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IIT-M becomes top ranked engineering institution for 2nd consecutive year

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has been selected as the Top Ranked Engineering Institution in the country for the second consecutive year as per National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), MHRD, Government of India. It has also emerged as the second-best Institute in the Country, under the 'Overall Category introduced this year, in the NIRF Rankings.The institute has marked its achievements in R&D, academic activities, innovations, and startups during the year. In 2017,three famous alumni of IIT Madras - Sparta Group Chairman Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, treasurer Jaishree Deshpande and Infosys co-founder S Kris Gopalakrishnan - jointly launched an entrepreneurship centre at IIT Madras similar to the Deshpande Centres at MIT and elsewhere. It will get a funding of $500,000 per year over the next 5 years to support its activities.The institute also signed an MoU with Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions (RBEI) to set up the Robert Bosch Centre for ..

IIT-M ties up with four companies for new industry-academia initiative

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) has announced a new initiative to facilitate Industry-Academia talks on research in collaboration with four companies under the name as Research Connect. The companies it tied up include the leading chip manufacturer Intel Corporation, Japanese multinational conglomerate Hitachi, ABB, a Swedish high-tech engineering multinational corporation and the Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment company Huawei.The Research Connect aims to link the Industrial R&D experts, IIT Madras Research Scholars and Faculty to augment the existing research initiatives of IIT Madras such as Research Park, Incubation Cell, Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research (ICSR) by bringing the industrial research fraternity to the research scholars at IIT Madras to have a result oriented discussion on how research done by the varied labs at IIT Madras can be focused to deliver solutions that the industry needs.IIT-M, with 16 academic .

IIT Madras targets to have 100 foreign faculties in three years

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) is planning to attract more foreign nationals as its faculty, targeting a total of 100 foreign faculty in the institute in three years. The institute, which has received an increased fund of Rs 750 crore in the budget for the year, is also looking at increasing its industry-institute collaboration and more funds from the industry in future, said the senior officials from IITM.The institutes' board in a meeting has approved a plan to increase its foreign faculty level to 100 in next three years and to maintain in that level for future, said Pawan Goenka, chairman of the Governing Board of IITM and managing director, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd."The scheme to attract foreign faculty was presented in the board meeting today and it has been approved. Initially the target is to appoint 25 foreign nationals as faculty members," he said. Even the numbers reaches 50-70, it would be beneficial for the institute. He said that one of the major ...

IIT Madras websites hacked, institute says 'examining' issue

Institute said it runs main website and auxiliary sites and were maintained by different entities

60% IIT Madras students hired in first phase of campus placements

728 students have been placed in various companies so far

143 companies hands out 714 job offers in IIT-Madras in the first week of placement

A total of 1327 students registered for placements during the academic session out of which 625 students have already been placed

89 offer letters on first half of Day 2 recruitment in IIT Madras

On the first day, 25 companies made 137 offers

Campus recruitment starts at IIT-Madras

The institute is expects to see 74 entities participate in the first phase of campus recruitment during the first two weeks of Dec

IIT Madras patent filings increase by 33%

Approval for international patents doubled to 15 during the year 2015-16

Two women commit suicide at IIT Madras, police hints at family feud

Victims have been identified as P Maheshwari, 34, and 47-year-old G Vijayalakshmi

IIT Madras ranked first in India Rankings 2016 for engineering

Rankings was released by the Minister for Human Resource Development

IIT-Madras alumni run companies with combined revenue of $71 bn

Of those who left core engineering after graduating, about a third are entrepreneurs