The Department of Civil Engineering has been in existence since the inception of IIT Madras in 1959 and has grown into a full fledged department with specializations in all the major areas of Civil Engineering.

The names of the Faculty Members of the Structural Engineering (ST) of the Department of Civil Engineering of IITM or Indian Institute of Technology Madras are as follows:

Faculty and Expertise

Alagusundaramoorthy P. Professor
(Ph. D., IIT Madras)
Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites and Steel Structures

Amlan Kumar Sengupta Professor
(Ph.D., University of Missouri–Rolla, USA)
Structural Concrete and Earthquake Engineering

Appa Rao G. Professor
(Ph.D., IISc, Bangalore)
Fracture Mechanics and Structural Concrete

Arul Jaychandran Associate Professor
(Ph.D., IIT Madras)
Computational Structural Stability and Steel Structures

Arun Menon Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Pavia, Italy)
Seismic Performance of Masonry and Heritage Structures

C.V.R. Murty Professor
(Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, USA)
Nonlinear Seismic Behaviour of Buildings and Bridges, Seismic Design Codes

Devdas Menon Professor
(Ph.D., IIT Madras)
Structural Concrete and Bridge Engineering

Nageswara Rao B. Professor
(Ph.D., University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA)
Computational and Probabilistic Mechanics, Structural Reliability

Meher Prasad A. Professor
(Ph.D., Rice University, USA)
Structural Dynamics and Offshore Structures)

Raghu Kanth S.T.G. Associate Professor
(Ph.D., IISc Bangalore)
Seismology, Wave Propagation and Earthquake Engineering

Rupen Goswami Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., IIT Kanpur)
Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures

Saravanan U. Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Texas A&M University, USA)
Nonlinear Elasticity and Constitutive Modelling

Satish Kumar S.R. Professor
(DEng ,Nagoya University, Japan)
Earthquake Engineering and Steel Structures