Admission in IIT BHU

Can you tell me about the eligibility requirement for admission in Ph.D. in Engineering Program offered by IIT BHU or Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi?

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The eligibility requirements for admission in Ph.D in Engineering Program offered by IIT BHU or Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi are as follows:

Eligibility Conditions Ph.D. in Engineering

a) One with master degree in engineering in the discipline concerned or in an allied discipline/area must have a minimum of 60% marks or 6.0 CPI (on a 10.0 point scale) at the master degree level and have GATE qualification.

b) One with bachelor degree in engineering in the discipline concerned or in an allied discipline/area must have a minimum of 75% marks or 7.5 CPI (on a 10.0 point scale) at the bachelor degree level. One should be qualified in GATE for the award of Institute Assistantship.

c) One with master degree in science as an allied discipline/area (where science is an allied discipline/area), must satisfy each of the following criteria:
(i) A minimum of 65% marks or 6.5 CPI (on a 10.0 point scale) at the master’s degree level,
(ii) A minimum of 60% marks or 6.0 CPI (on a 10.0 point scale) at the bachelor’s degree level, and
(iii) Qualified in GATE or NET-LS or CSIR/UGC-NET-JRF or awarded DBT-JRF or
ICMR-JRF or DST-INSPIRE fellowship


Discipline-wise Research Areas for Ph.D. Programmes
Ceramic Engineering
Bio-Ceramics, Ceramic/Metal/Polymer matrix composites, Electro Ceramics,
Glass and Glass Ceramics, Refractories, Advanced Ceramics, Nano
Technology, Cement & Concrete Technology, Energy Materials.
Chemical Engineering To be announced at the time of Interview

Civil Engineering
Structural Engineering; Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering;
Environmental Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering; Transportation
Engineering; Geo-informatics; Gelogy.

Computer Science & Engineering
Social Network Analysis, HPC, Machine Vision, Natural Language
Processing, Information Extraction, Data Mining, Image Processing, Pattern
Recognition. Electrical Engineering Electrical machines & Drives; Power Electronics; Control Systems; Power Systems

Systems Engineering Systems Engineering
Electronics Engineering Microwave Engineering; Digital Techniques and Instrumentaion (Smart Sensor Networks) Humanities and Social
Sciences Philosophy/ Sociology/ History/ English/ Computational Linguistics.

Mechanical Engineering
a) Machine Design: Fracture behavior of fibre composite through thickness,
Mechanical behavior of biocomposites; Composites, Impact and failure
mechanisms, Computational Fracture Mechanics, Transient Dynamicss;
Nuclear graphite and Fracture Characterization; Biomechanics,
Cardiovascular stent design; Tiobology; Fracture Mechanics; Composite
Materials such metal matrix composite, hybrid composite and nano
composite for the mechanical and tribological applications; Fatigue wear
modeling, contact modeling and its relevance to wear, Reliability of
MEMS Devices.
b) Production Engg.: Additive manufacturing, unconventional
manufacturing, Incremental Forming & Manufacturing, Metal firming,
Manufacturing automation using: CAD/CAM/CAE/CE/Reverse Engg.;
Tool wear condition monitoring; Materials aspect of Triobology,
Composite Materials and Laser Surface Texturing; Weld metal
characteristics, Thermal effects on weld metal properties, stress removal in
casting.
c) Thermal and Fluid: Thermal behavior of Fibre Comosite Materials; Solar Thermal, Alternate Fuel, Hybrid System; Engine Simulation; Multi-phase
flows related to Molten Metal-Gas interaction, Hydro and Gas cyclones,
Droplet/Bubble dynamics; Atomization – Pressure assisted,
Electrohydrodynamic; Aerosol generation and measurement; Particle
Image Velocimetry; Heat and Mass Transfer Analysis of Grains during
fludized bed drying for achieving energy economy and higher quality;
Influence of Climate Change for the Specification of Design Wind Speed
of Engineering Structure, Gasification based Polygeneration Cycle of
Biomass for Hydrogen Production; Numerical and Experimental analysis
of pulverized coal and biomass combustion.

Industrial Management
Operations Management, SCM, Production System

Metallurgical Engineering
Microstructural, Structural and Chemical Characterization; Mechanical
Behavior, Deformation Processing and Failure Analysis; Phase Equilibria and
Phase Transformation; Non-Equilibrium Processing of Advanced Materials;
Ultra-Fine Grained and Nano-Structured Material; Metallurgical and E-Waste
Utilization; Design and Development of Advanced Steels; Tribology and
Surface Engineering’ Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Metallurgical
Processes’ Advanced Structural and Functional Materials.

Mining Engineering
To be announced at the time of Interview

Pharmacy
Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy.

Physics
Solar Physics, Space & Planetary Physics, Astrophysics, Condensed Matter
Physics (Theory & Experiment), Biophysics, Fibre Optics, Photonics, Remote
Sensing, Materials Science, Quantum Information, Renewable Energy.

Chemistry
Synthetic Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Surface Chemistry,
Computational Chemistry.

Mathematical Sciences
Algebra, Analysis, Fuzzy sets and Applications (including Fuzzy
Technology), Mechanics (Solid-, Fluid-, Bio-Mechanics), Mathematical
Modeling and Simulation (Including queuing theory).

Biochemical Engineering
To be announced at the time of Interview

Biomedical Engineering
Physiology; Electrophysiology & Neuro Biology; Polymer in Medicine;
Bioinstrumentation, Biomedical Signal & Image Processing; Modeling of
Biological System, Biological Control System Analysis; Biomechanics;
Tissue Engineering & Micro fluidics; Molecular Biology, Biochemistry,
Biotechnology & Nano Medicine; Optical Nanomaterial, Biosending, Image
Theuranostics.

Materials Science & Technology
All core and allied subjects associate with Materials Science and Technology