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IIT Roorkee
Public engineering institution located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (abbreviated IIT Roorkee) is a technical university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. It is the oldest engineering institution in India.[3][4] It was founded as the College of Civil Engineering in 1847 during East India Company rule in India by James Thomason, the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces in which Roorkee was located; its purpose was to train officers and surveyors employed in the construction of the Ganges Canal.[4][3] In 1854, after the completion of the canal and Thomason's death, it was renamed the Thomason College of Civil Engineering by Proby Cautley, the designer and projector of the canal.[5][6] It was renamed University of Roorkee in 1949, and again renamed IIT Roorkee in 2001. The institution has 22 academic departments covering Engineering, Applied Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences and Management programs with an emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.[7]
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Motto | श्रमं विना न किमपि साध्यम् (Sanskrit) |
Motto in English | Nothing can be achieved without hard work |
Type | Public technical university |
Established | 1847; 177 years ago (1847) |
Chairman | B. V. R. Mohan Reddy |
Director | Kamal Kishore Pant[1] |
Academic staff | 622[2] |
Students | 9,186[2] |
Undergraduates | 4,223[2] |
Postgraduates | 2,169[2] |
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Location | , , 29°51′52″N 77°53′47″E |
Campus | Urban 365 acres (1.48 km2) |
Language | English, Hindi |
Website | www![]() |
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