About AITS

Adjacent to the world-renowned Corbett Tiger Reserve, nestled in the lap of the mighty Himalayas, lies Kumaun’s premier engineering education institution, the Amrapali Institute of Technology and Sciences (AITS). Located on the outskirts of Kumaun’s financial capital, Haldwani, it is distant enough from the urban crowd to provide students a peaceful environment that is conducive to study yet close enough for them to access the benefits of the urban infrastructure. The primary reason for creation of the state of Uttarakhand, around a decade ago, was the vocal expression of discontent by the local population, which felt that it was not benefiting from nation’s general growth and development. Amrapali Group of Institutions, which came into being at around the same time, was an attempt to address this general complaint in the field of higher education. Over the last decade, this region has experienced growth and economic prosperity, as evidenced by coming up of a very large industrial estate near the neighbouring town of Rudrapur. With this economic growth there was felt a genuine need for larger number of technically trained professionals. To satisfy this requirement, Amrapali Institute of Technology and Sciences was set up.

In less than three years of the Institute’s existence, it is well on the way to fulfilling the expectations with which it was set up. The recent coming on board of Prof. Ashok Malhotra, an alumnus of IIT-Delhi with a Doctorate from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada, as the Director of the institute has added additional lustre to the gem that AITS has become in a short duration. With his vast international exposure and experience as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IIT-Delhi, UBC and the University of Mosul in Iraq, Prof. Malhotra has carved a niche for himself universally as an educator. Having published over fifty technical works in reputed international journals, he is the recipient of numerous national and international awards including the Leading International Educator of the World and the Eminent Citizen of India awards. The Institute’s principal statistics are:
Current streams of study:
1. B. Tech. - Computer Science & Engineering
2. B. Tech. - Information Technology
3. B. Tech. - Electronics & Communication Engineering
4. B. Tech. - Electronics & Electrical Engineering
5. B. Tech. - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering
6. B. Tech. - Mechanical Engineering

AITS has a rich and experienced faculty base, drawn from premier educational institutions, universities and industry, to provide its students the right blend of theory and practical knowledge for meeting the challenges of professional life. The SHM department, which provides teaching support to AITS in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Mechanics, Environmental Studies and Communication skills, comprises 13 faculty members of whom five are Ph. D. holders while another three are pursuing Ph. D. The remaining faculty members are also steadfastly involved in improving their professional qualifications and expertise.

AITS’ students are provided with opportunities to develop all aspects of their personality by having access to various facilities for co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. Apart from improvement in the realm of academics, the intent is to make the students’ personalities multi-faceted. These facilities include, among others:
Computer Society of India Chapter
Indian Society for Technical Education Chapter
Robotics society
TARANG ~ The annual Technology Seminar
Language Lab
Eco Club

Additionally, AITS’ students also benefit from their alma mater being part of the larger Amrapali Group of Institutions by having access to the following facilities:
MANTHAN ~ The annual Management seminar
SPANDAN ~ The annual Cultural festival
Kamala Devi Memorial Meet ~ The annual inter-institute students meet
SPICMACAY chapter
National Service Scheme

Despite its as yet short stint, Amrapali Institute of Technology and Sciences’ students and faculty members have excelled in their respective areas at on numerous occasions at many places. Thus, AITS’ students have won accolades .
To enhance students’ employability, especially in the current scenario of economic downturn, AITS has a long standing commitment of imparting additional skills to its students and incorporating novel features in its academic offerings. One way in which this is achieved is by making available for students’ use a full-fledged Language Laboratory having a 40 computer Local Area Network and an excellent computer programme to assist user students in improving their Communication skills. The Robotics Society, started recently, provides AITS’ students with an avenue for honing their analytical and assembly skills and has won many accolades since its inception, namely at Graphic Era University, Dehradun; College of Engineering, Roorkee and at the Roboveda event held at Hyderabad. A recent feather in AITS’ cap has been setting up of an Environment Science Studio through which students are being encouraged to carryout activities related to Environmental Science.

To ensure that students are exposed to improved utilisation of their areas of study and best industry practices, AITS has entered into many agreements with leading national and international companies like CISCO, HCL, Oracle, IBM and Red Hat. These Certification and Training tie-ups are affected through various programmes held over the entire year. Recently, CISCO has set up a dedicated training centre in the Institute itself, the first batch of which shall be completed soon. Oracle is also in the process of setting up a similar training centre in AITS. Another way in which students get a feel of real-life is by visiting various industries and having industry professionals visit the Institute to share their learning and experiences.

Given the quality culture that permeates the organisation, the Amrapali Group of Institutions has an ongoing programme, which upon completion, shall ensure grant of ISO certification. Amrapali Institute of Technology and Sciences aims to have a robust student-and-faculty exchange programme with foreign educational institutes and universities to enable it to offer broad-based education to its students, which is especially relevant in the fast changing times that we live in. Accordingly, it has started the process of negotiating with foreign educational institutions for tie-ups and, in fact, has signed Memoranda of Understanding with two of them, viz. Politechnique Nantes, France and Gannon University, USA. Our students have already played host to a group of engineering students from the French institution last year during their training in our Institute. A group of AITS students is scheduled to visit the French Institution during the forth-coming summer break in 2009.

Placement support is provided centrally to students of all the constituents of the Amrapali Group of Institutions through the Training and Placement Department. The department takes keen interest in regularly providing placement related orientation and guidance to students in multiple ways, e.g. by conducting mock Interviews, Group Discussions etc. The success of this intensive strategy is evidenced by the fact that students of its first batch have already started getting job offers, even while they are in the third year.

Fully cognizant of the criticality of grooming and developing its academic assets, Amrapali Group of Institutions has an active Faculty Development Cell that ensures that AITS’ faculty members get enough opportunities for academic development through participation in conferences, seminars and workshops organised in the state and the country.