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The IITs subsidize undergraduate student fees by approximately 80% and provide scholarships to all Master of Technology students and Research Scholars (PhD) to encourage students for higher studies, per the recommendations of the Thacker Committee (1959–1961). [62]
Head of Department of Computer Science, IIT Bombay: C. V. Seshadri: B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) Former chair of chemical engineering at IIT Kanpur S. Shankar Sastry, 1977 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) Founding chancellor of the Plaksha University, Mohali and a former Dean of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley [45] [46] K. S ...
In addition, in 2015 the MHRD approved a IIIT in Nagpur, Maharashtra [10] and in Ranchi, Jharkhand. [11] A IIIT in Bhagalpur, Bihar was approved in 2016. [12] Finally, to close the list of 20 'approved' IIITs, a IIIT in Surat, Gujarat was approved and set up in 2017. [13]
[9] [10] Pradeep Khosla: Computer scientist and eighth Chancellor of University of California, San Diego [11] Gopal Krishna Nayak: Director of IIIT Bhubaneswar [12] Mani Lal Bhaumik: Ph. D. 1958 First PhD student at IIT Kharagpur, physicist, and Padma Shri awardee [13] Satya Prasad Majumder: Ph.D. 1993
The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are centrally funded technical institutes under the ownership of the Ministry of Education, Government of India.They are governed by the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education, and Research Act, 2007, which declared them institutions of national importance and laid down their powers, duties, and framework for governance.
Former Physics professor of IIT, Delhi. Founder of Sadbhav Mission. [29] Ajaib Singh Brar: 1977 Doctorate Professor of chemistry at IIT Delhi, Saraswati Samman laureate, NASI Fellow [30] Sanket Goel: 1998 M.S. Physics Dean and Professor, BITS Pilani. Fulbright and JSPS Fellow [31] Naveen Garg: 1991 (BTech), 1994 (PhD)
Name Affliliation Notability References H. C. Verma: Former professor, Nuclear physics Authored several school, undergraduate and graduate textbooks, the most popular being the two-volume Concepts of Physics, co-founded Shiksha Sopan, a social upliftment organization for economically weaker children living near the campus of IIT Kanpur, Padma Shri recipient
There is long history of science and technology in the Indian subcontinent.The western style engineering education commenced during the British raj as a necessity for the training of overseers for construction and maintenance of public buildings, roads, canals, and ports, and for the training of artisans and craftsmen for the use of instruments, and apparatus needed for the army, the navy, and ...