College of Technology, Pantnagar

College of Technology
Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology
Type Public, Public, land-grant
Established 1962(1966)
Location Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India
Campus Rural
Website www.gbpuat-tech.ac.in

College of Technology, Pantnagar also known as COT, Pantnagar or COT, is a state government funded engineering college located at Pantnagar in the state of Uttarakhand, India. It was established under the then Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University and now called Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology. The College of Technology was established in this university in 1962.

It has eleven departments that offer eight Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) degree programmes. The college also offers 24 postgraduate programs including a self-financed MCA program.

The College is an institute in the world bank project for Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP) and is also the Regional Academy Centre of CISCO. The institute also holds ISO 9001:2000 certification.[1]

The college receives financial aid from various sources[2] including All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), University Grants Commission (UGC), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in addition to aid from the Department of Higher Education, Government of Uttarakhand.

History

On 17 November 1960, the foundation stone of the first agricultural university in the Country was laid by the then Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. The U. P. Agricultural University now called as Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology was established in 1960 by an act of the Uttar Pradesh State Legislature, enacted in 1958.

The College of Agricultural Engineering was established in 1962 under the then U.P. Agricultural University and now called as G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology. The College of Technology came in to existence in this university in 1966 and College of Agricultural Engineering was also merged with it.

Mission

The mission[3] of College of Technology are as follows:

1. Produce engineers with the strong education foundation and the adaptive skills to serve rapidly evolving technological industries.

2. Conduct nationally recognized technical research focused at providing a technological edge to India, in general, and Uttarakhand in particular

3. Develop appropriate technologies for the upliftment for rural areas of Uttarakhand

4. Provide a diverse curricula that will instill in the students the imagination, talent, creativity and skills necessary for rapidly changing requirements for modern life and to enable them to serve in a wide variety of other fields that require leadership, teamwork, decision making and problem solving abilities.

Administration and organization

In the Indian higher education system, Pantnagar is classified as a State Agricultural University (SAU).[4] The university is in the jurisdiction of the state government. The Governor of the state is ex-officio Chancellor of the university and (s)he appoints a Vice-chancellor (VC), who functions as a full-time Chief executive of the university. The VC chairs a 13-membered Board of Management, which is the highest executive body of the university and oversees primarily financial and administrative matters and ratifies recommendations of other councils of the university. The other councils are the Academic council, the Research council and the Extension education council.[5] Governor of Uttarakhand Dr. Krishan Kant Paul is present Chancellor and Dr. Mangala Rai is VC of the university.[6]

Recently, a central government committee — The Committee to Advise on Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education (Yashpal Committee, 2009) — has recommended converting agricultural universities into general universities encompassing all branches of studies.[7][8]

Academics

Each academic year comprises two semester having a total of 200-210 instructional days.[9] COT follows the credit-based system of performance evaluation, with proportional weighting of courses based on their importance. Completion of a degree program requires successful study of courses as approved by the Academic Council for a program. The university has a 10-point scale evaluation system. Each student is evaluation in each course throughout the semester. Each semester's evaluation is done independently with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) reflecting the average performance across semesters. The medium of instruction is English.

Undergraduate education

The College of Technology has various departments that offer eight B. Tech. Degree Programs[2] in Agricultural Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and Production Engineering. The B.Tech. Degree Program is the program with the most students enrolled in it in the college.

Postgraduate and Doctoral education

COT Pantnagar offers 24 postgraduate programmes including Master of Technology (M.Tech.) and Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.).[2] The admission to M.Tech. program is made through GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) exam conducted by IITs and IISc, Bangalore. The institute offers the Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph.D.) as part of its doctoral education programme in several disciplines.[2] The doctoral scholars are given a topic of academic interest by the professor, or sometimes work on the consultancy projects sponsored by industries. The duration of the programme is usually unspecified. Ph.D. scholars submit a dissertation and conduct an oral defence of their thesis.

The departments[10] of COT Pantnagar are as follows:

Centre of Excellence

Under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP), Department of Higher Education has designated the institute as a Centre of Excellence for Energy Studies in Industries and Agro Systems of Uttarakhand (Energy Management).[11][12]

Campus

College of Technology has a campus area in G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology University.

The university campus is located at a distance of 250 km from Delhi in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand. The nearby towns are Rudrapur (16 km), Haldwani (25 km) and Nainital (65 km). Two National Highways- NH 87 and Bareilly- Nainital highway- are near the campus. Pantnagar Airport, operated by Airports Authority of India is located in the campus, 2.5 km west of main administrative building. Two railway stations of North Eastern Railways- Pantnagar (IR Code PBW) and Haldi Road (IR Code HLDD) are located in the campus 4 km (east) and 3 km (west) respectively of administrative building. The university shuttle service, local rickshaws, auto-rickshaws and matador vans connect various parts of the campus. Pantnagar is a purely residential university and comprises an independent township in itself.[13] The population of Pantnagar, prior to establishment of the industrial estate was 35,820 at the Census of 2001. Pantnagar is a part of Pantnagar- Gadarpur assembly constituency.[14] The 'Concentric semicircles' or the 'rising sun' plan of the campus-centre was developed by the Department of Architecture of Illinois University.[15][16]

Academic buildings

The college has three buildings, Pant College of Technology or PCT (old building) and New College of Technology or NCT (new building). There are separate wings for different departments. A separate building for the Department of Information Technology is under construction. The campus has laboratories with instruments related to the different aspects of engineering.

Civic amenities and residence

The university campus has three guest houses, a 60 bed hospital, a post-office and nationalized banks. Two markets namely Chhoti (small) and Bari (big) markets are present in the university campus. The campus also has its own dairy farm.

Residential facilities are provided on campus for students, faculty and staff of the institute. Most of the students reside in hostels, except for the wards of university employees who live in the campus. There are 8 hostels (5 for boys and 3 for girls) and all of the hostels have their respective hostel mess, TV room and computer facility.

Athletic facilities

Stevenson stadium, which is the University Stadium, is the hub of sports activities, which are organized through 17 sport clubs. Every hostel also has its own courts for sports such as basketball, volleyball, and badminton, as well as facilities for indoor sports such as carrom, and table tennis. A few hostels also have their own gym.

Student life

COT Pantnagar provides on-campus residential facilities to its students, research scholars, faculty members and staff. The students live in hostels (referred to as bhavans) throughout their stay in the COT. The entire campus is connected via Gigabit LAN.

Student organizations

Most of the student's activities are organized through college-level professional societies, like the Engineering and Technology Society,[17] that comprises 5 bureaus namely Executive Body, Science and Literary Bureau, Cultural Bureau, Logistics Bureau and Alumni Cell. The society organizes festivals,

Team-F1 DR (Car no. 146) at SUPRA SAEINDIA - 2015

tech-fairs and various competitions year round. Apart from these, there are branch chapters[18] for all the departments like Sprinkler, Interface, and Genesis.

The institute has a College Editorial Board, popularly known as the Ed-Board, which looks after the various student publications of the institute. The College Website Team maintains the college website,[19] and other relevant activities.

The college also has the COT Chapter for the Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), the Imagindia Chapter and SAEINDIA Collegiate Club. The college actively participates in BAJA and Supra and Effi-cycle contests organised by SAEINDIA.

There are other university level societies like Vivekanand Swadhyaya Mandal and Sanskritic Chetna Parishad which works for social causes. CHETNA student wing works to benefit poor children on the campus.

The Pantnagar Chapter of SPIC MACAY regularly organizes Indian classical music and dance concerts.

Festivals

Colosseum, the All India Inter Collegiate Technical Fest is the second largest technical festival organized in the north zone of the country. It has a participation of 3,000 students from over 40 colleges of the country. It comprises several events including Biz-czar-the business plan presentation contest, Iconoclasm-the case study contest, X-Quiz-It-the core quizzing contest, The Game Changers-the theme event of Colosseum, Voroc-the problem solving Contest, Ranbhumi -the robotics contest, Aurum- the personality development workshop, Renaissance- the workshop and guest lecture series, Sanrachna -the model making contest, Kurukshetra- the LAN gaming contest and Inspire India -the youth parliament. The annual tech-fest is organized every year in the last week of March.

Indian Ocean performing at Colosseum 2011

Litrosphere, the Literary Fest is organized by the Science and Literary Bureau of Engineering and Technology Society. It is the congregation of more than 2000 students and experts from academia to be a part of this competition. The events include core literary events like debates, group discussions, quizzes etc. mixed with events like sales appeal, and dumb charades. The literary fest marks the beginning of the "Tech Week" of the college which culminates with Colosseum, the Tech Fest.

Accolade is the All India Inter Collegiate cultural and fine arts fest involving participation from students of various colleges and universities across the country. It is organized every year in the last week of January.

Spardha is the biannual sports meeting organized by College of Technology, Pantnagar in the last week of October.It involves participation from students of various colleges across the country in outdoor and indoor games like athletics, football, and badminton.

Student Publications

"Techniche" semestral college magazine, College Newsletter and Audient- the e magazine are published and managed by various media bodies of the college.

NCC & NSS

The university National Cadet Corps (NCC) chapter imparts basic military training and adventure sports for student-cadets. It has a cavalry regiment dealing with Equestrianism. It also has an Air Squadron under NCC Air Wing, which trains cadets through its activities organized in the nearby Pantnagar airport.

All undergraduate students take part in community service, which gains them two credits towards their degrees in the form of a mandatory National Service Scheme (NSS) course involving 240 hours (10 days) of social service.

Liberal Education

Students take part in liberal education courses offered by the university like bird watching, foreign languages (French, German), Indian languages (Tamil, Punjabi), dance, music, yoga, Indian cultural heritage, and personality development.

College Discussion Forum

The College Discussion Forum is a platform that enables the students to discuss the latest happenings of the college. New ideas and views regarding general and technical issues are also shared. Queries related to engineering students can be posted on the forum. The forum provides a platform for interaction between students and faculty.

Alumni network

Pantnagar Technology Alumni Association (P.T.A.A.)

Pantnagar Technology Alumni Association (P.T.A.A.)[20] is a registered society established in 2005 by the initiatives of the Ex Vice-Chancellor Dr. P.L. Gautam, Ex-dean and Late Dr. K. N. Shukla and the alumni of College of Technology. As of 2012 the association has successfully registered around 1,000 members.

Samanvay

Samanvay is an annual alumni meeting of the university which is organized every year to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of a specific batch. P.T.A.A., with the help of student bodies, organizes the alumni meeting on the college premises.

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.gbpuat-tech.ac.in/aboutUs
  2. 1 2 3 4 http://gbpuat.ac.in/acads/ct/index.htm
  3. ↑ http://gbpuat-tech.ac.in/aboutUs/mission-and-vision
  4. ↑ "Agricultural Universities". ICAR. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
  5. ↑ "University Right to Information Manual Vol I under RTI Act 2005" (PDF). GBPUA&T. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
  6. ↑ "Govind Ballabh Pant University". By Prashant Pal(ID:42096), College of Technology Batch 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
  7. ↑ The Hindu (PDF) (Chennai, India) http://www.hindu.com/nic/yashpalcommitteereport.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ http://www.indianexpress.com/news/higher-education-body-yashpal-for-change-in-plan/518072/
  9. ↑ http://www.gbpuat.ac.in/acads/index.htm
  10. ↑ http://gbpuat-tech.ac.in/departments
  11. ↑ http://mhrd.gov.in/technical-education-13
  12. ↑ http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/List%20of%20Centres%20of%20Excellence.pdf
  13. ↑ Husain, Majid (1999). Human Geography. Rawat Publications. ISBN 81-7033-529-2.
  14. ↑ "State Elections 2007". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
  15. ↑ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Architecture 1975 Campus Development Planning Study; G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology. Urbana: University of Illinois, p.4 and Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University 1963:27
  16. ↑ Campus Development Planning Study, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India, by Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities, Illinois University at Urbana-Champaign. Dept. of Architecture, H James Miller, Wisconsin University-Milwaukee and others. Published by Graduate Division, Dept. of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1976
  17. ↑ http://gbpuat-tech.ac.in/Engineering%20and%20Technology%20Society
  18. ↑ http://gbpuat-tech.ac.in/branch-chapters
  19. ↑ http://www.gbpuat-tech.ac.in/aboutsite
  20. ↑ http://gbpuat-tech.ac.in/activities/ptaa
  21. ↑ http://www.vineetnayar.com/
  22. ↑ http://www.gbpuat-tech.ac.in/trial/public_html/audient/3/otherpages/colosseum.html
  23. ↑ http://www.usinpac.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1582
  24. ↑ "Indian Pop Singer Baba Sehgal". December 14, 2015.
  25. ↑ http://www.toshendra.com/
  26. ↑ http://www.tanaypant.com/

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