In 1959, when the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur was established, IIT classes were held in the canteen building of HBTI until IITK had its own campus.[2]
HBTI is also the mother institute of the National Sugar Institute, the Government Central Textile
Institute and the Glass Institute.
History
The history of HBTI, Kanpur, dates back to 1907 when the Indian Industrial Commission at its Nainital meeting proposed two institutions for engineering — one at Roorkee and the other at Kanpur.Thus the Government Research Institute, Cawnpore was started in 1920. It was housed in two rooms of what was called Sher Wali Kothi. The old majestic building is still intact at the north-west corner of the Company Bagh crossing, Nawabganj. Dr. Annett was then the principal of the Opium Research Laboratory of which the new institute was an adjunct.
On 25 November 1921, the Governor of the United Provinces, Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler (1869–1938), K.C.S.I., C.I.E., laid the foundation of the present building. It was rechristened Government Technological Institute in 1921.
In 1926, it got the name Harcourt Butler Technological Institute. Its first principal of Indian nationality was Dattatreya Yashwant Athawale (Rao Saheb Rai Bahadur).
Director
Prof. J.S.P.Rai is its present director from 22nd december 2011.National ranking
- HBTI has been ranked 26th best engineering college in survey of outlook magazine'2011.
- HBTI has been djudged the Best Government Engineering College in 'Star News National B-School Award 2011' in recognition of leadership, development, marketing an institute and industry interface.
- HBTI was ranked as the 17th best technical institute of the country in 2009 for its contribution to research in the last decade (Current Science Journal Vol. 97, No. 3, 10 August 2009), above many institutes of national repute.
- HBTI was ranked 1st among all (around 600) college affiliated to UPTU.
- HBTI was ranked 25th among top 50 government engineering colleges in India and 25th overall by Outlook India in 2008.
- HBTI was ranked by India Today magazine at 25th rank amongst 100 engineering colleges of India in 2007.
- HBTI was ranked 21st among top 100 institutes in India by Dataquest in 2005.
Campus
The institute is spread across two campuses, the east campus (77 acres) and the west campus (271 acres) situated 3 km apart. Thus, the institute campus is a conglomerate of two campuses:East campus (academic block)
The academic campus shares a border with the CSA university campus. It comprises :- The main building which is a stone structure inaugurated in 1921; it houses the main academic block and department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, along with departments related to Science and Humanities.
- Five department buildings of Computer Sciences and IT, Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics, Civil and Leather Technology.
- Computer centre, Library Building, Auditorium, Workshop, Oil Technology Association of India (OTAI) head quarter, Council of leather exports central region office, Paint and Coatings Technology Association(PACT) head-quarters.
- Three girls hostels, two boys hostels and one under-construction boys’ hostel.
West campus (residential block)
The West Campus features three boys’ hostels: WCH-1, WCH-2 and WCH-3, and faculty residential quarters.Both the campuses are connected with Wi-Fi and internet LAN connections in all the hostels. Other facilities at the campus include
- Banking and postal facilities
- Medical facility
- Guest House
- Games and sports facilities: The institute has playgrounds and an athletic track for cricket, hockey, football, basketball, volleyball, lawn tennis and badminton. The institute also houses a gymnasium in the East Campus.
Courses
B.Tech. (Bachelor of Technology) courses are offered in 13 fields of engineering and technology and all have been accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA):- Chemical Engineering
- Electronics Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Information Technology
- Biochemical Engineering
- Chemical Technology-Food Technology
- Chemical Technology-Leather Technology
- Chemical Technology-Oil Technology
- Chemical Technology-Paint Technology
- Chemical Technology-Plastic Technology
In addition to bachelor level programs, Diploma Courses of DOEACC, MCA, M.Tech. (both part-time and regular), MBA (through STEP-HBTI) and Doctoral programs in all the discipline of Engineering, Technology and Basic Sciences courses are available. Besides playing an educational role, the Institute also runs research programs sponsored by government institutions and research organizations.
Research
The faculty has contributed with research papers in national and international journals and presentations in India as well as abroad. Sponsored R&D schemes with DST, UGC, ICAR, DRDO, UPCST, CSIR, DAE, ICMR, DOE and Ministry of Civil supplies have been completed. HBTI was declared as 17th best technical institute of the country in 2009 for its contribution to research in the last decade.Science and Technology Entrepreneurs' Park
STEP is a project sponsored by HBTI, Kanpur along with the Department of Science and Technology, government of India, New Delhi. It is also financed by financial institutions like IDBI, IFCI and ICICI along with funding from the government of Uttar Pradesh, through its Department of Science and Technology, and Department of Industries.It was established in 1986 at the institute, for motivating science, technology and engineering graduates to take up entrepreneurship. It has been engaged in the activities of technology development, technology incubation, technology transfer and technology applications in industry. STEP- HBTI has been working as an apex organization for transforming technical education into entrepreneurship.
The management programme leading to an MBA degree at STEP-HBTI is also offered as a course.
College festivals
- RESONANCE- by Department of Electrical Engineering.
- TECHKROMA- Annual technological fest of paint technology branch conducted for first time on 8th & 9th march 2011 in association with PACT.* * Samaagam - Oil and Paint Technology department annual technical seminar on surface coatings and paints
- Odyssey - National Level Cultural Festival. Odyssey (HBTI, Kanpur)
- Genesis - by Department of Food Technology and Bio-chemical Engineering.
- Incord - by Department Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology.Incord Official website
- Mecharnival - by Department of Mechanical Engineering.Mecharnival Official website
- Interface - by Department of Chemical Engineering.
- Nirmaan - by Department of Civil Engineering.
- Anuvartan - by Department Electronics Engineering.anuvartan2011 Official website
- Corium - by Department of Leather Technology.
- Taal - Intra-College Cultural festival.
- O.T.A.I. and P.A.C.T. National and International level Conferences - jointly organised by Department of Oil and Paint Technology, and Department of Plastic Technology.
Clubs
Sports Sub Council
Facilities are provided for cricket, volleyball, table tennis, lawn tennis, football, basketball, badminton, baseball, and general physical fitness (gymnasium).Hbti cricket team is renowned among engineering colleges of northern India having won tournaments like flick 2010,flick 2011,hero honda cricket league 2011.Notable alumni
Following is the partial list of distinguished alumni,who have brought pride to HBTI-- Mr. Yashveer Singh member of parliament from nagina lok sabha region from samajwadi party.[
- Mr. Dinesh Agarwal, CEO and Founder, IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd.
- Mr. Anu Garg - founder and CEO, Wordsmith.org, Anu Garg
- Mr. Mayank Sharma - "World's Best Product developer” (Stevie - the American International Business Award- 2004)
- Mr. Atul Saraya - Director (Power), BHEL
- Mr. Dinesh K. Singh - Associate Project Director, Human Space Flight Program, ISRO.
- Mr. Sudhir Kant - President, Millipore, India.
- Mr. Sunil Agarwal - co-founder and full time director, Kamdhenu Ispat Ltd.
- Mr. Ajay Goyal - Vice President-Petroleum Business and Retail Commercial, Reliance Industries
- Mr. Tariq Anwar Head marketing leather chemicals Clariant Chemical limited Kanpur Division.
- Professor Raj Senani - Director, Netaji Subhash Chandra Institute of Technology (NSIT), Delhi
- Hari Mohann Kansal- Whole time director-UFLEX group(US$800 million turnover) company, Packaging South Asia Issue 78 (http://www.packagingsouthasia.com/news/Ultimate_Flexipack__1477.html)
- Mr. Ashish Bakshi - Country Head – India Operations, BenQ India.
- Mr. Rajeev Singhal - Director, Central Water Commission, Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India, Hyderabad.
- Mr. Anand Jha - Global Head, Marketing and Sales Services, Novartis
- Mr. Mohit Srivastava - Country Head – Chile, Evalueserve
- Mr. Sanjay Srivastava, Senior Environment Specialist, World Bank
- Mr. Mansoor Ahmad - Vice President, Wipro Technologies
- Mr. Rajesh Mehrotra - Sr. Vice President and M.D., Berger Becker (India)
- Mr. Satish Katiyar - Vice President - Engineering, Adify, USA
- Mr. Rajnish Khare - Head - Consumer Transaction Banking, Standard Chartered Bank, India.
- Mr. Binoy Chakraborty - General Manager (Country Head) -Industrial Finishes, Akzo Nobel (India) Ltd.
- Mr. Sheit Dhaon - Director of Finance, Thomson Reuters, USA
- Mr. Krishna Singh - Vice President - Technology at Wells Fargo Ltd, USA
- Mr. Ashutosh Chandra - Head - Airline Marketing and Aviation Contracts, Bangaluru International Airport Ltd.
- Mr. Rajesh Srivastava - President/CEO, Fine Chemicals and CRAMS, Jubilant Organosys
- Mr. Vinod Trivedi - Vice President-Manufacturing, Jubilant Organosys
- Dr. Y K Saxena - Chief of EHS & Sustainability, Jubilant Organosys
- Mr. Ravi Vaidya - Country Head- Pigments & Additives Division, Clariant Chemicals (India)
- Mr. Bharat Bhushan Gupta - author-"India Through the Ages" and cofounder of Kabir Peace Mission
- Mr. Devesh Bharati - founder and CEO, Wisdom Information Systems, Thailand
- Dr. V. C. Malshe - Consultant, Prof and Head, PPV Deptt., ICT(UDCT), Mumbai
- Mr. Ajay Gupta - Managing Director, CTA, Germany
- Mr. Nitin Goel - Director, Access Petrotec, Australia
- Mr. Peeyush Mathur - Director, Navsol Ltd, UK.
- Mr. Ramit Gupta - Vice President, Avalon Consulting, India
- Mr. Nitin Srivastava - founder and CEO Velocity Software Solutions , Swift Brains , founder & cartoonist, Dil Se... cartoons
- Mr. Deepak Rastogi- AAT-U.P. Excise, Uttar Pradesh,India.
- Mr. Praveen Kumar - Tech Lead, HCL Technologies, Bellevue, WA, USA.
- Mr. Navneet Gupta - Senior Software Engineer, Fiserv Lending Solutions, Noida, India.
- Mr. Neelmani Chowdhary - BPM/SOA Consultant, IBM India Software Lab, Gurgaon,India.
- Mr. Sanjay Rastogi-Head of Services-Idea account(Program Management)-Nokia Siemens Networks,Gurgaon,India
- Mr. M.Q.Raza-process operations head,Ibn Sina,SABIC,Saudi Arabia
- Mr. Madhup Agrawal, Head, New Initiatives, IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd., Noida
- Mr. Balram Upadhyay, IPS
- Col. Umesh Verma, Director India Post
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