Royal Indian Engineering College

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The Royal Indian Engineering College was a British college of Civil Engineering founded by Sir George Tomkyns Chesney in 1870. It was intended to train engineers for the Indian Public Works department. The work of the college was transferred to India in 1906.

The college interiors were designed by English architect Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt. Today, the site at Cooper's Hill, Surrey, is the Runnymede Campus of Brunel University.

As an aside, the College is mentioned in literature. Rudyard Kipling wrote that one of the main characters in Stalky & Co. — M'Turk — is supposed to be "going up for Cooper's Hill" following schooling at the fictionalised United Services College.

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• The reforms of the Indian Public Works Department