IIT Kanpur was established by an Act of Parliament in 1959.

Under the guidance of economist John Kenneth Galbraith, IIT Kanpur was the first institute in India to offer Computer Science education.

Mies settled in Chicago, Illinois where he was appointed head of the architecture school at Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology ( later renamed Illinois Institute of Technology – IIT ).

IIT was formed in 1940 by the merger of Armour Institute of Technology ( founded in 1890 ) and Lewis Institute ( founded in 1895 ).

However, it was a proposal from Lewis's chairman Alex Bailey to Armour President Henry Townley Heald and Board Chair James Cunningham that would lead to the birth of IIT.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the nickname was actually more prevalent than " IIT.

The closest high-rise, Stateway Gardens, was located just south of the IIT campus boundary, the last building of which was demolished in 2006.

With a bequest from IIT alumnus and financier Harold Leonard Stuart the IIT Stuart School of Business was established in 1969.

* IIT was featured on Princeton Review's list of 368 best colleges in the United States and on its list of Best Midwest Colleges.

* IIT was ranked as a tier 1 university being the 113th best university nationally, and the fourth best university in the Chicago metropolitan area ( after the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Loyola University ), based on U. S. News & World Report's " Best Colleges 2013 "

* IIT was ranked the 72nd best graduate school for engineering in U. S. News & World Report's " Best Graduate Schools 2009 "

* IIT College Architecture was ranked the 13th best architecture school of the nation in the Design Intelligence's " Best Architecture School ".

* IIT Institute of Design was ranked the best design school ( 1st ) in the United States in the Design Intelligence's " Best Architecture School ".

* IIT was ranked the most sustainable university in Illinois.

Moffett Campus was donated to IIT by CPC International Inc. in 1988.

By 1990, the IIT campus was encircled by high-rise housing projects rife with crime.

The campus, roughly bounded between 31st and 35th streets, Michigan Avenue and the Dan Ryan Expressway, was designed by modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, " one of the great figures of 20th-century architecture ", who chaired the IIT School of Architecture from 1938 to 1958.

Van der Rohe's master plan for the IIT campus was one of the most ambitious projects he ever conceived and the campus, with twenty of his works, is the greatest concentration of his buildings in the world.

" The campus was landscaped by van der Rohe's close colleague at IIT, Alfred Caldwell, " the last representative of the Prairie School of landscape architects.

By the late 1960s, campus addition projects were given to SOM's Myron Goldsmith, who had worked with Mies during his education at IIT and thus was able to design several new buildings to harmonize well with the original campus.

The IIT Main Campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

IIT Bombay was the second IIT to be established in 1958 with assistance from UNESCO and with funds contributed by the Soviet Union.

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# Led BUET Team to 1st and 3rd positions in ACM ICPC Asia Regional IIT Kanpur Site Contest participated by 69 countries including multiple teams from each IIT.

IT-BHU was designated as an IIT by The Institutes of Technology ( Amendment ) Act, 2012 which was passed by the Lok Sabha on 24 March 2011 and by the Rajya Sabha on 30 April 2012.

On 24 March 2011, the Lok Sabha passed The Institutes of Technology ( Amendment ) Act, 2011 which converted IT-BHU to an IIT.

The earliest computer courses were started at IIT Kanpur in August 1963 on an IBM 1620 system.

IIT Kanpur is located on the Grand Trunk Road, west of Kanpur City and measures close to.

IIT experienced its greatest period of growth from 1952 to 1973 under President John T. Rettaliata, a fluid dynamicist whose research accomplishments included work on early development of the jet engine and a seat on the National Aeronautics and Space Council.

In 1994, the National Commission on IIT considered leaving the Mies Main Campus and moving to the Chicago suburbs.

To further boost their focus on biotechnology and the melding of business and technology, University Technology Park At IIT, an expansive research park, has been developed by remodeling former Institute of Gas Technology and research buildings on the south end of Main Campus.

The IIT main campus is centered around 33rd and State Streets, approximately south of the Chicago Loop in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, part of the Douglas community area.

In September 2007, IIT opened a nine-hole disc golf course which weaves around the academic buildings on the Main Campus and is the first disc golf course to appear within the Chicago city limits.

IIT A Cappella performs a variety of shows on campus as well as off campus and in the midwest.

* Lynn Becker on Mies and the history of IIT

* Video tutorials on Scilab from IIT Bombay, Creative Commons share-alike license

Shimer resides on the IIT main campus, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

corDECT is a wireless local loop standard developed in India by IIT Madras and Midas Communications ( www. midascomm. com ) at Chennai, under leadership of Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala, based on the DECT digital cordless phone standard.

IIT Kharagpur follows the credit-based system of performance evaluation, with proportional weighting of courses based on their importance.

* Map of IIT Kharagpur on Google Maps

The IIT Roorkee has 18 academic departments covering engineering, applied sciences, humanities & social sciences and management programs with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research ..

The IIT Roorkee has a strong entrepreneurial culture, with many alumni who have moved on to found technological and social ventures in India and abroad, and have played an important role in the development of India.

Before being converted into an IIT, the university selected students through the Roorkee Entrance Exam ( REE ) conducted on an All-India level.

Student groups on the campus include STIFKI ( Student Teacher Interaction Forum for Knowledge and Innovation ), IMG ( Information Management Group ), SDSLabs ( Software Development Section Labs ), GIL ( Group for Interactive Learning ), EDC ( Entrepreneurship Development Cell ), HEC ( Himalayan Explorers ' Club ), Literary Society ( Active involvement in debating and quizzing ), a local chapter of ShARE, Spic Macay in addition to student chapters of technical societies such as ASME ( American Society of Mechanical Engineers, IIT Roorkee Student Section ), SAE, IEEE, etc.

The IIT Roorkee has produced many alumni who played important roles in the technological development of India and made significant impact on corporate world.