Shiv Nadar University ( SNU ) PhD Entrance Examination Courses offered details – 2018

For PhD in Engineering:

Research Area  

Electrical Engineering :

Power system stability integrated with renewable energy and storage, RF and Microwave (Electromagnetics, Antenna) Engineering, Signal Processing and communication, VLSI Circuit design, Wireless mobile communication and networks, Advanced Semiconductor Devices / MEMS Devices.

Mechanical Engineering :

Tribology: Hydrostatic /Hydrodynamic Lubrication, Bearing, Coriolis Mass Flow Measuring Devices. Nanomaterials Robotics, Mechatronics & Control: Biomimetic Robotics.

Chemical Engineering :

Process Engineering and Intensification, Water Pollution, Multiphase Flows, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Modelling and Simulation, Microfluidics and Microreactors, Film Formation in Water Based Dispersions; Applications of Ionic Liquids in Chemical Industry, Reactive Separations, Process Control, etc.

Civil Engineering

Geotechnical Engineering: Constitutive modeling of frictional materials; physics of granular materials; poromechanics; computational geo mechanics; soil-foundation-structure interaction; electronic cone penetrometer testing and direct-push sampling (CPT-DPT) for geotechnical & geo environmental subsurface investigation

Structural and earthquake engineering: Sustainable design & construction; structural performance assessment & rehabilitation; structural health monitoring; smart material and structures; damage quantification and prediction using piezo vibration characteristic; analytical formulation of integrated sensor-structure system; non-destructive evaluation and system identification; seismic hazard analysis; wave propagation; vibration control systems; stochastic earthquake analysis.

 Transportation Engineering: Road safety law & policy; motor vehicle safety; road traffic injuries; transportation research (safety and pollution); human tolerance biomechanics; motor vehicle safety; road traffic injuries & childhood injuries; sustainable urban transport; safer cities & low carbon transport.

Urban Studies: Sustainable infrastructure, urban morphology, urban heat island effect and microclimate, public health impacts of urban transport & environment, energy use.

Water Resource Engineering: Hydraulic structures, experimental analysis of hydraulic flow, channel control, hydraulic engineering, river engineering.

Environmental Engineering: Water and wastewater treatment; air quality monitoring & modeling; solid & hazardous waste management; engine exhaust characterization & its fate analyses; health risk exposure assessment due to environmental contaminants.

Geoinformatics: Application of GIS and remote sensing in air-water-soil interactions; low-cost sensing systems for sustainable urban development including early warning systems for disaster management, urban morphology & others; impact of climate change on infrastructure.

For PhD in School of Natural Science:

Department of Chemistry

Department of Life Sciences

Department of Physics

Department of Mathematics

For PhD in School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of Economics

Department of Sociology

For further details kindly visit this website

http://snu.edu.in/admission/engineering-phd.aspx