Technological innovation has long been the key to growth and
prosperity of a country, and engineering has been an important driver of this
innovation. Indeed, the development and institutionalization of the engineering
disciplines in various universities provided much of the talent behind
domination of world markets. Engineering disciplines integrate scientific
principles with practically oriented research, providing systems and processes
that themselves create ways of acquiring new knowledge. This integration makes
engineering critical to successful industrial innovation.
This aspect has laid a solid foundation for many engineering
colleges across country because a major percentage of youth are interested in
attaining an engineering degree with the hope of a better prospect.
Furthermore, with ever increasing economic development and growth worldwide, it
is clear that the best engineers will be in dire need at home and foreign
lands.
Looking at the changing scenario on the country’s canvas,
Vidypeeth Education Trust (VPET), an organization dedicated to the cause of
education in Panipat District and Haryana, decided to set up Panipat Institute
of Engineering and Technology (PIET), which is affiliated to Kurukshetra
Universty, Kurukshetra and also has the approval of AICTE, Government of India.
The campus is very ideally located on the Delhi-Panipat lane of the national
highway number 1 and adds to the convenience of travelling for students from
all directions, especially Delhi, which is only a 50 minute travel from the
border. it also covers main Haryana cities viz. Kurukshetra, Karnal, Gharaunda,
Panipat, Ganaur, Sonipat on the main route, Rohtak, Jind, Hissar, Gauhana and
Radaur etc on the side routes, all surrounding villages and further extending
into Shamli which falls in Uttar Pradesh. So many more students come from all
states of India from J&K in North to Jharkhand in the central India and
quite a few others from Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.
The
campus is so vast, looks like an empire with tall structures, inside so
beautiful and soothing. The spacious, well lighted and well furnished class
rooms are air-conditioned to ensure day long ease to the aspirants to focus on
their curriculum and other activities. The campus is spread over 19 acres, 75%
of which is the green area. It has a book rich library and 20 computer labs
arrayed with 1200 computers complemented by a round the clock Wi-Fi facility
and a Net-Café to enable students explore the globe. There are three hostels
for boys and girls as well as a faculty resident area. Hostels too have a
choice of AC/Air-cooled options. There are 28 science labs and workshops
equipped with latest tools and an open air theater built on Roman design of
architecture to seat 3000+ spectators, a food canteen for all in addition to
the hostlers, stationery shop and banking services etc.
The
challenge for universities is to design programs that retain the rigour of
engineering while broadening the curriculum to address communication across
cultures, management within and across organizations, intellectual property and
technology transfer issues, financing innovation, knowledge of regulatory
environments, and so on. PIET’s global tie-ups and student/faculty exchange
programs with countries like Singapore, USA, UK, Germany, Sweden and Holland
etc. are a result of this challenge. It will help to meet the need to design
curricula to attract and prepare students for the current and future workplace,
where the need for multidisciplinary skills is increasingly the norm. In other
words it will help in better employability. We have in place programmes at the
undergraduate level that introduce cross-disciplinary courses or certificate
programs. These include entrepreneurship or management of technology, and a
number of joint degree programs combined with engineering and/or business. In
addition