Ramaiah Institute of Technology

RIT was founded, in 1962, by the late M. S. Ramaiah, who was an educationist, philanthropist, and infrastructure visionary. RIT is a part of Gokula Education Foundation (GEF) which owns and manages several educational institutions across various streams. The foundation also runs a Multi Speciality Hospital.[2][3] RIT was the first institute started by the Gokula Education Foundation.[4]

RIT is in the 58th year of existence and is one of the oldest engineering colleges in south India. Only 5 other engineering institutions have achieved this mark in Karnataka-UVCE, BMSCE in Bangalore, BVB College of Engineering & Technology in Hubli Malnad College of Engineering in Hassan and Siddaganga Institute of Technology in Tumkur. MSRIT is separate from M S Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences which is a new private university founded by the same management.

M. R. Seetharam, a son of M. S. Ramaiah, currently heads the college management as a director. The autonomy given to the institute by the government is only for academic matters. The governing council of the college includes two principals of other colleges, one bureaucrat from state government of Karnataka, one bureaucrat from central government of India, and one member from the VTU.

Initially, RIT was affiliated to Mysore University, later with the Bangalore University (until 2002) and now Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum. It is an institutional member of the ISTE and is recognised by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) which is a must for any technical institute in India.[5] It has been certified ISO 9001:2008[6] and has been accredited for quality education by the Central government of India Body National Board of Accreditation.[7] The Architecture Department is approved by the Council of Architecture (Government of India).[8]

Since August 2007, RIT has been academically autonomous for both undergraduate and postgraduate programs.[1] While VTU still awards the degrees, the college has academic freedom in framing its own schemes of study, curricula and student evaluation. RIT offers undergraduate and graduate courses of study and research including Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Technology, Master of Business Administration and offers programs leading to award of PhD in various disciplines. RIT is also a research centre in 12 areas including engineering and management disciplines.

• It partnered with ISRO in 2010 to build the StudSat nano satellite and RIT was chosen in 2012 to join the consortium of colleges that would assist ISRO in the StudSat-2 project.[9][10] The institute is also credited for the development of India's first unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with an autopilot system.[11]
• IEEE: The college has an IEEE Student branch.[12][13] The IEEE-MSRIT celebrates its tech fest Aavishkaar each year[14][15][16] Various competitions such as Algomach (On Spot Programming), Design and Debugging (Circuit debugging), Robotics, Cyber Treasure Hunt (CTH), Paper Presentation, Gaming, Tech Quiz, Product Design, 8086/8051 Programming, Amazing Race, Photoshop Contest are held along with Workshops.
• TEDxMSRIT: This student organisation conducted a national event in March 2012. The event involved speakers such as Atul Chitnis, Devi Prasad Shetty, Soumitra Bhattacharya Praveen Godkhindi and others.[17]

• Karnataka's first IBM Centre of Excellence was established on 19 March 2009 at RIT. This center has been in involved in training students with software like DB2, Tivoli, etc.[18]
• Schneider Electric: RIT has signed a memorandum of understanding With global energy management company Schneider Electric to promote technical excellence in the field of electronics, software and control engineering. The MoU covers "university partnership for curriculum development" and through this arrangement RIT has developed two courses – advanced industrial automation and modern controls, and energy management[19][20]
• JSW Energy Centre of Excellence (JSWECE).[21] RIT entered into a MoU with US$8 Billion company JSW Energy for offering a one-year full-time Post Graduate Diploma in Power Plant Engineering for engineering graduates[22]
• Intel Center of Excellence: International microprocessor giant Intel entered into an agreement with RIT to open a Centre of excellence in January 2010.[23][24] The event was attended by Scott apeland who is the Director of Developer Networks at Intel, USA. The program aims at faculty development and inclusion of Intel processor in curricula of RIT. This center is only one of its kind in Karnataka.[25]
• Cognizant Technology Solutions is entering into an agreement with RIT in a collaboration to create industry specific courses for students.[26]
• Autodesk has recognised M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology as one of the Zonal Centre for the YEARLY CAD DESIGN CONTEST.[27]
• Autodesk has awarded Sunith Babu L from Department of Mechanical Engineering, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology as India's First Autodesk Certified Instructor.[28]
• Autodesk has recognised Sunith Babu L from Department of Mechanical Engineering, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology as an Academic Council Member for "All India 3D Student Design Competition".[29]

• Kanan Gill, B.E. in Computer Science, Stand-up comedian and YouTuber[30]

Among engineering colleges in India, RIT ranked 27th by India Today in 2020,[33] 25th by Outlook India in 2019[32] and 59 by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2020.[31]

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