T is basically an International educational and research institution.
It was formally inaugurated by H.E. the Prime Minister of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh on 21 September , 1995. The Institute trains Engineers and Technologists in technologies needed in the Member States through its long regular programmes and offers skill upgrading and knowledge updating short courses of international standard. The capital is serveed by an International Airport with widely developed airlinks with the rest of the world and by satellite telecomunication. There are three well-defined seasons in a year. The temperature ranges between a minimum of 70 C in the winter and an average 320 C during the summer.