Dharmsinh Desai University (DDU) formerly known as Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology (DDIT) is a state funded institution in

Nadiad Nadiad is a city in the state of Gujarat, India and the administrative centre of the Kheda district. The city is managed by the Nadiad Municipality. It is known for the Santram Mandir, the Mai Mandir,

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, India and was founded on 2 January 1968.

History

Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology was founded in 1968 by

Dharmsinh Desai Dharmsinh Dadubhai Desai (30 October 1916 – 9 June 1980) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Kheda , Gujarat as a member of the Indian National Congress. Dharamsinh Desai Univ ...

, who then was a member of Parliament, as an institution of higher learning in the field of

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and

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. It achieved autonomous status under

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in 1991, and Deemed University status in June 2000. In 2005 the institute achieved full university status and was renamed Dharmsinh Desai University. The university initiated a bachelor's course in Dental Surgery in 2005, while the Faculty of Pharmacy was established at the University in 2006. It is the first university in Gujarat to obtain the permission to start Nanotechnology courses in 2012. The university was granted the permission by Medical Council of India, to start new Medical college from the academic year 2019–20.

Recognition

* In November 2013, the 'Oxford Summit of Leaders', an organisation in UK, chose the university as the best regional university. This is the first time the Oxford group has given this award to a university outside Europe. * In 2015 DDU was ranked among "Asia’s 100 Best and Fastest way Educational Institutes 2014-15" by the WCRC Leaders Asian Education Excellence Summit & Awards.

Status

DDIT achieved autonomous university status in 1991 which meant it could conduct exams and not follow the parent university,

, examination schedule (though the degree certificate awarded still retained the name of

). It achieved a Deemed University status in June 2000, which meant that the degree certificates show that they are awarded from DDIT. In April 2005, DDIT achieved full university status and was renamed DDU, an abbreviation for Dharmsinh Desai University. The entire academic process is certified by ISO 9001:2008 by

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, United States.

Campus

The university is located on the northern Bank of Mahi Canal and the southern outskirts of

city about 3 km from Nadiad railway station and 2 km from Mahatma Gandhi Expressway Nadiad toll plaza. The nearest international airport

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, Ahmedabad is 60 km from DDU. The DDU campus is spread over 42 acres of land.

Industry and University links

The faculty has links with industries such as Reliance Industries for R & D, KHS GmbH Germany for training students abroad, and

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for students training under the campus network. The University further signed a MoU with

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in 2013, under which special labs and training opportunities will be made available for students studying in Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering and Instrumentation and Control Engineering. It has a Memorandum of Understanding with the

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, USA, for the BE+MS five-year integrated program.

Ranking

Dharamsinh Desai University has been ranked as the 88th best Engineering College of India in the Edu-Rand Rankings of 2015. The survey was done jointly by Edu, an Indian company and Rand Corporation, an American

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. The university was ranked 101-150 band among universities in India by the

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(NIRF) in 2020.

Faculty of Technology

The Faculty of Technology of DDU grants Bachelor of Technology (BTech) and

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(MTech) in various engineering fields. The faculty of technology started offering Degree and Diploma in

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(1968), then Degree courses in

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(1981), Electronics and Communication Engineering (1981), Computer Engineering (1985), Instrumentation and control engineering (1985), and

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(1999). It also added Post Graduate level course including

(MTech) in

(1981), then in Electronics and Communication Engineering (1986),

(1986), Instrumentation and control engineering (2002), Computer Engineering (2002). All engineering Degree is accredited by the

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and all its departments are accredited by the

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. There are different departments in faculty of technology listed below. * Chemical engineering department * Civil engineering department * Computer engineering department * Electronics and communication engineering department * Information and technology engineering department * Instrumentation and control engineering department * Mechanical engineering department

Centers

Shah-Schulman Centre for Surface Science & Nanotechnology

Shah-Schulman Centre for Surface Science and Nanotechnology (SSCSSN) was established in April 2008 under as a partnership between Dharmsinh Desai University, government and industry. SSCSSN is established in the Faculty of Technology, Dharmsinh Desai University (DDU), Nadiad, Gujarat, India with initial funding from Industries & Mines Department, Government of Gujarat. The SSCSSN is a research and development center that accommodates about 21 sophisticated instruments to carry out research and analysis in Surface Science and Nanotechnology. SSCSSN has entered into tri-partite agreement with

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and

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under the IUCRC program of

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. Dept. of Science & Technology. India will support this program in India. Under this program 25 companies have joined SSCSSN as Industry Advisory Board Members for Industry oriented research activities. SSCSSN-DDU is one of the first such partners from Gujarat to enter into this NSF sponsored International program. The Centre also has collaborative projects with nearby Universities in these areas as well as overseas Institutions in Sweden,

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and United States. Centre also offers a

course in Surface Science and Nanotechnology. A doctoral student from Shah-Schulman Centre for Surface Science and Nanotechnology was among 30-odd students from India to attend the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany.

Anchor Institute (Chemicals & Petrochemicals)

Anchor Institute (Chemicals & Petrochemicals) was established in 2008 with an objective of taking various initiatives in creating readily employable and industry responsive Man Power, at all level for chemicals & Petrochemicals across the State. This includes preparing Course curriculum and benchmarking and Training for the Trainers/Faculties.

R&D centre, DDU

DDU has a R&D centre since 1998 and its main objective is to carry out research activity in the area of Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Application and Electronics & Communication with the respective faculty members. R & D centre has guided several projects of under-graduate and post-graduate students in very diverse areas. The R&D Center undertakes real life IT based projects from Industry and Research organizations including Government and provides technical solutions to their problems. The R&D facility is also extended to final year students for their final year project work. The R&D centre of the University has developed a Portrait Building System which is successfully used at every District Police Headquarters in the Country to arrest criminals.

Projects of Computer Engg. Department, Faculty of Technology

The ANUVADAKSH ''An Expert English to Indian Languages Machine Translation System ILMT' allows translating the text from English to eight Indian languages namely Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Oriya, Gujarati and Bodo. The domains considered are tourism and healthcare. The project was funded by Department of Electronics and Information Technology,

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under TDIL program - ''Technology Development for Indian Languages''. This is a Multi-Lingual, Multi-platform & Multi engine hybrid System, being developed by Consortia of 13 Institutes in India C-DAC Mumbai,

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, IISc Bangalore,

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, IIIT-A, Banasthali Vidyapeeth and Utkal University, Dharmsinh Desai University,

North Maharashtra University Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University is a university situated in Jalgaon Jalgaon () is a city in Maharashtra, India. The city is located in North Maharashtra, and serves as the administrative headquarters of its nam ...

and

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where C-DAC Pune is working as a Consortia Leader. Indradhanush WordNet is a mission mode project funded by Ministry of Communications and Information Technology,

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and executed by a consortium of nine academic institutions from all over India. The title of the project is ''Development of Indradhanush: an Integrated WordNet for Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Konkani, Odia, Punjabi and Urdu''. These WordNets are developed at different institutes in India and co-ordinated by

. These WordNets are constructed and linked to Hindi and English WordNets and amongst each other. The institutions involved in this WordNet development activity were:

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, Dharmsinh Desai University and

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Environmental Audit & Consultancy Service Cell

The University has an Environmental Audit and Consultancy Service Cell. The scope of environmental audit covers i) industrial data collection related to raw material, process, product, by-product and other inputs like water and power, ii) monitoring of environmental management system (air, water and waste water, noise, solid waste and bioassay test) and iii) preparation of audit report as per Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) format. The additional services extended by the Cell include Environmental Impact Assessment, Total Pollution Load Assessment, Designing and Monitoring of Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Evaluation of Environmental Management System etc. Some of the major clients are Reliance,

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, GNFC,

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, L&T,

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, Bayer, Rallis India Ltd, Sun Pharma, Cadila Healthcare,

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* Burla (disambiguation) {{surname Bir ...

, Cellulosic, Cadila Pharma,

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, Kanoria chemicals,

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, Tata Chemicals etc.

Structural Design Centre

Established in 2000, Structural Design Centre at university caters to the structural analysis and design needs of the industry, government and non-governmental organizations. The centre provides consultancy works related to static and dynamic analysis, structural design and failure analysis of various Civil and Industrial/infrastructure structures.

Faculty of Management and Information Science

Faculty of Management and Information Science was established at University in 1999 offering B.B.A, M.B.A, B.C.A and M.C.A course.

Faculty of Pharmacy

Faculty of Pharmacy was established at University in 2006 offering B.Pham course. Faculty of Pharmacy is approved by Pharmacy Council of India. It also offers M.Pharm in Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Technology and Quality assurance and Doctoral programs in various disciplines of Pharmacy.

Faculty of Dental Science

Faculty of Dental Science (FDS) was established at University in 2005 offering postgraduate and under graduate education in dental science.

Doctoral programme

Doctoral level programmes in Engineering/Technology, Management, Pharmacy, Applied Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Science were initiated in 2001.

Notable alumni

* Vijay Patel, an Indian lawyer and a former

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, an Indian cricketer *

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, Chairman & Managing Director of Troikaa Pharmaceuticals

References

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