Army Institute of Technology, Pune
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Army Institute of Technology (AIT) is an undergraduate engineering college located in the Dighi Hills area in Pune
, Maharashtra
, India and affiliated to the University of Pune
. Only wards of army personnel are allowed admission. The admission is done through AIEEE exam. AIT functions under the aegis of the Army Welfare Education Society (AWES) and has the seniormost officer of the Indian Army
, the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army
(COAS), as the President of its Board of Governors.
AIT was formally inaugurated by Gen S. Roy Chaudhary PVSM, ADC on 24th Feb, 1995. The first batch of students graduated in 1998.
courses: Computer Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Information Technology and Mechanical Engineering. All four courses are approved and accredited by both the All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council
(NAAC). The three courses which have been offered at AIT since its inception, i.e. Computer Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, are also accredited by the National Board of Accreditation
(NBA).
Each course lasts for eight semesters and these are spread out over four years, referred to as FE (First Year Engineering), SE (Second Year Engineering), TE (Third Year Engineering) and BE (Bachelor of Engineering). The annual First Year of Engineering intake for each class is sixty students, thus leading to a total of two hundred and forty freshmen entering AIT each year, apart from this there is also a provision for migration from other colleges subject to certain rules.In 2010-11 number of seats in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering was increased from 60 to 120.
Graduates receive a Bachelor of Engineering
(BE) degree from the University of Pune.
.
Sports are an especially popular pastime at AIT and the campus boasts a basketball
court, a cricket field
, a tennis court
, a rugby field, a volleyball
court, a football (soccer)
field, a badminton
court (which sport, of course, originated in Pune), fitness studio, a croquet
lawn and two squash courts. Indoor sports are also enjoyed, be it chess
, pocket billiards
or table tennis
.
The AIT library is open to all students and staff and is one of the most frequented locations on campus. The library has a very technical bent and, as of 2009, had 5154 titles and 16927 volumes, and subscribed to 43 national periodicals and 14 international journals. The current focus is on augmenting instruction media to include Computer Based Teaching.
The campus is well serviced through public transportation links to the nearby suburb Vishrantwadi and also to the most popular locations in Pune: the University, Deccan, Main & East Streets and the railway station. The village of Dighi is a short walk away, as are the hills which lend their name to the locality. The College of Military Engineering (CME) is in the vicinity, and allows students access to its cinema and lakes.
Apart from the many sporting teams, there are also some formal clubs that offer other extra-curricular opportunities. The NSS Club organizes blood donation camps, cleanliness drives, treks, visits to orphanages and old people's homes. The Heritage and Spiritual Club facilitates celebrations of festivals such as Janmastami, Navaratri, Ganesh Chaturthi, Shivratri etc.. Students with a musical bent are encouraged to join the Music Club. The student magazine, "Srijna", is published annually by the Maganize Board. The Board also organizes two treasure hunts every year and circulates an online newsletter called "eMAGe", once every semester. Open Source Activities Centre is another student club that's focusing on promotion of Linux and other Open Source Software at college. AIT Open Source Activities Centre Formed in 2010, it currently stands at a strength of a hefty 170. A group of students from all academic years had been working on AIT's new website, which was recently inaugurated on the occasion of the founding day of AIT i.e. on the 24th of march 2011.
Students are encouraged to form their own clubs, if none exist that cater to their interests. The newest student club is the AIT Hackers Association (2009).
AIT also have a club known as VOICE it stands for "Vedic Oasis for Inspiration, Culture and Education".It name as AIT VOICE http://www.aitvoice.com
Recently, college students have started a news club namely AIT Pune news hub.
AIT Alumni website link
this is followed by a twelve-member Governing Body, which includes nominees from AICTE, the University of Pune and the Government of Maharashtra, and a ten-member Local Managing Committee, which includes representatives from each of the teaching faculties.
Pune
Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...
, Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
, India and affiliated to the University of Pune
University of Pune
The University of Pune , is a university located in northwestern Pune, India. It was founded in 1949. Spread over a campus, the university is home to 46 academic departments...
. Only wards of army personnel are allowed admission. The admission is done through AIEEE exam. AIT functions under the aegis of the Army Welfare Education Society (AWES) and has the seniormost officer of the Indian Army
Indian Army
The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...
, the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army
Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army
The Chief of the Army Staff is the commander and usually the highest-ranking officer of the Indian Army. The position is abbreviated as COAS in Indian Army cables and communication....
(COAS), as the President of its Board of Governors.
History
The college was set up when Gen. B.C. Joshi, PVSM AVSM, ADC (1935–1994), the then Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army, saw the need for an engineering college for the children of all ranks of the Army. His view was that children of army personnel were disadvantaged as far as education was concerned as a direct consequence of soldiers serving under difficult conditions in forward areas where educational facilities are not always available. Additionally, the regular rotation of army personnel, potentially across the country, affects continuity of education.AIT was formally inaugurated by Gen S. Roy Chaudhary PVSM, ADC on 24th Feb, 1995. The first batch of students graduated in 1998.
Academics
AIT offers the following four engineeringEngineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
courses: Computer Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, Information Technology and Mechanical Engineering. All four courses are approved and accredited by both the All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council
National Assessment and Accreditation Council
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council is an organization that assesses and accredits institutions of higher education in India. It is an autonomous body funded by University Grants Commission of Government of India headquartered in Bangalore.-History:NAAC was established in 1994 in...
(NAAC). The three courses which have been offered at AIT since its inception, i.e. Computer Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, are also accredited by the National Board of Accreditation
National Board of Accreditation
The National Board of Accreditation , India was established by AICTE as an autonomous body under section 10 of AICTE act, 1987 for periodic evaluations of technical institutions & programmes basis according to specified norms and standards as recommended by AICTE council...
(NBA).
Each course lasts for eight semesters and these are spread out over four years, referred to as FE (First Year Engineering), SE (Second Year Engineering), TE (Third Year Engineering) and BE (Bachelor of Engineering). The annual First Year of Engineering intake for each class is sixty students, thus leading to a total of two hundred and forty freshmen entering AIT each year, apart from this there is also a provision for migration from other colleges subject to certain rules.In 2010-11 number of seats in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering was increased from 60 to 120.
Graduates receive a Bachelor of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering
The Bachelor of Engineering is an undergraduate academic degree awarded to a student after three to five years of studying engineering at universities in Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland , Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Korea,...
(BE) degree from the University of Pune.
Campus
The AIT campus benefits from its location on the outskirts of Pune in that it is not plagued by air and noise pollution and that the ample space allows for planned expansion. The largest building is the Academic Block, which houses the lecture halls, most laboratories, offices for the administration and an auditorium. The lawn in front of the Academic Block is the first view that visitors to the campus have, and is one of the preferred spots for a sit-down in the evenings. On either side of this centre are located the hostels for students and residential quarters for staff. As AIT is intended to be a residential college, the campus attempts to be self-contained and has various messes and cafés, along with a shop for common household products and an ATM of the HDFC BankHDFC Bank
HDFC Bank Limited is a major Indian financial services company based in India, incorporated in August 1994, after the Reserve Bank of India allowed establishing private sector banks. The Bank was promoted by the Housing Development Finance Corporation, a premier housing finance company of India...
.
Sports are an especially popular pastime at AIT and the campus boasts a basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
court, a cricket field
Cricket field
A cricket field consists of a large circular or oval-shaped grassy ground on which the game of cricket is played. There are no fixed dimensions for the field but its diameter usually varies between 450 feet to 500 feet...
, a tennis court
Tennis court
A tennis court is where the game of tennis is played. It is a firm rectangular surface with a low net stretched across the center. The same surface can be used to play both doubles and singles.-Dimensions:...
, a rugby field, a volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
court, a football (soccer)
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
field, a badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
court (which sport, of course, originated in Pune), fitness studio, a croquet
Croquet
Croquet is a lawn game, played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport. It involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing court.-History:...
lawn and two squash courts. Indoor sports are also enjoyed, be it chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
, pocket billiards
Pocket billiards
Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...
or table tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
.
The AIT library is open to all students and staff and is one of the most frequented locations on campus. The library has a very technical bent and, as of 2009, had 5154 titles and 16927 volumes, and subscribed to 43 national periodicals and 14 international journals. The current focus is on augmenting instruction media to include Computer Based Teaching.
The campus is well serviced through public transportation links to the nearby suburb Vishrantwadi and also to the most popular locations in Pune: the University, Deccan, Main & East Streets and the railway station. The village of Dighi is a short walk away, as are the hills which lend their name to the locality. The College of Military Engineering (CME) is in the vicinity, and allows students access to its cinema and lakes.
Clubs and Student Activities
The Engineering and Technology Board of the college hosts an intra-college technical meet Techaakriti followed by inter-college "Solutions". PACE (a inter college sports festival) is held annually , and Gen. B.C. Joshi Memorial Quiz is also held every year. The annual AIT cultural fest is called Aakriti, and is both eagerly awaited and hotly contested. It is currently an intra-college event, only once having been hosted, in 1999, as an intercollegiate.Apart from the many sporting teams, there are also some formal clubs that offer other extra-curricular opportunities. The NSS Club organizes blood donation camps, cleanliness drives, treks, visits to orphanages and old people's homes. The Heritage and Spiritual Club facilitates celebrations of festivals such as Janmastami, Navaratri, Ganesh Chaturthi, Shivratri etc.. Students with a musical bent are encouraged to join the Music Club. The student magazine, "Srijna", is published annually by the Maganize Board. The Board also organizes two treasure hunts every year and circulates an online newsletter called "eMAGe", once every semester. Open Source Activities Centre is another student club that's focusing on promotion of Linux and other Open Source Software at college. AIT Open Source Activities Centre Formed in 2010, it currently stands at a strength of a hefty 170. A group of students from all academic years had been working on AIT's new website, which was recently inaugurated on the occasion of the founding day of AIT i.e. on the 24th of march 2011.
Students are encouraged to form their own clubs, if none exist that cater to their interests. The newest student club is the AIT Hackers Association (2009).
AIT also have a club known as VOICE it stands for "Vedic Oasis for Inspiration, Culture and Education".It name as AIT VOICE http://www.aitvoice.com
Recently, college students have started a news club namely AIT Pune news hub.
Alumni
The first batch of engineers graduated in 1999, and they, like their successors, keep in touch with AIT and each other through the Alumni Association. The aim of the Alumni Association is to allow each alumnus - a fresh graduate or one from the first batches - to leverage professional contacts, renew or build social ones and to constructively contribute to the community and the Alma Mater. An annual Alumni Meet is hosted on campus, where alumni get to interact with students and faculty. As alumni are dispersed across the world, an online mailing list helps alumni keep in regular touch with each other.AIT Alumni website link
Governance
AIT has a three-tier governance structure. At the highest level is the Board of Governors with the COAS as President, and the VCOAS and all Army Commanders (except the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South Western Command) as Vice Presidents. The Managing Director of AWES is designated as the Member Secretary, with the following officers being Members: DCOAS (IS & T), DCOAS (P & S), Adjutant General (AG), Quartermaster General (QMG), Master General Ordnance (MGO), Military secretary (MS), Engineer-in-Chief, three Heads of Arms/Services in rotation, Director General (Discipline, Ceremonials & Welfare) and the Judge Advocate General (JAG).this is followed by a twelve-member Governing Body, which includes nominees from AICTE, the University of Pune and the Government of Maharashtra, and a ten-member Local Managing Committee, which includes representatives from each of the teaching faculties.