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National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela in Orissa, INDIA (NIT), 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. Jawharlal Nehru.

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.

Campus
The campus of the institute, consisting of the institute buildings, residence halls and staff colony, 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. It is a residential campus offering accommodation to faculty, staff and students. The campus has all the amenities for developing personal, social and academic skills of the student community. The college was one of the premier institute and had the best cricket , basketball, table tennis, football and athlete who represented in various state and national level game.

There are eight halls of residence within the campus, as the courses are mostly residential on a full-time basis. Major attractions among the male students of the institute include the legendary Backpost, which serves as a refreshment and chillout zone. Backpost has been the cultural epicenter for the students for several decades. The residential campus is equipped with a stadium which has been host for several national level university tournaments. There are several other courts within the hostels and residential campus of the Institute. The campus also houses a Student Activity Centre (SAC), auditorium (AV Hall), canteens (Hexagon, Nescafe and Canteen), dispensary, co-operative store, post office, SBI Bank, computer centre, workshop, research centres and temples.

The Main Building of the Institute is surrounded by the department buildings. Electrical Engineering, Metallurgical and Material Sciences Engineering and Civil Engineering departments are housed mostly in the Main Building. The Main Building also houses the Central Library, Administrative and Academic sections.

The overall environment is intellectually stimulating for the students of the full-time residential programs.

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 PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Lucent Technologies, Amdocs, Cisco Systems, Samsung, Accenture, General Electric, Schneider Electric, Google, DRDO, Sasken, PepsiCo, FIIT-JEE, TIME, Huawei, Tata Motors, CSC, Saint-Gobain, Indian Oil Corporation, Praxair, Infosys, Wipro, L&T, Ashok Leyland, The Linde Group, Hindalco, Schlumberger, ITC, Maruti Udyog,NTPC, and many more visit the campus to recruit some of the best minds for the ever-growing industrial and scientific requirements of India.

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 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 lakhs. The institute is at a distance of about 8 km from the railway station.

Campus Life
Wow!! Ranging from various outdoor games to computer games, from trekking to different activity clubs it has everything that a 'typical' engineer craves for. Counter-Strike and Age of Empires are among the most popular games played here. Places like Backpost,Tasty Zone, Friendz, Rengcol, Radhika, Madhuban, jam, Checkpost and Pahadi are popular hangouts among the students.Latest addition of Mokshaa has added spice to student life with the lounge becoming more and more popular among the student community.Also Guntu Bhaiyya's 'Samosa(Singada) & Goja' is famous among the JUNTA.

STUDENT ACTIVITY CLUBS

DEGREE 361- The Institute Magazine managed by the student body

AASRA - An Exclusive group for Social Work

LEO - Smaller counterpart of Lion's Club

ROTARACT - Coterie affiliated to Rotary Club

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

Prominent Alumni
Dr. Chandra M R Kintala(1970, Electrical), Yahoo! Labs India, Director of System Sciences and Academic Relations
Sri CP Gurnani, (1981 - Chemical Engineering), President, Tech Mahindra, Pune
Mr P.K.Mahapatra (1972-Chemical Engineering), President & CEO (Technology Business Sector), RPG Enterprises
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 Earth 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), Regional Director, Rolls-Royce India Limited, New Delhi.
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 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
Kishore Mishra (1987 Electrical): President and CEO of ASIC Architect, Inc. based in Silicon Valley USA and Bhubaneswar, India
Purna Mohanty (1988 Electrical): Vice President of ASIC Architect, Inc. based in Silicon Valley USA and Bhubaneswar, India
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), AGM BHEL
Dr. Ranjan Dash (1998, Ceramics), Co-founder & CTO, Y-Carbon Inc., Philadelphia, USA (www.Y-Carbon.US)

External links
NIT Rourkela

http://www.nitrkl.ac.in/

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