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[National Institute of Technology Rourkela][1], Orissa, INDIA

Established 1961
Type Institute of National Importance
Location Rourkela, Orissa, India
Campus Urban, Spread over 2.62 km² beyond Sector-1, Rourkela Steel City
Acronym NITR, NITRKL
Website www.nitrkl.ac.in


National Institute of Technology Rourkela Entrance GateNational Institute of Technology, Rourkela in Orissa, INDIA (NIT) (Hindi: राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान, रौरकेला), formerly known as the Regional Engineering College (REC), is one of the top premier national level institutions for technical education in India. NIT is a joint undertaking of the government of India and the government of Orissa. NIT Rourkela was established in 1961 under the able vision of the then Chief Minister of Orissa Biju Patnaik. Its foundation stone was laid by the then Prime Minister Of India Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. NIT Rourkela was ranked as the best NIT in India by TEQIP for the year 2009.It is the 24th best engineering college in India.

Today, nearly fifty years later, NIT Rourkela continues to contribute significantly to the growth of the techno-economic strength of the country in a number of ways. It has produced high quality engineers and scientists, and continues to do so. Today, alumni of NIT Rourkela are doing well in various capacities as entrepreneurs, managers, technocrats, administrators, consultants, advisers and as faculty and researchers, both in India and abroad. At home, they are contributing to the growth of the techno-economic strength of India and also as entrepreneurs, thereby generating employment. Abroad, the alumni have enhanced the prestige of the Institute and the country by their excellent performance in their chosen fields. The amount of quality research undertaken at the institute is also phenomenal.

The institute is managed by the Board of Governors of National Institute of Technology (Rourkela) Society and vested with significant degree of administrative and financial autonomy. The government of India have recognised the institute as a premier institution of repute and have developed it as a center of excellence under plan funding. The institute has been modernised by two foreign collaborative funding agencies: the Material theme in the Materials and Metallurgical Engineering department under Indo-UK. REC project, and the Computer Science and Electronics streams under World Bank cum Swiss Development Corporation IMPACT project.

Prof. Sunil Kumar Sarangi is the present director of NITR

Contents [hide]
1 Location
2 Infrastructure
3 Departments
4 Talent pool
5 Hostels =
6 Campus life
7 Student activity clubs
8 Prominent alumni
9 See also
10 External links


[edit] Location
The city of Rourkela came into prominence in the years 1954-55, with the decision of the government of India to set up the first public sector steel plant, Rourkela Steel Plant in this locality in collaboration with the then West Germany. The city is a huge metropolis connected with all parts of the country by railway and road. The population of the city is about 6.5 lakhs. The institute is at a distance of about 7 km from the railway station in between sector 1 and Bondamunda.

[edit] Infrastructure
The campus of the institute is situated at the eastern end of Rourkela steel city, beyond Sector-1 over an area of 2.62 km² of land provided by the Government of Orissa. The courses are mostly residential on a full-time basis.

The institute area is at the centre of the campus and surrounded by the residential areas. The Main Building of the Institute is central to the institute area and is surrounded by the departmental buildings. It houses all the classrooms, the Central library, and the Administrative and Academic sections. It also houses some departments like Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Humanities. All the departments, the lecture gallery, the workshops, the institute canteen and the audio-visual hall surround the main building.

Residential accommodation is provided to all faculty, staff and students. Lawns are found all over the campus, and the institute bagged the prize for having the most greenery and well maintained lawns among all the NITs in 2008. Quarters are alloted to all of the faculty based on their seniority. There are eight halls of residence for the students within the campus: four for male graduates, two for male postgraduates, one for all the girl students and one for married students doing doctorates or research. There is another restaurant-cum-canteen near the student halls of residence, along with an ATM, an ice-cream parlour, a general needs store and a barber shop.

The residential campus is equipped with a stadium which has been host for several national level university tournaments and is named after Dilip Tirkey, the former Indian Hockey captain who hails from this part of orissa. There are mutiple courts near the hostels for playing lawn tennis, basketball and volleyball. A swimming pool and a stadium dedicated entirely for cricket have been constructed.The estimated cost of the aquatic centre has been estimated to be 6.5 crores. The campus has all the amenities for developing personal, social and academic skills of the student community. The institute is one of the premier institutes that has supplied some of the best hockey, cricket , basketball, table tennis, football and athletics talents who have taken part in various state and national level games.

The campus also houses a Student Activity Centre (SAC), auditorium (Bhubaneshwar Behra hall), dispensary, co-operative store, post office, SBI Bank, computer centre, research centres[citation needed] and temples.

The overall environment is intellectually stimulating for the students of the full-time residential programs except the problem of air-connectivity and the problem of decent exposure .

[edit] Departments
Department Phone No E-mail
Biotechnology and Medical Engineering [2] 0661 - 2462261 hod-bm@nitrkl.ac.in
Ceramic Engineering 0661 - 2462200 hod-cr@nitrkl.ac.in
Chemical Engineering 0661 - 2462250 hod-ch@nitrkl.ac.in
Civil Engineering 0661 -2462300 hod-ce@nitrkl.ac.in
Computer Science & Engineering 0661 - 2462350 hod-cs@nitrkl.ac.in
Electrical Engineering 0661 - 2462400 hod-ee@nitrkl.ac.in
Electronics & Communication Engineering 0661 - 2462450 hod-ei@nitrkl.ac.in
Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering
Mechanical Engineering 0661 - 2462500 hod-me@nitrkl.ac.in
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering 0661 - 2462550 hod-mm@nitrkl.ac.in
Mining Engineering 0661 - 2462600 hod-mn@nitrkl.ac.in
Chemistry 0661 - 2462650 hod-cy@nitrkl.ac.in
Applied Mathematics 0661 - 2462700 hod-ma@nitrkl.ac.in
Physics 0661 - 2462720 hod-ph@nitrkl.ac.in
Computer Centre 0661 - 2462670 hod-cc@nitrkl.ac.in
Central Workshop 0661 - 2462740 hod-cw@nitrkl.ac.in
Training and Placement 0661 - 2462180 hod-tnp@nitrkl.ac.in
Humanities & Social Sciences 0661 - 2462692 hod-hs@nitrkl.ac.in
Life science
School of Management [citation needed]

[edit] Talent pool
Today NIT, Rourkela nurtures the best talent in India and abroad. At the end of Spring Semester, each year scores of companies, including several Fortune 100 companies like Indian Oil Corporation (India's Largest commercial Enterprise), IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Lucent Technologies, Amdocs, Cisco Systems, Samsung, Accenture, Balmer & Lawrie & Co., General Electric, DRDO, Sasken,Satyam, PepsiCo, FIITJEE, TIME, Huawei, Tata Motors, CSC, Saint-Gobain, Praxair, Infosys, Wipro, L&T, Ashok Leyland, The Linde Group, Hindalco, Schlumberger, ITC[disambiguation needed], Maruti Udyog, NTPC, MuSigma, Syntel, Onmobile, Coal India Limited( World's largest Coal mining company) , Capgemini, Atos Origin, Essar, Mecon, Crompton Greaves, Vedanta Resources, CCCL , Krishak Bharati Cooperative Limited and many more visit the campus to recruit some of the best minds for the ever-growing industrial and scientific requirements of India.

[edit] Hostels =
The hostels also known as the Hall of residences are presently seven in number, the best of them being MSS Hall, previously known as Hall-5. Hall-6 houses post-graduates and Hall-1 is for married scholars, the rest of the halls are for unmarried scholars. The hostels have been refurbished recently and are now are in better conditions except Hall-7 also known as HBH, this hall is known for causing various disease among students, the water supply too is very poor and the overall quality of the civil/electrical work is found to be below average, despite the fact that the contract went to a reputed builder from Kolkata, the building quality can be adjudged from the fact the during the recent cyclone Cyclone Laila, a cantilever in front of the hostel fell over, the purpose of the cantilever structure though is not very clear.

[edit] Campus life
Campus activities include various outdoor games to computer games, from trekking to different activity clubs; it has everything that a budding engineer needs. Places like Backpost, Mausi ka Dukan, Amul Parlour (in front of GD Birla Hall), Tasty Zone (previously Hexagon), Friendz, Rengcol Canteen, Radhika, Madhuban,Raju Dhaba,Bridge, Khana Khazana, May Fair, Jam, Checkpost and Pahadi are popular hangouts among the students. Latest addition of Mokshaa, Calorie have added spice to student life with the lounge becoming increasingly popular in the student community.Nero Bhaina's food is also appreciated by one and all especially his Dal which ranks next to Gaya Bhaina's. Also Guntu Bhaiyya's 'Samosa(Singada) & Goja' is famous among the junta.

[edit] Student activity clubs
E-cell-Entrepreneurship cell of NIT Rourkela.
Euphony – The oldest musical band of NIT Rourkela.
Pantomime – The premier Drama club of NIT Rourkela.
Yi Net – Young Indians Net promoted by CII (www.youngindiansnitr.co.cc)
Chitraang – The club for maintaining the graffiti wall of institute.
Mathematics Club – Mathematics Club for cultivating a healthy interest in math.
Heartbeats – The musical band of NIT Rourkela.
Inquizitive – Club dedicated for increasing the general interest towards quiz(http://www.inquizitive.co.nr)
Microsoft Campus Club, NIT Rourkela
SAE-NITR – Society of Automotive Engineers, NITR chapter
Udaan – Club for aeromodelling.
Degree 361 – The Institute Magazine managed by the student body
AASRA – An Exclusive group for Social Work AASRA
Leo – Smaller counterpart of Lion's Club
Rotaract – Coterie affiliated to Rotary Club
Cyborg – Club for robotics and automation(http://cyborgnitr.com)
IEEE Student Chapter – Club for IEEE (USA) technical activities
CEC – Computer Education Club (http://www.cecnitrkl.co.nr)
SLS-Society for Living Systems
[edit] Prominent alumni
Dr. Chandra Mohan Rao Kintala(1970, Electrical), Professor and Director of Software Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. L.M.Patnaik, (1979 - Electrical Engineering), Noted Computer Science Professor of IISc, Bangalore.
Padmashri Nalini Ranjan Mohanty, (1971 - Mechanical Engineering), Ex. CMD, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
Er. A K Tripathi, Ex. Director General, CPRI
Er.L K Mishra,Manager OPTCL
Sri CP Gurnani, (1981 - Chemical Engineering), CEO, Mahindra Saytam
Mr. C.R.Pradhan (1970 - Mechanical Engineering), Ex CMD, NALCO.
Mr P.K.Mahapatra (1972-Chemical Engineering), President & CEO (Technology Business Sector), RPG Enterprises
Dr Bijaya Nanda Das, (1969 - Chemical Engineering), Retd General Manager Rourkela Steel Plant, VP Jindal Steels, won many national awards for his contributions to environmental engineering, including Golden Peacock Awards.
Dr. Prakash Patnaik, ( 1978 - Metallurgical Engineering), Director of the Institute of Aerospace Research (IAR),Canada and a high level NATO Scientist.
Mr. Lalatendu Rath, (1970- Mechanical Engineering), Noted Oriya Film maker and actor in Adi Mimansa and Aranya Rodana.
Prof. Barada Mishra (1981-Metallurgical Engineering), Director, Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar
Mahesh Bulchandani, (1987 - Mechanical Engineering), Managing Director and Head of structuring and solutions, Asia ex-Japan, JP Morgan, Hong Kong.)
Mr Zia Saquib (1985- Electrical Engineering), Executive Director, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
Mr Vineet Vohra (1985- Mechanical Engineering), Regional Director, Citibank Singapore
Sri L. N. Maharana (Chemical Engineering), alumnus of 1968 batch, is Head of Rare Earths Division, Indian Rare Earths Limited, Udyogmandal, Kerala.
Sri Venkata G. Raju Bodapati, PMP, (1987 - Metallurgy), VP (Development), VisualSoft Technologies Ltd, Hyderabad.
Sri J.K.Sasmal (Chemical Engineering), alumnus of 1970 batch, is Vice President (MIS), Reliance Industries Ltd. at Hazira.
Sri Debasis Roy (1981 - Chemical Engineering) Joint President, Utkal Alumina
Sri Om Prakash Gupta(Chemical Engineering), AGM SAIL
Sri S. S. Mohanty (Chemical Engineering), alumnus of 1972, is now Executive Director (Materials Management) in Rourkela Steel Plant.
Sri Bijoy Kumar Padhee (Chemical Engineering), alumnus of 1976, is VP, Vedanta Alumina Ltd. at Lanjigarh.
Mr. Srinivas Duvvuri, (1981 - Mechanical Engineering), Director-Strategic Initiatives, Rolls-Royce India Limited, Bangalore.
Mr Rambabu Yarlagadda, (1981 - Chemical Engineering), CEO, BPOsystems, USA
Mr Satya prakash pattanaik( 1972 Mechanical Engineering) is now executive director SAIL Alloy Steels Plant Durgapur.0343-2545053
S. Iyer (1995-Electrical Engineering) Executive Director, PABL Systems, USA
Aakash Khurana,BTech-chemical engineering, Noted theatre and film personality,COO,NIMBUS
Dr. Prashanta Mohapatra (1987 Electrical): Professor and Head of Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, USA - a well-known name in Computer Architecture
Dr. Laxmi Narayan Bhuyan (Electrical): Professor at University of California, Riverside, USA - a well-known name in Computer Technology
Vikas Srivastava (1988 Electrical): Vice - President, Wipro Ltd.
Kishore Mishra (1987 Electrical): Director of Engineering, Snowbush IP, a Division of Gennum Corporation
Purna Mohanty (1988 Electrical): Director of Operations, Snowbush IP, a Division of Gennum Corporation
Dr. Anjan Swain (1988 Electrical): Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Kozhokode
Mr Tom dung dung (1998 mechanical) : MD Future vision group,
Mr Prasant Harichandan (2001 COMPUTER SCIENCE) : CHAIRMAN Heritage Group of hotels.
Dr. Uma Kant Choudhary (1980, Electrical), AGMP(PM Machine Specialist), BHEL
Er. Ratnanav Acharya (1983, Electrical), AGM(Electrical Machine Design), BHEL
Dr. Ranjan Dash (1998, Ceramics), Co-founder & CTO, Y-Carbon Inc., Philadelphia, USA (www.Y-Carbon.US)[3][4]
[edit] See also
Higher education in Orissa

[edit] External links
NIT Rourkela
More Websites of NIT Rourkela:
Departments
Admissions and Intake Capacity
Facilities
Placement
NIT Mail
Monday Morning
The official weekly e-Newsletter of NIT Rourkela.
NIT Alumni Website
The official website of the Alumni of NIT Rourkela
Campus Virtual Tour {old}
Social networking portal of NIT Rourkela alumni and students
An initiative by students, alumni and wellwishers.
NITRKL Campus Virtual Tour {new}
Interactive 360 degrees panoramic views from major important locations of NIT (REC) Rourkela. This is the first of its kind among the technical institutes of India.
Alumni Zone
NIT Rourkela Open Discussion Forum
A platform for the students and alumni of NIT Rourkela for an open discussion. It contains articles and messages from the alumni of 1961's REC days till today's freshers. Also aims at catering to the needs of any one seeking information on NIT Rourkela.
Nitrutsav
Annual Cultural Program of NIT Rourkela.
Confluence
Annual All India Technical Symposium at NIT Rourkela. Fusion of Minds and Technology.
[5]
Inquizitive Club, The official quiz club of NIT Rourkela
Rotaract Club of NIT Rourkela
The website of the Rotaract Club of NIT Rourkela.
Dataquest T-School Rankings
NIT alumni website - Largest database of all NITians
Coordinates: 22°15′12″N 84°54′06″E / 22.253275°N 84.90164°E / 22.253275; 84.90164
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