Tuesday 27 May 2014

IIT Bhubaneshwar to introduce B.Tech in Metallurgy from 2014

IIT Bhubaneswar (IITBBS) will introduce a new course in its UG curriculum. The institute will launch BTech (metallurgy) from the coming academic year, admission for which will be conducted on the basis of the JEE (advanced) which was held on Sunday.

There will be a total of 20 seats for BTech (metallurgy) this year reported a newspaper daily.
The institute has been offering BTech in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Computer Science. Each of these branches has 40 seats. However, the new course will have 20 seats initially before the IIT expands it to 40 seats in the future, IIT sources said.

For the new metallurgy course, the institute already has required infrastructure and faculty members since it has been offering MTech in the same branch already. IITBBS, at present, has 98 faculty members.
The institute admits students into B. Tech, M. Tech and Ph.D. programs. The classes are held in Bhubaneswar city. The academic session begins in July each year.

JEE Advanced conducted on Sunday, May 25 by IIT Kharagpur  was the gateway for admissions to IITs. The results are expected by the first week of June.

Source:http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/iit-bhubaneshwat-to-introduce-b.tech-in-metallurgy/1/363739.html

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