NIST Institute of Science and Technology (Autonomous)

National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) is promoted by SM Charitable Educational Trust. The Trust was established in 1995 by Dr Sukant K Mohapatra and Ms Sanjeeta Mohapatra (both are NRIs based in US) as Founder/Donor Trustees. Dr Sukant based in US) as Founder/Donor Trustees. Dr Sukant Mohapatra is the founder chairman of the Trust and NIST supporting and providing visionary guidance for NIST to become a world class institute. NIST was established in the year 1996 by a group of academicians and technocrats educated in the top institutes of India and abroad. It is the first NRI educational venture in the state of Odisha and first engineering college under Berhampur University and southern Odisha. The primary objective of the founders was to promote NIST as a center of academic excellence and research at par with international universities in their home state of Odisha. Since establishment of NIST in 1996, the reputation of the Institute has spread far and wide and it admitted students only from the top 20% of the Odisha Joint Entrance Examinations and All India Entrance Examinations. Many of our faculties are educated and trained in top universities of India and abroad. The faculties are alumni of top tiers institutes in India (e.g., IITs, IISc, NIT, ISI, and Calcutta University etc.) and abroad. There are multiple visiting faculties from abroad. Within a short span of 22 years, NIST has produced 4 BOYSCAST Faculty Scholars who have been funded by Government of India to pursue postgraduate research in the top Institutes in USA and Germany. NIST has produced 3 Fulbright Scholars. Three of its faculty has won the Samant Chandrasekhar Young Scientist Award given by the Government of Odisha. Two AICTE funded Emeritus Professors worked at NIST. The faculty of the Institute has been awarded 3 URSI Young Scientist Awards. More than 25 Post doctorate scholarships have been awarded to the Institute faculty. The faculties of the Institute have published more than 250 journal papers in refereed journals and are authors of about 24 books published by reputed publishing houses. The Institute also has its own publishing house "NIST Press". The faculty of the Institute enjoys unlimited access to research journals, participate in conferences in India or abroad, awarded with initial research seed grants of Rs. 2 Lakhs each, financial remuneration for publication of books or research papers, state-of-the art laboratories, conducive work environment and other benefits. NIST is a considered as a benchmark research institution in eastern India. NIST has collaborative research work with many top institutes in India and abroad. The Institute has recently signed MoU's for research collaboration in the field of nanoscience, communications, semiconductor technology with the National Taiwan University and University of Electro Communications, Japan. NIST in association with IIT, Kharagpur, is also part of the MHRD Virtual Laboratory project. NIST has signed MoU with industries like Sankalp Semiconductors, Sandhur and SunMoksha for collaborative work in the area of Nano-technology and Renewal Energy. The Institute has received numerous research grants, projects, special funding, travel funding, SDPs, FIST grant, scholarships, etc., from the DST, CSIR, AICTE etc., and different companies. ...view more