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The Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) is an engineering institute located in Chromepet, Chennai (Madras), India. It is one of the four autonomous constituent colleges of Anna University. It was started in 1949 by C. Rajam as the first self-financing engineering institute in the country, and later it merged with Anna University. The institute was at that time an experiment in technical education, for it introduced to India new areas of specialization: aeronautical engineering, automobile engineering, electronics engineering, and instrumentation technology.

The MIT is the first institute in India to offer postgraduate courses in avionics and mechatronics. The institute also has an unusual practice of "T-series", a student mentoring system by senior students. The aeronautical, automobile and electronics departments of this institute are very popular and get the cream of students in Tamil Nadu, usually having very high cut-offs, with seats getting filled in the early batches of first day counselling.

The alumni of this institute include Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (the "missile-man of India"), and the writer Sujatha. The present Vice-Chancellor of Anna University is a former MIT-ian. The cultural festival of MIT, Mitafest, is well known in the vicinity of Chromepet. The AUKBC research institute has research facilities and faculty, with students helping from departments in projects which have resulted in international papers and patent filings.

History
With the dawn of Independence, the need for establishing a sound technological basis for industrial advancement of the country was realised. At this juncture, in 1949, Mr. Rajam Iyer donated Rs. 5 lakhs through the sale of his house and founded the M.I.T., and raised funds from people and industries for its running. Sri M.K. Ranganathan, Rtd. Chief Engineer, became the first principal of the institute.

At a time when other engineering institutions were offering conventional courses in civil, mechanical and electrical engineering at the undergraduate level, Mr. Rajam launched the experiment of introducing for the first time in the country new areas of specialisation in Engineering, namely aeronautical engineering, automobile engineering, electronics engineering, and instrument technology, the entrants to these disciplines being science graduates. In addition to this, MIT also has computer science and information technology departments. M.I.T. also offers technical education in engineering fields such as rubber and plastics technology, production engineering, and information technology. Research centres have also been started.

Instrumentation and Control did not exist in India as a subject of study in 1949. Now this branch of applied science and technology has become important in industry, and a past students of MIT now hold key positions in research and development organisations, manufacturing industries and educational institutions within the country and abroad.

Administration
Madras Institute of Technology, being a constituent college of Anna University, is governed by a Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Registrar of the varsity. The varsity has a syndicate. The Dean is the head of the institute and oversees day-to-day administration. Each department is led by a Head of the Department (HOD). The hostels are headed by assistant executive wardens placed under an executive warden with dean as the ex-officio warden.

The academic policies are decided by the course committee, whose members include all the professors and student representatives headed by a chairman.

Madras Institute of Technology follows the credit-based system of performance evaluation and student-teacher relation, with proportional weighting of courses based on their importance. The total marks (usually out of 100) form the basis of grades, with a grade value (out of 10) assigned to a range of marks. For each semester, the students are graded by taking a weighted average from all the courses with their respective credit points. Each semester's evaluation is done independently with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) reflecting the average performance across semesters.

Admission into the institute previously was through the TNPCEE but from 2007 it was decided that the 12th grade examinations would be the sole criterion which has favoured the entry of matriculation students.

Prominent alumni of this institute include former President Abdul Kalam and Sujatha Rangarajan.

MIT Museum
A museum named MIT Museum has been set up on the campus. The museum consists of pictures of all important events involving MIT, newspaper coverage, books written by MITians and a replica of a glider made by the students of the 1952 batch. The museum was inaugurated by Anna University vice-chancellor Dr. P. Mannar Jawahar on March 18,2011.

Cultural
The annual festival of the institute is Mitafest. Each department has its own festival, in addition to the musical festival Sivaranjani.

Techfest and symposia
Apart from this, MIT presented "Asymptote 2009" along with its diamond jubilee celebrations. Asymptote-2009 was held on 9,10 and 11 January 2009. Students from other colleges participated in the event. But this was not continued in the following years.

Every department has an intra-college and inter-college technical symposium.



Magazines

 * MIT has an annual magazine MITMAG.
 * The Personality Development Association publishes its magazine PERSOPLUS,
 * Youth Red Cross publishes its magazine Vircham related to Social Awareness.
 * The Computer Society publishes its magazine TECH TIMES,
 * The Department of Electronics Engineering releases its annual magazine Impetus,
 * The Department of Instrumentation publishes its technical magazine InsTrue,
 * The Department of Production Technology releases its yearly magazine PRO-MAG,
 * The Rotaract Club of MIT publishes its annual magazine RotoPlus which is a collection of art and writings from physically challenged and orphanage children.

T-series
MIT has the unusual practice of 'T-series'. This is a mentorship system and the word is said to have originated from the term Technocrat. Each new 'technocrat' of the institute is assigned to a mentor from the previous batch. He/she also inherits the complete set of 'T-seniors' from this mentor. Mentorship activities span a whole gamut of student activities starting from passing on books, counselling, monetary help (if needed), and placement preparation( mock interview, aptitude).

UG departments

 * Department of Aerospace Engineering - The oldest department in the Country offering Aeronautical Engineering education at the undergraduate level. The department has been functional since 1949. The Faculty of Aeronautics offers a four-year undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in Aeronautical Engineering. The  Division of Avionics belong to this department which specialises in ME & MS(Research) courses.


 * Department of Automobile Engineering - This is also one of oldest departments offered by the college since its inception. The college offers both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The annual student intake is 45. The president of AEA (Automobile Engineering Association) is Mr.Devaradjane. SAE also has its collegiate club in this dept.

The Department of Automobile Engineering at MIT was started in 1949 and was offering a three year (undergraduate programme) in Automobile Engineering for Science graduates (B.Sc). Subsequently, on the formation of Anna University in 1978, MIT became one of the constituent institutions of the university and hence, the department has also become a department of Anna University.

The postgraduate programme was started in 1978. This is the only pioneering Institute which is offering both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Automobile Engineering in the whole of India, besides offering MS (by research) and Ph.D. Programmes. From 1996 onwards a four year B. Tech undergraduate programme for students of higher secondary education is being offered. The department is involved in the programmes of the Centre for Automotive Research and Training (CART).


 * Department of Information Technology- The Department of Information Technology was established in 2000.The branch of "Information Technology" has an intake strength of 120 every year (recently 2007-08 increased). The department includes an undergraduate and postgraduate program running in parallel. The research areas include Grid computing, XML technologies, Networking and connectivity protocols, network security and Databases. The department is headed by Dr.V. Vaidehi


 * Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering - The Department of Electronics Engineering was established in 1949. It has its core strength in the area of Electronics & Communication technology. This is the largest department of the MIT campus of Anna University, which has about 25 faculty members serving about 400 undergraduate students and 100 postgraduate students. The research areas include Communication Technologies, Wireless Communication, Network Security, Sensor Networks, Optical Communication, Avionics, Signal Processing, Image Processing & Pattern Recognition and VLSI. The department has collaborative partners from academia and industry both locally and worldwide. The department is headed by Dr. Mala John.


 * Department of Instrumentation Engineering - The Department of Instrumentation Engineering started in 1949. It offers Instrumentation Engineering at postgraduate level, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering at undergraduate level and Ph.D. and M.S. (by research) for both regular and part-time scholars.


 * Department of Computer Technology- The Department of Computer Technology was established in 2010. The branch of "Computer Technology" has an intake strength of 120 every year (undergraduate). The department includes an undergraduate and postgraduate program running in parallel. The research areas include Cloud Computing,Grid computing, XML technologies, Networking and connectivity protocols, network security and Databases, E-learning, Multimedia, and Video Streaming. The department works on the Golden Jubilee Block of MIT. The department is headed by Dr.P. Jayashree


 * Department of Production technology - The Department of Production Technology started with a three year B. Tech Production Engineering programme (for B.Sc. graduates) in 1977 with an intake of 20 students and an M.E programme in 1993. The department offers B. Tech in Production Engineering and ME in Manufacturing Engineering, and Mechatronicss Engineering. It offers part-time undergraduate programs in the areas of Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineerig and a postgraduate programme in Manufacturing Engineering.

For the first time in India a postgtaduate programme in M.E Mechatronics was started in 1999 with an intake of 15 students. The department was awarded A5 grade in 1997-98 (highest grade for 5 years) by the National board of Accreditation. The department has organized nine national level seminars and three summer/winter schools and a number of short term programs in the areas of low cost automation CNC machines & programming and fluid power automations. The department is headed by Mr.Jothilingam.


 * Department of Rubber & Plastics Technology - The Department of Rubber & plastics is one of the pioneering departments of MIT. The department was started in 1988.

Placements
Usually there is a 95% placement record across all departments in MIT with many students getting multiple job offers. All well known core product and service companies come for recruitment and placement interviews happen at a common venue with CEG students in the Anna University - main campus.

Student organisations

 * Computer Society of MIT - The Computer Society of Madras Institute of Technology was started in 1983 with a motive to develop computer knowledge of the students from different domains. During its initial years, the society mainly concentrated in getting expertised with the basics of computers and programming languages such as C. Later it included the tools required by various streams like hardware designing and modeling software for the students of mechanical streams, circuit designing and simulation software for the students of electronic stream, etc. Over the years, the society has evolved, from being just an organization for imparting knowledge, to an active participant in the evolution and promotion of Free & Open Source Software (FOSS). It is supported by Catherine Bina, Head of Computer center of MIT and the current staff-incharge is Thamarai Selvam. It conducts weekly sessions for the students of different departments with their respective needs. The major event associated with this area is the conduction of the inter-college free software festival 'Carte Blanche', every year which is an intra-college festival and 'Enigma' for the MITians.


 * Personality Development Association - Personality Development Association, a student organization of MIT, owes its genesis to the idea envisaged by five students during the academic year 1984-85. The association was formally inaugurated on 4 February 1985 with the active support of Prof. K.V. Narayanan and Dr. S. Renganathan.  Ever since its dawn on this significant day, PDA has been unrelenting in its efforts to foster the consummate personality development of the students. This Association conducts 'Persofest' annually which proves useful for every student.


 * Rotaract Club of MIT - Everyone should realize that they should contribute in some way to the society which nurtured them. Thus Rotaract club of MIT strives in every possible way to instill the seed of service among the students. 'Rotofest' and 'Sparish' are the main events conducted by this club in a view to make the needful people feel the 'joy of living'.

Research centres
The Centre for Aerospace Research (CASR) came into being in 2000 and focuses on advancing research in aerospace sciences. The centre has design, analysis and computational capabilities to take up problems in high speed and low speed flows, structure, aero-thermal effect and composites. The applications software being regularly employed include MSC-NASTRAN, STAR-CD, CFX, I_DEAS and tascflow. For carrying out experimental studies in the thrust areas, the centre has laboratories and facilities with specialized equipment. The country's first student developed satellite ANUSAT is designed, developed and integrated at this facility. The aerospace department includes the avionics department which designed the control software.
 * Centre for Aerospace Research

The Anna University K B Chandrashekar Research Centre was established at the MIT Campus in May 1999 through the donation of RS.1.00 crore Dr.K.B. Chandrasekhar, chairman and co-founder of Exodus Communications, US. The infrastructure includes a 256 kbit/s Internet access over a 2 Mbit/s based line, high-end server with broad-based networking. The research activities of the centre are on cryptography, network security, internet access over the power line medium and many others. In addition, the KBC foundation has donated another 0.5 crore rupees towards setting up a state-of –art Java lab at the centre and 1.5 crore rupees for the campus networking and video conferencing facilities. One of the goals of the centre is to link value-addition to the domain-knowledge possessed by the faculty and the students of our university in diverse domains through the use of the Internet and I.T Tools/TechnologiesM
 * Anna University - K B Chandrasekhar Research Centre (AU-KBCRC)

The Center for Automotive Research and Training (CART), an inter-disciplinary centre, was established in the year 1997 by the University to mainly cater to the needs of the automotive industry with regard to design, research, consultancy, training and testing. The centre functions currently both at the main campus and at the MIT campus. The centre proposes to offer a postgraduate programme titled, automotive manufacturing management, which will be a highly inter-disciplinary programme mainly framed with inputs from the user industry, namely the automotive industry. The centre acts as a nodal agency interacting with automotive industries both at home and abroad and with various academic departments and centres, functioning at Anna University.
 * Centre for Automotive Research and Training

MIT Alumni Association
The MIT Alumni Association (MITAA) was established in Chennai, in 1966. The first General Body meeting was held on 14 April 1966 and was headed by V. Gopalan (I Batch, President), C.J.G. Chandra (I Batch, V.P.), P. S. Subramanian (6th Batch, Secretary) and B. Venkatraman (4th Batch, Treasurer). K. Srinivasan was the dean of the institute at that time.

Popular media
The Tamil language feature film, fivestar (2002), featured in part, the academic life at MIT.