The Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (abbreviated IIT Ropar or IIT-RPR) is a

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located in

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. It is one of the eight

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(IITs) established in 2008 by the

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(MHRD),

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under The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011 to expand the reach and enhance the quality of technical education in the country. IIT Ropar is ranked as one of the prestigious engineering institutions in India.

History

IIT Ropar was established by th
Ministry of Education
formally the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, in the year 2008, under the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011. The Act was passed in the

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on 24 March 2011 and by the

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on 30 April 2012. The classes for academic session 2008–2009 were held a
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
The Institute started functioning from its transit campus in Rupnagar from 1 August 2009. The foundation stone for the permanent campus was laid down on 24 February 2009 by the then Union HRD Minister Shri Arjun Singh. The institute has shifted its operations from permanent campus in June 2018, except for the departments of Humanities, Mathematics, Physics, Chemical Engineering and Civil Engineering, and some hostels and labs.

Campus

Permanent Campus

IIT Ropar operates from its 525 acres (2.12 km2) permanent campus since June 2018. The green campus of IIT Ropar is built on the bank of

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, on the land earlier known as Birla Seed Farms, and the

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- "tresses of shiva" are seen from every corner of the ultra-modern campus. The architecture of the entrance gate is inspired by

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with four 41 feet high stone carved pyramid-like pillars at the entrance, constructed in collaboration with

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. IIT Ropar celebrates its Foundation Day on 24 February every year. The construction contract was awarded to

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, and a Bangkok-based construction company was assigned the task of finishing the first phase. The Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department has been the first department to completely shift to the permanent campus along with the library in July 2018. A part of the administration was shifted on 17 June 2018. By June 2019, all Administrative Offices, the Departments of

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and

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shifted to the permanent campus. Spiraliitropar

The institute has several key buildings and facilities on the campus. Some of the notable buildings are: Academic Block houses various departments, classrooms, and faculty offices. The academic buildings are named after the Indian scientists - S. Ramanujan Block, J. C. Bose Block, M. Visvesvaraya Block, Satish Dhawan Block, S. Bhatnagar Block, Radhakrishnan Block and the Har Gobind Khorana (Super Academic Block). The institute, in the past, operated in two different transit campuses, transit campus - I & II, located in Rupnagar.

Transit Campus

The transit campus - I of IIT Ropar was in the Women's Polytechnic college in Rupnagar district. The academic and administration buildings of the Women's Polytechnic college Ropar were offered by the Government of Punjab and renovated to match the initial requirements of the institute. The transit campus - I houses four hostels: three for boys (Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune Houses) and one for girls (Venus House). The day-to-day management of hostels is taken care of by a committee consisting of student representatives, faculty members (as Wardens) and administrative staff (caretakers, office-heads). This campus also offered a state-of-the-art central library, an independent post office and a branch of

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. On the transit campus - I, the sports facilities include a cricket field, three tennis courts, a football field, a gymnasium, a basketball court, two volleyball court and also a number of facilities for several athletics. The Students Activity Center (SAC) provided a gymnasium and rooms for different activity of the clubs. Additionally, the institute has also operated from the buildings of the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology ( NIELIT) Ropar, sharing the boundary with the new campus of the institute.

Organisation and administration

Governance

All IITs follow the same organization structure which has

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as visitor at the top of the hierarchy. Directly under the president is the IIT Council. Under the IIT Council is the board of governors of each IIT. Under the board of governors is the director, who is the chief academic and executive officer of the IIT. Under the director, in the organizational structure, comes the deputy director. Under the director and the deputy director, come the

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, the heads of departments, and the registrar.

Departments and Centres

The institute currently has 11 departments, 6 multi-disciplinary centre, 1 DST Technology Innovation Hub, and a School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering. The departments are: *

Biomedical Engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare applications (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic purposes). BME also integrates the logica ...

Chemical Engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of the operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials ...

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

Civil Engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

Computer Science and Engineering Computer science and engineering (CSE) is an academic subject comprising approaches of computer science and computer engineering. There is no clear division in computing between science and engineering, just like in the field of materials science ...

Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

and

Social Sciences Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among members within those societies. The term was former ...

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

and

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* Metallurgical and Materials Engineering *

Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

* School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering

DST Technology Innovation Hub

In 2020, the Department of Science of Technology (DST) has established a Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) in the application domain of Agriculture & Water, named Agriculture and Water Technology Development Hub (AWaDH), at IIT Ropar in the framework of National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). IIT Ropar TIH is primarily working on (i) Water and Soil Quality Assessment Processes, (ii) Water Treatment and Management, (iii) Agriculture Automation and Information Systems, (iv) Stubble Management and Urban Farming, (v) IoT Systems, and (vi) Instrumentation for mapping hazardous substances in water and soil, towards eco-friendly farming practices and to make farming more profitable for the grower. The technology innovation hub is led by Prof. Pushpendra P. Singh.

Academics

Programmes

The institute offers undergraduate programmes awarding

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in various engineering areas. Admission to these programmes is through JEE Advanced. The institute also offers postgraduate degrees awarding MTech and MSc (Research) in various engineering fields, as well as MSc in basic sciences. PhD courses in various fields are also offered.

Rankings

IIT Ropar has ranked 351–400 in the QS Asia Ranking 2022. The ''

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'' ranked it 501–600 globally in the 2022 ranking. The

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(NIRF 2024) ranked it 22nd among engineering colleges and 45th in Research.

Research

The institute stresses in inter-disciplinary research areas including Renewable and Clean Energy,

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(AI), Bio-imaging and Bio-instrumentation, Agriculture & Water, Rural Technology Development, Hydrogen Energy, Defense and Security etc. A Central Research Facility has been established encompassing equipment from various departments. From the academic year 2017–18, the institute organises Research Conclave every year.

Student life

Cultural festivals

Zeitgeist is the annual cultural festival of Indian Institute of Technology Ropar and is held annually as a three-day festival in October or November. It was conceived in September 2010. Advitiya, with its maiden edition in 2017, is the annual technical festival, which is held for three days in February or March. An annual sports festival, Aarohan is also held annually during February. It is currently in its second edition. These college fests are managed financially and conducted entirely by the students. An annual

Indian classical music Indian classical music is the art music, classical music of the Indian subcontinent. It is generally described using terms like ''Shastriya Sangeet'' and ''Marg Sangeet''. It has two major traditions: the North Indian classical music known as ...

and

dance Dance is an The arts, art form, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often Symbol, symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

event

SPIC MACAY The Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth, abbreviated as SPIC MACAY, is a voluntary youth movement which promotes intangible aspects of Indian cultural heritage by promoting Indian classical music, clas ...

is also organized by the students and the faculty. Events such as Inter Batch Cultural Championship (IBCC) and Inter Year Sports Championship (IYSC) are the intra-college events that are organized annually for the students of the institute. The management of student activities is done by many boards functioning under the Student Affairs Department. These boards have elected student representatives known as General Secretaries, and an overall elected President of the Student Council. They have various societies and clubs to promote extra curricular and co-curricular activities.

Alumni Association

The IIT Ropar Alumni Association was founded on 1 February 2013.

References

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