Becoming The Best

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Admissions to PhD Programme of Department of
Civil Engineering (on continuous basis)

• The Department
• Established in 1961, the Department of Civil
  Engineering at IIT Kanpur aims at producing
  high-quality technical human resources to meet
  the needs of the nation? industries, RD
  organizations and educational institutes. The
  Department is active in conceptual teaching,
  research in frontier areas, national-level
  consulting, and strong outreach activities.
• The PhD Programme
• The Department offers Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
  degree in the following specializations
• Environmental Engineering
• Geoinformatics
• Geotechnical Engineering
• Hydraulics Water Resources Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Transportation Engineering
• The emphasis of the PhD programme is on learning
  fundamental principles in the subject area,
  developing deep understanding of a facet of the
  chosen specialization, honing creative
  independent thinking, and on adapting solving
  problems of inter-disciplinary nature.
• For details of admission procedures, eligibility
  requirements, financial assistance and course
  requirements, please visit
• http//www.iitk.ac.in/ce/CIVIL/pgadmission.htm.
• The completed application forms can be submitted
  anytime during the year.

• Research Facilities
• The state-of-the-art research facilities added in
  the Department over the last decade include
• Servo-hydraulic actuators, shake table, eccentric
  mass shaker, accelerometer-based wireless
  mea-surement system, fibre optic-based strain
  tem-perature measurement system, pseudo-dynamic
  testing facility
• Advanced triaxial system including dynamic
  load-ing, bender elements, ring shear apparatus,
  dila-tometer, SASW, pressure meter, seismic down
  hole system
• Robotic motorized total stations, digital
  theodo-lites levels, geodetic differential GPS
  receivers, terrestrial laser scanner, range
  camera, integra-ted GPS and INS system,
  photogrammetric work-station, softwares for
  geospatial processing
• AAS, WDXRF, resistivity meter, hydrobios
  sedi-ment corer echo sounder, water analysis
  equip-ment, exploration seismograph, stereoscopy
  sta-tion for the worldwide aeronet project, GPS,
  drill cores scanner, GPR, survey instrument,
  petro-logical microscopes
• Facility for physical modelling of rivers and
  hy-draulic testing of pipes, acoustic doppler
  veloci-meter, apparatus for measuring fluid
  friction, mo-mentum and energy losses, hydrology
  system, hydro-meteorological observatory
• Profilograph, rotational viscometer, vacuum
  visco-meter, asphalt fatigue testing, skid
  tester, thin film oven tester, driver testing,
  stone polish ma-chine, traffic speed radar,
  asphalt ignition tester, GPS, vehicle
  classification system
• HR-TOF-MS, IC, HPLC, AAS, TOC, CHNOS analy-zer,
  GC-ECD-FID, UV-visible spectrometer, GC-MS,
  HDTLC, OPC, CCP, SMPS, APS, CCN, particle
  absorption soot photometer, MOUDI, fog chamber
• Current Research Interests
• Mechanics and modeling of rivers surface
  groundwater management flow transport through
  saturated porous media integrated hydrological
  modelling neural networks know-ledge
  extraction stochastic hydrology
• Transportation network optimization traffic flow
  theory traffic facilities design driver
  behaviour modeling traveler information system
  pavement material charac-terization pavement
  design maintenance traffic safety highway
  financing

• Remote sensing for earth resources, urban
  mapping, environment, archaeology
  photogra-mmetry, GPS, GIS and pattern recognition
  applications terrestrial, airborne and mobile
  laser scanning visualization LBS, flood and
  noise propagation modeling WebGIS
• Structural dynamics, mechanics stability
  earthquake engineering concrete reinforced
  concrete, masonry, and steel structures
  struc-tural health monitoring performance-based
  design multiscale, multiphysics in mechanics
  materials robust optimization of structures
• Soil-structure interaction soil dynamics and
  liquefaction ground improvement physical
  modeling of foundation systems constitutive
  behaviour of geomaterials railway
  geotech-nology slope stability
• Environmental chemistry wastewater treat-ment
  environmental systems modeling management,
  atmospheric pollution its effects on climate
• Student Conveniences
• The facilities offered at IITK to students
  include
• Married student accommodation on campus
• Office space
• Wireless LAN on campus
• Sports and recreational facilities
• Travel grants for attending conferences in
• India and abroad
• Awards for papers published in recognized
• journals
• For more information, please contact
• Dr. Nihar Ranjan Patra (nrpatra_at_iitk.ac.in)
• Convener