LATERAL ENTRY CHANNEL
To apply for PMRF through this channel, the candidate must satisfy all of the following
criteria:
(1) The candidate should be pursuing Ph.D. in one of the PMRF granting institutions. Further, he/she should have completed at most 12 months in the PhD programme if he/she joined the programme with a Master’s degree; and should have completed at most 24 months in the PhD programme if he/she joined the PhD programme with a Bachelor’s degree. The relevant period of 12 months or 24 months will be counted from the date of admission in the PhD programme till the
date of application for lateral entry. A candidate can be considered at most twice through lateral entry channel PMRF. In case of Integrated M.Tech/MSc and PhD programmes, the candidate will be eligible to apply within 12 months of the date of satisfying the Master’s degree requirement.
(2) The candidate should have completed at least four courses in the PhD programme, each of which should be a full-semester course, and obtained aggregate CGPA of 8.5 (out of 10) or higher. Only full subject courses are considered; General courses such as Seminar, Communication Skill, Research Methodology etc are not considered as full subject courses.
(3) The PMRF Granting Institute, in which the student is enrolled, makes a strong recommendation for the candidate and uploads the relevant information on the PMRF web-portal. This includes a research proposal and soft copies of publications (which could include those under submission).
(4) Candidate continues work only in the host institute and transfer to another PMRF eligible institute is not allowed. Further, once enrolled in a PhD programme through lateral entry, the candidate cannot be considered for direct entry channel in a subsequent year.
(5) The metrics on which the candidates will be judged include (but not restricted to) a strong research proposal, publications record and grades. Due weightage should be given to publication in reputed journals/conferences.
FOR BOTH LATERAL ENTRY AND DIRECT ENTRY CHANNELS:
Broad areas under which Applications can be made :
Broad area: 01-Civil Engineering, Earth Science, Architecture, Ocean and Naval Engineering.
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Architecture & Planning: Architectural, building and climate science
Architecture & Planning: Interdisciplinary architecture and design
Architecture & Planning: Planning – Urban/Rural
Civil Engineering: Environmental engineering
Civil Engineering: Geospatial technology
Civil Engineering: Geotechnical Engineering
Civil Engineering: Structural engineering
Civil Engineering: Transportation engineering
Civil Engineering: Water resources engineering
Earth Sciences: Applied geology
Earth Sciences: Applied geophysics
Ocean Engineering: Coastal engineering
Ocean Engineering: Naval architecture
Ocean Engineering: Offshore engineering
Ocean Engineering: Petroleum engineering
Broad area: 02-Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Design.
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Fluid Mechanics/Heat Transfer
Thermodynamics/Airconditioning & Refrigeration/Cryogenics
Experimental Methods in Engineering & Design
Computational & Higher Order Numerical Methods
Turbulence/Waves/Instabilities
Boiling/Condensation/Phase change
Microfluids/Nanofluids/Biofluids
Robotics & Automation
Solid Mechanics/Kinematics
Materials/Fracture mechanics
Aerodynamics/Hypersonics
Aeroacoustics/Structural Health Monitoring
Vibrations and control systems
Combustion and propulsion systems
Broad area: 03-Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering.
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
PED
Image processing
HV
Communication
Microelectronics
Instrumentation
Integrated Circuits
Signal processing
RF and Photonics
Power systems
Control
Broad area: 04-Computer Science & Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics.
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Mathematics
Computer Science - Theory
Computer Science - Systems
Data Science
Broad area: 05-Biomedical Engineering, Biological Sciences and Agricultural Sciences.
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Biomechanics
Neurosciences
Tissue engineering, biomaterials and regenerative medicine
Nanotechnology, nanomedicine and theranostics
Biotechnology
Genetics and epigenetics
Immunology
Computational biology, systems biology and bioinformatics
Cell biology
Microbiology
Molecular Biology, biochemistry and Enzymology
Cancer Biology
Developmental biology
Structural biology and protein engineering
Plant sciences
Biophysics
Ecology and evolution
Wildlife sciences, Aquaculture, & Fishery Sciences
Food Technology
Environmental Sciences
Bioprocess Engineering
Broad area: 06-Chemical Engineering, Textile Engineering.
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Chemical Engineering: Heterogeneous Catalysis, reaction engineering
Chemical Engineering: Molecular simulation and modelling, CFD, process control and instrumentation
Chemical Engineering: Fuel cell, energy starage, hydrogen production, petroleum engg
Chemical Engineering: Wastewater treatment, environmental engineering
Chemical Engineering:Electrochemical engg, corrosion
Chemical Engineering: Fluid mechanics, rheology
Chemical Engineering: Heat transfer and thermodynamics
Chemical Engineering: Mass transfer, membrane, separation processes
Chemical Engineering: Biomedical application, point of care device
Chemical Engineering: Food science and technology, smart packaging
Chemical Engineering: Carbon capture
Textile Engineering: Natural fibre composite, electrospun nanofibre, Polymeric Nanocomposites
Textile Engineering: Yarn engineering
Textile Engineering: Fibre science and technology
Textile Engineering: Nanocoating, nanomaterials for textile
Textile Engineering: Apparel Engineering
Textile Engineering: Garment Technology
Textile Engineering: Smart textile, phase change materials for hest storage
Textile Engineering: Nonwoven and Technical Textiles
Textile Engineering: Yarn and Fabric Production
Textile Engineering: Medical Textiles
Broad area: 07-Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Mining Engineering.
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Mechanical behaviour of materials and working
Physical metallurgy (Alloys/materials development and materials characterization
Electronic materials, devices and batteries
Extractive metallurgy of ferrous and nonferrous metals/alloys and continuous casting
Modeling/Simulation/machine learning related to materials
Corrosion and environmental degradation, wear and surface modification
Materials processing/advance materials manufacturing/Joining/Casting
Biomaterials
Mining
Broad area: 08-Physics.
Broad area: 09-Chemistry.
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Theoretical & Computational Chemistry
Spectroscopy/Photochemistry
Thermodynamics/Kinetics/Electrochemistry/ other areas of Physical Chemistry
Solid State Chemistry
Coordination /Organometallic Chemistry/Bio-Inorganic Chemistry
Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Physico-organic Chemistry/Bio-Organic Chemistry
Materials Chemistry
Broad area: 10-Interdisciplinary areas in Science and Engineering.
Sub areas include (but not limited to)
Analytics & Data Mining
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) & Molecular Dynamics
Energy, Environment, & Process Safety
Human-Computer Interaction (e.g., e-Learning & Image processing)
Microfluidics, Nanofluidics & Transport Processes
Operations & Supply Chain Management
Soft Computing & Control Engineering
Wastewater Treatment & Membrane Separation
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