Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly known as the Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), is a premier public university located in New Delhi, India. It is Delhi's first Engineering college and among those few engineering colleges of India which were set up before independence. It was established in 1941 as Delhi Polytechnic and was under the control of the Government of India.DTU is regarded as one of the top 10 engineering colleges in India along with the first generation IITs.It is the alma mater of highly distinguished world class engineers and professionals, which include the "Father of Pentium Chip" Vinod Dham, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder & CEO of PayTM, Sushant Singh Rajput, famous Bollywood actor, Praveen Sinha, Co-founder of Jabong, Rohit Chadda, Co-founder of FoodPanda, Promod Haque, the world's known venture capitalist, Raj Soin, the avionics wizards of US and a top ranking techno entrepreneur of Ohio, Durgadas Agrawal, the renowned techno-entrepreneur of Houston, to name a few.