‘Industrial Internet Centre of Excellence’ to come up in IITM

May 17, 2016: IITM and GE recently signed an agreement to build the 'Industrial Internet Centre of Excellence' which aims to develop power intensive applications with first focus on creating a Digital Twin of Aluminium Smelter. The Industrial Internet Centre of Excellence marks a milestone global collaboration by GE to drive digital industrial transformation that can bring quantum leaps in productivity, efficiency and reliability to the industrial sector.

Aluminium smelters are essentially refineries for extracting aluminum from aluminium oxide, separating the aluminium from oxygen through a chemical reaction. Through the new Centre, GE and IIT Madras will create a Digital Twin of a smelter. The Twin is a living digital model that will continuously generate new data and insights about the smelter that allows operators to run the smelters more efficiently. For the aluminium smelter industry, the net gains through such productivity enhancement are valued at between US$50 to 150 million annually.

The agreement to set up the centre was signed between Mr. Azeez Mohammed, President & CEO, GE Power Services, Middle East & Africa and Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director of IIT Madras. Researchers and students of IIT Madras will work closely with the GE Global Research, GE Power Services Engineering and GE Digital teams at GE’s John F. Welch Technology Centre in Bangalore.

IITM Innovation attracts a funding of USD 18 Million

May 9, 2016: InnoNano Research (INR), a clean water technology company incubated at IIT Madras & co-founded by Prof. T. Pradeep, is set out to develop its global footprint by finalizing a $18 million investment plan with NanoHoldings(NH) an energy and water investment specialist firm, based in the US.

The company made the announcement in a special function held in the presence of many dignitaries and government officials from the Department of Science & Technology. Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT Madras announced the finalizing of agreement with NanoHoldings (NH), to set-up a global water technology company. With an aim to make India an exporter of water technologies, and to support the Make in India efforts of the government, the company plans to setup a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, a modern research laboratory and technology delivery offices across North America, Asia and Africa.

INR is an 8 year old IIT Madras incubated start-up company, born out of the water technologies seeded at Professor Pradeep’s laboratories. The company was started with Anshup, an IIT Madras graduate in chemical engineering. Soon, Udhaya Shankar and Amrita Chaudhary joined. The team along with other research scholars and post-doctoral fellows developed a range of technologies to tackle diverse contaminants in drinking water, maintaining international quality standards. Prof. Satish Kailas of IISc acted as an advisor all through the difficult times. Inventors of the technology decided to take it to the most affected parts of the country. With commendable support from the Government and extraordinary assistance from implementation partners such as Mr. Praveen Poddar of Mahavir Pumps Pvt. Ltd., the technology is now serving 700+ locations across the country.

Nano Holdings, a US-based energy and water investment specialist firm has supported global patenting activity for the team and IIT Madras for the past 4 years. “These technologies are destined to change the world in a significant way” said Justin Hall-Tipping, CEO of NH.

IITM Alumnus elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society

IIT Madras alumnus L. Mahadevan has earned the top honour of being one of the three Indians on the list of 50 scientists elected as Fellows of The Royal Society, a premier scientific academy of the U.K. and the Commonwealth.

Prof. Mahadevan completed his B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) degree from IIT Madras in 1986, and received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Institution in 2009.

IIT Madras team makes it to the final eight

Let's applaud the Team from IIT Madras on having made it into the final eight of 2016 SPE Petrobowl Asia Pacific Regional Qualifier at the Offshore Technology Conference held in Kuala Lumpur during March 22-25, 2016.

1. Prashant Thawrani (PE15M015)

   
   

2. Dheeraj Kumar (PE15M007)

   
   

3. Narendra Singh Shekhawat (PE15M009)

   
   

4. Rishabh Saurabh (PE15M013)

   
   

5. Kaligi Amar (PE15M018)

   
   

M. Tech, students of Petroleum Engineering programme, Department of Ocean Engineering guided by Prof. Rajesh R Nair, faculty sponsor, SPE-IITM Student Chapter.

Ocean Wave Mechanics - Applications in Marine Structures

Wiley published The International edition of the book ‘Ocean Wave Mechanics - Applications in Marine Structures’ by Prof. V. Sundar, from The Department of Ocean Engineering.

Offshore Structural Engineering: Reliability and Risk Assessment

Prof. Srinivasan Chandrasekaran from The Department of Ocean Engineering has published a book entitled 'Offshore Structural Engineering: Reliability and Risk Assessment' by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis.

IITM startup DocsApp raises $1.2 Mn

IITM all is all set to cross the landmark of incubating 100 startups

IITM students have a solution for easier air relief missions

How Saint-Gobain and IITM are providing sustainable housing for people all over the world

IITM comes up with "Neerdhan" an innovation to save water

Learning Music made easy by IITM alumnus

Harish Krishnaswamy, an IIT Madras alumnus develops Technology To Double Wi-Fi Speed

Driving technology to depths of the oceans

IIT Madras Innovates Eco-Friendly Low-Cost Houses

"Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals is key to a healthier future" An article by Prof V R Muraleedharan, HSS & Coordinator, Centre for Technology and Policy, IIT Madras was featured in Forbes India magazine

Based on IITM suggestion compound wall of Chennai airport is made flood proof

Nitin Sangwan, MBA alumnus from DoMS IIT Madras, secured 28th Rank in the Civil Services exam