College of Technology, Pantnagar
College of Technology, Pantnagar also known as COT, Pantnagar or COT, is a public technical and research college located in Pantnagar, in the state of Uttarakhand, India. It was established under the then Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University and now called Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology. The College of Technology was established in this university in 1962.
Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology | |
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| Type | Public, Public, land-grant |
|---|---|
| Established | 1962(1966) |
| Chancellor | Mr K K Paul |
| Vice-Chancellor | Mr. Kumar |
| Dean | Dr. J. P. Pandey |
| Location | , , 28°58′N 79°25′E |
| Campus | Rural |
| Website | www.gbpuat-tech.ac.in |
It has eleven departments that offer eight Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) degree programmes. The college also offers 24 postgraduate programs including a self-financed MCA program.
The College is an institute in the world bank project for Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP) and is also the Regional Academy Centre of CISCO. The institute also holds ISO 9001:2000 certification.[1]
The college receives financial aid from various sources[2] including All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), University Grants Commission (UGC), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in addition to aid from the Department of Higher Education, Government of Uttarakhand.
History
On 17 November 1960, the foundation stone of the first agricultural university in the Country was laid by the then Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. The U. P. Agricultural University now called as Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology was established in 1960 by an act of the Uttar Pradesh State Legislature, enacted in 1958.
The College of Agricultural Engineering was established in 1962 under the then U.P. Agricultural University and now called as G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology. The College of Technology came into existence in this university in 1966 and College of Agricultural Engineering was also merged with it.
Mission
The mission[3] of College of Technology are as follows:
1. Produce engineers with the strong education foundation and the adaptive skills to serve rapidly evolving technological industries.
2. Conduct nationally recognized technical research focused at providing a technological edge to India, in general, and Uttarakhand in particular
3. Develop appropriate technologies for the upliftment for rural areas of Uttarakhand
4. Provide a diverse curricula that will instill in the students the imagination, talent, creativity and skills necessary for rapidly changing requirements for modern life and to enable them to serve in a wide variety of other fields that require leadership, teamwork, decision making and problem solving abilities.
Administration and organization
In the Indian higher education system, Pantnagar is classified as a State Agricultural University (SAU).[4] The university is in the jurisdiction of the state government. The Governor of the state is ex-officio Chancellor of the university and (s)he appoints a Vice-chancellor (VC), who functions as a full-time Chief executive of the university. The VC chairs a 13-membered Board of Management, which is the highest executive body of the university and oversees primarily financial and administrative matters and ratifies recommendations of other councils of the university. The other councils are the Academic council, the Research council and the Extension education council.[5] Governor of Uttarakhand Dr. Krishan Kant Paul is present Chancellor and Dr. J. Kumar is VC of the university.[6]}}
Recently, a central government committee — The Committee to Advise on Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education (Yashpal Committee, 2009) — has recommended converting agricultural universities into general universities encompassing all branches of studies.[7][8]
Academics
Each academic year comprises two semester having a total of 200-210 instructional days.[9] COT follows the credit-based system of performance evaluation, with proportional weighting of courses based on their importance. Completion of a degree program requires successful study of courses as approved by the Academic Council for a program. The university has a 10-point scale evaluation system. Each student is evaluation in each course throughout the semester. Each semester's evaluation is done independently with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) reflecting the average performance across semesters. The medium of instruction is English.
Undergraduate education
The College of Technology has various departments that offer eight B. Tech. Degree Programs[2] in Agricultural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and Production Engineering. The B.Tech. Degree Program is the program with the most students enrolled in it in the college.
Postgraduate and doctoral education
COT Pantnagar offers 24 postgraduate programmes, including Master of Technology (M.Tech.) and Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.).[2] The admission to M.Tech. program is made through GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) exam conducted by IITs and IISc, Bangalore. The institute offers the Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph.D.) as part of its doctoral education programme in several disciplines.[2] The doctoral scholars are given a topic of academic interest by the professor, or sometimes work on the consultancy projects sponsored by industries. The duration of the programme is usually unspecified. Ph.D. scholars submit a dissertation and conduct an oral defence of their thesis.
The departments[10] of COT Pantnagar are as follows:
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Department of Computer Engineering
- Department of Electrical Engineering
- Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering
- Department of Information Technology
- Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Post Harvest Process and Food Engineering
- Department of Industrial and Production Engineering
- Department of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering
Centre of Excellence
Under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP), Department of Higher Education has designated the institute as a Centre of Excellence for Energy Studies in Industries and Agro Systems of Uttarakhand (Energy Management).[11][12]
Campus
College of Technology has a campus area in G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology University.
The university campus is located at a distance of 250 km from Delhi in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand. The nearby towns are Rudrapur (16 km), Haldwani (25 km) and Nainital (65 km). Two National Highways- NH 87 and Bareilly- Nainital highway- are near the campus. Pantnagar Airport, operated by Airports Authority of India is located in the campus, 2.5 km west of main administrative building. Two railway stations of North Eastern Railways- Pantnagar (IR Code PBW) and Haldi Road (IR Code HLDD) are located in the campus 4 km (east) and 3 km (west) respectively of administrative building. The university shuttle service, local rickshaws, auto-rickshaws and matador vans connect various parts of the campus. Pantnagar is a purely residential university and comprises an independent township in itself.[13] The population of Pantnagar, prior to establishment of the industrial estate was 35,820 at the Census of 2001. Pantnagar is a part of Pantnagar- Gadarpur assembly constituency.[14] The 'Concentric semicircles' or the 'rising sun' plan of the campus-centre was developed by the Department of Architecture of Illinois University.[15][16]
Academic buildings
The college has many buildings, Pant College of Technology or PCT (old building), New College of Technology or NCT (new building). There are separate wings for different-different departments. Two separate new building for the Department of Information Technology and Department of civil engineering is recently constructed. The campus has many laboratories with huge numbers of instruments related to the different aspects of engineering.
Civic amenities and residence
The university campus has three guest houses, a 60-bed hospital, a post office and nationalized banks. Two markets namely Chhoti (small) and Bari (big) markets are present in the university campus. The campus also has its own dairy farm.
Residential facilities are provided on campus for students, faculty and staff of the institute. Most of the students reside in hostels, except for the wards of university employees who live in the campus. There are 8 hostels (5 for boys and 3 for girls) and all of the hostels have their respective hostel mess.
Athletic facilities
Stevenson Stadium, which is the university stadium, is the hub of sports activities, which are organized through 17 sports clubs. Every hostel also has its own courts for sports such as basketball, volleyball, and badminton, as well as facilities for indoor sports such as carrom, and table tennis. A few hostels also have their own gym.
Student life
COT Pantnagar provides on-campus residential facilities to its students, research scholars, faculty members and staff. The students live in hostels (referred to as bhavans) throughout their stay in the COT.
Student organizations
Most of the student's activities are organized through college-level professional societies, like the SAEINDIA COT COLLEGIATE CLUB PANTNAGAR,[17] tech-fairs and various competitions year round. The festivals include LITROSPHERE, the Annual Science and Literary Fest, ACCOLADE, the annual cultural and fine arts fest and COLOSSEUM, the annual tech fest. Apart from these, there are branch chapters[18] for all the departments like Interface, Mech Chap, Sprinkler and Genesis.
The institute has a college editorial board, popularly known as the Ed-Board, which looks after the various student publications of the institute. The College Website Team maintains the college website,[19] and other relevant activities.
The college also has the COT Chapter for the Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), the Imagindia Chapter, SAEINDIA Collegiate Club and the College Robotics Club. The college actively participates in various International and National Robotics Competition along with BAJA, Supra and Effi-cycle contests organized by SAEINDIA.
There are other university-level societies like Vivekanand Swadhyaya Mandal and Sanskritic Chetna Parishad which works for social causes. CHETNA student wing works to benefit poor children on the campus.
The Pantnagar Chapter of SPIC MACAY regularly organizes Indian classical music and dance concerts.
Festivals
Colosseum, the All India Inter Collegiate Technical Fest is the second largest technical festival organized in the north zone of the country. It has a participation of 3,000 students from over 40 colleges of the country. It comprises several events including Biz-czar-the business plan presentation contest, Iconoclasm-the case study contest, X-Quiz-It-the core quizzing contest, The Game Changers-the theme event of Colosseum, Voroc-the problem solving Contest, Ranbhumi -the robotics contest, Aurum- the personality development workshop, Renaissance- the workshop and guest lecture series, Sanrachna -the model making contest, Kurukshetra- the LAN gaming contest and Inspire India -the youth parliament. The annual tech-fest is organized every year in the last week of March.
Litrosphere, the Literary Fest is organized by the Science and Literary Bureau of Engineering and Technology Society. It is the congregation of more than 2000 students and experts from academia to be a part of this competition. The events include core literary events like debates, group discussions, quizzes etc. mixed with events like sales appeal, and dumb charades. The literary fest marks the beginning of the "Tech Week" of the college which culminates with Colosseum, the Tech Fest.
Accolade is the All India Inter Collegiate cultural and fine arts fest involving participation from students of various colleges and universities across the country. It is organized every year in the last week of January.
Spardha is the biannual sports meeting organized by College of Technology, Pantnagar in the last week of October. It involves participation from students of various colleges across the country in outdoor and indoor games like athletics, football, and badminton.
Student publications
"Techniche" semestral college magazine, College Newsletter and Audient- the e magazine are published and managed by various media bodies of the college.
NCC & NSS
The university National Cadet Corps (NCC) chapter imparts basic military training and adventure sports for student-cadets. It has a cavalry regiment dealing with Equestrianism. It also has an Air Squadron under NCC Air Wing, which trains cadets through its activities organized in the nearby Pantnagar airport.
All undergraduate students take part in community service, which gains them two credits towards their degrees in the form of a mandatory National Service Scheme (NSS) course involving 240 hours (10 days) of social service.
Liberal education
Students take part in liberal education courses offered by the university like bird watching, foreign languages (French, German), Indian languages (Tamil, Punjabi), dance, music, yoga, Indian cultural heritage, and personality development.
College Discussion Forum
The College Discussion Forum is a platform that enables the students to discuss the latest happenings of the college. New ideas and views regarding general and technical issues are also shared. Queries related to engineering students can be posted on the forum. The forum provides a platform for interaction between students and faculty.
Alumni network
Pantnagar Technology Alumni Association (P.T.A.A.)
Pantnagar Technology Alumni Association (P.T.A.A.)[20] is a registered society established in 2005 by the initiatives of the Ex Vice-Chancellor Dr. P.L. Gautam, Ex-dean and Late Dr. K. N. Shukla and the alumni of College of Technology. As of 2012 the association has successfully registered around 1,000 members.
Samanvay
Samanvay is an annual alumni meeting of the university which is organized every year to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of a specific batch. P.T.A.A., with the help of student bodies, organizes the alumni meeting on the college premises.
Notable alumni
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