Faculty Awards

Name

Recognition

Award

Year

P. Munshi

 

Award

 

Indian Society for Nondestructive Testing Award

 

2000

 

V. Eswaran

 

Fellowship

 

Fulbright Visiting Lectureship Award

 

2002

 

Bhaskar Dasgupta

 

Award

 

INAE Young Engineer Award

 

2003

 

Kalyanmoy Deb

 

Fellowship

 

Friedrich-Willhelm-Bessel Research

 

2003

 

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Award

 

AICTE Career Award For Young Teachers

 

2004

 

P. K. Panigrahi

 

Fellowship

 

Humboldt Fellowship, GERMANY

 

2004

 

Gautam Biswas

 

Fellowship

 

Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE)

 

2004

 

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Award

 

INAE Young Engineer Award

 

2005

 

Kalyanmoy Deb

 

Award

 

S. S. Bhatnagar Award

 

2005

 

Kalyanmoy Deb

 

Fellowship

 

Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE)

 

2005

 

Kalyanmoy Deb

 

Fellow

 

Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

 

2006

 

P. K. Panigrahi

 

Fellowship

 

Swarna Jayanti Fellowship

 

2006

 

Gautam Biswas

 

Fellowship

 

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

 

2006

 

K. Muralidhar

 

Fellowship

 

Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE)

 

2006

 

J. Ramkumar

 

Award

 

Young Scientist Award in Engineering Sciences by the Indian Science Congress Association

 

2007

 

J. Ramkumar

 

Award

 

Young Scientist Award by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)

 

2007

 

Gautam Biswas

 

Fellow

 

Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences India.

 

2007

 

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Award

 

Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award -2008 from Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE International USA)

 

2008

 

Gautam Biswas

Elected

Elected as an Indian representative to the apex body for the promotion of research in mechanics viz. International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) for four years with effect from January 2008

 

2008

Shantanu Bhattacharya

 

Award

 

IEI Young Engineers Award 2009-10

 

2009

 

S. Mahesh

 

Award

 

INAE Young Engineer Award 2010

 

2010

 

Gautam Biswas

 

Editorial Board

 

Member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Engineering & Materials Sciences (IJEMS)

 

2010

 

Sameer Khandekar

 

Medal

Prof. K. N. Seetharamu Medal for Young Researcher by the Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer

2010

 

       

Kalyanmoy Deb

 

Award

 

Distinguished Alumnus Award 2011 by IIT Kharagpur

 

2011

 

Sanjay Govind Dhande

 

Degree

 

Doctor of Science (honoris causa)

 

2011

 

V. K. Jain

 

 

Editorial Board

 

 

Appointed as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Engineering Manufacture (Proceedings of IMechE - Part B) published by Professional Engineering Publishing Ltd., London (U.K.)

 

2011

 

 

Kalyanmoy Deb

 

Fellow

 

Elected as Fellow of Indian National Science Academy

 

2011

 

Kalyanmoy Deb

 

Fellow

 

IEEE Fellow

 

2011

 

Kalyanmoy Deb

 

Fellowship

 

National J. C. Bose fellowship

 

2011

 

Binod Sreenivasan

 

Fellowship

 

Swarnajayanti Fellowship

 

2011

 

P. S. Ghoshdastidar

 

Invited

 

Invited to serve as Associate Editor of "Heat Transfer Research".

 

2011

 

Kalyanmoy Deb

 

Prize

 

Infosys Prize

 

2011

 

J. Ramkumar

 

Award

 

IEI Young Engineers Award in Production Engineering discipline

 

2011

 

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Award

 

INAE Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award

 

2012

 

N. N. Kishore

 

Award

 

ASNT Outstanding Paper Award for the article, Tomographic Reconstruction of Defects in Composite Plates Using Genetic Algorithms with Cluster Analysis

 

2012

 

Prabhat Munshi

 

Award

 

ASNT Outstanding Paper Award for the article, Tomographic Reconstruction of Defects in Composite Plates Using Genetic Algorithms with Cluster Analysis

 

2012

 

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Award

 

NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award for Application Oriented Innovations in Physical Sciences

 

2012

 

Prabhat Munshi

 

Elected

 

Elected as Fellows of Indian National Academy of Engineering

 

 

2012

 

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Fellow

SAE International (Society of Automotive Engineers)

2012

Gautam Biswas

 

Fellow

Indian National Science Academy

2012

Kalyanmoy Deb

 

Prize

Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in Engineering Sciences

 

2012

V. K. Jain

 

Editorial Board

Editor of Micro and Nanomanufacturing Series of Taylor and Francis (CRC Press), USA

 

2013

Sanjay Govind Dhande

 

Award

Padma Shri Award

2013

Gautam Biswas

 

Award

Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU) Shibpur

 

2013

Pankaj Wahi

 

Award

2013 INSA Medal for Young Scientists

2013

Shantanu Bhattacharya

 

Award

Young Scientist Award of the ISSS

2013

Ishan Sharma

 

Award

INAE Young Engineer Award

2013

Pankaj Wahi

 

Award

INAE Young Engineer Award

2013

V. K. Jain

 

Fellow

Indian National Academy of Engineering

2013

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Fellow

American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)

2013

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Invited

Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Energy Resource Technology

 

2013

Sanjay Govind Dhande

 

Member

National Security Advisory Board

2013

V. K. Jain

 

Appointed

Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Precision Technology published by Inderscience Publishers Pvt. Ltd (UK)

 

2014

Arvind Kumar

 

Award

IEI Young Engineer Award

2014

Kamal K. Kar

 

Editorial Board

Invited to join as associate editor in "Materials Express", an international online journal on multidisciplinary materials research published by American Scientific Publishers

 

2014

V. K. Jain

 

Editorial Board

Associate Editor of the "Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture" being published by SAGE (UK)

 

2014

Kamal K. Kar

 

Editorial Board

"Advanced Manufacturing: Polymer & Composites Science" published by Maney Publishing, Leeds, UK

 

2014

K. Muralidhar

 

Fellow

National Academy of Sciences, India

2014

V. K. Jain

 

Award

Lifetime achievement award by All India Manufacturing, Design and Research (AIMTDR)

 

2015

Shantanu Bhattacharya

 

Award

National Academy of Science of India (NASI) reliance platinum jubilee award

 

2019-20

Shantanu Bhattacharya

 

Award

Er. M.P. Baya National Award by Institution of Engineers of India

 

2019-20

P. Venkitanarayanan

 

Award

Excellence in teaching award by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

 

2019-20

P. Venkitanarayanan

 

Award

F. Zandman Award by Society for Experimental Mechanics, USA

 

2019-20

Avinash K Agarwal

 

Fellow

Sir J C Bose National Fellow by Science and Engineering Research Board, GoI

 

2019-20

Avinash K Agarwal

 

Fellow

Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

 

2019-20

Sameer Khandekar

 

Associate Editor

 

International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Elsevier

 

2019-20

Shantanu Bhattacharya

 

Associate Editor

 

Journal of Micro-manufacturing, SAGE

 

2019-20

P. Venkitanarayanan

 

Member of International Advisory Board

 

Experimental Mechanics, Springer

2019-20

P. Venkitanarayanan

 

Member of Editorial Board

 

International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, Elsevier

2019-20

Avinash K Agarwal

 

Associate Principal Editor

 

FUEL, Elsevier

2019-20

Anindya Chatterjee

 

Subject Editor

Nonlinear Dynamics, Springer

2019-20

Sameer Khandekar

 

Fellow

Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, FNAE

 

2019-20

Shantanu Bhattacharya

 

Fellow

Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

 

2019-20

Shantanu Bhattacharya

 

Fellow

Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), London

 

2021

P. S. Ghoshdastidar

 

Award

Excellence in teaching award by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

 

2021

Anindya Chatterjee

 

Award

Excellence in teaching award by Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

 

2021

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Award

Distinguished alumnus award from MNIT Jaipur

 

2022

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Fellowship

Elected as fellow of combustion institute (USA)

 

2022

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Award

WSSET Innovation Award-2022 in "Renewable Energy Systems" category

 

2022

Sumit Basu

 

Award

Excellence-in-Teaching Award (ETA) by IIT Kanpur

 

2022

Mohit Law

 

Award

Excellence-in-Teaching Award (ETA) by IIT Kanpur

 

2022

Gautam Biswas

 

Award

Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA) by IIT Kanpur

 

2022

J. Ramkumar

 

Fellowship

Indian National Academy of Engineering

 

2022

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Award

Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Delhi

 

2022

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Associate Editor

 

ASME Open Journal of Engineering

 

2023

 

Mohit Law

 

Elected

 

Associate Member of the CIRP- The International Academy of Production Engineering

 

2023

 

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Associate Editor

 

SAE International Journal of Engines

 

2023

 

Kamal K. Kar

 

Published

 

Handbook of Nanocomposite Supercapacitor Materials: IV Next generation

 

2023

 

Kamal K. Kar

 

Published

 

Work featured on outer cover of J of Materials Chemistrty A, Royal Society of Chemistry

 

2023

 

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Award

 

Outstanding Contribution to National Development (OCND) & Global Alumni Recognition Award (GARA): IITD Alumni Award Ceremony

 

2023

 

Gautam Biswas

 

Award

 

2023 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award

 

2023

 

Umesh Madanan

 

Award

 

Max Planck India Mobility Grant

 

2023

 

Anurag Gupta

 

Editorial Board

 

Journal of Elasticity

 

2023

 

Shantanu Bhattacharya

 

Director

 

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research -Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIR-CSIO)

 

2023

 

Kamal K Kar

 

Award

 

VASVIK Industrial Research Award-2023 in the category of Materials Sciences and Technology

 

2023

 

Akhilesh Mimani

 

Winner

 

Computational Acoustics session of the ACOUSTICS2023 conference held in Sydney

 

2023

 

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

 

Appointed

 

Director of IIT Jodhpur

 

2024

 

J. Ramkumar

 

Appointed

 

Dean, Infrastructure and Planning, IIT Kanpur

 

2024

 

 

Undergraduate Students

If you’re interested in the design, development, installation, operation or maintenance of just about anything that has moveable parts then mechanical engineering could be the programme of study for you. For more information, visit here.

At the undergraduate level, the department offers a Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) degree and a Bachelor of Technology – Master of Technology (B. Tech.- M. Tech.) dual degree in Mechanical Engineering. The undergraduate degree programs provide a solid foundation in core mechanical engineering disciplines, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Through the academic program students also develop excellent written and oral communication skills, learn to work as a team and project management.

Academic Enrichment


A number of additional educational opportunities not formally required in the curriculum are available to undergraduates interested in exploring facets of engineering in more detail. These opportunities include participation in research, industrial internships, student societies, and seminars. Undergraduate research offers motivated students an opportunity to work closely with faculty and graduate students and gain first-hand experience in conducting research. Internship is compulsory for the undergraduate students, where students gain experiences by working in industries, and academia both domestic and abroad. Students work under the supervision of either a faculty member or an industrial supervisor. The position may or may not be salaried.

Dual Major in Mechanical Engineering

 

The department also offers dual major in Mechanical Engineering. The criteria for the admission to the Dual Major in Mechanical Engineering are available click here .

Minor in Mechanical Engineering


The department offers Minor in Mechanical Engineering in the following areas: Modern Manufacturing Techniques, Computation Techniques in Mechanical Engineering.

Enrollment

  • 369 students are currently enrolled in our undergraduate programs.
  • 99 students are admitted during the 2014-2015 academic year.
  • 62 students graduated during the 2013-2014 academic year.

Further Information


Please direct your enquiries to Dr. Niraj Sinha, Convener, DUGC (Phone: +91 512 259-6110, Email:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or the ME Office. 

More details about IITK undergraduate degree programs may be obtained here. IITK academic calendar is available here.

 

Objectives

The Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) program in Mechanical Engineering has a strong flavor on design and hands-on experience. The program includes a deeper study of a number of engineering sciences to which students are introduced at the core curriculum level, theoretical and experimental solution of physical problems, and design of systems relevant to the contemporary industries. The areas introduced by the department include Energy Conversion and Power Systems, Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics, Mechanics of Solids, Manufacturing Science, Industrial Engineering, Automatic Controls and Engineering Design and Optimization. Besides the theoretical and laboratory based curriculum, students complete an advanced design project in the final year of the program.

This degree provides a solid foundation in core mechanical engineering disciplines, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Through the academic program students also develop excellent written and oral communication skills, learn to work as a team and project management.

The objectives of this undergraduate program are:

  • To provide the highest level of education in technology and science and to produce competent, creative and imaginative engineers.

  • To promote a spirit of free and objective enquiry in different fields of knowledge.

  • To make a significant contribution towards the development of skilled technical manpower To create an intellectual reservoir to meet the growing demands of the nation.

  • The undergraduate programs are designed to achieve these objectives and to inculcate in the student concepts and intellectual skills, courage and integrity, awareness of and sensitivity to the needs and aspirations of the society.

 

Student Outcomes

Our Student Outcomes describe what students are expected to know or be able to do by the time of graduation from our program.

Some of the notable outcomes are:

  • an ability to apply the acquired knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering.

  • an ability to design and conduct an experiments, and interpret the results by analyzing.

  • an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet the desired needs within certain realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.

  • an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.

  • an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problem.

  • an ability to function in a multidisciplinary teams.

  • an understanding of contemporary issues related to engineering and an ability to engage in life-long learning.

  • an ability to communicate effectively.

  • an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.