By 2008, the old DMET had been the Marine Engineering and Research Institute (MERI) for more than a decade. Kolkata took the new name in 1995. For Mumbai, one IMU report gives 1994 and two other IMU sources give 1995.
The two campuses taught different courses. MERI Kolkata ran a four-year B.Tech in Marine Engineering, affiliated to Jadavpur University. MERI Mumbai ran a three-year B.Sc in Maritime Science, affiliated to the University of Mumbai, and the one-year course for graduate mechanical engineers.
On 14 November 2008, the Indian Maritime University Act created the Indian Maritime University (IMU). It is a Central University with its headquarters in Chennai. The Act joined seven government institutes: the National Maritime Academy in Chennai, T.S. Chanakya in Navi Mumbai, LBS College of Advanced Maritime Studies and Research in Mumbai, MERI Mumbai, MERI Kolkata, the Indian Institute of Port Management in Kolkata, and the National Ship Design and Research Centre in Visakhapatnam.
After the merger, the campuses took new names:
MERI Kolkata and the Indian Institute of Port Management became the IMU Kolkata Campus.
MERI Mumbai and LBS CAMSAR became the IMU Mumbai Port Campus.
T.S. Chanakya became the IMU Navi Mumbai Campus. In August 2017, IMU made Mumbai Port and Navi Mumbai two separate campuses.
The Kolkata campus has since added an M.Tech in Marine Engineering and Management (2017) and a Ph.D programme (2018).
For alumni, the names DMET and MERI did not go away. In 2013, alumni from the batch of 1990–94 started a scholarship for third-year and fourth-year cadets. Today the MERI Alumni Trust runs 13 named grants for cadets of the IMU Kolkata and Mumbai campuses, the successors of DMET and MERI.
