page_title: Madras Institute of Technology
section_title: MIT Museum
hierarchical_section_title: Madras Institute of Technology / MIT Museum
caption_attribution_description: English: MIT Museum
context_page_description: The Madras Institute of Technology is an engineering institute located in Chromepet, Chennai, India. It is one of the four autonomous constituent colleges of Anna University. It was established in 1949 by Chinnaswami Rajam as the first self-financing engineering institute in the country and later merged with Anna University. The institute gave India new areas of specialization such as aeronautical engineering, automobile engineering, electronics engineering and instrumentation technology which was. MIT was the first self-financing institute opened in India.
  The MIT is also the first institute in India to offer postgraduate courses in Avionics and Mechatronics. The institute also has an unusual practice of "T-series" a student mentoring system by senior students The aeronautical, production technology, automobile and electronics departments of this institute are very popular and get the cream of students in Tamil Nadu, usually having very high cut-offs with seats getting filled in the early batches of first-day counselling.
  MIT was started in 1949 and was offering a three-year in Engineering for Science graduates.
context_section_description: A museum named MIT Museum has been set up within the campus. The museum consists of photographs of all important events involving MIT. It also houses several newspaper coverages, books written by MITians and a replica of a glider made by the students of the 1952 batch. The museum was inaugurated by Anna University vice-chancellor Dr P Mannar Jawahar on 18 March 2011.
caption: MIT Museum
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