The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) is a non-profit Society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. It was initially founded in 1941 as the Association of Principals of Technical Institutions (APTI) and later transformed as ISTE in 1968 with a view to enlarging its activities to advance the cause of Technical Education. The key objective of the ISTE is to assist and contribute to the education and development of top quality professional engineering needed by industry and other Organizations. Being the only National Body of educators in the field of Engineering and Technology ISTE endeavors to effectively contribute to various mission of the Government. It is well associated with the Ministry of HRD, AICTE/DST/MIT/State Governments etc., for the programmes related to Technical Education. ISTE is actively involved in many activities conducted by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi and National Board of Accreditation (NBA), New Delhi. It organizes an annual convention for faculty and students separately every year where a large number of technocrats, technical teachers, policy makers, experts from the industry etc. participate and interact.