Monday, June 22, 2015

IIEST Shibpur announces PhD Admission 2015

Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), MCIT, Govt. of India has granted 15 scholarships under the scheme titled “Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme”

Under this scheme presently admissions are open to PhD Degree program on Full Time basis

Applications (Application Form) are invited from Indian nationals for admission to PhD Program for the odd semester 2015-16, under the above scheme at this Institute
The major features of the scheme for the full-time scholars are given below:

Monthly Scholarship of Rs 22,500/- (likely to be revised to Rs 31250/-) per month for first two years and Rs.25000/- (Likely to be revised to Rs.35000/-) per month for rest 3 years

Rent reimbursement up to 30% of scholarship amount paid per month

Annual contingency of Rs 30000/-

Financial Support (up to Rs 50000/-) for attending International conferences

Eligibility Criteria

Essential: M.Tech in IT, Electronics, CS, EE and VLSI or equivalent with a minimumof 65% or 7.25CGPA (60% or 6.25 CGPA for ST/ST candidates) at both the Bachelor’s (CS, EE, IT or Electronics) and Master’s level

Desirable: GATE qualification

Age: 32 years as on 01st July 2015; date may be relaxed by 5 years for SC/ST/OBC/PWD/Woman candidate

Above eligibility is minimum requirement only. Good academic career and higher qualification is preferred and mere eligibility does not ensure a call for admission test and/or Interview

A screening of applications willbe made to prepare a short list of candidates who will be called for admission test and/or Interview. Further screening will be done after the admission test to select the candidates for the interview
No. of Scholars

The number of scholars in the three dept/school with Specializations in the proposed PhD Program is given below:

    Electronics & Telecommunication: 06 Seats [Specialization: Planar Circuit & Antenna, RFID applications, Meta-materials, Phased array antenna, Electromagnetic band-gap materials, Microwave avalanche devices, IMPATT amplifiers and oscillators, Biosensors, MEMS based pressure and conductivity sensor, Nano-structured semiconducting metal oxides for sensor applications, Chemical sensors, MEMS based gas sensors and its CMOS integration, VLSI design and testing, VLSI based signal processing, Ad-hoc and sensor networks, Cognitive Radio networks, Satellite Communication, Digital image processing]
    Information Technology: 06 Seats [Specialization: Cellular automata, Digital micro-fluidic biochip, Digital Geometry and Image Analysis, Medical Image Processing, Cognitive Radio, VLSI Design & Test, Ad-hoc network, wireless sensor network, Crowd Sourcing, Big Data Analysis, Quantum and Reversible Computing, Multimedia Protection and Secret Transmission, Nano-Scale Computing and System]
    VLSI: 03 Seats [Specialization: VLSI Synthesis and Verification, Algorithms for VLSI CAD, CAD for Digital Micro-Fluidic Biochip, System on Chip Design and Test, 3D IC Design and Test, Analog and Mixed Signal IC Design & Test, Carbon Nano-tube/GrapheneNanoRibbon based interconnects and Device, Reversible and quantum circuits

For details see the Ph.D regulations in the website www.iiests.ac.in
Application Form

Applicants seeking admission under this scheme are required to apply online by downloading the application form and submitting the duly filled-up admission form (with the details of the draft) and the scanned copy of the M.Tech, DOB, GATE and category certificates, if applicable, (all in PDF form) to the following email address phdvvisya@iiests.ac.in on or before 30th June 2015 (04.00 PM)

An applicant may make separate applications (with separate draft for each application) to more than one department/schools if he/she fulfills the eligibility criteria for that department

Applicants need to pay Rs.300/- (Rs.150/- for the SC/ST candidates) by demand draft/pay order addressed to “REGISTRAR, IIEST, Shibpur” and payable at Kolkata

The draft (details given by the candidate in the application form) will be treated as admit card and would be collected from the candidates during the test

Candidates selected for admission 12th to 14th July 2915 must come prepared with all original certificates for verification of documents; they are also supposed to submit the photocopies of all their certificates, two passport size photographs and certificate for the blood group

Test:

Separate admission test will be held for each department

One hour MCQ type with Two and a Half marks for each correct answer and minus half marks for wrong answer

Question will be based on Departmental Core subjects in the UG level for IT and Electronics department; for VLSI it would be a mixture of CS, IT and Electronics

The candidates are supposed to provide the scanned copy of the following certificates along with the duly filled-in application form (PDF)

a) B.E/B. Tech mark-sheet

b) M.E/M. Tech mark-sheet

c) Score card; if applicable

d) Proof of date of birth

e) Community certificate (SC/ST) from a competent authority; if applicable

An application without the copies (scanned PDF form) of the required documents is liable to be rejected
Important Dates

Application Starts: 19th June 2015

Last date of Application Form: 30th June 2015 (up to 04.00 PM)

Date of the Test: 03rd July 2015

Test for Timing – For i) IT: 10.00 am to 11.00 am ii) Electronics: 12.00 noon to 01.00 pm iii) VLSI: 02.00 pm to 03.00 pm, Venue: Corresponding Dept.

Notification of Shortlisted Candidates after test: 03rd July 2015 (04.30 PM)

Date of Interview: 04th July 2015 (10.00 am onwards in the respective dept)

Publication of the Result on Website: 07th July 2015

Admission-cum-enrollment: 12th to 14th July 2015

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur
Dept of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), MCIT, Govt. of India, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah-711013, Email: phdvvisya@iiests.ac.in, Website www.becs.ac.in

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