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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SILCHAR

SILCHAR 788 010, ASSAM, INDIA
ADMISSION INTO Ph.D. Programme
Applications are invited for admission into Ph.D programme in the following departments for

July - December, 2016

DEPARTMENT

session.

SPECIALISATION

Civil Engineering

All the specializations of Civil Engineering

Mechanical
Engineering

Computational Combustion
Aerodynamic,
Renewable Energy
Thermal Engg.
IC Engine
Solar Energy
Hybrid FRP Composites
Fracture
Heat transfer
Computational Heat Transfer
Design of submerged object under
ocean wave force
Microscale fluid flow and heat
transfer
Non-Newtonian fluid Mechanics
Bio-Mechanics
Solar PVT
Mechanics of Composites
MCDM Techniques

CFD
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
Water Turbine
Polymer nano Composite
Composite Materials
Fatigue behaviour of materials
Microfluidics
Fluid Dynamics
Linear non-linear wave theory,
Natural convection
Engineering Material
Wind Rotor
Biodiesel
Stochastic Analysis
Uncertainty Quantification
Computational Mechanics
Materials selection
Lattice Boltzman modelling

Power system and Energy

AGC under conventional and

Electrical Engineering

deregulated environment
Power system control
Power Quality
Power System Economics
Deregulated Power System
Power System Planning,
Power system Reliability
Congestion Management
Market Planning and Pricing
Competitive Power Market
with Renewable Energy
Sources
Application of soft computing
tools to power generation and
control
Hybrid energy system
Power System Optimization
Coordination of Renewable
Energy Sources

Integrated Rural Energy

Planning.

Electric and Hybrid Vehicles

Smart Grid
Micro grid

Dynamics & Stability of Neural

Network

Industrial Automation
Intelligent Control
Robust & H-Infinity Control.
Nonlinear control design and
applications

Application of delay feedback

control in robotics & motion
Stability & Control of time-delay
system
Micro-Grid Inverter Control
Power Electronics and drive

Power Electronics Application in

renewable based power
generation and control
Electric Drives.
Power Electronic Converter/
Inverter.
Digital Signal Processing
Low Power VLSI Design
Nano - electronics (specially CNT
and Nano-wires)
Image Processing
Soft Computing Techniques and
Application.

Intelligent and classical

controllers for AGC
Control System
Fractional Order Controller
Chaos and its Control

VLSI Design and Optimization

Cognitive Radio
Optimisation Techniques in
Electronics and Communication
Engineering
Communication Engineering
Cloud Computing
R.F. & Microwave Engineering

Electronics &
Communication Engg

Computer Science and

Engineering

Machine Intelligence,
Cognition in Neuroscience
Computer Networks and related

and Simulations
Ad-hoc Sensor Network
Signal Processing
MEMS
Mobile Computing
Antenna Design and Optimization
Optoelectronic Materials &
Photonics

Soft Computing Techniques and

Application in Big Data

Optimisation
Speech Processing
Cloud Computing
Big Data
Digital Geometry
Image Analysis and its application
Natural Language Processing

Industrial Instrumentation
Biomedical Signal Processing
Biomedical Image analysis
Multimedia signal processing
Soft Computing
Renewable Energy
VLSI (Analog & Digital)
OIC devices
Battery Technology and Solar Cell

Sensors
Bioelectronics
Transdermal drug delivery
Computer vision
Control Systems
Energy storage and management
RFIC
Filter design

English Literature & Literary

Studies
South Asian Studies
Finance/ Accounting
Agricultural Economics
Political Economy

Comparative Literature and Cultural

Studies
Feminism/ Gender Studies
Financial Economics
Development Economics
International Trade

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Fuzzy Optimization and Decision
Making

Operations Research
Mathematical Modelling
Evolutionary Optimization

Synthesis of Nanoparticles,
Applications of nanoparticles as
catalyst in organic synthesis,
Synthesis of bivalent sulphur
compounds, Synthesis of metal
complexes with ONS donor ligand
and their applications in organic
transformation, Microwave
synthesis of organo sulphur
compounds

Green and facile methodologies for

the production of nanomaterials
(nanostructures) and porous
materials, Noble metal and metaloxide (semiconductor) nanomaterials
for organic and inorganic
transformations and purification of
water, Adsorption/Interfacial
Phenomenon, Development of lowcost, synthetic nano-adsorbents and

areas

Artificial Intelligence
Data Mining
Applications of Machine Learning
Algorithms in different domains

Mathematical Imaging

Electronics &
Instrumentation Engg

Semiconductor Device, Modelling

Humanities and
Social Sciences

Mathematics

Chemistry

Physics

Environmentally friendly
synthesis of nanocatalysts,
nanomaterial supported
tribromide reagents,
nanocomposites and their
application in organic
transformation reactions.
Nanomaterials, conducting
polymer, photo catalysis, solar
cells
Excited state dynamics of proton
transfer, photochemistry of
organic bio molecules
Synthetic organic chemistry, Solid
phase synthesis

B - Physics, Neutrino Physics, CP

Violation
Solar energy materials, Solar Photo
Catalysis, Solar Photo-voltaics
Resistive
memory,
devices,
Semiconductor nanostructure

nanocomposites for waste water

treatment, Waste plastic recycling,
Co-processing of petroleum vacuum
residue with plastic and biomass,
Cracking or pyrolysis of biomass,
Polymer composites and nanocomposites and their applications,
Desulfurization, Solid waste
Management
Studies of fly ash based catalyst in
organic reactions, Multicomponent
utilization of fly ash from thermal
power plants and paper mills,
Investigation of coal and coal
combustion by-products,
Characterization of various
Industrial hazardous waste materials
Mathematical Physics Eigen Value
Problem, Perturbation theory
Energy Storage Devices, Nanoionics
Semiconductor heterostructure and
devices, Polymer nanocomposites

Minimum Qualifications:
For Ph.D. :
1.

Students for admission into Ph.D. Programs in Engineering Departments must satisfy one of the following
criteria:
(ii) M.E./M.Tech. or equivalent in an appropriate area with a minimum CPI of 6.5 (on a 10 point scale)
or equivalent (60% of marks). For SC/ST candidates, a minimum CPI of 6.0 (on a 10 point scale) or
equivalent (55% of marks).
(iii) B.E./B.Tech. with an excellent academic record and with a CPI of at least 8.0 (on 10 point scale) or
equivalent (75% of marks). For graduates from IITs/NITs, the minimum CPI requirement is 7.0 (on
10 point scale). For SC/ST candidates, there is a relaxation of 0.5 CPI or 5% of marks.

2.

Students for admission into the Ph.D. Programs in Science and Management Studies departments must
have a Master degree in the relevant discipline with a minimum CPI of 6.5 (on a 10 point scale) or
equivalent (60% of marks). For SC/ST candidates, a minimum CPI of 6.0 (on a 10 point scale) or
equivalent (55% of marks).

3.

Students for admission into the Ph.D. Programs in Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Department
must have a Masters degree in any field a minimum CPI of 6.0 (on a 10 point scale) or equivalent (55% of
marks). For SC/ST candidates, a minimum CPI of 5.5 (on a 10 point scale) or equivalent (50% of marks).

Assistantship: As per MHRD guidelines. Depending upon availability of fund, some Institute scholarships are
also available.
Downloadable application form with other relevant papers is available in the Institutes website:
www.nits.ac.in
The Filled up Application Form must be accompanied with an Application Fee of Rs. 500/- (for
General/OBC) OR Rs. 300/- (for SC/ST) in the form of crossed Demand Draft in favour of Director, N.I.T.
Silchar, payable at Silchar; otherwise, the application form will be treated as cancelled.

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Application form complete in all respects should reach the Heads of the respective Depts, N.I.T.
Silchar, within 5th May, 2016 super-scribing Application for admission into Ph.D. programme under
_______________ Dept, on the envelope.
Application must not be sent to Dean (R & C).
The candidates are advised to give their contact nos./e-mail ids in the application form.
Names of the short-listed candidates for attending interview shall be available in the Institutes website
in due course/may be called by the respective HODs over phone/through emails.
The result will be available in the website.

Important Dates:
(i)
(ii)

Last date of submission of completed

form to the respective department

5th May, 2016

Date of call to short-listed candidates

20th May, 2016

(To be communicated by the deptt concerned

to the students through Institutes Website)
(iii)

Date of Interview

6th to 10th June, 2016

(iv)

Last date of sending recommended list to

Dean (R & C), by the Dept.

20th June, 2016

(v)

Period of Registration (in working days only) :

20th to 22nd July , 2016

Hostel accommodation is subject to availability.

The details of specialisations, regulations, and applications form (downloadable) is available in the
Institute website www.nits.ac.in

Dean (R & C)