Metallurgy- dictionary tells us it's the scientific study of metals and its uses. Ever since the dawn of the bronze age, gradually metals have reached the zenith of the domination each and every step of the civilization. Technologically speaking metals are ruling the entire universe with aircrafts in the sky and submarines under the ocean. A lion's share of the credit for the advent of the reign of metals goes to its parent branch metallurgical engineering.
           A highly qualified faculty adorns this department. Their single minded dedication towards this noble branch has taken it to the prestigious position it holds today. In addition, highly expensive machineries, ornament, the laboratories of the metallurgical engineering department, some of which range in lakhs. This facilitates the students to expand their horizon of knowledge.
           The instron- a specialized universal testing machine, which is one of the costliest machines sits grandly in the laboratory. There is a microscopic study laboratory, thermo dynamics laboratory, corrosion laboratory equipped with state of art machines. Melting facility and testing facility is also available. The department of Metallurgy, soon to be called the department of Metallurgy and Material Science Engineering Department has high level interactions with the CMERI, DSP and other steel plants in and around Durgapur. They provide testing and consultancy services to these institutions. The department has also been accredited by National Board of Accredition for 5 years.
           In this branch research is the order of the day. If the laboratories and red-blue chemicals are the stuff your dreams are made of, then this is the branch offers you more scope than imaginable.

   The world of metals beckons the strong and the brave and NIT-Durgapur offers the platform of a lifetime!!!