Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) - IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

About Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) - IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

With the Mines Bill becoming a law vide Indian Mines Act – VIII of 1901 the necessity for establishing a government college of Mining Engineering at some suitable place in India on the pattern of the Royal School of Mines was felt by the then Indian Government. The Indian National Congress, the leading political party that was perhaps the sole spokesman of the masses of those days was quick to endorse this view of the government through its resolution taken at the 17th. session held at Calcutta in December 1901. A committee consisting of mining experts under the Chairmanship of Macpherson, the Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar and Orissa was formed to study the system of mining education in England. The report of this committee was the main basis for establishment of Indian School of Mines at Dhanbad. The Government of India in 1920 decided that the proposed institution should be an All India Institution financed by the Central Government and be named Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. The Indian School of Mines was formally opened by his Excellency The Vice Roy Lord Erwin on 9th. December, 1926.

Up to 1967 it was a pure government institute where the faculties were recruited through the UPSC Selection Board. ISM had an All India Character and national outlook from the very day of its inception. The all round achievement by the graduates of Indian School of Mines in nation building was duly recognized and the School was granted university status under the UGC Act in 1967. From 1996-97 the School came directly under the Ministry of HRD, Government of India with pay scales and perks to its employees at par with that of IITs/IIMs.

It's campus is spread over 88 hectares. The fully residential ISM has all the facilities of world class academic institute. What started as an institution to impart mining education has graduated into a full-fledged technical institution of international acclaim offering a host of programmes like B. Tech., M. Tech., M. Sc. Tech., and MBA. In addition the School offers M. Phil. and full as well as part time Ph. D. programmes, while also awarding D.Sc. as the highest degree of academic achievement. The serene campus comprises academic buildings, student hostels and 100% residential facilities for faculty and staff apart from other infrastructure facilities for a cosmopolitan community. The School has links with reputed universities and institutes across the globe and has an alumni base all over the world. The School today is making foray into the newer areas of academic endeavours in tune with the changing times.

Location and Transportation - It is situated in the heart of the country’s prime coking coal belt, Dhanbad(Jharkhand and is 260 Kms away from Kolkata on Howrah-New Delhi Grand Chord Railway route. It takes 3 hours from Howrah (Kolkata) to reach Dhanbad by Shatabdi/Rajdhani Express trains.

Departments

• Department of Mining Engineering
• Department of Applied Geology
• Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Department of Petroleum Engineering
• Department of Applied Geophysics
• Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mining Machinery Engineering
• Department of Fuel and Mineral Engineering
• Department of Management Studies
• Department of Electronics and Instrumentation
• Department of Environmental Science & Engg.
• Department of Applied Physics
• Department of Applied Chemistry
• Department of Applied Mathematics
• Department of Comp. Science and Engineering
• Department of Electrical Engineering

Facilities

Hostels - All the programs run by the University are essentially residential programs. The school provides rooms in the Hostel to all students. Here the students stay in a healthy atmosphere and perfect living conditions along with friends to share the precious moments of life. Separate hostels for boys and girls with modern amenities help the students to pursue their education in a homely environment. In order to accommodate all students the university a number of hostels available in the campus and some mega hostels are under construction. Hostels available in the University are as follows : Ruby Hostel (Exclusive for girl students), Opal Hostel, Diamond Hostel, Emerald Hostel, Topaz Hostel, Saphire Hostel

Scholarships - Various scholarships offered to students of I.S.M. University are Merit Cum Means Scholarship, ISMU North American Alumni Scholarship for Mineral/Earth Science, Atlas Copco Scholarship, Inderjeet & Satyawati Badhwar Scholarship, S. L. Sehgal Memorial Scholarship etc.

Library - It is a completely automated library provides services seven days a week, catering information to more than 2000 users belonging to 15 departments and centers. The library houses more than 80,000 books, 8000 Ph.D thesis and dissertations, 35,000 bound volumes of Journals and 1200 digital books in the form CD's and DVD's. The library provides access to more than 2000 full text scholarly research journals to its members. The collection of the library is available online through a web-based Public Access Catalogue. Creation of different databases for the last 80 years collection was began in the year 2001 after the procurement of library management software "LIBSYS". Total collection of the library is now bar-coded which was started in the year 2003. For the electronic collection the Central Library imported one CD/DVD content mirror server from USA.

Admission of Foreign Students- Foreign Nationals, Non-Resident Indian (NRI) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) will be admitted to Indian School of Mines University. In all the courses (except B.Tech/5 Year Integrated MSc/MScTech/ 5 Year Dual Degree course), a maximum of 15% seats may be filled as supernumerary seats over and above the total approved intake, out of 15% supernumerary seats for foreign students 5% of such seats shall be earmarked for the Children of Indian workers in the Gulf and foreign student in this context shall be defined as the one who possesses a foreign passport; preference to be given to person of Indian origin holding foreign passport. There will be no written test or interview for admission. For more Info - http://www.ismdhanbad.ac.in/academics/rules/Rules_for_Foreign_Students.pdf

Student Societies - In ISMU there a number of Student's Society managed by students themselves under the guidance of senior faculty member. The students are very actively taking part in the various activity of these societies throughout the year . The Societies of ISMU are Cultural Scientific And Literary Society, Music Society, Chayanika Sangh, Cyber Society, Photographic Society

Achievements

An improved cans/bottles filling for filling of liquid - Two students of V semester Rahul Soni (Dual Degree-B. Tech in Mineral Engineering with M. Tech in Mineral Resource Management) and Kaustuva Dipta Pany (Dual Degree-B. Tech in Petroleum Engineering with M. Tech in Petroleum Management) from Department of Fuel and Mineral Engineering and Department of Petroleum Engineering respectively have got patented their project titled as “An improved cans/bottles filling for filling of liquid” at IPR office kolkata through NRDC (National Research Development corporation - A Govt. of India Enterprise). It is an innovative pedal powered mechanical bottling machine running without electricity.