Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology

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Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology or SLIET is a technical college in north India.

The institute is located on 451 acres of land provided by the Punjab government. The campus consists of green land, a developed area with many topographically featured landscapes, numerous buildings of various nature and stature and metal road network. It is embedded with all the amenities required for a complete township.

[edit] History

The institute was conceived by the government of India in 1985 as a tribute to Sant Longowal. The institute was established by Ministry Of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) in 1989 and was formally inaugurated on 20th December 1991.

[edit] Curriculum

Accepting the challenge of a new education policy, SLIET was established with a vision to act as an international podium for the development and transfer of technical competence in academics. It provides technical education and to cater to the technical manpower requirements with emphasis on practical training in industry.

The institute is an autonomous body, fully funded by the government of India and controlled by SLIET society, registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860. The institute awards its own certificates and diplomas approved and recognized by AICTE, New Delhi. Undergraduate and postgraduate courses are affiliated to Punjab Technical University (PTU), Jalandhar. Ph.D. programmes have also been started in collaboration with PTU and other neighboring universities.

Besides catering to the needs of formal education, the Institute prepares skilled and qualified manpower for self-employment. Further, the institute performs strategic research and development activities that, along with entrepreneurship, are intendeded to extend the efforts of the institute in imparting education to the unemployed and working population by updating and upgrading their technical skills. The institute was thought to cater to then existing 3-tier system to modern industry, which incorporates workers, technicians and engineers.