Department of Metallurgical Engineering was established in the year 1974. The Department possesses excellent faculty as well as infrastructure and laboratories to train the students for academic, industrial and R&D requirements in various fields of metallurgical engineering like Physical Metallurgy, Extractive Metallurgy, Mechanical Metallurgy, Metal Casting , Metal Joining, Metal Forming, Powder Metallurgy, Heat Treatment, Testing And Quality Assurance, Advanced Materials, Computer Simulation, Modelling & Simulation, etc. The Department has the state-of-the-art facilities in core laboratories like materials characterisation, mechanical testing, nondestructive testing, welding metallurgy, foundry metallurgy, metal forming, heat treatment, corrosion & surface engineering. In addition, the students are given practical training in PSG industrial institute and PSG & Sons' Charities Metallurgy & Foundry Division during the course of their academic programmes. The Department is actively involved in testing and consultancy services to a large number of engineering industries. A large number of continuing education programs are being arranged by the Department for the benefit of practicing engineers and teachers of other engineering colleges. A PG certificate programme on “Welding and Quality Engineering” is being conducted since 2009 in collaboration with BHEL Educational Society, Tiruchirapalli. The Department has active interactions with premier research institutions like ARCI, DMRL, Hyderabad; IGCAR, Kalpakkam; VSSC-ISRO, NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram; BHEL, BHEL-WRI, Trichy; GTRE, HAL, Bangalore etc. Students are encouraged to take up their project work in the leading industries as well as in various research institutes in our country. A Centre of Excellence in Welding Engineering and Technology (COEWET) funded by Department of Heavy Industry, Govt of India has been established b the Department in the year 2016. The centre houses the latest facilities like Gleeble thermo-mechanical simulator, ThermoCalc software, Sysweld Welding simulation software, welding machines and materials characterisation equipment. The BE Metallurgical Engineering programme of the Department has been accredited for 6 years by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) in the year 2018.

A Brief on Research Activities
Our Department faculty members are carrying out research in different areas of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. R& D projects supported by funding agencies like DST, DRDO, AICTE, BRNS, NRB, UGC and DHI have been carried out in the Department. Almost all faculty have PhD in these areas of surface engineering, welding metallurgy of HSLA and stainless steels, aluminium metal matrix composites, diffusion bonding, bainitic steel development, super austenitic stainless steels, MIAB welding of steel pipes, Nanomaterials, Biomaterials and ceramics. More than 50 research scholars obtained their PhD from the Department; and another 25 scholars pursuing research work.

Major Areas of Research
• Biomaterials
• Ceramic materials
• Development of welding consumables
• Foundry metallurgy
• Functionally graded materials
• High nitrogen stainless steels
• Heat treatment
• High strength steels
• High temperature ceramics
• High temperature coatings
• Materials modeling
• Metal matrix composites
• Mechanical alloying
• Nanomaterials
• Phase field modeling
• Powder metallurgy
• Semisolid casting
• Severe plastic deformation
• Surface modifications
• Superaustenitic stainless steels
• Thermomechanical simulation
• Weldability studies
• Weld simulation