National Institute of Technology Karnataka

National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Logo of NIT Karnataka
Former name
 Karnataka Regional Engineering College
Motto ಕಾಯಕವೇ ಕೈಲಾಸ
Motto in English
 Work is worship
Type Public
Established 1960
Chairperson Dr. K. Balaveera Reddy[1]
Director Karanam Uma Maheshwar Rao[2]
Location Surathkal, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Campus Suburban
Administrative Portal IRIS,NITK
Website www.nitk.ac.in

National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), formerly known as Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC), also known as NIT Surathkal, is a public engineering university at Surathkal, Mangalore. It was founded in 1960 as KREC while today, it is one of the 31 National Institutes of Technology in India and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India. It has a suburban campus, in close proximity to the Arabian Sea. National Highway 66 runs through the campus and serves as the major mode of access.

History

The foundation stone for Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC) was laid on 6 August 1960,[3] at Surathkal. It was made possible through the efforts of U. Srinivas Mallya and V. S. Kudva and the area is now called Srinivasnagar in his honour. KREC began with three under-graduate courses in engineering: Mechanical, Electrical, and Civil, with affiliation to the University of Mysore. 1965 saw the beginning of under-graduate courses in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. In 1966, the college started its first postgraduate course in Marine Structures and Industrial Structures, followed by post-graduate courses in Industrial Electronics (1969), Heat Power (1971), Hydraulics and Water Resources (1971), Chemical Plant Design Engineering (1971) and Process Metallurgy (1972).

More under-graduate engineering courses were added later: Electronics and Communication Engineering (1971), Mining Engineering (1984), Computer Engineering (1986) and information technology (2000). In 1980, KREC came under the affiliation of Mangalore University, and the five-year under-graduate courses were shortened to four-years. On 26 June 2002, it was elevated to the status of a National Institute of Technology and has been called NIT Karnataka (NITK) ever since. It is now a Deemed University. NITK celebrated its 50th Institute Foundation day on 6 August 2009. The year-long Golden Jubilee celebrations were inaugurated on 10 August 2009.[4]

Campus

NITK Main Building in Surathkal, Mangalore

The 295.35-acre (1.1952 km2)[5] campus is located on National Highway 66 (formerly National Highway 17), by the shores of Arabian Sea. It has a private beach, including a lighthouse. Almost all the students reside on-campus, as do most of the staff. Staff quarters consist of the Director's quarters, Professors & Assistant Professors quarters, Lecturers & Assistant Lecturers quarters, Warden quarters, bachelors quarters and non-teaching staff colony. There are more than 200 residences on campus including independent houses and flats.

The campus includes a Cooperative Society and a marketing center. Both State Bank of India and Canara Bank have branches in the campus along with ATM facility. The Central Library has a floor area of 2,758 m2, and its three reading halls can accommodate a total of 600 students.[6] The Central Computer Centre, established in 1995 as a supporting facility, maintains the network backbone of the college and has computer labs that augment the computing facilities in the teaching departments.[7]

Apart from the above, the campus also houses a staff club, a post office, two schools (Kannada and English medium), guest houses, a food court, a swimming pool and playgrounds. These facilities are made available to both the staff and the students at NITK.

Academics

Main block of the college seen from front left.

NITK Surathkal offers undergraduate and graduate programs in Engineering, Science and Management. The institute has 14 departments[8] and 11 support centres with about 200 faculty members, 300 support staff, 5,500 students and 15,500 alumni worldwide.[9][10]

Research and industrial consulting

Research in the institute is mainly sponsored by central and state government agencies with grants for the academic year reaching ₹10 crore (US$1.4 million).[9] Additionally newly recruited faculty are provided a seed grant of ₹5 lakh (US$7,000) for research. Faculty go on sabbaticals at foreign universities to encourage research and teaching interactions. Consulting activities are also conducted through the industry-institute partnership cell.

Admissions

Undergraduate programs

The B. Tech admissions were based on the AIEEE (All India Engineering Entrance Exam).[11] The exam consists of three sections on Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. From the 2013 academic year onwards, admission is through the JEE (Mains) test,[12] and ranks are based on 60% of the marks scored in the test, and 40% in the class 12/Second PU Board exams.

Undergraduate admissions were based on a state wise reciprocal system. 50% of the seats were reserved for students from the home state of Karnataka. Until 2007, the rest of the 50% was distributed over other NITs, with each state having a fixed quota of seats. However, since the batch starting in 2008, the remaining 50% has been made open to all other states.

10% of the seats in the undergraduate class are reserved for foreign students under the Direct Admission of Student Abroad (DASA) scheme.[13] Admissions are based on the aggregate score obtained out of 2400 in the SAT Subject Test in Mathematics Level 2, Physics and Chemistry.

Postgraduate programs

Postgraduate students are admitted to the program through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science. Postgraduate students are required to complete coursework in addition to a thesis or dissertation that entails independent research under the guidance of a faculty.[14] Postgraduate and doctoral Ph.D students are also involved as teaching assistants for undergraduate courses. An MBA course has been recently introduced by the Humanities department.[15] NITK also offers MCA (Master of Computer Application) course for graduate students in which admission is done on the based on NIMCET (NIT MCA Common Entrance Test). NITK from 2003 is offering Doctor of Philosophy Ph.D program for Mtech and other post graduate students.

Rankings

University rankings
General – India
NIRF (Overall) (2018)[16] 57
Engineering – India
NIRF (2018)[17] 21
India Today (2017)[18] 16
Outlook India (2017)[19] 6
The Week (2017)[20] 14

NITK was ranked 16th among engineering colleges in India by India Today in 2017,[18] 6th by Outlook India[19] and 14th by The Week.[20] It was ranked 21 among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2018[17] and 57 overall.[16]

Student activities

Surathkal beach is accessible by walk from the college

Being primarily a residential institution along with Surathkal beach less than a kilometre (0.62 mi) away, a unique culture has developed over the 50 years of NITK's existence. Since 2004 when it became a centrally funded institution, NITK has opened doors to students from all over the country. Students involve in technical activities, as well as cultural events supported by one of the many student run clubs and organisations on campus. An open-air theatre called Student Activity Center is the venue for most of the music performances and movie screenings. Beach events are unique to NITK, with sand sculptures and kite flying being recent highlights.

Engineer (a national level technical symposium) takes place typically around the last week of October and Incident (a cultural festival) is organised since 1980 during the last week of February. Over the years, the scale of these events have gradually expanded with students visiting from all over the country. Online technical events at Engineer see participation from all over the world. The biggest intra-college event is called Crescendo, where the two r's stand for 'Reading Room', after the group that organises it. Students teams representing the year of their study compete in literary, personality, art and music competitions. Crescendo has been an annual tradition for three decades now.

Engineer

'Engineer' is the annual technical symposium at NITK Surathkal. 'ENGI' as it is called by the students has the Penrose Triangle as its logo, and this theme has been used along with the tag-line, 'Think. Create. Engineer.' ‘Engineer’ in its first edition in 2005 was born out of the amalgamation of three smaller scale technical symposia held until then. Engineer 2006 was planned on a larger scale, with innovative events including paper presentations, Shrishti, where participants are required to apply engineering for the greater good of society, robotics events (Perfect Machine, Automata), hacking contests, programming contests, electronics design events, and workshops. Socially conscious engineering has been a recurring theme. Guest speakers at Video conferences include Richard Stallman, Bjarne Stroustrup, Sam Pitroda, Dr. Devi Shetty, Sir Anthony James Leggett, Kevin Warwick, and Tim Poston. Engineer 2010 was dubbed the 'Golden Edition' due to it coinciding with the Golden Jubilee year celebrations. NITK hosted its first TEDx conference[21] during Engineer 2011, and many influential speakers of the region were invited to talk on socially relevant issues.

Incident

Pronites performance by Loud Street Girls at Incident 2016

Incident is the institute's annual cultural festival. Incident was first conducted in 1980. Held over five days, the festival includes events from dance and dramatics to music, painting, fashion and quizzing.[22] In addition, Incident Pro-Nite features top Indian singers and bands. International bands have also been part of the experience since 2010, with tribute bands like Led Zepplica, Breathe the Floyd Sound and Jailbreak performing crowd favourites to an enthralled audience.

Student organizations

A hostel block of the college.
Technical clubs

Major national and international technical societies have set up local student chapters at NITK. They include Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), the Institution of Engineers (India), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (formerly chartered to Computer Society of India), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

  • The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has an active chapter constituted by Mechanical Engineering students. NITK has two racing teams which participate in SAE BAJA and international FSAE races.[23]
  • NITK has a Linux Users Group, which along with the WEB Enthusiasts Club promotes FOSS and Linux.
  • The Engineers' Forum for Entrepreneurship Awareness (E-FOREA) encourages entrepreneurial ideas from students and promotes leadership and entrepreneurship on campus.[24]
  • The Amateur Astronomy Club (formerly the Star Gazing Club) conducts star-watching shows for the students and faculty.[25]
  • The Robotics Club of NITK is a group of hobby robot enthusiasts. Members involve in presenting seminars on various levels of robotics to participating in renowned tech-fests like Techfest, IITB, Shaastra, IITM, etc.
Cultural clubs
  • The Rotaract Club[26] conducts social, cultural and technical events for the students and club members alike. These include blood donation camps, clothing donation drives, coastal clean-up camps, and events conducted by the National Service Scheme (NSS) chapter of NITK.
  • The Mangalore chapter of the Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Among Youth (SPICMACAY) is centered at NITK and is one of the biggest chapters in the country. It organizes concerts and lectures by maestros of Indian classical art forms and strives to raise awareness of Indian culture in the surrounding regions through lectures, orientations and conventions.
  • Literary, Stage and Debating Society is the apex literary forum of the institute. The club mainly conducts quizzes while also holding debates and organising plays. LSD was formed in 2004 from the quiz club to cater to literary events other than quizzes.
  • Dance Dramatics and Fashion Club organises 'Spandan' annually, which provides students a platform to showcase their talent at dance and theatre. The NITK Music Club organises music shows, generally called Musical Night, and play popular music at the outdoor auditoriums. A variety of styles are on display at these events, from Indian classical music to fusion to rock.
  • The NITK Films Club screens movies at the Students' Activity Centre every Friday during the semester. Apart from English and Hindi releases, regional films are shown as well. The Press Club brings out a fortnightly wall magazine News Wagon, providing a tongue-in-cheek look at life around the campus, besides bringing out the official yearbook, The Vitruvian.
  • VOICE (Vedic Oasis for Inspiration, Culture and Education) is a youth group run by the students, for the students. Using the principles present in the ancient Vedic scriptures, they train students in a blend of character and competence.
  • The NITK Photography Club captures photos and videos of events happening at NITK. It conducts "Expose", which is a national level photography contest organised yearly during Incident. The club contributes to the official yearbook, The Vitruvian.
  • The Artists' Forum, NITK is an art hobbyist club which conducts its own events like Art Beat, Kalakriti, and Waves. It is also credited with the decoration of the underpass connecting the eastern and western blocks of the institute. It added an abstract monument as a part of its annual project to the campus which is completely made of reused metal. Themed decoration of the campus during college festivals often comes under the prerogative of this club.

Athletics

Sports facilities include the cricket ground, tennis lawns, badminton and table tennis complex, the basketball and volleyball courts along with a swimming pool.[27]

The Recreation Committee (RC) of the institute organizes recreational activities including freshers cup, floodlit cricket matches which garner a vibrant fan following. The much-awaited inter-year sports festival 'Phoenix' is organized during the even semester where students battle for gold, silver and bronze medals, and the overall shield. NITK sports teams participate in events all over the country as part of the Inter-NIT sports meet.

During the cultural festival 'Incident', NITK hosts 'Slam Dunk', an intercollegiate basketball tournament, which attracts some of the best teams in the region and plays host to many enthralling matches.

Entrepreneurship culture and NITK STEP

One of NITK's core mission is to promote entrepreneurship among students and alumni. The institute has its own technology startup incubator named STEP which provides office space and in some cases seed funds[28] to startups incubated there. NITK–STEP (formerly KREC-STEP) was first established on 31 August 1994 in KREC campus. It is situated in an independent location in the complex of NITK about 23 km from Mangalore city, adjacent to N.H. 66 and adjoining the Arabian Sea beach. Out of 16500 sft. built up area, 8500 sft. consists of Entrepreneurs’ Block and the remaining area consists of computer laboratory, conference hall and administrative block..

Some notable startups founded by alumni of NITK Surathkal are Quest Global, Practo Health App, Delhivery, Nestaway, Taxi For Sure. A few of these startups like Practo were conceived within the college campus by B.tech students.[29]

Former principals

  • A. S. Adke[30]
  • B.H. Karakaraddi
  • K. Mahadevan
  • B.S. Basavarajaiah
  • T. Ramachandran
  • N.R. Shetty
  • B.T. Nijaguna
  • P.Sudhakara Shetty
  • P.N. Singh
  • M.R. Pranesh

Former directors

  • P.N. Singh[31]
  • S.S. Murthy
  • H.V. Sudhaker Nayak
  • Y.V. Rao
  • G.K. Shivakumar
  • Sandeep Sancheti

Notable alumni

NITK Surathkal has an alumni association called NITK Alumni Association (NITKAA). Notable NITK alumni include:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Board of Governors" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  2. ↑ "Karanam Uma Maheshwar Rao". Retrieved 2017-08-03.
  3. ↑ "Down Memory Lane at NITK". Retrieved 2013-01-30.
  4. ↑ "Golden Jubilee Celebrations". Retrieved 2013-01-30.
  5. ↑ "Campus Details". Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  6. ↑ Sowailem, Ansonika &. "Library | National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal". www.nitk.ac.in. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  7. ↑ "CENTRAL COMPUTER CENTRE | NITK Surathkal". ccc2.nitk.ac.in. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  8. ↑ "Departments at NITK". Retrieved 2013-01-30.
  9. 1 2 "NITK Information Brochure" (PDF).
  10. ↑ "NITK Alumni site". Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  11. ↑ "NITK UG Admissions 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-01-30.
  12. ↑ "JEE Mains 2013". Retrieved 2013-01-30.
  13. ↑ "DASA Admissions". Retrieved 2013-01-30.
  14. ↑ "NITK PG Admissions 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-01-30.
  15. ↑ "NITK MBA Admissions" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-01-30.
  16. 1 2 "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2018 (Overall)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Human Resource Development. 2018.
  17. 1 2 "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2018 (Engineering)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Human Resource Development. 2018.
  18. 1 2 "India's Best Colleges 2017: Engineering". India Today. 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  19. 1 2 "Top 100 Engineering Colleges In 2017". Outlook India. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  20. 1 2 Singh, Abhinav (18 June 2017). "The Week - Hansa Research Best Colleges Survey 2017: Top Engineering Colleges - All India". The Week. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  21. ↑ "TEDx at NITK".
  22. ↑ "Top honours for NITK at Incident 2006 India Quiz". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 4 March 2006. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011.
  23. ↑ "SAE BAJA". SAE BAJA.
  24. ↑ "E-FOREA at NITK".
  25. ↑ "Star Gazing Club at NITK". Retrieved 2013-01-30.
  26. ↑ "Rotaract Club at NITK".
  27. ↑ http://www.nitk.ac.in/students-life/sports-and-games
  28. ↑ "Four NITK Surathkal start-ups get seed capital from DST". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  29. ↑ "25 Indian Tech Startups That Were Conceived in College". Campus Diaries. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  30. ↑ http://www.nitk.ac.in/history/former-principals
  31. ↑ http://www.nitk.ac.in/history/former-directors
  32. ↑ "Only a good mind can produce good literature, says writer". The Hindu. 20 March 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  33. ↑ Zacharia, Thomas. "Thomas Zacharia BIO".

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