Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Distinguished Alumni

Some Prominent Alumni
NAMEBATCHORGANISATIONDESIGNATION
N G R Iyengar 1971 Jain University, Bangalore Pro Vice Chancellor, Director, IIAEM
Tonse Gokuldas Pai 1972 IIT Kanpur Former Visiting Professor.
Ajay Kumar 1974 NASA Langley Research Centre Distinguished Research Associate
S Narayanan 1975 IIT Madras Professor
Dayanand Yadav 1977 IIT Kanpur Professor
Ex-M.tech students
NAMEBATCHORGANISATIONDESIGNATION
Kunwar Pal Singh 1973 ADA Group Director (ARD)
Vinay Prakash Mathur 1976 HAL General Manager
Suresh Menon 1978 HAL Deputy General Manager
Sudhir Kamle 1979 IIT KANPUR Professor
K Chandrashekhara 1979 University of Missouri Professor
Satish Kumar 1982 DRDL Director-Hypersonic Test vehicle
T Jayachandran 1983 VSSC, Trivandram Head
Narendra Kumar Arya 1990 DRDO Scientific Adviser to Chief of the Air Staff
Ex-B.tech students
NAMEBATCHORGANISATIONDESIGNATION
Amar Chand Garg 1966 Boeing Senior Engineer
Satendra Singh 1968 Civil Aviation Department Director General
Rajiv Shivpuri 1972 The Ohio State University Professor
Sidh Nath Singh 1975 IIT Delhi. Professor
Suresh Menon 1976 Georgia Institute of Technology Professor
Adalat Ali 1979 DRDO Project Director
Anil Enoch Deane 1979 University of Maryland Professor
Vedula Muralidhar Murti 1979 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professor
Subroto Kumar Banerjee 1980 Air India Deputy General Manager -Engg.
Rajiv Singh Chowdhry 1983 Lockheed Martin Skunk Works  
Alok Kumar 1987 Planning Commission, India Deputy Director General
Rajat Mittal 1989 The George Washington University Professor
Entrepreneurship

IITK has its own incubation Centre for budding entrepreneurs Several Aerospace motivated ventures started:

  • Whirly Bird
  • Aurora
  • Rotaviolabs
  • Autobirdz
  • Transoft