Director's ProfilePROF. CHAKRABORTY M
Professor Chakraborty, in addition to his assignment in teaching and research, has shouldered many administrative responsibilities at IIT Kharagpur. He had been the Deputy Director, Dean of Alumni Affairs and International Relations, Dean of Postgraduate Studies, Head of the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Chairman, Central Research Facility and the Managing Editor, Indian Foundry Journal of The Institute of Indian Foundrymen. He has been a member of several other bodies like the Board of Governors of IIT Kharagpur and Research council, National Metallurgical Laboratory Jamshedpur. Professor Chakraborty is currently a member of the empowered committee of the Ministry of Steel Govt. of India and is also on the Board of Governors NIT Jamshepdpur and NIT Rourkella.
As an academician he has the distinction of supervising 19 Ph. D. students and has 123 publications and two patents to his credit. He has created the Steel Technology Centre at IIT Kharagpur with support from the Ministry of Steel Government of India to attract bright faculty and students to the iron and steel sector.
Professor Chakraborty is life member of Indian Institute of Metals, Materials Research Society of India, Life fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and member of the Institute of India Foundrymen.
Professor Chakraborty has traveled extensively in India and abroad.
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Professor Madhusudan Chakraborty received his B. Tech (Hons) in Metallurgical Engineering in 1971, M. Tech in 1973 and Ph. D. in 1978 from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. As a Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering he has been teaching at IIT Kharagpur for the past 35 years. Professor Chakraborty had received the Best Metallurgist Award (National Metallurgist Day Award) of the Ministry of Steel and Mines, Govt. of India in1996.