Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
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| Motto: | "Siddhirbhavati Karmaja" |
| Established: | 1961 |
| Type: | Institute of National Importance |
| Chairman: | ND Gupta |
| Director: | Prof Arun B Samaddhar |
| Faculty: | 257 |
| Undergraduates: | 2,362 |
| Postgraduates: | 817 |
| Location: | Allahabad, U.P., India |
| Campus: | Urban, 222 acres (0.9 km²) |
| Colors: | Pink and Yellow |
| Website: | mnnit.ac.in |
Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology (MNNIT) is one of the twenty National Institutes of Technologies in India, located in the city of Allahabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh. It was formerly known as Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College and was affiliated to University of Allahabad. In surveys by Dataquest magazine (in collaboration with NASSCOM), the institute consistently ranks amongst the top-20 T-schools in India.. The institute scores very highly in parameters like Placements, Infrastructure and Academic Environment.
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[edit] History
Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College was established in the year 1961 as a joint enterprise of Centre and Govt of Uttar Pradesh. The foundation stone of the institute was laid down by Jawaharlal Nehru,the first Prime Minister of India and the institute was named after his father and Indian freedom fighter, Motilal Nehru.
The main building of college was inaugurated by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on April 18, 1965. With
In 1996-97, the institute also started to offer a two year / four semesters Post Graduate Degree in Management Studies.
The institute was also the first in the country to start an Undergraduate program in Computer Science & Engineering in the year 1976.
Recently, the institute has also added Bachelor Programmes in Chemical Engineering and BioTechnology.
The college has been recognised by AICTE as a centre for the Quality Improvement Programme. In 1972, the college initiated a project and established an industrial estate with 68 sheds with the objective of encouraging entrepreneurs and creating additional revenue. The college has also been a member of Indo-UK REC Project, in the area of design. Under this scheme, a Design Center has been established at a cost of about Rs. Six Crore, which offers training and consultancy in various areas.It has been given the status of Institute of National Importance (INI) bringing it at par with IITs,IISc and ISI on 15 August 2007.
[edit] Infrastructure
MNNIT is situated at a site spreading over 222 acres (0.9 km²) on the bank of the river Ganges.
MNNIT is fully residential institution with seven hostels for boys and two for girls. One hostel is exclusively for post graduate students. The capacity of boys hostel is 1800 (1044 single seated rooms and 252 triple seated rooms ) and that of girls hostel is 145. Room allotment is done in such a way that students from different parts of country freely intermingle with each other depicting national integration. A 1 Gbit/s Local Area Network (LAN) integrates the entire college campus and the hostels. A 8 Mbit/s leased line from BSNL offers 24 x 7 internet connectivity.
Other buildings on the campus include Computer Center, Central Library, CAD lab, Geo Lab, Concrete Lab, heat engine lab, electrical machines lab, virtual instrumentation lab, mechanical workshop, Multi purpose hall, conference and seminar hall.
The library subscribes to 68 Indian and 200 International technical periodicals. Online access to journals is available as well.
It is among the few technical institutions in India to house a supercomputer, Param 10000.
[edit] Academics
The institute offers 9 undergraduate programs in Engineering of four year duration and 19 graduate programs of two year duration. Undergraduate programs lead to the B.Tech. degrees, while the graduate programs in Engineering lead to the award of M.Tech. degree. The institute also enrolls Ph.D. candidates. The Computer Science department also offers a Masters in Computer Applications(MCA). The institute was the first in the country to offer an undergraduate program in Computer Science and Engineering. MNNIT also has a management school.
- Undergraduate Engineering Programs
- Graduate Engineering Programs
- Applied Mechanics
- CAD/CAM
- Computer Science & Engineering
- Control & Instrumentation
- Digital Systems
- Design Engineering
- Electrical Engineering (Control Instrumentation/Power Systems)
- Environmental Engineering
- Fluid Engineering
- Geotechnical Engineering
- GIS & Remote Sensing
- Information Security
- Material Science Engineering
- Microelectronics and VLSI Design
- Production Engineering
- Power Electronics & ASIC Design
- Structural Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Water Resources Management
The various departments in the institute are as follows :
- Engineering
- Applied Mechanics
- Civil Engineering
- Computer Science and Engineering (Common department for CS, IT & MCA)
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronics & Communication Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
[edit] Placements
The institute boasts of very good placements with leading companies like HAL, Microsoft, Google, Intel, Yahoo, Adobe, Goldman Sachs, Cisco, Oracle Corporation, Conexant, HPCL, Applied Materials, ST Microelectronics, IBM, Solidcore, Freescale, HP, CSC, Kajiva, Reliance Energy, Hughes Systique Corporation, Thorogood, Globallogic, Amdocs, Computer Associates, Dell, Samsung, Accenture, MRPL, BPCL, Onmobile, CITRIX, DRDO, Verizon, Tata Motors, Tata Powers, Maruti Udyog Limited, Indian Oil Corporation, BHEL, L & T, MAQ Software, Eicher Motors, Honda SIEL, Schlumberger, John Deere, GE, Hindalco, Ashok Leyland, Schneider Electric, Tejas Networks, Fiserv, Ashok Leyland, Ciena, ONGC, NTPC, ABB, Britannia Industries, Sasken, Deloitte, Aricent, Tata Consultancy Services etc. visiting the institute for placement.
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[edit] Student life
MNNIT has students from all parts of country. Student life revolves around college campus and hostels. Institute has hostel facility with round the clock internet connectivity, electricity, water, security, canteen and other facilities for students.
Hostel list for Undergraduate students is
1. Tagore Hostel
2. Tandon Hostel
3. Malviya Hostel
4. Tilak Hostel
5. Patel Hostel
6. Raman Hostel
7. PG Hostel
8. Kamla Nehru Girls' Hostel (KNGH).
9. Old Girls' Hostel
Tagore Hostel is for First Year students and is triple seated.
Other than these, hostels for students pursuing Graduate programs are also available. One is CV Raman Hostel which is for first year MCA, MBA and M.Tech. students. All rooms are triple seated. Senior M.Tech., MBA and Fourth Semester MCA students stay at another hostel called PG Hostel. All the hostels have a care taker, an assistant warden and a warden separately. A Chief warden is head of all hostels and post is held by senior faculty of the institute.
Apart from Indian students, candidates from many countries such as Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Mauritius, Malaysia, Iran, Mozambique,Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Palestine and Thailand also join MNNIT for various undergraduate and post-graduate programs.
[edit] Festivals
MNNIT hosts four Major National Level Meets namely:
a) 'Avishkar' - Annual National Level Technical Meet: One of its kind in terms of quality and scale of events.
b) 'Culrav' - Annual Cultural Festival: It showcases the diverse cultural wealth of India, a celebration of the vibrant spirit of MNNIT.
c) 'Gnosiomania' - Annual National Level Quiz Festival: It's one of the first of such events showcased in the country.
d) 'Robofest'- Robofest - "The Rise of Machines" is a three day national level extravaganza dedicated solely to the field of Robotics. Organised by MNNIT Robotics Club each year, the events receives bountiful participation from the institute as well as from outside.
[edit] Notable Alumni
The alumni of the institute have made a name for themselves in industry and in academia. Here're a few prominent ones:::
- Dr. Vivek Man Singh, Country Manager, Dell India R&D Center
- Parag Arora, Regional Manager(India & SAARC),Cisco Systems India Pvt. Ltd
- Maniesh Kulshrestha, Country Manager - India ,Conexant
- Nelabhotla Venkateswarlu, CEO, Emami Limited
- Jyoti Prasad Pande, Vice President, Symphony Services
- PK Gupta, Director, Legato Systems
- Vijay K G, Chief Technology Officer ,IMG Inc
- Sudeep Bharti, Director, Mobile Devices Group, Microsoft India Development Center.
- Manish Sinha, GM, Asia-Pacific, Microsoft Corp.
- Mouli Raman, Founder and CTO, On-Mobile Systems
- Sandeep Chouhan, CIO ,Barclays
- Ashish Mehrotra Vice President, Aricent
- Prof Anurag Agarwal, Professor IIM Ahmedabad
- Nitin Bhat, Vice President, ICT Practice at Frost & Sullivan
- Pranab Sinha, Vice President, IT at Seagate Technology
- Arvind Saxena, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Hyundai Motor India
- Paritosh Malviya, CEO, finEye Corporation (Also Cofounder of Yatra Corporation)
- Anupam Koul , Vice President,(Embedded Systems and Software), Symphony Services Inc
- Sanjeev Mehra, Senior VP & Director International Technology Organization ,Citibank NA - Singapore
- Chanchal Mahra, Director & Client Partner, Cognizant
- Shashank Agarwal, CEO , AccuMor Solutions
- Venkatesh Seshadri,Co-Founder & CEO ,Momax Limited
- Bipin Agarwal, President & CEO Redhawk Investments Group
- Pradeep Maithani, Co-Founder, Star-Animations Pvt Ltd
- Vivek Srivastava, Director, Solutions and Strategy, Oracle Communications, Asia Pac & Japan
- Chandrashekar Venkatraman Chandrashekar, Director - Business Development, Syntel Inc
- Rahul Jauhari, Head of Creative at Pickle Advertising Private Limited
- Bipin Trehan, Director Global Consulting Services at Convergys Corporation
- Vikas Valsang, Delivery Head, Telecom Engineering, Wipro Technology
[edit] References
- ^ Dataquest-IDC-NASSCOM Survey: India's Best Tech-Schools 2007
- ^ Biographies
- ^ IIM A:Faculty details
[edit] External links
- National Institute of Technology,Allahabad
- Virtual tour
- Avishkar-National Level Technical festival
- RoboFest-National Robotics Extravaganza
- Culrav
- Gnosiomania chapter V - National Quiz Festival
- Alumni website
- Lucknow Chapter of MNNIT Alumni Association
- Allahabad MNNIT Alumni Association
- NIT alumni website - Largest database of all NIT'ians
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