Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST Shibpur), erstwhile Bengal Engineering College (also known as B.E. College), formerly Bengal Engineering and Science University (also known as BESU), is a
public
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research university
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also a National Institute of Technology located at
Shibpur
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It is well known for being the location of the ...
,
Howrah
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,
West Bengal
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. Founded in 1856, it is one of the oldest
public research university
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. It is recognised as an
Institute of National Importance
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under
MHRD
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by the
Government of India
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. It is controlled by the
Council of NITSER
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.
History
The college was founded as the Civil Engineering College on November 24, 1856, in
Writers' Building
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, Calcutta (now
Kolkata
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).
The college was established as an independent entity in 1880 as ''Government College, Howrah,'' in the premises of Bishop's College in Shibpur,
Howrah
Howrah (, , alternatively spelled as Haora) is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal. Howrah is located on the western bank of the Hooghly River opposite its twin city of Kolkata. Administratively it lies within Howrah district, and is th ...
. In 1921, the name of the college was changed to ''Bengal Engineering College''. B.E. College was previously affiliated to the
University of Calcutta
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. At that time it contained only civil and mechanical engineering departments. 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.
It was formally inaugurated as ''Bengal Engineering and Science University'' by
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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, the President of India, on 13 July 2005.
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
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. President of India, Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated it as IIEST on 24 August 2014.
In June 2014, Govt. of West Bengal appointed IIEST Shibpur as the Mentor Institute for
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani
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, which was inaugurated in June the same year.
Organisation and administration
Departments
IIEST Shibpur has 16 departments, 2 multi-disciplinary centers and 8 schools of excellence. The academic departments (in order of their year of establishment) are:
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Civil Engineering
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Mathematics
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Chemistry
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Mining Engineering
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Electrical Engineering
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Earth Sciences
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Mechanical Engineering
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Physics
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Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
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Humanities and Social Sciences
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Architecture, Town and Regional Planning
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Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
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Computer Science and Technology
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Human Resource Management
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Information Technology
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Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Schools and centres
Following are the multi-disciplinary centers located in IIEST Shibpur:
* Center of Healthcare Science and Technology
Eight schools of excellence in IIEST are:
* School of Advanced Materials, Green Energy and Sensor Systems
* 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
Academics
Library
The institute's Ramanujan Central Library occupies and houses 158,000 books, 41,000 bound volumes of journals, and a collection of documents, such as patents, standards, technical reports and pamphlets. The library has old and rare books and journals of the nineteenth century.
Admission procedure
Undergraduate programs to the various engineering disciplines (4-year B. Tech. programs) and architecture (5-year B.Arch. program) are granted via
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, taking 50% students from the home state (West Bengal) and 50% from other states. Students from any discipline other than 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. For PG programs admission is through
GATE
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for M.Tech. courses and
Joint Entrance Screening Test
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for MSc. Students are also admitted in Ph.D programs twice a year through online applications.
Ranking
IIEST Shibpur has ranked 301-350 among the top 650 Universities in Asia category by the QS Asia Ranking 2021,
In India, IIEST Shibpur was ranked 43rd overall and 21st among engineering institutes by the
NIRF
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rankings in 2020.
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Noted people
Notable faculty
* John Samuel Slater, principal
* Sankar Sen
Sankar Sen ( – 8 February 2020) was an Indian academic, electrical engineer and politician from West Bengal belonging to Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the vice chancellor of Jadavpur University. He served as a legislator of the We ...
, professor of electrical engineering department.
* Joseph Allen Stein, professor and head of the Department of Architecture
Notable alumni
* Soumitro Banerjee, electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
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laureate
* Amitabha Bhattacharyya, production engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
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laureate
*Gautam Biswas
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, director, IIT Guwahati
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* 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
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, member of National Academy of Engineering
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*Soumyen Bandyopadhyay
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, Architect at Liverpool University
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holds Sir James Stirling chair in architecture
* Pradip Chatterjee, flautist and singer, founding member of Mohiner Ghoraguli
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*Arunendu Das
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, songwriter
* Chaitanyamoy Ganguly, nuclear scientist, Padma Shri
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recipient
* Amitabha Ghosh ex-director, IIT Kharagpur
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*Buddhadev Das Gupta
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Early life and tr ...
, classical sarod
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player, Padma Bhusan
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recipient
*Fazlur Rahman Khan
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, structural engineer and architect. Called the "Einstein of structural engineering"
*Binoy Majumdar
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, poet, Sahitya Akademi Award
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winner
*Rajen Mookerjee
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, industrialist, co-founder of Martin Burn & Co. and founder of Indian Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.
*M. A. Rashid
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, first Vice-chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
*Nandini Mukherjee
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Education
Mukherjee took her Madhyamik examination from Kamala ...
, HOD of Computer Science & Information Technology Department, Jadavpur University
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and noted CPI(M)
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politician.
*Shankar Nath Rimal
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, Nepalese civil engineer, designer of modern Nepalese flag
*Tathagata Roy
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, Ex GM / Chief Engineer Metro Railway and politician, Governor of Tripura
*Narayan Sanyal
Narayan Sanyal (26 April 1924 – 7 February 2005) was an Indian writer of modern Bengali literature as well as a civil engineer.
Biography
Narayan Sanyal was born in Krishnagar to Chittasukh Sanyal and Basantalata Devi. His name was initiall ...
, novelist, writer of "Shatyakam".
*Badal Sarkar
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, dramatist and theatre director, Padma Shri recipient
* Jatindranath Sengupta, poet and writer.
References
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All India Council for Technical Education
Academic institutions associated with the Bengal Renaissance
Educational institutions established in 1856
1856 establishments in British India