Academics / PhD

PhD Courses

Course Structure of Ph.D. Program in Centre for Rural Development and Technology (CRDT)

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Syllabi of Courses

Vision

The Centre for Rural Development and Technology, IIT Indore will become a nodal hub for researchers, volunteers, practitioners, educators, and others to collaborate and facilitate rural empowerment and progress solutions. CRDT shall strive to facilitate empowering and enabling the Rural population to improve their living conditions by development and application of appropriate and people friendly technologies adopting participatory, sustainable, democratic, transparent and gender sensitive processes.

Mission

The Centre for Rural Development and Technology, IIT Indore, mission to start PhD in Rural development are the following:

•For the small-scale entrepreneurship, sustainable cottage industries, development of value-added products formation.

•Access and Opportunities for Gender justice.

•Developing user-friendly interfaces for launching e-platforms for various rural activities that require outreach to larger communities.

•Harnessing Forest products and helping rural entrepreneurs to develop and sell their products with easy access to technology.

•Technology Development in Food Processing, Food Packaging and Food Storage.

Minimum Educational Qualifications (MEQs)

Masters’ degree in Science or Engineering or Humanities and/or Social Sciences (Mechanical/ Metallurgical/ Electronics / Electrical / Physics / Engineering Physics/ Mathematics / Statistics/ Microelectronics / Instrumentation / VLSI Design / Embedded System / Optoelectronics /Materials Science and Engineering / Nanotechnology / Energy Science and Engineering / Laser Technology / Tele Communication / Chemistry/ Mechatronics / Microwave Engineering / Biotechnology / Biological Sciences / Structural Engineering / Construction Management / Economics / Agricultural Economics / Political Science / Development Economics / Forest Economics / Environmental Science / Geography / Instrumentation and Controls / Environmental geotechnics / Space Engineering/ Geotechnical engineering / Engineering (Any Stream) (with first division as defined by the awarding Institute/ University)

Categories of Admission

For Indian Students

For International Students

FA (Fellowship Awardee): Fellowship Awardees from the funding agencies such as CSIR/ UGC/ DBT/ NBHM/ DST/ equivalent OR equivalent Fellowship position in an externally funded project under a faculty member of CRDT. The scholarship will be as per the rules of the concerned funding agency.

ISF (International Self-Finance)
Self-Financing Students (Full time / Part Time basis).

SW (Sponsored WITHOUT Institute scholarship): For applicants sponsored by a highly reputed R&D organization or Industry. [After completion of required coursework, either on Full Time (SWF) or Part Time (SWP) basis, with approval of the competent authority]

ISW (International Sponsored by Industry or NGO) (Full time / Part Time basis).
(i) Industry Sponsorship
(ii) NGO (Non-Government Organization) Sponsorship

DF (Defense Forces): Serving defense forces personnel WITHOUT any scholarship from the Institute (Full time / Part Time basis).

GSW (International Sponsored by Government organization) (Full time / Part Time basis).
(i) ICCR Scholarship of Government of India
(ii) Foreign Government Sponsorship

CT (College Teacher): Permanent Employee of the sponsoring College/Institute/University WITHOUT any scholarship from the Institute (Full time / Part Time basis).

IS (Institute Staff): Only for regular staff members of IIT Indore (on Part Time basis).

[A] Semester-I (Autumn / Spring)

[B] Semester-II (Spring / Autumn)

Sr. No.

Course code

Course Title

L-T-P-Credits

1

ZZ xxx

Elective-I

x-x-x-3

2

ZZ xxx

Elective-II

x-x-x-3

3

ZZ xxx

Elective-III

x-x-x-3

4

CRDT 797*/ CRDT798*

Ph.D. Seminar Course

0-2-0-2

Sr.No.

Course code

Course Title

L-T-P-Credits

1

ZZ xxx

Elective-IV

x-x-x-3

2

ZZ xxx

Elective-V

x-x-x-3

3

ZZ xxx

Elective-VI

x-x-x-3

4

CRDT798*/ CRDT797*

Ph.D. Seminar Course

0-2-0-2

CRDT Courses for Elective I -VI (In addition to these courses, a student can also choose from the Ph.D. courses being offered by the other disciplines.)

Sr. No.

Course code

Course Title

L-T-P-Credits

1

RT 301/401/601

Design Thinking for Rural Applications

1-1-2-3

2

BSE 624

Bioprocess Engineering and Technology

2-1-0-4

3

CH 701

Spectroscopic Techniques.

2-1-0-3

4

EE 622 / EE 422

Digital Circuit Design

2-1-0-3

5

EE 440/640

Analog and Mixed Signal IC Design

2-1-0-3

6

BSE 628

Genomics and Proteomics

2-1-0-3

7

BSE 606

Molecular Virology and Viral Pathogenesis

2-1-0-3

8

ME 434/634

Principles of Product Design

2-1-0-3

9

ME 436/636

Dynamics and Control Systems

2-1-0-3

10

CH 711

Bio-Organic and Medicinal Chemistry

2-1-0-3

11

HS 618

Sustainability Studies

2-1-0-3

12

HS 601

Research Methods in Social Sciences

2-1-0-3

13

HS 626

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

2-1-0-3

14

HS 600

Data Analysis and Technical Writing

2-1-0-3

15

EE 420/620

IC Fabrication Technology

2-1-0-3

16

EE 429/629

Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics

2-1-0-3

Note:-

1) A Ph.D. student having MTech. / M.E. / M.Phil. qualification has to do one semester coursework (with 2-3 Ph.D. level courses) Minimum number of courses will be 2 Ph.D. level courses and one Ph.D. seminar course i.e. (minimum coursework of 8 credits).
2) A Ph.D. student having MA / M.Sc. or equivalent qualification has to do 6 to 8 Ph.D. level courses of at least 3 credits each and 1-2 Ph.D. seminar courses of at least 2 credits each. The minimum number of courses will be 6 Ph.D. level courses and one Ph.D. seminar course (minimum coursework of 20 credits).

  • Ph.D. Seminar course can be taken either in Autumn or in Spring Semester or both as suggested by the Faculty Advisor/ Thesis Supervisor.
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