Dept of Geology

The Department is supporting the UG courses of the Institute offering a compulsory subject to all First Semester students on environment. It also caters specifically to Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and Civil Engineering students. The Department laboratories are well equipped to serve the needs of the students. The Department has Research Model Polarizing Microscopes (for both transmitted light and incident light), Student Model Microscopes, Polarizing Micro projector and rich collection of models, charts, rocks and mineral specimens. A well-equipped new environment laboratory has recently been set up in the department to augment research and consultancy facilities in this emerging field.

The Department is playing an important role as the coordinating department in the introduction of a new multidisciplinary M.Tech programme in “Environmental Science and Technology” from the academic session 2009-10 involving five departments of the Institute.

The Department offers facilities for research activities to faculties and research scholars of the Institute. Present fields of research include classical Structural Geology and various problems related to environment. Presently, five research scholars are carrying out their research in the department including two full time research scholars. The Department also undertakes consultancy jobs on solving environmental problems with particular expertise on groundwater study.