Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) From Nirma University, Ahmedabad

Aspirants seeking admission to the Program should meet the following criteria as specified by the institute.

Academic Requirement:-

• Candidates for the admission to the PhD programme shall have a Master’s degree or a professional degree declared equivalent to the Master’s degree by the corresponding statutory regulatory body, with at least 55% marks in aggregate or its equivalent grade ‘B’ in the UGC 7-point scale (or an equivalent grade in a point scale wherever grading system is followed) or an equivalent degree from a Foreign Educational Institution accredited by the Assessment and Accreditation Agency which is approved, recognised or authorised by an authority, established or incorporated under a law in its home country or any other statutory authority in that country for the purpose of assessing, accrediting or assuring quality and standards of educational institutions.
• Candidates possessing a Degree considered equivalent to MPhil Degree of an Indian Institution, from a Foreign Educational Institution accredited by an Assessment and Accreditation Agency which is approved, recognised or authorised by an authority, established or incorporated under a law in its home country or any other statutory authority in that country for the purpose of assessing, accrediting or assuring quality and standards of educational institutions, shall be eligible for admission to PhD programme.

Admission Procedure:-

Candidates, who intend to take admission for PhD have to apply in a prescribed proforma. On the receipt of applications, an Entrance Test will be conducted for the eligible candidates irrespective of number of applications received, which will be followed by an interview by the Departmental Research Committee.

• The Entrance Test shall be conducted for eligible candidates wherein the qualifying marks will be 50%. The syllabus of the Entrance Test shall consist of 50% of research methodology and 50% shall be subject specific. (The detailed syllabus is available on the website)
• The list of candidates clearing the entrance test (50%) shall be declared on the notice board/ website of the University.
• An interview/viva-voce to be organised by the University where the candidates are required to discuss their research interest/area through a presentation before Department Research Committee specified under R.Ph.D. 2.3.
• The candidates who qualify the UGC-NET (Including JRF) UGC-CSIR NET (Including JRF) SLET / GATE / GPAT with a valid score in terms of cut-off marks and duration, teacher fellowship holder or who have passed MPhil programme shall be exempted from appearing in the entrance test and deemed to be qualified for personal interview.

Areas of Research:

• Renewable energy/ thermal engineering: 01 (seat intake)
• Robotics, Stress Analysis: 02 (seat intake)
• Machine Design & Mechanical Vibration: 01 (seat intake)
• Renewable Energy, Environmental Sustainability: 02 (seat intake)
• Processing and Characterization of Composite Materials, Machine Design and Finite Element Analysis: 02 (seat intake)
• Manufacturing, Sustainable Machining, Materials Processing, Additive Manufacturing: 02 (seat intake)
• Stress Analysis, kinematics and dynamics, Robotics: 01 (seat intake)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics – Open FOAM, Multiphase Flow Using Level Set Methods: 02 (seat intake)
• Powder metallurgy, welding, machining, casting: 02 (seat intake)
• Turbo Machines, Renewable Energy System, Thermal Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics: 02 (seat intake)
• Dynamics of Machines, Vibrations, Machine Design, Nanomechanics, Composites, smart Materials: 02 (seat intake)
• Design Engineering, Composite Materials, Fracture Mechanics: 03 (seat intake)
• Design Engineering, Rapid Prototyping, Bio Mechanics, MEMES OPTIMIZATION: 04 (seat intake)
• Production and Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering: 02 (seat intake)
• Thermal and Fluid Engineering: 02 (seat intake)
• Thermal Engineering: 01 (seat intake)
• Manufacturing Engineering: 02 (seat intake)
• Metal forming, composites, Powder metallurgy, VOC abatement: 02 (seat intake)

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