Ph.D – Mechanical Engineering

campus

Dubai

Department

Mechanical Engineering

Level

Doctoral Programmes

The department encourages motivated and bright Ph.D. aspirants to join us at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus & Hyderabad campus to learn, understand and solve problems of specialized research fields. The department also has a part-time Ph.D. scheme especially for working professionals in Industries or Academic Institutes.

Know More

  • 14 International Journals Publications
  • 45 International Conference Publications
  • 38 National Conference Publications
  • 10 Book/Chapter Published

Research Areas

The department offers a full time Ph.D. programme in the following thrust areas of its research.

  • Bio-microfluidics
  • Biomaterials, Biomechanics
  • Assistive and Medical devices
  • Fluid-structure interaction
  • Image based material testing and inspection
  • Sheet metal forming, Warm and hot forming
  • Surface Engineering, Robotics and Control, Solid & Fracture Mechanics
  • Structural health monitoring
  • Vibrations, Acoustics
  • CAD/CAM
  • Experimental aerodynamics and jet acoustics
  • CFD
  • Heat Transfer
  •  Microtubes
  • CFB
  • Energy
  • Micro Machining & MEMS
  • Polymer & Composites
  • Rotational Moulding

 

Resources

Program Requirements
  • A minimum of 60% in both undergraduate and graduate level in Mechanical or any allied disciplines.
  • Undergraduate students with exceptional academic background are also welcome to apply.
    • Meeting the minimum eligibility criteria does not guarantee admission to Ph.D. programme
    • The shortlisted candidates will have to appear for an interview process.
    • An admitted undergraduate student will be required to complete minimum course work.
    • Candidates working in reputed R&D organization can apply for Part time/ Aspirant Ph.D. Scheme.
Financial Assistance
  • Financial assistance will be provided to the fulltime Ph.D. students in the form of a monthly stipend of ₹ 31,000. Higher stipend amount will be granted in the subsequent semesters subject to the performance as per institutional norms. A full-time Ph.D. student is expected to perform teaching assistantship in addition to the doctoral research work against the stipend granted to him/her
Admission Process

To learn more about the Ph.D admissions process at BITS Pilani, please visit the website https://www.bitsadmission.com

Faculty

Dubai Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Gulshan Kumar

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical metallurgy, Metal Forming, Industrial Engineering, Texture, Supply Chain Management, Production and operations Management, Lean Manufacturing, Finite Element Modelling and Simulations, residual stresses

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Dubai Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Harpreet Singh Bedi

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Additive manufacturing, Topology/Parametric Optimization, FEA, Polymer Nanocomposites, Carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites

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Dubai Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Majid Hassan Khan

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Experimental Fluid Dynamics [Development of Experiments], Droplet surface interactions, Flow around freely falling particles, Bio-inspired flows, Flow around Bluff Bodies (2D and 3D ), Flow Visualization, Particle Image Velocimetry (3D and Planar), Simulations using Lattice Boltzmann Method and openFOAM

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Dubai Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Naveen Kumar Shrivastava

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Energy-Exergy analysis, Microbial Fuel Cell, Direct Methanol Fuel cell

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Dubai Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Priyank Upadhyaya

Assistant Professor Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Multi-scale Modeling, Composite Materials, Mechanical testing, Finite Element Modeling

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Dubai Mechanical Engineering

Dr. R. Karthikeyan

Senior Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Machining, Tribo-Corrosion, Welding, Materials Testing, Robotics, Data Analysis

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