Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee is a public technical university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.
The oldest engineering institution in India, IIT Roorkee was founded as the College of Civil Engineering in British India in 1847 by the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces, James Thomason, in order to train officers and surveyors employed in the construction of the Ganges Canal. In 1854, after the completion of the canal and Thomason's death, it was renamed the Thomason College of Civil Engineering by Proby Cautley, the designer and projector of the canal. It was renamed University of Roorkee in 1949, and again IIT Roorkee in 2001. The institution has 22 academic departments covering Engineering, Applied Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences and Management programs with an emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Roorkee
Official Website https://www.iitr.ac.in/
Address (Unnamed Road), Roorkee, India
Coordinates 29°51'57.532" N 77°53'46.338" E