University of Petroleum and Energy Studies

University of Petroleum & Energy Studies
Motto "विद्यायाया शक्ति वशम्"
Motto in English
 "Harnessing Energy through Knowledge"
Established 2003
Type State Public-Private University[1]
Chancellor Dr. S J Chopra
President Mr. Sanjay Kaul
Vice-Chancellor Dr. Parag Diwan
Location Bidholi, Prem Nagar, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
30°24′57.38″N 77°58′1.24″E / 30.4159389°N 77.9670111°ECoordinates: 30°24′57.38″N 77°58′1.24″E / 30.4159389°N 77.9670111°E
Campus Suburban,42 acres (1,800,000 sq ft)
Acronym UPES
Affiliations UGC, NAAC, DSIR, IGNOU, AIU, The Energy Institute (United Kingdom), International Association of Universities, ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, Bar Council of India (2007), CUSAC[2]
Website www.upes.ac.in

The University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES) is an Indian University located in Dehradun, Uttarakhand known traditionally for its education and research in fields of energy & power.

UPES Dehradun, established through an act of the State Legislature of Uttarakhand in the year 2003, is sponsored by Hydrocarbons Education and Research Society. It provides domain specialized programs in oil and gas, transportation, power, computer science, information technology, international business, logistics and supply chain, infrastructure. UPES is the only Asian University to receive the World Oil Award.[3] UPES is an endeavour of Hydrocarbons Education & Research Society (HERS), a non profit organization registered under the Societies Act 1860 dedicated to promoting education and training in Energy and allied sectors.

The university offers over 75 undergraduate and postgraduate programs.[4] UPES is the one of the first university of India to provide UG, PG and PhD programs in the core sectors of petroleum and energy.

UPES is the only university to set up an working model Oil Rig on campus. The campus is also enabled with 1KW wind turbine mill and a solar power project with 100 KWp installed capacity. It is the first Indian Energy Institution to set up an in-house Bio-Diesel Laboratory.[5]

It became a part of the Laureate International Universities network in 2013.[6]

Campus

The UPES campus is located at Bidholi, at the foothills of Mussoorie range mountains. The one part of campus is allocated into clusters of buildings, there are 9 blocks and the main building named Energy House, the another part is named as Chitrakoot Block which includes various laboratories and workshops.

The University has a R&D Centre dedicated for the research and development in various fields which comprises various laboratories, behind the R&D Centre there is an Oil Rig working model dedicated for the Petroleum Engineering and Earth Sciences students.

Due to campus's proximity in mountain valley, the campus is untouched from the pollution of the rest of the Dehradun city.

Location

The campus being located in Dehradun which is famous for its picturesque landscape and slightly milder climate and provides a gateway to the surrounding region. Dehradun is itself home for various prestigious institutes for Petroleum and Earth Sciences such as Indian Institute of Petroleum, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Wadia Institute Of Himalayan Geology and Survey of India.

It is well connected and in proximity to popular Himalayan tourist destinations such as Mussoorie, Nainital, Auli and the Hindu holy cities of Haridwar and Rishikesh along with the Himalayan pilgrimage circuit of Char Dham.
The Road route as from Dehradun ISBT → Balliwala Chowk → Indian Military Academy → Prem Nagar → Nanda ki chowki(This whole stretch is a part of Chakrata road), then a 9 km long uphill stretch from Nanda ki Chowki and shows up campus of UPES.

Cultural and non-academic activities

Cultural activities like dramatics, Speaking, Literary Arts, Music and Fine Arts also mark an important feature in the life of a student of UPES.Student activities have been distributed into three broad categories, technical, cultural and sports.

Uurja

Uurja 2013

The annual youth festival Uurja is held in the month of October. The most attractive feature of this 2-day event are the competitions, games and musical concerts.[7]

Ignite

Ignite is the Annual Techno-Legal-Management festival,IGNITE aims at building a platform to bring students of all domains under a single umbrella to work together, learn together and grow together, IGNITE is first Techno-Legal-Management festival in India.

UPES SPE Fest

UPES SPE Fest is held in month of February every year since 2010 and is India's largest Student Organized-Petroleum Engineering Fest under Society of Petroleum Engineers. It comprises various events like competitions, exhibits and talks from guest speakers which aims to provide a common platform for mutual sharing of knowledge, experience and to strengthen the bonds between the students and Oil and Gas Industry.

Gems Instrublitz

GEMS team of UPES organized an instrumental competition- ‘GEMS INSTRU-BLITZ’ for the students on campus. Students enthralled the audience by playing wonderful tunes on Guitar (Acoustic & electric), Tabla and Keyboard. The event was sponsored by Resizone residency, USP and Mark industries. Mr. Vivek Aggarwal from Resizone group and Mr. Rahul Bhatnagar from USP were the guests of honor. The event was judged by Mr. Gaurav Dimang, a well-known vocalist from Dehradun and Ms. Namita Molasi, Head of the music Dept. at Raja Ram Mohan Roy Academy. [8]

Kalakriti

“Kalakriti”- Your strokes, their smiles, was the event organized on Campus. The event is organized by UPES GOOGLE HUB. It focused on a creative way of spreading awareness about Google and its products with the fun of chart painting competition. This event had a massive participation of 75 teams from the various courses of College of engineering Studies, College of management Studies and College of Legal Studies.

Colleges, Centres and Schools

UPES has 3 Colleges,4 Schools and a Centre in the campus.

College Of Management and Economics Studies (CoMES)

The College of Management & Economics Studies at UPES offers BBA, MBA & Ph.D. programs in varied domains such as Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Power, Infrastructure, Transportation & Logistics, Aviation, Information Technology, Information Systems and International Business.It allows the students to understand sector specific business and economic concepts; empowering them with management and leadership skills.

The college of Management & Economics Studies has following Departments.

Programs offered under college of Management & Economics Studies (CoMES)

Under Graduate Programs:-

Post-Graduate Programs:-

College Of Engineering Studies (CoES)

Oil Rig Model

The College of Engineering Studies offers B.Tech, M.Tech and Ph.D. programs across a wide spectrum of specialization areas. These include Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Exploration, Energy Systems, Geoinformatics Engineering, Geo-Science Engineering, Automotive Design Engineering, Mining engineering, Instrumentation & Process Control, Aerospace Engineering, Disaster Management, Mechatronics Engineering, Robotics, Nanotechnology, Fire Safety Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and several others.

The College of Engineering Studies has the following Departments:

College Of Legal Studies (CoLS)

It offers basic and specialized law courses in Corporate Law, Energy Specialization, Taxation Laws and Technical courses like Intellectual Property Rights and Cyber Law and integrated and specialized programs which are the first of their kind in the South Asian region. These include BA LLB with specialization in Energy Laws, BBA LLB (Hons) Corporate Law and B.Com + LLB with specialization in Taxation Laws and B.Tech Energy Technology + LLB with specialization in Intellectual Property Rights and B. Tech Computer Science & Engineering with specialization in Cyber Laws.

School Of Design Studies (SoDS)

School of Design Studies provides creative design courses that help students understand and master visual design aspects of transportation, industrial and product development and build a successful career in the industry of various choices.

School of International Law & Diplomacy (SoILD)

School of International Law & Diplomacy (SoILD) at UPES has been set up with a vision to groom leaders ready to address challenges in the national and international arena across setups as diverse as governments, public service, non-governmental organizations(NGOs) and business in the increasingly globalized and interdependent world. School of International Law & Diplomacy offers programs in: M.A. International Affairs M.A. Criminal Law & Justice

School of Planning & Architecture (SPA)

UPES School of Planning and Architecture provides cutting edge B.Plan and M.Plan program that aims to develop multi-dimensional capabilities in the student to meet the complex challenges that lie in conceptualizing, formulating, designing, executing and assessment of impacts of the built environment on physical, environmental, technological and demographic characteristics of habitats.

Undergraduate programme (B.Plan)

Postgraduate programmes(M.Plan)


Centre for Information Technology (CIT)

The Centre for Information Technology offers B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering in association with IBM with specialization in:

Centre for Continuing Education(CCE)

The Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) and Centre for Aviation Studies (CAS) offer Executive programs through distance learning mode for the working professionals.

Admissions[9]

Placements

Over 7500 plus UPES graduates & post graduates have already been placed in over more than 600 reputed companies national & International. Extensive exposure & various training including industry visits & exclusive personality enhancement, training capsules to improve employee skills are regular practices of the campus. UPES has been consistent in keeping a track record of 85% & above placements right from its inception.
Across the college and schools in UPES – Management, Engineering and Law, students have already been placed with some of the top companies in core sector. Few of the major On-Campus recruiters are, Schlumberger, Halliburton, ONGC, Shell India, Cairn Energy India Ltd, Total S.A., Baker Hughes, Petrofac, Accenture, L&T, Caterpillar, Volvo Eicher, Halonix, Dell India, Mahindra & Mahindra, Royal Enfield, Maruti Suzuki, Flipkart, IBM, Tech Mahindra, GVK Mumbai International Airport, GMR Group, Sapient, Mahanagar Gas, NYK Line India ltd, ITC Ltd, Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, Infosys, Technip and Trilegal.

Awards and Achievements

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