IIT Roorkee

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Former names	College of Civil Engineering at Roorkee; (1847–1854); Thomason College of Civil Engineering; (1854–1947); University of Roorkee; (1947–2001);
Motto	श्रमं विना न किमपि साध्यम् (Sanskrit)
Motto in English	Nothing can be achieved without hard work
Type	Public technical university
Established	1847
Chairman	B. V. R. Mohan Reddy
Director	Kamal Kishore Pant
Academic staff	622
Students	9,186
Undergraduates	4,223
Postgraduates	2,169
Doctoral students	2,794
Location	Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India; 29°51′52″N 77°53′47″E / 29.86444°N 77.89639°E
Campus	Urban; 365 acres (1.48 km2)
Language	English, Hindi
Website	www.iitr.ac.in

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (abbreviated IIT Roorkee) is a technical university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. It is the second oldest engineering institution in India,^[3] and was founded as the College of Civil Engineering in North-Western Provinces in 1847 by the Lieutenant-Governor, James Thomason, in order to train officers and surveyors employed in the construction of the Ganges Canal.^[4] In 1854 , after the completion of the canal and Thomason's death, it was renamed the Thomason College of Civil Engineering by Proby Cautley, the designer and projector of the canal.^[5]^[6] It was renamed University of Roorkee in 1949, and again renamed IIT Roorkee in 2001. The institution has 22 academic departments covering Engineering, Applied Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences and Management programs with an emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.^[7]

^ Luthra, Swati (17 February 2023). "CWC signs MoA with IIT-Roorkee to develop International Centre of Excellence". mint. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "NIRF 2023" (PDF). NIRF.
^ Subramanian, Ajantha (2019), The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India, Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, pp. 30–31, ISBN 978-0-674-98788-3, Before the 1854 despatch, there was already one engineering college in operation: the Thomason College of Civil Engineering at Roorkee. The college was founded in 1847 and was affiliated to the University of Calcutta , in response to the demand for civil engineers to aid the construction of the Ganges Canal in the North-west Provinces.
^ Headrick, Daniel R. (1988), The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850–1940, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 317, ISBN 0-19-505115-7, The first engineering college was an outgrowth of the Ganges Canal. Named after the lieutenant governor of the North-Western Provinces who founded it in 1847, the Thomason Engineering College at Roorkee trained employees for the irrigation branch of the Public Works Department. It offered different curricula for different types of students: an engineering class for domiciled Europeans and a few Indians, an upper subordinates class to train British noncommissioned officers as construction foremen, and a lower subordinates class to train Indian surveyors. By the mid-1880s, the school has a hundred students, substantial buildings, and a reputation as an important center for the study of hydraulic engineering.
^ Brown, Joyce (1980), "A Memoir of Colonel Sir Proby Cautley, F.R.S., 1802–1871, Engineer and Palaeontologist", Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 34 (2): 185–225, doi:10.1098/rsnr.1980.0008, JSTOR 531808, S2CID 145414793
^ Derr, Jennifer L. (2019), Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt, Stanford University Press, p. 44 (digital), ISBN 9781503609662, –... the British government established the College of Civil Engineering, later renamed the Thomason College of Civil Engineering, in the town of Roorkee in northern India. ... Engineers at Thomason assisted with the construction of northern India's largest canal, the Ganges Canal, begun in 1842 and completed in 1854. ... Little existed in Britain itself in the nineteenth century that would approach the standard of formalized civil engineering training in India.
^ "Departments, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee". iitr.ac.in. Archived from the original on 24 January 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2011. technical institutions in the country having the largest number of academic units

[1] Luthra, Swati (17 February 2023). "CWC signs MoA with IIT-Roorkee to develop International Centre of Excellence". mint. Retrieved 10 March 2023.

[nirf_stud-2] "NIRF 2023" (PDF). NIRF.

[subram-thomason-3] Subramanian, Ajantha (2019), The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India, Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, pp. 30–31, ISBN 978-0-674-98788-3, Before the 1854 despatch, there was already one engineering college in operation: the Thomason College of Civil Engineering at Roorkee. The college was founded in 1847 and was affiliated to the University of Calcutta , in response to the demand for civil engineers to aid the construction of the Ganges Canal in the North-west Provinces.

[hedrick-thomason-4] Headrick, Daniel R. (1988), The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850–1940, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 317, ISBN 0-19-505115-7, The first engineering college was an outgrowth of the Ganges Canal. Named after the lieutenant governor of the North-Western Provinces who founded it in 1847, the Thomason Engineering College at Roorkee trained employees for the irrigation branch of the Public Works Department. It offered different curricula for different types of students: an engineering class for domiciled Europeans and a few Indians, an upper subordinates class to train British noncommissioned officers as construction foremen, and a lower subordinates class to train Indian surveyors. By the mid-1880s, the school has a hundred students, substantial buildings, and a reputation as an important center for the study of hydraulic engineering.

[brown-cautely-frs-5] Brown, Joyce (1980), "A Memoir of Colonel Sir Proby Cautley, F.R.S., 1802–1871, Engineer and Palaeontologist", Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 34 (2): 185–225, doi:10.1098/rsnr.1980.0008, JSTOR 531808, S2CID 145414793

[derr-thomason-6] Derr, Jennifer L. (2019), Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt, Stanford University Press, p. 44 (digital), ISBN 9781503609662, –... the British government established the College of Civil Engineering, later renamed the Thomason College of Civil Engineering, in the town of Roorkee in northern India. ... Engineers at Thomason assisted with the construction of northern India's largest canal, the Ganges Canal, begun in 1842 and completed in 1854. ... Little existed in Britain itself in the nineteenth century that would approach the standard of formalized civil engineering training in India.

[7] "Departments, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee". iitr.ac.in. Archived from the original on 24 January 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2011. technical institutions in the country having the largest number of academic units

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Former names	College of Civil Engineering at Roorkee (1847–1854) Thomason College of Civil Engineering (1854–1947) University of Roorkee (1947–2001)
Motto	श्रमं विना न किमपि साध्यम् (Sanskrit)
Motto in English	Nothing can be achieved without hard work
Type	Public technical university
Established	1847; 177 years ago (1847)
Chairman	B. V. R. Mohan Reddy
Director	Kamal Kishore Pant ^[1]
Academic staff	622^[2]
Students	9,186^[2]
Undergraduates	4,223^[2]
Postgraduates	2,169^[2]
Doctoral students	2,794^[2]
Location	Roorkee , Uttarakhand , India 29°51′52″N 77°53′47″E / 29.86444°N 77.89639°E / 29.86444; 77.89639
Campus	Urban 365 acres (1.48 km²)
Language	English, Hindi
Website	www.iitr.ac.in