Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
IIT Hyderabad logo
Motto	Pushing frontiers
Established	2008
Type	Education and Research Institution
Director	Prof.U. B. Desai
Academic staff	60
Undergraduates	333
Postgraduates	170
Location	Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Campus	Spread over 550 acres (2.2 km2)
Website	www.iith.ac.in

General information
IIT Hyderabad permanent campus that occupies 550 acres (2.2 km²) that is part of the Kandhi village, Medak district. Presently The institute has nearly 60 faculty, 330 B.Tech students, 110 M.Tech students, 70 research scholars and 40 administrative and supporting staff. Growing ever since it obtained its charter from the Indian Parliament in 2008, IIT Hyderabad has established itself as a premier centre for teaching, research and industrial consultancy in the country.
The Institute has 10 academic departments and research centres across various disciplines of engineering and pure sciences, with well equipped laboratories at temporary campus.

 History

IIT Hyderabad started in 2008 from a temporary campus at Ordinance Factory(ODF), Yeddumailaram village. Its permanent campus will be located at Kandi near Sangareddy and is close to the Outer Ring Road (Hyderabad). United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Mrs Sonia Gandhi on 27th Feb 2009 laid the foundation stone for the permanent campus of the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) in Andhra Pradesh's Medak district^[2].

 Campus and Location

 Permanent Campus

IIT Hyderabad campus will be located at Kandhi (near to Sangareddy) to on the outskirts of Hyderabad in a 550-acre (2.2 km²) campus. The campus located on NH-9 and it also near to Outer Ring Road (Hyderabad). It is expected that all operations will be shifted to the main campus in two years. It is about 45 km from the heart of Hyderabad city.

 Temporary Campus

IIT Hyderabad Temporary Campus at ODF

The temporary campus of IIT Hyderabad is located in the quiet residential campus of Ordnance Factory Medak (OFMK) at Yeddumailaram (Medak District, Andhra Pradesh), about 45 km from the heart of Hyderabad city. The academic blocks are newly renovated buildings of Sarath Vikas School Campus, in a walled compound of approximately 40 acres (0.16 km²). It has all the basic infrastructure to run Academic programmes. All the advanced lab equipment, playground, workshops,lecture halls are made available to the students to encourage research and development.

 Departments

IIT Hyderabad has 6 engineering departments,three science departments and Department of Liberal Arts.

Department	Department started year	B.Tech	B.Tech Dual Dgree	MSc	M.Tech	MS	Ph.D
Computer Science and Engineering	2008(Aug)	yes	N/A	N/A	yes	N/A	yes
Electrical Engineering	2008(Aug)	yes	N/A	N/A	yes	N/A	yes
Chemical Engineering	2008(Dec)	N/A	N/A	N/A	yes	N/A	yes
Civil Engineering	2010(Aug)	N/A	N/A	N/A	yes	N/A	yes
Materials Science Engineering	2010(Aug)	N/A	N/A	N/A	yes	N/A	yes
Mechanical Engineering	2008(Aug)	yes	N/A	N/A	yes	N/A	yes
Chemistry	2008(Dec)	N/A	N/A	yes	N/A	N/A	yes
Mathematics	2010(Aug)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	yes
Physics	2008(Dec)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	yes
Liberal Arts	2008(Dec)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	yes

 Engineering Departments

 Chemical Engineering

The major objective of the Department is to impart high quality education and research. The major research areas of the Chemical Engineering department include.

Computational Fluid Dynamics Fuel Cells Combustion Technologies Coal Gasification Solid-oxide fuel cells Multiphase and interfacial flows Process Modeling

Transition to turbulence in shear flows Spatially developing flows in complex geometries Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering Modeling and Simulation Chemically reacting flow modelling Development of elementary heterogeneous kinetics Drug Delivery

Cell adhesion and motility Multiscale modeling of intercellular interactions in the vasculature. Polymerization Electrochemical Transport Equilibrium & Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics

The Chemical Engineering Department has access to online journal like Science Direct. Software like MATLAB and ASPEN plus are available with the Department in order to accelerate the research.

Civil Engineering

The major Research areas are.

• Structural and Soil systems (Structural and Geotechnical Engineering)
• Environmental and Hydraulic systems (Environmental Engineering and Management, Water resources)
• Transportation systems (Transportation, Structural, Geotechnical, and Environmental Engineering)

 Computer Science and Engineering

 Electrical Engineering

 Materials Science Engineering

 Mechanical Engineering

Science Departments

Chemistry

Conducting polymers and composites Synthetic Methodology and Asymmetric Catalysis. Syntheses and electrochemistry of transition metal oxides Synthesis of Natural and aesthetically pleasing. Electrochromic films and devices. Nanomaterials and Energy Systems Transition Metal-mediated reactions in organic synthesis

Organic Chemistry - Total Synthesis Catalysis Chemical Synthesis in Ionic Liquids, and Supported Catalysts Inorganic Synthesis Organometallic Chemistry Organic, Organometallics and Materials Chemistry. Discovery of New Methodologies and Control of Stereochemistry in organic synthesis

Chemistry Environmental lab - IIT Hyderabad

 Mathematics

 Physics

Department of Liberal Arts

• Liberal Arts

 Academics

IIT Hyderabad offers undergraduate B.Tech degrees in 3 disciplines in Engineering, postgraduate and research degrees across 6 disciplines in Engineering, Sciences, Liberal Arts. About 60 faculty belonging to various science and engineering departments of the Institute are engaged in teaching, research and industrial consultancy. IIT Hyderabad is goning to start inter-disciplinary courses.^[3]. Indian Institutes of Technology hyderabad is soon starting producing doctors ^{[4] [5]}.

Degree	Started Year	Specialization
Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.)	Aug-2008	1.Computer Science and Engineering 2.Electrical Engineering 3.Mechanical Engineering
Master of Technology (M. Tech.)	Aug-2009	1 Chemical Engineering 2 Civil Engineering 3 Computer Science and Engineering 4 Communications and Signal Processing 5 Micro-electronics and VLSI 6 Power Systems & Power Electronics 7 Design Engineering 8 Thermofluid Engineering 9 Material Science
Master of Science (MSc)	Aug-2010	* Chemistry.
Doctor of Medicine (MD)	coming soon	Medicine
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)	Dec-2008	All engineering disciplines, interdisciplinary areas, science disciplines and the Liberal arts.

 Undergraduate academics

 B.Tech program

• Admission to Undergraduate program

JEE: The Joint Entrance Examination to the IITs is conducted every year and forms the basis of admission to the undergraduate programs. It is considered an extremely competitive exam. IIT Hyderabad is having highest cut-off ranks compared to other new IITs.

 Postgraduate academics

 M.Tech program

• Admission to M.Tech program

Minimum Qualifications:B.Tech./B.E. degree with 65% for GE/OBC, 60% for SC/ST or equivalent in the respective or allied areas with exceptional academic record and possessing a valid GATE score.
GATE: The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering is the entrance exam used to govern admission to graduate engineering programs at the IITs.

 M.Sc program

• Admission to M.Sc program

Minimum Qualifications:B.Sc or equivalent degree with 65% for GE/OBC, 60% for SC/ST or equivalent in the respective or allied areas with exceptional academic record and possessing a valid JAM score.
JAM: The Joint Admission to M.Sc. is the entrance exam used to govern admission to post graduate science programs at the IITs.

 Ph.D Program

IIT Hyderabad offering Ph.D in all areas.

• Admission to Ph.D Program

1. B.Tech/GATE qualification for engineering departments with good academic background
2. M.Tech/GATE qualification for engineering departments
3. NET qualification for Science departments

[edit] Other academic activities

Among all the new IITs in the country IIT Hyderabad has been making fast progress on the research side apart from providing regular B.Tech programmes
 Research & Industrial Consultancy
IIT Hyderabad got lot of Project from various Industries and funding agencies. Among those 1st Research Project to address future energy needs of India. The project "Development of High-Energy Density Li-ion Batteries for Mobile Applications" entails developing state-of-the-art electrode materials for Li-ion batteries and fabricating the batteries. ARCI joins hands in embarking on an ambitious program to develop High-Energy Density Batteries.

 Student activities

 Elan

Elan is the annual technical cum cultural festival of IIT Hyderabd.So far, there has been two editions of Elan in 2009 and 2010 ,respectively with the latter being a greater hit, among the colleges across Hyderabad. It is typically held in springs and aims at being one of the biggest student festival in Hyderabad. It includes workshops, lectures, demonstrations, and technical exhibitions. Competitive activities cover design events, programming, simulations and modeling, quizzes, applied engineering, robotics.

 Facilities

These are facilities available in (temporary campus at ODF) IIT Hyderabad: The ODF campus includes four schools (Ankur Vidhaya Mandir, ZPHS, Sarath Vikas School and Kendriya Vidyalaya), One Sai mandir, a couple of bank branches , SBH and Andhra Bank, and three SBI ATMs (One near by SBH,one at ODF Main production unit and one in institute area), a hospital, shopping centers at complex, food joints, Market(twice a week), a swimming pool, football and cricket stadiums.

 Hostel zone

Boys hostel - IIT Hyderabad (temporary campus at ODF)

High speed internet is available in the hostel zone 7am to 11:59pm and 24X7 in Sat&Sundays. Each Hostel has washing machines, aqua guards (Manjera drinking water), Computer facility, Solar water heaters, TV rooms, cycle stands and each block having 32 rooms with good ventilation. Each room connected with Wi-Fi and two persons can stay. The hostel zone having dining room,food-court, Gymkhana, SBI ATM, solar lighting system, Cricket ground, Shuttle court, Volleyball ground, Football court, reading room and Music room. IIT Hyderabad Boys hostel zone having Canara Bank with One ATM is set up near by gyamkana room.

 Academic zone

High speed Internet is available in the institute 24x7. IITH has a small cafeteria in its premises, named "Little Place". IIT Hyderabad having SBI bank with One SBI ATM is set up at the institute area.

 Labs and workshops

Labs are well equipped and are apt to the growing need of latest technology and remains open 24x7. IIT-Hyderabad having High Computing facility with Linux and Windows severs.

Library

The IIT Hyderabad Library has a modest collection of books and is growing with every day. The Library holds about 1200 acquisitions of academic books and about 200 acquisitions of non-academic books. There are variety magazines, NEWS papers (Hindi, English and Telugu) and Video lectures are also available.