The Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, which has a fine blend of renowned as well as young and dynamic personalities as faculty, is involved in providing quality education at both Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate (PG) levels. It has a broad based UG curriculum and specialized M.Tech. and Dual Degree programs in Communication Systems, Microelectronics and Power Systems, Instrumentation and Photonics. The syllabi of the courses are continuously updated and the laboratories modernized to reflect the rapid changes in technology. It also offers high quality research in the MS and PhD programs.

The Department has strong Industry interaction and has been involved in development of state-of-art products for Industry. It has extensive fabrication, calibration and testing facilities for carrying out industry sponsored research and consultancy projects.

Vision and Mission

• Provide quality education at Under Graduate and Post Graduate levels
• Increase research intensity and become a leading product innovation centre
• Assist in the creation of world class technologies by Indian Companies

• Design, fabrication and modeling of MEMS based sensors and actuators
• Opto-Electronic Integrated Circuits (OEIC) and new electronic materials
• Increase research intensity and become a leading product innovation centre in wireless and optical technologies and in signal processing applications
• Assist in the creation of world-class technologies by Indian companies
• Nodal centre for Virtual and Power System Instrumentation
• Non-invasive biomedical instrumentation
• Establish complete range of test facilities for fabricated ICs
• Develop algorithms for analysis & testing of ICs
• Develop energy management systems
• Design optimisation of power apparatus