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Indian Institute of Technology GuwahatiVolume: III, Issue: III, The Quarterly Newsletter, July–September 2012

In this issue

Techniche 2012 INUP Familiarisation Workshop on

Nanofabrication Technologies Publications (Research

Journal/ Book/ Book Chapter) Awards and Honours

NIF–India Partnership Award New Research

Projects New Joinings Hindi Divas

Independence Day PhDs Completed Total Number

of Students on Campus

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IIT Guwahati organised the annual techno-management festival – Techniche – during 30 August – 2 September 2012. Started with the slogan – pixelating perfection – the fourteenth edition of the Techniche had set the goal to understand the essence of perfection — the perseverance and impeccable precision behind every innovation, design, product or strategy that inspires awe.

Techniche 2012

of four bestselling books on entrepreneurship including Stay Hungry Stay Foolish; George Kourounis, adventurer, television presenter, storm chaser, and explorer, known for his television series Angry Planet; Prabhu Chawla, Editorial Director of The New Indian Express Group and host of talk shows

Techniche is famous for its Lecture Series, where eminent scientists, business wizards, artists, entrepreneurs, adventurers from around the world deliver lectures on their work, share their experiences and thus greatly inspire the students. This year too, people from diverse fi elds of knowledge participated in the event and shared their knowledge and experience with the IIT Guwahati community. Among them were Dr. R. Chidambaram, nuclear scientist and the principal scientifi c adviser to the Government of India; Dr. Samuel R. Chand, former Pastor, college President, Chancellor and now President Emeritus of Beulah Heights University; Rashmi Bansal, author

Mr. Walter Bender of Sugar Labs and One Laptop per Child Project inaugurating Techniche while Prof. Gautam Barua, Director, IIT Guwahati (2R) looks on along with others.

Dr. R. Chidambaram being felicitated by Prof. Manmohan Pandey, Chairman, Students’ Technical Board

A speed artist demonstrating his skill for the audience

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Prof. Gautam Barua (C) with Prof. A. Srinivasan, Dean, Faculty Aff airs (L) and Prof. Rudra Pratap, IISc Bangalore during the inauguration of the workshop

Techinche also presented a great opportunity to showcase students’ talent on diff erent technical issues. Robotics competition was one such module which witnessed large participation from all over the nation.

Some of the other events of Techniche-2012 were Panel Discussion with Venture Capitalists, Discovery Myth Busters, quizzes, Guwahati half marathon, and Technothlon – the international school olympiad, Exhibitions by Railways, Air-Force, Indian Institute of Robotics, Guwahati Meteorological Department, Numismatic Society of Kolkata, Delhi Philatelists and cultural nights.

IIT Guwahati organised a two day INUP Familiarisation Workshop especially for the North East on the topic “Nanofabrication Technologies” during 28-29 September 2012 in collaboration with INUP at IISc Bangalore and IIT Bombay. Indian Nanoelectronics Users Program (INUP) is an activity jointly run by the Centres of Excellence in Nanoelectronics (CEN) at IIT Bombay and IISc Bangalore. It is an initiative to create and spread the expertise of Nanoelectronics in the country. INUP is supported by Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Government of India.

The workshop was inaugurated by Prof. Gautam Barua,

INUP Familiarisation Workshop on Nanofabrication Technologies

Director, IIT Guwahati. In the inaugural address, Prof. Barua, emphasised the importance of Nano-electronics initiatives in the North East and elsewhere in India. The workshop was attended by around 150 teachers and researchers of various technological institutes of the North East. Four professors from IISC Bangalore, delivered lectures on topics like MEMS Sensors (Prof. Rudra Pratap), Microfl uidics (Prof. V. Venkatraman), Thin Film growth (Prof. S. Raghavan) and Microsystems fabrication (Dr. K. J. Vinoy). Three professors from IIT Bombay delivered lectures on topics like Sensors (Prof. Ramgopal Rao), III-V Semiconductors (Dr. Deepankar Saha) and Login/Memory technologies (Dr. Saurabh Lodha).

Three professors from IIT Guwahati delivered lectures on topics like Magnetic Structures/Devices (Prof. A. Srinivasan) and Surface Acoustic Wave Devices and Applications (Dr. Harshal Nemade and Prof. Roy Paily). Dr. G. V. Ramaraju, Head of Nano-Technology Initiatives division, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), concluded the workshop with a brainstorming session by encouraging the submission of project proposals from North East and subsequently, most of the participants have expressed their keen interest in applying to INUP.

The workshop was sponsored by INUP at IISc Bangalore and coordinated by Dr. S. K. Shrivastava, IISc Bangalore and Prof. Roy P. Paily, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, IIT Guwahati.

Mr. Prabhu Chawla

Lars Hoogweg, CTO of Nimbuzz BV

Philately Exhibition

Technothlon Examination

Singer Angaraag Mahanta (Papon) distributing prize at the Half Marathan Ebru artist Danny Rodriguez with his creations

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Civil Engineering

A. Dey and P. K. Basudhar, “Parameter estimation of four-parameter viscoelastic Burger model: Inverse Analysis”, Interaction and Multiscale Mechanics, 5 (3), pp. 211-228, 2012

A. Dey and P. K. Basudhar, “Estimation of burger model parameters by inverse analysis of oedometer data”, Recent Trends in Civil Engineering and Technology, 2(2), pp. 27-44, 2012

A. Dey and P. K. Basudhar, “Estimation of burger model parameters using inverse analysis”, International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 6 (3), pp. 261-274, 2012

Bimlesh Kumar, “Vortex in Baffl ed Surface Aerator”, International Journal of Environmental Engineering, 4 (1-2), pp. 24-33, 2012

Bimlesh Kumar, “Neural Network Prediction of Bed Material Load Transport”, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 57 (5), pp. 956-966, 2012

Bimlesh Kumar, “Priming methods for siphon”, Journal of Indian Water works Association, pp. 143-148, April-June 2012

N. Debnath, A. Dutta and S. K. Deb, “Placement of sensors in operational modal analysis for truss bridges”, Mechanical System and Signal Processing, 31, pp. 196-216, 2012

Pranab Kumar Ghosh, S. Balagurunathan and C. A. Basha, “Electrokinetic Migration of Nickel [Ni(II)] in Contaminated Sludge”, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste, 16 (3), pp. 201-206, 2012

M. Ali, K. S. Duba, A. S. Kalamdhad, A. Bhatia, A. Khursheed, A. A. Kazmi, N. Ahmed, “High rate composting of herbal pharmaceutical industry solid waste”, Water Science and Technology, 65 (10), pp. 1817-1825, 2012

W. R. Singh, A. Das, A. S. Kalamdhad, “Composting of water hyacinth using pilot scale rotary drum composter”, Environmental Engineering Research, 17 (2), pp. 69-75, 2012

J. Singh, A. S. Kalamdhad, “Concentration and Speciation of heavy metals during water hyacinth composting”, Bioresource Technology, 124, pp. 169-179, 2012

J. Singh, A. S. Kalamdhad, “Reduction of heavy metals during composting – a review”, International Journal of Environmental Protection, 2 (9), pp. 36-43, 2012

Computer Science and Engineering

Samit Bhattacharya and Subrata Laha, “Bengali Text Input Interface Design for Mobile Devices”, Universal Access in the Information Society, 2012 (DOI: 10.1007/s10209-012-0280-1)

Publications (Research Journal/Book/Book Chapter)

Biotechnology

Seraj Ahmad and Pranab Goswami, “Enhanced production of cell-bound cholesterol oxidase from Rhodococcus sp. NCIM 2891 by the statistical method”, Annals of Microbiology, 2012 (DOI: 10.1007/s13213-012-0461-4)

Ankana Kakoti, Adepu Kiran Kumar and Pranab Goswami, “Microsome-bound alcohol oxidase catalysed production of carbonyl compounds from alcohol substrates”, Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic, 78, pp. 98-104, 2012

Sabitoj Virk Singh, V. Baruah and Pranab Goswami, “Giant vesicles as encapsulating matrix for stabilising alcoholoxidase and as container for coupled enzymatic reactions”, Artifi cial Cells, Blood Substitutes, and Immobilisation Biotechnology, 2012 (DOI: 10.3109/ 10731199.2012. 731 413)

Anil K. Shukla, Sanjukta Patra and Vikash Kumar Dubey, “PEGylated nanospheres encapsulating antileishmanial drugs for their specifi c macrophage targeting, reduced toxicity and deliberate intracellular release”, Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 2012 (DOI:10.1089/vbz.2011.0948)

Manjeet Kumar, Nandini Sarkar and Vikash Kumar Dubey, “Evaluating quinacrine as a potential amyloid imaging compound: studies on hen egg white lysozyme as model system”, Protein and Peptide Letters, 19 (8), pp. 826-831, 2012

Abhinav Grover, Sushil Kumar Shakyawar, Saudagar Prakash, Vikash Kumar Dubey and Durai Sundar, “Epitopic analysis of potential vaccine candidate in Leishmania infantum for development of human vaccine”, Letters in Drug Design and Discovery, 9, pp. 698-705, 2012

N. K. Prasanna Kumari, Vikash Kumar Dubey and Medicherla V. Jagannadham, “SDS induced refolding of pre-molten globule state of cryptolepain: Diff erences in chemical and temperature-induced equilibrium unfolding of the protein in SDS-induced state”, Proceedings of Indian National Academy of Science, 2012 (DOI: 10.1007/s40011-012-0071-8)

Chemistry

Samir Ghorai and Chandan Mukherjee, “Ortho-Substituent Induced Tr i r a d i c a l - C o n t a i n i n g Tetranuclear Vanadium(IV) Cluster Formation via Ligand C-N Bond Breaking and C-O Bond Making”, Chemical Communications, 48 (82), pp. 10180-10182, 2012

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Design

J. Sanjog, S. Karmakar, T. Patel and A. Chowdhury, “DHM an aid for virtual ergonomics of manufacturing shop fl oor: A review with reference to industrially developing countries”, International Journal of Computer Applications, 54 (14), pp. 18-23, 2012

A. Chowdhury, J. Sanjog, S. M. Reddy and S. Karmakar, “Nanomaterials in the fi eld of Design Ergonomics: Present status”, Ergonomics, 2012 (DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2012.720287)

J. Sanjog, S. Karmakar, H. Agarwal and C. Dattu Patil, “Designing and ergonomic Evaluation of a Shoe-rack in CAD Environment”, International Journal of Computer Applications, 49 (20), pp. 38-41, 2012

A. Chowdhury, S. Karmakar, S. M. Reddy, J. Sanjog, S. Ghosh and D. Chakrabarti, “Visual attention analysis on mutated brand name using eye-tracking: A case study”, Journal of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 68, pp. 1132-1135, 2012

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Dharmendra Dixit and P. R. Sahu, “Performance of L-Branch MRC Receiver in $\eta-\mu$ and $\kappa-\mu$ Fading Channels for QAM Signals”, IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, 1 (4), pp. 316-319, August 2012

Humanities and Social Sciences

Merry Baruah Bora and Liza Das, “The Body in the Family Politic: Reading Shashi Deshpande’s Moving On and In the Country of Deceit”, The Atlantic Literary Review, 13.1, pp. 96-111, 2012

Merry Baruah Bora and Liza Das, “Quest for Identity: A Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s Small Remedies”, Negotiations, 2, pp. 24-29, 2012

Papori Rani Barooah and Liza Das, “‘Consensual Hallucination’: Mapping Cyborg Society in William Gibson’s Neuromancer”, The Atlantic Critical Review, 11.2, pp. 123-56, 2012

Payel Chakrabarti and Liza Das, “Negative Representation of North East India Sells News”, Issues of Media Policy, Regulations and Ethics, Ed. Ambrish Saxena, New Delhi: Kanishka, pp. 148-55, 2012

S. Mahanta, “Chain shifts, Feature Distance and Contrast Preservation”, The EFL Journal (Special issue on Optimality Theory), 3.2, pp. 41-64, 2012

Mechanical Engineering

B. Satya Sekhar, P. Muthukumar and P. Suresh, “Performance investigations of the metal hydride based hydrogen storage devices”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, (DOI 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.09.095)

P. Muthukumar, A. Singhal and G. K. Bansal, “Thermal Modelling and Performance Analysis of Industrial-scale Metal Hydride

Based Hydrogen Storage Container”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 37, pp. 14351-14364, 2012

B. Satya Sekhar and P. Muthukumar, “Performance Analysis of a Metal Hydride Based Heat Transformer”, International Energy Journal, 13 (1), 2012

B. B. Sahoo, N. Sahoo and U. K. Saha, “Eff ect of H2: CO Ratio in Syngas on the Performance of a Dual Fuel Diesel Engine Operation”, Applied Thermal Engineering, 49, pp. 139-146, 2012

S. C. Mishra and R. R. Vernekar, “Analysis of transport of collimated radiation in a participating media using the lattice Boltzmann method”, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 113, pp. 2088-2099, 2012

S. C. Mishra and H. Sahai, “Analyses of non-Fourier heat conduction in 1-D cylindrical and spherical geometry – an application of the lattice Boltzmann method”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55, pp. 7015-7023, 2012

S. C. Mishra, R. Muthukumaran and S. Maruyama, “Comparison of the thermal eff ects of the transport of a short-pulse laser and a multi-pulse laser through a participating medium”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55, pp. 5583-5596, 2012

S. C. Mishra, M. Y. Kim and S. Maruyama, “Performance evaluation of four radiative transfer methods in solving multi-dimensional radiation and/or conduction heat transfer problems”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55, pp. 5819-5835, 2012

R. P. Chopade, S. C. Mishra, P. Mahanta and S. Maruyama, “Estimation of power of heaters in a radiant furnace for uniform thermal conditions on 3-D irregular shaped objects”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55, pp. 4340-4351, 2012

S. Ghosh, A. K. Das, A. A. Vaidya, S. C. Mishra and P. K. Das, “Numerical study of dynamics of bubbles using lattice Boltzmann method”, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 51, pp. 6364-6376, 2012

R. P. Chopade, S. C. Mishra, P. Mahanta, S. Maruyama and A. Komiya, “Uniform thermal conditions on 3-D object: Optimal power estimation of panel heaters in a 3-D radiant enclosure”, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 51, pp. 63-76, 2012

Physics

Soumen Dhara and P. K. Giri, “Ultrafast Photoresponse from

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Al Doped ZnO Nanowires Network Decorated with Au Nanoparticles”, Chemical Physics Letters, 541, pp. 39-43, 2012

Soumen Dhara and P. K. Giri, “Organic CuPc Coating induced improved photoluminescence and photoconductivity of ZnO Nanowires Array”, Functional Materials Letters, 5 (3), 1250021, 2012

Bapaditya Pal, Soumen Dhara and P. K. Giri, “Co-doped ZnO nanowires grown by vapor-liquid-solid method: Structural, optical and magnetic studies”, Nano, 7, 1250028, 2012

Purabi Gogoi, Himanshu S. Jha, Pratima Agarwal, “Eff ect of Silane fl ow rate on microstructure of Silicon fi lms deposited by HWCVD”, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 358 (17), pp. 1990-1994, 2012

Centre for Energy

Madhuri Das and Pranab Goswami, “Direct electrochemistry of alcohol oxidase using multiwalled carbon nanotube as electroactive matrix for biosensor application”, Bioelectrochemistry, 89, pp. 19-25, 2012(The above work was featured in Nature India website—DOI:10.1038/nindia.2012.142—on 26 September 2012)

P. Mazumdar, V. B. Borugadda, V. V. Goud and L. Sahoo, “Physico-chemical characteristics of Jatropha curcas L. of North East India for exploration of biodiesel”, Biomass and Bioenergy, 2012 (DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.07.005)

P. Kalita, U. K. Saha and P. Mahanta, “Parametric study on the hydrodynamics and heat transfer along the riser of a pressurised circulating fl uidised bed unit”, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 2012 (DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermfl usci.2012.09.001)

P. Kalita, U. K. Saha and P. Mahanta, “An experimental investigation of hydrodynamics and heat transfer with biomass blending in a riser of a pressurised circulating fl uidised bed unit”, International Journal of Energy, 13 (2), pp. 63-74, 2012

Awards and Honours

Prof. Subhash C. Mishra, Mechanical Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Dr. P. Muthukumar, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, visited Institute of Nuclear Technology and Energy Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany, during 10-30 July 2012 under DAAD fellowship.

Prof. P. K. Giri, Physics, was awarded the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship for Research (long-term) in Japan.

The research paper “Automatic Facial Expression Recognition using Extended AR-LBP” by C. L. Shrinivasa Naika, Dr. Pradip K. Das, Associate Professor, Prof. Shivashankar B. Nair, Computer

Science and Engineering received the best paper award at the Sixth International Conference on Information Processing (ICIP-2012).

Jashmini Deka, a research associate in the department of Chemistry, has been selected for the ‘DST INSPIRE Faculty Award 2012’. The ‘INSPIRE Faculty Scheme’ off ers a contractual research award for carrying out independent research to young achievers for a period of fi ve years.

Raihana Begum, a research student, department of Chemistry, has received ‘MRSI Young Scientists’ Award 2012’ at ‘Young Scientists’ Colloquium 2012’. This was organised by Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Kolkata Chapter, on 8 August 2012, at Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata.

Soumen Dhara, research student, department of Physics, was awarded the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship 2012.

Swati Khanna, research student, Centre for Energy, nominated and selected for the Indo-US Symposium on Women Engineers Leading Global Innovations held at Taj Vivanta, Bangalore during 29-31 August 2012.

The IIT Guwahati students team (Tushar Krishnan, Vineel Kambala, Vivek Gunawat) won the National Finals of the MISB Bocconi Business Quiz. The winners won a trip to Milan, Italy.

IIT Guwahati received Partnership Award from National Innovation Foundation–India (NIF–India) for mentoring and value addition support. The National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF), started functioning in March 2000 as India’s national initiative to strengthen the grassroots technological innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge. NIF–India set up its cell at IIT Guwahati in 2002 as GIAN NE, renamed as National Innovation Foundation Assam Cell. Since its inception IIT Guwahati has provided continuous support (infrastructural, mentoring and value addition) to the cell.

NIF–India Partnership Award

Prof. Gautam Barua with the NIF–India Partnership Award along with Prof. S. K. Kakoty, Chairman, Advisory Board of NIF Cell (L) and Mr. K. Kalita, In-Charge of NIF, Assam Cell (R)

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New Research Projects

Asish MukhopadhyayVisiting ProfessorComputer Science and Engineering

New Joinings

Sagarmoy DuttaAssistant ProfessorMathematics

Debasattam PalAssistant ProfessorElectronics and Electrical Engineering

A. B. KunnumakkaraAssistant ProfessorBiotechnology

Govind Bol ShresthaVisiting ProfessorElectronics and Electrical Engineering

Rowena RobinsonProfessorHumanities and Social Sciences

Pankaj TiwariAssistant Professor Chemical Engineering

Smarajit DasAssistant ProfessorElectronics and Electrical Engineering

Srinivasan KrishnaswamyAssistant ProfessorElectronics and Electrical Engineering

BiotechnologyTitle: Studies on structure of enzymes and their interaction with nanostructured materials for bioelectronics devices and other applications; Sponsor: DBT; Principal Investigator: Prof. Pranab Goswami

Title: X-ray crystallographic structure elucidation of key drug target enzymes of Leishmania donovani; Sponsor: DBT; Principal Investigator: Dr. Vikash Kumar Dubey

Chemical EngineeringTitle: New Generation Degradable Thermoset Resins and Structural Composite “Bio-Thermoset”; Sponsor: DST; Principal Investigator: Dr. Vimal Katiyar

ChemistryTitle: Development of Water Oxidation Catalysts, Single-Molecule Magnets (SMMs), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Contrast Agents, Employing a Common Backbone; Sponsor: DST; Principal Investigator: Dr. Chandan Mukherjee

Title: Synthesis of Sensitisers for Dye Sensitised Solar Cell; Sponsor: BRNS; Principal Investigator: Dr. Chandan Mukherjee

Mechanical EngineeringTitle: Developing light weight, durable and user friendly artifi cial limbs through Nanotechnology-based modifi cation of conventional materials and optimising mechanical component design for enhancing their functional performance; Sponsor: DBT; Principal Investigator: Dr. S. Kanagraj

Title: Development of Copper (Cu) – Carbon Nanomaterial (CN) based nanocomposite formulations for heat recovery in diff erent processes in a steel plant; Sponsor: Ministry of Steel, Government of India and M/s Tata Steel, Jamshedpur; Principal Investigator: Dr. S. Kanagraj

EnergyTitle: A novel energy effi cient hydrodynamic cavitations technique for extraction of oil from micro algae for biodiesel production; Sponsor: CSIR; Principal Investigator: Dr. V. V. Goud

A team from University of Nottingham, UK, headed by Prof. Michele Clarke visited Department of Mechanical Engineering and Centre for Energy, IIT Guwahati during July 2012 for discussion and evaluation of ongoing collaborative research at IIT Guwahati.

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IIT Guwahati observed Hindi Fortnight during 1–15 October 2012. Competitions for students, employees and children were organised during this period. Hindi Divas was celebrated on 14 September 2012. The event was attended by faculty members,

staff and students of the Institute. Prof. Sukumar Nandi, Deputy Director, IIT Guwahati, adorned the Chair of the Chief Guest. Prizes were distributed to the winners of the various competitions which was followed by a cultural programme where students and children of the campus enthralled the audience with their performances.

Independence Day Celebrated

The 66th Independence Day of India was celebrated on 15 August 2012 in the Institute campus. The Director of the Institute, Prof. Gautam Barua, hoisted the tricolour and addressed the gathering. This was followed by colourful cultural programmes presented by the students of the Institute, IIT Guwahati Kendriya Vidyalaya and Akshara School and children of the campus. Employees and students of the Institute and residents of the campus were present throughout the function.

Prof. Sukumar Nandi, Deputy Director, IIT Guwahati handing over a prize to a competition winner

Prof. R. Swaminathan, Chairman, Offi cial Language Implementation Committee, IIT Guwahati handing over a prize to a competition winner

Dr. B. N. Raychoudhury, Registrar, IIT Guwahati handing over a prize to a competition winner

Prof. Gautam Barua saluting the tricolour

Students presenting a dance performance

Members of the Institute present

Hindi Divas Celebrated

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Department/Centre No. of Students

Biotechnology 1

Chemical Engineering 1

Chemistry 6

Electronics and Electrical Engineering 1

Physics 1

Centre for Energy 1

Centre for the Environment 1

Total 12

PhDs Completed During July–September 2012

The new academic session (2012-2013) commenced from July 2012. A total number of 1461 students were admitted in various programmes across all the Departments/Centres as given in the table below –

Department/Centre BTech/BDes MSc/MA MTech/MDes PhD

Biotechnology 51 – 32 27

Chemical Engineering 66 – 55 25

Chemistry 44 39 – 39

Civil Engineering 79 – 90 30

Computer Science and Engineering 80 – 56 4

Design 46 – 28 7

Electronics and Communication Engineering 72 – – 0

Electronics and Electrical Engineering 42 – 57 13

Humanities and Social Sciences – 26 – 10

Mathematics 45 48 – 12

Mechanical Engineering 80 – 91 38

Physics 40 38 – 25

Centre for Energy – – – 7

Centre for the Environment – – – 4

Centre for Nanotechnology – – – 5

Total 645 151 409 246

Note: In addition, 3 students in Computer Science and Engineering MTech + PhD Dual Degree programme and 7 students in the Preparatory programme were also admitted.

Total Number of Students on Campus as on September 2012

Programme Number of students

Preparatory 7

BTech/BDes 2315

MSc 229

MA 72

MTech/MDes 759

PhD 1034

Dual (MTech + PhD) 6

Total 4422