List of National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli alumni

The National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (NITT) is a public technology university located in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. It was founded in 1964 as the Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli to cater to the country's growing need for technological manpower.^[1] NITT alumni have made contributions in the field of engineering; the institute's graduates also hold (or have formerly held) senior executive positions in such companies as Tata Consultancy Services, Cognizant Technology Solutions and Reliance Industries. Since the year 2007, the institute has annually presented Distinguished Alumni Awards to its notable and outstanding alumni.^[2]

Alumni

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Business and corporate

Alumni	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
K. R., SridharSridhar K. R.	1982	Founder and CEO of Bloom Energy; former advisor to NASA on Mars missions
N., ChandrasekaranChandrasekaran N.	1986	Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services	[3]
Nagappan, ShanmugamShanmugam Nagappan	1993	Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Datacert	[4]
Prabhakar, SatyaSatya Prabhakar	1985 (Jan)	Founder and CEO of Sulekha
R., RavimohanRavimohan R.	1978	Former Executive Director of Reliance Industries; former Chairman and Managing Director of CRISIL
Narendran, T. V.T. V. Narendran	1986	CEO of Tata Steel

Arts

Alumni	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Rangaraju-Ramanan, VanithaVanitha Rangaraju-Ramanan		Technical Lighting Director for Shrek	[5]

Alumni awards

	Corporate Development	Engineering and Services	Research Excellence	Academic Excellence	Public Service	Entrepreneurial Excellence
2007	Raja Goundan, GM of ICF, Chennai; T.Shankaralingam, MD of NTPC; K. Ravikumar, Director of BHEL; R. Ravimohan, CEO of CRISIL	Kanaga Sabapathy T.Madhanagopal Gurumurthy Kalyanaram	R.Sriraman, Chief Mechanical Engineer at ICF P.Swaminathan, Scientist EIG Shyam Chetty, Scientist NAL Meyya Meyyappan, Chief Scientist at NASA Ames Babu Mandava, Co-founder of Beceem	B.Shekar Ganapathy Naganathan S.K.Ramesh R. Fredrick	Lieutenant General KS Venugopal Vice Admiral SKK Krishnan	K.Subramaniam Sarabeswar Mahesh D.Amalean S. Janakiraman Sampath Sreevats

References

1. "History of the Institute". NITT. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
2. "Distinguished Alumni Award". NITT. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
3. "Board of Directors". Tata Consultancy Services. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
4. http://www.datacert.com/News/Releases/2013/131028.asp
5. "And the Oscar goes to ...". The Hindu. March 7, 2004. Retrieved 2010-04-30.