NIT Tiruchi

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National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli


Established	1964
Type	Deemed University
Director	Dr. M. Chidambaram
Faculty	200
Undergraduates	2,600(approx)
Postgraduates	1,200(approx)
Location	Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Website	www.nitt.edu

The National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirappalli, NIT Trichy, (formerly known as Regional Engineering College (REC), Trichy) is situated in the heart of Tamil Nadu on the banks of river Cauvery. It was started as a joint and cooperative venture between the Government of India and Government of Tamil Nadu in 1964.

National Institute of Technology Trichy is one of the 17 National Institutes of Technology established by the Government of India. Today, NITT is an autonomous co-educational technological institute, with 10 undergraduate and 22 graduate programs. Undergraduate programs lead to the B.Tech degrees, while the graduate students and postgraduate students earn M.Tech and Ph. D degrees respectively. NITT also has a management and architecture school. NITT is located in Thuvakudi on the Trichy-Tanjore national highway, some 17 km from Trichy Railway Junction.

1 History
2 Academics
3 Campus
4 Notable Alumnus
5 Student life
6 See also

[edit] History

The entrance to the campus

The National Institute of Technology (formerly known as Regional Engineering College) Tiruchirappalli, situated in the heart of Tamil Nadu on the banks of the river Cauvery, was started as a joint and co-operative venture of the Government of India and the Government of Tamil Nadu during 1964 with a view to catering to the needs of man-power in technology for the Country. The College has subsequently been conferred with autonomy in financial and administrative matters to achieve rapid development. Because of this rich experience, this institution was granted Deemed University Status with the approval of the University Grants Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education and the Govt. of India in the year 2003 and was renamed as National Institute of Technology. NITT was registered under the Societies Registration Act XXVII of 1975. The Chairman of NITT is Mr. R. Seshasayee (also Managing Director, Ashok Leyland Ltd.) and the Director of NITT is Dr. M Chidambaram.

[edit] Academics

Admissions to the undergraduate course is competitive, and done through the AIEEE. Admission to the post-graduate programs require competitive scores in both GATE and an All India Entrance Exam conducted by the admitting department. The alumni of the institution have excelled in various fields and are well positioned in a number of government and private sectors.

The Institute has several departments along with a faculty of international repute, a brilliant student community, excellent technical support staff and an effective administration.

The various departments in the institute are as follows :

Engineering

Science

Humanities

Management Studies

Architecture

[edit] Campus

Residential facilities are provided for most of the students and staff in the spacious college campus of about 800 acres (3.2 km²), one of the largest campues in India. Essential and basic amenities including a hospital, post & telegraph facilties, a telecom Center, fully computerized State Bank of India branch with ATM facility, a book shop, a reprographic Center, canteens, Co-op. Stores are provided in the campus making it a self-contained mini-township.

Academic Zone The academic zone of the institute includes the ten departments buildings, laboratories, auditoria, a centralized lecture theatre building, the state-of-the-art computer centres that comprise the Octagon, and the main library.

A new digital library, a primary school building and a modern hospital are some of the many projects and buildings currently under construction in campus.

Residential Zone The residential zones primarly comprise of thirteen boys' and one girls' hostels. They accommodate 2507 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Committees consisting of staff representatives and elected student representatives manage them. The messes are equipped to serve both South Indian and North Indian dishes as the student fabric is of a truly national character. The institute has its own transport for procuring the raw materials for the messes.

Each hostel is managed by a Warden. The first year UG boys' hostels have two resident deputy wardens, while the girls' hostel has three resident deputy wardens. The Hostel Executive Committee headed by the Convener and the DCW coordinates the work among wardens and deputy wardens. Hostels are provided with amenities like televisions, DOT telephones, Intercom, water purifiers and coolers, indoor and outdoor sports kits, washing machines and student-managed amenity centres. The Hostel office consisting of Hostel Manager, one Senior Superintendent and supporting staff looks after the day-to-day operations. Hostels of NIT Trichy currently are:

1. Agate
2. Beryl
3. Coral
4. Diamond
5. Emerald
6. Garnet
7. Jade
8. Lapis
9. Opal(Girls)
10. Pearl
11. Ruby
12. Saphire
13. Topaz
14. Zircon

Several hostels are presently under construction

Administration and Maintenance The administrative building, popularly referred to as the Ad-Block, and characterised by its clock tower houses the administrative centres of the institute as well as the offices of the director and deans.

The maintenance of the campus is carried out by the estate and electrical maintenance department, that carries out electrical and civil maintenance operations, the refrigeration maintenance department and the new hostel administrative office.

The campus is provided with several security posts and a central security and surveillance centre. All department buildings and hostels have well trained and equipped security guards.

NITT's computer support facility is the Octagon, this centre is maintained by the Computer Support Group (CSG). This centre is open 24/7. Octagon mainly uses Microsoft Windows as its preferred operating system, although the web and email servers run on GNU/Linux systems. It has a new SUN sponsored lab running Solaris. NITT has a campus-wide Local Area Network and an 8 Mbit/s Internet connection through Software Technology Parks of India (STPI).

[edit] Notable Alumnus

Guruswami Ravichandran, Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the prestigious California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Satya Prabhakar Founder and CEO of Sulekha.com - the largest portal for Indian community
Vanitha Rangaraju-Ramanan, Vanitha Rangaraju-Ramanan Technical Lighting Director of the Shrek Oscar winning team. Vanitha graduated from REC-Trichy with a bachelor degree in Architecture. Since her Oscar winning movie, she has spoken in NIT-Trichy in the A2 hall to proud faculty members of the Architecture department. She is an inspiration to many budding Architects in NIT-T.
Ram Krishnamurthy, made it to the MIT Technology review magazine 2006, top 35 innovators list. He graduated from NIT-Trichy in Electrical engineering.
Srikanth Padmanabhan, is Managing Director of the Cummins Power Generation business (NEWAGE AVK SEK) based in Lincolnshire, UK. Srikanth holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Trichy (Class of 1986) and a Ph. D in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1991.
Seetharaman Narayanan
S Janakiraman

[edit] Student life

The spirit of being in NITT is the freedom one gets, to explore life, without compulsions, without any crushing force from academic pressures; generally people pursue one or more skills, join clubs and groups to work for their own self on something disconnected from academics.

The best part about NIT Trichy (specially engineering courses) is that the intake of students is from all over India. Each state has a fixed number of seats for each branch. The end result is that for any branch, there are students of different states/culture/language. As most of the students stay in hostel, it gives them a chance to really know about each other. Everyone learns to respect the different lifestyle of each individual.

Extracurricular activities include participation in NCC, NSS, literary clubs, trekking clubs, photographic clubs and students' chapters of IEEE, SPICMACAY, Entrepreneurship Cell, CRY. A modern gymnasium and other sports facilities are also available in the campus.

Festivals

Prominent events at NITT include Festember, a 3 day cultural extravaganza for colleges in the region. Technical symposiums are conducted by the departments, during the months of January to March, every year.

Festember (Festember Website), an annual cultural and literary festival, held in the month of September.
Pragyan (Pragyan Website), an annual technical festival (started in 2005).
NITTFEST, an annual inter-departmental cultural and literary festival.

Student Organizations

Entrepreneurship Cell of NITT

Technical Clubs

IEEE Student Branch, NITT
Robotics and Machine Intelligence, NITT

Cultural Organisations

Social Clubs

[edit] See also

National Institutes of Technology, India
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