Army Institute of Technology

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Col Manoj Kumar Prasad (Retd), an Engineering Officer served in Indian Army from Jun 1986 to May 2018. He superannuated from CME Pune after 32 years of experience in various combat and works appointments.

He is an alumni of BIT Sindri, Gold Medalist of IISc Bangalore, Post Graduate Diploma in PM&HR from SIMS Pune, Diploma in Business Computing from CDAC besides alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad.

He served 202 Engineer Regiment five tenures, in MES as SO2 (Design), CWE (Jabalpur), CWE (Vishakhapatnam), Additional Chief Engineer (Works) New Delhi, two tenures as Instructor at CME Pune and one tenure as instructor at MEG&C Bangalore. He served as University Engineer, Nalanda University and Col GS (Engrs), Strategic Force Command. He has privilege to serve Army/ Navy/ Air Force/ Strategic Force Command/ Nalanda University.

After retirement from defence forces, he served as Project Head (Civil) at Sterlite Technologies Ltd (Vedanta Group) at Gurgaon and constructed 34 data centers PAN India for Indian Navy under project Varun.

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Army Institute of Technology is a Premier Engineering College in the region. Having received the “Best Professional College (Urban)” Trophy in Pune University in Feb 2017, it has been rated amongst top three colleges in Pune region by all the ranking agencies.

AIT has had a large number of achievements. Most of them attributed to the wonderful students, full of energy and competitive spirit. One of the most notable achievers was Capt Shipra Muzumdar of 2001 batch, who climbed Mt Everest on 03 Jul 2005 as a member of Indian Army first all Women expedition.

AIT students are always in the news for their technical achievements, and innovations. M Rajesh, 2002 batch Computer Engineer was felicitated by Bill Gates for winning the Microsoft sponsored Imagica Cup. Lavpreet Sharma, 2014 batch Mechanical Engineer, made AIT proud by winning the Sword of Honour in the Airforce Academy.

AIT students have been winning many hackathons and innovation competitions at National and International level. AIT students have won the prestigious KPIT, Sparkle innovation championship, two years in succession in 2019 and 2020. Both innovations were in the field of clean renewable energy. In 2020 AIT teams won top three prizes in NEC Hackathon. Sekhar Kumar Singh won part of winning Multi-National team of UNESCO India- Africa Hackathon. AIT team also came runner up in Sainya Ranakshetram 2.0 – Capture the Flag in Dec 2022. AIT created history when its three teams swept the top three prizes in NEC hackathon at IIT Delhi, which had a theme of "Use of Technology in education for students in rural areas". Though predominantly UG college, AIT students have been at the forefront of entrepreneurship and innovation. AIT has over 50 alumni who are running successful startups.

AIT students have enjoyed excellent placements over the years. The 2022-23 batch has achieved 96% placements with an average salary of Rs. 14.5 lakh. A good number of AIT students of second and third year have enrolled for internships with reputed companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Deutsche Bank, Dream Plug and some Indian start-ups. Many of them are drawing monthly stipend of over Rs. One lakh. Internships with such reputed organisations provide a great launch pad for amazing careers. One such student Mr Abhishek Kumar of TE(IT) has been selected for an internship with Amazon London, at a monthly stipend of equivalent to Rs. Four lakh approx, another Shristy Thakur SE (E&TC) student has proceeded for an internship in Jun 23 at Barclays Bank in UK for monthly stipend of equivalent to Rs. 3 lakhs.

With the approval of the AIT Growth plan by HQ AWES, the intake of AIT is set to double in next 3-4 years. We have already increase the intake in IT stream from AY 2024-25. We will be introducing a UG course in BE (Robotics and Automation). AIT is also looking at introducing new PG programs, establishing Centres of Excellence and Research Centres. The ME course in Data Science has already been launched in 2023-24. The Board of Governors of AWES has approved that AIT can apply for “Autonomy”. It is expected that Autonomous curriculum will be implemented by AY 2025-26.

All these student achievements cannot be accomplished without commitment, guidance and support of the committed faculty of AIT. The faculty too is going all out to enhance their knowledge, reputation and improve the research footprint of the college.

AIT prides itself in having an excellent academic extracurricular and sports infrastructure. This ensures all round development of students and total quality engineers passing out from AIT.

'Onward to Glory' , 'Jai Hind'.