Institute of Chemical Technology

Institute of Chemical Technology
Former names
 UICT / UDCT
Motto Sanskrit: कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते
Motto in English
 Your right is to perform your work (but never to the results)
Type Public, State
Established 1 October 1933
Chancellor Raghunath Mashelkar FRS
Vice-Chancellor Ganpati D. Yadav FRSC
Academic staff
 108
Administrative staff
 240
Undergraduates 983,[1] 1100[2]
Postgraduates 1015 (Including PhDs, 2015)[1]
Location Matunga, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400019, India
19°01′26″N 72°51′31″W / 19.02401°N 72.85852°W / 19.02401; -72.85852
Campus Urban, 16 acres (65,000 m2)
Website www.ictmumbai.edu.in

Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), formerly the University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT), is a chemical technology research university located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is focused on training and research in various branches of chemical engineering, chemical technology, and pharmacy. It was established in 1933 and was granted deemed university status in 2008, making it the only state-funded deemed university in India.[3]

History

The ICT was founded in 1933 as a University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT) of the University of Mumbai. Robert Forster was first Head of the Department (1933–38), followed by K. Venkataraman, who continued its development. It was considerably improved under the guidance of Dr. Man Mohan Sharma. The university conferred the autonomous status on the UDCT in 1994, with concurrence from the Maharashtra State Government and the UGC.[4]

UDCT was renamed as the Mumbai University Institute of Chemical Technology (Autonomous) (MUICT) on 26 January 2002. In June 2004, in accordance with the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) of the Government of India, under which the institute was selected as a Lead Institution, the Government of Maharashtra granted complete autonomy to the institute. On 12 September 2008, it was granted the deemed university status and renamed as the Institute of Chemical Technology.[3]

Institute of Chemical Technology was the first institute to be granted the elite badge by the government of the state of Maharashtra. This status put the institute on a par with other reputable schools such as the Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research. It also makes the institute, which has plans to set up a satellite campus,[5] eligible for various special grants from the union and the state governments.[6]

Campus

The facade of the main building of the Institute

ICT is located on a 16 acres (65,000 m2) campus at 19°01′26″N 72°51′32″E / 19.024°N 72.859°E / 19.024; 72.859Coordinates: 19°01′26″N 72°51′32″E / 19.024°N 72.859°E / 19.024; 72.859. The main building faces Nathalal Parikh Marg and has a beautiful architecture with fine dressed stone.Other buildings including three boys hostels, two girls hostels, faculty and staff apartments are located behind the main building. The rear boundary of the institute runs along Kidwai Road. The Institute is opposite to Veermata Jijabai Technical Institute. There are plan about setting up a satellite campus outside Mumbai and also in the state of Orissa.[7]

Academics

K. Venkataraman Auditorium at ICT

At present ICT offers three degrees at undergraduate level: B.Tech. (Bachelor of Technology), B.Chem.Eng. (Bachelor of Chemical Engineering), B.Pharm. (Bachelor of Pharmacy).[8] The institute offers several courses at the masters level which specialize in Chemical Technology, Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy. Ph.D. from ICT is highly sought after program and is arguably among the best ones in the country.M.Sc. from ICT boasts of accreditation from Royal Society of Chemistry and is only second institute in India to receive this accreditation. The department of Textiles is still known to offer the most prestigious degree in the field of textiles in India. ICT is accredited by AICTE, NAAC,[9] NBA,[10] NIRF,[11] and UGC.

Departments

ICT has specialization and runs several courses in the following ares:

Faculty and Student Support

The ICT has sanctioned positions of 108 faculty (29 Professors, 38 Associate Professors and 41 Assistant Professors) and a support staff of 240. There are 114 visiting faculties (who typically are industry researchers), 7 emeritus faculties, and 4 adjuncts.[9] The ICT has a tradition of establishment of endowments with an objective of supporting faculty positions, foreign travel assistance, merit-cum-means scholarships, staff welfare, library, campus development, research fellowships and seed money for research by young faculty. There are 90 faculty endowments in the Institute. All these endowments have been established through generous donations by alumni, industries, philanthropists and well wishers. Only part of the interest (upto 50-70%) is used towards the purpose of the endowment and the remaining is invested back into the corpus.[8] There are 22 endowment chairs, as well as 49 visiting fellowships which helps attract the best professionals to the Institute from all over the world who interact with UG and PG students, faculty and alumni. The honoraria range from ₹ 5000 to 1.25 lakhs for a period of one day to 15 days. Some eminent faculty from institutes such as MIT, Purdue, Cambridge, Monash, UC Berkeley, UCSB, Montreal have taught UG and PG courses in ICT under these endowments. These lectures will form part of audit courses for research students. Besides, public lectures are organized under each endowment.[8] Each academic year, 251 students are supported through under merit-cum-means scholarships. The range is ₹ 3000-75,000 per annum per person through several endowments, private trust and annual commitments by alumni. All economically deprived students are given assistance in the form of tuition fees, hostel fees, mess bills and travel assistance to present papers in national conferences.[8]

Research

ICT has a very strong and celebrated research culture and is considered to be the best post-graduate center in India and comparable to other top-level centers in the world.[12][13] The first ever Ph.D. in India in engineering was awarded by ICT in 1941. Currently, ICT graduates 100 PhDs annually, which is about 10% of India's engineering PhDs. ICT has strong relationships with the industries and many government as well as industry sponsored projects take shape in ICT. In 2011, the Ministry of Textiles sanctioned ICT as National Center of Excellence in Sportswear with a grant of ₹ 24.5 crore for researching sports-related apparel and goods. With this, ICT has become the first institute in India to conduct research on sports fabrics.[14] ICT hosts several research centers within the campus. These include DBT-ICT (Department of Biotechnology) Center for Energy Biosciences,[15] ICT-DAE (Department of Atomic Energy) Center for Chemical Engineering Education and Research,[16] UGC Networking Resource Centre in Chemical Engineering,[17] and Center for Green Technology.[18]

Library

Established in 1934, Prof. M M Sharma Library functions as the central library of the institute and is one of the best special libraries in the country.[22] It performs a dual role of an Academic Library as well as a Research Library, catering to the information needs of the in-house students and faculty and attracts a variety of readers, students, in particular, and technologists, industrialists, and research community. It is housed in a separate Ground Plus two-storied building and follows a completely open-access concept. It is a unique library in India to have its own endowment fund. The library can boast of rich heritage collection of old classic books and bound volumes dating back to 1930s. It has 38,200 books, 25,290 journals and 10,000 standards and subscribes to 120 international and 25 national journals. Along with the traditional collection it also has a significant digital collection with access to more than 500 electronic journals. Has access to databases such as Reaxys, Sci-Finder, Scopus, Web of science, etc. The library is fully computerized using the library management software called Libsys. It can be termed as a hybrid library with best collection of printed and digital documents. The library is also a member of E-Shodh Sindhu Consortium. It has MOU with BONET for participating in exchange program devised by MISSAT, DST, New Delhi.

Fellows of Royal Society

Till date ICT has produced two fellows of Royal Society out of 60 odd fellows from India. One of them is Dr. M. M. Sharma who has been director of the institute and other is Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, who currently serves as the chancellor. G. D. Yadav, current Vice Chancellor of ICT[23] and Bhalchandra Bhanage, Head of Department of Chemistry[24] were bestowed with Fellowship of Royal Society of Chemistry.

Academic Collaborations

ICT has signed several Memoranda of Understanding with Indian as well as foreign universities for faculty and student exchange. These include:

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; College of Engineering, Pune; Central Drug Research Institute; Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute; Indian Institute of Chemical Technology; Indian Institute of Petroleum; National Chemical Laboratory; National Environmental Engineering Research Institute; Veermata Jijabai Technical Institute; Michigan State University;[25] University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Indiana University; IIT Research Institute; International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology; Purdue University; University of Kansas; RMIT University; Queensland University of Technology; Technical University of Hamburg; University of British Columbia; University of Saskatchewan; University of Birmingham; Abertay University; University of Bradford; University of Nottingham; University of Turin; University of West Hungary; National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse; Hokkaido University; National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Various activities

Technological Association

Technological Association (TA) is an organization that conducts co-curricular and extra-curricular activities in ICT. Currently, the Vice Chancellor, G.D. Yadav is the President of TA and Sunil S. Bhagwat is its Vice President. A 24 Member Core student body organizes these activities.

Entrepreneurship cell

ICT inaugurated its entrepreneurship cell in April 2013 with inauguration lecture from Ashwin Dani (Founder of Asian Paints) and Yogesh Kothari (Founder of Alkyl Amines). A fellowship for visit to Korea was offered at the time of inauguration. The primary purpose behind the entrepreneurship cell was to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture at ICT. ICT also has international dignitaries visiting regularly for contributing in the research as well as guidance students. Some of the international dignitaries include Ahmet Uzumcu, Director General of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.[26] There are more than 500 first generation entrepreneurs which have come up from alumni and from the portals of ICT.[9]

 

Hostels

Within the campus walls, five hostel buildings cater to the students' need of accommodation. Hostel No. 1, 4, and 5 accommodate male students whereas hostel No. 2 & 3 are girls hostels. The Hostel No. 1, better known as old hostel, was established in 1952, has 48 single rooms and 48 double rooms and accommodates 160 students and four faculty members. Hostel 2, and 3 accommodate approximately 259 and 120 female students. Hostel 4 is typically reserved for freshmen students. Hostel 5 was built and inaugurated in 2005. This building was built at the cost of ₹ 70 million, with majority of the money raised by the alumni of the college. It has 7 floors, about 190 double rooms, 3 large guest rooms, 4 faculty flats, a dining hall, and a health clinic and a gym and houses 330 students.

Student Festivals

Rangotsav

Rangotsav is a Conference on Advances in Polymer and Coating, Technical Festival of Polymer and Surface Coating Technology Department.

Sportsaga

A Game in Progress at Pidilite Pavilion

Sportsaga is the annual sports festival of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. Since its inception in the year 2005, Sportsaga has drawn to it sports enthusiasts from all over the city, state and nation. The 2013 edition featured over 20 events including the All Mumbai ICT Marathon and a closely contested athletics meet. The level of competition included not only the State’s top athletes but every type of sporting enthusiast, through both mainstream sporting events and informal events.

Vortex - The Chemfest

In 2013, it was decided by the Technological Association (Student Council) of ICT that Exergy would be merged with the other technical festivals of the Institute, YICC (Young Innovators Choice Competition) and YRC (Young Researchers Competition). This led to the creation of Vortex - The Chemfest.[27] It saw over 5000 participants from various colleges across the country coming into the ICT to showcase their Chemical Engineering skills.

Manzar

Manzar is the cultural festival of the Institute of Chemical technology. It has completed 10 years since it first began in 2007, and 2016 saw the 10th edition of this festival. Every year, Manzar proudly hosts a variety of events in music, dance, literary arts and fine arts. The Dance and Fashion Show events are the most popular, with active participation of students from all over the city. Manzar has a social initiative called Awaaz, through which students are able to do their bit for all-round societal development and improvement of underprivileged lives. Apart from all this, Manzar also has the Cultural Night and the Popular Night. Many famous artists have performed on the Manzar stage, including Shaan, Kailash Kher, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Fire on Dawson, Shalmali Kholgade, Sachin-Jigar, Niladri Kumar, Arijit Singh and Armaan Malik. Manzar attracts a crowd of over 20,000 people every year .

Texpression

The division of Fibres and Textiles Processing annually holds Texpression, a cultural festival. Texpression also brings the alumni of the division together to foster camaraderie and network among them.

Publications

The Spirit

The Spirit is the official bimonthly cultural magazine cum newsletter of ICT. There are typically 5-6 issues a year. The newsletter highlights the achievements of current students and alumni, has news and information about institute and is also a platform for current students to showcase their art and literary skills. The first issue was released in October 2006.

Sportsaga Publications

Sportsaga is the ICT's annual inter-college sports festival. It began in 2005 and has continued on since.

The Bombay Technologist

The Bombay Technologist is the annual peer reviewed journal of the institute, started in 1951.[28] The journal publishes technical articles in the thrust areas of science and technology, written by both Undergraduate as well as Graduate students of the Institute. Annually, the three best articles published are awarded prizes. The Best Post-Graduate student in the Institute is given the ‘Bombay Technologist Best Post-Graduate Student’ award. To foster the talents of the ICTians in non-technical areas, the journal has also instituted ‘Bombay Technologist Creativity’ Award. The Bombay Technologist also supports partial travel and registration expenses of students presenting technical papers within India. ICT had previously lacked the framework for an organized, official and widespread UG research ethic in tandem with academics. However, with Bombay Technologist Undergraduate Research Program (BTUGRP), it has become one of the first in India in laying a foundation for a robust UG research system, in pace with other globally renowned universities.[29] Archive of past issues is maintained on the Bombay Technologist website.[30]

Ranking

College rankings
General – India
Careers360[31] 13
Engineering – India
NIRF[32] 14
Careers360[33] AAAA+
Pharmacy – India
Careers360[34] 2

ICT was ranked 14 among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2017.[32] Careers360 has given it the second best rating, "AAAA+", among engineering colleges in 2017[33] and ranked 2nd among top government pharmacy colleges in India 2017.[34] It also ranked it 13 overall in the "Top Universities in India 2017" ranking.[31]

Notable alumni

The Institute has produced many first-generation entrepreneurs and academics. Civilian honors awarded to alumni include 3 Padma Vibhushan, 8 Padma Bhushan and 10 Padma Shri awardees. Only two Indian engineers - Raghunath Mashelkar and Man Mohan Sharma - have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), both of whom are alumni of ICT.

Among the notable people who have attended or graduated from ICT are:

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