Prof. Suresh Chandra was Director of the institute from 26-07-1984 to 26-12-1987.

Prof. R. S. Nirjar was Director of the institute from 27-12-1987 to 08-01-1988 and 19-12-1991 to 30-05-1992.

Prof. G.N. Pandey was Director of the institute from 09-01-1988 to 12-12-1991 and 04-12-1994 to 30-04-1999.

Prof. B. Satyanarayan was Director of the institute from 02-06-1992 to 11-01-1993.

Prof. S.K. Bajpai was Director of the institute from 12-01-1993 to 02-07-1993 and 01-05-1999 to 30-06-1999 and 18-07-2004 to 16-10-2004.

Prof. R.N. Tiwari was Director of the institute from 03-07-1993 to 03-12-1994.

Prof. A.K. Khare was Director of the institute from 01-07-1999 to 30-06-2004.

Prof. L.S. Yadav was Director of the institute from 17-10-2004 to 15-10-2007.

Prof. A.K. Khanna was Director of the institute from 15-10-2007 to 31-07-2008.

Prof. S.K. Shrivastav was Director of the institute since 31-07-2008.

Shri Pravin Chandra is a well known theatre personality of Lucknow.
For the last many years he is the sole mentor and guide of the IET’s Dramatics Society - IET JOSH, nurturing the art of dramatics among the budding actors of the Institute. It is only due to his efforts that IET JOSH, which was a bunch of few amateur actors some years back, has now grown into a full fledged campus theatre group.
Under his dedicated guidance, IET JOSH has won several awards in various inter collegiate fests and to add feather to the cap, they have even won a national level street play competition for Voting Awareness, in Mumbai which was promoted and aired by Bindass TV.