Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay ( Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान, मुंबई, Bharatiya Praudyogitī Sansthān, Mumbai ), also known as IIT Bombay or IITB, is a technical state university in Powai, a northern suburb of Mumbai.
The Indian Institutes of Technology are a group of Indian state universities, which is represented in seven cities and are managed by the Indian central government directly. The IIT Bombay is the second largest IIT.
Divisions
The university is technically and scientifically oriented and focuses on providing engineering courses. The individual departments are organized as a Department or Centre and usually each have a building on campus in which all the offices of the faculty and classrooms are housed.
The campus
The campus is located in Powai, a northwestern suburb of Mumbai at the shore of the lake " Powai Lake " and was designed by Vanu G. Bhuta for diameter GM Bhuta & Associates designed.
Green Campus
In the design, care was taken to leave as many trees between the buildings and on the streets, so that despite tropical sunshine in the shade is usually the go. Frequently walkways were built around trees.
Because the campus is adjacent to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, the air is less polluted than in the rest of the city.
As elsewhere in urban areas in India are very many free-range animals to be found on the premises: first of all stray dogs and cattle, but also cats and monkeys. But black panther from the national park lost at times on the premises and of gavials ( crocodiles ) in the adjacent lake was reported more often.
Sports facilities
The university has an outdoor pool and fields for football, hockey, cricket, tennis, basketball and volleyball.
Staff quarters
The campus is divided into various sections. Around the area with the administrative and teaching buildings around there are several residential areas in which separate academic staff, non-academic staff, students and construction workers are housed.
The quality of the neighborhoods varies widely. While professors are housed in ordinary Mehrzimmerwohungen, construction workers live in typical corrugated iron huts on campus.
Halls of Residence
Since the families of most students ( inn ) s do not live in Mumbai, but in some far away places of India, and rents in Mumbai are quite high, most students live in one of 14 student residence halls.
It is in this case strictly separated by gender. The dormitories with the numbers 10 and 11 are for students. The students inside and students can choose between 7 and 22 clock visit each other in the dorms, but only after entry in the " Guest Books " at the guards and deposit of your student card in the friendly students, who must reside in the visited dorm.
In the first semester you have to share a room for two with another student, there are occasionally also quad rooms with bunk beds. In later semesters, we must move into a single room. Master students and foreign exchange students get single rooms.
Because of the housing shortage in the women's dormitories and foreign students will be accommodated in shared rooms. The common areas have been converted into bed camps.
In the dorms, there is usually its own cafeteria, copy shops, small snack bars, self-service laundry rooms, laundry and ironing services.
University Police
The local police of Mumbai has no access to the campus. Since the campus administratively not part of the state of Maharashtra, the University Police will report directly to the Indian central government.
Events
The four-day festival Mood Indigo is held annually in December, usually very shortly before or at Christmas. In the music festival nationwide were known musicians such as Shankar Mahadevan or Asha Bhosle. There are also competitions and exhibitions.
In the two -yearly Techfest the IIT presents the city of Mumbai and surroundings and tries visitors and students with all sorts of events and invited research groups from around the world to entertain. A side effect of the festivals is the cultural exchange with the research groups, usually presenting their university. According to information from the Techfest is the largest festival of its kind in Asia.
Exhibition at the ETH Zurich at Techfest 2012
Prelude to Technoholics Show 2012, this is part of Techfest events
History
IIT Bombay was established in 1958 as the second Indian Institute of Technology IIT after Karagpur with the support of UNESCO and the Soviet Union. The UNESCO presented the technical equipment available to the Soviet Union, the technical experts, while the Indian government took over the responsibility for the construction of the building and the running costs.
On July 25, 1958, the first semester in IIT- temporary quarters in the building of the Synthetic and Art Silk Mills Research Association ( Sasmira ) in Worli began a suburb of Mumbai with 100 students. These students were selected from more than 3,400 applicants for admission for the basic courses chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and metallurgy. One of the main objectives was the establishment of institutions for the study with a wide range of engineering sciences.
The 2.2 km ² campus downtown Mumbai was in Powai, 29 kilometers north created. On March 10, 1959, the foundation stone of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India was laid.
Although the city of Bombay has now been renamed Mumbai, the University still calls IIT Bombay. (2010 )
Placement in rankings
The IIT Bombay has in some rankings achieved remarkable results and is significantly better than all German universities in these rankings.
- 3rd place in a ranking among Asian Technical Universities
- 36th place in this category worldwide
- 30th place in the Times Higher Education -QS World University Ranking 2009 in the category Engineering / Technology.