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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29 September 2025
Please join us in congratulating Ms. Milan Shahana, Doctoral Scholar (MM18D015), Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering on being awarded the “Best Paper Award” for her paper titled “Long-Term High-Temperature Oxidation Behaviour of Cold-Sprayed and Heat-Treated IN718 Coatings: A Comparative Study with Wrought Alloy” at the International Conference & Exhibition on Corrosion (ICECORR 2025), held during August 20-22, 2025 at Kochi. She is guided by Prof. Kamaraj M and Prof. Srinivasa Rao Bakshi. Congratulations to Prof. Kamaraj M, Prof. Srinivasa Rao Bakshi and their Doctoral Scholar Ms. Milan Shahana.
18 September 2025
We are happy to share that the first comprehensive review article on creep of AM Ni-base superalloys has been published in Journal of Materials Science by the group of Prof. Ravi Sankar. We are delighted to inform you that one of our PhD students, Mr Sabari Rajan's (MM19D754) review article on additively manufactured (AM) Ni-base superalloys has been published. We must mention that this happens to be the first comprehensive review article in the AM literature dealing with creep of AM Ni-base superalloys. Congratulations to Prof. Ravi Sankar, his collaborators and students.
17 September 2025
We are happy to share that the review article A review of silver nanowire-based composites for flexible electronic applications from the group of Prof. Parasuraman has received top cited paper award for receiving top 1% most cited papers in IOP’s portfolio for 2022-2024. The authors, Dr. Neha and Dr. Nitheesh, were former IDRP Regular PhD students working jointly with Dr. Debdutta Ray. Dr. Nagasarvari was a regular PhD student in the department. Congratulations to Prof. Parasuraman and his former students.
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