Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering & Technology


Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jhansi is a government-funded autonomous engineering college in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is a constituent college of AKTU. It is recognised by the All India Council for Technical Education.
It was established in 1986 by the Government of Uttar Pradesh to provide impetus to technical education in the state and was the fifth government engineering college in the state. The first batch of the college was admitted in 1989 and graduated in 1993.
The highest executive body of the institute is the Board of Governors. Prof. V K Tyagi is currently officiating as the Director of the institute.

Management and administration

BIET Jhansi is funded by the government of Uttar Pradesh. However, many of the new projects are also being supported by the World Bank under the Technical Education Quality Improvement Project.
Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering and Technology is a registered society under the Society Registration Act 1860, at Jhansi. The Board of Governors is the governing body of the society.

History

The foundation stone of the institute was laid in May 1986 by the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Vir Bahadur Singh. The first director of the institute was Prof. Ram Singh Nirjar, who became the chairman of the All India Council of Technical Education. He assumed office as the first director of the institute in 1988.
T45 and 60 students respectively and Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering was rechristened as Electronics and Communication Engineering and intake was raised to 60. In 2002, the intake of Civil Engineering was increased to 45. From 2002 a four-year B. Tech programme in Electrical Engineering with an intake of 60 students was added to the existing B. Tech programmes.
In 2005 two postgraduate programmes in Environmental Engineering and Construction Technology and Management and one in Manufacturing Science and Technology with intake of 18 students each were started. In 2006 an M. Tech. programme in Digital Communication System with an intake of 20 students was added to the list of postgraduate programmes. In 2007, a two-year management programme leading to an M.B.A. degree with an intake of 60 students, was started. The total intake of students in the institute, including M. Tech. programmes, is 474.

Admissions

The institute admits students for its Bachelor in Technology programme from all over India through the competitive Common Entrance Test SEE-UPTU.

Accreditation

The B.Tech degrees in Civil, Electronics and Communication, Mechanical, Computer Science and Chemical branches of the institute have been accredited by the National Board of Accreditation. The CS and ME branches have been re-accredited for a period of three years, starting 2004, whereas the CE branch has been accredited for a period of five years.

Affiliation

The Institute became autonomous in 2011-2012 session for B.Tech. branches, But is affiliated to the Gautam Buddh Technical University, Lucknow.

Location

BIET is in the historical city of Jhansi in the Bundelkhand region of the state of Uttar Pradesh in north India. The institute's campus is around 12 kilometers from the Jhansi Central Railway Station, on the Jhansi-Kanpur National Highway.

Departments

Chemical Engineering

The Department of Chemical Engineering was established in 1996. The department has organized training programs under World Bank Assisted, Technical Education Quality Improvement Program.
The department has Chemical Engineering lab, Fluid Mechanics Lab, Fluid and Particle Operations Lab, Heat Transfer Lab, Chemical Reaction Engineering Lab, Process Dynamics and Instrumentation Lab, Chemical Technology Lab, Energy Lab and Mass Transfer Lab. The department has a CAD lab with Chemical Engineering software like Aspen, Origin, and Prosimulator.

Civil Engineering

The Department of Civil Engineering was established in 1989. The department is engaged by the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, Rural Engineering Services and U.P. Jal Nigam to train field and sector professionals for government departments. The department does research projects sponsored by AICTE/DST/UP-CST.

Computer Science and Engineering

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering was established in 1989. The department is a member of the Computer Society of India. The department has a Software Development Lab, Information System Lab, Computer Graphics Lab, UNIX and LINUX Lab, and a Database Management Lab. The unique feature of college is SUN Java Lab, which is not available in any other college of UPTU. The department gives internet service to students through ISDN line provided by BSNL. These computers are connected to each other through LAN and these are supported by a SUN server with EM 64T with 800 or higher MHz front side bus and hyper threading support.
The systems are equipped with operating systems such as LINUX, UNIX, Solaris, Windows NT, Windows XP and software packages that include Java, Oracle 10i, Developer 2000, C++/C, Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server etc. and open source software packages.

Electronics and Communication Engineering

The Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering was established in 1998. The department has a Microprocessor Lab. The Digital Electronics Lab is used for study of encoders and decoders, multiplexers and demulti, flip -flops, counters and shift registers, and parity generators and checkers. A brief idea of digital I.C. is also provided.
A Fiber Optics Communication Lab is established in the department, provides education on fiber optics communication, analog and digital link, attenuation: banding, and impurities. Other labs include Printed Circuit Board Lab and Electrical Machine Lab.
The Department contributes to IEEE by doing research.

Information Technology

The Department of Information Technology was established in 2000. It hosts Digital and Computer Graphics Lab which consist of 15 Logic Trainer Boards, performing logical testing facilities. The Department is equipped with 64 bit RISC Based IDNY silicon graphic server. The Department has Image Processing tools, Meta Labs, and other graphic facilities.

Mechanical Engineering

The Department of Mechanical Engineering was established in 1990. The department has a CAD Lab equipped with Pentium IV 2.8 GHz, plotters etc. and software packages such as Pro-e, Catia, Autocad 2000. The department has a Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Lab, Fluid Machinery Lab, Machine Lab, Heat Transfer Lab, Automobile Lab and Materials testing lab.

Electrical Engineering

The department has an electrical engineering lab. The department has various renowned staff.

Infrastructure

Campus

The campus is divided into four zones:
identified BIET Jhansi as an IBM Centre of Excellence, starting academic session 2010-11. Through the IBM Academic Initiative, IBM is working with BIET Jhansi to teach students the open-standards skills to compete in the ever-changing technology workplace by conducting training for students through faculty enabled by IBM.

Faculty

The teacher-student ratio stands at 1:20. Faculty with postgraduate qualification stands at 100% whereas the percentage of faculty with PhD is 68%.
The institute employs senior technical personnel as guest faculty following the trend of industry-academia collaboration. The institute encourages industrial trips to, and closer co-operation with, government and private industry.

Events

Annual cultural festival - Utsav

Utsav provides opportunity to the budding talent in the institute to showcase their talent to a larger audience.

Annual technical festival - TeChZioN

TeChZioN is the annual technical festival which allows students to showcase their technical abilities beyond the ambit of academics. Many colleges of repute are invited to take part in TeChZioN. Technical symposiums and guest speakers from many areas of technical research and development mark this event.

Annual sports festival - PACE

PACE is the annual sports fest which promotes a spirit of friendly competition among the branches of the college. The overall winner branch parades through the institute campus.

Bencolites

The institute used to be known as Bundelkhand Engineering College. BENCOL is an acronym for Bundelkhand ENgineering COLlege. Hence the term "Bencolites" refers to the students of the institute. Though BENCOL was changed to BIET, the term Bencolites is still used by alumni.

Notable alumni