The Institute has tied up with several Universities in 2009-2010 for collaborative research and faculty and student exchange. These are: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, UK; The Regents of the University of California; Synopsys, Inc., USA for setting up the Synopsys CAD Laboratory; Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada; Ghent University, Belgium; Chonnam National University, South Korea; Singapore Technologies Engineering Limited; Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai; India Meteorological Department Ministry of Earth Science, New Delhi; creation of Virtual Class-Rooms at IITs over National Knowledge Network between National Informatics Centre, New Delhi and National Informatics Centre Services Incorporated, New Delhi with IIT Kharagpur