On Engineer’s Day 2018, here’s the list of top 5 engineering colleges in India

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Happy Engineer's Day 2018: As the country celebrates contributions of eminent engineer Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya on his birth anniversary, here is the list of top five engineering colleges in India, as per the NIRF ranking 2018.

Engineer’s Day 2018: As the country celebrates contributions of eminent engineer Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya on his birth anniversary, here is the list of top five engineering colleges in India, as per the NIRF ranking 2018

Happy Engineer’s Day 2018: As the country celebrates contributions of eminent engineer Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya on his birth anniversary, we bring you the list of top engineering colleges of India, of which, few are listed under the top 200 international rankings.

Engineers Day 2018: Top five Engineering colleges in India (ranking based on HRD Ministry’s NIRF 2018)

IIT-Madras

As per the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2018, the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT Madras) bagged the top engineering colleges rank. The institution had topped the list in 2017 and 2016 as well.

Established in 1959, with support from the former government of West Germany, IIT Madras was ranked 264 in the world in the QS World University Ranking 2018, 48 in Asia, and 18 among BRICS nations. Times Higher Education ranked the institution (601-800) in the world and 103rd in Asia.

IIT-Bombay

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) had clinched the second position in India, as per the NIRF ranking 2018, the institute also hold the same position in 2017. IIT-Bombay has recently credited with the ‘Institute of Eminence’ status.

Established in 1958, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is one of the renowned engineering institutes in India. The Institute has 15 academic departments, 30 centres, one School and five interdisciplinary programmes. Over the last five decades, more than 55,000 engineers and scientists have graduated from the Institute.

IIT-Delhi

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi) was placed third in India, as per the NIRF ranking 2018. The institute also got the ‘Institute of Eminence’ status this year with other institutes like Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, the Indian Institutes of Technology at Mumbai, and the proposed Jio Institute of the Reliance Foundation.

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi started as college of engineering and technology in 1961 and established as IIT Delhi in 1963.

IIT-Kharagpur

As per the NIRF ranking 2018, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) clinched the fourth position. The institute was ranked 60th in Asia and (501 to 600) in the world, as per Times Higher Education ranking. QS Global World ranking positioned it at 295 in the world.

In 1950, IIT-Kharagpur, one of the top engineering colleges of India, started functioning from 5 Esplanade East in Kolkata, but later it was shifted to Kharagpur.

IIT-Kanpur

Like last year, the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur retained its position among top five engineering institutes in the NIRF ranking 2018. The institute ranked 81st among the Asian Universities by THE. As per the QS World University ranking, IIT-Kanpur was placed 283, 59 in Asia, and 21 among the BRICS nations.

Google doodle honours engineering genius M. Visvesvaraya

Google’s doodle for Saturday, September 15, features a man wearing a Mysuru peta with a wall in the background. He is none other than Sir M. Visvesvaraya, and the wall represents the iconic Krishna Raja Sagar dam built across the Cauvery river in Mandya, Karnataka. Today is the 158th birth anniversary of M. Visvesvaraya, according to his family.

“While some sources cite his birth year as 1861, after speaking to his family, we’ve learned that Sir MV was actually born a year earlier,” Google’s blog post read. The government of India celebrates his birthday as ‘Engineers Day’.

Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, better known as Sir MV, was born in a modest family in Muddenahalli village in the erstwhile Mysore State. Having lost his father at the age of 12, Visvesvaraya faced a lot of hardship to continue his studies. “According to stories passed down over generations, Sir MV had to walk over 60 kilometers to Bengaluru to attend United Mission School, eating the food served at temples around the city and studying under street lamps,” Google said in its blog post.

Jawaharlal Nehru and Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya both received their Bharat Ratna the same year, 1955. |   

 

Visvesvaraya graduated from Bangalore Central College and studied Licentiate in Civil Engineering from College of Engineering, Pune. He joined the Indian Irrigation Commission in the late 18th century and worked on irrigation and flood control systems. He is credited with building intricate irrigation systems in the Deccan Plateau, the floodgates of Khadakvasla Reservoir near Pune and Tigra Dam in Gwalior, and the flood protection system in Hyderabad when the city was under Nizam’s rule.

The British Empire under King George V conferred him the knighthood for his contributions. In 1909, Visvesvaraya retired from serving the colonial empire and returned to his roots — Mysore. This was the time the State was reeling under severe drought and Visvesvaraya proposed constructing a gravity dam across River Cauvery in Mandya that would not only help in irrigation but also provide electricity to the nearby areas. Construction began in 1911, and the dam was inaugurated in 1914. Named after the Wadiyar dynasty king who ruled Mysore then, it was one of the largest dams in Asia then. The Krishna Raja Sagar Dam still provides drinking water to the whole of the Mysore region and Bengaluru, apart from taking care of the irrigation needs in Mandya.

Visvesvaraya was also instrumental in bringing the Mysore Iron & Steel Works to Bhadravathi. It was renamed Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited post-Independence.

Visvesvaraya also served as the Dewan of Mysore. It was during his period as Dewan that the Mysore Soap Factory (which makes the iconic Mysore sandal soap), the Bangalore Agricultural University, the Bank of Mysore (later renamed State Bank of Mysore and now merged with the State Bank of India), the Century Club, the Mysore Paper Mills, the Bangalore Press, and the Mysore Chamber of Commerce were set up. He was also instrumental in charting out the road construction between Tirumala and Tirupati.

Visvesvaraya was also known for his love for Kannada. He set up the Kannada Parishat.

 

“Despite his many achievements, he never forgot his roots. He was simple, honest and committed to his work,” said Satish Mokshagundam, the grandnephew of Visvesvaraya. “It was his contemplative nature that allowed him as a young rural lad, having achieved a Civil Engineering degree, to think outside of the box and start Recreational Clubs, Banks, Chambers of Commerce, Educational Institutions, and a Literary Association for Kannada,” Mr. Satish, the president of Visvesvaraya National Memorial Trust in Bengaluru recalled.

The Trust maintains a museum in Visvesvaraya’s hometown in Chikkaballapur district, where all the artifacts that he collected and other items that he used during his lifetime are preserved.

He penned his autobiography, Memoirs of my Working Life, in 1951. True to his autobiography’s title, Visvesvaraya worked till his last days. He was over 90 when he was the consultant for the Mokama Bridge project across the Ganga in Bihar. The bridge, known as Rajendra Setu, was inaugurated in 1952 and is functional till date even though a parallel bridge was recently constructed.

Visvesvaraya was honoured with the Bharat Ratna in 1952. He passed away in Bengaluru on April 12, 1962.