Full Time
3 Year
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Engineering
Ph.D. in
Mechanical Engineering is a doctorate level degree that is five to eight years
long and can be pursued by candidates irrespective of what their specialisation
or stream was at the bachelors’ level. The course is focussed entirely on
Mechanical Engineering and is a research based course that delves further into
this specific field of study. Candidates should however have a strong
background in maths and science.
Top
Universities for this course include:
* Indian
Institute of Technology
* Hindustan
University, Chennai.
All Universities
have their own guidelines for admissions in such courses. Most colleges require
candidates to have a masters’ degree in engineering or technology or a
bachelors’ degree in engineering or science (4 year course) with a minimum 75
per cent marks. Candidates with a masters’ degree in science or other related
areas may also apply if they have a minimum of 65% marks, a first division in
their bachelors’ degree and a 95 percentile or higher in the Graduate Aptitute
Test in Engineering (GATE).
Doctorate
of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering: What is it About?
The course
covers topics in Math and Science that require students to have background
knowledge in mechanics, thermodynamics, and scientific computing. The course
teaches and allows candidates to learn great mechanical engineering skills, as
well as technical drawing and computing skills necessary in the designing of
machines and equipment.
Mechanical
Engineering is not only a technical subject, but is also an analytical area of
study and any good course equips its students with not only with the technical
ability necessary to excel in this course but also with the ability to apply
abstract concepts in real world usage. The field requires a great degree of
innovation and out of the box thinking and is concerned with the adopting of
new approaches to already existing problems. Professionals in this field are
often required to work with various other persons through the course of their
career and thus being adaptable to different work environments and being able
to communicate effectively with different persons is also of paramount
importance.
Mechanical
Engineering although a very technical field of study is one that has great
scope for research and thus is an interesting subject to be delved further
into. Understanding and researching further into the field is essential for
greater innovation to occur in this area. One of the benefits of studying
Mechanical Engineering is that it is considered an all purpose engineering
degree and leaves the scope open for pursuing a career in various fields of
engineering.
Graduates
from this course are likely to be recruited into fields of research and
academia, in colleges and universities, kinetics, thermodynamics, robotics, oil
exploration and refining, power plants, and etcetera. Professionals in this
field need to be technically proficient, able communicators, as well as capable
of conducting themselves professionally in settings such as seminars or
fundraisers. In fact even those that go into research need to get funding for
the same so being personable is definitely an important quality.
Eligibility
for Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Candidates
wishing to apply for the course need to have completed their masters’ degree in
engineering or technology with at least the minimum requisite marks. A student
from a masters’ degree in science may also apply, if they have given the GATE and
have 65% minimum marks. Bachelor’s degree candidates may also apply from
engineering or science with a minimum 75% marks.
Ph.D.
in Mechanical Engineering: Admission Process
In most
institutes for Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering candidates that fulfil the
eligibility and have given their all India entrance test in the case of certain
universities, can fill out the physical or online application forms. In
certain colleges the entrance test will not matter but the final admission
would be granted on the basis of marks scored at the bachelors or masters level
that is it would be merit based.