Alumni
Distinguished Alumni
Some Prominent Alumni
| NAME | BATCH | ORGANISATION | DESIGNATION | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N G R Iyengar | 1971 | Jain University, Bangalore | Pro Vice Chancellor, Director, IIAEM | ||
| Tonse Gokuldas Pai | 1972 | IIT Kanpur | Former Visiting Professor. | ||
| Ajay Kumar | 1974 | NASA Langley Research Centre | Distinguished Research Associate | ||
| S Narayanan | 1975 | IIT Madras | Professor | ||
| Dayanand Yadav | 1977 | IIT Kanpur | Professor | ||
Ex-M.tech students
| NAME | BATCH | ORGANISATION | DESIGNATION | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kunwar Pal Singh | 1973 | ADA | Group Director (ARD) | ||
| Vinay Prakash Mathur | 1976 | HAL | General Manager | ||
| Suresh Menon | 1978 | HAL | Deputy General Manager | ||
| Sudhir Kamle | 1979 | IIT KANPUR | Professor | ||
| K Chandrashekhara | 1979 | University of Missouri | Professor | ||
| Satish Kumar | 1982 | DRDL | Director-Hypersonic Test vehicle | ||
| T Jayachandran | 1983 | VSSC, Trivandram | Head | ||
| Narendra Kumar Arya | 1990 | DRDO | Scientific Adviser to Chief of the Air Staff | ||
Ex-B.tech students
| NAME | BATCH | ORGANISATION | DESIGNATION | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amar Chand Garg | 1966 | Boeing | Senior Engineer | ||
| Satendra Singh | 1968 | Civil Aviation Department | Director General | ||
| Rajiv Shivpuri | 1972 | The Ohio State University | Professor | ||
| Sidh Nath Singh | 1975 | IIT Delhi. | Professor | ||
| Suresh Menon | 1976 | Georgia Institute of Technology | Professor | ||
| Adalat Ali | 1979 | DRDO | Project Director | ||
| Anil Enoch Deane | 1979 | University of Maryland | Professor | ||
| Vedula Muralidhar Murti | 1979 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Professor | ||
| Subroto Kumar Banerjee | 1980 | Air India | Deputy General Manager -Engg. | ||
| Rajiv Singh Chowdhry | 1983 | Lockheed Martin Skunk Works | |||
| Alok Kumar | 1987 | Planning Commission, India | Deputy Director General | ||
| Rajat Mittal | 1989 | The George Washington University | Professor | ||
Entrepreneurship
IITK has its own incubation Centre for budding entrepreneurs Several Aerospace motivated ventures started:
- Whirly Bird
- Aurora
- Rotaviolabs
- Autobirdz
- Transoft
Welcome Message
The Aerospace Engineering Department is more than 40 years old. Till 1991, it was known as Aeronautical Engineering Department. The name change was accompanied by addition of topics relating to spacecraft in the UG curriculum; some members of the faculty had been conducting research and guiding PG students in this area even before the formal alteration of the name in 1991. In matters of teaching, research & development, the department has always tried to strike a balance between hardware development and experiments on one hand...
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Prof. G. M. Kamath
Head, Department of Aerospace Engineering