The mechanical engineering department started its journey in the year of with only three faculty members and twenty three undergraduate students.
Professor G. Kainth was the first to join the mechanical engineering department as a faculty member. Later, Professors J. Prasad and H. Radhakrishnan also took part in. In meeting this challenge, the Institute has always been making special efforts to recruit talented faculty and admit brilliant students from all over the country by a careful selection process.
The institute offers best facilities to its students and faculty members. Records of its past and present students, faculty members and alumni is awe-inspiring. IIT Kanpur takes pride in developing individuals in all areas and not only in academics.
Debates, technical skill competitions, various games activities are part of everyday life for residence of IIT Kanpur. IIT Kanpur also offers distance education programs and short-term courses. Under this program, undergraduate program student do research under the guidance of senior researchers in different areas of different technologies.
Soon after the five IITs were set up, Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had realized that to keep pace with the ever changing world of science and technology, it is necessary to collaborate closely with the outside world.
Under the program, faculty members from these Institutions assisted the Institute in the setting up of the academic programs and development of laboratories for instruction as well as research. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur is one of the premier institutions established by the Government of India.
The aim of the Institute is to provide meaningful education, to conduct original research of the highest standard and to provide leadership in technological innovation for the industrial growth of the country.
The Institute began functioning in the borrowed building of Harcourt Butler Technological Institute in with students and a small faculty. The Institute now has its own sprawling residential campus, about undergraduate and postgraduate students, faculty and more than supporting staff.
The combined record of its past and present faculty and students along with the alumni spread across the world is awe-inspiring. With the path-breaking innovations in both its curriculum and research, the Institute is rapidly gaining a legendary reputation.
This land was gifted by the Government of Uttar Pradesh in and by March the Institute had moved to its current location. The residential campus is planned and landscaped with a hope for environmental freedom. Thus the doctoral programme got started right in the beginning in In the first convocation of the institute held in , out of a total of five PhD degrees awarded, three were in Mathematics.
The agenda for strong research was set with introduction of graduate level courses and comprehensive examination.
So far PhDs have been produced by the department in Mathematics and 28 in Statistics. Currently the student strength in our PhD programme is around The PhD students of the department constitute a vibrant academic community. In addition to their own research work, they actively participate in teaching through conducting tutorials and assistance in courses having large number of registrations.
Based on the recommendations of the Academic Review committee, the PhD programme is currently under review. By the faculty size had become reasonably large and the department was in a position to start an additional independent programme. Thus a two-year Master's programme in Mathematics was started in to provide quality training after B. This programme had flexibility in course structure and was envisaged to produce students who were well trained and motivated for research.
This also provided an input to the PhD programme of the department. While initially the number of students was limited to 10 per batch, it has been raised to 40 now.
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