Vision
Department of Materials Science and Engineering was established in 2008. The centre was established to provide centralized facilities to characterize materials and develop interdisciplinary research and education program in materials science and engineering.
Mission
The main objectives of the department are:
- To provide quality education and exposure in the field of Materials Science and engineering.
- To generate trained human resources for research and teaching.
- To conduct research relevant to the needs of community and industry.
- To contribute to sustainable development of the nation.
- To provide state of art materials science and engineering related research facilities to other departments of NIT, Hamirpur and other educational institutions.
Goals
To recruit adequate, qualified faculty and supporting staff.
To provide state-of-art training to the faculty in the area of Materials Science.
To establish new facilities/laboratories (Computational Materials Science laboratory, Mechanical Characterization of materials laboratory, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Heat treatment and metallography laboratory etc.) and upgrade the existing facilities.
To reorient and strengthening of the existing B.Tech, M.Tech & Ph.D programs and start new programs in emerging areas as per requirement.
To accelerate research and development activities.
To organize workshop/conferences regularly.
To establish close linkage with institutions of repute and professional bodies.
Implementation Strategy
To achieve identified goals by the centre, following strategies have been worked out. It will be modified from time to time in order to check the gaps in the implementation by considering the progress in research and development needs for new phenomenon, materials and services. The corrective steps/directions will be followed over the subsequent years.
The Centre has started B.Tech. Materials Science and Engineering in the centre. This will generate trained human resources, which will be very useful for research development in industry, in government research laboratories (CSIR, DST, DAE, DRDO laboratories) where new strategic and functional materials were being developed for nation.
To upgrade the knowledge of the faculty of engineering and academic institutes, Centre will organize at least one workshop and one national conference on advances in materials science and technology every year.
One International Conference in the area of advanced materials after every two years will be planned. In this event the faculty and research students will be updated with the advance in the subject internationally and also interact with the experts from abroad.
As mentioned in the goals, the new laboratories will be setup and the existing laboratories and facilities will be upgraded from time to time.
