NIT Trichy

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National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
NITT Seal
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.

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[edit] About

National Institute of Technology Trichy is one of the 17 National Institutes of Technology engineering college's established by the Goverment of India. Today, NITT is an autonomous co-educational engineering college, with 10 undergraduate, 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 Trichy-Tanjore highway, some 17 Km from Trichy Railway Station.

[edit] History

The entrance to the campus
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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 river Cauvery, was started as a joint and co-operative venture of Government of India and 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 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 UGC/AICTE and Govt. of India in the year 2003 and renamed as National Institute of Technology. NITT was registered under 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 Prof.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.

[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). Essential basic amenities like Hospital, Post & Telegraph, Telecom Center, fully computerized State Bank of India branch with ATM facility, Book stall, Reprographic Center, Canteen, Co-op. Stores etc. are also available in the Campus.

NITT campus is spread across 800 acres (3.2 km²) of land, with residential facilities for almost all of its studets. The ten departments buildings, labs, auditoriums, playgrounds, and paved roads, well lit streets, shopping centre, banking & postal services within the campus, make NITT a mini township in itself. The campus has a Hospital, Post & Telegraph, Telecom Center, fully computerized State Bank of India branch with ATM facility, Book stall, Reprographic Center, Canteen, Co-op store which are moderately useful. Some of the Hostels have Washing Machines. The built area is however is about 40 acres (162,000 m²).


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 Alumni

  • 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.

[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.

Hostels

There are thirteen boys' and one girls' hostels. They accommodate 2507 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Committees consisting of elected student representatives manage them. Elected student representatives manage the messes also. The messes are divided to serve both South Indian and North Indian dishes as the student fabric is of all India nature. The students themselves go to the Trichy Gandhi Market 3 times a week, escorted by a Warden, to buy fresh vegetables at a very cheap rate. There is a mini lorry for transporting vegetables from the market.

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. The Estate Maintenance department takes care of the civil and electrical maintenance of hostels and messes. Each hostel is provided with a television, two DOT telephones, intercom(s), aquaguard, water cooler and kit for indoor games and outdoor games. 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


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.

Student Organizations

Cultural Organisations

Social Clubs

[edit] See also


National Institutes of Technology, India

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