Allahabad University (AU) would begin a brand new MTech course in ‘Materials Science and Technology’ for the primary time on its campus from the forthcoming educational session of 2023-24, said varsity officers.

This new MTech course shall be provided from the Centre of Materials Science of AU positioned on the Nehru Science Centre constructing of the Science college campus. The window for making use of for the course is already open as on-line purposes are being accepted by AU from April 25. The final date of utility is May 16, officers shared.

To begin with, the centre would take admission on 15 seats in its maiden batch for the course which is split into 4 semesters.

The essential factor is that the college itself is conducting the doorway examination for admission to MTech Materials Science and Technology whereas admission to different MTech programs at AU is being undertaken by means of GATE, the officers defined.

According to the centre coordinator, Prof Ravindra Dhar, “For the first time we are taking admission on the 15 seats for the course which opens a huge window of opportunities for the students as large number of industries, from the one making soaps to those into the mission of manufacturing hi-tech sensors, all need expert hands in the field of material science”.

Presently, the centre runs an MSc programme.

The college students who’re of their last semester of BTech course can even apply together with those that have executed MSc in Material science, physics or chemistry. The MTech diploma shall be awarded in two years whereby within the second yr, college students will study to make units from supplies within the type of tasks which can turn out to be useful for them whereas doing PhD in the event that they later go for the doctoral course.

Prof Dhar additionally knowledgeable that college students doing MTech in Materials Science and Technology shall be exempted from written examination for PhD course at AU. The payment for the course can be ₹20,000 per semester, he added.