Usha Mittal Institute of Technology

Usha Mittal Institute of Technology (UMIT)

Type	Public
Established	1997
Principal	Dr. Yogesh Nerkar
Academic staff	32
Undergraduates	need info
Postgraduates	need info
Location	Mumbai , Maharashtra , India
Campus	Metropolitan
Website	http://www.umit.ac.in

Usha Mittal Institute of Technology (UMIT) is an

(UGC).

UMIT has over 800 students and 50 faculty. It is the only all-women engineering institute in Mumbai.

History

SNDT established the Institute of Technology for Women in 1997. The institute offered a four-year bachelor's degree course in

Information Technology

.

After a generous donation from the

Lakshmi Niwas Mittal

Foundation, the institute was renamed Usha Mittal Institute of Technology.

Committees

UMIT has student chapters of a number of organisations:

and E-Elite, National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN).^[2] The college has a National Service Scheme (NSS) unit. Recently, in 2019, UMIT started another chapter known as the Google Developer student club (GDSC) which is powered by Google. UMIT is one of the few colleges to have this club.

UMIT also has Sports Council which conducts 'Xuberance week' as their main event and conducts many sports related fun events to encourage students to maintain their physical fitness. In 2009, UMIT hosted the national-level conference-cum-technical festival 'Tech Tornado', organised by the SNDT ACM-W Student Chapter. The chapter sponsor is Dr. T.J. Mathew. The 2009 trophy was won by PSG Coimbatore.

The college holds an annual cultural festival, 'Arcane Illusions'. The councils also hold festivals: SNDT ACM-W Student Chapter organizes it's national level fest 'Tech Tornado and Tech week' which is a 2+5 days long fest activity (hosting 72 hr hackathons) following this several other councils like CSI organizes their 2 days technical festival 'Abhivyakti' while IEEE organizes 2 days technical fest '360 Degrees'.

References

External links

• Official website