The new building of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore will be a complete glass structure. The new design of IIT Indore building is being designed in such a way that maximum use of natural resources of energy is availed in the building to reduce the consumption of nonrenewable energy.
The concept of sunset control will be applied in building. This will be a new experience for the Indore city. On February 17, 2009, human resources minister Arjun Singh had inaugurated the IIT building in Simrole 25 kms from Indore. Till 2015 the IIT Indore will run in rented building.
According to director of Indore IIT Pradeep Mathur the IIT Indore campus will be completely hi-tech and state of art building. In this automatic sensors will be used which will adjust light according to sunlight. The design of IIT is such that the IIT students and the faculty will be always in touch with each other.
The first batch of IIT Indore was started in year 2009-10. The convoctionwill be held on May 8, for this first batch. President of India Pranab Mukherjee will be the chief guest of the function. He will honor batch toppers with gold medals. IIT Indore's permanent campus is spread over an area of about 510-acre.