Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology
Former name
University College of Engineering, Burla
MottoSiddhirbhawati Karmajā (Sanskrit)
TypePublic Technical University
Established1956 (1956)
ChancellorGovernor of Odisha
Vice-ChancellorProf. Banshidhar Majhi[1]
Administrative staff
260
Students4413
Undergraduates3724
Postgraduates689
Location
Burla, Sambalpur
,
Odisha
,
India

21°29′50″N 83°54′14″E / 21.4973°N 83.9040°E / 21.4973; 83.9040
Websitewww.vssut.ac.in

Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, formerly known as the University College of Engineering, Burla, is a state university located in Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha, India. Established in 1956, it is the oldest engineering college in Odisha. UCE Burla, its former name, was officially changed to its current name on 10 June 2009, as a result of a resolution by the Government of Odisha to accord it with the status of a unitary university.[2]

The university was declared eligible to receive central assistance under Section 12B of the UGC Act in 2012.

History

Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology was initially founded as University College of Engineering(UCE), Burla, under the direction of the Government of Odisha, as the first engineering college of the state, in 1956. The primary purpose of the college was to supplement white collar workers, in the form of electrical, civil, and mechanical engineers, to the nearby Hirakud Dam project. The foundation for the college was laid by the first Prime Minister of the country, Jawaharlal Nehru. The first batch contained 20 students, consisting of 3 branches, namely Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. The University later passed on to the administrative control of the Sambalpur University, and then under the control of the Biju Patnaik University of Technology. In 2008, the students of UCE actively campaigned for due recognition as an independent university, culminating in the university being founded in 2009.[3]

Programmes offered

Notable alumni

BATCH NAME REMARKS
1960 Sarat Kumar Mohanty Engineer-in-Chief (Retd) · Key role in construction of Balimela, Upper Kolab, Upper Indravati Hydro-electric projects · Served many M.I. projects · Former Chairman of Dam Safety Panel, GoO
1961 Dilip Kumar Nayak Engineer-in-Chief (Retd) cum Secretary Works (GoO) First Alumnus to become EIC cum Secretary Works
1962 P K Rath, Additional Director General (Retd) at Central Works Department
1963 Bijay C Jena Member (Retd), Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) Chairman (Retd), Grid Corporation of Odisha (GRIDCO) Managing Director (Retd) – Odisha Power Generation Corp. (OPGC) • Played key role in Power Reforms & restructuring in Odisha • conferred with Sir Vesweswarya Award in the year 2006.
1963 Braja M Das, Dean (retd) of College of Engineering & Computer Science at

California State University, Sacramento, USA

1964 Dr Ramesh Kar Prof (retd), IIT - Kharagpur
1965 Banbir Das Additional Director General (Retd), Military Engineering Service (MES)
1966 C R Pradhan Retd Executive Director (Western Region)– NTPC · Formerly, General Manager – 3000 MW Kaniha Super Thermal, Talcher · Executed 2000 MW Singrauli and 3000 MW Talcher Super Thermals · Awarded Gold & Silver medals by Ministry of Power for outstanding O&M performance of Singrauli · Began career as Asst Engineer of 250 MW TTPS, and worked with BHEL, before joining NTPC.
1966 Dr Basant Parida Director Innovation, Transportation Group at QinetiQ North America Former Senior Scietnist – NASA Former Dy Director, National Aeronautical Lab, Banagalore Former Head of Aeronautical Engg, IIT – Kharagpur · An elected Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) · A member of American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International Committees, - D30 On Composite Materials, E08 On Fatigue and Fracture, E28 On Mechanical Testing, E54 On Homeland Security Applications, F07 On Aerospace and Aircraft. · A Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI), and Institution of Engineers (India). · Included in "2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century“ by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England.
1967 Rear Admiral S Mohapatra

(VSM IN retd)

Former Executive Director of BrahMos Aerospace (for 10 years) Former Senior Advisor in Electronic Corporation of India for Nuclear Submarine Project Former Director of Naval Science & technological Laboratory (that develops Naval weapon systems, War ship technology, etc for 99 months) • First technical officer from Odisha to rise to Flag Rank in Navy • As Director NSTL, developed India’s first ‘Torpedo’ – making India 7th in the World • Developed Advanced under water mines, and materials for Stealth Technology • Laid foundation for developing Heavy weight Torpedoes with variety of propulsion systems • As ED BrahMos, established production set up in India; boosted indigenous content from 7 to 55% • Commanded INS VALSURA – one of the biggest and oldest training establishment of Indian Navy • Took part in 1971 war as Electrical Officer INS Ranjit, that attacked Karachi • Awarded ‘Vishist Seva’ medal (VSM) from Navy • DRDO Scientist of the year in 2003, having developed Helicopter-launched Anti-Submarine Torpedo 3.
1967 Renubala Mohanty Former Head, L&T, Kanbahal and first lady engineer of Odisha
1967 J K Nanda Vice President(Retd.), L&T, E&C
1967 Asis Das Director - Personnel (Retd), SAIL

Joint Managing Director cum COO (Retd), JINDAL Stainless Chairman of M.E.L.(Retd); Chairman of U.S.I.T. (Retd)

1967 Dr Rajendra Prasad Mohanty Vice-President, HR (retd) – ACC

Vice Chancellor (retd), SOA University

1968 S B Nayak, Retd Director – Production, NALCO

Retd President – Technology, Vedanta Aluminium

1968 Bhajamana Behera Former Cabinet Minister
1969 M Senapati Director (Retd), Jindal Stainless Ltd

Chairman-cum-Managing Director (Retd), MECON Limited

1969 Sudhakar Patri Retd Chief Engineer, Water Resources Dept, GoO

Consultant at Jacobs CES(India) Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi Former Vice President – Alumni Association of UCE, Burla

1971 Dr Ganapati Panda Prof (retd), IIT - Kharagpur
1972 Col (Retd) Prof Aditya Parida Prof, Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden
1973 Amarendra Das CMD, Suryo Udyog Limited (export & trading of marine products)
1976 Captain R C Singh Founder & CMD, B P Marine Academy
1976 Prof Jeetendriya Satapathy Ph.D from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom.

Retd Vice Chancellor - BPUT

1977 SS Mohanty Retd Director - SAIL
1977 SS Mohapatra Retd Director (Production), NALCO
1977 P K Pradhan Retd Director (Commercial), GRIDCO
1977 Sashi Shekhar Mohanty Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd (NINL)
1978 Aswini Das Member, Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission
1979 Rajendra Prasad Sasmal Director (Operations), Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
1979 Dr Rabi N Mohapatra Professor – CSE at Texas A&M University, Texas, USA

Director at Embedded System Co-Design Labs, Texas A&M University

1980 Nihar Gantayat Executive Director, ONGC
1980 Nalini Kanta Pradhan EIC – cum - Works Secretary, Govt of Odisha
1980 Jayadeb Nanda CEO (O&M) – Adani Power, Former Executive Director - NTPC
1980 Prof Sagar Naik Prof, University of Waterloo, Canada
1981 Basanta Mishra Director (O&M), LANCO
1981 Durga Das Commissioner (IT), Kanpur
1982 Priyadarshy Dash Principal at a Data and Analytics consulting firm, Prisoft
1982 Sushanta Kumar Acharya Founder & CEO – Innovis Telecom Services
1982 Andrew Sunderraj Former General Manager, HAL Bangalore
1982 Chandrabhanu Dhal Samant Chief Drilling Officer – Kuwait Oil
1982 Deba Prasad Mishra Founder – QuadRite Inc, USA
1983 Prasanta K Mukherjee Chief Technology Officer - Welspun Corp Ltd
1983 Dr. Udaya Shankar Panda Former CGM BSNL
1983 Dr Aswini Nanda Founder CEO of HPC Links
1983 Prof. (Dr.) C R Tripathy Vice Chancellor, BPUT
1983 Jitendra Mohan Sahu Executive Director at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
1984 Ambika Prasad Panda Executive Director (ED) of the Smelter and Power Complex of NALCO, Angul
1984 Manasa Mishra Director, NALCO
1984 Prakash Kumar Behera Commissioner of Customs at Central Board of Excise and Customs
1985 Prof. Bibhuti Bhusan Biswal Director NIT Meghalaya.
1986 Sambit Sahu Vice President and General Manager of IOT Engineering, Intel Corporation
1986 Mihir Kanti Mishra Chief Executive Officer of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
1986 IAS Dr.Suresh Chandra Dalai Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) of Northern Division, Sambalpur.
1986 Anup Nayak Vice President of engineering at Enphase Energy
1986 Satchi Panda Member and Advisor for Wharton Alumni Angels of Silicon Valley
1986 Sanjay Burman Distinguished Scientist & Director, Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR), DRDO
1986 Manas Ranjan Rout Director (Operations), OPGC
1986 Santosh Chandra Ray Chief General Manager, GAIL India Limited
1986 Manas K Mishra Sr General Manager at Tata Motors
1987 Dr. Binay kumar Das Director General, Electronics and Communication system(ECS), DRDO
1987 Debasish Nanda Director (Business Development), Coal India Ltd
1987 Bijayananda Mohapatra Chief Operating Officer, IMFA
1987 Dr. D P Mishra Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur
1987 Rudra Narayan Palai Special Secretary, electronics and IT department, GoO
1988 Shri Harekrishna Ratha Director Integrated Testing Range (ITR), DRDO Chandipur
1988 Debraj Das Managing Director – MSA India Limited
1988 Srinivas Behera Founder & CEO at Retigence Technologies
1988 Dr Srikanta K Panigrahi Director General, Indian Institute Of Sustainable Development (IISD)

Director General, Carbon Minus India (CMI)

1989 Bijay Mohanty Accountant General (Audit), Chhattisgarh
1989 Athar Shahab Managing Director at Zuari Industries Limited, Former CEO – Nabha Power Limited (Wholly Owned Subsidiary of L&T)
1989 Anand Pujari Head of Operation - Global Supply Chain Services at Hewlett-Packard
1989 Nibedita Rath Head Group Finance Systems, Lloyds Banking Group
1989 Jagdish K Kapoor Director – Jabalpur Smart City Mission Ltd
1989 Saroj Mohapatra Income Tax Commissioner
1989 Debashish Sahu Commissioner - Excise
1989 Arun Panda Chief Technical Officer

Pan African Towers Lagos, Nigeria

1989 Rajat Kumar Panigrahy Principal – ITI, Berhampur
1989 Debasis Mohapatra Former Director - Price waterhouse Coopers
1989 Soumendra Das Co-Founder, Relevance Lab
1989 Saroj Kumar Das Chief Engineer, Paradip Port
1989 Partha Mishra Partner at DNA Capital; Board Member; Former President & CEO, Optum Global Solutions at UnitedHealth Group
1989 Nitaigour Premchand Mahalik Professor in the Department of Industrial Technology, California State University, Fresno, CA
1990 Parthajit Panda Head of Control Management, India & Philippines, Wells Fargo
1990 Mr. Manish Kumar Sinha, IRS CEO of GST
1990 Basant Mishra Sr Vice President, Global Delivery Head, Tech Mahindra
1990 Sanjay Mishra Author and Principal PM Manager, Microsoft, Redmond, USA
1990 Satyabrata Patnaik Founder – Dalwin Marine Group
1990 Prof. (Dr.) SUKUMAR MISHRA Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi
1990 Bijay Kumar Rout Professor, BITS Pilani
1991 Tanmay Das Founder & CEO – Raajratna Energy Holdings Pvt Ltd
1991 Jitendra Sarangi Founder & CEO – CSI Computech Pvt Ltd
1991 Arup Nanda Principal Database Architect, Starwood Resorts Worldwide Inc, USA
1991 Anil Agarwala Plant head NPCIL, Rajasthan (Scientific Officer Grade H)
1991 Dr. Tapan Sahoo Executive Director (R&D), Maruti Suzuki India Limited
1991 Arup Nanda Data Analytics, Engineering and Management Leader in a Regulated Industry
1991 Uma Misra Senior Director Cloud Services & Program Management
1991 Sreekumar Chatra Senior EVP & Partner, Edelweiss Infrastructure Fund
1992 Ashesh Padhy Sr VP & Head Odisha Projects, JSW
1992 Rajkishore Una President/CEO, GyanSys
1992 Pinaki Mishra Director – Ernst & Young
1992 Dhiraj Sinha Executive Vice President, Capgemini APAC
1992 Managovinda Mishra CMD Nemhans
1992 L N Mishra Founder – Adaptive Processes Limited
1992 Rashmi Ranjan Mohapatra Former Managing Director Kemppii India
1993 Jagdish Mohapatra Managing Director CrowdStrike Asia
1993 Chidananda Khatua CEO/founder Equbot
1993 Y Kalyan Chakrabarti CEO, Emaar India
1993 Satyabrata Mohapatra Vice President Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.
1993 Sudhansu Kumar Kanungo Service Operations Excellence Leader at Schneider Electric
1994 Dr. Dipti Prasad Mishra Professor and Head, Mechanical Engineering, BIT Mesra
1994 Dr Radhakanta Padhi Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
1994 Ajit Kumar Padhi Director Operations, Cognizant
1995 Niladri Bhattacharjee Partner, Metals & Mining, KPMG in India
1995 Debasish Satpathy President - Automotive Aftermarket at Schaeffler
1995 Badri Subudhi Head of the Planning and Performance Management Transformation Team at Cisco
1996 Gaurav Chawla Head, ITC Infotech
1996 Chandrahas Panigrahi Director, Acer India Ltd
1996 Subhakanta Sadangi Chairman, iBooks Group of Companies
1996 Biswa Panda Vice President Of Engineering at Exabeam
1996 Ashish Pattjoshi Executive Vice President - Investment Banking
1996 Shubhranshu Pani Managing Director - Retail Services, JLL India
1997 Debajani Mohanty Head Blockchain, Collabera
1997 Kali Charan Sahu General Manager (R&D) at samsung india
1997 MADHUSUDAN PATTANAIK Director at ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (India)
1998 Sujeet Kumar Indian politician of the Biju Janata Dal party and a Member of Parliament (MP), representing Odisha in the Rajya Sabha. He earlier served at senior policy planning positions with Government of Odisha - as the Advisor, in the rank of Chief Secretary, to the Special Development Council (SDC) of the Government of Odisha and Special Secretary of the Odisha State Planning Board.
1998 Dhee Patnaik CEO - eCommerce at Milton-Lloyd Limited
1999 Mahesh Agrawal CEO and Co-Founder Areteans
1999 Dr Debabrata Nayak Head of Cyber Security, Ericsson, Former Head of Cyber Security at National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI), Former CSO Huawei India
1999 Debi Mohanty Managing Director, Delloite
2000 Biswaranjan Bastia Head-Insurance Services-Bajaj Housing Finance Ltd
2002 Biswajit Dash Vice President at Jio Platforms Limited

Campus

The university, located close to the Hirakud Dam, occupies about 350 acres in Burla. Facilities in laboratories of various departments and central facilities such as Computer Centre, Library, Internet Centre and Central Workshop, separate hostels for boys and girls, conference hall, recreational amenities and other utility services are available for the students in the campus.[4] Government of Odisha also decided to extend the campus to another 80 acre and also approved a mass amount of ₹2000 crore for the development of VSSUT.

Halls of Residence

The university provides on-campus residential facilities to its students, research scholars, faculty members and many of its staff. The students live in hostels (referred to as halls of residence) throughout their stay in the campus. Hostel rooms are wired for internet, for which students pay a compulsory charge. There are 11 halls of residences including 5 for girls and 6 for boys.

Achievements

Rankings

The National Institutional Ranking Framework gave the institution a rank in the 101-150 band in the engineering category[12] and university category.[13]. It also ranks in the 151-200 band in the overall category[14]

University rankings
General – India
NIRF (Overall) (2023)[14]151-200
NIRF (Universities) (2023)[13]101-150
Engineering – India
NIRF (2023)[12]101-150


See also

References

  1. ^ "Vice Chancellor's Desk :: Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology". www.vssut.ac.in. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  2. ^ "UCE becomes Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology". OdishaLinks. 18 December 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
  3. ^ "History :: Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology". www.vssut.ac.in. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Campus". Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology.
  5. ^ "VSSUT Burla bags 2nd Runnerup (AIR 3) for MATLAB Innovation in ROBOCON 2018, prestigious national Robotics event of India". 5 March 2018.
  6. ^ "VSSUT Burla team wins 2nd rank in All India Robotics Competition organized by IIT Bombay and Ministry of HRD - Bhubaneswar Buzz". Dailyhunt.
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 December 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2019.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 December 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2019.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ "VSSUT's rocket record". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  10. ^ "PM Modi Lauds VSSUT Students for indigenous sounding rockets". OmmCom News. 28 January 2019.
  11. ^ "Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology - VSSUT". vssut.ac.in. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  12. ^ a b "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2023 (Engineering)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Education. 5 June 2023.
  13. ^ a b "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2023 (Universities)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Education. 5 June 2023.
  14. ^ a b "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2023 (Overall)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Education. 5 June 2023.

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