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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Ph.D. Admission for Spring Semester 2013-14
INFORMATION BROCHURE
CONTENTS
1. The Institute
2. Roorkee Town
3. Central Facilities and Centres of Excellence
4. Specializations / Major Research Areas
5. Ph.D. Programmes
6. Admission Categories
7. Admission Eligibility
8. Fee Structure
9. Financial Assistance
10. General Instructions
11. Eligibility for Admission in different Disciplines
HOW TO APPLY
The candidate is required to register and fill the application online from September 27, 2013 to
October 21, 2013 by accessing http://pgadm.iitr.ernet.in and after finalizing, download the online filled application
and Bank Challan simultaneously, then the requisite fee of Rs. 200/- for GEN/OBC and Rs. 100/- for SC/ST/PD
category candidates must be deposited in any branch of State Bank of India throughout the country through Bank
challan on next working day of finalization of online application and or before the last date i.e. October 22, 2013.
The Bank Challan will be printed in triplicate. Bank will retain a copy and will return two copies to you. In those two
copies, retain the Candidate’s copy with you and attach the IITR’s copy with the print out of downloaded application
form.
Note:-
1. The fee shall not be accepted through any other mode.
2. Separate application be sent for separate departments/centres and for each department/centre separate
fees shall be required. An original copy of challan be used with the application form for one department
and Xerox copy of the challan form can be used for other departments (if applicable).
Apply online (Website Open) September 27, 2013 (Friday)
Last Date for Applying Online (Website Closure) October 21, 2013 (Monday) at 5:30 P.M.
Last date for deposit of application fee October 22, 2013 (Tuesday)
Receiving of downloaded Application Form at PG Admission
Office, IIT Roorkee
October 25, 2013 (Friday)
Admission will be offered subject to availability of seats, faculty in the Specialization and the
Institute Assistantship. 2
1. THE INSTITUTE
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee is the latest
member of the IIT family and has its roots in the
Roorkee College established in 1847 as the first
engineering college in India, which was soon
rechristened as Thomason College of Civil
Engineering in 1854 after its greatest mentor James
Thomason. After about 100 years of distinguished
services, the college was elevated to University of
Roorkee as the first Engineering University of
independent India on November 25, 1949. It has now
23 academic departments/centres offering 11
undergraduate courses in engineering and
architecture, 5 dual degree programmes and 6
Integrated Dual Degree courses in M.Sc./Engineering
and over 52 postgraduate courses in engineering,
architecture, sciences, computer applications and
business administration besides research
programmes at doctoral level. It has three campuses,
main campus at Roorkee and other two at
Saharanpur and Greater Noida
IIT Roorkee has a highly qualified and motivated
faculty of about 390 members who are engaged in
research and consultancy in addition to teaching. The
faculty members offer their expertise through
consultancy services to private/public sector
industries as well as to Government agencies. The
institute has about 4300 undergraduate students,
2130 postgraduates and Over 1425 research
scholars.
There are a number of academic and research
centres engaged in interdisciplinary research, and
many collaborative programmes exist with institutions
in India and abroad. Several central facilities exist
such as Mahatma Gandhi Central Library having
more than 3.65 lac volumes of books and periodicals,
Information Superhighway Centre with Internet
connectivity, an Educational Multi-Media Research
Centre with full-fledged television studio, a modern
Computer Centre and Institute Instrumentation Centre
with highly sophisticated analytical instruments.
The Institute prepares students to meet everincreasing technological and social challenges with its
traditions of self-discipline, hard work, all-round
personality development and innovative approach to
problems.
IIT Roorkee is fully residential, with well-designed
hostels (Bhawans) both for boys and girls, sprawling
sports ground, hobbies club, Hospital, a modern
swimming pool, boat club and a host of facilities for
different games including Tennis, Squash and
Billiards. Societies and Associations along with
activities like NCC, Rangering and Rovering,
Mountaineering and Trekking provide excellent
opportunities for self-development.
2. ROORKEE TOWN
Roorkee, a quiet town of moderate size in the district
of Hardwar (Uttarakhand), is located on the banks of
the Upper Ganga Canal, which takes off at Hardwar.
It is about 30 km south of the Shivalik range of the
mighty Himalayas, about 170 km to the north of Delhi
and is situated on the Amritsar-Howrah main railway
line. Roorkee is linked by rail to many important mega
cities such as Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai.
Roorkee is also well connected by road, being
located on the Delhi-Hardwar National Highway (NH
58), and on the Roorkee – Panch Kula Highway (NH
73). Roorkee (Latitude 29o 52’ N and Longitude 77o
53’52" E) is 268 m above mean sea level and has a
cold winter. The summer months, though hot, are
moderated by the proximity of the Shivaliks. The rainy
season is mainly between July and September with
an average rainfall of 1050 mm.
Roorkee town is an important centre of engineering
activity. Apart from the IIT Roorkee, which is situated
in a 150-hectare campus, Roorkee also has the
Central Building Research Institute, the National
Institute of Hydrology, the Irrigation Research
Institute, the Irrigation Design Organization, the
headquarters of Bengal Engineering Group & Centre
along with an important Army base.
The Institute campus is 2.5 km from the Roorkee
Railway Station and is only 200 m from the
Roadways Bus Stand.
3. CENTRAL FACILITIES AND CENTRE OF
EXCELLENCE
EM2
RC
The EM2
RC provides valuable resource material for
higher education and mass communication. The
programme produced at the centre are televised
under the UGC’s Country Wide Classroom
programmes. The Doordarshan National TV Network
telecasts these programmes.
The centre undertakes research aspects of
educational technology in relation to learning in
diverse age groups for both urban and rural
population, in various disciplines. It invites faculty
from within the Institute, other Colleges, Universities
and Institutions for the production of programmes and
software transfer.
Institute Instrumentation Centre
The Institute Instrumentation Centre has a
wide range of analytical facilities for processing and
characterizing materials. These facilities are available
for use by researchers (students/faculty) in both
academia and industry not only for the academic
community of IIT Roorkee, but also to various
research organizations and industries across the
nation.
This centre provides modern facilities for advanced
materials processing and characterization. The
facilities include well established Nanoscience which
consists of state of the art nanomaterials synthesis
facilities laboratory (Sputtering and Pulse Laser
Deposition Technique for Nano-materials synthesis).
More details are available on the website. IIC is
equipped with more than twenty specialized and
sophisticated equipments for analysis and solution of
intricate scientific and industrial problems. These
include, among others, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
(NMR), Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer
(TIMS), Electron Probe Micro Analyzer (EPMA),
Macromolecular Crystallographic Unit (MCU) for
protein crystallography (All the required facilities for
cloning to crystallization are available), X-Ray
Fluorescence Spectrometer (WDS-XRF), Powder XRay Diffractometer (Powder-XRD), Glancing angle
XRD, Single crystal XRD, Scanning Probe
Microscope (SPM), Field Emission Scanning
Electron Microscope (FE-SEM), 200 KV Transmission
Electron Microscope (TEM), Scanning Electron
Microscope (SEM), Superconducting Quantum
Interference Device (SQUID) Magnetometer,
Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM), Atomic
Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS), Fluorescence
Life Time System, Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass
Spectrometer (ICP-MS) attached with Laser Ablation,
Differential Thermal and Thermo Gravimetric
Analyzer (DTA/TGA). Each laboratory generally has
an operator working under the supervision of a faculty
member or a scientific officer. Besides these, the
Centre includes a training laboratory for summer
training of the engineering students.
Area of Research:
There are two faculty members each having several
sponsored projects and research programmes in the
areas of Magnetic Multilayes/Heterostructures,
MEMS Devices, Thin Film Solar Cells, Functional
Nanomaterials, Molecular Crystallography/
Bioinformatics, and Geo Physics.
Institute Computer Centre
The Centre works towards the common goal of
implementing the academic agenda of the Institute by
constantly interacting, evaluating and updating the
resources to meet the international standards. ICC is
playing the major role of a central facilitator to
students and faculty members who are intensely
engaged in research activities. It is making available
on appropriately high-end hardware platform, the
latest scientific and engineering computing software
to the research community.
Computing Resources:
• ICC, a central computing facility, is equipped for
High Performance Computing, which includes
infrastructure for Cluster Computing, besides highend Servers and Workstations on heterogeneous
platforms.
• Centre has a wide range of servers from Intel
processor based ones to high-end RISC servers from
HP, SUN, IBM, SGI and NAS (Network Attached
Storage) servers of 2x1.6 TB (terabytes) capacity.
Blade servers for computational requirement and
software services at the central facility in hp c7000
blade system. SAN System with FC connectivity to
blade system hp c7000.
• ICC has state-of-the-art facilities for applications
such as: CAD/MCAD, Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD), FEM & FEA, Image Processing / Scientific
Visualization, 3DAnimation/Visual Simulation/
Geospatial imaging and analysis.
• It has mid-range to high-end configured graphics
workstations with MIPS R16000 64 bit RISC based
(SGI)/ 64 bit Quad-core Intel Xeon (Dual CPU) / 64 bit
Quad Core Xeon (Dual CPU) / Core 2 Duo (Dual
core) /PIV EM64T CPUs/AMD Opteron; GPU
Optimized High Performance & Graphics Workstation
(Supermicro 7046A-HR+) with NVIDIA Tesla for
scientific/engineering computation and research in
the area of GP GPU and HPC based applications.
• Linux based HPC Cluster and all the other servers
can be accessed within the campus including DPT
Saharanpur Campus through campus LAN.
Major Engineering and Scientific software
resources:
ICC not only delivers the computing environment on
24x7 basis with remote access facility but has also
established in a short span of time one of the best
repositories of latest scientific and engineering
computing software in any of the technical institutes
in India. ICC’s software licensing facilities provide the
following major engineering and scientific softwares
available throughout the campus over the LAN with
network floating licenses:
ANSYS Academic Research v 14.0
Autodesk Revit Architecture Suite 2009 &
Educational Solution Set 2009
Abaqus 6.8.1
ArcGIS 10
Bentley Suite of Products under Academic
subscription with a set of 53 software along with
Microstation software
ChemOffice Ultra 10.0
ERDAS Imagine 2011 with LPS and Imagine
Developers Toolkit and ER Mapper
Felix for NMR
Hytran 3.7.3-7
Intel Visual Fortran 9.0
LabVIEW 2010
MATLAB R2010b with various tool boxes &
Distributed Computing Engine
Mathematica 5.0
Mechanical Autodesk Inventor Series 11
MagNet 64 bit v 6.22.1
NAG Libraries and Compilers
Oracle 9i & 10g
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0
SARscape 4.2 with ENVI 4.7
SAP2000 v 15.0; ETABS Non-linear v 9.7.2 and
SAFE v 12.3.1
SPSS 16.0
Solid Edge 18.0
Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Prof. (Academic Version)
MS Visual Studio.Net 2010
Microsoft software products under School and
Campus Agreement.
Computing Environment and Access Timings:
• The Centre maintains a comfortable environment,
conducive for research & training for both students
and faculty.
• Dedicated systems with specialized software
required by students of M.Tech, and Ph.D scholars
during their dissertation/thesis period in the Research
Scholars lab at ICC. These are high- end
workstations with multi-core with high processing
speed and high capacity memory and graphics
adaptors in network with remote access facility on
365x24x7 basis. Scientific and engineering software
licenses being served through servers at ICC.
• Short term training programmes /workshop/seminar
for students, faculty members and office staff are also
being organized by the centre.
• It has eight job-specific labs with about 250
desktops/thin clients of latest configuration in
100/1000 mbps CAT 6 based structured network
having gigabit managed switches with internet
connectivity at every system.
• Computer Centre runs in two shifts from Monday to
Friday from 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM and on Saturday
and Sunday 8:45 AM to 11:00 PM.
• It is rendering services all 7 days/week. Computing
and software license serving facilities are available on
24x7 basis within the campus including DPT
Saharanpur.
Information Superhighway Centre
The Information Superhighway Centre(ISC) was
established in March 1996. It is the nodal centre for
outside/inside connectivity to the campus and serves
as an Information Technology Center for promoting
the effective use of IT, IT Systems, resource
management and facilities for modernization/
automation of the IP Infrastructure of the Campus
The Institute has a star topology Gigabit Ethernet
Switch based, state-of-the-art Enterprise class
network with data, voice and video communication
capabilities. All department and Centres are
connected to the Information Superhighway through
Optical Fiber. The network covers 365 acres of area
through 35 Km of OFC and 70 km of CAT6/E CAT 5
UTP, connecting all Departments/Centres, Hostels
and Saharanpur Campus. The Intranet has 6000+
wired-line I/Os and 3200+ points through Wireless
access, providing internet/intranet, and e-mail facility
to all faculty, students, staff, library, and laboratories.
All research scholar Hostels have wired line internet
connectivity in each room. Under Graduate/Graduate
hostels have Cyber café equipped with 20 desktop for
internet connectivity in addition to 802.11g Wi-Fi
network Internet/Intranet connectivity in each room.
New Hostels at IIT Roorkee main campus and
Saharanpur campus have Wire-Line connectivity in
each room.
Institute has 1 Gbps internet lease line link of
National Knowledge Network (NKN) from NIC
under MHRD Govt of India initiative. 100 Mbps
internet leased line link from TATA Communication,
New Delhi, 100 Mbps internet leased line link from
BSNL Haridwar 2 Mbps Lease Line link from ERNET
India, New Delhi. 34 Mbps dedicated leased line
(RailTel) in a close group to Saharanpur Campus.
Above Facilities through the Centre is being used
extensively by the faculty and the students for their
educational and research needs and provides an
avenue for the exchange of Information with other
libraries and the centres of research and education.
The ISC also has an Information Management
Group(IMG) which is managed and run solely by
B.Tech. students for developing website and intranet
applications.
Quality Improvement Programme Centre
The Government of India has launched the Quality
Improvement Programme in the 1970-71. One of the
main objectives of the programme is to upgrade the
expertise and capabilities of the faculty members of
the degree level engineering colleges/ institutions of
the country. Since 1994-95, the programme is being
implemented and monitored by All India Council for
Technical Education. In “Quality Improvement
Programme” only sponsored teachers are eligible for
admission to both Master’s and Doctoral Degree
Programmes, with the aim to enable them to acquire
Master’s/Doctoral degrees and imbibe in them a
culture of research and better teaching capabilities by
exposing them to the environment of a higher level
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The Programme was launched to improve the overall
quality of technical education in the degree level
engineering colleges/institutes. It was anticipated that
placing the teachers on the campus of these institutes
of excellence including 7 IIT’s, and Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, will expose them to an altogether
different environment of sophisticated infrastructure
and to improve the standard of technical education in
their own institute.
Mahatma Gandhi Central Library
The library serves as a central organ of the academic
activities of the Institute. To this end, it continues to
fulfill its obligations in providing necessary
infrastructure facilities in the form of books, advanced
treatises, works of reference and bibliographical
nature, current and back volumes of journals, theses,
CD-ROMS, e-journals, e-databases, e-books and
other kinds of monographs to its members. It has well
bound collection of more than 3.65 lakh volumes to
meet the growing and varied requirements of its
clientele consisting of undergraduate and
postgraduate students, research scholars, faculty
members. The library strives to provide physical
facilities with calm and cozy atmosphere conductive
to study for long hours. It subscribes to over 800
current journals in all branches of Engineering,
Physical Sciences, Bio-Sciences and Humanities &
Social Sciences. Besides this the library provides
access to e-resources including more than 13,000 ejournals and 30,000 e-books published by major
science and technology publishers of the world. All
the e-resources of the library are available throughout
the campus on Institute network. Library also
maintains 5 LCDs, 7 servers and more than 100
Desktop PCs on its Local Area Network. Forty seven
CCTV cameras have been recently installed at
various places of the library. The Mahatma Gandhi
Central Library has been provided with latest RFID
technology with self issue/return facility for the users.
Mahatma Gandhi Central Library building is one of
the most beautiful buildings in the country. It is a
state-of-the-art facility fully air-conditioned which
provides the best possible environment to the
students and faculty. It occupies an area of over
90,000 sq.ft. Ample sunlight through dome and
skylight provision, state-of-the-art cabling for internet
and light, fire services, cyber rooms, open terminal,
wi-fi environment are some of the main features. A
separate reading room with 80 seating capacity for
using personal books is a unique feature. The Central
Library is on its way to provide library services in such
a way that Saakaar becomes Niraakaar and believe
in becoming pro-active rather than providing services
on demand.
CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE:
1. Centre for Transportation Systems (CTRANS)
CTRANS is a Centre of Excellence of IIT Roorkee in
the area of Transportation Systems with an aim to
promote multidisciplinary and high quality research
and education in Transportation Systems with
collective participation of Engineers, Scientists and
Researchers from Science & Technology, Humanities
and Social Sciences of the Centre, Architecture &
Planning and Management background. The
research areas are Public Transport System Highway
& Airfield Pavement Management System, Intelligent
Transport System, Design of Comfort (Rail
Transport), Environmental Management, Biofuels for
Automobiles, Traffic Emission Modelling, Air Quality
Modeling, Mathematical Modelling, Supply Chain
Management, Electric Trolley System, Traction
Technology, Remote Sensing, GPS & GIS
Applications, Health Hazard in Transportation
System, Inland Navigation & Water Transport,
Polymer Applications in Transportation Systems,
Accident Modelling and Road Traffic Safety, Urban
Transportation Policy, Management of Transport
Systems, Environmental Impact Assessment, Visual
Communication Design System, Aesthetics, etc. The
Centre is equipped with a number of modern
equipments i.e., Road Measuring Data Acquisition
System (ROMDAS), Portable Automatic Traffic
Counter-cum-Classifier, Trimble IR 5600 Robotic
Total Station, Electrodymic Vibration System, Falcon
Handheld Stationary Radar with Data Logger and
measurement of vehicular speeds, Integratingaveraging noise level meter, 50" Plasma TV for
Traffic Analysis study, Portable Falling Weight
Deflectometer, Diamond Core Drilling System,
Portable Reference Measurement System etc. The
Centre has Sound Plan, HEADS, TRANSCAD,
VISSUM & VISIM softwares for a variety of
transportation system problem analysis. The Centre
has a good computing facility for modelling and
simulation of transportation systems. A multi-
Institutional Nationally Co-ordinated Project entitled
“Integrated Development of Public Transport System”
Sponsored by AICTE is executed at this Centre. A
R&D Project on “Design and Analysis of Urban
Multimodal Mass Transportation System” sanctioned
by DST, Gol is under progress. CTRANS is also
offering advice and Consultancy Services. The
CTRANS is providing consultancy services for the
RSVY Project of CPWD on “Development of State
Highways in Bihar State”. The Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways, Govt. of India has
established Professorial Chair at CTRANS.
2. Centre for Disaster Mitigation and
Management
The Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation &
Management was established at IIT Roorkee in March 2006 to initiate multidisciplinary studies &
national capacity building in Disaster Mitigation and
Management. Initially, focus is on natural/man-made
disasters. The Core faculty group and facilities are
drawn from the participating departments.
The CENTRE is devoted to human resource
development; R&D activities leading to Ph.D. degree;
disseminates technical know how; provides extension
services; evolves strategies for mitigation and
management of disasters and establish a national
database for rapid dissemination of information and
knowledge. The centre is also engaged in running
M.Tech. programmes in Disaster Mitigation and
Management.
3. Centre for Nanotechnology
Centre for Nanotechnology was established in
December 2005 as one of the Centres of Excellence.
The faculty of the centre, drawn from different
departments is involved in developing state-of-the-art
facilities at the Institute and is vigorously pursuing
interdisciplinary research on various current aspects
of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. For this
purpose the Institute has granted ten MHRD
assistantships to the centre. A wide range of
sophisticated equipment related to Nanotechnology
has been made operational at IIC involving the
multidisciplinary faculty of the centre.
In view of the major impact of ‘Nanoscience’ in vast
disciplines of Science and Technology, M.Tech.
program on ‘Nanotechnology’ had started in 2008.
This course aims at providing the basic knowledge to
B.Tech./M.Sc. students about various concepts of
nanoscale materials, their synthesis, characterization,
novel properties, applications and future
perspectives. This being a multidisciplinary area, a
number of electives have been designed to impartknowledge on Nanoscale modeling and simulation,
Nanophysics, Nanochemistry, Nanobiotechnology,
Nanomedicine and technological aspects of
nanomaterials. Besides, it is providing students a
practical training on advanced methods being
employed for the synthesis, characterization and
elucidation of different nanostructures. This expertise
could be utilized to fabricate new Nanomaterials and
Nanodevices for various applications.
4. SPECIALIZATIONS/MAJOR RESEARCH AREAS
ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
Architecture
Architectural Design; Building Construction &
Materials; Building Science; Landscape Design; Hill
Architecture; Visual & Graphic Art; Urban Design;
Architectural Conservation; History of Architecture;
Interior Design; Architectural Education; Highrise
Buildings; Energy Conservation & Passive Design;
Sustainable/Green Architecture.
Planning (Urban & Rural)
Urban Planning; Hill Area Planning; Ecology;
Sustainable Development / Planning; Integrated Rural
Development; Energy Planning; Regional Planning;
Housing; Urban Development Management;
Environmental Planning.
ALTERNATE HYDRO ENERGY CENTRE
Alternate Hydro Energy Centre established in the
year 1982 offers two M Tech Programmes in
“Alternate Hydro Energy Systems” and
“Environmental Management of Rivers and Lakes”.
AHEC offers research in the area of small hydro
power : Optimization of civil structures, hydroulic
turbines, induction generators, power systems
planning, distributed energy; solar energy, biomass
energy, waste-to-energy, integrated renewable and
hybrid energy systems.
The research areas in the field of environment are :
water quality modelling, environmental management
of rivers and lakes and GHG emissions from
reservoirs.
BIOTECHNOLOGY
Biomolecular structure- conformation by nuclear
magnetic resonance techniques; drug - DNA and
protein - DNA interactions; Molecular Modeling;
Protein crystallography; Microbial Transformations
and Fermentation Processes; Microbial Production of
Organic acids and Enzymes; Molecular Biology &
Proteomics; Molecular cloning, characterization and
expression of therapeutics proteins; Molecular
Mechanism of Abiotic Stress Tolerance; Molecular
Genetics of Nitrogen Fixation, Plant Biochemistry;
Enzymology; Animal Physiology; Molecular
Endocrinology; Reproductive Endocrinology,
Bioassays for screening new drugs, Drug Designing;
Molecular Pathogenesis; Environmental
Biotechnology; Biochemical Engineering; Bioprocess
Engineering; Downstream Processing; Enzyme
Engineering; Chemical Biology; Drug discovery;
Synthetic Biology; Aptamer technology; Small RNA;
Chemical genetics; Microbial pathogenesis-molecular
biology; cloning, expression and purification of
molecular targets and studies of mechanism of
action; Bioprocess modeling and simulation;
bioreactor design; Bio-prospecting; Wheat and rice
genomics and proteomics; germplasm enhancement.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Advanced Transfer Processes; Computer Aided
Process Plant Design; Environmental Pollution
Abatement Engineering; Industrial Safety and
Hazards Management; Process Integration; Applied
Numerical Methods; Biochemical Engineering; Two
Phase Heat Transfer; Process Intensification;
Chemical Kinetics; Catalysis and Reactor Design;
Computer Aided Design; Energy Engineering and
Management; Fire Engineering; Industrial Pollution Abatement; Modelling and Simulation; Process
Engineering; Process Control; Separation Process;
Hydrocarbon Engineering;CFD; Polymer Science &
Engineering; Supercritical Fluid Extraction;
Membrane Separation.
CHEMISTRY
Analytical; Inorganic; Organic; Physical.
Asymmetric synthesis; Bioanalytical chemistry;
Bioinorganic chemistry; Chemical kinetics; Computer
simulation and molecular orbital calculations;
Coordination chemistry; Development of low cost
carbon alternatives for waste water management;
Electroanalytical chemistry; Electrochemical sensors
and chemical sensors; Electrochemistry;
Enantiomeric resolution of pharmaceutically important
compounds; Enantioselective catalysis; Epoxidation
of olefinic compounds; Evolution and origin of life;
Extraction chromatography; Heme proteins;
Heterogeneous catalysis; Inorganic biochemistry; lon
beam analysis; Kinetics and nanomaterials; Liquid
chromatography; Macrocycles; Main group chemistry;
Metal speciation in environment; Metal-based drugs;
Mossbauer spectroscopy; Neutron activation
analysis; Organic electrochemistry; Organic
electronics; Organic reaction mechanism;
Organometallics (Ru, Si and Sn); Photochemistry;
Protein sequencing; Size and shape effects of
nanomaterials on their physico-chemical properties;
Solvent extraction; Synthesis of heterocyclic
compounds; Synthetic polymers/memberanes/
membrane electrodes; Syntheses of porphyrinoids for
material applications; Solid state and materials
chemistry; Statistical mechanics of polymers; Rational
drug design; Multi component synthesis; Microwave
assisted organic synthesis; Theoretical chemistry.
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Building Science and Technology; Environmental
Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering; Hydraulic
Engineering; Geomatics Engineering; Structural
Engineering; Transportation Engineering; Diversified
areas of specializations - Bridge Engineering - Rock
Mechanics - Traffic Engineering.
Building Technology
High rise buildings, Aerodynamic and seismic studies
on buildings, Post peak response of P.C., R.C. and
masonry structures to study overloading capacity,
Concrete and composites, Health monitoring, residual
life assessment and retrofitting of buildings, Risk
analysis and optimization, Non flexural behavior of
structural concrete, Impact and hygro-thermal
behavior of structures, Application of soft computing
techniques in building engineering, Laminated
Composites, Analysis and design.
Environmental Engineering
Emissions and air quality modeling, Air quality in
megacities, Air Pollution and health impacts, Air
Pollution control technologies, Energy and
environmental policy, Climate change and
sustainable development, carbon sequestration and
storage technologies, Environmental impact and risk
assessment, Planning, design, operation and
optimization of water and wastewater treatment
systems, Advanced water, wastewater and stormwater treatment, Environmental systems modeling
and simulation, Bank filtration, Environmental
remediation, Separation and speciation of
contaminants, Environmental nanotechnology,
Emerging pollutants, Environmental catalysis,
Membrane processes, Hazardous and industrial
waste management, solid waste management, High
rate invessel compositing, Vermicompositing, Sludge
treatment and disposal, Low cost rural technologies
for waste management.
Geotechnical Engineering
Analysis and performance of shallow and deep
foundations; Ground improvement techniques; Static
and dynamic soil-structure interaction; Rock
Mechanics and underground space technology
(Tunnels/shafts/caverns) applied to hydropower/
strategic projects; Tunnelling in soft ground etc,
Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, Geotechnical
Earthquake Engineering.
Hydraulic Engineering
Clear water and sediment laden water flows in
channels; Mathematical and Physical modelling of
river processes; Water resources planning and
management of Hydraulic structures Fluid dynamic
drag and redeveloping boundary layer flows,
Computational fluid dynamics Ground water flow and
contaminant transport Modelling, Unsaturated Flow
Modelling; Stochastic Hydrology; Hydraulic
Transients; Dispersion phenomenon in river and
atmospheric flows; Flood, Wind Engg, Hydro power,
Irrigation and Drainage, Climate change.
Geomatics Engineering
Computer cartography; Surveying; GPS; Digital
terrain modeling; Photogrammetry-close range,
analytical and digital; Geodesy-geometrical, physical,
mathematical and satellite; Remote Sensing- optical
and microwave, SAR interferometry, Geographic
Information System (GIS), Digital Image Processing.
Structural Engineering
Aero - dynamic studies of Building, Bridges and
Towers; Behaviour and design of bridges; Computer
aided design of multistoried buildings and bridges;
Earthquake resistant design of buildings; Power
house towers, chimneys and bridges; Fluid - structure
interaction; Fibre reinforced concrete elements;
Prestressed concrete elements and structures; Soilstructure interaction; Structural optimization; Post
cracking behaviour of mason/ RC structures; Life
Hkkjrh; çkS|ksfxdh laLFkku #M+dh
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Ph.D. Admission for Spring Semester 2013-14
INFORMATION BROCHURE
CONTENTS
1. The Institute
2. Roorkee Town
3. Central Facilities and Centres of Excellence
4. Specializations / Major Research Areas
5. Ph.D. Programmes
6. Admission Categories
7. Admission Eligibility
8. Fee Structure
9. Financial Assistance
10. General Instructions
11. Eligibility for Admission in different Disciplines
HOW TO APPLY
The candidate is required to register and fill the application online from September 27, 2013 to
October 21, 2013 by accessing http://pgadm.iitr.ernet.in and after finalizing, download the online filled application
and Bank Challan simultaneously, then the requisite fee of Rs. 200/- for GEN/OBC and Rs. 100/- for SC/ST/PD
category candidates must be deposited in any branch of State Bank of India throughout the country through Bank
challan on next working day of finalization of online application and or before the last date i.e. October 22, 2013.
The Bank Challan will be printed in triplicate. Bank will retain a copy and will return two copies to you. In those two
copies, retain the Candidate’s copy with you and attach the IITR’s copy with the print out of downloaded application
form.
Note:-
1. The fee shall not be accepted through any other mode.
2. Separate application be sent for separate departments/centres and for each department/centre separate
fees shall be required. An original copy of challan be used with the application form for one department
and Xerox copy of the challan form can be used for other departments (if applicable).
Apply online (Website Open) September 27, 2013 (Friday)
Last Date for Applying Online (Website Closure) October 21, 2013 (Monday) at 5:30 P.M.
Last date for deposit of application fee October 22, 2013 (Tuesday)
Receiving of downloaded Application Form at PG Admission
Office, IIT Roorkee
October 25, 2013 (Friday)
Admission will be offered subject to availability of seats, faculty in the Specialization and the
Institute Assistantship. 2
1. THE INSTITUTE
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee is the latest
member of the IIT family and has its roots in the
Roorkee College established in 1847 as the first
engineering college in India, which was soon
rechristened as Thomason College of Civil
Engineering in 1854 after its greatest mentor James
Thomason. After about 100 years of distinguished
services, the college was elevated to University of
Roorkee as the first Engineering University of
independent India on November 25, 1949. It has now
23 academic departments/centres offering 11
undergraduate courses in engineering and
architecture, 5 dual degree programmes and 6
Integrated Dual Degree courses in M.Sc./Engineering
and over 52 postgraduate courses in engineering,
architecture, sciences, computer applications and
business administration besides research
programmes at doctoral level. It has three campuses,
main campus at Roorkee and other two at
Saharanpur and Greater Noida
IIT Roorkee has a highly qualified and motivated
faculty of about 390 members who are engaged in
research and consultancy in addition to teaching. The
faculty members offer their expertise through
consultancy services to private/public sector
industries as well as to Government agencies. The
institute has about 4300 undergraduate students,
2130 postgraduates and Over 1425 research
scholars.
There are a number of academic and research
centres engaged in interdisciplinary research, and
many collaborative programmes exist with institutions
in India and abroad. Several central facilities exist
such as Mahatma Gandhi Central Library having
more than 3.65 lac volumes of books and periodicals,
Information Superhighway Centre with Internet
connectivity, an Educational Multi-Media Research
Centre with full-fledged television studio, a modern
Computer Centre and Institute Instrumentation Centre
with highly sophisticated analytical instruments.
The Institute prepares students to meet everincreasing technological and social challenges with its
traditions of self-discipline, hard work, all-round
personality development and innovative approach to
problems.
IIT Roorkee is fully residential, with well-designed
hostels (Bhawans) both for boys and girls, sprawling
sports ground, hobbies club, Hospital, a modern
swimming pool, boat club and a host of facilities for
different games including Tennis, Squash and
Billiards. Societies and Associations along with
activities like NCC, Rangering and Rovering,
Mountaineering and Trekking provide excellent
opportunities for self-development.
2. ROORKEE TOWN
Roorkee, a quiet town of moderate size in the district
of Hardwar (Uttarakhand), is located on the banks of
the Upper Ganga Canal, which takes off at Hardwar.
It is about 30 km south of the Shivalik range of the
mighty Himalayas, about 170 km to the north of Delhi
and is situated on the Amritsar-Howrah main railway
line. Roorkee is linked by rail to many important mega
cities such as Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai.
Roorkee is also well connected by road, being
located on the Delhi-Hardwar National Highway (NH
58), and on the Roorkee – Panch Kula Highway (NH
73). Roorkee (Latitude 29o 52’ N and Longitude 77o
53’52" E) is 268 m above mean sea level and has a
cold winter. The summer months, though hot, are
moderated by the proximity of the Shivaliks. The rainy
season is mainly between July and September with
an average rainfall of 1050 mm.
Roorkee town is an important centre of engineering
activity. Apart from the IIT Roorkee, which is situated
in a 150-hectare campus, Roorkee also has the
Central Building Research Institute, the National
Institute of Hydrology, the Irrigation Research
Institute, the Irrigation Design Organization, the
headquarters of Bengal Engineering Group & Centre
along with an important Army base.
The Institute campus is 2.5 km from the Roorkee
Railway Station and is only 200 m from the
Roadways Bus Stand.
3. CENTRAL FACILITIES AND CENTRE OF
EXCELLENCE
EM2
RC
The EM2
RC provides valuable resource material for
higher education and mass communication. The
programme produced at the centre are televised
under the UGC’s Country Wide Classroom
programmes. The Doordarshan National TV Network
telecasts these programmes.
The centre undertakes research aspects of
educational technology in relation to learning in
diverse age groups for both urban and rural
population, in various disciplines. It invites faculty
from within the Institute, other Colleges, Universities
and Institutions for the production of programmes and
software transfer.
Institute Instrumentation Centre
The Institute Instrumentation Centre has a
wide range of analytical facilities for processing and
characterizing materials. These facilities are available
for use by researchers (students/faculty) in both
academia and industry not only for the academic
community of IIT Roorkee, but also to various
research organizations and industries across the
nation.
This centre provides modern facilities for advanced
materials processing and characterization. The
facilities include well established Nanoscience which
consists of state of the art nanomaterials synthesis
facilities laboratory (Sputtering and Pulse Laser
Deposition Technique for Nano-materials synthesis).
More details are available on the website. IIC is
equipped with more than twenty specialized and
sophisticated equipments for analysis and solution of
intricate scientific and industrial problems. These
include, among others, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
(NMR), Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer
(TIMS), Electron Probe Micro Analyzer (EPMA),
Macromolecular Crystallographic Unit (MCU) for
protein crystallography (All the required facilities for
cloning to crystallization are available), X-Ray
Fluorescence Spectrometer (WDS-XRF), Powder XRay Diffractometer (Powder-XRD), Glancing angle
XRD, Single crystal XRD, Scanning Probe
Microscope (SPM), Field Emission Scanning
Electron Microscope (FE-SEM), 200 KV Transmission
Electron Microscope (TEM), Scanning Electron
Microscope (SEM), Superconducting Quantum
Interference Device (SQUID) Magnetometer,
Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM), Atomic
Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS), Fluorescence
Life Time System, Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass
Spectrometer (ICP-MS) attached with Laser Ablation,
Differential Thermal and Thermo Gravimetric
Analyzer (DTA/TGA). Each laboratory generally has
an operator working under the supervision of a faculty
member or a scientific officer. Besides these, the
Centre includes a training laboratory for summer
training of the engineering students.
Area of Research:
There are two faculty members each having several
sponsored projects and research programmes in the
areas of Magnetic Multilayes/Heterostructures,
MEMS Devices, Thin Film Solar Cells, Functional
Nanomaterials, Molecular Crystallography/
Bioinformatics, and Geo Physics.
Institute Computer Centre
The Centre works towards the common goal of
implementing the academic agenda of the Institute by
constantly interacting, evaluating and updating the
resources to meet the international standards. ICC is
playing the major role of a central facilitator to
students and faculty members who are intensely
engaged in research activities. It is making available
on appropriately high-end hardware platform, the
latest scientific and engineering computing software
to the research community.
Computing Resources:
• ICC, a central computing facility, is equipped for
High Performance Computing, which includes
infrastructure for Cluster Computing, besides highend Servers and Workstations on heterogeneous
platforms.
• Centre has a wide range of servers from Intel
processor based ones to high-end RISC servers from
HP, SUN, IBM, SGI and NAS (Network Attached
Storage) servers of 2x1.6 TB (terabytes) capacity.
Blade servers for computational requirement and
software services at the central facility in hp c7000
blade system. SAN System with FC connectivity to
blade system hp c7000.
• ICC has state-of-the-art facilities for applications
such as: CAD/MCAD, Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD), FEM & FEA, Image Processing / Scientific
Visualization, 3DAnimation/Visual Simulation/
Geospatial imaging and analysis.
• It has mid-range to high-end configured graphics
workstations with MIPS R16000 64 bit RISC based
(SGI)/ 64 bit Quad-core Intel Xeon (Dual CPU) / 64 bit
Quad Core Xeon (Dual CPU) / Core 2 Duo (Dual
core) /PIV EM64T CPUs/AMD Opteron; GPU
Optimized High Performance & Graphics Workstation
(Supermicro 7046A-HR+) with NVIDIA Tesla for
scientific/engineering computation and research in
the area of GP GPU and HPC based applications.
• Linux based HPC Cluster and all the other servers
can be accessed within the campus including DPT
Saharanpur Campus through campus LAN.
Major Engineering and Scientific software
resources:
ICC not only delivers the computing environment on
24x7 basis with remote access facility but has also
established in a short span of time one of the best
repositories of latest scientific and engineering
computing software in any of the technical institutes
in India. ICC’s software licensing facilities provide the
following major engineering and scientific softwares
available throughout the campus over the LAN with
network floating licenses:
ANSYS Academic Research v 14.0
Autodesk Revit Architecture Suite 2009 &
Educational Solution Set 2009
Abaqus 6.8.1
ArcGIS 10
Bentley Suite of Products under Academic
subscription with a set of 53 software along with
Microstation software
ChemOffice Ultra 10.0
ERDAS Imagine 2011 with LPS and Imagine
Developers Toolkit and ER Mapper
Felix for NMR
Hytran 3.7.3-7
Intel Visual Fortran 9.0
LabVIEW 2010
MATLAB R2010b with various tool boxes &
Distributed Computing Engine
Mathematica 5.0
Mechanical Autodesk Inventor Series 11
MagNet 64 bit v 6.22.1
NAG Libraries and Compilers
Oracle 9i & 10g
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 4.0
SARscape 4.2 with ENVI 4.7
SAP2000 v 15.0; ETABS Non-linear v 9.7.2 and
SAFE v 12.3.1
SPSS 16.0
Solid Edge 18.0
Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Prof. (Academic Version)
MS Visual Studio.Net 2010
Microsoft software products under School and
Campus Agreement.
Computing Environment and Access Timings:
• The Centre maintains a comfortable environment,
conducive for research & training for both students
and faculty.
• Dedicated systems with specialized software
required by students of M.Tech, and Ph.D scholars
during their dissertation/thesis period in the Research
Scholars lab at ICC. These are high- end
workstations with multi-core with high processing
speed and high capacity memory and graphics
adaptors in network with remote access facility on
365x24x7 basis. Scientific and engineering software
licenses being served through servers at ICC.
• Short term training programmes /workshop/seminar
for students, faculty members and office staff are also
being organized by the centre.
• It has eight job-specific labs with about 250
desktops/thin clients of latest configuration in
100/1000 mbps CAT 6 based structured network
having gigabit managed switches with internet
connectivity at every system.
• Computer Centre runs in two shifts from Monday to
Friday from 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM and on Saturday
and Sunday 8:45 AM to 11:00 PM.
• It is rendering services all 7 days/week. Computing
and software license serving facilities are available on
24x7 basis within the campus including DPT
Saharanpur.
Information Superhighway Centre
The Information Superhighway Centre(ISC) was
established in March 1996. It is the nodal centre for
outside/inside connectivity to the campus and serves
as an Information Technology Center for promoting
the effective use of IT, IT Systems, resource
management and facilities for modernization/
automation of the IP Infrastructure of the Campus
The Institute has a star topology Gigabit Ethernet
Switch based, state-of-the-art Enterprise class
network with data, voice and video communication
capabilities. All department and Centres are
connected to the Information Superhighway through
Optical Fiber. The network covers 365 acres of area
through 35 Km of OFC and 70 km of CAT6/E CAT 5
UTP, connecting all Departments/Centres, Hostels
and Saharanpur Campus. The Intranet has 6000+
wired-line I/Os and 3200+ points through Wireless
access, providing internet/intranet, and e-mail facility
to all faculty, students, staff, library, and laboratories.
All research scholar Hostels have wired line internet
connectivity in each room. Under Graduate/Graduate
hostels have Cyber café equipped with 20 desktop for
internet connectivity in addition to 802.11g Wi-Fi
network Internet/Intranet connectivity in each room.
New Hostels at IIT Roorkee main campus and
Saharanpur campus have Wire-Line connectivity in
each room.
Institute has 1 Gbps internet lease line link of
National Knowledge Network (NKN) from NIC
under MHRD Govt of India initiative. 100 Mbps
internet leased line link from TATA Communication,
New Delhi, 100 Mbps internet leased line link from
BSNL Haridwar 2 Mbps Lease Line link from ERNET
India, New Delhi. 34 Mbps dedicated leased line
(RailTel) in a close group to Saharanpur Campus.
Above Facilities through the Centre is being used
extensively by the faculty and the students for their
educational and research needs and provides an
avenue for the exchange of Information with other
libraries and the centres of research and education.
The ISC also has an Information Management
Group(IMG) which is managed and run solely by
B.Tech. students for developing website and intranet
applications.
Quality Improvement Programme Centre
The Government of India has launched the Quality
Improvement Programme in the 1970-71. One of the
main objectives of the programme is to upgrade the
expertise and capabilities of the faculty members of
the degree level engineering colleges/ institutions of
the country. Since 1994-95, the programme is being
implemented and monitored by All India Council for
Technical Education. In “Quality Improvement
Programme” only sponsored teachers are eligible for
admission to both Master’s and Doctoral Degree
Programmes, with the aim to enable them to acquire
Master’s/Doctoral degrees and imbibe in them a
culture of research and better teaching capabilities by
exposing them to the environment of a higher level
institute. 5
The Programme was launched to improve the overall
quality of technical education in the degree level
engineering colleges/institutes. It was anticipated that
placing the teachers on the campus of these institutes
of excellence including 7 IIT’s, and Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, will expose them to an altogether
different environment of sophisticated infrastructure
and to improve the standard of technical education in
their own institute.
Mahatma Gandhi Central Library
The library serves as a central organ of the academic
activities of the Institute. To this end, it continues to
fulfill its obligations in providing necessary
infrastructure facilities in the form of books, advanced
treatises, works of reference and bibliographical
nature, current and back volumes of journals, theses,
CD-ROMS, e-journals, e-databases, e-books and
other kinds of monographs to its members. It has well
bound collection of more than 3.65 lakh volumes to
meet the growing and varied requirements of its
clientele consisting of undergraduate and
postgraduate students, research scholars, faculty
members. The library strives to provide physical
facilities with calm and cozy atmosphere conductive
to study for long hours. It subscribes to over 800
current journals in all branches of Engineering,
Physical Sciences, Bio-Sciences and Humanities &
Social Sciences. Besides this the library provides
access to e-resources including more than 13,000 ejournals and 30,000 e-books published by major
science and technology publishers of the world. All
the e-resources of the library are available throughout
the campus on Institute network. Library also
maintains 5 LCDs, 7 servers and more than 100
Desktop PCs on its Local Area Network. Forty seven
CCTV cameras have been recently installed at
various places of the library. The Mahatma Gandhi
Central Library has been provided with latest RFID
technology with self issue/return facility for the users.
Mahatma Gandhi Central Library building is one of
the most beautiful buildings in the country. It is a
state-of-the-art facility fully air-conditioned which
provides the best possible environment to the
students and faculty. It occupies an area of over
90,000 sq.ft. Ample sunlight through dome and
skylight provision, state-of-the-art cabling for internet
and light, fire services, cyber rooms, open terminal,
wi-fi environment are some of the main features. A
separate reading room with 80 seating capacity for
using personal books is a unique feature. The Central
Library is on its way to provide library services in such
a way that Saakaar becomes Niraakaar and believe
in becoming pro-active rather than providing services
on demand.
CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE:
1. Centre for Transportation Systems (CTRANS)
CTRANS is a Centre of Excellence of IIT Roorkee in
the area of Transportation Systems with an aim to
promote multidisciplinary and high quality research
and education in Transportation Systems with
collective participation of Engineers, Scientists and
Researchers from Science & Technology, Humanities
and Social Sciences of the Centre, Architecture &
Planning and Management background. The
research areas are Public Transport System Highway
& Airfield Pavement Management System, Intelligent
Transport System, Design of Comfort (Rail
Transport), Environmental Management, Biofuels for
Automobiles, Traffic Emission Modelling, Air Quality
Modeling, Mathematical Modelling, Supply Chain
Management, Electric Trolley System, Traction
Technology, Remote Sensing, GPS & GIS
Applications, Health Hazard in Transportation
System, Inland Navigation & Water Transport,
Polymer Applications in Transportation Systems,
Accident Modelling and Road Traffic Safety, Urban
Transportation Policy, Management of Transport
Systems, Environmental Impact Assessment, Visual
Communication Design System, Aesthetics, etc. The
Centre is equipped with a number of modern
equipments i.e., Road Measuring Data Acquisition
System (ROMDAS), Portable Automatic Traffic
Counter-cum-Classifier, Trimble IR 5600 Robotic
Total Station, Electrodymic Vibration System, Falcon
Handheld Stationary Radar with Data Logger and
measurement of vehicular speeds, Integratingaveraging noise level meter, 50" Plasma TV for
Traffic Analysis study, Portable Falling Weight
Deflectometer, Diamond Core Drilling System,
Portable Reference Measurement System etc. The
Centre has Sound Plan, HEADS, TRANSCAD,
VISSUM & VISIM softwares for a variety of
transportation system problem analysis. The Centre
has a good computing facility for modelling and
simulation of transportation systems. A multi-
Institutional Nationally Co-ordinated Project entitled
“Integrated Development of Public Transport System”
Sponsored by AICTE is executed at this Centre. A
R&D Project on “Design and Analysis of Urban
Multimodal Mass Transportation System” sanctioned
by DST, Gol is under progress. CTRANS is also
offering advice and Consultancy Services. The
CTRANS is providing consultancy services for the
RSVY Project of CPWD on “Development of State
Highways in Bihar State”. The Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways, Govt. of India has
established Professorial Chair at CTRANS.
2. Centre for Disaster Mitigation and
Management
The Centre of Excellence in Disaster Mitigation &
Management was established at IIT Roorkee in March 2006 to initiate multidisciplinary studies &
national capacity building in Disaster Mitigation and
Management. Initially, focus is on natural/man-made
disasters. The Core faculty group and facilities are
drawn from the participating departments.
The CENTRE is devoted to human resource
development; R&D activities leading to Ph.D. degree;
disseminates technical know how; provides extension
services; evolves strategies for mitigation and
management of disasters and establish a national
database for rapid dissemination of information and
knowledge. The centre is also engaged in running
M.Tech. programmes in Disaster Mitigation and
Management.
3. Centre for Nanotechnology
Centre for Nanotechnology was established in
December 2005 as one of the Centres of Excellence.
The faculty of the centre, drawn from different
departments is involved in developing state-of-the-art
facilities at the Institute and is vigorously pursuing
interdisciplinary research on various current aspects
of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. For this
purpose the Institute has granted ten MHRD
assistantships to the centre. A wide range of
sophisticated equipment related to Nanotechnology
has been made operational at IIC involving the
multidisciplinary faculty of the centre.
In view of the major impact of ‘Nanoscience’ in vast
disciplines of Science and Technology, M.Tech.
program on ‘Nanotechnology’ had started in 2008.
This course aims at providing the basic knowledge to
B.Tech./M.Sc. students about various concepts of
nanoscale materials, their synthesis, characterization,
novel properties, applications and future
perspectives. This being a multidisciplinary area, a
number of electives have been designed to impartknowledge on Nanoscale modeling and simulation,
Nanophysics, Nanochemistry, Nanobiotechnology,
Nanomedicine and technological aspects of
nanomaterials. Besides, it is providing students a
practical training on advanced methods being
employed for the synthesis, characterization and
elucidation of different nanostructures. This expertise
could be utilized to fabricate new Nanomaterials and
Nanodevices for various applications.
4. SPECIALIZATIONS/MAJOR RESEARCH AREAS
ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
Architecture
Architectural Design; Building Construction &
Materials; Building Science; Landscape Design; Hill
Architecture; Visual & Graphic Art; Urban Design;
Architectural Conservation; History of Architecture;
Interior Design; Architectural Education; Highrise
Buildings; Energy Conservation & Passive Design;
Sustainable/Green Architecture.
Planning (Urban & Rural)
Urban Planning; Hill Area Planning; Ecology;
Sustainable Development / Planning; Integrated Rural
Development; Energy Planning; Regional Planning;
Housing; Urban Development Management;
Environmental Planning.
ALTERNATE HYDRO ENERGY CENTRE
Alternate Hydro Energy Centre established in the
year 1982 offers two M Tech Programmes in
“Alternate Hydro Energy Systems” and
“Environmental Management of Rivers and Lakes”.
AHEC offers research in the area of small hydro
power : Optimization of civil structures, hydroulic
turbines, induction generators, power systems
planning, distributed energy; solar energy, biomass
energy, waste-to-energy, integrated renewable and
hybrid energy systems.
The research areas in the field of environment are :
water quality modelling, environmental management
of rivers and lakes and GHG emissions from
reservoirs.
BIOTECHNOLOGY
Biomolecular structure- conformation by nuclear
magnetic resonance techniques; drug - DNA and
protein - DNA interactions; Molecular Modeling;
Protein crystallography; Microbial Transformations
and Fermentation Processes; Microbial Production of
Organic acids and Enzymes; Molecular Biology &
Proteomics; Molecular cloning, characterization and
expression of therapeutics proteins; Molecular
Mechanism of Abiotic Stress Tolerance; Molecular
Genetics of Nitrogen Fixation, Plant Biochemistry;
Enzymology; Animal Physiology; Molecular
Endocrinology; Reproductive Endocrinology,
Bioassays for screening new drugs, Drug Designing;
Molecular Pathogenesis; Environmental
Biotechnology; Biochemical Engineering; Bioprocess
Engineering; Downstream Processing; Enzyme
Engineering; Chemical Biology; Drug discovery;
Synthetic Biology; Aptamer technology; Small RNA;
Chemical genetics; Microbial pathogenesis-molecular
biology; cloning, expression and purification of
molecular targets and studies of mechanism of
action; Bioprocess modeling and simulation;
bioreactor design; Bio-prospecting; Wheat and rice
genomics and proteomics; germplasm enhancement.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Advanced Transfer Processes; Computer Aided
Process Plant Design; Environmental Pollution
Abatement Engineering; Industrial Safety and
Hazards Management; Process Integration; Applied
Numerical Methods; Biochemical Engineering; Two
Phase Heat Transfer; Process Intensification;
Chemical Kinetics; Catalysis and Reactor Design;
Computer Aided Design; Energy Engineering and
Management; Fire Engineering; Industrial Pollution Abatement; Modelling and Simulation; Process
Engineering; Process Control; Separation Process;
Hydrocarbon Engineering;CFD; Polymer Science &
Engineering; Supercritical Fluid Extraction;
Membrane Separation.
CHEMISTRY
Analytical; Inorganic; Organic; Physical.
Asymmetric synthesis; Bioanalytical chemistry;
Bioinorganic chemistry; Chemical kinetics; Computer
simulation and molecular orbital calculations;
Coordination chemistry; Development of low cost
carbon alternatives for waste water management;
Electroanalytical chemistry; Electrochemical sensors
and chemical sensors; Electrochemistry;
Enantiomeric resolution of pharmaceutically important
compounds; Enantioselective catalysis; Epoxidation
of olefinic compounds; Evolution and origin of life;
Extraction chromatography; Heme proteins;
Heterogeneous catalysis; Inorganic biochemistry; lon
beam analysis; Kinetics and nanomaterials; Liquid
chromatography; Macrocycles; Main group chemistry;
Metal speciation in environment; Metal-based drugs;
Mossbauer spectroscopy; Neutron activation
analysis; Organic electrochemistry; Organic
electronics; Organic reaction mechanism;
Organometallics (Ru, Si and Sn); Photochemistry;
Protein sequencing; Size and shape effects of
nanomaterials on their physico-chemical properties;
Solvent extraction; Synthesis of heterocyclic
compounds; Synthetic polymers/memberanes/
membrane electrodes; Syntheses of porphyrinoids for
material applications; Solid state and materials
chemistry; Statistical mechanics of polymers; Rational
drug design; Multi component synthesis; Microwave
assisted organic synthesis; Theoretical chemistry.
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Building Science and Technology; Environmental
Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering; Hydraulic
Engineering; Geomatics Engineering; Structural
Engineering; Transportation Engineering; Diversified
areas of specializations - Bridge Engineering - Rock
Mechanics - Traffic Engineering.
Building Technology
High rise buildings, Aerodynamic and seismic studies
on buildings, Post peak response of P.C., R.C. and
masonry structures to study overloading capacity,
Concrete and composites, Health monitoring, residual
life assessment and retrofitting of buildings, Risk
analysis and optimization, Non flexural behavior of
structural concrete, Impact and hygro-thermal
behavior of structures, Application of soft computing
techniques in building engineering, Laminated
Composites, Analysis and design.
Environmental Engineering
Emissions and air quality modeling, Air quality in
megacities, Air Pollution and health impacts, Air
Pollution control technologies, Energy and
environmental policy, Climate change and
sustainable development, carbon sequestration and
storage technologies, Environmental impact and risk
assessment, Planning, design, operation and
optimization of water and wastewater treatment
systems, Advanced water, wastewater and stormwater treatment, Environmental systems modeling
and simulation, Bank filtration, Environmental
remediation, Separation and speciation of
contaminants, Environmental nanotechnology,
Emerging pollutants, Environmental catalysis,
Membrane processes, Hazardous and industrial
waste management, solid waste management, High
rate invessel compositing, Vermicompositing, Sludge
treatment and disposal, Low cost rural technologies
for waste management.
Geotechnical Engineering
Analysis and performance of shallow and deep
foundations; Ground improvement techniques; Static
and dynamic soil-structure interaction; Rock
Mechanics and underground space technology
(Tunnels/shafts/caverns) applied to hydropower/
strategic projects; Tunnelling in soft ground etc,
Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, Geotechnical
Earthquake Engineering.
Hydraulic Engineering
Clear water and sediment laden water flows in
channels; Mathematical and Physical modelling of
river processes; Water resources planning and
management of Hydraulic structures Fluid dynamic
drag and redeveloping boundary layer flows,
Computational fluid dynamics Ground water flow and
contaminant transport Modelling, Unsaturated Flow
Modelling; Stochastic Hydrology; Hydraulic
Transients; Dispersion phenomenon in river and
atmospheric flows; Flood, Wind Engg, Hydro power,
Irrigation and Drainage, Climate change.
Geomatics Engineering
Computer cartography; Surveying; GPS; Digital
terrain modeling; Photogrammetry-close range,
analytical and digital; Geodesy-geometrical, physical,
mathematical and satellite; Remote Sensing- optical
and microwave, SAR interferometry, Geographic
Information System (GIS), Digital Image Processing.
Structural Engineering
Aero - dynamic studies of Building, Bridges and
Towers; Behaviour and design of bridges; Computer
aided design of multistoried buildings and bridges;
Earthquake resistant design of buildings; Power
house towers, chimneys and bridges; Fluid - structure
interaction; Fibre reinforced concrete elements;
Prestressed concrete elements and structures; Soilstructure interaction; Structural optimization; Post
cracking behaviour of mason/ RC structures; Life
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