IIT Tirupati to launch MTech course from new campus this academic year
TIRUPATI: India’s premium engineering institute IIT Tirupati is shifting from its temporary accommodation in the temple town to its own 500-acre campus at Panguru village in Yerpedu mandal on the way to Srikalahasti. This year, IIT Tirupati has increased the intake from 120 to 180 along with new course in Chemical Engineering and MTech in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science Engineering.
IIT Director KN Satyanarayana expressed his satisfaction over the progress in the establishment of the institution and announced that from this year there will be 75 top faculty members to teach the students.
The administration is all set to shift the temporary college campus at Renigunta road and hostel campus adjacent to Sri Venkateswara Zoo Park, which is 12 km away from the college. The new campus, has laboratories and hostel accommodation made with new-era construction by using Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum panels (GFRG) technology.
The IIT commenced operations in March 2015 with 105 students in Civil, Mechanical, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering with 30 seats each. This year the seats have been increased from 120 to 180, and a new course Chemical Engineering has been added. Also from this year MTech course is also commencing in Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Science Engineering. Some of the classes will continue to run in the same old campus in Chadalawada Engineering College at Renigunta road and some of the classes in new campus.
New construction technology
Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum panel building system is an emerging and cost-effective technology. “GFRG panel is a large, light weight, load bearing building panel manufactured using re-processed industrial byproducts (waste material) abundantly available in the country. It is a energy efficient building material, Prof K Natarajan, In-charge Registrar, said. The GFRG panel can be used for walls, slab, staircase, lift well and parapet in combination with RCC. The walls do not require cement plastering.
Infill of RC into the cavities of panel makes GFRG panels a composite material enhancing its physical and mechanical properties manifold. Currently, panel is manufactured by FRBL, a joint venture company owned by FACT Kochi and RCF Mumbai.