Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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Welcome

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Undergraduate Term Projects

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Dropwise condensation on textured surfaces and multi-scale modeling

Dropwise condensation is a heterogeneous
phase-change process in which vapor
condenses in the form of discrete
liquid drops

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Droplet Hydrodynamics during Lysozyme Protein Crystallization

A team of researchers at IIT Kanpur
has studied experimentally the fluid
flow pattern inside the droplet

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Energy optimal walk of an 8 DOF compliant biped robot

A team of researchers at IIT Kanpur
have designed and experimentally evaluated
a new 8-DOF biped robot

Welcome Message

Welcome to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. We started our journey in the year of 1960. Over the last six decades, we have grown our expertise and competence in the core Mechanical Engineering curriculum and research.... - Read More

-Prof. Ashish Dutta
Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Announcements

List of candidates from CFTI selected for provisional admission for PhD program in Mechanical Engineering for the session 2025-26-I.New

List of candidates from CFTI selected for provisional admission for PhD program in Mechanical Engineering for the session 2025-26-I.New

List of candidates from CFTI selected for provisional admission for PhD program in Mechanical Engineering for the session 2025-26-I.New

List of candidates from CFTI selected for provisional admission for PhD program in Mechanical Engineering for the session 2025-26-I.New

The Microsystems laboratory has been commissioned within the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the year 2009-2010 by the financial support provided by the institute CARE program and through the external merit based funding that has been obtained by the Principle investigator and Co-PI of this CARE proposal.

Vision of the Laboratory:

Our Long term vision is to establish a working micro-engineering center for excellence in functional micro-scale prototypes. The goal is to promote basic MEMS research and training, developing MEMS sensor modules for commercial and futuristic applications, generate resources for the institute through grant proposals, sale of patented technologies and developing MEMS educational modules. The bigger objective of this center is to develop the 21st century engineering and technical task force who would take up the technological challenges of the future decades. Tangible Impacts to the Institute

  1. Development of MEMS technology and products through a heavily iterative design process and reliability analysis of prototypes.
  2. State of the art MEMS fabrication facility for national and international users from neighboring nations. This would generate a lot of institute good will and also monetary resources and would increase the visibility of IIT-Kanpur in the global arena.
  3. Possibility of getting foreign scholars and students for training modules from the neighboring nations and Asian and Middle Eastern countries in general. The institute can eventually think of establishing MEMS engineering school associated with the design/ prototyping center for excellence.
  4. Possibility of getting funded research projects from industries and national agencies by demonstrating the capabilities. The laboratory is currently housed in the first floor of NET building and has a covered area of almost 3500 sqft. Mentioned below is a detailed list of the equipments and systems which are currently available and operational in this laboratory.
List of Equipment available at the laboratory:
  1. Sputtering/ PECVD Dual System

    Sputtering is an important technique of deposition of thin films using Argon and other inert gas plasma created within the right chamber of the shown equipment. The other chamber is a PECVD tool (left chamber which is used to create material films on a substrate. In a PECVD process, gaseous reactants are introduced into a reaction chamber and a plasma is created out of the reactants. Reactions occur on heated substrate surfaces, resulting in deposition of the solid product. Other gaseous reaction products leave the chamber. The gas that carries the reactants is called carrier gas. The PECVD process have a part of their energy delivered by the momentum transfer by the ions in plasma; thus lower substrate temperature is needed, typically of the order of 100 ✁ 3000C. The PECVD at this time is in need for a Silane system which is very important for feeding the reactants which would react to formulate material films.

  2. Oxidation Furnace

    Thermal oxidation is a simple route to cover a silicon substrate with oxide. In micro devices oxide may be used for a variety of purposes from chemical attachment and modifiability of surfaces to using oxide as a filler material in gaps etc. in microfluidic channels with sub-micron accuracy level or making micro cantilevers. Based on the type of oxidation thermal oxide may be categorized as dry and wet oxides. In dry oxidation pure oxygen reacts with silicon at high temperatures from 8000C to about 12000C.

  3. Dicing Saw

    A dicing saw employs a high-speed spindle fitted with an extremely thin diamond blade to dice or groove semiconductor wafers and other work-pieces.

  4. Spin Coater

    Spin coating is a procedure used to apply uniform thin films to flat substrates. In short, an excess amount of a solution is placed on the substrate, which is then rotated at high speed in order to spread the fluid by centrifugal force. A machine used for spin coating is called a spin coater, or simply spinne

  5. Gravity Convection Oven

    A special gas or electric oven equipped with a fan that provides continuous circulation of hot air around the sample to be heated.

  6. Fume Hood

    A fume hood or fume cupboard is a type of local ventilation device that is designed to limit the user's exposure to hazardous or noxious fumes, vapors or dusts. A fume hood is typically a large piece of equipment enclosing five sides of a work area, the bottom of which is most commonly located at a standing work height

  7. DI Water System

    Distilled water is perfect for applications where minerals and contaminants would cause problems. Distilled water can be used in irons for steam settings or as coolant for car engines. Because there are no minerals that can stain or build up, distilled water is mostly recommended for use in machinery and cleaning products. The system produces Distiller water by heating and vaporization followed by collection and condensation of the vapours.

  8. Wire Bonder

    Wire bonding is a method of making interconnections between a microchip and other electronics as part of semiconductor device fabrication

  9. Optical Table

    A rigid horizontal bar or track for holding optical devices in experiments; it allows device positions to be changed and adjusted easily. The vibration isolation table is used along at the base for prevention of vibration transmission to the optical setup kept over this.

  10. Desk Top Mask Aligner

    Mask aligners are used in most micro-fabrication research laboratories and in even in low-volume production facilities. Almost any micro scale device or structure requires more than one photo mask step. The job of the contact aligner is to allow its user to align features on a substrate (wafer) to features on a photo mask. The production of sophisticated electronic devices may involve ten or more of these alignment steps.

  11. Chemical Balance

    A beam balance of great precision used in quantitative chemical analysis.

  12. Air cooled Chiller

    A chiller is a machine that removes heat from a liquid via a vapor-compression or absorption refrigeration cycle. A vapor-compression water chiller comprises the 4 major components of the vapor-compression refrigeration cycle (compressor, evaporator, condenser, and some form of metering device). The chiller will be used to fed the PECVD/ Sputtering systems etc.

  13. Nano Cal-C

    The Nano Cal-c is a thin film measurement instrument which is capable of measurement of stacks of transparent films upto 500nm. It is based on the principle of reflectance measurements carried out by a laser and detector.

MTech students

  • A registered student requires at least 8 courses
  • “ME681A – Mathematics for Engineers” is compulsory for all students
  • Any 1 course from MFS course basket
  • Any 2 courses from outside stream course basket.

MS students

  • A registered student requires at least 5 courses
  • “ME681A – Mathematics for Engineers” is compulsory for all students
  • Any 1 course from MFS Course Basket
  • Any 1 course from Outside Stream Course Basket.

The course baskets for MTech/MS students in MFS stream

MFS Course Basket

ME661A – Machining Science I

ME662A – Machining Science II

ME663A – Metal forming

ME664A – Fundamentals of casting and solidification

ME670A – Additive manufacturing

Outside Stream Course Basket

ME621A – Introduction to solid mechanics

ME623A – Finite element methods in engineering mechanics

ME625A – Applied dynamics and vibrations

ME630A – Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer

ME631A – Viscous flow theory

ME641A – Conduction and radiation

MTech students

  • A registered student requires at least 8 courses
  • “ME681A – Mathematics for Engineers” is compulsory for all students
  • All course from the list below:
    1. ME631A – Viscous flow theory
    2. ME641A – Conduction and radiation
    3. ME642A – Convective heat and mass transfer

MS students

  • A registered student requires at least 5 courses
  • “ME681A – Mathematics for Engineers” is compulsory for all students
  • Any 1 course from the list below
    1. ME631A – Viscous flow theory
    2. ME641A – Conduction and radiation
    3. ME642A – Convective heat and mass transfer

MTech students

  • A registered student requires at least 8 courses
  • “ME681A – Mathematics for Engineers” is compulsory for all students
  • All course from the list below:
    1. ME621A – Introduction to solid mechanics
    2. ME625A – Applied dynamics and vibrations

MS students

  • A registered student requires at least 5 courses
  • “ME681A – Mathematics for Engineers” is compulsory for all students
  • Any 1 course from the list below
    1. ME621A – Introduction to solid mechanics
    2. ME625A – Applied dynamics and vibrations
  1. Dr. Deepak Sharma, after a PDF in University in Strassburg, joined as a Faculty memebr in IIT Guwahati.
  2. Dr. Mukul Shukla was a QIP scholar from MNNIT Allhahabad went back joined his Institute.
  3. Dr. Dharmendra Kumar Shukla- Faculty at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
  4. Dr. M. Arul Post doctoral research at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
  5. Dr. Neha Gupta- Post doctoral research at IISc Bangalore
  6. Dr. Dibakar Bandopadhya, 2007, Assistant Professor, IIT Guwahati.
  7. Dr. Ravi Kant Jain, 2013, Scientist-D, CMERI, CSIR, Durgapur.
  8. Dr. Felix M. Orlando, 2013, Post-Doc, Case Western Reserve University, USA.
  9. Dr. Atanu Banerjee , Faculty Member, IIT Guwahati
  10. Dr. Anand Kumar – Faculty Member, HBTI Kanpur
  11. Dr. Ashesh Saha – Post Doctoral Research Fellow, with Prof. Stefanski, Dynamics Division, Technical Uni-versity of Lodz, Poland
  12. Ravindra K. Saxena, PhD (2009), QIP Associate professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sant Lon-gowal Institute of Engineering and Technology (CFTI), Longowal, Dist.: Sangrur, Punjab
  13. Sachin S. Gautam, PhD (2009) Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam
  14. Hashim Khan, Department of Applied Sciences & Humanities, Kanpur Institute of Technology Rooma, Kanpur-208001 (INDIA)
  15. Prasun Jana: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Mandi.
  16. K. Nandakumar: went to Aberdeen, UK, for a postdoc and works there now for Lloyd’s Register.
  17. Pradeep Mahadevan: Honeywell, Bangalore.
  18. Satwinder Jit Singh: Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Materials and Energy Engineering, IIT Ropar
  19. Ekta Singla (2010): Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Materials and Energy Engineering, IIT Ropar
  20. Hari Kumar Voruganti (2010): NIT Warangal
  21. Ashish Sungla (2012): Thapar University
  22. Vivek Kumar Mehta (2013): Tezpur University
  23. Ravindra Kumar Patel : Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, MNNIT, Allahabad
  24. Dhiraj Kumar Mahajan: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering , IIT Ropar
  25. Prabhat Agnihotri: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering , IIT, Ropar
  26. Suman Guha: Post Doctoral Fellow, Univ of Cambridge (with Prof Normal Fleck and Vikram Deshpande), UK
  27. Parimal Maity: R& D Simulation Engineer at Dover Corporation-India
  28. Rajeev Kr. Singh, (Ph.D. thesis submitted, June-2013, Now Assistant Professor at PSG Tech group of institu-tions, Coimbatore)
  29. Dr. Myo Minn: Research Associate, Singapore University of Technology and Design
  30. Dr. Nitya Nand Gosvami: Research Project Manager, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  31. Dr. M. Abdul Samad: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of petroleum & minerals, dhahran - 31261, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  32. Dr. Ehsan Rismani-Yazdi: Research Fellow, University of California Berkeley, USA
  33. Dr. Jonathan Leong: Lecturer, UniSIM College, Singapore
  34. Dr. Yijun Ma: Researcher, A*STAR Data Storage Institute, Singapore.
  35. Dr. Sunil Jha: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi
  36. Dr. Manas Das (IIT Guwahati)
  37. Dr. M. Ravi Sankar (IIT Guwahati)
  38. Dr. Ajay Sidpara (IIT Kharagpur)
  39. Dr. Anjali Kulkarni (IIT Kanpur)
  40. Dr. Phillip Koshy, Mc Master University, Canada
  41. Dr. Avishekh Banerjee, Ottawa, Canada
  42. Dr. Rakesh Mote, BITS, Goa
  43. Dr. Satish S. Chinchanikar – Assistant Professor, VIT, Pune, India
  44. Dr. Gaurav Bartarya – Assistant Professor, HBTI, Kanpur, India
  45. Dr. Karthikeyan. G - Assistant Professor,Dept of Mechanical BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus Goa(2011)
  46. Dr. Mamilla Ravisankar - Assistant Professor Dept of Mechanical Engineering IIT Guwahati (2011)
  47. Dr. Anil Kumar Singhal - Professor (Retd) Dept of Mechanical Engineering Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and technology Kanpur (2013)
  48. Dr. Kanmani Subbu Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering N.I.T Warangal,Warangal (2013 submitted)
  49. Dr. Trushar B Gohil: Assistant Professor, BIT Goa, National Highway 17B, Zuarinagar, Sancoale, GA 403726.
  50. Dr. Abhishek G Ramgadia: Senior Developer, ESI MW India, 502, Pentagon 2, Magarpatta City Pune Maharashtra 411013
  51. Dr. Shailendra Sinha - Associate Professor, IET Lucknow (2008)
  52. Dr. Rakesh Kumar Maurya - Assistant Professor, IIT Ropar (2013)
  53. Dr. Anirudh Gautam - Executive Director (Engine Development), RDSO, Indian Railways (2013)
  54. Dr. Dhananjay Kumar Srivastava - Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Vehicle and Engine Technology Research Centre, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK (2013)
  55. Dr. Manoj Moharana: Assistant professor at NIT, Rourkela (Orissa), India
  56. Dr. Basant Singh Sikarwar: Post-Doctoral Studies at Iowa State University, USA
  57. Dr. Balkrishna Mehta: Post-doc at University of Poitiers, France (Applied)
  58. Dr. Sudipto Sarkar, Completed in 2009, faculty, G.L.Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management, Delhi.
  59. Dr. Nirmal Kant Singh, Completed in 2012, faculty, N.I.T. Kurukshetra.
  60. Dr. Pankaj Saha, Completed in 2012, Post doctoral fellow in USA.
  61. Dr. Indrajit Chakraborty Post doctoral Fellow, University of Madrid, Spain
  62. Dr. Manas Das, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Guwahati
  63. Dr. Nitin Jain, Genral Electric, Bangalore.
  64. Dr. Hirendra Kumar Paliwal: Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow.
  65. Dr. D. S. Murthy: Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar
  66. Dr. Andallib Tariq (IIT Roorkee) 2004
  67. Dr. Atul Srivastava (IIT Mumbai) 2005
  68. Dr. Sushanta Dutta (IIT Roorkee) 2006
  69. Dr. Praveen Pandey (Gorakhpur Eng.College) 2007
  70. Dr. Surendra K. Singh (Jodhpur Eng. College) 2011
  71. Dr. Adnan Quyoum (NIT Srinagar) 2013

Highlights

Dec
05-15

Department of Mechanical Engineering has successfully conducted a DST-Karyashala for two weeks of hands-on training on "Mechatronics and Microfabrication-2022."

Dec
08-10

12th edition of the International Conference on Precision, Micro, Meso, and Nano Engineering

Sept
24

ITEC sponsored International Workshop on ‘Robotics’

TEQIP sponsored International Workshop on ‘Robotics’

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ME Fast Facts

42
Faculty
474
B.Tech Students
35
Dual degree students (B.Tech-M.Tech)
254
M.Tech. Students
48
M.S. by research Students
200
PhD Students