It was one of the first Indian Institutes of Technology established in 1959, created with the assistance of a consortium of nine US research universities as part of the Kanpur IndoAmerican Programme KIAP
स्थापनेनंतरच्या पहिल्या १० वर्षात भारतीय तंत्रज्ञान संस्था, कानपूरला Kanpur Indo-American Programme (KIAP)चा मुबलक प्रमाणात फायदा झाला.