Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT University)

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name =KIIT University


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established =2004
type =Education and Research Institution
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head_label =Founder
head =Dr.A.Samanta
head_label =Chancellor
head =Dr Hari Gautam
students =Over 11000
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postgrad =
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city =Bhubaneswar
state =Orissa
country =India
campus =Urban, convert|250|acre|km2, 12 independent distributed campuses
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website = [http://www.kiit.ac.in/ www.kiit.ac.in]

KIIT University (earlier Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology) ( _hi. कलिंग इंस्टिच्यूट ऑफ इंडस्टियल टेक्नोलाजी) is a co-educational, autonomous university located at Bhubaneswar in the Indian state of Orissa. It was one of the youngest institutions to be awarded the deemed university status in India and then the university status in 2004. [cite web
url=http://kiit.ac.in/about/accreditation.htm
title=KIIT Accreditation] The University offers under-graduate and post-graduate courses in Engineering, Bio-technology, Management, Law, Computer application, Rural management and Medical.

History

KIIT was established in 1992 as an Industrial Training Institute with only 12 students and 2 faculties. This institution was the brainchild of Pradyumna Bal, Dr.Achyuta Samanta, Dr P.K Mishra and Dr C.R Mishra who had together envisioned a profound center of learning in India and so pursued to lay the foundation of KIIT. In 1997, the School of Technology was established. In 2004 it was conferred the status of university, the younest institute to get university status. Various courses under KIIT University are imparted from its seven constituent schools that are School of Technology, School of Computer Application, School of Biotechnology, School of Management, School of Rural Management, School of Medicine and KIIT Law School. Currently more than 12000 students are enrolled in various courses of the university.

Academic Programs

Today KIIT is accredited institute catering to various distinct streams. Each academic program is functioning in different independent campuses.

Programmes under KIIT University

*B Tech and M Tech : Offered from KITS School of Technology, established in 1997
*Master in Computer Application (MCA)established in 1997, BCA established in 2007
*MBA and MBA (BIM), BBA :Offered from IBAT School of Management, established in 1993
*MBA in Rural Management (MRM):Offered from KIIT School of Rural management (KSRM), started in 2007
*B.Tech, M.Sc and PhD program in Biotechnology: Offered by KIIT School of Biotechnology (KSBT), starting from 2007
*BBA.LL.B, BA.LL.B, B.Sc.LLB AND LL.M Offered by KIIT Law School (KLS), started in 2007 [cite web
url=http://kiit.ac.in/academics/school.htm
title=Schools Of KIIT University]

Programmes under KIIT Society

*MBBS : Offered from Kalinga Institute of medical Sciences,Kusabhadra Campus.(KIMS)
*BDS : Offered by Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences(KIDS)
*Diploma Engineering : Offered from Kalinga Polytechnic, established in 1884
*Certificate Courses :Offered from Industrial Training Institute, established in 1992
*KIIT-IS:(International School)
*Industrial Training from KIIT ITI
*KIIT +2 Science College

Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences and Pradyumna Bal Memorial Hospital

Conceived to provide health care facilities to the deprived poor. The Medical College is divided into 20 academic departments: providing the study, treatment, and prevention of human diseases, and maternity care and consists of a 500 bedded hospital with an expansion program of a multi specialty hospital to be opened very shortly. [cite web
url=http://www.kims.ac.in/about/overview.htm
title=Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences]

Social Responsibility

As a successful institution located in one of the poorest State of India, KIIT University is aware of its social responsibility. The institute has been undertaking several social development activities under following two units.
*Centre for Social Development : established in 1994
*Kalinga Institute of Social sciences: established in 1994

Other Programs

*Kalinga Software Pvt. Ltd. : Incorporate in 1998 and registered as an EOU under the Software technology Park of India (STPI), Bhubaneswar, KSPL was established with an objective to provide low cost computer based solutions to small and medium sector business enterprises. It executes its projects right from conceptualizing, content creation & executing presentations using leading edge multimedia technologies and training methodologies. [cite web
url=http://www.kalingasoft.com/company.htm
title=Kalinga Software Pvt. Ltd.]

Research and Developement

KIIT has a Research and Development wing headed by a Director along with other qualified faculty members who collaborate with various Research Organizations. Thrust of the R & D Wing of KIIT University is interdisciplinary research through multidisciplinary interactions. The vision is to unleash creative thinking and enable KIIT U to become a well-known technological university for research and development as well as for post-graduate education and doctoral research. Faculty members (spearheaded by Mr S P Sinha)are currently pursuing research funded by organizations, such as, the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Industry Institute interactions are also being strengthened through various funded schemes sponsored by AICTE, UGC and DSIR. In this context, a large number of MoUs have been signed with leading research organizations of the country and abroad for facilitating collaborative research and other academic activities. Currently offered in three broad areas, technology, management and humanities, the university has instituted 48 doctoral fellowships. The R & D wing has been actively supporting various National and International conferences hosted by the University. The wing actively collaborates with various educational, scientific, research and industrial organizations and has informal collaboration with faculty members of all IITs and corporate houses for specific problem and objectives. It has MoUs with organizations of repute in India and abroad for collaborative action. [cite web
url=http://www.kiit.ac.in/academics/r&d.htm
title=Research & Development in KIIT]

Accreditation

KIIT has the distinction of becoming the youngest institute ever in the country to be declared a Deemed University by Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India. All the academic programmes are accredited by NAAC of UGC and NBA of AICTE, which are benchmarks of excellence. The institute runs MBBS and BDS programme from its School of Medicine after due recommendations by both the Medical Council of India (MCI) and the Dental Council of India (DCI). Bar Council of India (BCI) has approved the courses of KIIT Law School which offers five years integrated courses in law. With its dynamic progress within a short span of time, KIIT is the youngest institution in India to receive accreditation by National Board of Accreditation (NBA) of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) of UGC for its Degree in Engineering, MCA and MBA programs. [cite web
url=http://kiit.ac.in/about/accreditation.htm
title=KIIT Accreditation]

Admission

Admission to undergraduate B.Tech and M.Tech programs are primarily through the university's entrance examination KIITEE (KIIT Entrance Examination) while a certain percentage is also filled up from the rank holders of AIEEE. Admission to the M.Tech program are also granted through GATE. [cite web
url=http://www.kiitee.ac.in/Phase2/policy.htm
title=KIIT Admission Policy]

Campus

The college buildings make use of high end technology labs with state of the art equipments. There is an online library,. The campuses and hostels are networked through wireless VPN connectivity. The University is among the few educational institution in the globe to introduce wireless connectivity in the campuses.

The infrastructure includes: [cite web
url=http://www.kiit.ac.in/about/facilities.htm
title=Infrastructure and Facilities at KIIT]

*Classroom : A combination of multimedia-oriented classrooms with LCD projector and general lecture halls are at the disposal of the students.
*Library : The institute has an independent Library complex open round the clock. Students have access to ample stock of books and journals. Services provided to the users include, Current Awareness Service (CAS), Reference Service, Documentation Service, Digital Library and Web Library. Through the web library, users can access 9000 International journals online. Out of these 2253 journals are of full text versions and can be downloaded and/or printed. The library is also equipped with digital facilities having reference CDs, abridged version of encyclopedias and so on.
*Information Communication and Technology : At KIIT, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) facilities including networking is state-of-the-art and extremely advanced. Here the network securely converges data, voice and video; enables intelligent network infrastructures and deploys mobility solution by exploiting technologies such as VOIP, Video Conferencing, Streaming Video, Online Library and Wireless LAN. and With such high-end technologies being incorporated, campus networking at KIIT has only a few parallels in the globe among educational establishments and universities. Each student and faculty are provided with wireless laptops, which enables them to connect to the campus network and broadband internet from anywhere in the campus.
*Transport : A fleet of buses meets the transport needs of the students and staff coming to the campus from various parts of the city.
*Medical Facility : Students and staff avail round the clock medical attention from Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS. Besides an Out Patient Department and Ambulance service, KIMS has a 450-bed multi-specialty hospital.
*Post Office and Bank : An in-house computerized Post Office is functioning from the Campus. All postal stationery along with Speed Post facility are available at the Post Office. A full-fledged Branch of Allahabad Bank is also functioning from within the campus. The fully-computerized branch also provides round the clock ATM facility in the campus.
*Indoor Stadium: Biju Patnaik Indoor Stadium, established by KIIT, is one of the biggest indoor stadiums in the state next to Barabati Indoor stadium at Cuttack. It provides facility for all indoor games, including an air-conditioned billiards room. Twelve station Multi-gym, Billiards, Table Tennis, Badminton, Chess and Carom are the main attractions of the indoor stadium. An ultra-modern health club is also housed in this Indoor Stadium.
*Health Club: The Health Club provides state-of-the-art facilities at par with 5-Star Hotels. Students can register for this facility and benefit from it under guidance from a full-time professional fitness trainer.
*Outdoor Stadium : The outdoor stadium extends facilities for Basketball, Volleyball and Lawn Tennis. Equipment for outdoor games like volleyball, basketball, lawn tennis are available to the students.
*Hostel : All academic programmes offered by KIIT Deemed University are fully residential to help students cope with tasking academic requirement. There are separate hostels for boys and girls with feel at home ambiance and very slow Internet connectivity in each room.

Student Activities

QUTOPIA

Qutopia is the quizzing society of KIIT-University. Born out of a desire to learn more about the world and beyond, as well as an urge to share what we know, this group has its roots in the meetings that used to take place in the lawns of Block A of the Degree college - KITS, and was initially confined to a very small group; but now boasts of a rich community of both professional and rookie quizzers who meet every Saturday to feast on quizzing, currently, at the Student Activity Centre(SAC). This group is also maintained online through yahoo groups where the activity persists day in and day out.

‘Udghosh’ is the annual event of this society dedicated to the efforts of all the Ex-Kiitians who had setup the original quiz group of KIIT with the same name. The name 'Udghosh' was adopted for unanimous reasons of it having its roots in the Ancient Indian script of Sanskrit and also its apt meaning - that stands for 'the blowing of conch shell to declare the beginning of War'. Though this word was in much use in India during the prehistoric and medieval ages - due to the many conflicts that were so much a result of feud and hunger for territory - between various Kingdoms - to get more 'jewels' of territory and dignity in their 'crown' of Supremacy; the word ('Udghosh') itself was chosen for the Annual Quizzing event, for the simple reason that of its appeal and contextual meaning - that with the 'war' that goes on-stage - amongst the various dignified and feared teams, coming from all across, for the intention of basking in glory of being the Winners and walk away with the respect of their fellowmates, other challengers, the viewers and the newly 'Quiz converts'. Started on the auspicious day of Gandhi Jayanti - 2nd October, 2006 (Tribute to Late Mahatma Gandhi, his birth day being on this day), the first edition of ‘Udghosh’ was one of its kind in the Eastern region of India and arguably the first of its kind in the region of cultural and Mineral wealth of Orissa. Starting a trend and having a die hard fan following, ‘Udghosh’ has been able to stand apart and create a niche of its own in the Quizzing community, the size of which can only grow with each Annual edition of the event. The consecutive years have seen remarkable growth in the number of Sponsors for the event and the thus, the amount of Prize being awarded to the 'Warriors' who fight away with the coveted 'Crowns' - that are the only and ultimate desire of each team's contention.In fact the underlying theme of 'Qutopia' is :- "Once a Quizzer, Always a Quizzer."

SPICMACAY

The "Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth" (SPICMACAY), is a non-profit organization which promotes classical Indian music, dance, and culture. SPICMACAY was founded in 1977 by Dr. Kiran Seth in IIT Delhi. It seeks to foster the exchange of traditional Indian values and to generate awareness of the cultural traditions and heritage of India. In order to achieve its goals, SPICMACAY organizes concerts, lectures, demonstrations, informal discussions, and seminars. These are hosted by local chapters of the organization.

The KIIT chapter of SPICMACAY was formed in September of 2003. Since then KIIT has been home to numerous concerts featuring artists of international repute such as Baha'ud'din Mohiuddin Dagar, Gundecha Bandhu, Sushmita Banerjee, Wajahat Khan, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia etc. apart from hosting a state convention of SPICMACAY.

Kronicle

The literary society, Kronicle, aims at "channelizing the efforts of the present generation so as to find solutions to the numerous crises surrounding us" by developing communication and presentation skills. This society has been active officially since August 2006. This society also holds the annual oratory event, Pratijja, in the college along with other creative activities.

KRS(KIIT ROBOTICS SOCIETY)

The KIIT ROBOTICS SOCIETY (KRS) is known for its achievements in the field of robotics. The members of KRS have won various prizes in techfests of the elite institutes of India like IITs, NITs & other institutes. KRS has shown outstanding performance in the field of robotics over the past few years. Its success run started when its students bagged the first prize at the annual techfest of IIT guwahati in 2006.Students of School of technology(KIIT University) won the 1st prize at IIT Guwahati techfest for the first time in Sep'06. The following year, the 2nd year students went on to win the top honours at the techfests of IIT Kharagpur,NIT Rourkela and ITER Bhubaneswar. The students made their presence felt in the international scenario in 2008 when a team of three 3rd year students reached the finals of the international robotics competition "Micromouse" at IIT,Bombay during Techfest'08. Later on , the same team , along with four others went on to win the first prize in the image processing autonomous robotics competition at IIT,Kharagpur during Kshitij'08. The Robo-Relay competition was also bagged by the students from school of technology. The members of KRS also won major awards at ISM Dhanbad,NIT Rourkela and other colleges in 2008. Today, KRS has expanded its wings and now it includes fields like artificial intelligence also.

Techno-Management Fest

KRITANSH

" KRITANSH'08 " the 2nd annual Techno-Management fest of KIIT University was held from 16^th to 18^th February 2008.Kritansh is derived from the Sanskrit words “Kriti” and “Ansh” which literally means a fraction of all that has been created from the wonders of nature to the marvels of man's own creation. The event will provide a platform for the progressive brains of our nation to interact, compete and display their creativity and talent.Kritansh '08 which had a wide array of events, promises to be the 2^nd largest techno-management fest in the entire eastern region.The fest was the ideal medium for the exchange of ideas among the youth coming from various parts of the country and expose the future generation to the latest technological advancements. [cite web
url=http://www.kritansh.in
title=Kritansh, KIIT Techno-Management Fest]

Cultural Fest

KAIZEN

Kaizen;the annual cultural fest is organized every year in the campus. Lots of cultural events are organized in which students from various colleges take part.The most important part of the fest is the DJ night and Star night in which renowned DJs and Bollywood Singers perform.Kaizen has witnessed performances by stars such as KK,Shaan, [Euphoria] ,Hariharan,Rahul Vaidya,Neeraj Shridhar(Bombay Vikings) etc..

Conferences

ICET

The International Conference on Emerging Technology (ICET - held in 2003 and 2004) is normally held during last phase of the year at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. The conference focusses on the R&D efforts in the emerging areas of Engineering, Technology, Applied Sciences and Management, to bring industrial problems to researchers and offer technology solutions to the industries. This also creates an opportunity for prominent specialists, researchers, and engineers from different countries to share their experiences in the latest research and development activities in various fields.

ICDCIT

The International Conference on Distributed Computing & Internet Technology (ICDCIT conference series), established by KIIT Deemed University, Bhubaneswar, India, since 2004 has provided a prestigious international forum for the discussion and the exchange of ideas among the researchers working in the areas of Networking, Distributed Programming, Distributed Data Management and Internet Technology.

ATMIDPA

The conference is aimed at providing a common platform to researchers, industry personnel, academicians and participating professionals to interact and deliberate about the existing technology and management approaches, recent developments and possible methods to be adopted in the field of construction, restoration activities and damage limitations in disaster prone areas. Original unpublished research works in the theme mentioned above are invited for presentation in the conference and publications in the conference proceedings. Special invited lecturers by experts from leading institutions, research organization and industries, panel discussion have been arranged in addition to paper presentation

Graduate Research Workshop

The Graduate Research Workshop was organised in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (http://www.kiit.org/ICDCIT2006.htm), during Dec. 20-23, 2006 in Bhubaneswar, India. [cite web
url=http://www.kiit.org/ICDCIT2006.htm
title=Graduate Research Workshop, 2006] The ICDCIT'06 Graduate Research Workshop provided an opportunity for graduate and post graduate students to explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished experts in the field.

Workshop on Advances in Antenna Technology(AAT-2007)

The workshop was organised by Department of Electronics & Telecommunication,KIIT University.In AAT-2007 the lectures were delivered by the experts in the field of Antenna from IIT's(Delhi,Kgp,Roorkee);NITTTR,Chandigarh;Jadavpur University;University of Burdwan;Institute of Radophysics,Kolkata.The topics covered in the workshop were Antenna Arrays,Antenna & EMC/EMI,Broadband Antennas,Smart Antennas,Adaptive Antenna,Materials for Antennas,Soft Computing Techniques for Antennas,Emerging Antenna Technologies.It was the 2 day workshop 21st-22nd April 2007.The lectures were purely based on practical work on Emerging antenna technologies.

External Links

* [http://www.kiit.ac.in/ KIIT HomePage]
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kiit_mca_bhubaneswar/ KIIT MCA Group]
* [http://www.kiitkut.com/ KIIT Alumni's Official website]
* [http://www.kims.ac.in/ Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS)]
* [http://www.ksrm.ac.in Kalinga School of Rural Management]
* [http://www.ibat.ac.in IBAT (School of Management)]
* [http://www.ksrm.ac.in KSRM (School of Rural Management)]
* [http://www.kiitbiotech.ac.in KSB(School of Biotechnology)]
* [http://www.kritansh.in Kritansh '08 - The Annual Techo-Management Fest]
* [http://www.kls.ac.in Kalinga Law School] ]
* [http://www.kiit.ac.in/placement/defaulthome.htm KIIT Placement Cell]

See also

* Higher education in Orissa
* KIIT Law School
* Institute of Business Administration and Training

References