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IIT, Kharagpur was the first in the chain of 5 IITs set up by the Government of India for enhancing advanced technical education in the country. Kharagpur is an important railway center 115 km southwest of Calcutta. This Institute is celebrating its Silver Jubilee this year.
The department of Metallurgical Engineering was established in the Institute in 1954 primarily with an undergraduate curriculum, which later was extended to postgraduate courses in Physical and Process Metallurgy. In 1968, two more postgraduate courses in Powder Metallurgy and Corrosion Science and Technology were introduced. It is of note that this department took...
