Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee eller IIT Roorkee er et statlig, teknisk universitet i India med campus i Roorkee i delstaten Uttarakhand, India. Det ble opprettet i 1874 som Thomason college of Civil Engineering , og het fra 1949 University of Roorkee og var da Indias første tekniske universitet. IIT-statusen ble tildelt i 2001.

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Motto		Knowledge is Power
Grunnlagt		1874
Type		statlig
Beliggenhet		Roorkee (Uttarakhand), India
Studenter		4 200 (2007)
Ansatte		375 (2007)
Medlemskap		E-ShodhSindhu (2023)[1]
Nettsted		http://www.iitr.ac.in/ (hindi, engelsk)
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Dette lærestedet regnes som Indias femte beste teknologiske universitet i 2007.^[2]

Undervisningen fokuserer på teknologifag, er sammensluttet faglig sett med søsterinstitusjoner i byene Kharagpur, Kanpur, Chennai, Delhi, Bombay, og Guwahati.

Fakultetene er:

• Department of Architecture
• Department of Biotechnology
• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Department of Civil Engineering
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Department of Earthquake Engineering (offers post-graduate level courses only)
• Department of Electrical Engineering
• Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
• Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
• Department of Pulp and Paper Engineering
• Department of The departments dealing with pure sciences in the institute are:
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Physics
• Department of Earth Sciences
• Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Det er seks forskningssentra ved IITR:

• Department of Management Studies[6]
• Center of Hydrology
• center of Water Resources Development and Management
• Alternate Hydro Energy Center

Studiene gis opp til doktorgradsnivå. Studenttallet er 4 200 og av disse er 2 000 høyere grads studenter.

Indian Institutes of Technology

Det er i alt tretten utdanningsinstitusjoner i India som har den offisielle og akkrediterte tittelen Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) og de navngis med bynavnet som suffiks.

Disse er i dag:

• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (1950; IIT i 1951)
• Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai (1958)
• Indian Institute of Technology Chennai (1959)
• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1959)
• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (1961; IIT i 1963)
• Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (1994),
• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (1847; IIT i 2001)

Planlagte:

• Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (2008)
• Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (2008)
• Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (2008)
• Indian Institute of Technology Patna (2008)
• Indian Institute of Technology Punjab (2008)
• Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan (2008)

IIT-ene ble opprettet etter uavhengigheten i 1947 for å fremme den økonomiske og teknologiske utviklingen i India, og studentene kalles populært for IITitans.