INDIAN ENGINEERING

Indian engineerig story

• India is home to some of best engineering institutes that offer both under graduate and post graduate courses. In addition to the four metropolitan cities, the top engineering colleges in India are located in other cities like Kanpur, Roorkee, Guwahati, Vellore, Kharagpur and Allahabad among several others.

• 
  India is home to some of best engineering institutes that offer both under graduate and post graduate courses. In addition to the four metropolitan cities, the top engineering colleges in India are located in other cities like Kanpur, Roorkee, Guwahati, Vellore, Kharagpur and Allahabad among several others. Students can opt for government run engineering colleges as well as privately owned institutes.

• Top 10 Engineering Colleges in India Below mentioned is the list of top 10 Engineering Colleges in India -

  Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Phone: +91 512 2597889 Fax: +91 512 2590260 Email: infocell@iitk.ac.in Web:www.iitk.ac.in/ Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110 016 Ph: (91) 011-26582027 FAX: (91) 011-26582277 Web: www.iitd.ac.in More Details.. Email:webmaster@admin.iitd.ac.in Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai II PO Chennai 600036 Tamil Nadu Ph: 415342 ( 10 Lines ) Telex : 041 7362 IITMIN Website: www.iitm.ac.in More Details... Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai Powai, Mumbai 400076 Ph: (+91) 022-25722545 Website: www.iitb.ac.in/ More Details Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Kharagpur-721302 India Ph: +91-3222-255221 FAX : +91-3222-255303. Web:www.iitkgp.ac.in/ More Details

  Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Roorkee Uttaranchal India -247667 Tel: +91-1332-272349, 274860 Fax: +91-1332-273560 Website: www.iitr.ernet.in/More Details... Indian Institute Of Technology Guwahati Guwahati 781039 Assam, India www.iitg.ernet.in IIIT Allahabad Deoghat, Jhalwa Allahabad, India 211012 Phone: 91-532-2922000 Fax: 91-532-2430006 Email:contact@iiita.ac.in Website: www.iiita.ac.in College of Engineering, Anna University, Guindy Chennai - 600 025. Website: www.annauniv.edu National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli - 620 015 Tamil Nadu, India email : deanac@nitt.edu Contact Phone No: + 91 (431) 2501801 Fax No : +91 (431) 2500133 Website:www.nitt.edu

• MASTER PICECE OF ENGINEERING[BRIDGE]

• Bixby Bridge in big Sur, California
  

•      Completed in 1932, Bixby Bridge is one of the tallest single span concrete bridge in the world.Bixby Bridge or Bixby Creek, is named after early setter Charles Bixby.

•                        
  
•                                                     
  
•       

• Type: single span concrete arch                                                                  

   Height: 260ft                                                                                         
  

   Length: 714ft                                                                                         
  

    Width: 24ft                                                                                                

• Vasco da Gama Bridge
  

• With its viaducts, Vasco da Gama Bridge is the longest bridge in Europe.
•  Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon, portugal. The Vasco da Gama Bridge spans the Tagus River Libson, capital of Portugal. The bridge was designed by Armando Rito and opened in 1998.
•                                                                                                                 
  
•        
  

•    Type: Cable-stayed

•     Length:  10.7miles(17.2km)

•     including viaducts and access roads  
  

• The Brooklyn Bridge in New York

• The enduring New York landmark was an impressive feat of engineering.This photo was taken before terrorists destroyed the world trade center Twin Tower (shown in back ground)

• Location: New York, over the east River connecting Manhattan Brooklyn.        
  

•                                                                                                                                  
•                                                                                                                             
  
•                                                                                                          
  

•  Opened: May24,1983

• Type:Suspension bridge with cable-stays

• Length: 1,825meters/5989feet  
  

• The Golden gate Bridge, California        
  

• The Golden gate Bridge(San Francisco,California) was the logest span in the world from its completion until the Verrazano Narrows Breidge  was built in New york in1964.

• Today,it still has the seventh-longest main span in the world.

• Center Span:4200feet(1966m)

• Height from water:220feet(67m)

• Middle span: 4200feet(1966m)

• Towers: 746feet(227m) above the water
  

•               500feet(152m) above the road way

•               Each leg is 33*54feet(19*16m)

•               Tower weigh 44000tons

•               There are about 600000rivets in each tower.

•                                                                                                               
  
•                                                                                                                 
• 
  

• Type: cable-stayed

• Length:8981ft

• Width:90feet

• Weight:894500Tones