Indian Institute of Technology Madras

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 Indo-German agreement in Bonn, West Germany for the establishment of the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras was signed in 1959.

The Institute was formally inaugurated in 1959 by Prof. Humayun Kabir, Union Minister for Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs. The IIT system has seven Institutes of Technology located at Kharagpur (estb. 1951), Mumbai (estb. 1958), Chennai (estb. 1959), Kanpur (estb. 1959), Delhi (estb. 1961), Guwahati (estb. 1994) and Roorkee (estb. 1847, joined IITs in 2001).

IIT Madras is a residential institute with nearly 460 faculty, 4500 students and 1250 administrative & supporting staff and is a self-contained campus located in a beautiful wooded land of about 250 hectares. It has established itself as a premier centre for teaching, research and industrial consultancy in the country.

The Institute has fifteen academic departments and a few advanced research centres in various disciplines of engineering and pure sciences, with nearly 100 laboratories organised in a unique pattern of functioning. A faculty of international repute, a brilliant student community, excellent technical & supporting staff and an effective administration have all contributed to the pre-eminent status of IIT Madras. 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.

The various academic departments in the institute offer course based degree programmes and also degree programmes that are inclined towards research. The following courses based degree programmes are offered by the departments:

1. Bachelor of Technology (B Tech)
2. Dual Degree progammes in Engineering leading to B Tech and M Tech degrees
3. Master of Technology (M Tech)
4. Master of Science (MSc)
5. Master of Arts (MA)
6. Master of Business Administration (MBA)

The following are the Research oriented degrees offered by the departments:

1. Master of Science by Research (MS)
2. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

There are sixteen academic departments in the institute. All the departments have the doctoral programme. The following departments offer B Tech and/or Dual degree programmes.

• Department of Aerospace Engineering
• Department of Applied Mechanics
• Department of Biotechnology
• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Department of Civil Engineering
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Department of Electrical Engineering
• Department of Engineering Design
• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
• Department of Ocean Engineering
• Department of Physics

In addition to these the departments of Mathematics and the Department of Applied Mechanics offer M Tech programmes. The departments of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry offer MSc programmes while the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences offers a five- year integrated MA programme.
The following User Oriented programmes leading to M Tech degrees are offered by the various departments.

1. Port Management (Department of Ocean Engineering)
2. Building Technology and Construction Management (Department of Civil Engineering)
3. Computational Mechanics (Department of Civil Engineering)
4. Automotive Technology (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
5. Software Engineering (Department of Computer Science and Engineering)
6. Digital Signal Processing (Department of Electrical Engineering)

Address:

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

I.I.T. Post Office
Chennai - 600 036
India
Fax : +91 (44) 2257 0509
web: http://www.iitm.ac.in/