Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Motto	Knowledge is Power
Grunnlagt	1874
Type	statlig
Beliggenhet	Roorkee (Uttarakhand), India
Studenter	4 200 (2007)
Ansatte	375 (2007)
Medlemskap	E-ShodhSindhu (2023)
Nettsted	http://www.iitr.ac.in/ (hindi, engelsk)
	; Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee; 29°51′52″N 77°53′47″Ø
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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee eller IIT Roorkee er et statlig, teknisk universitet i India med campus i Roorkee i delstaten Uttarakhand, India. Det ble opprettet i 1874 som Thomason college of Civil Engineering , og het fra 1949 University of Roorkee og var da Indias første tekniske universitet. IIT-statusen ble tildelt i 2001.

Dette lærestedet regnes som Indias femte beste teknologiske universitet i 2007.^[2]

Undervisningen fokuserer på teknologifag, er sammensluttet faglig sett med søsterinstitusjoner i byene Kharagpur, Kanpur, Chennai, Delhi, Bombay, og Guwahati.

Fakultetene er:

Department of Architecture
Department of Biotechnology
Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Earthquake Engineering (offers post-graduate level courses only)
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Department of Pulp and Paper Engineering
Department of The departments dealing with pure sciences in the institute are:
Department of Chemistry
Department of Mathematics
Department of Physics
Department of Earth Sciences
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Det er seks forskningssentra ved IITR:

Department of Management Studies[6]
Center of Hydrology
center of Water Resources Development and Management
Alternate Hydro Energy Center

Studiene gis opp til doktorgradsnivå. Studenttallet er 4 200 og av disse er 2 000 høyere grads studenter.

Indian Institutes of Technology

Det er i alt tretten utdanningsinstitusjoner i India som har den offisielle og akkrediterte tittelen Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) og de navngis med bynavnet som suffiks.

Disse er i dag:

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (1950; IIT i 1951)
Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai (1958)
Indian Institute of Technology Chennai (1959)
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1959)
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (1961; IIT i 1963)
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (1994),
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (1847; IIT i 2001)

Planlagte:

Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (2008)
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (2008)
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (2008)
Indian Institute of Technology Patna (2008)
Indian Institute of Technology Punjab (2008)
Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan (2008)

IIT-ene ble opprettet etter uavhengigheten i 1947 for å fremme den økonomiske og teknologiske utviklingen i India, og studentene kalles populært for IITitans.

Referanser

^ ess.inflibnet.ac.in, besøkt 6. april 2023^{[Hentet fra Wikidata]}
^ DataQuest India 2008 Arkivert 8. februar 2012 hos Wayback Machine. – India's 20 Top T-Schools in 2007.