Indian Institute of Technology Indore

Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI) started in 2009. Headed by a scientist of national and international stature, Prof Pradeep Mathur, IITI places a heavy emphasis on its research programme and would like to be recognized by the label of a research cum teaching institute that redefines education as knowledge germinating out of research experience. With such an intention the institute is topping the list of the newly formed IITs in India and quickly moving ahead to reach the stature of the older IITs. The number of research publications is growing exponentially, accelerating the SCOPUS h-index of the institute. The institute has introduced a curriculum which requires students to spend six to nine months of their final year working on projects and internships with academic or industrial exposure. The students are exposed to research projects within the institute and with collaborators abroad. With several state of the art research facilities, IIT Indore has the highest number of sponsored projects per faculty member, for any institution in India. Some of these facilities are being used extensively by external users, both from the academia and industry, within India and abroad. The academic responsibility is being shared by three schools with faculty members from different disciplines within the institute: School of (1) Engineering; (2) Sciences; (3) Humanities & Social Sciences The School of Engineering is supported by five disciplines: Discipline of (a) Electrical Engineering; (b) Mechanical Engineering; (c) Computer Science and Engineering (d) Civil Engineering (from AY 2016-17 onwards) and (e) Metallurgy Engineering Materials Science (from AY 2016-17 onwards) The School of Sciences is being nourished by three disciplines: Discipline of (a) Physics; (b) Chemistry; (c) Mathematics The School of Humanities and Social Sciences has four disciplines: Discipline of (a) Economics, (b) English, (c) Sociology, (d) Philosophy, Psychological Sciences IIT Indore offers BTech, MTech, MSc and PhD in these disciplines. 

With the experience of observing, over several decades, the evolution of various teaching and research growth pathways in the older established IITs, the path set out in IIT Indore’s vision is clear. There is tremendous excitement amongst all faculty and staff members that, indeed IIT Indore can be “different”. The campus design has been adapted to an approach of bringing in revolutionary ethos, by Indian standards, in the living and working styles at the IIT Indore permanent campus. This would be reflected not only in the physical sense of integrating traditional departments into one large academic environment where students and faculty members from different specializations interact and exchange ideas and thoughts freely but also in the research and teaching methodologies. Strong grasp of fundamentals coupled with approaches leading to interdisciplinary research is recognized at IIT Indore to be an essential requirement for the fulfilment of the country’s needs in the coming years. The institute recognizes the urgent need of strong partnership with frontline industries in order to compete in the highly competitive international arena in the coming years.