Gupta, first Indian-born CEO of a global corporation, served as Managing Director of McKinsey & Company^[38]
Avinash Kak, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Subhash Kak, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University
Devang Vipin Khakhar - chemical engineer, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, where he served as its first CEO & Chairman in the early 1980s^[39]
Shrinivas Kulkarni, McArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Caltech
Shashank Kumar, Founder & CEO, Green Agrevolution and Founder, Farms and Farmers
Pramod Maheshwari Chief Executive Officer, Career Point Ltd
Ashish Nanda, Director at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad & Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School
Venkata Padmanabhan, computer engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Rajendra Pawar, co-founder, NIIT
Arogyaswami Paulraj, pioneer in MIMO, Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Elect. Engineering at Stanford University
Surendra Prasad, communications engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Tushar Raheja, Indian novelist^[40]^[41]^[42]
Raghuram Rajan, Chief Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister of India and Eric Glecher at ChicagoBooth; 23rd governor of the Reserve Bank of India joined on 05 Sep 2013
Sashi Reddi (serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, a technologist and a philanthropist)
Krishan Sabnani, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Research VP responsible for research on NFV and web communications
Subir Sachdev, Professor of Physics at Harvard University, USA.
Anurag Sharma - optical physicist, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Jayant Sinha, Union Minister of State for Finance, Government of India,^[43] former Managing Director at Omidyar Network and Partner at McKinsey & Company, Member of Parliament in the Indian Lok Sabha^[44]
Vijay Thadani, co-founder, NIIT
Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology & Strategy Officer Cisco Systems and Former Chief Technology Officer of Motorola, Inc.

Technical organisations[edit source]

ACM Student Chapter[edit source]

The Association for Computing Machinery is an educational and scientific society which works with the motto of "Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession". The IIT Delhi Student Chapter^[45] of the ACM was established in 2002 to address the needs of the IIT Delhi computing community. The goal of the chapter is to create interest among the students for computer science, apart from what they learn during the course work. The chapter organises workshops and talks on different subjects by speakers who are well known in their area. These talks give students opportunities to learn about advanced research subjects. Apart from these, some non-technical activities are also organised. The IIT Delhi Chapter won the ACM Student Chapter Excellence Award^[46] for its Outstanding Activities during 2009–10. In 2012, the team of Rudradev Basak, Nikhil Garg, and Pradeep Mathias of IIT Delhi, achieved India's best ever rank at the ACM ICPC World Finals, by finishing 18th^[

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