Visvesvaraya Technological University
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VTU - Visvesvaraya Technological University is the University for all Engineering and Technological Education In Karnataka. Located at Belgaum, it has the jurisdiction throughout Karnataka All Engineering Colleges in Karnataka Are affiliated to this University.
Established—On 1st April 1998 as per VTU Act 1994.
Member of Association for Commonwealth Universities.
Member of Association of Indian Universities.
Recognised by UGC on 24th August 1999.
Degrees awarded by this University is recognised all Universities worldwide.
Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, named after Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya, is a dream come true of Technocrats and Academicians of Karnataka. The University is functioning and continues to function with a VISION –‘To become an outstanding University at the cutting edge of knowledge that produces world class research and leaders for innovative Technology and Industry’. The role of VTU is not merely limited to the conduct of examinations and award of degrees but something beyond this. VTU has a MISSION -‘To plan the development of technical education, to establish need based value based education and training in engineering and technology with a view to generate qualified and competent man power for technological and societal needs.
The University has the jurisdiction throughout Karnataka and at present 111 Engineering colleges are affiliated to it. The intake every year for Engineering under this University inclusive of PG is around 38,000. The University has 25 branches of Bachelors Degree and 54 branches of M.Tech courses. B.E (Bio-Technology) is the UG course introduced in 2002-03 in 21 colleges. In addition, the University has MBA and MCA courses. The university also offers M.Sc. (Engg.) by Research and Ph.D programmes. In the year under consideration, the University has 249 registered candidates for M.Sc. (Engg.) by Research and Ph.D in 80 Research Centres in 24 affiliated colleges.
The University has very successfully achieved the tremendous task of bringing various colleges affiliated earlier to different Universities, with different syllabi, different procedures and different traditions under one umbrella. The University implemented common curriculum for UG in 1998 and revised syllabi again in 2002 for all the courses and uniform procedures were adopted. As a further step in standardization, the subjects & syllabi of related branches are being made common upto the fourth semester. The University has already revised the syllabus of MBA with effect from the academic year 2001-2002 and has now revised the syllabi of all M.Tech courses & MCA. The University plans to bring in further flexibility in the curriculum, so that any changes or revisions may be introduced particularly with respect to electives, as and when the technology changes or the need arises.
The first batch consisting of approximately 13,000 students of Under Graduate B.E. / B.Tech. students who were admitted in the academic year 1998-99 came out of the portals of this University as graduates during the month of July 2002. Four batches of M.Tech., 3 batches of MBA and 2 batches of MCA students have so far passed out of this University. The total number of Post-Graduates who have completed their studies in this University is around 5000.
The University has MOU’s with various leading organisations like IBM, INTEL Asia Electronics Inc., Ingersoll-Rand (India) Ltd., Bangalore and Microsoft. These MOU’s will help in various ways to train the faculty, conduct teachers training workshops, student projects and enable the colleges affiliated to the University to get software at a highly subsidized rate. Already Intel has arranged many training programmes for Engineering College Teachers. 153 teachers were trained by Microsoft. These MOU’s will further the Technological growth of the state. Many of the industries are showing keen interest in participating in the curricular activities of the University and the University is negotiating with them for such participation.
Visvesvaraya Technological University, with the consent from the authorities of the University, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with (1) Diamant Metallplastic GmbH, Germany and (2) Diamant Triump Metallplastic Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India, to establish Indo-German Institute of Technology to impart training in latest state-of-art technologies at SKSJIT, Bangalore.
The DMP shall supply the latest technical know-how for the said Joint Venture (IGIT) comprising of Training, literature, Videos and Power point Demonstrations for Dynamic and Static Moulding Technologies, Cold Welding Methods, Capilliary Metal Impregnation Techniques, Metal Preservation and Conservation Methods and metal making industries of high precision.
VTU proposes to have world wide electronic presence by establishing data network interconnecting the VTU campus at Machche, four regional offices and all the affiliated colleges of VTU in a secure private network and open up access to this network to the worldwide communities for collaborative learning using Internet technology.
In this direction, a Campus wide network at Machche with a fiber optic backbone, having about 1000 data access points interconnecting all the existing and proposed buildings is being set up. The campus network uses the state of art network tiered architecture with Edge and Core switches and scalable distributed network topology. This network will meet the computing demand of PG students in the campus, provide e-learning environment, access to digital library, support examination, administration work and more importantly have sufficient bandwidth for Videoconferencing from any network access point.
Further, the VCONET: VTU Colleges Network will enable sharing of faculty expertise among colleges, collaboration among peer groups, even out digital disparity among rural and urban engineering colleges, provide infrastructure for online examination system, portal to different digital libraries all over the world and support many more innovative applications on the net expected in future.
The University intends to start Nodal Training Institute for training the staff of engineering colleges similar to the staff training colleges functioning in other Universities. A project report in this regard is sent to the appropriate agencies for funding.
Campus and Regional Centres:
The main campus is in Belgaum and has regional centres in Bangalore, Mysore and Gulbarga.
Looking into the vast geographical jurisdiction and large number of colleges spread over the entire State of Karnataka, the University has set up its Head Office at Belgaum and four Regional Offices at Bangalore, Mysore, Gulbarga and Belgaum, which are mainly the four Revenue Divisional Head Quarters. The Regional Offices have been set up as per the provisions under section 18 of Chapter V of VTU Act 1994, for effective administration. The University has plans to develop its regional campuses in Bangalore, Mysore and Gulbarga. The Governament has allotted 15 Acres and 3 Guntas of land free of cost at Gulburga, and KIADB has allotted 20 Acres at Mysore at a cost of Rs. 5.00 Lakhs per Acre. Foundation laying ceremony for the VTU regional office at Gulbarga was held on 14-02-2004 at Gulbarga.
Addresses:
University Main Campus
Jnana Sangama
Belgaum
Bangalore Centre
R V Teachers College Campus,
Jayanagar, II Block,
Bangalore
Ph: 080-26563266 fax: 080-26560222
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