The Indian Institute of Technology Ropar started functioning from the academic year 200809 from the campus of IIT Delhi, the mentor institute. The foundation stone laying ceremony was held on 24 February 2009. The Indian Institute of Technology Ropar was registered under the Societies' Registration Act 1860 on 29 July 2009. The Institute shifted to its permanent campus and currently operates from its permanent campus. The permanent campus of IIT Ropar is spread across 501 acres of land located at Birla Seed Farms, Rupnagar in the lap of nature at the banks of river Satluj. It has been awarded the 5 Star GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) rating, one of the highest national ratings for Green Buildings.
While the master plan is supposed to accommodate 10,000 students, the academic block is already set up for 2,500 students in the first phase. A total of 2,15,739 square meters of area is dedicated for academic and administration blocks along with accommodation for staff and faculty along with sports and hostel facilities.
All hostels are well furnished along with common rooms for recreational activities for each hostel. The campus also has an expansive and airy common dining area. Naturally, there isn't any compromise with facilities regarding academics and laboratories for undertaking practicals or doing some research. New state-of-the-art equipment are available for the students to use in labs . Apart from these academic facilities, other perks of being at IIT ROPAR include excellent sports facilities (different play fields for each sport such as cricket, football, tennis, badminton, basketball, volleyball,etc), utility block, student activity center( equipment and rooms for the various club activities and other student interest group activities), gymkhana, air conditioned libraries with plethora of books, cafeterias, gymnasium, medical center with top notch 24x7 medical facilities.
The Indian Institute of Technology Ropar is ranked 29th in the engineering category in NIRF 2019 (National Institutional Ranking Framework). IIT Ropar is committed to providing stateoftheart technical education in a variety of fields. The Institute is facilitating transmission of knowledge in keeping with the latest developments in pedagogy. At present, the Institute offers the degree of Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Civil Engineering; Chemical Engineering, Metallurgical & Materials Engineering and Mathematics & Computing. It offers the MSc degree in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. The Institute also offers the MS degree in Computer Science & Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. It offers the degree of Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering (the Centre for biomedical engineering is an interdisciplinary centre). All the departments of the Institute offer a doctoral degree. The Institute has held seven convocations so far. The 2015 entry batch of UG students will receive their degrees in the eighth convocation to be held this year. IIT Ropar has also awarded several PhD degrees. Presently the Institute has 730 UG students, 193 PG students and 422 PhD students.
The overall academic system of IIT Ropar is designed to provide sciencebased engineering education that will produce quality engineers and scientists. IIT Ropar has implemented a new curriculum from 2017. The curriculum provides broad based knowledge and simultaneously builds a temper for lifelong learning and exploration. A set of science and general engineering courses forms part of the syllabus of the first year undergraduate students. These courses provide a foundation for further discipline specific topics.
Career Development and Corporate Relations Centre, is actively involved in organizing practical training for the undergraduate students and has been playing a catalytic role in finding placements for its final year students. IIT Ropar has undertaken the task of redefining its vision and mission and of putting a strategic plan to achieve them into action. It is also working on overhauling its UG programs and has introduced new PG streams.
IIT Ropar aims to promote research in interdisciplinary areas.The Institute also undertakes a number of research and consultancy projects that are sponsored by various funding agencies, including the Government and Industry. The Institute has taken major research activities in the fields of national importance such as nonconventional energy, sensors, drug delivery, materials synthesis and their modification, image processing, cloud networks, robotics, pattern recognition, renewable energy systems, microelectronics and nanodevices, mathematical biology, fluid dynamics, pure mathematics, quantum optics and quantum matter physics, ion beam physics, renewable energy, nanophotonics and metamaterials, surface patterning, sustainable energy, biomechanics, nano fluids, complex fluids, nano composites, Neurocognition, financial mathematics and markets, phonetics, etc. The Institute provides ample funds to the departments and faculty members for the upgradation of laboratories and creation of research facilities. This has enabled our faculty members to take up research projects in frontier and emerging areas of science and technology.
Institute has a counseling cell to monitor the mental well being of the students. Its mission is to promote wellbeing, aiding to develop better understanding of the self, to grow both intellectually and emotionally, to be more satisfied and productive and improve the depth and quality of your life. To hike sound mental health, we provide help in dealing with emotional and behavioural problems like guilt, anxiety, stress, lack of confidence, low self esteem, depression and internet addiction of any sort, dependency, personal problems in relationship like codependency, rejection, separation homesickness etc. Counseling Cell does fostering and inculcating life skills to make better adjustments and enriching healthy relationships.
The campuses of IIT Ropar are wellequipped with all required facilities. Classrooms fitted with multimedia, faculty offices and administrative wing are all in place. There are separate hostels for boys and girls. These hostels are equipped with modern mess units. Faculty recruitment, setting up of laboratories and other support facilities are also in full swing.
IIT Ropar community has undertaken an important exercise of developing the Mission, Vision and Strategic Plan for the coming years. The exercise was carried out in active consultation with Indian Institute of Management Calcutta who have got technical expertise in this area. A participative bottom up approach was followed in formulating the Mission, Vision and Strategic Plan. Inputs from the entire IIT Ropar fraternity, MHRD, Board of Governors, Alumni and Industries were considered in the process. Finally we have arrived at the following Motto, Mission and Vision statements for our institute.
Motto: (Deploy our intellect on the right path).
Mission: To foster a transformative learning environment and a culture of excellence enabling creation of knowledge and development of socially responsible, enterprising leaders contributing significantly to national progress and humanity.
Vision: To be a trendsetter among the technology universities born in this millennium.