In 1976 UGC established University Science Instrumentation Centre (USIC) at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra as a Central Instrumentation Facility.  It was aimed to up keep the scientific equipment in the university science departments to give an impetuous to research and development (R&D) activities of the university. This endeavor was supported by providing the best human resource for the purpose.  With the support of state of art facilities and human resources in the field of instrumentation it played a pivotal role in R&D activities of the university.  To utilize the expertise of the existing human resource and the available infrastructure,  in 1995 USIC was given the status of  a constituent department of the university to started an AICTE approved 4-year B. Tech (Instrumentation) programme.  Thus Kurukshetra University became the pioneer to start Technical Education under university ambit.   Thereafter, in the year 2004 a post graduate (PG) M. Tech (Instrumentation) was introduced. Doctoral program was introduced during the year 2005.  Recently the name of the department has been changed as Department of Instrumentation with USIC remaining as one of the constituents of the department