Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee has an illustrious history
and a glorious past. It has its foundation as the Thomson College,
which was founded in 1847, to train technical manpower for construction of Ganga canal.
It was the first Engineering College in the British Empire. In The year 1949, this great
institution was accorded the status of the first technological university of independent
India and was renamed as University of Roorkee. On September 21, 2001, the Government of
India declared it as the Nation’s seventh Indian Institute of Technology.
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee has 21 academic departments covering Engineering,
Applied Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences and Management programs with a strong emphasis
on scientific and technological education and research.
Internationally, IIT Roorkee was ranked 431-440 in the QS World University
Rankings of 2018. The same rankings ranked it 93 in Asia and 51 among BRICSnations.
It was ranked 501-600 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2018,65 in ASIAand 62
among BRICS & Emerging Economies University Rankings in 2017.
In India, it ranked sixth among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2018 and eighth overall. It also ranked 6th among engineering colleges in India in 2017 by The Week. Research activities at the institute are conducted at either the department level or under the central office of Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy (SRIC).
Civil Department, IIT Roorkee
Geomatics Section, Civil Department, IIT Roorkee
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Geomatics Department
The Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest and the largest in the country. It was established on November 25, 1847 as Roorkee Civil Engineering College and renamed as Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1854. The department has produced several eminent engineers who have made significant contributions in the planning and execution of Civil Engineering projects in India as well as abroad.
Geomatics engineering is the surveying of the entire or a part of the earth with various techniques (satellites positioning, satellite images processing, etc.) and the resulting spatial data is evaluated and expressed in maps and plans in the computer environment; It is also an engineering department that deals with all kinds of position-dependent measurement, calculation, analysis and visualization studies. Geomatics Engineering is one of the best engineering branches that are open to technological developments and best practice contemporary technology.
The aim of geomatics engineering is the development and use of various spatial techniques based on modern technology to better understand, plan, organize, monitor and manage the earth we live in, the production of various maps and spatial data / information for the needs of the country (planning, property, defense etc.) and determining precise position (horizontal and vertical) of any kind of space or land related to the earth.