Marching from strength to strength, Delhi College of Engineering, DCE is now the “Delhi Technological University”. The historic decision to upgrade DCE into DTU has been taken by the Government of Delhi and an Act to this effect has been enacted by the Delhi Vidhan Sabha. The upgradation of DCE into a technical university provides the necessary academic and administrative autonomy to empower DCE to march on the path of academic and research excellence, as also to accelerate the pace of innovations. The conferment of the status of a technological University upon DCE is a major opportunity for all of us in meeting the requirement of highly skilled brainpower for the industries and enterprises in the New Knowledge Age. Further the output of DTU in respect of research and innovation is expected to impact new knowledge creation and development of new technologies and new knowledge.

DTU, with the brand image of DCE and its glorious past, thus is poised to create new horizons in the arena of technical education and research in the country. This is a historic moment and calls for celebration by the DCE fraternity spread the world over. With the upgradation of DCE into DTU we have now a much greater responsibility and certainly a greater accountability along side with freedom to excel and serve the interest of the talented community, industry and the society. It is also an opportunity to provide an updated and innovated curriculum at par with the best technological universities of the world and emulate the best practices in technical education.

As per the DTU Act, Delhi Act 6 of 2009, the DTU will be a non-affiliating teaching and research University focusing on “growth with quality”, offering new programs in emerging areas of engineering and technology, ensuring synergy between science and engineering, will attract the very best and qualified faculty in its fold and contribute effectively to cutting edge technology development and foster world class innovations. “The DTU thus aspires to be a leading World Class Technology University, a key node in National and Global Knowledge Network thus empowering India with the Wings of Knowledge and Power of Innovations”.

As per plan, four new B. Tech programs (with 240 annual intake), 8 new PG programs (18 seats each), MBA (60 seats) have been added from 2009-10. Further 50 scholarships for Ph.D .and 25 Teaching-cum-Research Fellowships are being offered to strengthen the academic and research environment in DTU. Thus from academic session (2010-11),

DTU is offering 14 B.Tech., 17 M.Tech, 04 B. Tech. (Evening) Programs, MBA and PhD programs. The areas covered include both core as well as interdisciplinary programmes of high value to industries at home and abroad. The PG programs focus on new and emerging areas including VLSI design, Nano Science and Engineering, Software Engineering, Microwave and Optical Communication, Biotechnology, Geo-technical Engineering etc. in addition to other core areas. Further expansion of education and research programs will take place in the years to follow. The total student strength in DCE, now DTU, will be almost 3 times of its current student intake in the next 5 years with the addition of new programs including dual degree programs and integrated Master’s programs in areas of relevance to our country in Medical Engineering, Aero-Space Engineering, Bio-informatics, Clean Energy and Environment Technology, New and Smart Materials. Seamless integration of Science and Engineering is the focus in the design and
delivery of the programs at DTU.

The focus of DTU is on - Panchsheel of Technical Education in 21st Century• Troika of Education, Research and Innovations imbibing scientific values and professional morality• World Quality Curriculum Design and delivery; World Class Knowledge Infrastructure• Seamless integration of Science and Engineering• Research driven, industry relevant innovations• Networking with selected World Class Universities The upgradation of DCE into DTU is well received throughout the country and even abroad. DCE as DTU stands committed to foster technical education and research excellence backed by a quality conscious work culture devoted to serve the talented student community, the industry and the society. We are grateful to the Govt. of NCT Delhi, specially to the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi and to her Council of Ministers for bestowing this honour to this premier institution. We are also indebted to His Excellency Lt. Governor of Delhi for the patronage provided to this pioneering institution to realise its dream of upgradation into a technological University. I am also happy to add that our standing in the community of premier engineering institutions in the country has gone up during 2009-10 as is evident from overall rank 9 in Zee News and DNA nationwide survey of top ten best engineering institutions in India. In fact we scored 7th in Academic Environment, 8th in Placement and 9th in Curriculum Innovation among the top 10 that included the 7 IITs. Further the DATA Quest also ranked DTU at 12th among the top 20 best institutions in the country from earlier 16th position. The Competition Success Review placed DCE, now DTU, only next to IITs as Institution of Super Excellence. These surveys are important as they reflect the confidence of the industry and stakeholders in the premier institutions. As such, we now have an added responsibility to ensure high academic standards, compliance to research integrity and create the necessary vibrancy to conform to rigorous academic study and professional activities to meet the challenges of the new knowledge age. This is what the DTU is committed to do.

While on academic fronts, it is our responsibility to provide an updated and innovated curriculum and deliver it with all sincerity, it is also absolutely essentially that the student community conforms to the highest levels of decorum and discipline. The DCE now DTU campus shall follow the policy of “Zero Tolerance in Ragging”. And as such, I call upon all the members of students community to co-operate in our desire to exhibit the highest standards of civilized human behaviour free from the virus of ragging in any form. This requires a firm resolve on our part to enforce the anti-ragging policy and assure compliance to norms and guidelines set out by the UGC and the Hon’ble Supreme Court of our country. To this end we need the full and unconditional commitment of our students (seniors as well as freshers).

I am sure that the DTU student community shall ensure that, our tradition of keeping our campus totally free from ragging will be upheld in the academic sessions 2010-11 as well. I am also happy to add that on the student achievements, our students have during 2009-10, achieved high recognitions in India and abroad as can be seen from:

i. Ms. Shravanti Joshi and Mr. Anoop Ramakrishna have been awarded International Telecom Union Award and were invited to attend WORLD YOUTH FORUM 2009 in Geneva from 3rd October to 10th October.

ii. Mr. Ankur Garg, Environmental Engineering 2009 has been selected as Shell Centenary Chevening Scholar, for studies at University of Cambridge for Master’s of Philosophy in Technology Policy at the Church Business School of Cambridge MIT Institute.

iii. Ms. Shweta Chauhan received Mondialogo Engineering Award 2009 in Germany November 9, 2009. Ms Shweta Chauhan student of B.E Environmental Engineering represented her team in the final symposium where the team’s work was facilitated with MEA Gold Award. The Mondialogo Engineering Award (MEA) is a part of the Mondialogo initiative launched by Daimler AG Stuttgart, Germany and UNESCO Paris, France in 2003. The Mondialogo Engineering Award invites student engineers from developing and developed countries to form international, multicultural teams to design projects aimed at improving the quality of life of people in developing countries, to contribute to addressing the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The Award seeks to encourage student engineers to tackle some of the major challenges of the 21st century. The Mondialogo Engineering Award consists of a
total amount of € 300,000.

iv. Ms. Swati Rawal, PhD Scholar in the Applied Physics Department has received the Best Research Paper Award in the International Conference on Optics and Photonics, ICOP 2009 at CSIO Chandigarh, October 29 - November 1, 2009. The Research Paper of Ms. Rawal relates to Design of Optical Memories based on Slow Light Generation from Photonic Crystals. Ms. Rawal also received the Optics and Photonics Leadership Award 2009 from Optical Society of America.

v. The DTU Team of Autonomous Aircraft System Development participated in the international competition held in Maryland, USA in August 2009 and bagged the“Director’s Award 2009” for their innovation.

vi. DTU Hypermilers win in the International competition in Finland: An interdisciplinary Under-Graduate team of Delhi Technological University bagged the trophy for the best new team and secured second place in the technical round in the open class category in the Finnish Supermileage Marathon Competition held in Finland on 15th and 16th August, 2009.

vii. DTU Tie-up with Lockheed Martin for UAV Development: A major breakthrough for University Industry partnership has been achieved for the commercial design and development of an Unmanned Arial Vehicle. A tie-up with the world best aeronautics industry, Lockheed Martin Corporation has been made during the visit of Dr. Ray O Johnson, Senior Vice-President, Lockheed Martin, USA.

viii. Freescale Semiconductor India Pvt. Ltd., a major Semiconductor Design Company based in Noida has offered to partner with DTU by setting up Freescale Systems Laboratory in the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department of DTU.

ix. Indian Oil and MUL have sponsored R&D work at DTU for the development of a plug in parallel Hybrid Passenger Car. Indian Oil and DTU are also carrying out R&D work on use of Hythene (CNG – H2 Mix) for parallel cars.

x. ST Microelectronics, Noida has also offered to partner in education, industry internship and collaborative research with DTU.

xi. Microsoft (India) has donated 3000 free passwords to enable every student and faculty of DTU to use Microsoft Dream Spark Package of Softwares for Design and Development.

xii. Campus placement has been highly impressive this year. 660 offers from 125 reputed companies including PSUs and multinationals has been received. Major companies that visited DTU during 2009-10 included all major MNCs including Microsoft, Nomura, Bank of America, Mckinsey, JP Morgan etc & India’s leading companies like Tata Motors, Samsung engineering, L&T and major PSUs like Indian Oil, NTPC,BHEL, & EIL plus DRDO, Indian Navy. GAIL, etc.

The DTU Prospectus 2010 contains relevant information on admissions to new PG, UG and PhD programs in the University. We wish to attract the very best talented and inspired minds to join our academic and research programs and wish to shape them as world class professionals in their chosen domains of education and research. We invite you to apply for admissions to our academic and research programs which are highly sought after by the industries in India
and abroad.

May 6th, 2010 Prof. P. B. Sharma
Vice-Chancellor
Delhi Technological University