Review on Surface Coating Technology in LIT Nagpur

The curriculum contains tough and very unique. During 1st year all the subjects will be common for all the technology students and chemical engineering. In the second year also except 1 special subject of Paint technology, all remains the same. Most of the paint technology and surface coating subjects are covered during the final year (4th) of B.Tech. The learning methodology is purely based on practical experiments in chemical engineering and paint technology. During 4 years of my journey of B. Tech Surface coating technology, we have learned all of the subjects of chemical engineering in detail (except Transport Phenomenon and Mass Transfer - II). Along with chemical engineering 8 more subjects are compulsory for every technology. All 8 subjects will teach you practical and theoretical about paint technology right from pigment, resin, solvents and additives to the final paint preparation application, properties, testing, etc. The course contains one full-time internship of 2 months.

The paint manufacturers such as Asian paints, Berger paints, Nerolac paints, and Axalta coatings offer roles in research & development and manufacturing. Also, vehicle manufacturers such as Tata motors, Mahindra vehicles manufacturers, FIAT, etc in paint shops and given a project on improvement online. The internship will teach more practical & industrial knowledge to the candidate. Manufacturing trainees will learn the manufacturing process of the paint, departmental works for all the departments and basic knowledge about the factory. Paint shop trainees will learn the different paint application methods in the paint shops, application processes, detailed knowledge of paint-shop processes, etc. Trainees will actually see the robotic & manual paintings. Whereas R&D trainees will be given training over paint formulation concepts such as PHR ratio, P: B ratio, shade matching, knowledge of colour values, grinding, pilot batches, etc. Most of the trainees do not get a stipend here.

There are good opportunities for placements after B.Tech in Surface Coating Technology. Most of the top paint companies' recruits graduate from here. The regular recruiters are Berger Paints, Kansai Nerolac Paints, Asian Paints, Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Motors, BASF, PPG Asian, Axalta coatings, FIAT, Godrej & Boyce and many more. In our batch, all of the students got placed in good companies and got the lowest package of 4 LPA and the Highest package of 8 Lakhs. Most of the students go into research & development for automotive paints or decorative paints. Some of the students join the paint manufacturing, technical services & sales for paints. Roles offered are Graduate Engineer Trainee (GET), R&D officer, Quality Control Officer, Sales Officer, Technical Service Officer/Executive & Researcher-I.

The fees during 2014-2018 were approx. 26000-28000 per year. Also, students get scholarships here as per rules by the state government. Candidates having another state quota can apply for the scholarship through their home state. Fees are not hiked during the course as it is regulated by the Rahtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU). Almost all of the students get internship opportunities after 3rd year in reputed MNCs. Also, almost everyone gets a placement opportunity from the college. The college has a very well-known alumni base in the industry. So, all of the students get placements in good companies.

Various events are organised during the year such as MERGE, Ganapati festival, Annual fest, LITMUN, National conference on chemical technology and hostel day events. The hostel day event is conducted in February whereas the annual fest is organised in January. The classrooms are very good and were built in 1942. The library contains more than 100000+ books and it is one of the oldest libraries in Nagpur. The library is very good and contains the rarest of the rare books in chemical engineering and chemical technology. The sports activities are conducted during the fest and all. Also, there is a huge sports ground for the students.

This was based on only JEE Mains in 2014 as MHT-CET for engineering was not available for that year. So, we have to score more than 92 percentile in combinedly PCM (12th) & JEE. All of the processes are done after the result of JEE Main. The state conducts a CAP round where all the colleges will be given choice to the participating students. Every year the cut-off is different and declared on the official site for the CAP round of engineering of Maharashtra state colleges. During my admission, 50% weightage was on the 12th PCM score and 50% on JEE Mains.