Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST Shibpur) is a public technical and research university located at Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal. It is recognised as an Institute of National Importance under MHRD by the Government of India.[4][5] It comes under the Council of National Institutes of Technology.[6][7][8]

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur
Former names
Calcutta Civil Engineering College (1856-1880)
Government Engineering College, Howrah (1880-1921)
Bengal Engineering College (1921-2004)
Bengal Engineering and Science University (2004-2014)
MottoUttiṣṭhita jāgrata prāpya varān nibodhata
Motto in English
Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.
TypePublic technical university Research university
Established24 November 1856 (24 November 1856)
Academic affiliations
Institutes of National Importance
ChairmanV. K. Aatre
DirectorParthasarathi Chakrabarti[1][2]
Students3,634[3]
Undergraduates2,247[3]
Postgraduates584[3]
803[3]
Location
Shibpur, Howrah
,
West Bengal
,
India

22°33′21″N 88°18′20″E
CampusUrban, 123 acres (500,000 m2)
Websitewww.iiests.ac.in

History
Bishop's College, Howrah
The Clock Tower, IIEST

The institute was established as an independent entity in 1880 as Government College, Howrah in the premises of Bishop's College in Shibpur, Howrah. In 1921, the name of the college space was changed to Bengal Engineering College. B.E. College was previously affiliated to the University of Calcutta. At this time in contained only civil and mechanical engineering departments.[9] Several other departments were created subsequently over the years, the last among them being that of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics in 2010.

On 1 October 2004, the institution was conferred the status of a full-fledged university.[10] It was formally inaugurated as Bengal Engineering and Science University by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the President of India, on 13 July 2005.[11]

In March 2014, the institute was conferred the status of an INI and was renamed Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur by the Govt. of India by suitably amending the National Institutes of Technology and Science Education and Research Act, 2007. The conversion process of BESU to IIEST was mentored by IIT Kanpur.[12][13] President of India, Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated it as IIEST on 24 August 2014.[14][15]

In June 2014, Govt. of West Bengal appointed IIEST Shibpur as the Mentor Institute for Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani, which was inaugurated in June the same year.[16][17] In 2020, IIEST was elevated from the status of GFTI to a NIT, under the Ministry of Education,Govt. of India

Organisation and administration

Departments

IIEST Shibpur has 16 departments, 2 multi-disciplinary centers and 8 schools of excellence. The academic departments (in order of their year of establishment) are:

Schools and centres

Following are the multi-disciplinary centers located in IIEST Shibpur:[18]

  • Center of Excellence for Green Energy and Sensor Systems
  • Center of Healthcare Science and Technology

Eight schools of excellence in IIEST are:[19]

  • Dr. M. N. Dastur School of Materials Science and Engineering
  • Purabi Das School of Information Technology
  • School of Community Science and Technology
  • School of Disaster Mitigation Engineering
  • School of Ecology, Infrastructure and Human Settlement Management
  • School of Management Sciences
  • School of Mechatronics and Robotics
  • School of VLSI Technology

Academics

Library

The institute's Ramanujan Central Library occupies 3,000 m2 (32,000 sq ft) and houses 158,000 books, 41,000 bound volumes of journals, and a collection of documents, such as patents, standards, technical reports and pamphlets.[20] The library has old and rare books and journals of the nineteenth century.[21]

Admission procedure

Undergraduate programs to the various engineering disciplines (4-year B. Tech. programs) and architecture (5-year B.Arch. program) are granted via JEE Main, taking 50% students from the home state (West Bengal) and 50% from other states.[22] Students from any discipline other than Architecture, on the basis of their performance, are allowed to change their disciplines at the end of the 1st Year (i.e., second semester) and may opt for dual degree (B.Tech.-M.Tech.) courses extending over 10 semesters as per terms and conditions specified by the institute.[23] For PG programs admission is through GATE for M.Tech. courses and Joint Entrance Screening Test for MSc.[24] Students are also admitted in Ph.D programs twice a year through online applications.[25]

Ranking
University and college rankings
General – international
QS (Asia) (2021)[26]301-350
General – India
NIRF (Overall) (2020)[27]43
Engineering – India
NIRF (2020)[28]21

IIEST Shibpur has ranked 301-350 among the top 650 Universities in Asia category by the QS Asia Ranking 2021,[26]

In India, IIEST Shibpur was ranked 43rd overall and 21st among engineering institutes by the NIRF rankings in 2020.[28]

OIKOTAAN 5 performance
Guest performance in OIKOTAAN

Noted People

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

References
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  15. http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/press-release-detail.htm?1060
  16. "Bengal's first IIIT in Kalyani to start from July – Times of India".
  17. "IIIT Kalyani :: About IIIT".
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  19. "Schools of Excellence".
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  26. "QS Asia University Rankings 2021". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2020.
  27. "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2020 (Overall)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Education. 11 June 2020.
  28. "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2020 (Engineering)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Education. 11 June 2020.
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