Department of Materials Science




UGC Centre for Advance Studies in Carbons and Composites

DST-FIST Level II  Department

GUJCOST Centre for Excellence in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

The Department  of  Materials Science  was established  in  1990  as an Institution providing Interdisciplinary  post-graduate  course in  Materials  Science and  Technology and  to foster Research and Development  of  High Performance  Materials.  Though, small and young, the Department  has achieved an excellent  research  progress  record.   This is reflected from the number of Frontier Area Research Projects it has bagged in the last thirteen years.  Within a short span of its inception, University Grants Commission, India, recognized the Department as Centre for Advance Studies in Carbons and Composites and GUJCOST recognized the Department as Centre for Excellence in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The Department makes Fruitful collaboration between academic staff of the Department and other Science and Technology Departments of this University as well as of other Universities, and with many industrial and government organizations in India and abroad.  The financial assistance for research in India  is  being received from various agencies like Department of Science and Technology (DST), Council of  Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) , and University Grant Commission (UGC), etc. The Department has already successfully completed many sponsored research projects. The International Collaboration is promoted through visits of faculty members abroad as  well  as by visits of  number of overseas  faculty and scientists.  Collaborative Research projects are sponsored  by  International agencies  like  National  Science  Foundation (USA), Indo  French Center for Promotion of Advanced  Research (IFCPAR),  International  Collaboration  Research Cell  of  Tokyo  Institute of  Technology,  Japan  etc.

  Pursuits

  The Department aims at      

 ? Providing higher education, training and research  in Materials  Science 

      ? Industrial  Consultancy   
   
 ?Test  and  Evaluation  facilities 

      ?Problem solving 

    ? Collaborative  research 

      ? Research  and Development  of  high temperature materials  for  self  reliance