Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology (Dr. AIT) is an autonomous engineering college on Outer Ring Road, Nagarbhavi, Bangalore, India.

Founded by M.H.Jayprakash Narayan in 1979, and named after B. R. Ambedkar, the institute is affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum and is accredited by AICTE.

The institute has been granted academic autonomy, which means it can frame its own syllabus and conduct its own examinations.

The institute is one among the 200 colleges selected for receiving the World Bank assistance under the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) through the government of India.

Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology is managed by Panchajanya Vidya Peeta Welfare Trust.

The institute is located on the outer Ring Road, Near Jnanabharathi Campus, Mallathahalli, Bangalore on a vast 20.30 acres of land having several buildings, lawns, trees etc.

The Institute has 63 good ventilated vast class rooms, 103 hi tech laboratories with latest equipments, drawing room, Data Center, Indoor sports complex, out door play grounds, gymnasium.

The Digital library has connectivity with INDEST AICTE for online journal through DELNET.

The Syndicate bank housed with in campus sustains the need of staff and students.

The PG course M.Tech in VLSI Design and Embedded System was started in 2003 with an intake of 18.

The students do project works in organisations such as IISc, Siemens, NAL, HAL, ISRO, BEL, BHEL, WIPRO, LRDE, DRDO, and C-DoT.

The department started M. Tech programs in Machine design under VTU in the year 2013-14 with an intake of 24.

The department is accredited by NBA and has received funding from DST, AICTE and TEQIP.

The total grants from the sponsored research projects from various funding agencies in last three years is Rs.

The department has hosted many workshops, faculty and staff development programs, National seminars & conferences.

Vijay Zaveri Research Centre for Composite Materials is the first of its kind among the local colleges.

A Cultural Fest called mAITri in which AIT stands for Ambedkar Institute of Technology is conducted by the department's students every year for freshers.

Staffs are life members of prestigious professional bodies like ISTE, IEI, ICI, ISET, ACCE, IWWA and IGS etc.

All laboratories are well equipped with sophisticated equipment like Total Station, Automatic Tilting levels, Triaxial Shear Test Apparatus, Atomic absorption Spectrophotometer, High volume air sampler, UTM and CTM etc.

53.5 lakhs under Modernization and Removal of Obsolescence, Research & Development, and Thrust Area programs.

The Department also has been funded about 100 lakhs by the World Bank under TEQIP by which many more latest equipments will be added to the laboratories.

Student visits are arranged to industries like Cement, Waste Management Units, Bridges and Flyover construction sites, etc.

A fest called mAITri in which AIT stands for Ambedkar Institute of Technology is conducted by the students of this department for the freshers every year.

The department organised a workshop for the final year students for the improvement of their skills for training and placement activity.

Sayantan Bhadra (placed at INFOSYS, Bangalore), of 2002–2006 batch has secured IX Rank (81.32%) in the VTU Exams.

Year of Establishment : 1987 Student Intake : 60 The department came under grant-in-aid scheme of Government of Karnataka in 1992.

The department has modernised Micro-Controller and Micro-Processor laboratories at a cost of Rs.15.5 lakhs with AICTE grants under MODROB scheme.