The Department of Metallurgical and Materials was established in 1959 as the Department of Metallurgy. It was renamed the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2003. ...
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 woarldwide in diverse materials science and engineering areaas. 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.
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Prof. NV Ravi Kumar has been elected "Honorary Fellow of the European Ceramic Society". It will be recognised during the XIX th Conference of the European Ceramic Society that will take place from August 31 to September 4, 2025 at the International Congress Center in Dresden in Germany.
Prof. NV Ravikumar have been awarded the "Late Padmashree D.r .T N. Sharma Memorial Award for the year 2024" by the Indian Ceramic Society, Western U.P (Khurja) chapter. The award was handed over during the Centenary celebrations of the Department of Ceramic Engineering, IIT BHU which was accompanied by the International Conference on Frontier in Ceramic Materials (ICFCM 2024) from 16th - 18th December 2024 in IIT BHU.
Prof. Ravi Kumar N V has been inducted as a member of the International Advisory Board of the European Ceramic Society and he will be attending the first meeting on the 1st of Sept 2025 in Dresden, Germany, The invitation was extended to him by Prof. Pavol Sajgalik, former president of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
We are happy to inform you that Prof. Sreeram Kalpathy has been selected for the teachers day award from Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. The award will be given on the teachers day function to be held on 8th September at terrace hall at 4 PM Hearty congratulations Prof. Sreeram for this well deserved recognition and wish you many more laurels.
Prof. Kamaraj M has been awarded as Winner in the Applied Semiconductor Collaboration in Engineering and Technology (ASCENT) for their proposal titled: "Cold spray deposition of metal on ceramics" and "Diamond-like-carbon coating on Graphite".
Prof. Srinivasa Rao Bakshi has been awarded as Winner in the Applied Semiconductor Collaboration in Engineering and Technology (ASCENT) for their proposal titled: "Cold spray deposition of metal on ceramics" and "Diamond-like-carbon coating on Graphite".
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We are pleased to inform you that Prof. N V Ravi Kumar has been appointed as "ACADEMICIAN" of the WORLD ACADEMY OF CERAMICS of the class "Science" during the recently held 21st election and approved by the Academy Council meeting held on September 23, 2025. The appointment will be officially awarded during the Inaugural Session of CIMTEC 2026 in Perugia, Italy, June 15-25, 2026. This is a prestigious appointment to the academy and awarded to those who have made an international noteworthy contribution to the advancement of ceramics.
8 December 2025
We are glad to share with you that Ms. Suvitha S. Kumar, a PhD student jointly guided by Prof. Tiju Thomas and Prof. Sreeram, has been selected for the Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) Women in STEM fellowship for Women PhD students, as part of HUL's CSR program, by which she will be supported with a fellowship equivalent to the PMRF scholarship. Congratulations and best wishes to Ms. Suvitha S Kumar and her supervisors, Prof. Tiju Thomas and Prof. Sreeram.
27 November 2025
We are happy to share the news that Prof. Murugaiyyan, along with co-inventors Prof. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran and the PhD student, Mr Thennavan from the Ocean Engineering Department are granted a patent for A functionally graded material (FGM) stiffened coped beam used in offshore and heavy industrial structures. Congratulations to Prof. Murugaiyyan, and I wish him more success.
8 November 2025
We are happy to share the news that Prof. Satyesh Yadav and his students Mr. Allamula Ashok, Mr. Daljin J, and Ms.Peela Lasya have been granted a patent for Ultrathin Catalytic Metal Layer Supported on Substrates and Methods of Fabrication Thereof. Hearty congratulations to Prof. Satyesh and his students and wish them more success in their future endeavours.
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