About IIT Madras
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
In 1956, the German Government offered technical assistance in establishing an institute of higher education in engineering in India. The first Indo-German agreement in Bonn, West Germany for the establishment of the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras was signed in 1959.
The Institute was formally inaugurated in 1959 by Prof. Humayun Kabir, Union Minister for Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs. The IIT system has twenty three Institutes of Technology. The first of these to be instituted are at Kharagpur (estb. 1951), Mumbai (estb. 1958), Chennai (estb. 1959), Kanpur (estb. 1959), Delhi (estb. 1961), Guwahati (estb. 1994) and Roorkee (estb. 1847, joined IITs in 2001).
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The Institute has sixteen academic departments and several advanced research centres in various disciplines of engineering and pure sciences. A faculty of international repute, a brilliant student community, excellent technical & supporting staff and an effective administration have all contributed to the pre-eminent status of IIT Madras. The campus is located in the city of Chennai, previously known as Madras. Chennai is the state capital of Tamil Nadu, a southern state in India.
IITM’s Experience in Online Education
IITM is well-equipped to provide an online degree course. We have been ranked number 1 Engineering Institute for the past 5 years and we have been ranked number 1 Overall for the past 2 years by NIRF.
Furthermore, IITM began the NPTEL program, the country’s first online content portal as an inter-IIT consortium project in 2001 and nptel.ac.in is one of the largest online course portals in the world. In 2014, IITM also created NPTEL online courses – the country’s first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Today, NPTEL is considered the largest MOOC provider in India.
MHRD launched the SWAYAM MOOC platform in 2017 and NPTEL has been the largest contributor to it. NPTEL also manages the national MOOCs portal – swayam.gov.in as well as the network of more than 3800 SWAYAM local chapter colleges. With IITM continuing to lead the NPTEL project, it makes them the perfect choice to offer an online degree program.
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Faculty Co-ordinators
BS Data Science and Applications
Dr. Andrew Thangaraj
Andrew Thangaraj, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, has been with the institute since June 2004. His bachelors was from IIT Madras and PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. His research interests are in the areas of information theory and error-control coding. He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
From Nov 2011, he has been one of the Coordinators of the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a multi-institutional project funded by the Ministry of Education and managed by IIT Madras. At NPTEL, he played a key role in the starting of online courses and certification on a massive scale through the SWAYAM portal. He is currently the Principal Investigator for SWAYAM.
At IIT Madras, he led a team of faculty that started the Bachelor of Science Degree in Data Science & Applications (IIT Madras Degree Program in Data Science and Applications), launched in June 2020, with online course content delivery and in-person exams. He is currently a coordinator for the program.
Dr. Vignesh Muthuvijayan
Dr. Vignesh Muthuvijayan is a Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, IIT Madras. He received his BTech in Chemical Engineering from A. C. Tech, Anna University, India. He went on to pursue his master's degree in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. He also worked as a post-doc at Johns Hopkins University. He joined the Department of Biotechnology at IIT Madras in 2010. His research interests are in the area of biomaterials and their applications.
Prof. Vignesh Muthuvijayan is also serving as a Coordinator for the IIT Madras BS in Data Science and Applications program and National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL).