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The College of Engineering at Hyderabad — now JNTU Hyderabad — was founded in 1929 by the seventh Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan as the Hyderabad State College of Engineering. It was the technical arm of the same modernisation programme that built the city's hospitals, libraries, railways and electrification, and it produced the engineers and architects who carried out much of the work itself. Brought initially under Osmania University, the college taught civil, mechanical, electrical and later telecommunications engineering, and trained the first generations of Deccani engineers, surveyors and works officers.
The founding
An engineering college for the new technical state
The college was conceived as a part of Osmania University, then a decade old, and was placed at the Chaderghat campus before being moved to a larger site. Its early faculty included Indian engineers trained at Roorkee and at the great English engineering schools, alongside European specialists recruited to staff the new departments.
Within Osmania
Four decades rebuilding Hyderabad's public works
For four decades the college functioned as the Engineering College of Osmania University. It contributed in large measure to the rebuilding of Hyderabad after the 1908 flood, the construction of the Nizamsagar dam and the wider irrigation and railway programmes of the Asafi state, and was one of the principal engineering schools of the Deccan.
JNTU Hyderabad
The principal campus of the state technical university
In 1972 the engineering colleges of Andhra Pradesh were placed under a new state technical university — Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University — of which the Hyderabad College of Engineering became the principal campus. After the 2008 reorganisation, it became JNTU Hyderabad, and is now one of the larger technical universities of South India.