Engineering and Technology


Integrated M.Tech (five-year) programmes

Biochemical engineering and biotechnology


The five-year integrated M.Tech. programme amalgamates a balanced training in physical, chemical, biological and engineering sciences. Adequate high level core inputs of mathematics and computational skills and normal courses in social sciences including management, as in any engineering discipline, constitute the course.

The training exposes the student to the new biological and chemical sciences. Students find appropriate and expanding opportunities in research and development, academics, process industries and in particular, management of a large range of industries, for example, pharmaceutical, drug, fermentation and of high value chemicals, in which new biology is an integral part. Current demand of such highly trained graduates is much higher than their actual availability.

Chemical engineering

Candidates admitted to the five-year cooperative integrated M.Tech. programme in chemical engineering are sponsored by major industries after the first year. The industries contribute towards the scholarship of such students, who undergo industrial training for four weeks during each summer in the sponsoring industry. In the fourth and fifth years, they are required to work on a project and paper on topics suggested by the sponsoring industry in consultation with a guide at the institute.

Electrical engineering

The electrical power industries all over the world are undergoing vast changes through introduction of high-tech in the field of Digital Control and Instrumentation and through the application of microprocessors and computers.

In the 5-year programme, several courses in the first three years are common with the B.Tech programme. These include courses in Electronics, Power, Communications and Instrumentation. Courses such as Electronic Instrumentation, Solid State Power Electronics, Microprocessors and Computers are compulsory for these students. The employment potential of the students graduating through this programme is high.

Mechanical Engineering

The programme in Mechanical Engineering retains all the essential parts of the under-graduate and post-graduate programmes and adds on the additional feature of considerable interaction with the industry in the form of practical training with industry-oriented projects. The programme calls for a higher level of intelligence and diligence from the student than for regular programmes as the work load is heavier and the opportunity to make up limited. It also requires adaptability as the choice of industry is limited. In return, the student gets a feel of what is expected of engineers in their professional career and has an opportunity to gear his education to the specific needs by a judicious choice, made in consultation with industry, of as many as 10 electives provided in the programme.

Master of Engineering Management (MEM) Programme

The 5-year integrated Master of Engineering Management (MEM) programme is aimed at producing engineering managers who possess holistic understanding of the technological and management process and the associated problems.

A student of this programme gets the same level of training in his/her selected branch of engineering as any other student of that branch.

After the completion of the under-graduate programme, the student receives his B.Tech, degree in the respective branch. In the fifth year, the student can undergo specially designed course work and industrial training in areas of Engineering Management to receive the MEM degree after the fifth year. The MEM Programme is open to all those who join the B.Tech Programmes at IIT, Kanpur.