BITS Facts & History

Date	Event


1901	Seth ShivNarainji Birla starts a 'Patshala' in Pilani with one teacher for educating his grandsons, late Shri GD Birla and late Shri RD Birla.

1925 - 1929	The 'Patshala' gathers strength, and evolves to become a High School and later on an Intermediate College.

1943 - 1947	The Birla Education Trust was founded. The IntermediateCollege was converted into a Degree college, and later on started post-graduate courses.

1947 - 1952	Higher level courses in Pharmacy, Arts and Commerce make their way into the Pilani campus

1964	Birla Institute of Technology and Science was incepted as an Institute with Dr. G. D. Birla as Founder Chairman.

1964 - 1970	Benefiting from the Ford Foundation Grant, the University was developed in association with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. This led to the adoption of many practices common amongst western colleges

1983	Dr. KK Birla took over as Chairman of BITS and expanded the university infrastructure, faculty and student body

1999	Realizing a greater need for quality graduates in Engineering and Sciences, BITS increased its student capacity from 2500 to 4000.

2000	BITS open a branch in Dubai making it the first Indian university with an overseas campus

2004	With the very best in facilities and infrastructure, BITS Goa opens its doors to the student community.

2008	Upon being invited by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, BITS added another feather to its cap by starting a campus in Hyderabad. The Hyderabad Campus started its operations in 2008.

The Vice - Chancellor talks about "Vision 2020, Mission 2012” and BITS Pilani's growth plans.

Robot Shaurya wins several accolades
Robot Shaurya, developed by a duo BITSian team comprising Mr. Akash Mohan Singhal and Mr. Aditya Shanker Raghuwanshi, won accolades in Robocup 2011 held in Istambul (July 2011), in Intel India Embedded Challenge 2011 held in Bangalore (August 2011) and in DRDO Student Robot Competition 2010 held in Chennai (October 2010).
Paper presentation in International Conference
Mr Rwitajit Majumdar, a M. E. Student, presented a paper titled, Simulation of Planar Wave Flagellar Propulsion of Nanorobots using Comsol at the 7th Annual COMSOL Conference 2011, held at Boston (US) on 13-15 October 2011.
Efficycle 2011 Prize
Students led by Saurabh Ahuja ( Team Captain) won overall 2nd position in Efficycle 2011, organized by Society of Automotive Engineers Northern India Chapter during 14 - 16 October 2011. BITSian team designed a three tyred multi rider hybrid vehicle that runs both on human effort and batteries.

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