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Mechanical Engineering

The details about PhD admission for Spring 2024-25 is given in the banner of this webpage (valid upto 2 November 2024)

About the Department

Vision

•Globally recognized leader in Mechanical Engineering for excellence in teaching, innovative research and technology development with societal impact

Mission

•Discover and disseminate knowledge through academic programs of the highest quality and experiential learning

•Foster an environment of innovation and high-impact research addressing real-world problems and catering the needs of the under-served

•Prepare leaders of tomorrow bestowed with sound fundamentals, strategic thinking and global awareness

•Promote exemplary standards of integrity, citizenship and ethical behavior among faculty, staff and students.

The department, right from the inception in 1951 has been offering undergraduate and advanced studies under the three broad fields of applied mechanics and engineering design, thermal sciences and energy systems, and manufacturing processes and systems. The current areas include Bond graph and Computer Aided Design techniques, Computer Aided Manufacturing, Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Robotics, Intelligent Machines and Systems, Solid Modelling and Computer Graphics, Application of Neural Networks, Systems Dynamic Simulation, Precision Engineering Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems, Combustion Modelling and Jet Impingement Heat Transfer. The sponsored projects include developing Monodispersable Aerosols, Building Automation, Machining of Advanced Materials, Environmental Friendly Grinding of Titanium Alloys using Cryogenic Cooling, Development of Industrial Robots, Laser Material Processing Technology, Noise and Vibration Control, Condition Monitoring.

Message from the Head

Prof. Soumitra Paul
Head of the Department

Contact (Head)
Phone: +91-3222-282278
Fax: +91-3222-255303
Email : spaul@mech.iitkgp.ac.in

For any additional information the Head of the Department may be contacted.

Achievements

Shanti Swarup Bhatanagar Prize: Professor Suman Chakraborty
Sir J C Bose National Fellow: Professor Suman Chakraborty
Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy: Prof. Suman Chakraborty
Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering: Professors A. R. Mohanty, M. C. Ray, P. K. Das, S. Chakraborty, S. K. Pal and S. Paul
Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences: Professor S. Chakraborty
Fellow of National Academy of Sciences: Professors P. K. Das and S. Chakraborty
Fellow of ASME: Professor Suman Chakraborty
Institute Chair Professor: Dilip Kumar Pratihar
A.S. Davis Chair Professor: Professor P. K. Das
Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya Chair Professor: Professor S. K. Pal
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow: Professors Aditya Bandopadhyay, D. K. Pratihar, Goutam Chakraborty, Suman Chakraborty, Sukanta Kumar Dash, Anirvan Dasgupta

Research Laboratories

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Acoustics And Condition Monitoring Laboratory
Friction Stir Welding Laboratory
Mechanical Micromachining Laboratory
Microfluidics Laboratory
Soft Computing Laboratory
Surface Finishing And Micro Machining Laboratory

Research Areas

Additive and Laser based Manufacturing
Adsorption
Advanced Materials Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Atmospheric water harvesting
Automation and Robotics
Automobile Engineering
Biomechanics
Bio Mechanics
Biomedical Systems
Bulk and Sheet Metal Forming
Chemically reacting flows
Coatings
Combustion & Internal Combustion Engines
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Computational multiphase flows
Computational Solid Mechanics
Computer control of machine tools
Computer Integrated Manufacturing
Convective Heat Transfer
cutting tool coating
Design & development of machines
Discrete and continuous system dynamics
DNS and LES
Droplet and Spray Combustion
Dynamics of Carbon Nano Tubes
Dynamics of MEMS and NEMS devices
Dynamics of Rotating Blades
Electrohydrodynamics
Electron beam welding
Electronic Packaging and cooling
Electroplating
Energy Materials, Hydrogen Storage
Engine Calibration
Engine Combustion Investigation
Engine Emission Control
Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis
Flameless Combustion
Flexible and Wearable Electronics
Flexoelectricity, Flexomagnetism
Flow of granular material
Flow over Wavy Surfaces
Flow through deformable confinements
Fluid Dynamics
Fluid Dynamics, Interfacial Phenomena
Fluid Mechanics
Fluid Mechanics (Incl. Bio, Multiphase)
Fluid Structure Interaction
Fluid-Structure Interactions
Formability test and characterizations
Friction Stir Welding and Processing
Fuzzy fiber reinforced composites
Gasoline Direct Injection
grinding
Heat Transfer
Heat Transfer & Thermal Science
Higher-order Rod and Shell theories
High pressure combustion
Hydrodynamic and Thermal Instability
Industry 4.0
Instrumentation System Design
Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
Inverse Problems
Large eddy simulation (LES)
Laser Ignition of Engine
Light Weight Composites
Linear and Nonlinear Wave propagation
Lithium-ion battery modelling
Low Reynolds No. Aerodynamics
Machine learning
Machine learning theory
Machinery Condition Monitoring
machining
manufacturing
Mechanics of Advanced Materials
Mechanics of Composites
Mechanics of inflatable structures
Mechanics of Metamaterials
Microfluidics
Microfluidics and microscale transport
Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
Micromachining
Micro Manufacturing
Micromanufacturing Processes
Micromechanics and Nano Mechanics
Micro-nano fabrication
Modelling & Diagnostics of Industrial Systems
Multiphase flow and complex fluids
Nanofabrication
Noise and Vibration Control
Nonlinear Dynamics
Nonlinear Elasticity
Nonlinear finite element method
Nonlinear Mechanics
Nonlinear Sound-Structure Interactions
Nonlinear techniques
Non traditional manufacturing
Non-traditional Manufacturing
Optimization & Modeling of Manufacturing Processes
Phase change heat transfer
Piezoelectric Fiber-Reinforced Composite
Plasticity and Constitutive Modeling
Polymer processing and composites
Rail vehicle dynamics
Refrigeration
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
residual stress
Rheology and viscoelasticity
Rheology, Complex Fluid, Viscoelasticity
Robotics
Robotics & Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE)
Semiconductor Devices and Circuits
Sensors & Actuators
Shape/ topology optimization
Single and multiphase flow
Single and Multiphase Fluid Dynamics
Smart Materials and Structures
Smart Structures, Composite structures,
Soft Computing and Control
Soft Computing techniques
Solar Energy
Spectral Methods in Fluid Dynamics
Structural Dynamics
super-critical CO2 based thermal systems
Surface Engineering
Surface engineering and coated materials
Surface finishing
Sustainable Structures
Swirl combustion
Systems and Control
Systems and Networking
Tailor Welded Blanks and Hydroforming
Technologies for Affordable Healthcare
Thermal Engineering
Thermal management of Li-ion batteries
Thermal spray
Transitional flows and wake transitions
Transport in porous media
Transport in porous medium
Tribology
Turbulence modeling of RANS
Turbulent flows
Ultrafast Cooling methodologies
Underwater Acoustics
Vibration Analysis
Vibration and Noise Control
Vibration induced transport
Vibration of Electromechanical Systems
Vibrations of Shells
Warm & Hot Forming of Advanced Materials
Wheel-Rail Interaction
Wind tunnel experiments

Faculty

Abhijit Guha Aditya Bandopadhyay Aghna Mukherjee Ajay Muljibhai Sidpara Ambatipudi Mani Kalyani Amiya Ranjan Mohanty Anandaroop Bhattacharya Anirvan Dasgupta Archana Arbind Arun Kumar Samantaray Asimava Roy Choudhury Atul Jain Biswajit Bharat Cheruvu Siva Kumar Chirag Deepak Kalelkar Dhananjay Kumar Srivastava Dilip Kumar Pratihar Goutam Chakraborty Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty Kingshook Bhattacharyya Korak Sarkar Maddali Ramgopal Mahendra Reddy Vanteru Manab Kumar Das Manas Chandra Ray Mihir Sarangi Nilanjan Das Chakladar Pabitra Badhuk Partha Pratim Bandyopadhyay Partha Saha Poonam Sundriyal Prasanta Kumar Das Prashant Kumar Purbarun Dhar Rajaram Lakkaraju Ranjan Bhattacharyya Sandipan Ghosh Moulic Sanjay Gupta Sankha Deb Sati Nath Bhattacharyya Siddharth Tamang Somnath Roy Soumitra Paul Sourav Mitra Subhransu Roy Sukanta Kumar Dash Suman Chakraborty Surjya Kanta Pal Sushanta Kumar Panda Venkata Naga Vamsi Munagala Vikranth Racherla