PhD in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Ropar is designed to develop research skills and advanced knowledge in the field. Research Areas: Department faculty are involved in various state-of-the-art research and development activities spanning various areas in Mechanical Engineering, listed below: i) Mechanics & Design (MD) : Mechanical Vibrations, Condition Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis, Biomechanics, Computational Materials Science, Hydrogen Embrittlement, Biomedical Devices Development, Polymers for Energy and Biomedical Applications, Computational Biomechanics, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Damage Mechanics, Numerical Analysis, Variational Principle, Impact Mechanics, Composites, Functionally Graded Material, Metamaterials, Nonlinear Vibration, Aero-engine Vibration, Vibration under Viscoelastic Damping, Multifunctional Composite Materials, Electric Vehicles, Additive Manufacturing & Machine Learning Based Development of Indigenous Hydrogen Fuel Cell Stack, Robotics. ii) Manufacturing Engineering (MF) : Sustainable Manufacturing, Surface Engineering, Additive Manufacturing, Incremental Forming at Micro/Macro Scale, Tool condition monitoring and IoT in manufacturing, Product Design (Design Research, Creativity, Engineering Aesthetics), Biomimicry, Conventional and non-conventional machining at macro and micro scales, Automation in Agriculture, Indoor Farming, Sustainable Design and Sustainable Manufacturing, Constitutive Modeling of Mechanical Behavior of Materials: Fatigue, Creep-Fatigue Interaction, and Fracture, Laser Material Processing, Laser Resistant Coatings. iii) Thermal & Fluids Engineering (TF) : Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Energy, Thermal Systems, Condensation, Thin-Film Evaporation, Microfluidics, Microscale Heat Transfer, Surface Micro and Nano Engineering for Enhanced Phase Change Heat Transfer, Microdroplet Dynamics, Thermal Management of Electronics-Mobile Devices and Data Centers, Internal Combustion Engine, Combustion and Soot Modeling. View Less

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PhD in Chemical Engineering Research Areas of the Department Fluids, Granular Materials and Soft-Matter Engineering • CFD and microfluidics • Complex fluids and polymer physics • Interfacial flows/interfacial engineering • Active colloids/matter, gels and their assembly • Granular materials Catalysis and Reaction Engineering • Computational Catalysis • Heterogeneous Catalysis • Waste to Fuel Conversion • Electrocatalysts for fuel cells and green hydrogen production • Advanced Materials, Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs), Polymers, Membranes • Smart Textiles Thermodynamics and Molecular Simulation • Nanotechnology and nanomaterials, MOFs, Bio-minerals • Molecular Simulations (DFT, MD, MC) • Multiscale modeling of surfaces and interfaces Process Systems Engineering • Process Data Analytics • Advanced Process Control and Economic Optimization • Process Design, Modelling and Simulation • State and Parameter Estimation • Fault Detection & Diagnosis • Techno Economic Analysis and Sustainability View Less

PhD in Biomedical Engineering RESEARCH AREAS: • Al in Healthcare, Deep Learning & Medical Imaging • Amyloid-related Diseases, Amyloid-based Materials & Cervical Cancer Research • Bioimaging & Image Analysis • Bioinformatics & Computational Biology • Biomaterials & Implants • Biomechanics • Biosensors, Nano-biosensors, BioFETS & Electrochemical Biosensors • Cancer & Diabetes Research • Drug Delivery • Lab-on-a-PCB Devices & Electrochemical Transistors • Neurodegeneration & Neurobiology • Optics & Biophotonics in Healthcare View Less

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PhD in Chemistry RESEARCH AREAS i. Batteries and Electrocatalysis ii. Biomaterials iii. Catalysis iv. Drug Delivery v. Inorganic Chemistry vi. Materials vii. Organometallic Chemistry viii. Sensors ix. Supramolecular Syntheses x. Synthetic Organic Chemistry xi. Theoretical Chemistry View Less