INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS [IIT-M]

Indian Institute of Technology Madras is one among the foremost institutes of national importance in higher technological education, basic and applied research. In 1956, the german government offered technical assistance for establishing an institute of higher education in engineering in India. The first at Madras was signed in 1959.

The Institute was formally inaugurated in 1959 by Prof. Humayun kabir, union minister for Scientific Research and Current Affairs. IIT Madras is a residential institute with nearly 550 faculty, 8000 students and 1250 administrative & supporting staff and is a self contained campus located in a beautiful wooded land of 250 hectares. It has estabilished itself as a premier centre for teaching, research and industrial consultancy in the country.

The Institute has sixteen academic departments and a few advanced research centers in various disciplines of engineering and pure sciences, with nearly 100 laboratories organized in a unique pattern of functioning. Faculties of international repute , Brilliant student community , excellent Technical & supporting staff and an effective administration have all contributed to the pre-eminent status of IIT-M. The campus is located in the city of Chennai , previously known as madras . Chennai is the state capital of Tamilnadu, a southern state in India.

CAMPUS:

The main entrance of IIT Madras is on Chennai’s Sadar Patel Road , flanked by the residential districts of Adyar and Velachery. The campus is close to the Raj Bhavan , the official seat of the Governor of Tamil Nadu. Other entrances are located in Velachery (near Anna Garden MTC bus stop, Velachery Main Road) ,Gandhi Road (known as Krishna Hostel or Toll gate)and Taramani gate (close to ascendas Tech park ).The campus is located 10 km from Chennai airport and 12 km from Chennai railway station , and is well connected by buses.

Two parallel roads , Bonn Avenue and Delhi avenue , cut through the faculty residential area , before they meet at the Gajendra Circle , near the Administrative Block . Buses and electric mini buses ply between the gate , Gajendra circle , the academic zone and the hostels.

ACADEMICS:

IIT Madras offers undergraduate , postgraduate and research degrees across 15 disciplines

in Engineering , Sciences , Humanities and Management. About 360 Faculty belonging to

science and engineering departments and centres of the Institute are engaged in teaching,

research and industrial consultancy.

The institute has 16 academic departments and pure sciences ,with nearly 100 laboratories.

The academic calender is organized around the semester .Each semester provides a

minimum of seventy days of instruction in English . Students are evaluated on a continuous

basis throughout the semester. Evaluation done by the faculty, a consequence of the

autonomous status granted to the institute . Research work is evaluated on basis from within

the country and abroad . Ordinanaces that govern the academic body within the institute.

DEPARTMENTS:

• Aerospace Engineering

• Applied Mechanics

• Biotechnology

• Chemical Engineering

• Chemistry

• Civil Engineering

• Computer Science and Engineering

• Electrical Engineering

• Engineering Design

• Humanities and Social Sciences

• Management Studies

• Mathematics

• Mechanical Engineering

• Metallurgy and Material Engineering

• Ocean Engineering

• Physics

CENTRES:

• Campus Placements

• Central Glass Blowing section

• Central Library

• Central Workshop (CWS)

• Central Electronic Centre (CES)

• Centre for Continuing Education (CCE)

• Centre for Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research (ICSR)

• Engineering Unit

• Health Care Innovation Centre (HCIC)

• P.G. Senepathy Centre for Computing resources (CC)

• Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Centre (SAIC)

NOTABLE ALUMNI:

• Anand Rajaram , founder of jungle

• Gururaj Despande, founder of Sycamore Networks

• Kris GopalaKrishnan, co-chairman and co- founder of Infosys

• Krishna Bharat, creater of google news , principal scientist ,Google

• Vengart Rangan , co-founder and CTO at Clearwell Systems

• Venky Harinarayan, Kosmix co-founder.

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