Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST Shibpur) is a public technical university located at Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal. It is recognised as an Institute of National Importance under MHRD by the Government of India.[3][4]

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

Former names	Calcutta Civil Engineering College Government Engineering College, Howrah Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur Bengal Engineering College Bengal Engineering and Science University
Motto	Uttiṣṭhita jāgrata prāpya varān nibodhata (Sanskrit)
Motto in English	Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.
Type	Public technical university
Established	24 November 1856 (24 November 1856)
Academic affiliations	Institute of National Importance
Chairman	V. K. Aatre
Director	Parthasarathi Chakrabarti[1][2]
Location	Shibpur, Howrah , West Bengal , India 22°33′21″N 88°18′20″E
Campus	Urban , 123 acres
Website	www.iiests.ac.in

Etymology

The institute has undergone several name changes since its establishment in 1856. Established as Government College, Howrah in the premises of Bishop's College, the name was changed to Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur. The word Shibpur was later deleted in 1921.[5] In October 2004, the institution was conferred the status of a West Bengal state university and renamed as Bengal Engineering and Science University or BESU.[5] In March 2014, the institute was conferred the status of an INI and was renamed Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur.

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.[6] 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.[5] It was formally inaugurated as Bengal Engineering and Science University by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the President of India, on 13 July 2005.[7]

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.[8][9] President of India, Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated it as IIEST on 24 August 2014.[10][11]

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.[12][13]

Academics

Departments, centers and schools

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

Department[14]	Year of establishment	Notes
Civil Engineering	1856
Mathematics	1870
Chemistry	1898
Mining Engineering	1906
Electrical Engineering	1912	The degree course was introduced during 1935–36 with the first batch obtaining the degree from Calcutta University in 1936
Earth Sciences	1920
Mechanical Engineering	1921	Degree course introduced in July 1930
Physics	1926
Metallurgy and Materials Engineering	1939	The second oldest metallurgy department in the country
Humanities and Social Sciences	1945
Architecture, Town and Regional Planning	1947	Started on the recommendation of a committee appointed by Government of West Bengal; first of its kind offering degree courses in India
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering	1968
Computer Science and Technology[5]	1982
Human Resource Management	1994	Erstwhile Training and Placement Institute
Information Technology	2000
Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics	2010	Youngest Department of IIEST

Following are the multi-disciplinary centers located in IIEST Shibpur:[15]

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

Eight schools of excellence are:[16]

School
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

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.[17]The library has old and rare books and journals of the nineteenth century.[18]

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.[19] Students from any discipline other then 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.[20] For PG programs admission is through GATE for M.Tech. courses and Joint Entrance Screening Test for MSc.[21]Students are also admitted in Ph.D programs twice a year through online applications.[22]

Ranking

University and college rankings
General – India
NIRF (Overall) (2020)[23]	43
Engineering – India
NIRF (2020)[24]	21

IIEST Shibpur was ranked 21st by the NIRF 2020 rankings among engineering institutes.[24]

OIKOTAAN 5 performance

Guest performance in OIKOTAAN

Notable faculty

• John Samuel Slater, principal[25]
• Sankar Sen, professor of electrical engineering department.[26]
• Joseph Allen Stein, professor and head of the Department of Architecture[27]

Notable alumni

• Soumitro Banerjee, electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
• Amitabha Bhattacharyya, production engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
• Gautam Biswas, director, IIT Guwahati
• Promode R. Bandyopadhyay, American-Indian Inventor
• Bimal Kumar Bose, scholar in Power Electronics, Chondra Chair of Excellence in Power Electronics, Professor Emeritus at University of Tennessee, member of National Academy of Engineering[28]
• Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Architect at Liverpool University holds Sir James Stirling chair in architecture
• Pradip Chatterjee, flautist and singer, founding member of Mohiner Ghoraguli
• Arunendu Das, songwriter
• Chaitanyamoy Ganguly, nuclear scientist, Padma Shri recipient
• Buddhadev Das Gupta, classical sarod player, Padma Bhusan recipient
• Fazlur Rahman Khan, structural engineer and architect. Called the "Einstein of structural engineering"
• Binoy Majumdar, poet, Sahitya Akademi Award winner
• Biren Mookerjee, industrialist, CMD Martin Burn & Co.Ltd. MD IISCO Ltd.
• Rajen Mookerjee, industrialist, co-founder of Martin Burn & Co. and founder of Indian Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.[29]
• Tathagata Roy, Ex GM / Chief Engineer Metro Railway and politician, Governor of Tripura
• Narayan Sanyal, novelist, writer of "Shatyakam".
• Badal Sarkar, dramatist and theatre director, Padma Shri recipient
• Jatindranath Sengupta, poet and writer.[30]

References

1. "Director". www.iiests.ac.in. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
2. "Director".
3. "The Gazette of India" (PDF). Retrieved 9 February 2020.
4. {{Cite web|url=https://mhrd.gov.in/institutions-national-importance }}
5. "Bengal Engineering And Science University, Shibpur – The University". becs.ac.in. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
6. "Our History | IIEST". IIEST, Shibpur. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
7. "The Institute".
8. "Pranab nod to Besu upgrade". www.telegraphindia.com.
9. "Press Information Bureau". pib.gov.in.
10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 March 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
11. http://www.presidentofindia.nic.in/press-release-detail.htm?1060
12. "Bengal's first IIIT in Kalyani to start from July – Times of India".
13. "IIIT Kalyani :: About IIIT".
14. https://www.iiests.ac.in/IIEST/Departments
15. "Multi-Disciplinary Centers".
16. "Schools of Excellence".
17. "Library,IIESTS". newlibrary.iiests.ac.in.
18. "Ramanujan Central Library". library.iiests.ac.in. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
19. "Admissions- Undergraduate".
20. https://josaa.nic.in/seatinfo/root/InstProfile.aspx?instcd=417
21. "Admissions- Masters of Science".
22. "Ph.D Programme". oldwww.becs.ac.in.
23. "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2020 (Overall)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Education. 11 June 2020.
24. "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2020 (Engineering)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Education. 11 June 2020.
25. "Narratives: J.S. Slater". Museum of the History of Science. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
26. "Former Bengal power minister Sankar Sen passes away". Outlook. 9 February 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
27. "Life and works of Joseph Allen Stein". 31 July 2019.
28. "Bimal K. Bose - IEEE Author Details".
29. "Sir Rajen Mookerjee". Archived from the original on 9 January 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
30. Ahmed, Wakil (2012). "Sengupta, Jatindranath". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

External links

• Official website