The Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering is one of the oldest having been started in the same year as the Institute. Its teaching, research and consultancy activities are in various areas ranging from conventional metallurgy to frontiers of materials science. The Department is endowed with some of the best processing and characterisation facilities along with the most comprehensive software for materials design and modelling.
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
14
Staff
31
Faculty
149
Undergraduate Students
82
Postgraduate Students
27
M S Research Scholars
167
PhD Research Scholars
1
Exchange Students
1,667
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Message From the Head of Department
Welcome to the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. We are one of the oldest departments of IIT Madras, established in the same year as the Institute in 1959. In the first few decades of its existence, then known as the Department of Metallurgy, the focus was more on industrial metallurgy. However, over the past few decades, the department changed to the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering to adapt to the transformations and expectations worldwide in diverse materials science and engineering areas. Several faculty members of the department in recent times have taken the lead in establishing prospective centres of excellence in the areas of advanced/correlative microscopy, materials and manufacturing for futuristic mobility that includes additive manufacturing, ceramic technologies and surface enginee...