govt. engineering school in Chandigarh

Chandigarh

Chandigarh is a union territory of India that serves as the capital of two states, Haryana and Punjab. The name Chandigarh translates as "The Fort of Chandi". The name is from an ancient temple called Chandi Mandir, devoted to the Hindu goddess Chandi, in the city...

, Punjab, north India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It was founded by Dr. Ashok Chitkara in 1998 and is approved by the All-India Council of Technical Education and affiliated to Punjab Technical University

Punjab Technical University

Punjab Technical University is a state university located at Jalandhar, India. It was established by an act of State Legislature on 16 January 1997, to promote technical, management and pharmaceutical education in the Punjab state at the degree level and above...

. It has a strong emphasis on networking and collaborating with regional technical corporations.

Chitkara Educational Trust initiated its higher education programs in the year 2002 on the Punjab campus which is around 30 km (18.6 mi) from Chandigarh and the same distance from Patiala and Ambala.

Engineering program

The institute offers four-year Bachelor of Technology (BTech) programs:

• Computer Science and Engineering
• Electronics and Communication Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
  Mechanical engineering
  Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
  
  
• Electrical Engineering
  Electrical engineering
  Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
  
  

CIET also offers:

• Three-year Bachelor of Computer Applications
  Bachelor of Computer Applications
  Bachelor of Computer Applications is an undergraduate academic degree in computer Science awarded in India after completion of three years course. B.C.A. or Bachelor of Computer Application is a course which is equivalent with B.Tech/B.E in Computer Science or Information technology. It is a...
  
   (BCA)
• Three-year Master of Computer Applications
  Master of Computer Applications
  The Master of Computer Applications is a postgraduate degree in computer application streams awarded in India. Full time MCA programmes normally take three academic years. The primary emphasis in MCA curriculum is on the development of diverse types of application software rather than designing...
  
   (MCA)
• Three-year Bachelor of Business Administration
  Bachelor of Business Administration
  The Bachelor of Business Administration is a bachelor's degree in Commerce and business administration. In most universities, the degree is conferred upon a student after four years of full-time study in one or more areas of business concentrations; see below...
  
   (BBA)
• Two-year Master of Business Administration
  Master of Business Administration
  The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...
  
  (MBA)

Achievements

The institute was ranked 49th in the top 50 private engineering institutions in the country by MINT (Hindustan Times – Cfore survey for the year 2008-09.

Chitkara Educational Trust has been selected to be the regional partner in North India to represent “Indo – USA collaboration for Engineering Education” (IUCEE) which is an association of American universities' engineering schools.

Wipro Technologies accredited CIET as a Trusted Academic Partner by virtue of having met the qualifying standards of excellence in Wipro's Institutional accreditation framework.

Chitkara is one of the two institutes in India and one among five selected from the Asia Pacific region, including the Japan Region, that got the HP Innovations award of USD 170,000 for creating technology which is accessible to everyone.

Chitkara and Synopsys have joined to conduct an ME Program in Microelectronic Systems.

The institute has been nominated to the Infosys Campus Connect program which links up 400 engineering schools of the country.

Also a team named "The TrailBlazers" from the institute participated in the NASA 2nd Annual Luanabotics Mining Competition held at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA.

A team of 8 from Chitkara won the Silver Medal in the 39th All India Engineering students Design Competition - 2008 conducted by National Design and Research Forum, Institution of Engineers (India) for their design of a "low cost, high efficiency, egronomic, electric wheelchair". The team consisted of Vaibhav Sharma, Vikas Chhabra, Simranjeet Singh, Prashant Mohan, Shashank Mankotia, Siddarth Kaul, Sushant Dhamija and Navjot Singh.