[7] A. Seshadri Sekhar, professor and head of the department of mechanical engineering at the IIT Madras, succeeded P. B. Sunil Kumar as the director of the institute in October 2022.

[8] The institute started functioning in August 2015 from a temporary site located inside the Ahalia Health Heritage & Knowledge Village, Palakkad.

[11] The Nila Campus includes an auditorium, multimedia-enabled classrooms (both small and large), student laboratories, a library, a canteen, and Wi-Fi-enabled hostels that allow mobility in Internet access.

The Sahyadri Campus, located on 504 acres near the Western Ghats, integrates modern infrastructure with eco-friendly practices aimed at achieving a net-zero carbon footprint.

Similar to the other IITs, admission to undergraduate programmes is based on qualification through the extremely competitive Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE).

It is also offering Master of Technology (M.Tech) in two disciplines from the year 2019 in which candidates having valid GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) scores are eligible to apply.