Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
The Department had its inception in 1954. Over the years, the Department has developed excellent expertise in the areas of Extractive and Physical Metallurgy, Manufacturing Processes, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Nano-Science and Technology, Modelling and Simulation, Surface Engineering, Powder Metallurgy and Environmental Degradation of Materials. The Department takes pride for its wide spectrum of state of the art laboratories both for teaching and research purposes. Keeping its tradition for producing world class metallurgists, the Department has actively diversified to advanced materials for addressing today's technological challenges in renewable energy and healthcare. The Department has provided the required manpower for sustainable growth in India's backbone of steel industry and continues to do so even today with the establishment of Steel Technology Center at IIT Kharagpur. The Department aims to establish itself as a global leader in frontier areas of Metallurgical & Materials research and education so that it can effectively cater to the growing needs of industry, academia and research institutions of India. The Department has been publishing, on an average, more than 90 papers per year in peer-reviewed journal over the last 5 years. Similarly, a large number of sponsored and consultancy projects are undertaken per year. Excellence in teaching and research is the key element of this vision and the Department has set clear-cut objectives and strategies to realise this vision.
Prof. Karabi Das is the current Head of the Department . [1]
Professors
Research Areas
- Advanced Alloys & Superalloys
- Advanced Materials Processing
- Bulk metallic glasses
- Bulk nanocomposites and nanocomposite thin films
- Bulk Nanocrystalline Metals and Alloys
- Characterization of Materials
- Composite & Functionally Graded Material
- Corrosion & environmental degradation
- Energy materials
- Extractive metallurgy
- Failure Analysis
- High Temperature Oxidation
- Iron & steel technology
- Low Stacking Fault Energy Materials
- Mechanical metallurgy
- Metastable alloys, Bulk Metallic Glasses
- Metastable & nano-structured material
- Modelling and simulation
- Nano Materials
- Non-equilibrium Processing
- Physical metallurgy
- Process Simulation, Optimization & Control
- Structural Safety
- Surface engineering and coated materials
- Thin film growth and epitaxy
Research Laboratories
- Arun Sarin Lab (Thin Film Research)
- Computer Lab
- Corrosion And High Temperature Oxidation
- Corrosion Lab
- Creep Testing Laboratory
- Dta Lab
- Fesem Lab
- Heat Treatment Lab
- Hrtem Lab
- Instron Lab
- Machine Shop
- Mechanical Characterization Lab
- Mechanical Testing Lab
- Melting & Casting Lab
- Metallography Lab
- Optical Emission Spectroscopy Lab, Crf
- Optical Microscopy Lab
- Optical Profilometer, Crf
- Powder Metallurgy Lab
- Sem-Ebsd, Crf
- Sem-Fib
- Sem Lab
- Spark Plasma Sintering Lab, Snst
- Tem Lab & Tem Sample Preparation Lab
- Thermal Analysis Lab, Crf
- Tmp Lab
- X Ray Diffraction Lab
- X-Ray Lab