Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai

About Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai

In 1949,Shri.C.Rajam, gave the newly independent India-Madras Institute of Technology, so that MIT could establish the strong technical base it needed to take its place in the world. It was the rare genius and daring of its founder that made MIT offer courses like Aeronautical Engineering, Automobile Engineering, Electronics Engineering and Instrument Technology for the first time in our country. Now it also provides technical education in other engineering fields such as Rubber and Plastic Technology & Production Technology. It was merged with Anna University in the year 1978. Sixty years hence, while it continues to be a pioneer in courses that it gave birth to, it is already renowned for producing the crème de la crème of the scientific community in more nascent courses such as Computer Science and Information Technology MIT has produced great scientist like Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, versatile genius like Sujatha and many more. The broad-based education, coupled with practice-oriented training in their speciality, has enabled the students of MIT to handle with skill and success a wide variety of technical problems. The Madras Institute of Technology has developed into an important centre of engineering education and earned an excellent reputation both in India and abroad.MIT had received many awards which includes an award for the Best Overall Performance, awarded by Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE) during the year 1999.

MISSION
Madras Institute of Technology shall contribute to the educational, economic and social development

By producing students who are intellectually and technically equipped with well defined knowledge, skills and ethics, who are creative thinkers, inspiring leaders and contributing citizens.

By introducing high quality academic and research programmes and providing extension services in cutting edge technologies.
By ensuring a supportive campus climate with dynamic leadership and development opportunities to meet the needs of students, faculty and staff.

By enhancing academic productivity through induction of quality faculty, accelerated graduation, credit banking, augmented continuing education opportunities and adoption of current technology.

By sharing the intellectual resources and the infrastructural facilities among the academia from other institutions and among the industrial society, funding agencies and government.

By enhancing the collaborative partnership between Industry and Institute for commercializing and transferring the latest technological know-how towards societal development.

By expanding global participation spread across continents with the aid of interactive satellite based education and the usage of digital library.

By ensuring efficient administrative co-ordination and effective decision making through necessary reforms and by strategically allocating resources.

By benchmarking against technologically sound global leaders with a view towards continuous improvement.