ISTE

ISTE is a premier National level society of professionals & educators. First started in 1941 as the Association of  Principals of Technical Institutions (APTI), it was converted into “Indian Society for Technical Education” in 1968 with a view to enlarge its activities to advance the cause of technical education.

The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) is the leading National Professional non-profit making Society for the Technical Education System in our country with the motto of Career Development of Teachers and Personality Development of Students and overall development of our Technical Education System.  Being the only national organisation of educators in the field of Engineering and Technology, ISTE effectively contributes to various missions of the Union Government. The strength of ISTE is the strong base it has in technical education institutions in the country.  At present, the ISTE has a very large and effective membership base consisting of 124024 Life Members, 5 lakh Student members, 2734 Institutional Members, 1369 Faculty Chapters, 1479 Student Chapters at the institutional level and 17 Sections at the State level.

The major objective of the ISTE is to provide quality training programmes to teachers and administrators of technical institutions to update their knowledge and skills in their fields of activity and to assist and contribute to the production and development of top quality professional engineers and technicians needed by the industry and other organisations.

The major functional units of ISTE are known as Chapters. There are three types of ISTE Chapters, namely Parents’ Chapters, Students’ Chapters & Teachers’ Chapters.

Toc H ISTE Students’ Chapter has been inaugurated on  10.11.2006 by Dr D Balakrishnan, National Executive Council member of  ISTE. Chairman of ISTE. Kerala section Dr P.Prathapachandran Nair, Secretary of ISTE Kerala section Mr K.O.Paul were also present as special guests for the event.