Bangalore which is the capital of Karnataka is known for its greenery, Engineering colleges, MBA colleges and Information Technology sector. Hence the city is known to be the silicon valley of India because of its boom in IT sector. This is one of the major reasons because of which more than 150 plus college has its command in the city. Bangalore city is divided into four parts i.e. the north, south, east and west. Due to the pace of advancement in technology and development and also due to the Kempegowda International Airport in the south Bangalore, it has been a major destination for many companies and institutes. A quite number of Engineering and MBA colleges have started their presence since past few years. One of the famous and renowned among them is the Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology also known to be N.M.I.T. It is situated in Govindapura, Gollahalli, Yelahanka, Bangalore and it is a premier Autonomous Institution affiliated to the Visvesvaraya Technological University (V.T.U) and approved and accredited by All India Council for Technical Education (A.I.C.T.E), New Delhi. The institute offers four years of Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) degree and various other post graduate programs such as Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A) and Master of Technology (M.Tech). It is the youngest institute in the nation to get the prestigious autonomous status in the year 2007 by University Grants Commission (U.G.C) and by the State Government of Karnataka. It is also the only unaided private institution in the state of Karnataka which is selected by the Government of India for World Bank Funding in the year 2011. The college is sprawl across 23 acres of lush green campus.
Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology is a unit of Nitte Education Trust, Mangalore. The Nitte Education Trust comprises of Nitte University and higher institution such as Engineering, Medical, Management etc. and various other school and colleges across the state of Karnataka. The Nitte Education Trust was founded by Justice Kawdoor Sadananda Hegde along with support of his wife Smt. Meenakshi Hegde in the year 1979 with a vision to ensure and provide quality education to mass people. The major and main mission of the trust is to develop the institute to such an extent through innovation, creativity and quality so that the students can cater or yield maximum benefit out of it. The main and primary vision is to provide technical empowerment and manpower of the institute, world and nation through their highest and excellence class of education.
WHY NITTE MEENAKSHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY?
Though there might be various other colleges across the Bangalore such as MVIT, Reva Institute of Technology, Atria Institute of Technology, M.S Engineering College, and Brindavan college of Engineering etc some of them have huge campus and infrastructure, some has good academics and placement but in spite of these fact I prefer a college must be well rounded in everything and in every feature, so technically according to me Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology overall all scores very good as compared to these colleges. The salient features of the colleges are:
The first youngest college to get the prestigious autonomous status.
The college is sprawl across 23 acres of lush green campus.
The laboratories are well equipped with all required instruments.
The college provides all the adequate facilities that a student need for both studies and entertainment.
The college is provided with anti-ragging committee formed by group of teachers to ensure such nuisance and ragging activities should not take place inside the college premises.
The techno-cultural fest went National since past few years which very few colleges can organise.
The placement each year is nearly or next to 100%.
There are many cultural forums and association for the students to help them to be bold and confident enough in life to achieve the leadership quality.
It is one of the institutes across the nation which is accredited by AICTE for students of foreign nationality because of which it’s attracting a large number of students from Nepal and many South African countries.
The STUDSAT is first in its kind which is developed by the B.E students in collaboration with ISRO.
The college also has a Telemetry system NASTRAC for the STUDSAT satellite system.
The transportation facilities are well connected to each and every nook of the city.
The students from different branches gather together and participate for BAJA-SAE which is important automobile design competition organised by SAE. Last year the college students even participated for International Formula-SAE which took place in US.
Extra co-curricular activities like Music, dance etc are given as preference also students are encouraged to take active part in blood donations, NCC, NSS etc.
Besides these the college provides four years of Undergraduate (B.E) degree courses and Post Graduate courses for engineering students. Even the college is offering courses for the non engineering students too. The following courses that are offered in the college are as follows:
COURSES OFFERED
Undergraduate Courses
Electronics & Communication Engineering
The Electronics and Communication branch was started in the year 2001 with an intake capacity of only 60 students later in the year 2006 the intake capacity was increased to 120.
The current intake of the branch is 180 from the year 2012-2013. It is permanently affiliated from VTU and under the scheme of autonomous.
The ECE department also started the post graduate courses of total intake capacity of 18 students from the year 2007.
It also has MEMS Design Centre and research centre which are approved by the VTU. The department has highly qualified faculties from top notch NIT’s and IIT’s.
It is headed by S. Sandaya (Ph.D (IISC)). Regular conduction of seminars, workshops takes place throughout the year.
The department has a student union association known as IRIS which organises various events and technical fests.
Electrical & Electronics Engineering
The Electrical &Electronics engineering was started in the year 2001 with an annual intake of only 60 students.
The department is headed by H.M Ravikumar (M.E., Ph.D [IIT-Bombay], FIETE). The courses includes study of various electrical and electronics devices and components.
The department has a very well established laboratory for power electronics and organises it own department fest once annually.
Department of Electrical and Electronics, LAB
Mechanical Engineering
The Mechanical engineering was started in the year 2001. From 120 intakes annually in 2012-2013 it increased its intake capacity to 180.
The department is headed by Dr. B Shetty (ME (Production.), ME (Aeronautical), Ph.D (VTU).
The intakes of postgraduate courses are 18 and 24 in Thermal Power Engineering and Machine Design respectively. It has also collaboration with various R&D’s, DRDO, and ISRO etc.
Computer Science and Engineering
The Computer Science and Engineering was first started in the year 2001 and from than onwards it became one of the pioneer branches in the institute.
The branch is evolving and progressing at a very rapid rate so it became one of the most prominent in the field of engineering.
The current is raised from 120 to 180 in 2012-2013 and the branch is headed by Dr. Dinesh k. Anvekar.
The main mission of the branch is to raise the education standards and to teach and train students in the field of IT. The branch has well equipped labs and holds collaboration with IISc, ISRO, IITs, NITs, IBM and DRDO etc. CRYPTEC is the student association which takes initiative for technical events and fest.
Information Science Engineering
The Information Science of Engineering was first established in the year 2001.
Currently headed by Dr. Sanjay H.A (M.Tech, Ph.D (IISc).
The current intake is 120 students for B.E and also provides post graduation courses for 2 years with an annual intake of 18 and in the year 2010-2011 they got permanent affiliation from VTU.
The main mission of the branch is to raise the education standards and to teach and train students in the field of IT domain. The branch has well equipped labs and holds collaboration with IISc, ISRO, DELL, IITs, NITs, IBM and DRDO etc.
Civil Engineering
The Civil Engineering branch was started in the year 2009-2010 with the grant and sanction of AICTE, Delhi of total intake capacity of 60.
The intake has been further increased to 120 during the year 2011-2012.
The department has its own Research and Development centre and introduced M.Tech in structural engineering in the year 2013-2014 with intake of 24 students annually.
Currently the department is headed by Dr. H.R. Dhanajaya (B.E (Civil), M.E, PhD (Structures) IISc).
The Civil engineering has got its own lab from surveying lab, CAD lab to hydraulic machinery lab etc. The main objective and mission of the dept. is to produce highly qualified and well trained civil engineers for the world in the present era.
Aeronautical Engineering
The Aeronautical Engineering is not common in our country and one rarely finds this branch across the colleges in our nation but the college is highly obliged to get this course in the year 2011 with an annual intake of 60 students.
Currently the dept is headed by Dr. Shaik Ismail, M.Tech. (IISc), Ph.D. (NIT, Trichy). The department deals with all the study and technology used in aviation industry from construction to design and maintenance of aircrafts.
The department have highly efficient and reputed labs for aerodynamics, propulsion, simulation and modelling analysis.
Postgraduate Courses
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
After the successful start of the engineering courses and programs, the Nitte group finally started their business programs in the year 2004 which is approved by AICTE and affiliated by VTU.
They started with an annual intake of 40 students but now it increased its intake to 120 annually.
The various specializations in this course include finance, International Business, Marketing and Human Resources.
Master of Technology (M.Tech)
The Master of Technology in the college is offered in various fields such as VLSI & Embedded Systems for Electronics and Communication students, Computer Science and Engineering, Thermal Power Engineering and Machine Design for Mechanical students and so on.
Master of Computer Application (MCA)
The three years of MCA degree was first established in the year 2006 with an annual capacity of 60.
Currently it has been raised to 120 and it has also its own library.
The main mission and vision is to raise the education standards and to teach and train students in the field of IT domain. The branch has well equipped labs and holds collaboration with IISc, ISRO, DELL, IITs, NITs, IBM and DRDO etc.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology is vast engineering institute and the campus is spread and sprawl across 23 acres (93,000 m2) of lush green compound.
It is located at a hot spot in the city of Bangalore and is easy accessible from both the airport and railway station respectively. The huge spread campus is shared with Engineering College, M.C.A, M.B.A, various other Post graduate departments and also with the Nitte First Grade College which offers P.U and undergraduate courses.
It consists of blocks of many huge three storied buildings scattered in and around the compound. The class rooms are roomy and provided with modern facilities to provide academic ambience.
The campus also offers high class modern quality labs which are well equipped and well ventilated also it has a well equipped library which provides A to Z of books which are required for the courses.
Recently the campus is equipped with high and modern quality Wi-Fi cameras for surveillance. The college campus provides ample parking space for cars and bikes.
It also got an amphitheatre, basket ball court, big play grounds, co-operative society, Xerox centre, and cafeteria, well equipped and furnished auditorium which can accommodate more than four hundred people with audio and video facilities. The college also offers well furnished hostel rooms and separate hostels for boys and girls with more than capacity of 1500.
HOSTEL
The college has well furnished and modern hostel facilities in the college campus for both the girls and boys and an in house mess facilities for the hostelites which provides healthy hygienic and nutritious food.
The main concern for the hostelites is safety, so for their better and proper safety the college provides in house security guard and in house warden who take care and monitor them.
The hostels also provide power back up facilities when frequent power cut takes place. Moreover, it is also equipped with solar and electric geysers for the facility of hot water. Apart from these, it provides Television (T.V) room, co-operative society, recreation room, gymnasium, music room, dance room, sports room etc.
The college also got its own medical centre and a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with famous hospitals like K.Hospital (Yelahanka), M.S Ramaiah Memorial Hospital (Mathikere), Aveeksha Hospital (Singapore layout, M S playa) for the medical check up facilities for the college students.
Recently the hostels are provided and equipped with high tech. and modern Wi-Fi cameras for the surveillance of the hostels. Hostels are also well equipped with modern fast and high speed internet through the wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi).
At present there are three boys hostel inside the college premises they are Kumaradhara, Nethravathi and Shambhavi with total capacity of more than 1000 students and two girls hostel which are named as Nandini and Kaveri, both can accommodate more than 500 students. One more hostel for both girls and boys each are under construction and all together can accommodate more than 1000 students.
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE:
The institute has a library and information centre, it also has a reference section for reading.
The central library comprises of dept. Libraries which exclusively supports research, teaching and academic extension of the college.
It has collection of books, papers published, journals, engineering books etc. All the books are managed in such a proper and centralized way that it becomes easy for the student to get the book with ease. Different blocks of space are allocated for keeping books of different branches which makes it very centralized as it can accessible at any instant of time without any difficulty.
The library and information centre has a huge and tremendous collection of books, journals, CD’s, papers published from engineering to management and applied sciences.
It has strong collection of more than 30,000 volumes. The system for issuing and renewing text books are completely automated and transactions take place through a bar code device and bar code reader. It basically uses the EASYLIB library management application software to keep track of the books.
The library has circulation section, reference section, discussion rooms, journals and paper section and also has online access to many digital course materials. It got membership of British Council Library, Indian Institute of Science etc.
PLACEMENT
NMIT has a strong placement cell which is headed by Mrs. Bhanurekha Reddy, the placement cells main objective is that each and every student should get placed in reputed and renowned companies. Before the placement session begins, they provide students with various trainings and recruitment process of various companies which make the students to have better understandings. The institute also conducts extensive on-campus recruitment programmes, seminars and individual career and job search assistance. The on campus recruitment starts from VII semester for BE students and V semester for Post graduate students. It has close co-ordination and interaction with various famous and renowned companies like DRDO, ISRO, TCS, Infosys, and DELL etc. Every year more than 50+ companies come to the college for their recruitment process. This year before the end of the session it has placed more than 400+ students which is a big achievement by the college and very few colleges can achieve this, that is why it has a best placement cell and considered to be the one of the top notch college in the city of Bangalore. For the recruitment process in the campus the college placement cell is well equipped with the following facilities:
Huge, well equipped and well furnished auditorium and seminar halls which is capable of accommodating few hundreds of people.
Audio and visual facilities.
Classroom for test conduction.
Few rooms allocated for group discussions (GD).
Few rooms allocated for interview process for campus recruitment.
Well trained and managed placement cell volunteers to guide the students throughout the recruitment process.
The canteen of Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology is having very large spacious area which is capable of holding more than 100 students.
A variety of food items are included in the menu list which includes food from South Indian to North Indian and also Chinese.
It is one of the interesting places inside the campus as student gathers to discuss from academic work to project work.
Brewers is another place which in nearby the bike parking lot and is famous for the hot coffees, burger and rolls.
Recently the Goli vada pav has started its footprint in the campus which seems to be a hot spot for famous milk shakes and vada pavs.
LABORATORIES
The institute has adopted modern and technologically advanced and well equipped laboratories.
The Electronics and communication department is well equipped with MEMS lab, Power electronics lab, VLSI design, Embedded Systems.
The Computer and Information Science Department are well equipped with high performance modern computers which can easily run all the software’s from C, C++, java, SQL to assembly language programming.
The Mechanical department has CAD/CAM lab, Fluid dynamics, thrust lab etc.
The Electrical and Electronics has a very good lab for the power electronics and cater all the needs.
The Civil engineering has got labs from surveying lab, CAD lab to hydraulic machinery lab etc.
Few colleges in Bangalore have the Aeronautical department and the department in college started in 2011 which have highly efficient and reputed labs for aerodynamics, propulsion, simulation and modelling analysis.
The college is also having a robotics lab for making and fabricating line follower robots to UAV drones.
Moreover, the college is well equipped with more than 1500 computers and other accessories, new and advanced software’s with high speed broadband internet connectivity.
The college is famous for STUDSAT i.e. student satellite which works with the collaboration with famous Indian space of Research Organisation (ISRO). The STUDSAT is a special and unique satellite technology which is undertaken by under engineering students. The Pico satellite STUDSAT-1 is the first satellite in its kind to be developed by B.E students. The STUDSAT-2 is supposed to be launched and tracked in near future. The project is well co-ordinated and guided by Jharna Majumdar, (Former Sc G DRDO) and currently Dean (R & D, NMIT). The institute has its own telemetry, tracking, command and monitoring NASTRAC through which communication of satellites takes place.
TRANSPORTATION
The transport facility of the college is very vast and extremely good in comparison with other colleges.
It has a large fleet of twenty eight (28) high end and well equipped buses which are connected to each and every nook across the Bangalore city.
Each bus is provided with a specific route number from route-1 till route-28 and it has specific pick up points and destinations.
It is regularly operated throughout the year for providing transportation facilities for the staffs, employees and the students.
Moreover, there are few buses for the hostelites which ply from the college to various other destinations for the easier connectivity of them.
There are also few Tata sumos which provide transportation facilities for various college staffs and for emergency medical purpose.
EDUCATION
The institute is one of the five autonomous institutions of Bangalore which imparts quality education for masses and offers the best service in the field of education.
Because of its high quality excellence in the field of education the UGC granted the college as the youngest autonomous institute in the nation.
Founded in 2001 and within a span of just seven years it got its prestigious status which is nearly impossible for other colleges to get. All the courses offered by the institute are granted by All India Council for Technical Education, Delhi and affiliated by VTU.
The syllabus and schemes in the autonomous institute are all common for all branches in the first year which includes two cycles i.e. physics and chemistry cycle and from second year i.e. III semester till VIII semester all are allocated to their specific branch.
The main advantages of one having in autonomous institute are the course flexibility, credit grading education system and the grading is done on a scaling of 10. The tests are divided into two parts of equal weightage i.e. the semester end exam (SEE) and CIE. Also there is flexibility in opting various add on courses throughout the academic session.
The college also helps in providing internship and various other programs during the end of odd semester.
One of the advantage in this type of colleges is that they frame their own courses, conduct test on their own and result the result on due time. The syllabus is framed in such a way that it includes and covers each and every nook of the subjects, yet easy to study. The faculties are well qualified in their fields having many years of experience and so interactive that you get to know about the subjects easily and quickly.
CAMPUS LIFE
The campus life is enough interesting and you don’t feel stressed at all throughout the academic session.
The crowd majority are from Karnataka only and followed by many people of north India who basically comes for pursuing B.E degrees. The good and interesting part is that you get people of different caste, religion, region and able to mingle and interact with them. Because of the academic excellence it’s attracting large number of students from across the globe especially from Nepal and South African countries.
ADD-ON FEATURES
The college has everything that one needs for day to day activity around its proximity.
It has temple to ATM and Co-operative society to Xerox centre. The college has an ATM which offers 24*7 transaction access. Moreover, it has co-operative society where one can get things from pen and pencils to books, CD’s, calculators etc. You also get a Xerox centre inside the college premises so whenever you need photo copy you need go out and get it done; instead you can get it from the college’s Xerox centre.
TECHNO-CULTURAL FEST
The techno-cultural fest that takes place once annually is named as “Anaadyanta” which is derived from Sanskrit word which mean “the thing which has neither the beginning nor the end”.
The first fest was started in the year 2004 with as many as 20 events and more than 20 colleges.
The techno-cultural fest is for three days at a stretch, the first day includes the technical events, the second day dance competition, acts and various other events, while the third day of the event comprises of Battle of the Bands, Fashion show and DJ night.
Many of the prominent and famous personalities like Lokayukta Justice Santhosh Hegde, Puneeth Rajkumar etc have graced the fest.
In 2014 the fest reached its height and became a National level fest where colleges from across the nation took part in all the events. The famous tribute band of “Iron Maiden” that is “Higher on Maiden” played in south India for the first time. In 2015 more than 50 events were scheduled for three consecutive days.
CONCLUSION
The Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology became a hotspot destination of education for both national and international students because of its excellence in academics and various other co-curricular. As it’s far away from the main city it provides a better academic ambience with no distraction from congestions of the city. Also the fees for both national and international students are reasonable enough.
-by Monsoor Alam Choudhury