 The students and alumni of SLIET are informally referred to as SLIETians.Established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in 1989 and formally inaugurated in December 1991, SLIET was established to provide education in areas of engineering and technology.It was named in memory of Harchand Singh Longowal, a Sikh political party leader who was assassinated in 1985 after signing a peace accord with the government of Punjab.