P.O. - Botanic Garden, Howrah, West Bengal 711103
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur owes its origin to the erstwhile Bengal Engineering College, the history of which goes to the nineteenth century when industries in the sense we understand today, were practically absent. Prompted by the idea of meeting requirement of trained engineering personnel for the Public Works Department, the then council of Education, Bengal, decided to open Civil Engineering classes and a Professorship in Civil Engineering was created at Hindu College, Calcutta, in the year 1843-44. A College of Engineering was started by the name of Civil Engineering College on 24th November, 1856, in the premises of the Writers Building, Calcutta.
With the establishment of Calcutta University on January 24, 1857, the college was affiliated to this university in May 1857. The first-degree examination in Bachelors of Civil Engineering was held in 1864 in which only 2 students graduated. In 1865, the college merged with Presidency College, Calcutta and from 1865 to 1869 the college functioned as the Civil Engineering Department of Presidency College. In 1880, the college was shifted to its present campus at Shibpur, Howrah, and was christened the 'Government College, Howrah,' in the premises of Bishop's College. It started imparting training in Civil as well as Mechanical Engineering. The college became wholly residential from the year 1889.
In 1921, the name of the college was changed to 'Bengal Engineering College' (popularly known as B.E.College). During 1921-43, the various departments of the college were reorganized on the recommendation of the 'Mukherjee Committee' under the Chairmanship of Sir R.N. Mukherjee, one of the most distinguished ex-students of the college. The first batch of students in Mechanical Engineering appeared in the degree examination in 1932. The degree course in Electrical Engineering was introduced during 1935-36 and that in Metallurgical Engineering in 1939. The department of Humanities started in 1945, Applied Mechanics in 1947, and Architecture, Town and Regional Planning department in 1949.
Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray joined Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur as its Vice Chancellor with effect from 01.03.2009. He is also the first Director of Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur with effect from 4th March, 2014. Currently he is on lien from IIT Kharagpur, where he is a Professor of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering and former Head, School of Medical Science and Technology at IIT Kharagpur.
As Vice Chancellor of BESU Shibpur, he has brought major transformation of the university, in diverse areas of academics – education, research, sponsored research and many outreach programs.
Prof. Ray had his Bachelor's degree from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, followed by M.Tech and Ph.D from Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur. He joined IIT Kharagpur as a Faculty member in 1980.
He has successfully completed more than twenty research projects, sponsored by several agencies, like Defence Research & Development Organization, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Science and Technology and so on. He has also worked on several consultancy projects of multinational and national industries.
Prof. Ray was the Principal Investigator of research projects, sponsored by Intel Corporation during 1997 – 2004. During the course of this research project, Prof. Ray was the co inventor of six US patents jointly with Intel Corporation. Prof. Ray was the Chief Investigator of a number of Medical Imaging projects sponsored by Texas Instruments at the School of Medical Science and Technology at IIT Kharagpur. As a part of this project, he, along with other team members have filed six USA patents jointly with Texas Instruments.
Prof. Ray was associated with the University of Southampton as Senior Research Fellow during 1989-90 and led the research group on 'Image and Video Processing' of Avisere Inc., USA during 2004-2005.
He has co-authored about 150 research papers in International journals and International Conferences. He has authored five books published by International Publishing Houses, such as John Wiley, Tata McGraw Hill, Prentice Hall of India and Taylor and Francis Publication, including one in Chinese.
In addition, under his leadership, his group in the School of Medical Science and Technology has initiated a number of medical projects on 'Molecular Imaging' and Image Processing, Medical Instrumentation, etc. Prof. Ray is the Fellow and Member of many professional bodies and is involved with a large number of Universities in various academic bodies.
He has been associated with Nehru Museum of Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur as Secretary and Chairman from 1991 – 2006.
His current research interest includes Medical Imaging and Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence.
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Bengal Engineering And Science University, Shibpur
P.O. - Botanic Garden, Howrah, West Bengal 711103
Indian Institute Of Engineering Science And Technology, Shibpur
P.O. - Botanic Garden
Howrah - 711103
West Bengal, India
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