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IIT Kanpur is located on the Grand Trunk Road, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Kanpur City and measures close to 420 hectares (1,000 acres).This land was donated by the Government of Uttar Pradesh in 1960 and by March 1963 the institute had moved to its current location.
Name Affliliation Notability References H. C. Verma: Former professor, Nuclear physics Authored several school, undergraduate and graduate textbooks, the most popular being the two-volume Concepts of Physics, co-founded Shiksha Sopan, a social upliftment organization for economically weaker children living near the campus of IIT Kanpur, Padma Shri recipient
A building at IIT Kanpur. The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is a public technical and research university located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established in 1959 as one of the first Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), with the assistance of a consortium of nine US research universities as part of the Kanpur ...
Techkriti is an annual four-day inter-collegiate technical and entrepreneurship festival at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. The festival is usually held in March. [2] The 30th Edition of Techkriti is scheduled to be held from 14th to 17th March 2024. The festival began in 1995 [2] to develop student technological innovation.
IIT Kanpur. Dr. Arun Kumar Shukla was born on 01 November 1981 [4] in Kushinagar in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, [5] earned his master's degree in biotechnology from Jawaharlal Nehru University after which he did his doctoral studies under the guidance of Hartmut Michel (Nobel Laureate, 1988) of Max Planck Institute of Biophysics. [1]
Antaragni (English: "The Fire Within") is the annual cultural festival of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, usually held in October. [1] Established in 1965, the four-day-long festival attracts participants from over 350 colleges in India and has garnered substantial media attention over the years. [2]
Dr. Kelkar died in October 1990. IIT Kanpur, in 2002 renamed its central library as the P. K. Kelkar Library. [5] The Kelkar Alumni Lecture was also instituted in recognition to a person who had made distinct contribution to the technical education in India through building and developing IIT Kanpur. [6]
Harish Chandra Verma (born 3 April 1952), popularly known as HCV, is an Indian experimental physicist, author and emeritus professor of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. In 2021, he was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, by the Government of India for his contribution to Physics Education. [1]