Ph.D Admissions 2010

Anna University Chennai

Anna University Chennai invites applications for Ph.D Admissions in the following faculties and departments for the academic year 2010-11

Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering including Environmental Engineering & Management,
Structural Engineering, Water Resources Engineering & Management, Soil Mechanics, Urban Engineering, Geo informatics, Remote Sensing, Ocean Management, Construction Engineering and Management, Port Management, Highway Engineering, Transport Engineering, Climate change


Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering including Thermal Engineering, Energy Engineering, Engineering Design, Product Design and Development CAD/CAM, Material Science and Engineering, Internal Combustion Engineering, Refrigeration & Air-Conditioning, Computer Integrated Manufacturing.
Manufacturing Engineering
Aeronautical Engineering
Automobile Engineering
Metallurgy Marine Engineering
Production Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechatronics
Printing Technology
Operations Research, Industrial Engineering & Quality Engineering
Mining Engineering

Electrical Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering including Power Systems Engineering, High Voltage Engineering, Power Electronics and Drives, Embedded Control Systems, Control and Instrumentation, Embedded System Technologies.
Instrumentation, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering.

Information and Communication Engineering
Electronics and Communication Engineering including Applied Electronics, Medical Electronics, Optical Communication, Communication System, VLSI Design, Opto Electronics, Avionics, Bio-Medical Engineering, Communication and Network, Laser and Electro Optical Engineering.
Computer Science and Engineering Multimedia Technology, Software Engineering
Information Technology, Convergent Technology.

Technology
Chemical Engineering, Polymer Technology, Petroleum Refining and Petrochemicals, Rubber and Plastics Technology, Food Technology Polymer Science and Engineering, Chemical and Electrochemical Engineering, Sugar Engineering, Environmental Science & Technology.
Textile Technology including Textile Chemistry
Ceramic Technology.
Leather Technology including Footwear Science and Engineering.
Industrial Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Genomics and Proteomics, Bio-Pharmaceutical Technology, Food Technology.

Architecture and Planning
Architecture including Digital Architecture, Landscape Architecture.
Town Planning.

Science and Humanities
Mathematics including Computer Science / Computer Applications
Physics including Material Science, Medical Physics and Crystal Growth.
Chemistry, Polymer Science
English, Other Foreign Languages, Economics
Library and information Sciences, Electronic media and informatics

Faculty of Management Sciences
Various disciplines of Management studies

Candidates who satisfy the general eligibility criteria and educational qualification shown below are eligible to apply for Ph.D. Programme.

1 GENERAL ELIGIBILITY
1.1 Master's Degree of the University or any other qualification recognized as equivalent thereto in the fields of study notified from time to time by this University. Specific Educational Qualifications are given in Clause 2.
1.2 Bachelor's Degree in Engineering / Technology of the University or any other qualification recognized as equivalent thereto in the fields of study with a minimum of 15 years of R & D Experience in National research laboratories / Public sector undertakings and with minimum of three publications in referred impact factor journals or two international patents in the last five years.
1.3 A minimum of 55% marks or CGPA of 5.5 on a 10 point scale in the qualifying examination (50% marks or CGPA of 5.0 on a 10 point scale for SC/ST candidates). For M.A.(English) Degree holders including SC/ST candidates, a minimum of 50% marks or CGPA of 5.0 on a 10 point scale
1.4 The Clause 1.3 does not apply, if the qualifying degree is M.S (By Research) of the University or recognized as equivalent.

Ph.D. PROGRAMMES
Candidates who satisfy the eligibility criteria as in Clause 1 & 2 are eligible to apply for Ph.D

Educational Qualification
Ph.D. Degree in Engineering/ Technology
M.E./M.Tech. or M.S. (By Research) in the relevant branch of Engineering or Technology.

Ph.D. Degree in Science and Humanities.
M.Sc./M.A.(English)/M.S. (By Research) in the relevant branch of Science and Humanities / M.C.A

Ph.D. Degree in Management Sciences.
MBA / Post Graduate diploma in Business Management or Administration awarded by Indian Institute of Managements (IIMs) / M.S (By Research) in Management Sciences.

Ph.D. Degree in Architecture and Planning
M.Arch./M.Plan / M.S.(By Research) in Architecture and Planning.


Full-time Ph.D Programme:
Candidates under Full-time shall do research work in the University and shall be available during the working hours for curricular, co-curricular and related activities.

Candidates working in the projects undertaken from State/Central/Quasi Government and totally funded through the projects in the University Departments/University Colleges / Colleges affiliated to the University. If the Principal Co-ordinator/Investigator of such projects are recognized Supervisor of the University, the candidate shall register for Research Programme under such Supervisor only. The candidate should be employed in a project sanctioned by a funding agency/organization atleast for a period of two years. Part employments in different spells or in different projects are not permitted. The Department / Centre where the project is undertaken should be a recognized research centre of the University.

Candidates in employment, who want to pursue Full-time study, should be sponsored by their employer and should avail leave for the research period and should get formally relieved from their duty to join the research programme.

Candidates who are sponsored by the AICTE under Quality Improvement Programme for teachers of Engineering Colleges who satisfy the eligibility conditions shall be eligible for Full-time category only, in the specializations as notified in AICTE guidelines.

Candidates who are selected at National level Fellowship programmes or by any recognized bodies and who satisfy the eligibility conditions as per the regulations shall apply for Fulltime category in the respective specializations.

Foreign Nationals sponsored by the Government of India on any exchange programme and who satisfy the eligibility conditions as per the regulations shall apply for Full-time study.

Part-time Ph.D. Programme:
The following categories of candidates are eligible to apply under part-time programme.

Full-time teachers of University Departments/University Colleges/Colleges affiliated to the University (as given in Annexure IV).

Candidates working in Industrial units/R & D Departments/National Laboratories/Units of Government/Quasi Government or any other research laboratories which are recognized by the University to do collaborative research with the University and sponsored by the respective employer.


How to Apply?

Application forms can be downloaded from www.annauniv.edu/research

SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS
Completed application form in all respects and data sheet with all enclosures securely stitched to it should be sent to "The Director, Centre for Research, Anna University Chennai, Chennai - 600 025 so as to reach on or before 16.04.2010 at 05.45 p.m. A demand draft drawn in favour of "THE DIRECTOR (RESEARCH), ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI" payable at Chennai for Rs.600/- (Rupees Six hundred only) for general category or for Rs.300/- (Rupees three hundred only) for Tamil Nadu SC/ST Candidates should be enclosed along with the completed application.

More details www.annauniv.edu/research