The Director is the chairperson of the Senate and serves under the Board of Governors and is the Institute's chief academic and executive officer.

The teaching, training, and research activities of various departments of the institute are periodically reviewed to maintain educational standards.

The move was intended to make the institutions centers of excellence and being developed as autonomous and flexible academic institutions of excellence to meet the sweeping changes taking place in the industrial environment in post liberalized India and also the rapidly changing scene of technical education globally.

[4] The campus spans around 258 acres (1.04 km2) of lush green land in the suburban villages of Poovam and Thiruvettakudy of the city of Karaikal in the Union territory of Puducherry.

Other amenities on campus includes an on-campus State Bank of India branch and its ATM, Medical Centre with a pharmacy and a stationeries and provision store.

Admission to the Undergraduate programs (B.Tech) is highly competitive and is based on the rank secured by the candidates in the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA).

Admission to Postgraduate programs (M.Tech) is done based on the rank secured by the candidate in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted jointly by the Indian Institute of Science and seven Indian Institutes of Technologies at Roorkee, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Chennai (Madras) and Mumbai (Bombay) on behalf of the National Coordination Board – GATE, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India.

[6] The institute also accepts foreign nationals through scholarships awarded by the Government of India, and Non-Resident Indians (NRIs/PIOs) through an independent scheme known as Direct Admission for Students Abroad (DASA).

course hass science subjects physics, chemistry, and mathematics as majors in addition to mandatory languages and pedagogy techniques.