Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering

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Department of Materials and Metallurgical
Engineering 343
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur-
208016
Kanpur- 208016
Institute Celebrating Golden Jubilee since its
inception (August 2009 to December 2010.)
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Outline

• Introduction of the Department
• Areas of Research and Study
• Basic and Relevant Departmental Courses Offered
• Laboratory and Other Facilities
• Achievements by Faculty and Students
• Our Distinguished Alumnus around the world
• Summer Internship and Industrial Exposure
• Past Years Recruiters for MME Department
• Student strength in Graduating Year 2010
• Contact Us

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Introduction

• Department of Materials and Metallurgical
  engineering at IIT Kanpur was established in
  1960. From its starting days, it has shown its
  strong impact in the areas of research as well as
  industrialization exposure. The department has
  reinvented itself every few years to remain a
  most novel endeavor in the IIT curriculum. The
  field of study encompasses the entire spectrum
  from extraction, processing and development of
  materials. In addition the department focuses
  heavily on a variety of engineering materials
  like ceramics, polymers, intermetallics,
  composites and electronic materials. This
  department has pioneered a unified approach in
  teaching and research, through its courses and
  curriculum, to develop state of the art materials
  and processes for specialized applications.

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Areas of Research and Study

• Electronic Materials and Processing
• Heat and Mass Transfer in metallurgical systems
• Computer Aided Structure Determination
• Mathematical Modeling and Materials Simulation
• Extractive and Physical Metallurgy
• Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Nanoceramics
• Nanoceramic Composites
• Nano-Science and Technology, Nanoceramics
• Nanoceramic Composites
• Powder Metallurgy, Alloy Design
• Biomaterials
• Manufacturing Processes, Materials Degradation
• Crystallography and Symmetry
• Electrochemistry and Corrosion

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Iron and Steel Making

• In the field of Iron and steel making, MME
  department of IIT Kanpur has shown profound
  progress over the years. A significant amount of
  research (experimental as well as modeling)
  related to this field has been carried out by the
  students under the guidance of distinguished
  professors. There are several courses related to
  this field being offered for UG and PG students
  from processing of steel to computational method
  which certainly helps the student to pursue this
  field in an effective way.
• Some of the recent research projects done at IIT
  Kanpur
• Dynamic Models for Blowing, Tapping and
  Deoxidation in BOF Steel Making
• Studies on Steel backed Al-Sn-Si-Cu strip
  prepared via spray atomization-deposition-rolling
  route
• Modeling of Inclusion removal kinetics in steel
  making tundish systems
• Experimental and Theoretical studies on residence
  time distribution in different tundish designs

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Electronic Materials
The Electronic Materials Group in IIT Kanpur, MME
department is active in the areas of Organic
Electronics, Oxide Electronics and Spintronics.
They are dealing with the basic research problems
as well as product development related projects
on OLEDs, Organic Solar Cells, Oxide devices and
Field Effect Transistors. The group has expertise
and infrastructure for thin film deposition
(chemical methods and physical vapor deposition
processes)and optical, electrical and magnetic
characterizations.

• Some of the recent works
• Small Molecule Alq3 based organic Lght Emitting
  diodes and blue Dopants for Polymet Light
  Emitting Diodes.
• Investigations on Organic solar cell devices
  based on Arylenevinylene-Co-Pyrrolenevinylene
• Optimization of deposition parameters of top
  contact pentacene based thin film transistor
• Investigations on Ferroelectric Organic Field
  effect Transistors

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Biomaterials and Advanced Ceramics
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• In the recent times, a significant amount of
  research has been carried out in the field of
  biomaterials and advanced ceramics. Laboratory
  for Biomaterials in MME department, IIT Kanpur
  focuses in exploring biochemical and
  biomechanical properties of various HA-based
  biomaterial systems and also fabrication and
  characterization of nanoceramics and
  nanocomposites using spark plasma sintering
  facility. Research activity of biomaterials group
  also comprises of analytical modeling of fretting
  wear of materials, cell-material interaction,
  in-vitro , in-vivo analysis of biomaterials to
  optimize material for potential hard tissue
  replacement.
• Some of the recent works
• Development of HDPE-HAp-Al2O3 biocomposites for
  Orthopedic applications
• Analytical model for Tribochemical and
  Tribomechanical wear of ceramics
• Development of novel Calcium phosphatemullite
  ceramics for orthopedic applications
• Spark Plasma sintering and characterization of
  TiB2,MoSi2,ZrO2 based ceramics

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Physical and Powder Metallurgy

• Some of the recent works
• Effect of Phosphorus Addition on Sinter Hardening
  and Tempering Response of PM Steels
• Effect of Initial Porosity and Tempering on
  Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical
  Properties of Sinter-hardened Steels
• Modeling of Porosity in spray deposited thin
  aluminum strip
• Surface Nitriding of Pure Ti and Ti-6Al-4V alloy
  in molten potassium nitrate salt bath.
• Effect of Reduction in Ni Content of Stainless
  Steel on the Microstructure and Corrosion
  Resistance
• Aqueous electrolyte plasma nitriding of en 41b
  steel

Electrochemistry Corrosion

• Some of the recent works
• Novel polarization method for optimizing
  electrodeposition of specular nanocrystalline
  nickel
• On the Corrosion of Novel Rail Steels
• Optimization of coating parameters of corrosion
  resistant silane-based sol-gel coatings for
  aerospace application
• Electrochemical and tribological behavior of
  novel titanium based alloys for human body
  implants.
• Synthesis of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles by Plasma
  Electrolysis
• Effect of hydrogen on mechanical properties of
  novel rail steels

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Basic and relevant Departmental Courses Offered
at UG and PG level

• For Undergraduates
• Thermodynamics of materials
• Metallurgical kinetics, Material characterization
• Mechanical behavior of materials
• Principle of metal extraction and refining
• Phase equilibrium in materials, Phase
  transformation in materials
• Iron and Steel making
• Fundamentals of materials processing
• Electronic and magnetic properties of materials
• Manufacturing processes, selection and design
• Material degradation and prevention
• B-Tech. Project
• For Post Graduates
• Electrochemistry and Corrosion.
• Soft Computing Methods In Engineering Problem
  Solving

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• Advances in Iron and Steel Making.
• Fundamentals Of Stereology Applications To
• Microstructural Analysis.
• Materials For Biomedical Applications.
• Solidification Processing.
• Thin Film Physics and Applications.
• Physical and Mathematical Modelling of
  Steelmaking Process.
• Departmental Electives
• Mineral Engineering
• Secondary steelmaking
• Modeling of Steelmaking processes
• Fuels, Refractory and Furnaces
• Surface coating Technology
• Advances in Powder Metallurgy
• Material for Semiconductor industry

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Laboratories

• One of the very important dimensions of this
  department is its well equipped laboratories with
  sophisticated machines and latest software for
  computer assisted analysis of the data.
• Some of the laboratories are
• Physical Metallurgy Lab
• Material Science Lab
• Metallography Lab
• Engineering Metallurgy Lab
• Electronic Materials Lab
• Powder Metallurgy Lab
• Laboratory for Biomaterials
• Particulate Materials lab
• Materials Separation Lab
• Pyrometallurgy Lab
• Thin film Processing Lab
• Thermodynamics and Corrosion Lab
• Pulse Laser Deposition Lab
• Processing of Steel and Iron lab

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Facilities

• High Intensity Magnetic Separator
• Crushers, Ball Mills and Jigging Facilities
• Wet Chemical Analysis Laboratory
• Set-up for Directional Solidification
• Electric and Induction Melting Furnaces
• Swaging Mill
• Cold Isostatic Press
• Heat Treatment and Sintering Furnaces
• Hot Press for Consolidating Powder Materials
• Ceramics and Powder Synthesis
• Thin Film Deposition
• Powder Characterization Facilities for
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• Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopes
• Metallographic Facilities including an Image
  Analysis System
• X-Ray Diffraction Facility
• Low, Ambient and High Temperature Testing
  Facilities for Tensile, Fatigue and Creep Tests
• Hardness, Friction and Wear Testing Facilities
• Iron and steelmaking - Process Controlled
  Modeling of BOF, AOD, VOD, Ladle Management, FEM,
  ANN, Gas
• Modeling of Metals and Materials and Mineral
  Processing Operations
• Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) facility
• Laser Surface Profilometer (LSP)
• High temperature DSC

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Samtel Centre for Display Technologies

• The Samtel Centre seeks to conduct basic
  research relevant to a globally competitive
  display industry. Centre is carrying out
  sponsored research on Organic Light Emitting
  Displays and Plasma Displays. In addition, there
  are several projects that explore the basic
  science and develop major technology platforms
  relevant to the current and future needs of
  display industry. Projects are funded through
  DST, MCIT and CSIR. Founder partner, Samtel
  Industries, remains the major sponsor of projects
  sharing cost with the government agencies.

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Advanced Centre for Materials Science

• Advanced Centre for Materials Science was
  created in 1978 with a view to make available
  major materials preparation and characterization
  facilities under one-roof. These state-of-the-art
  research facilities are regularly upgraded, and
  maintained by suitably trained competent staff.
  The centre has been serving the needs of the
  materials community from the institute as well as
  other academic and industrial establishments for
  about twenty five years. For every laboratory
  there is a users committee consisting of members
  drawn from various departments of the institute.
  For routine maintenance electronics and machine
  shops are there. Besides we also have support
  services of stores and administrative office.

• Facilities
• X-ray Diffraction
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• Ball Milling Units
• Dilatometeric Study unit
• Transmission Electron Microscopy
• Raman Spectroscopy
• Laser Particle Analyzer
• BET Surface Analyzer
• Mechanical and Thermal Testing Equipments
• Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy etc.

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Summer Internship and Industrial Exposure

• At the end of the third year undergraduate
  students undergo a 6-8 week of summer Internship
  in Materials and Metallurgical Industries which
  them a practical exposure of our courses and
  Laboratory work we do.
• There is also a Industrial Tour during the third
  year in which students visit an Iron and Steel
  Industry.
• This helps in providing a prior experience before
  joining any big organization.
• Major Recruiters(for Internships)
• Schlumberger Asia, Mumbai
• Transocean Incorporated, Mumbai
• Tata Steel RD, Jamshedpur
• Jindal Power and Steel
• Steel Authority of India Ltd

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Past Years Recruiters

• Schlumberger Asia, Mumbai
• Transocean Incorporated, Mumbai
• Tata Steel RD, Jamshedpur
• Reliance Industries Ltd.
• Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.(IOCL)
• Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)
• Jindal Steel Power Limited
• Ispat Industries Ltd
• Rio Tinto
• TRDDC, Pune
• Evalueserve, Gurgaon
• Deutche Bank
• Morgan Stanley
• Renault Nissan
• General Motors etc.

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Strength of Students graduating in 2010

• The department offers both undergraduate
  (B-Tech.) and postgraduate (M-Tech. and Ph.D.)
  programmes.
• Undergraduate prgramme aims at providing a basic
  understanding of the principles underlying
  extraction and refining, materials
  characterization, structure-property relationship
  and processing of metals and materials.
• The postgraduate programme is designed to provide
  an in-depth study in the various areas of
  specialization.

Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
B-Tech.(56)
PhD.(6)
M-Tech.(13)
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• Departmental Web Page
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• http//www.iitk.ac.in/mme/

• Contacts
• Faculty Coordinator
•  Dr. Krishanu Biswas
• E-Mail kbiswas_at_iitk.ac.in
• Departmental Placement Coordinators
• Chandan Kalra (UG) Naresh
  Saha (PG)
• A-113, Hall 1
  C-210 , Hall 8
• IIT Kanpur
  IIT Kanpur
• Kanpur, India.
  Kanpur, India.
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• Phone no 91 9795522788, 91 9795669393
• E-mail address ckalra_at_iitk.ac.in,
  nareshs_at_iitk.ac.in.