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Message from HOD

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 engineering along with pyrometallurgy. The department hosts state-of-the-art processing and characterization facilities, including excellent computational infrastructure. If you are interested in pursuing a career in metallurgy, materials science and engineering and excel, this is the department that you should be in.

 

Prof. Subramanya Sarma Vadlamani

Head, Dept of Metallurgical & Materials Engg., & Professor In charge of Scanning Electron Microscopy Laboratory

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News

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

One of our PMRF PhD student, Ms. Peela Lasya, has won the best poster award at the International Conference on Energy and Environmental Materials.

We are happy to share that our PMRF PhD student, Ms. Peela Lasya (MM22D011), has won the best poster award in Theme A/ Synthesis and Characterization of Energy Materials at the International Conference on Energy and Environmental Materials (E2M-2024) held in IIT Indore between July 11-13. The title of her poster was “Chemically stable ultrathin platinum films supported on oxide substrate”. Hearty congratulations to Ms. Lasya and her supervisor Prof. Satyesh Yadav.
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Our Research Scholar won first prize for the poster titled “An ICME approach to study the effect of cooling rate on microstructure evolution of aluminium alloys” presented in 28th International Conference on Non-ferrous Metals - 2024

Arpita Priyadarshani Samal, MM22D004, Ph.D Research Scholar won first prize for the poster titled “An ICME approach to study the effect of cooling rate on microstructure evolution of aluminium alloys” presented in 28th International Conference on Non-ferrous Metals - 2024 (ICNFM - 2024), Bhubaneswar, 12 - 13 JULY, 2024. She is guided by Profs. Ranjit Bauri and G. Phanikumar, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. The Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering congratulates Arpita Priyadarshani Samal, Profs. Ranjit Bauri and G. Phanikumar.  See More
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

One more Patent granted to Prof. Parasuraman and his to MS Entrepreneurship student, Balamurugan

The Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering is happy to share the news on the grant of an Indian patent, “MICRONEEDLE ARRAY DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF”, to Prof. Parasuraman and his MS Entrepreneurship student, Balamurugan (MM21S401). This is the second Indian patent arising out of his MS work. His first patent, “SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FORM CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING DEVICE”, was granted a couple of weeks ago. The Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering congratulates to Prof. Parasuraman and his MS Entrepreneurship student, Balamurugan.  See More
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Indian Patent was granted to our department faculty and his research scholar

Our Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department Research Scholar MS Entrepreneurship student, Balamurugan (MM21S401) and his supervisor Prof. Parasuraman Swaminathan got an Indian Patent on their research "SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FORM CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING DEVICE". Departmrnt of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering congratulates Prof. Parasuraman Swaminathan and Mr. Balamurugan.   See More

Events

11 July

2024

A Lecture on Probing Emergent Phenomena in Complex Oxides through Nonlinear Optics and Coherent X-rays.

Absract: The fast-paced improvements in ultrafast radiation from X-ray, ultraviolet, visible, and infrared to terahertz frequencies is enabling simultaneous probing of electron, phonon, and spin dynamics on the ps-to-ns time scales, as well as sub-micrometer length scales. In this talk, I will present brief introduction to nonlinear optics, followed by examples of the discovery of new low symmetry phases with large property enhancements in decades old ferroelectric crystals using nonlinear optical microscopy. In a second example, I will show how an ultrafast laser pulse can create a complex polar supertextures with modulation periodicities of tens of nanometers. Biography of the Speaker : Prof. V. Goplan (BTech from MME dept in 1989), Distinguished alumnus awardee for 2024 is visiting the MME department on 11th July. Prof. Gopalan is currently at Penn State University. URL: https://www.matse.psu.edu/directory/venkatraman-gopalan.
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2:30 PM
NAC-1 222 SEMINAR HALL, Hybrid Mode

A Seminar on The Generation and Influence of Bimodal Distribution on the Deformation Behavior of Alloy 718Plus Under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading

Nickel based superalloys, strengthened by ordered intermetallic precipitates, show an excellent combination of physical and mechanical performance at high service temperatures. The newly developed gamma prime strengthened alloy, 718Plus, is considered a replacement for the current commercial superalloys used in turbine disk applications, owing to its high thermal stability and a good combination of formability and weldability.   See More

3:00 PM
NAC-1 Room No - 222, Hybrid Mode

A Seminar on Understanding the Deformation Behavior of a Solid Solution Strengthened Cobalt-base Superalloy Over a Wide Range of Temperatures

Solid solution strengthened Co-base superalloys have recently rekindled interest due to their excellent microstructural stability and mechanical strength at high temperatures. Therefore, understanding the deformation behaviour of these alloys over a wide range of temperatures, strain rates, and stress is imperative.   See More

11:00 AM
Online mode

Seminar From Hough transform to spherical indexing: Principles and applications of EBSD pattern analysis

The speaker will discuss the various approaches to indexing of electron back scatter diffraction patterns and highlight the the recent development with emphasis in spherical indexing and its application to. Biography of the Speaker : Prof. Stefan Zaefferer obtained his PhD from University of Clausthal. Since 2202 he is Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable materials, Dusseldorf Germany . He is a also a Professor at RWTH Aachen, University of Vienna, and Adjunct Faculty at Dept of MME IIT Madras.  See More

3:00 PM
NAC-1:222, Hybrid Mode