Agriculture and Food Engineering IIT Kharagpur

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Hello, here I am providing you the details of the Agriculture and Food Engineering department of the IIT Kharagpur as under:

About the department:
The Agricultural and Food Engineering Department was established in 1952, as the Agricultural Engineering Department on the recommendation of the Dhar Committee appointed by the Board of Governors, IIT Kharagpur in 1950. Subsequently on the upgradation of its academic programme, the department was renamed as the Agricultural and Food Engineering Department in 1994.

Faculty:
Virendra Kumar Tewari
Professor & Head
Ph.D (IIT Kharagpur)

Punyadarshini Punam Tripathy
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)

Tridib Kumar Goswami
Professor
Ph.D (IIT Kharagpur)

Narendra Singh Raghuwanshi
Professor
Ph.D. (University of California, Davis)

Courses offered:
4-year B.Tech (Hons) in Agricultural and Food Engineering
5-year Dual Degree in all engineering disciplines
2-year M.Tech programme in 6 disciplines
M.S. and Ph.D. programmes

Research areas;
Farm Machinery & Power
Land and Water Resources Engineering
Food Process Engineering
Aquacultural Engineering

Contact details:
Agricultural and Food Engineering Department
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
West Bengal, Paschim Medinipur
India, PIN - 721302