Madras Institute of Technology


The Madras Institute of Technology is an engineering institute located in Chromepet, Chennai, India. It is one of the four autonomous constituent colleges of Anna University. It was established in 1949 by Chinnaswami Rajam as the first self-financing engineering institute in the country and later merged with Anna University. The institute gave India new areas of specialization such as aeronautical engineering, automobile engineering, electronics engineering and instrumentation technology which was. MIT was the first self-financing institute opened in India.
The MIT is also 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, production technology, 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.
MIT was started in 1949 and was offering a three-year in Engineering for Science graduates. During the early years, the institute offered Diploma in Engineering to science graduates. 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, they started awarding the Degree BTech, three-year Engineering Degree course to science graduates. Over the years, the institute has expanded its original programme and now offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Production Engineering, Rubber and Plastics Technology, Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology. The institute accepts students who have passed the 12th board examinations for its four-year undergraduate programme from 1996.

History

After independence of India, the need for establishing a strong engineering institution for proper industrial development of the country was realized by Chinnaswami Rajam. In this effort, Mr.Rajam got assistance from a few distinguished citizens, notably Subbaraya Aiyar, M.K. Ranganathan, L.Venkatakrishna Iyer, K.Srinivasan and C.R. Srinivasan and also got generous donations from the public and industries. In July 1949, the MIT was established as a nationwide technological institution under the University of Madras.

Administration

Madras Institute of Technology is a constituent college of Anna University and 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. 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 form the basis of grades, with a grade value assigned to a range of marks. For each semester, the students are graded by taking a weighted average of all the courses with their respective credit points. Each semester's evaluation is done independently with a cumulative grade point average reflecting the average performance across semesters.
The admission to the institute is through Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions based on Unified Single Window Admission System for the first year of undergraduate courses. Most of the students from Tamil Nadu qualify from the Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Board Examinations. Till 2006, TNPCEE was also a mandatory qualification examination along with the Higher Secondary examination.
Prominent alumni of this institute include former President Abdul Kalam.
The institute has active National Service Scheme, National Sports Organisation and Youth Red Cross chapters on its campus. Each chapter is headed by a faculty member. Membership and active participation in one of these organisations are mandatory for first-year undergraduate students.
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Apart from this Homefest, the cultural and sports festival of Madras Institute of Technology Hostels is held during the month of April every year. Homefest is organised by the student body of the Madras Institute of Technology hostels, The Hostel Committee. Final year hostel students take part in organizing this festival from scratch every year. It was organised by using the official fund and money from students.

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.

MIT Alumni Association

The MIT Alumni Association was established in Chennai, in 1966. The first General Body meeting was held on 14 April 1966 and was headed by V Gopalan, C J G Chandra, P S Subramanian and B Venkatraman. K Srinivasan was the dean of the institute at that time.
Similarly, even outside Chennai, there is MIT Alumni Associations which are very active in providing some sponsorships, justified and needed financial assistance and collaborate with parent MIT alumni chapter and MIT campus on the considerable regular basis. Each Alumni group have their own internal communications and are active with participations.

Notable Alumni

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, and placement preparation assistance.
Each Technocrat will also be assigned to a 'T-number'. The 'T-number' is a combination of the student's batch number, his/her department code and his/her roll number. For example, consider a student who has joined Electronics and Instrumentation Department. If he/she belongs to the batch of 2007–2011, he/she would be the 60th batch from Electronics and Instrumentation Department and hence his 'T-number' would be '604xxx', where xxx represents the person's roll number. As per the 'T-series', this technocrat's mentor would be the person with the 'T-number' '594xxx'. Thus, the T-series can be tracked back to even the first batch of students. The best part is that when alumni from earlier batches come for get-togethers years after graduating, they still make it a practice to at least know and interact with their respective 'T-juniors' from the current batches.

MIT Museum

A museum named MIT Museum has been set up within the campus. The museum consists of photographs of all important events involving MIT. It also houses several newspaper coverages, 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 18 March 2011.

Popular media

The Tamil-language feature film, Five Star, featured in part, the academic life at MIT. It was partly shot in MIT campus during a semester break, particularly for a song where many available students participated. The Director of the film, Susi Ganeshan is an MIT alumnus.