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Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan

Motto	त्वं ज्ञानमयो विज्ञानमयो असि
Type	Public
Established	2008
Director	Prem K. Kalra
Location	Jodhpur , Rajasthan , India
Campus	Urban, spread over 900 acres (3.6 km2)
Website	www.iitj.ac.in

The Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan (Template:Lang-hi, IIT Rajasthan, IIT Jodhpur, IITJ) is a public university located in Jodhpur in the state of Rajasthan in India. It is one of eight new IITs which have become functional between 2008 and 2009. The bill for the addition of these eight IITs and the conversion of Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University to IIT^[1] was passed in the Lok Sabha in March 24, 2011^[2] and is still to be adopted by the Rajya Sabha.

This new institute was established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, in 2008. The classes for the first academic session were held at IIT Kanpur, which had been designated as the mentor IIT for looking after the incubation activities of the new IIT in Rajasthan. The first academic session in IIT Rajasthan commenced in August 2008.

Following the recommendations of a committee headed by Prof Vijay Shankar Vyas, both the Rajasthan state government and MHRD approved Jodhpur as the city where IIT Rajasthan would be set up. The final approval came in the month of November 2009. Since then the state government and IIT Rajasthan administration have been working towards making a shift of IIT Rajasthan from its temporary camp at Kanpur to its permanent establishment at Jodhpur.

IITJ will be located about 12 km from Jodhpur city on National Highway 65 which connects Jodhpur to Nagaur. The IIT site will cover 900 acres (3.6 km²) of land around Jhipasni and Gharao villages. The construction of the fully residential campus of IIT Rajasthan started in late 2010.

For the next two years, IIT Rajasthan will have its academic and administrative block in the MBM Engineering College, Ratanada, Jodhpur.

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IITJ offers a B.Tech programme in the following disciplines:

• Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering
• Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering
• Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering
• Bachelor of Technology in Systems Science

Admission to these programmes is through the JEE and forty students in each branch are admitted after completing 10+2 schooling.

Teaching and research activities of the institute especially for postgraduate and Ph.D programmes are structured around Centres of Excellence (CoE) of the institute.

A Ph.D.Programme is offered in the following three centres of excellence in IIT Rajasthan:

• Centre of Excellence in Energy
• Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
• Centre of Excellence in Systems Science (SS)

At IIT Rajasthan sponsored research and development programs will be carried out in Centers of Excellence in the areas of information, communication, energy sectors, technology for health care, economics of policy reforms, and liberal arts and social sciences. The French Government has shown an interest in helping IIT Rajasthan to develop its research and academic institute. Accordingly, IIT Rajasthan is forging strategic alliances with leading French Universities that will result in student and faculty exchange, internship in France and participation in strategic joint research programs.

Christened Aakash or the Low-Cost Access Device, the tablet is developed by students of IIT Rajasthan and other leading institutions.It packs all common features found in Android tablets. It comes as a counter to MIT academic Nicholas Negroponte`s One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) project that the Indian government was considering at one point.The Indian government would pick up 50% of the cost and a student will be able to buy it for ₹ 1,125.^[3]

IIT Rajasthan is located in a temporary campus on the premises of MBM Engineering College, Jodhpur. It has WiFi connectivity.

The Central Library is functional in the camp office located in MBM Engineering College campus. It has around 5000 books and also subscribes to magazines. The library has access to e-journals from Elsevier's Science Direct and Springer Link. The library will shortly have a Library Management Software, so that an Online Public Access Catalogue is made available to users on their computer terminals via a campus-wide network.

The institute has a Computer Centre, running on a gigabit LAN with 100 Mbps internet bandwidth. It is the nucleus of all computing facilities for students and staff. There are several terminals running on Windows and GNU/Linux operating systems. The Computer Centre provides access to softwares like Matlab and Mathematica. The academic area is Wi-Fi enabled.

Equipment includes CNC milling and turning training centers, programmable welding equipment, rapid prototyping of multilayer PCBs, advanced gait motion analysis system, 40KW amorphous silicon solar power plant, 40 KW crystalline silicon solar power plant, FT-IR spectrometer, UV-VIS spectrophotometer, universal testing machines, microscopes, data acquisition systems from National Instruments , DSP starter kits, microprocessor kits, Sundance video and image kits, software defined radio development kit, multimodal biosignal amplifier with USB interface.

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