IIT Mandi founded in 2009, is located in the Shivalik range of Himalayas in the serene landscape by the river Uhl, offering a world-class academic environment with a high quality of life in a setting of natural splendour. IIT Mandi’s vision is to be a leader in science and technology education, knowledge creation, and innovation, in an India marching towards a just, inclusive, and sustainable society. The Institute campus is located in the picturesque Uhl river valley at Kamand, which is situated at about 14 kms from the historic town of Mandi in Himachal Pradesh. Mandi is located at a distance of around 435 km from Delhi and around 160 km from Chandigarh on Delhi-Manali route.
The B. Tech curriculum is designed keeping in mind the need to produce well-rounded graduates many of whom will go on to join industry in technical or managerial roles, or to join the administrative services as technocrats, while a few may aspire to research careers. Some may even go on to become entrepreneurs. Thus, at IIT Mandi, a B.Tech. student is exposed to a broad range of knowledge and skills that builds on a sturdy foundation of Engineering, basic sciences, humanities and social sciences. In the chosen BTech discipline, besides studying the core courses, the student will also study elective courses which will enable them to develop significant knowledge in a specialized area with exposure to research trends and developments. The category of free/open electives outside the chosen discipline will enable the student to obtain significant inter-disciplinary knowledge. A ‘Faculty Advisor’ guides the student throughout the entire duration of the program with regard to the planning of curriculum and other academic issues.
An important aspect of the curriculum is the integration of innovation and design into the learning process. This is achieved through signature courses of IIT Mandi’s curriculum that are extremely popular among the students. These courses include: ‘Reverse engineering’ , where student teams dismantle a common gadget/equipment, understand how it works and try to improve upon it; ‘Design Practicum’ where student teams build novel engineering products over a semester; ‘Interactive Socio-Technical Practicum’ (ISTP) which exposes students to the complex interactions of technology and society, and familiarizes them with the necessity of taking stakeholders’ needs and opinions into account while formulating technical solutions. Interestingly, every year, a group of over 20 students from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), USA, visits IIT Mandi and joins IIT Mandi students in completing ISTP projects. The course thus has an inter-disciplinary and international collaboration component. Finally, during the fourth year, the students have the option of doing a Major Technical Project (MTP) that is expected to demonstrate a high degree of technical knowledge, innovativeness and maturity. The outcome of a B. Tech Project may be an innovative product or technology that addresses a problem of society, or it may be more theoretical or exploratory resulting in an advancement in the frontiers of knowledge.
IIT Mandi encourages students to cultivate their creativity in the form of various extra-curricular activities. Such activities are catered by Student Gymkhana of the Institute. The Student Gymkhana includes various societies viz. cultural, technical, literary and sports. Under these societies, there are different clubs which offer exploring specific interests and hobbies. The Cultural clubs include Art-Geeks, Music, Choreography, Dramatics, Photography etc. The technical section includes clubs such as Robotronics, Astronomy, Programming, Nirmaan, Yantrik etc. Notably, the institute has an annual cultural cum technical festival, known as EXODIA. As a part of this festival, students from renowned technical institutions from all over the country participate. Every year, IIT Mandi also participates in various inter-IIT activities and meets to show-case extracurricular activities of the institute. In the past, the students have represented IIT Mandi at the international level of sports and technical activities, and achieved a significant number of awards and prizes.
IIT Mandi has a fully residential campus with more than 2050 students residing in 7 boys’ hostels, 3 girls’ hostels and one married scholars’ apartment. At present, these hostels are situated on the two campuses. The south campus consists of six hostels; Prashar hostel, Suvalsar hostel, Nako hostel, Chandra Taal hostel, Renuka Hostel and Manimahesh hostel. The north campus has four hostels; Beas Kund hostel, Dashir hostel, Suraj Taal hostel, Gauri Kund hostel and married scholar apartment. Currently, there are six messes on the campus, 3 each on both campuses, that serve food to all hostellers. The food quality and menu in these messes are regularly supervised and controlled by the team of mess secretaries elected by the students’ body. Besides, there are five canteens on campus offering a variety of food options for students. IIT Mandi can boast of world class hostel facilities as all the hostels are equipped with wi-fi internet connection, LCD television, washing machine, cloth dryer, microwave oven, refrigerator, electric iron and facilities for indoor games such table tennis, foosball, carom, etc. Management of the hostel is taken care of by the warden and assistant warden with the help of a caretaker. The caretaker is available in the hostel round the clock. Each hostel has its own student general body of student representatives in the form of a general secretary, cultural secretary, sports secretary, and mess secretary.
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