IIT Jodhpur

Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan

Motto	त्वं ज्ञानमयो विज्ञानमयो असि
Type	Public
Established	2008
Director	Prem K. Kalra
Location	Jodhpur , Rajasthan , India
Campus	Urban, spread over 900 acres (3.6 km2)
Website	www.iitj.ac.in

The Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan (Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान राजस्थान, IIT Rajasthan, IIT Jodhpur, IITJ) is a public university located in Jodhpur in the state of Rajasthan in India. It is one of eight new IITs which have become functional between 2008 and 2009. The bill for the addition of these eight IITs and the conversion of Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University to IIT was passed in the Lok Sabha in March 24, 2011 and is still to be adopted by the Rajya Sabha.

History

This new institute was established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, in 2008. The classes for the first academic session were held at IIT Kanpur, which had been designated as the mentor IIT for looking after the incubation activities of the new IIT in Rajasthan. The first academic session in IIT Rajasthan commenced in August 2008.

Following the recommendations of a committee headed by Prof Vijay Shankar Vyas, both the Rajasthan state government and MHRD approved Jodhpur as the city where IIT Rajasthan would be set up. The final approval came in the month of November 2009. Since then the state government and IIT Rajasthan administration have been working towards making a shift of IIT Rajasthan from its temporary camp at Kanpur to its permanent establishment at Jodhpur.

Permanent and temporary campus

IITJ will be located about 12 km from Jodhpur city on National Highway 65 which connects Jodhpur to Nagaur. The IIT site will cover 900 acres (3.6 km²) of land around Jhipasni and Gharao villages. The construction of the fully residential campus of IIT Rajasthan started in late 2010.

For the next two years, IIT Rajasthan will have its academic and administrative block in the MBM Engineering College, Ratanada, Jodhpur.

Time line
July 2007: IIT Rajasthan announced by Central Government. IIT Kanpur to be the mentor.
July 2008: First session of IIT Rajasthan begins at IIT Kanpur with a batch of 112 students for B.Tech. in three branches: CSE, ME, EE.
July 2008: The BJP Chief Minister of Rajasthan Mrs. Vasundhara Raje pushes Kota as the location for IIT Rajasthan. MHRD was not impressed with Kota citing lack of an airport and being a mecca for JEE coaching. MHRD minister Arjun Singh asks for other locations for housing IIT Rajasthan. The matter stays pending as Raje did not propose any alternative.
December 2008: Assembly elections in Rajasthan. Congress comes to power under leadership of Mr. Ashok Gehlot. Rajasthan gets a new chief minister.
January 2009: Gehlot appoints a committee under the chairmanship of Vijay Shankar Vyas (ex-director IIM Ahmedabad) to suggest alternative locations for IIT Rajasthan. The committee was asked to submit the report in a month. The committee tours Bikaner, Ajmer, Kota, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur.
May 12, 2009: The committee submits its report to the State Government. The committee favours Jodhpur for IIT, Udaipur for IIM, Jaipur for Central University, Ajmer for World Class University.
June 2009: The state government forwards the report to the Central Government.
October 2009: MHRD sends experts to visit the suggested location for IIT at Jodhpur. MBM Engineering college, Jodhpur is identified as the temporary campus of IIT Rajasthan.
November 13, 2009: MHRD minister, Mr. Kapil Sibal, finally approves the site for IIT Rajasthan at Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
February 2010: Residential arrangements for IIT Rajasthan students and faculty are made at Kendranchal flats in Jodhpur.
February 27, 2010: An MoU is signed by IIT Rajasthan and JNV University Jodhpur, to provide a part of the college campus for conducting IIT Rajasthan classes for two years. The same day the foundation stone was laid at the MBM Engineering College for constructing new buildings.
May, 2010: IIT Rajasthan shifts from Kanpur to Jodhpur.     Location: IIT Rajasthan Permanent Campus     Location: IIT Jodhpur Temporary Campus

Academic programs

IITJ Lecture Hall Complex

Undergraduate

IITJ offers a B.Tech programme in the following disciplines:

• Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering
• Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering
• Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering
• Bachelor of Technology in Systems Science

Admission to these programmes is through the JEE and forty students in each branch are admitted after completing 10+2 schooling.

Postgraduate

Academic Block-I

Teaching and research activities of the institute especially for postgraduate and Ph.D programmes are structured around Centres of Excellence (CoE) of the institute.

A Ph.D.Programme is offered in the following three centres of excellence in IIT Rajasthan:

• Centre of Excellence in Energy
• Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
• Centre of Excellence in Systems Science (SS)

Research

At IIT Rajasthan sponsored research and development programs will be carried out in Centers of Excellence in the areas of information, communication, energy sectors, technology for health care, economics of policy reforms, and liberal arts and social sciences. The French Government has shown an interest in helping IIT Rajasthan to develop its research and academic institute. Accordingly, IIT Rajasthan is forging strategic alliances with leading French Universities that will result in student and faculty exchange, internship in France and participation in strategic joint research programs.

World's cheapest tablet

Christened Aakash or the Low-Cost Access Device, the tablet is developed by students of IIT Rajasthan and other leading institutions.It packs all common features found in Android tablets. It comes as a counter to MIT academic Nicholas Negroponte`s One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) project that the Indian government was considering at one point.The Indian government would pick up 50% of the cost and a student will be able to buy it for ₹ 1,125.

Infrastructure

IITJ Residential Complex

GPRA Residential Campus of IIT Rajasthan

IIT Rajasthan is located in a temporary campus on the premises of MBM Engineering College, Jodhpur. It has WiFi connectivity.

Library facilities

The Central Library is functional in the camp office located in MBM Engineering College campus. It has around 5000 books and also subscribes to magazines. The library has access to e-journals from Elsevier's Science Direct and Springer Link. The library will shortly have a Library Management Software, so that an Online Public Access Catalogue is made available to users on their computer terminals via a campus-wide network.

Computer Centre

The institute has a Computer Centre, running on a gigabit LAN with 100 Mbps internet bandwidth. It is the nucleus of all computing facilities for students and staff. There are several terminals running on Windows and GNU/Linux operating systems. The Computer Centre provides access to softwares like Matlab and Mathematica. The academic area is Wi-Fi enabled.

Laboratory equipment

Equipment includes CNC milling and turning training centers, programmable welding equipment, rapid prototyping of multilayer PCBs, advanced gait motion analysis system, 40KW amorphous silicon solar power plant, 40 KW crystalline silicon solar power plant, FT-IR spectrometer, UV-VIS spectrophotometer, universal testing machines, microscopes, data acquisition systems from National Instruments , DSP starter kits, microprocessor kits, Sundance video and image kits, software defined radio development kit, multimodal biosignal amplifier with USB interface.

See also

• Indian Institutes of Technology
• IIT Kanpur

External links

• IITJ main website
• Cheapest tablet