The current director of IIT BHU is Professor Amit Patra. He has been appointed as Director of IIT BHU on May 16, 2024. Generally, the directorship tenure is for 5-6 years.
Previously, he served as a faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and as the Deputy Director at IIT Kharagpur. He has also been an electrical engineer for over 35 years and is a respected alumnus of IIT Kharagpur.
He has also visited the Ruhr University in Germany as a post-doctoral fellow and has made significant contributions to VLSI & power management circuits and control systems.
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System engineering is an interdisciplinary course that can be pursued by EE/EC/IN students who have valid a GATE score. EC/IN students may face problems as major course content is related to electrical engineering like electrical drive, power drive, operation & control, so electrical engineering students find it easy as compared to EC/IN students.
The total no.of seats are 9 and a maximum of 40% seats can be filled by a particular branch (from EE, EC, IN).
Now coming to placement, it totally depends on the student, as there is no specific company for system engineering but students will get the opportunity to sit in for the companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Sap Labs, Qualcomm, Intel, Eaton, Kla Tencor, TCS, Cognizant, Bosch, General Electric, Mercedes Benz, Math works, Tata Motors, Texas Instruments, Cisco, Honeywell, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Relaxo, Kotak Mahindra Bank and many more. There are also lectureship jobs from universities & coaching institutions. One student can apply for a max of 60 companies. There is also one student one job rule according to that if a student gets a job offer in one company then he will not be eligible to sit for another company similarly if someone gets an internship in one company then they will not eligible for other companies.
In IIT BHU, the M.Tech fee is 2 lakhs/annum. Most students prepare for govt.sector jobs as they get sufficient time to do so as the schedule is not hectic.
The placements of IIT-BHU have been outstanding. The highest package was offered by Microsoft of 1.39 crore. 5 students were placed at Tower research capital with a lucrative package of 40 lakhs per annum. Oracle offered the highest package of 34 lakhs per annum to 15 students. Other than these, Uber offered 32 lakhs, Goldman Sachs-31.5 LPA, Flipkart -26 lakhs, Microsoft India-26 LPA, Qualcomm India - 20 lakhs, Intel Technology India -17 LPA.
The training and placement office of IIT-BHU collaborates with leading MNCs to facilitate placements and internships. About 200 companies visited the campus while many gave pre-placement offers. The companies visiting the campus are broadly classified into Core engineering industries, IT-enabled manufacturing services, consultancy firms, finance companies, and organizational R&D laboratories. The companies also organized pre-
placement talks to facilitate a better understanding of the job roles. Overall the placements had been one of the best amongst all IITs.