Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a college of engineering located in Chennai, India. Founded in 1959, it is chronologically the third among the Indian Institutes of Technology established by the Government of India to provide high quality education in the fields of engineering and technology.

The city that IIT Madras is located in has since changed its name to Chennai; nonetheless, having been established by a charter of the Central Government of India, its official name remains the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

==General==Probably the best institute in the world in terms of everything. The Institute is a self-contained campus with about 360 faculty, 4000 students and 1250 administrative and supporting staff. The campus has an area of 630 acres (2.55 km²), most of which is protected forest, and has a large population of chital (spotted deer) and black buck.

History

• Location
• DAAD collaboration

Academics

• Degrees offered: IIT Madras offers UG, PG and research degrees in 15 disciplines in Engineering, Sciences, Humanities and Management. Around 400 faculty of international repute belonging to various science and engineering disciplines are engaged in teaching, research and consultancy activities here.

• JEE
• Credit system: With the other IITs, IITM follows a credit system for evaluating academic performance. The GPA is on a scale of 0 to 10.
• NCC/NSS/NSO

Research

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

• Departments

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

• • Science
    • Chemistry
    • Mathematics
    • Physics

• • Humanities and Social Sciences

• • Management Studies

Campus

IITM campus spreads over 630 acres (2.55 km²) with most of it covered with tropical forest. The campus is noticeably cooler than Chennai city, due to the abundant tree growth.

• Natural life
  • Flora
  • Fauna

• • • Monkeys
    • deer
    • snakes
    • crocodiles
    • standard Indian animals - crows, dogs, cats, aquatic birds
• lake
• bus

Student life

• Hostels:

Most students at IIT Madras live in the hostels, where a large number of extracurricular activities complement the hectic academic routine. The campus has 13 hostels, of which one (Sharavati) is exclusively occupied by girls and one (Sarayu) is exclusively occupied by freshers. Until 2002, Sarayu was the girls' hostel, and the freshers were distributed through all hostels. Hostels in IITM may accommodate undergraduate and/or graduate students, though they tend to keep the two separate. Students are assigned to hostels by the Institute Administration after their fresher year, and usually spend the entire period of their stay in the Institute in the same hostel.

IIT Madras hostels are named after the principal rivers of India. Because the buses that ply the Institute are named after mountains, a common epigram about IIT Madras is that it is the only place where the mountains move and the rivers remain still.

The hostels of IIT currently are:

• Krishna
• Cauvery
• Bramhaputra
• Tapti
• Narmada (http://www.hostel.iitm.ernet.in/narmada/)
• Godavari
• Saraswati
• Jamuna (http://hostel.iitm.ernet.in/jamuna/)
• Ganga (http://hostel.iitm.ernet.in/ganga/)
• Alakananda
• Mandakini
• Sharavati
• Sarayu

Several new hostels are currently being constructed to accommodate an increasing influx of students.

• OAT
• Saarang,Shaastra
• campus magazines
• male/female ratio
• lingo

Other info

Location of IIT Madras

IIT Madras is located on Chennai's Sardar Patel Road and is flanked by Adyar, Taramani and Velachery. The campus is close to the Raj Bhavan. The 2.55 km² (630 acres) of land which form the campus were once part of the Raj Bhavan campus and were later donated to the Institute. IIT Madras is recognized as a separate postal zone (PIN 600036).

The campus is midway between the Chennai Airport and the Chennai Central Railway station and is well connected by buses. It is around 14 km from the Central Railway station and the central bus depot. Adyar has its own bus terminus as well.

Two parallel roads, Bonn Avenue and Delhi avenue, lead you through the residential zone, under a canopy of green, to Gajendra Circle (otherwise called GC) and the administrative block. Buses ply between the gate and other locations on campus at regular intervals. Named after mountains, the IITM buses ply to and fro the GC, academic zone and hostels (named after rivers) for a nominal fare. (This has in fact led to the joke that IIT is the land of moving mountains and stationary rivers)

External links

• Official website (http://www.iitm.ac.in)
• The IIT Brand (http://www.iit.org/)

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