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IIT Bombay Powai: A personal experience. IIT facts and campus lifeBY: informationishere | Category: Education | Post Date: 2008-07-26
IIT Bombay was the second Indian Institute of Technology to be established (in 1958 with assistance from UNESCO and with funds contributed by the Soviet Union). The site chosen for the institute was Powai (also its current location), eighteen miles (29 km) from the city of Bombay (Mumbai), with an area of 550 acres (2.2 km˛) which was given by the then Bombay State Government. The campus is surrounded by Powai lake and Sanjay Gandhi national park and is in close proximity to the Vihar lake. It is extremely green and free from the city pollution. The campus has hostels numbered 1 to 13 and Tansa house for accommodating most of the students. Hostels 10 and 11 are girls hostels and rest are for boys. Admissions to this institute are done through JEE, JAM, GATE, CEED, JMET. the entrance to the most popular B.Tech program are done through JEE. In the recent years, JEE entrance has emerged as one of the toughest competitive examinations in the country. JEE coaching centres, correspondences, test series etc. have grown in leaps and bounds. Kota, Hyderabad etc. have developed this as one of their major industries. Most students prepare for two years before giving the examination and some of them even drop an year to clear it. Of the 311,258 candidates who appeared in the examination conducted on April 13, 2008, 8,652 candidates have been declared qualified to seek admission, giving a selectivity of 1 in 36 overall, and 1 in 45 for the 6,872 seats in IITs. The intake in IIT's will increase for the next two years considering the reservation quota implementation for OBC category. Major coaching classes in Kota are Bansal Classes, Resonance, Career Point, Narayana etc. The correspondence courses of FIIT-JEE and Brilliant Tutorials are also very popular among students. As a student of IIT Bombay, I would like people to know a few more facts before coming here: 1. Ragging is banned throughout India and this is taken very seriously by the IIT Management. 2. The standards of education are good but students are not expected to study all day and night. There is lots of free time for recreation and other activities. 3. The course load on students has been reduced in recent past and student have more flexibility to take up courses from other departments also. 4. The extra-curricular activities like sports, dance, music, dramatics are done on a very good scale and have a very important place in the lifestyle of IIT. 5. Food in the mess is edible, not more not less. However, there are lots of restaurants and food joints nearby the campus. 6. High-speed LAN internet is available for most of the day. 7. Student interaction is very good and is one of the major factors for the quality of education in IIT. 8. Placements are excellent and companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, McKinsey, Schlumburger, Deutsche Bank etc. DEPARTMENTS: IIT Bombay has 14 departments, 10 multi-disciplinary centres, and 3 schools of excellence. The academic departments in IIT Bombay include the following: 1. Aerospace Engineering 2. Chemical Engineering 3. Chemistry 4. Civil Engineering 5. Computer Science & Engineering 6. Earth Sciences 7. Electrical Engineering 8. Energy Science and Engineering 9. Humanities & Social Science 10. Industrial Design Centre (IDC) 11. Mathematics 12. Mechanical Engineering 13. Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science 14. Physics The following multi-disciplinary centres are located in IIT Bombay: 1. Advance Center for Research in Electronics (ACRE) 2. Computer Aided Design Center (CAD) 3. Centre for Aerospace Systems Design and Engineering (CASDE) 4. Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship (CARE) 5. Centre for Distant Engineering Education Programme (cDEEP) 6. Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering (CESE) 7. Centre for Studies in Resources Engineering (CSRE) 8. Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA) 9. Centre for Formal Design and Verification of Software (CFDVS) 10. Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre (RSIC) The three schools of excellence in IIT Bombay are: 1. School of Biosciences and Bioengineering (Bioschool)] 2. Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology (KReSIT) 3. Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM) In addition to above, IIT Bombay also offers inter-disciplinary programs in six fields that include: 1. Biomedical Engineering 2. Corrosion Science & Engineering 3. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) 4. Reliability Engineering 5. Systems and Control Engineering (SysCo) Article Source: http://www.saching.com About Author / Additional Info: Mehul Jain IIT Bombay II Year B.Tech, Computer Science Additional Articles: * Book Clubs Information -There Are Many Exciting Online Book Clubs * Easy Ways to Make Money * Television: Harmful Effects in Social life * Methods of making money on the internet: The most searched phrase in Google! * Problem of stray cattle on the roads. Stray cows of Indian cities. Does this article violate or infringe on your copyright ? It is a violation of our terms for authors to submit content which they did not write and claim it as their own. If this article infringes on your copyrights, then use our Contact us form with the detailed proof of infringement along with the offending article's title, URL and writer name. If you do not hear back from us then contact us again in another 10 days. Thank you. 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