page_title: Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Bishop's College in Howrah (now Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur), 1880
context_page_description: Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur is a public technical university located at Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal. It is recognised as an Institute of National Importance under MHRD by the Government of India. It comes under the Council of National Institutes of Technology.
context_section_description: The institute was established as an independent entity in 1880 as 'Government College, Howrah' in the premises of Bishop's College in Shibpur, Howrah. In 1921, the name of the college space was changed to 'Bengal Engineering College'. B.E. College was previously affiliated to the University of Calcutta. At this time in contained only civil and mechanical engineering departments. Several other departments were created subsequently over the years, the last among them being that of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics in 2010.
  On 1 October 2004, the institution was conferred the status of a full-fledged university. It was formally inaugurated as Bengal Engineering and Science University by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the President of India, on 13 July 2005.
  In March 2014, the institute was conferred the status of an INI and was renamed Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur by the Govt. of India by suitably amending the National Institutes of Technology and Science Education and Research Act, 2007. The conversion process of BESU to IIEST was mentored by IIT Kanpur. President of India, Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated it as IIEST on 24 August 2014.
  In June 2014, Govt. of West Bengal appointed IIEST Shibpur as the Mentor Institute for Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani, which was inaugurated in June the same year.
caption: Bishop's College, Howrah
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