IIT Roorkee
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (abbreviated
IIT Roorkee) is a
technical university located in
Roorkee,
Uttarakhand,
India. It is the oldest engineering institution in India. It was founded as the
College of Civil Engineering in 1847 during
East India Company rule in India by
James Thomason, the
Lieutenant-Governor of the
North-Western Provinces in which Roorkee was located; its purpose was to train officers and surveyors employed in the construction of the
Ganges Canal. 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. 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.
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