Indian School of Mines
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The Indian School of Mines (ISM) is a fully residential and co-educational university located in the mineral-rich belt of India in the city of Dhanbad
, Jharkhand
. It was established in 1926 on the lines of the Royal School of Mines
, London. 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.,integrated M.Sc., integrated 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 institute admits undergraduate students through the Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) and post-graduate through GATE. It has been ranked as one of the top 10 engineering colleges of India by an Outlook India survey. The Indian School of Mines holds the privilege of being an Institute of National Importance in India.
The Indian School of Mines is the only institute of its kind in India that caters to the human resource needs of the nation in the areas of Mining
, Petroleum
, Mining Machinery, Mineral Engineering and Earth Sciences besides training manpower in the related disciplines of Management, Electrical Engineering
, Electronics Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Engineering
, Computer Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering
, Mechanical Engineering
, applied Science and Humanities and Social Sciences.
The School has links with reputed universities and institutes across the globe and has an alumni base all over the world. The ISM alumni have held key positions in some of the biggest companies in India like SAIL
, CIL
, ONGC, NTPC
, Reliance Industries Ltd, and UCIL.
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, then the Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin on 9 December 1926 as the first mineral technology institute in the country. The institute initially offered courses in Mining Engineering
, Applied Geology, Applied Physics, Applied Chemistry and Applied Mathematics. In 1957, the institute began offering Petroleum Engineering
and Applied Geophysics. 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. Later courses in Mining Machinery Engineering and Mineral Engineering were started in 1975 and 1976 respectively.It was among the few institutes to start courses in Industrial Engineering and Management (in 1977), to cater to the needs of industries like metallurgy, mining and manufacturing.
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. In 1997, the institute began admitting students through the Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) conducted jointly by the Indian Institutes of Technology, the Institute of Technology - BHU and the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. In 1998 courses for Electronics Engineering and Computer Science
were introduced and in 1999 Mechanical Engineering
.
In 2006, ISM added 14 new courses, prominent among them being Electrical Engineering
and a course in Environmental Engineering
in the undergraduate curriculum. ISM started integrated Graduate
engineering and management courses in mining, mineral and petroleum engineering as well which was the first such course offered by any technical institution in India. ISM also started offering Integrated Master of Science and Technology (Int. MScTech) courses for Applied Chemistry, Applied Geology, Applied Geophysics and Applied Physics. In 2011 ISM introduced an additional course in Chemical Engineering
.
ISM was offered the tag of Indian Institutes of Technology
(IIT) in the 2000, but due to some problems it could not become one. In September 2011 a resolution to recommend the conversion of ISM to IIT has been passed by the Government of Jharkhand
.
The Main Building, also popularly known as the Heritage Building houses the departments of Mining Engineering
, Applied Geology, Applied Geophysics and Electrical Engineering
. In addition it also contains the Geological Museum. The Penman Auditorium near the main building is used for official functions and events while the Golden Jubilee Lecture Theater is used for workshops, presentations and seminars.
Some unique features at the ISM are the Geological Museum, the Seismic Observatory, a Data Processing Laboratory, the Long Wall Mine gallery and the Remote Sensing Laboratory. The lawn in front of the ISM Main Building, besides being exquisitely designed, has several unique features. It has two distinct areas where the grass and the bushes are cut into the shape of the Old Logo & the Crest of ISM. It has the original cannon used to defend this institute from the advancing Japanese troops during World War 2. It also has two rock samples of the oldest known rock formation on the Indian Subcontinent. The lawn is used to hoist the flag during the Independence & the Republic Day of India. It is also used to host the annual flower show at ISM.
Being a fully residential campus, ISM has 10 hostels - six for boys and four for girls. The hostels at the Indian School of Mines are named after famous gemstones. The hostels are as follows:
The ISM accommodates guests of the School at the Senior Academic Hostel. The Executive Development Center (EDC), under the charge of the training and placement cell at ISM, has the facilities to conduct Pre Placement Talks, Group Discussions, Personal Interviews and has well furnished air conditioned rooms to accommodate executives from the industry.
The Central Library
is automated and provides services seven days a week, catering to 3000 users belonging to 15 departments and centers. The library houses 85,000 books, 8000 Ph.D thesis and dissertations, 35,000 bound volumes of journals and 1200 digital books. The library provides access to 2000 full text scholarly research journals. The library collection is available online through a web-based Public Access Catalogue. Creation of databases for the last 80 years collection was started in 2001 after the purchase of library management software called "LIBSYS". The whole library collection is bar-coded.
The Computer Center supports a campus-wide fiber optic network (ATM backbone switch) with 32 Mbit/s International Internet Gateway. It caters to all the computing needs of the faculty members and the students. The center has a number of state of the art servers and an adequate number of Intel Core PCs. The Health Centre provides medical care to students, teachers, staff and their family members. Important hospitals have also tied up for providing assistance in case of emergencies.
Classes for first year students are held at the state of the art Lecture Hall Complex (LHC). The inside of the LHC functions as an Open Air Theater (OAT). The office of the Dean of Students Welfare (DSW) is located inside the LHC. Currently new LHC is under construction and is scheduled to be completed by the mid 2012.
Currently massive construction activities are ongoing in the ISM campus. A new central library, designed to be one of the best libraries in Asia, is under construction. A SAC (Student Activity Center) along with a swimming pool is also under construction. Both these buildings are slated to be completed by mid 2012. Other on campus construction activities include the setting up of a new administration block and expansion of the current Senior Academic Hostel and the Executive Development Center.
The school conducts educational programs leading to the degree of Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Master of Science (MSc.), Master of Science and Technology (M.Sc.Tech.), Integrated Master of Science (MSc.), Integrated Master of Science and Technology (M.Sc.Tech.), Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech), Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Philosophy (MPhil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.).
Admission to the courses of B.Tech, Dual Degree and Integrated courses are done through the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination
(I.I.T.-J.E.E.). Admission to the M.Tech and M.Sc courses are done through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
(G.A.T.E.). Admissions to the MBA program is done through the Common Admission Test
(C.A.T.). Admission to the M.Sc.Tech. and PhD courses are done through a special examinations conducted by the Indian School of Mines.
, Rio Tinto Group
, ArcelorMittal, Schlumberger
, Shell
, BG Group
, Halliburton
, Cairn Energy
etc. to the campus. The major PSUs of the country such as ONGC, DRDO, OIL, CIL
, SAIL, NTPC etc. also visit the campus to recruit. India's biggest corporate houses such as the Tata Group
, the Jindal Group
, the Essar Group
and Reliance
have traditionally recruited large number of students from the ISM.
The non earth science students have proved their mettle in companies such as Google
, Microsoft
, Yahoo, Samsung
, etc. Companies have started to recognize the potential of such students. Today more non earth science companies visit the campus than earth science companies.
as extra curricular activities. The campus has good facilities for training in games and sports like athletics, cricket
, football, basketball
, volleyball
, tennis
, badminton
, squash
and table tennis
. Interested students are also trained in combat sports such karate
, wu shu
and boxing
.
Concetto is the annual techno-management fest of ISM Dhanbad. As the name suggests, it is an idea that proves, in the end, to be the spark of all creation.This event, is sure to enthrall you as you witness futuristic marvels of technology and interact with them. It extends beyond the guest lectures, exhibitions, robotics, & management events to impart the excitement, zeal & thrill to such an extent that the black magic of the Pied Piper is belittled and a horde of students nation wide have been bewithced to come and join this event. The delicacies of the technical and management delights, along with the icing of the guest lectures from eminent personalities are enough to entice the knowledge hungry students from institutions all over the country
ISM organize a three day annual sports festival PARAKRAM, in which students from various colleges of country take part. Parakram includes cricket, basketball, volley ball, lawn tennis, table tennis, badminton, athletics and other indoor games. ISM also holds an annual two-day-long sports meet after Republic Day (India)
for the students of ISM only. Annual intramural competitions for cricket, football, badminton, table tennis etc. are notable features as is the two-day Annual Sports. Athletic competitions include track and field events, long jump, high jump, pole vaulting, discus throw, javelin throw, shot-put etc. Non-athletic events include sack races, tug-o-wars, and even pillow fights.
On the cultural front, Pratibimb, the annual ten-day inter-departmental Cultural Competition is held in January, with events such as Hindi and English vocals, instrumentals, dance, mime, skits, debates, quizzes, dumb-charades, fashion show, and Antakshari. Musical nights, DJ nights, and Kavi Sammelans also form a part of ISM culture. Other features are the events of SPIC MACAY, painting exhibitions, and Yoga workshops. The annual Basant Utsav is an important date in every ISMites calendar when the students get the opportunity to interact with the alumni, besides being a time for old friends to reunite.
Student clubs include Cultural Scientific and Literary Society (CSLS), Cyber Society, Music Society, Photographic Society and Chayanika Sangh (whose objective is the promotion of Hindi Language). ISM has a technical society for each department at ISM like the Petroleum Engineering Society, the Mineral Engineering Society, the Mining Engineering Society etc.The societies mentioned above function under the purview of the ISM Students Society(ISS) which is the link between the administration and the students.
ISM also has student chapters of technical organizations like the Society of Applied Physics,the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), the Society of Automotive Engineers(SAE), the Society of Petroleum Engineers(SPE), the PETROTECH Society and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). The SPE, ISM chapter was awarded the Outstanding Chapter Award in 2010 thus deeming this chapter to the best student chapter in Asia. The ISM PETROTECH chapter was awarded the Best Chapter Award for the academic year 2010-2011 amongst all the PETROTECH chapters in India. The SAE organized event Baja SAE
has seen some of its best entries from the ISM. The ISM team has repeatedly bagged top awards at the event in India.
Other activities include the voluntary efforts by the students to teach and provide education to underprivileged children under the name of Kartavya (Duty). Kartavya was initiated by an alumnus of the 2003 batch and is entirely managed by the students. Kartavya centres have been established at NIT Jamshedpur, NIT Durgapur, NIT PATNA, NIFFT Ranchi, OIT Burla, BIT Sindri and Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. There are four centers in Dhanbad. In 11 centers, about 700 students have been covered.
Another initiative called Fast Forward India (FFI), an effort to find powerful ways to tackle problems that impact the lives of millions of under-served people in India has been taken. In this ISM students provide computer education and training in spoken English to poor and needy children. They organize blood donation camps and hygiene awareness campaigns for locals, and career counseling programs for school students. The intra Dhanbad inter school quiz competition BRAINSTORM organized annually has generated funds and publicity for FFI.
A monthly in-campus students' newsletter called Mailer Daemon is published by an independent student body. Genesis an entrepreneurship cell has been established, promoting entrepreneurial skills among students. The ISM Energized Toastmasters Club a local club of the Toastmasters International organizes weekly meetings for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills. Indian Youth Climate Network
(IYCN) ISM chapter organizes Green Marathons, Cleanliness Drives, Sapling Plantation drives and various other competitions at ISM to promote awareness about the environment.
A popular tradition at ISM is that of juniors addressing their seniors as Sir and Ma'am. The seniors are then honour bound to foot the juniors' bill at the canteen inside ISM. A tea shop at ISM named RD (Ram Dhani after its late founder) is an integral part of the lives of students and faculty. The tea shop has served ISMites for several decades and continues to do so. Students at ISM frequently chant the slogan ISMites are Dynamites while those belonging to the department of Mining Engineering prefer to address their branch as Royal Mining. Embedded in the ISM culture is the rock band MANTHAN, which has performed all over the country. The band members wear the tag of the founders of one of the biggest rock fests in the eastern region of the country. A social network for the students of ISM Dhanbad called ISMile - The ISMites Social Network has grown to include hundreds of members consisting of students as well as alumni of the school.
At a few hours distance from the ISM campus are places for trekking, outings and picnics. Students at ISM frequently make trips to the Parasnath Hills
, Maithon Dam
, Khandoli and Deoghar
, and waterfalls like Johna, Dassam and Hundru near Ranchi, just over 160 km from Dhanbad
. Other nearby scenic sites are the Rajmahal Hills and forests like Saranda near Palamu.
Dhanbad
Dhanbad features climate that is transitional between a humid subtropical climate and a tropical wet and dry climate. Summer starts from last week of March and ends in mid-June. Peak temperature in summer can reach 47oC. Dhanbad also receives heavy rainfall...
, Jharkhand
Jharkhand
Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east...
. It was established in 1926 on the lines of the Royal School of Mines
Royal School of Mines
Royal School of Mines comprises the departments of Earth Science and Engineering, and Materials at Imperial College London.- History :The Royal School of Mines was established in 1851, as the Government School of Mines and Science Applied to the Arts...
, London. 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.,integrated M.Sc., integrated 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 institute admits undergraduate students through the Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) and post-graduate through GATE. It has been ranked as one of the top 10 engineering colleges of India by an Outlook India survey. The Indian School of Mines holds the privilege of being an Institute of National Importance in India.
The Indian School of Mines is the only institute of its kind in India that caters to the human resource needs of the nation in the areas of Mining
Mining engineering
Mining engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the practice, the theory, the science, the technology, and application of extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment. Mining engineering also includes processing minerals for additional value.Mineral...
, Petroleum
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil or natural gas. Subsurface activities are deemed to fall within the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry, which are the activities of...
, Mining Machinery, Mineral Engineering and Earth Sciences besides training manpower in the related disciplines of Management, 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...
, Electronics Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Environmental engineering
Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment , to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites...
, Computer Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering
Chemical engineering
Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
, 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...
, applied Science and Humanities and Social Sciences.
The School has links with reputed universities and institutes across the globe and has an alumni base all over the world. The ISM alumni have held key positions in some of the biggest companies in India like SAIL
Steel Authority of India Limited
Steel Authority of India Limited from 116950 The company's current chairman is C.S Verma. With an annual production of 13.5 million metric tons, SAIL is the 14th largest steel producer in the world....
, CIL
Coal India Limited
Coal India Limited is an Indian state-controlled coal company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and the world's largest coal miner with revenue exceeding 60,245 Crore . It was formerly owned entirely by the Union Government of India, under the administrative control of the Ministry of...
, ONGC, NTPC
National Thermal Power Corporation
NTPC Limited is the largest Indian state-owned energy service provider based in New Delhi, India. It is listed in Forbes Global 2000 for 2010 ranked it 341st in the world...
, Reliance Industries Ltd, and UCIL.
History
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 MinesRoyal School of Mines
Royal School of Mines comprises the departments of Earth Science and Engineering, and Materials at Imperial College London.- History :The Royal School of Mines was established in 1851, as the Government School of Mines and Science Applied to the Arts...
was felt by the then Indian Government. The Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
, 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, then the Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin on 9 December 1926 as the first mineral technology institute in the country. The institute initially offered courses in Mining Engineering
Mining engineering
Mining engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the practice, the theory, the science, the technology, and application of extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment. Mining engineering also includes processing minerals for additional value.Mineral...
, Applied Geology, Applied Physics, Applied Chemistry and Applied Mathematics. In 1957, the institute began offering Petroleum Engineering
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the activities related to the production of hydrocarbons, which can be either crude oil or natural gas. Subsurface activities are deemed to fall within the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry, which are the activities of...
and Applied Geophysics. 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. Later courses in Mining Machinery Engineering and Mineral Engineering were started in 1975 and 1976 respectively.It was among the few institutes to start courses in Industrial Engineering and Management (in 1977), to cater to the needs of industries like metallurgy, mining and manufacturing.
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. In 1997, the institute began admitting students through the Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) conducted jointly by the Indian Institutes of Technology, the Institute of Technology - BHU and the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. In 1998 courses for Electronics Engineering and Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
were introduced and in 1999 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...
.
In 2006, ISM added 14 new courses, prominent among them being 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...
and a course in Environmental Engineering
Environmental engineering
Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment , to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites...
in the undergraduate curriculum. ISM started integrated Graduate
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
engineering and management courses in mining, mineral and petroleum engineering as well which was the first such course offered by any technical institution in India. ISM also started offering Integrated Master of Science and Technology (Int. MScTech) courses for Applied Chemistry, Applied Geology, Applied Geophysics and Applied Physics. In 2011 ISM introduced an additional course in Chemical Engineering
Chemical engineering
Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
.
ISM was offered the tag of Indian Institutes of Technology
Indian Institutes of Technology
The Indian Institutes of Technology are a group of autonomous engineering and technology-oriented institutes of higher education. The IITs are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 which has declared them as “institutions of national importance”, and lays down their powers, duties,...
(IIT) in the 2000, but due to some problems it could not become one. In September 2011 a resolution to recommend the conversion of ISM to IIT has been passed by the Government of Jharkhand
Government of Jharkhand
The Government of Jharkhand also known as the State Government of Jharkhand, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Jharkhand and its 24 districts...
.
Campus
Situated in the heart of the country’s prime coking coal belt, 260 km from Kolkata with a campus spread over 88 hectares (220 acres) the fully residential ISM has all the facilities of a world class academic institute. ISM is located at Dhanbad, on the Howrah-New Delhi Grand Chord Railway route. 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. ISM is expanding and is in the process of acquiring new land near the present campus, which will nearly double its area. The campus is currently home to more than 4000 people: students, faculty, and non academic staff.The Main Building, also popularly known as the Heritage Building houses the departments of Mining Engineering
Mining engineering
Mining engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the practice, the theory, the science, the technology, and application of extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment. Mining engineering also includes processing minerals for additional value.Mineral...
, Applied Geology, Applied Geophysics and 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...
. In addition it also contains the Geological Museum. The Penman Auditorium near the main building is used for official functions and events while the Golden Jubilee Lecture Theater is used for workshops, presentations and seminars.
Some unique features at the ISM are the Geological Museum, the Seismic Observatory, a Data Processing Laboratory, the Long Wall Mine gallery and the Remote Sensing Laboratory. The lawn in front of the ISM Main Building, besides being exquisitely designed, has several unique features. It has two distinct areas where the grass and the bushes are cut into the shape of the Old Logo & the Crest of ISM. It has the original cannon used to defend this institute from the advancing Japanese troops during World War 2. It also has two rock samples of the oldest known rock formation on the Indian Subcontinent. The lawn is used to hoist the flag during the Independence & the Republic Day of India. It is also used to host the annual flower show at ISM.
Being a fully residential campus, ISM has 10 hostels - six for boys and four for girls. The hostels at the Indian School of Mines are named after famous gemstones. The hostels are as follows:
- Diamond Hostel
- Opal Hostel
- Emerald Hostel
- Topaz Hostel
- Sapphire Hostel
- Jasper Hostel
- Amber Hostel
- Ruby Hostel (Girls Hostel)
- Shantibhavan Hostel (Girls Hostel)
The ISM accommodates guests of the School at the Senior Academic Hostel. The Executive Development Center (EDC), under the charge of the training and placement cell at ISM, has the facilities to conduct Pre Placement Talks, Group Discussions, Personal Interviews and has well furnished air conditioned rooms to accommodate executives from the industry.
The Central Library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
is automated and provides services seven days a week, catering to 3000 users belonging to 15 departments and centers. The library houses 85,000 books, 8000 Ph.D thesis and dissertations, 35,000 bound volumes of journals and 1200 digital books. The library provides access to 2000 full text scholarly research journals. The library collection is available online through a web-based Public Access Catalogue. Creation of databases for the last 80 years collection was started in 2001 after the purchase of library management software called "LIBSYS". The whole library collection is bar-coded.
The Computer Center supports a campus-wide fiber optic network (ATM backbone switch) with 32 Mbit/s International Internet Gateway. It caters to all the computing needs of the faculty members and the students. The center has a number of state of the art servers and an adequate number of Intel Core PCs. The Health Centre provides medical care to students, teachers, staff and their family members. Important hospitals have also tied up for providing assistance in case of emergencies.
Classes for first year students are held at the state of the art Lecture Hall Complex (LHC). The inside of the LHC functions as an Open Air Theater (OAT). The office of the Dean of Students Welfare (DSW) is located inside the LHC. Currently new LHC is under construction and is scheduled to be completed by the mid 2012.
Currently massive construction activities are ongoing in the ISM campus. A new central library, designed to be one of the best libraries in Asia, is under construction. A SAC (Student Activity Center) along with a swimming pool is also under construction. Both these buildings are slated to be completed by mid 2012. Other on campus construction activities include the setting up of a new administration block and expansion of the current Senior Academic Hostel and the Executive Development Center.
Departments and centers
ISM has the following departments and centers:- Applied Chemistry
- Applied Geology
- Applied Geophysics
- Applied Mathematics
- Applied Physics
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronics Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Fuel and Mineral Engineering
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Management Studies (Formerly Industrial Engineering & Management)
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mining Engineering
- Mining Machinery Engineering
- Petroleum Engineering
- Center for Mining Environment
- Center for Longwall Mine Mechanization
Academic programmes
ISM offers courses in engineering, pure sciences, management and humanities with a focus on engineering. The programs and courses offered at ISM are changing as the school evolving into a full fledged engineering university from the earlier focus on mining and earth sciences.The school conducts educational programs leading to the degree of Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Master of Science (MSc.), Master of Science and Technology (M.Sc.Tech.), Integrated Master of Science (MSc.), Integrated Master of Science and Technology (M.Sc.Tech.), Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech), Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Philosophy (MPhil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.).
Admission to the courses of B.Tech, Dual Degree and Integrated courses are done through the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination
Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination
The Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination is an annual college entrance examination in India. It is used as a sole criterion for the Indian Institutes of Technology as well as other institutes.The exam is conducted by the various IITs by a policy of rotation...
(I.I.T.-J.E.E.). Admission to the M.Tech and M.Sc courses are done through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering is an examination administered and conducted jointly by the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institutes of Technologies on behalf of the National Coordination Board – GATE, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development ,...
(G.A.T.E.). Admissions to the MBA program is done through the Common Admission Test
Common Admission Test
The Common Admission Test is a Computer Based Test in Quantitative Ability, Data Interpretation, Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning. The Indian Institutes of Management use the test as an important component in selecting students for the business administration programs. The test is conducted...
(C.A.T.). Admission to the M.Sc.Tech. and PhD courses are done through a special examinations conducted by the Indian School of Mines.
Placements
Placements have been generally 100% in most branches with the average offers to earth science engineering students comparable to other noteworthy institutions in the country. Its reputation in earth science has attracted multinational companies such as BHP BillitonBHP Billiton
BHP Billiton is a global mining, oil and gas company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and with a major management office in London, United Kingdom...
, Rio Tinto Group
Rio Tinto Group
The Rio Tinto Group is a diversified, British-Australian, multinational mining and resources group with headquarters in London and Melbourne. The company was founded in 1873, when a multinational consortium of investors purchased a mine complex on the Rio Tinto river, in Huelva, Spain from the...
, ArcelorMittal, Schlumberger
Schlumberger
Schlumberger Limited is the world's largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger employs over 110,000 people of more than 140 nationalities working in approximately 80 countries...
, Shell
Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...
, BG Group
BG Group
BG Group plc is a global oil and gas company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom. It has operations in 25 countries across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America and produces around 680,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. It has a major Liquefied Natural Gas ...
, Halliburton
Halliburton
Halliburton is the world's second largest oilfield services corporation with operations in more than 70 countries. It has hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands and divisions worldwide and employs over 50,000 people....
, Cairn Energy
Cairn Energy
Cairn Energy plc is a global oil and gas exploration company headquartered in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. It has operational interests in Albania, Bangladesh, Greenland, India, Nepal and Tunisia and produces around 33,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day...
etc. to the campus. The major PSUs of the country such as ONGC, DRDO, OIL, CIL
CIL
CIL can refer to:* Canadian Industries Limited, a chemical company best known for their explosives manufacturing and paints* Cash-in-lieu, a financial term used in the settlement of certain exchange traded options...
, SAIL, NTPC etc. also visit the campus to recruit. India's biggest corporate houses such as the Tata Group
Tata Group
Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Tata Group is one of the largest companies in India by market capitalization and revenue. It has interests in communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy,...
, the Jindal Group
Jindal Group
The Jindal group is a US$ 15 billion conglomerate, which over the last three decades has emerged as one of India's most dynamic business groups. Founded in 1952 by O.P. Jindal, a first-generation entrepreneur, it is today a leading steel producer, with interests spanning across the spectrum, from...
, the Essar Group
Essar Group
The Essar Group is a multinational conglomerate corporation in the sectors of Steel, Energy, Power, Communications, Shipping Ports & Logistics as well as Construction head quartered at Mumbai, India...
and Reliance
Reliance
-Companies:* Reliance Industries, an Indian conglomerate of companies headed by Mukesh Ambani** Reliance Petroleum** Reliance Life Sciences** Reliance Solar** Reliance Logistics** Reliance Industrial Infrastructure** Reliance Institute of Life Sciences...
have traditionally recruited large number of students from the ISM.
The non earth science students have proved their mettle in companies such as Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
, Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
, Yahoo, Samsung
Samsung
The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...
, etc. Companies have started to recognize the potential of such students. Today more non earth science companies visit the campus than earth science companies.
Life at ISM
Students choose between National Cadet Corps (NCC), National Service Scheme (NSS), National Sports Organisation (NSO) and YogaYoga
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...
as extra curricular activities. The campus has good facilities for training in games and sports like athletics, cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, football, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
, squash
Squash (sport)
Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...
and table tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
. Interested students are also trained in combat sports such karate
Karate
is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...
, wu shu
Wushu (sport)
The sport of wushu is both an exhibition and a full-contact sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts. It was created in the People's Republic of China after 1949, in an attempt to nationalize the practice of traditional Chinese martial arts...
and boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
.
Concetto is the annual techno-management fest of ISM Dhanbad. As the name suggests, it is an idea that proves, in the end, to be the spark of all creation.This event, is sure to enthrall you as you witness futuristic marvels of technology and interact with them. It extends beyond the guest lectures, exhibitions, robotics, & management events to impart the excitement, zeal & thrill to such an extent that the black magic of the Pied Piper is belittled and a horde of students nation wide have been bewithced to come and join this event. The delicacies of the technical and management delights, along with the icing of the guest lectures from eminent personalities are enough to entice the knowledge hungry students from institutions all over the country
ISM organize a three day annual sports festival PARAKRAM, in which students from various colleges of country take part. Parakram includes cricket, basketball, volley ball, lawn tennis, table tennis, badminton, athletics and other indoor games. ISM also holds an annual two-day-long sports meet after Republic Day (India)
Republic Day (India)
The Republic Day of India commemorates the date on which the Constitution of India came into force replacing the Government of India Act 1935 as the governing document of India on 26 January 1950....
for the students of ISM only. Annual intramural competitions for cricket, football, badminton, table tennis etc. are notable features as is the two-day Annual Sports. Athletic competitions include track and field events, long jump, high jump, pole vaulting, discus throw, javelin throw, shot-put etc. Non-athletic events include sack races, tug-o-wars, and even pillow fights.
On the cultural front, Pratibimb, the annual ten-day inter-departmental Cultural Competition is held in January, with events such as Hindi and English vocals, instrumentals, dance, mime, skits, debates, quizzes, dumb-charades, fashion show, and Antakshari. Musical nights, DJ nights, and Kavi Sammelans also form a part of ISM culture. Other features are the events of SPIC MACAY, painting exhibitions, and Yoga workshops. The annual Basant Utsav is an important date in every ISMites calendar when the students get the opportunity to interact with the alumni, besides being a time for old friends to reunite.
Student clubs include Cultural Scientific and Literary Society (CSLS), Cyber Society, Music Society, Photographic Society and Chayanika Sangh (whose objective is the promotion of Hindi Language). ISM has a technical society for each department at ISM like the Petroleum Engineering Society, the Mineral Engineering Society, the Mining Engineering Society etc.The societies mentioned above function under the purview of the ISM Students Society(ISS) which is the link between the administration and the students.
ISM also has student chapters of technical organizations like the Society of Applied Physics,the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...
(IEEE), the Society of Automotive Engineers(SAE), the Society of Petroleum Engineers(SPE), the PETROTECH Society and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). The SPE, ISM chapter was awarded the Outstanding Chapter Award in 2010 thus deeming this chapter to the best student chapter in Asia. The ISM PETROTECH chapter was awarded the Best Chapter Award for the academic year 2010-2011 amongst all the PETROTECH chapters in India. The SAE organized event Baja SAE
Baja SAE
Baja SAE is an intercollegiate design competition run by the Society of Automotive Engineers . Teams of students from universities all over the world design and build small off-road cars. The cars all have engines of the same specifications...
has seen some of its best entries from the ISM. The ISM team has repeatedly bagged top awards at the event in India.
Other activities include the voluntary efforts by the students to teach and provide education to underprivileged children under the name of Kartavya (Duty). Kartavya was initiated by an alumnus of the 2003 batch and is entirely managed by the students. Kartavya centres have been established at NIT Jamshedpur, NIT Durgapur, NIT PATNA, NIFFT Ranchi, OIT Burla, BIT Sindri and Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. There are four centers in Dhanbad. In 11 centers, about 700 students have been covered.
Another initiative called Fast Forward India (FFI), an effort to find powerful ways to tackle problems that impact the lives of millions of under-served people in India has been taken. In this ISM students provide computer education and training in spoken English to poor and needy children. They organize blood donation camps and hygiene awareness campaigns for locals, and career counseling programs for school students. The intra Dhanbad inter school quiz competition BRAINSTORM organized annually has generated funds and publicity for FFI.
A monthly in-campus students' newsletter called Mailer Daemon is published by an independent student body. Genesis an entrepreneurship cell has been established, promoting entrepreneurial skills among students. The ISM Energized Toastmasters Club a local club of the Toastmasters International organizes weekly meetings for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills. Indian Youth Climate Network
Indian Youth Climate Network
The Indian Youth Climate Network refers to an youth organizations in India that aims to raise the voice of Indian youth on the global platform as South Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions affected by potentially catastrophic climate change & environment issues.IYCN members work to generate...
(IYCN) ISM chapter organizes Green Marathons, Cleanliness Drives, Sapling Plantation drives and various other competitions at ISM to promote awareness about the environment.
A popular tradition at ISM is that of juniors addressing their seniors as Sir and Ma'am. The seniors are then honour bound to foot the juniors' bill at the canteen inside ISM. A tea shop at ISM named RD (Ram Dhani after its late founder) is an integral part of the lives of students and faculty. The tea shop has served ISMites for several decades and continues to do so. Students at ISM frequently chant the slogan ISMites are Dynamites while those belonging to the department of Mining Engineering prefer to address their branch as Royal Mining. Embedded in the ISM culture is the rock band MANTHAN, which has performed all over the country. The band members wear the tag of the founders of one of the biggest rock fests in the eastern region of the country. A social network for the students of ISM Dhanbad called ISMile - The ISMites Social Network has grown to include hundreds of members consisting of students as well as alumni of the school.
At a few hours distance from the ISM campus are places for trekking, outings and picnics. Students at ISM frequently make trips to the Parasnath Hills
Parasnath Hills
Parasnath Station is on the Asansol-Gaya section of the Grand Chord and serves the town of Isri in Giridih district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The Pareshnath Hill, located nearby, with a height of is the highest mountain in the state of Jharkhand. The word Parasnath comes from the 23rd...
, Maithon Dam
Maithon Dam
The Maithon Dam is located at Maithon, 48 km from Dhanbad, in the state of Jharkhand. It is long and . high.This dam was specially designed for flood control and generates 60,000 kW of electric power. There is an underground power station, the first of its kind in the whole of South...
, Khandoli and Deoghar
Deoghar
Deoghar is the headquarters city of Deoghar District in the Santhal Parganas division of the state of Jharkhand, India. It is an important Hindu pilgrimage centre, having in Baidyanath Temple one of the twelve Shiva Jyothirlingams in India and also one of the 51 Shakti Peethas in India.-Origin of...
, and waterfalls like Johna, Dassam and Hundru near Ranchi, just over 160 km from Dhanbad
Dhanbad
Dhanbad features climate that is transitional between a humid subtropical climate and a tropical wet and dry climate. Summer starts from last week of March and ends in mid-June. Peak temperature in summer can reach 47oC. Dhanbad also receives heavy rainfall...
. Other nearby scenic sites are the Rajmahal Hills and forests like Saranda near Palamu.
Notable alumni
- Waman Bapuji MetreWaman Bapuji MetreWaman Bapuji Metre , admiringly referred to as Dādā Metre in the Indian oil industry circles, was the doyen of Indian petroleum geologists...
, pioneer in the Indian oil industry, Padma BhushanPadma BhushanThe Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma Shri. It is awarded by the Government of India.-History:...
in 1968