Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Encyclopedia : I : IN : IND : Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Guwahati or IITG), the sixth member of the IIT fraternity, was established in 1994 and the academic programme commenced in 1995. It is one growing up fast to be one of the most promising engineering research centres in the world today and like other members of the IIT fraternity, it is mainly known for the quality of its undergradutate curriculum. IIT Guwahati campus is unarguably one of the most beautiful campuses in India. It is situated on the northern banks of the mighty river Brahmaputra and the sprawling 705 acres campus in the lands of "The Red River and Blue Hills" attracts many visitors by its spell-binding picturesque surroundings. The young IIT with its dynamic students and visionary faculty has produced many successful technologists and continues to develop and diversify each year, while maintaining the renowned 'IIT' standards in education and research.

Currently IIT Guwahati houses the Departments of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE), Biotechnology (BT), Mechanical Engineering (ME), Chemical Engineering (CHE), Civil Engineering (CE), Mathematics (MA), Physics (PH) and Chemistry (CH). IIT-G is also currently home to a unique Department of Design (DoD) and 6 Centres of Research. It is the only institute among the all IITs offering the degree of Bachelors in Design(B. Des.).

At present the Institute has eleven departments covering all the major engineering and science disciplines, offering B. Tech., B. Des., M. Tech., Ph.D. and M.Sc. programmes. Within a short period of time, IIT Guwahati has been able to build up the necessary infrastructure for carrying out advanced research and has been equipped with state-of-the-art scientific and engineering instruments. Presently there are about 1300 students on rolls, 152 faculty members and 250 support staff. Unlike any other member of the IIT fraternity IIT Guwahati has the distinct achievement of having accomplished this rapid self dependence without collaboration or assistance from any foreign university or government.

Contents

1 Campus
2 Departments
3 Centres
4 Student life
5 Annual Festivals
6 External links

Campus

IIT Guwahati Academic and Administrative Buildings

IIT Guwahati's campus is on a sprawling 3 km² plot of land on the northern bank of the river Brahmaputra around 20 km from the heart of the Guwahati city. The majestic Brahmaputra lies on one side of the campus, with hills and open spaces on the others. The Campus has got all the basic facilities like the Academic Complex, Administrative building, Central Library and Computer Centre and the Student Activity Centre apart from faculty and staff residential buildings, guest house and student hostels.

Departments

Biotechnology
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Design
Electronics and Communication Engineering
Humanities and Social Sciences
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Physics

Centres

Computer Centre
Centre for Educational Technology
Centre for Nanotechnology
Centre for Mass Media Communication
Central Instruments Facility
Centre for Energy
Centre for the Environment

Student life

IIT Guwahati Hostels

IIT Guwahati is a fully residential campus. All the students live in hostels located in the campus. All these hostels have single seater spacious rooms and have all the amenities like food mess, canteen, lounges, campus wide lan with internet access etc. The hostels are named after various rivers and tributries of north-east India. Presently, the hostels are:

Manas
Dihing
Kapili
Siang
Kameng
Subhansiri

Many other hostels in the plan are rapidly coming up as a part of the campus construction.

Annual Festivals

Every year, two major national level festivals are organised by the students of IIT Guwahati. The science and technological festival, Techniche, is held in the odd semester (beginning of September) while the cultural festival, Alcheringa, is held in the even semester (end of January). Alcheringa is the biggest cultural festival of its kind in the entire north-east India and draws huge amounts of crowd from all over India. Apart from the two national level festivals, the students have an intra-iit cultural festival named Manthan, held every year during October. There is also an annual sports meet organised where many colleges from the north-east India participate.

External links

The Indian Institutes of Technology
	IIT Kharagpur • IIT Bombay • IIT Kanpur • IIT Madras • IIT Delhi • IIT Guwahati • IIT Roorkee • Schools of Management
	History of IITs • Joint Entrance Examinations • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering • Policy of Reservation • LAOTSE • Alumni • Culture • *Performing Arts Festival* • *Illumination and Rangoli* • *Cognizance* • *Shaastra* • *Techkriti* • *Antaragni* • *Alcheringa*
	• National Institutes of Technology • Indian Institutes of Management • Indian Institute of Science • *The IITians*

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.