Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur

Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur
मालवीय राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान
जयपुर
మాలవ్యా నేషనల్ ఇన్స్టిట్యూట్ ఆఫ్ టెక్నాలజీ
జైపూర్
Motto य़ॊगः कऱमसु कौशलम
Motto in English
 Diligence leads to Excellence
Established 1963
Type Public
Director Prof. I.K. Bhatt
Academic staff
 700
Administrative staff
 500
Undergraduates 3,372
Postgraduates 500
500
Location Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
26°51′44″N 75°48′56″E / 26.862228°N 75.815642°ECoordinates: 26°51′44″N 75°48′56″E / 26.862228°N 75.815642°E
Campus Urban, 325 acres (1.32 km2)
Acronym MNIT
Website http://www.mnit.ac.in

The Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur (abbreviated as MNIT Jaipur), formerly known as Malaviya Regional Engineering College Jaipur, is a public engineering institution located in Jaipur, India. It is one of the 30 National Institutes of Technologies and an Institute of National Importance. It was founded in 1963. The institute is fully funded by MHRD, the Government of India.[1][2]

History

Statue of Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya
Administrative building

The institute is a Centre of Excellence established by the MHRD, government of India. The institute formerly known as Malaviya Regional Engineering College(MREC) was established in 1962, as a joint venture of the government of India and government of Rajasthan.[3]

In 1963, the college started functioning from its temporary campus at Pilani and admitted 30 students each in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. The college moved to the present campus to Jaipur in 1965. The college was inspired by the educationist Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya and thus named as Malaviya Regional Engineering College. Prof. V.G. Garde, the educationist and visionary, was the first principal.

It offered five-year Bachelor of Engineering programmes in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Metallurgical Engineering. The duration of the B.E. Degree Course was changed to four years from 1983.

The institute was upgraded to a National Institute of Technology and was declared a deemed university on 26 June 2002 and since then the institute started offering Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree instead of Bachelor of Engineering degree. On 15 August 2007[4] MNIT and all other NITs were declared Institutes of National Importance by the government of India under the National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007. The institute is now under The Ministry of Human Resource and Development, New Delhi. It has been selected to participate in the Technical Education Quality Improvement Program of the government of India and the World Bank.

Academics

The institute offers eight four-year undergraduate courses of study leading to the Bachelor of Technology degree and a five-year undergraduate course leading to the Bachelor of Architecture degree, with a total of over 3000 students. Postgraduate degrees award Master of Technology (M.Tech), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A) and Master of Urban Planning. There are also doctoral programs with over 300 students. There are over 150 faculty members engaged in teaching and research.

In this college students who get arrears are not allowed to pass on to the next semester.

Admission to undergraduate courses of the institute is through the Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) which takes into account the performance in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).

Admission for post graduate courses namely Master of Technology (M.Tech) are through Centralized Counselling for M.Tech/M.Arch and M.Plan (CCMT) after Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE).

Admission to M.Sc and PhD is through department's respective written test followed by interview.

Departments, centres and schools

Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Computer Engineering

Campus

The campus extends over 312 acres (1.26 km2) of lush greenery. It provides staff clubs, dispensary, banks, post office, community center, school, staff residences, gymnasium, playing fields, guest houses, and canteen.

Dispensary
Boys' Hostel Number 2

The campus is in four sectors:

The instructional buildings include departments, the library, and administrative block. These are at walking distance from the students hostels and staff colony. There is a branch of the ICICI BANK formerly known as Bank of Rajasthan on the premises and a Post Office. Other banks such as SBI, PNB etc. are within walking distance from the campus. A dispensary is supervised by a team of Medical Officers and two Compounders. The institute has a part-time homeopathic doctor and Ayurvedic doctor on the campus. Canteen buildings, one near the instructional zone and another near the hostels, provide food to the students and the staff. There is an Amul parlor.

There are two guest houses in the campus to cater the needs of guests and students.

There are facilities for sports and games and for co-curricular activities.

Highlights

Materials Research Center

Materials Research Center (MRC) has been created in order to augment the infrastructure for advanced research and to attain excellence in innovative research in materials technology. The facilities of the center will also be extended to the scientists and researchers of other institutes. Equipment of more than 40 crore rupees have been installed in the center.[5] Various Machines, Facility or Software available in the lab are:[6][7]

The New Computer Center

The Centre has 510 high end PCs including 120 graphics work stations placed in 10 computer laboratories, which opens 24*7*365. A Data centre with Private Cloud using VMware V Cloud Suite 5 and 64 TB of EMC2 Storage has also been established in the centre. The Private Cloud will have features of automated provisioning of IT resources, single interface for administrator for entire IT infrastructure and work load elasticity. It will be used for Library digitization, E-mail archival, hosting various services/applications and Research on cloud computing by Ph.D. and M.Tech. students.[8]

Vivekananda Lecture Hall complex

Vivekananda Lecture Hall complex, which have 40 class rooms and can accommodate about 5,500 students at one time. It has a food court in its basement as well.

Extracurricular activities

MNIT annually organizes Neuron its national level technical festival. Neuron is one of the biggest technical festival in India, with 10,000 students attending from all over country.

Annually MNIT conducts the MNIT Sports Tournament. Students from all across the country, from NITs and IITs participate in the event. MNIT is part of the Inter-NIT sports federation.

MNIT hosts Blitzschlag, a national level techno-cultural festival, which began as an intra-college technical symposium cum cultural festival organised by the Mechanical Engineering Society, MNIT, in 2005. It attracts participation from all corners of the country.

Central Lawns

The institute has a sports department with a faculty strength of five coaches and five support staff. The college has international size basketball courts (two), football ground(one), tennis court(two, with flood lights), badminton and table tennis courts (separate in every hostel, open 24 hours). There is an indoor badminton court in the sports department and a gymnasium. There are three standard volleyball courts.

National level events include Neuron, Blitzschlag, Electronica, Moments, MST, Schrifftum, Taal and Zodiac.

Blitzschlag

Blitzschlag, are the annual techno-management fest of MNIT Jaipur. It is a three-day-long event held towards the end of January every year and attracts a crowd of 25,000 students from more than 200 colleges all over the country.

The word Blitzschlag has German origins; it stands for Thunder and Lightning. Aimed at inspiring innovation, technical interest among students and awareness among the public, the event has played host to lectures, seminars, workshops, competitions, exhibitions, and quizzes.

The event is organised by the students under the guidance of their teachers.

Student Mentorship Program

Student Mentorship Program (SMP), is a program within the MNIT Jaipur Student Community, with the primary objective of enabling constructive and positive interaction, guidance and mentorship of junior students by senior students. The vision of the program is "to inculcate the right attitude start from the beginning".Mentoring is a particular form of relationship designed to provide personal and professional support to an individual.[9]

SMP's mentoring relationships are complemented by a series of pre-planned skill building activities, social events and special opportunities to add balance and support to the first year college student experience.

SMP has its own fully updated web-portal http://smp.mnit.ac.in which consists of online Mentor-Mentee platform and SMP Media. Online Mentor-Mentee platform helps Mentees to connect with their Mentors, and SMP Media acts as a knowledge sharing platform which helps all the students of MNIT to get important information like Placement Talks,[10] Project Expo, Intern Point, Campus Buzz etc.[11]

Notable Alumni

See also

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.mnit.ac.in/new/uploads/about_us/Comprehensive_NIT_Act_2012.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.mnit.ac.in/new/about_us/about_mnit.php
  3. ↑ http://www.mnit.ac.in/new/about_us/about_mnit.php
  4. ↑ http://www.mnit.ac.in/new/uploads/about_us/Gazette_Notification_NIT_Act_2007.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.mnit.ac.in/new/dept_mrc/index.php
  6. ↑ http://www.mnit.ac.in/new/dept_mrc/downloads/brochure_mrc.pdf
  7. ↑ http://www.mnit.ac.in/new/dept_mrc/facilities.php
  8. ↑ http://mnit.ac.in/new/dept_ccc/index.php
  9. ↑ http://smp.mnit.ac.in.about_us.php
  10. ↑ smp.mnit.ac.in/placement_talk.php
  11. ↑ http://smp.mnit.ac.in/
  12. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitranjanprofile
  13. ↑ http://www.cegindia.com/Glance.aspx
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  15. ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumeetksingh
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