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 sixteen Institutes of Technology. The first of these to be instituted are 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 550 faculty, 8000 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 sixteen 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 Goals and Objectives were derived from the Sarkar Committee Report and embodied in the IIT Act. In addition to the Sarkar Committee report, the IIT act and the Statutes of the IITs indicate the lines along which IITs should develop. According to these documents IITs are expected
As Indian Institutes of Technology, they must recognize their inherent obligation to serve students and alumni, the profession of engineering, the world of scholarship the nation and the society at large . IITs should seek to serve the community directly through the use of their facilities, wherever there is a need, to which they can respond easily . These objectives are derived from the original goals and not construed de-novo.
The Report of the Committee on Post Graduation Engineering Education lays stress on the thrust areas such as Fibre Optics, Micro-electronics, Materials Science, Reliability Engineering, Robotics, Ocean Engineering, Computer Science etc. IITs have a significant role to build a superstructure in the form of Postgraduate Programmes in such thrust areas that go to influence the quality of Undergraduate Curriculum. In order to develop a curriculum they need to interact and develop linkages with their surroundings specially within the manufacture and service sectors.
Within the overall goals outlined some specific goals should be spelled out. It is that the IITs must continue to engage in manpower development but their students must be different and special. An IIT student must be an agent of change of Technology practice in the country, and initiate a new working culture in our industry, with a view to increase productivity and bring to industry the capacity to innovate. Some IIT graduates should, therefore, become entrepreneurs themselves for starting new science based, technology oriented industries. They are thus to be so trained by the IITs as to build into their value system, a sense of responsibility to their country and a desire to serve for the society. Their perception should preclude Hi-Tech. as an important tool to solve ground level problems.
IITs must continue to interact more closely with other technology institutions and be the leading centers of Technical Teacher training. Faculty in the IITs should become visible agents of change, as natural partners for upgrading standards of Technical Education, research in general, and specifically development of newer programmes in the technical institutions in the region where they are located.
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One of the best educational institutions in India. It was an awesome experience inside the campus. It was so nice to walk around the campus and it is good atmosphere to cycling. It’s clean and neatly kept everywhere. You can see the animals where walking around the campus. There are lots of tree for providing shade. It was one of my best experiences in there
By Thomas Victor (Apr, 2019) |
With successful alumni the institute also have world class ranking for both studying and extra curricular activities and having natural campus with enormous natural site..
By NAVEEN KUMAR (Mar, 2019) |
My elder brother studied there(IIT) he told me that the college is a peaceful environment and he said that there each student were of high intellectual ability from all over india .the one who wants foreign opportunity for pursuing higher studies,IIT madras is the best college
By Abishek Balaji (Mar, 2019) |
Really a Great Engineering institute with fully surrounded by plantation and many tress etc.
Has good environment for doing research and study.
By ABHISHEK KUMAR SAH (Mar, 2019) |
Good place with amazing atmosphere. More tgan 50 acres of land. Green forest buck back deer and lot more . Simply the atmosphere is amazing and lot more. The cllg teaching methods are very good. The workshops and seminars are often which is good for students learning skill. Staffs are very skillfull
By mohamed fasil (Mar, 2019) |
Top college, top campus. One of the best engineering institutes in the country. Promotes a lot of original thinking among the students as well which is key to bringing out innovations. The campus is lush green, great atmosphere!
By Govind Sreekumar (Mar, 2019) |
One of the best IIT in India, It has given tremendous amount of great engineers, entrepreneurs, educationalists to India and World. It offers online courses in Engineering streams to empower other institutions to grow into world class education
By Shivalingappa Patil (Mar, 2019) |
An institute of excellent reputation.One among the few in this nation with international ranking.Large campus. Admission is based in JEE performance. PG admission on Gate score. Research on all fields of engineering and sciences.Only cream of indian students are admitted here.Excellent campus and facilities. Have an affinity for ocean engineering and their lab.Has various blocks for each disciplines and lab , library and hostel blocks.
By Balasubrama KRB (Mar, 2019) |
Very nice and green place. Students use bicycle only in the campus.There are much more facilities like statium,sports complex,library,restaurents etc. Everything is available in the campus
By Shivani Srivastava (Mar, 2018) |
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Great university amazing set of places to visit within and from within. It has deer and several great profs who have travelled a lot and several students and people managing it. There are DST and other science and tech projects here. Great sport amenities and great departments
By Dr. Harish Ravi (Aug, 2019) |