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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....
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-Prof. Ashish Dutta
Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Featured Faculty
Our faculty are engaged in teaching and research in the areas of Fluid and Thermal Sciences, Manufacturing Science, Solid Mechanics and Design, and Nuclear Engineering and Technology.
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Avinash Kumar Agarwal, Professor
[on lien as Director, IIT Jodhpur]
PhD, IIT Delhi
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0512-259-7982 (O)/ 8682 (R)
339 Faculty Building | Homepage
Sumit Basu, Professor
PhD, IISc Bangalore
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0512-259-7506(O)/ 3055(R)
304 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Bishakh Bhattacharya, Professor
PhD, IISc Bangalore
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+91-512-259-7824 (O) / 7913 (Lab)
103 Northern Laboratories I Applied Dynamics and Vibration Laboratory | Homepage
Jishnu Bhattacharya, Professor
PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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0512-259-7684 (O)
302 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Shantanu Bhattacharya, Professor
[on lien as Director, CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh]
PhD, University of Missouri, Columbia
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0512-259-6056 (O)
115 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
C. Chandraprakash , Associate Professor
PhD, Penn State
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0512-259-6743 (O)
211 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Anindya Chatterjee , Professor
PhD, Cornell University
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0512-259-6961 (O)
357 Faculty Building | Homepage
Malay K. Das, Professor
PhD, Penn State
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0512-259-7359 (O)/ 8206 (R)
210 Southern Laboratory | Homepage
Bhaskar Dasgupta, Professor
PhD, IISc Bangalore
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0512-259-6681 (O)/ 8706 (R)
201 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Santanu De, Professor
PhD, IISc Bangalore
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0512-259-6478 (O)/ 8709 (R)
304A Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Ashish Dutta, Professor
PhD, Akita University, Japan
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0512-259-7562 (O)/ 8710 (R)
338 Faculty Building | Homepage
Shyam Sunder Gopalakrishnan, Assistant Professor
PhD, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Univ Lyon 1
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0512-259-2321 (O)
368 Faculty Building | Homepage
Anurag Gupta, Professor
PhD, UC Berkeley
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0512-259-6161 (O)/ 8297 (R)
359 Faculty Building | Homepage
Shakti S. Gupta, Professor
PhD, Virginia Tech
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0512-259-6110 (O)/ 8410 (R)
212 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
K.R Guruprasad, Associate Professor
PhD, IISc Bangalore
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0512-259-2328 (O)
402 Faculty Building | Homepage
Pranav Joshi, Associate Professor
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
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0512-259-2023 (O)
301 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Kamal K Kar, Professor
PhD, IIT Kharagpur
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0512-259-7687 (O)/ 8703 (R)
203 Advanced Centre for Materials Science | Homepage
Arvind Kumar, Professor
PhD, IISc Bangalore
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0512-259-7484 (O)/ 8708 (R)
Northern Laboratories I Manufacturing Science Lab | Homepage
Virkeshwar Kumar, Assistant Professor
PhD, IIT Bombay
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0512-259-2334 (O)
NL-1-115R, Northern Lab Manufacturing Science Lab | Homepage
Mohit Law, Associate Professor
PhD, University of British Columbia
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0512-259-6897 (O)
103 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Umesh Madanan, Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Minnesota
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0512-259-2162 (O)
302 Faculty Building | Homepage
Akhilesh Mimani, Associate Professor
PhD, IISc Bangalore
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0512-259-2088 (O)
OLD IME Building, below the Drawing Hall | Homepage
Sarvesh Mishra , Assistant Professor
PhD, IIT Delhi
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0512-279-2337 (O)
503H-M, Diamond Jubilee Complex | Homepage
Dipayan Mukherjee , Assistant Professor
PhD, Ecole Polytechnique
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0512-279-2353 (O)
503H-Q, Diamond Jubilee Complex | Homepage
Siddhartha Mukherjee, Assistant Professor
PhD, TU Delft
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0512-679-2577 (O)
358, Faculty Building | Homepage
Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor
PhD, University of Bristol
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0512-259-7094 (O)
360 Faculty Building | Homepage
K. Muralidhar, Professor
PhD, University of Delaware
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0512-259-7182 (O)/ 8421 (R)
301 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Anikesh Pal, Associate Professor
PhD, University of California San Diego
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0512-259-6418 (O)
333 Faculty Building | Homepage
P. K. Panigrahi, Professor
PhD, LSU, Baton Rouge
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0512-259-7686 (O)/ 8307 (R)
301 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
J. Ramkumar, Professor
PhD, IIT Madras
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0512-259-7546 (O)/ 8661 (R)
115 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Ushasi Roy, Assistant Professor
PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
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+91-512-259-2245 (O)
115K, Northern Lab-I | Homepage
Arun K. Saha, Professor
PhD, IIT Kanpur
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0512-259-7869 (O)/ 8553 (R)
210 Southern Laboratory | Homepage
Abhishek Sarkar, Assistant Professor
PhD, Iowa State University
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0512-259-7980 (O)
First Floor Drawing Hall Complex
Subrata Sarkar, Professor
PhD, IIT Madras
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0512-259-7942 (O)/ 8462 (R)
355 Faculty Building | Homepage
Aditya Saurabh, Assistant Professor
PhD, Technical University Berlin
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0512-259-2070 (O)
438 Faculty Building | Homepage
Anupam Saxena, Professor
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
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0512-259-7988 (O)/ 8712 (R)
369 Faculty Building | Homepage
Basant Lal Sharma, Associate Professor
PhD, Cornell University
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0512-259-6173 (O)/ 8424 (R)
356 Faculty Building | Homepage
Ishan Sharma, Professor
PhD, Cornell University
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0512-259-6152 (O)
213B Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Sachin Y. Shinde, Associate Professor
PhD, IISc Bangalore
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0512-259-6939 (O)
439 Faculty Building | Homepage
Tushar Sikroria, Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Melbourne
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0512-259-2481 (O)
109 Southern Laboratories | Homepage
Manjesh Kumar Singh, Associate Professor
PhD, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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0512-259-2108 (O)
Nonlinear Mechanics Lab Old IME Building | Homepage
Niraj Sinha, Professor
PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada
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0512-259-7196 (O)
333 Faculty Building | Homepage
Nachiketa Tiwari , Professor
PhD, Virginia Tech
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0512-259-6526 (O)/ 8175 (R)
201A Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
P. Venkitanarayanan, Professor
PhD, University of Rhode Island
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0512-259-7528 (O)/ 8688 (R)
211C Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Nalinaksh S. Vyas, Professor
PhD, IIT Delhi
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0512-259-7040 (O)/ 8423 (R)
103 Northern Laboratories I | Homepage
Pankaj Wahi, Professor
PhD, IISC Bangalore
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0512-259-6092 (O)/ 7408 (R)
357 Faculty Building | Homepage
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur - 208 016
Address: Room: 302 Northern Laboratories
Phone : (91-512) 259 7627
Fax : (91-512) 259 7408
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Ashish Dutta
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(91-512) 259 7038
Santanu De
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(91-512) 259 6478
Anindya Chatterjee
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0512-259-6961 (O)
Applications are invited under the Institute Post Doctoral Fellowship Scheme, from Indian Nationals, Persons of Indian Origin (PIO), Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) and foreign nationals who have completed their Ph.D within last three years. The positions are purely temporary. The initial appointment will be for a period of one year, and extendable subject to satisfactory performance.
Guidelines for the Application of Institute Post Doctoral FellowsThe Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur invites applications from prospective, highly motivated candidates for multiple positions at the level of Assistant Professor (AP), Associate Professor (AsP) and Professor (P). The posts are open in all branches of Mechanical Engineering. Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) and overseas citizens of India (OCI) are also eligible to apply for these positions.
We strongly encourage eligible foreign nationals to apply for faculty positions. For more details, visit here(Click Here).
The department is interested in hiring in all fields of mechanical and nuclear engineering, and some specific keywords are: Manufacturing Process Modeling; Metal Forming; Additive Manufacturing; Metrology; Micro-manufacturing;Fluid-Structure Interaction; IC Engines; Turbomachinery; Energy; Multi- physics Simulations; Crystal Plasticity; Interfacial Mechanics; Computational/Experimental Mechanics; Robotics; CAD; Optimization; Vibration & Acoustics; Biomedical Engineering; Tribology; Reactor Physics & Safety; Radiation Detection & Imaging ; Nuclear Materials; Plasmas & Fusion.
The successful candidates are expected to teach courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Mechanical Engineering, acquire research funding and conduct research, involve in department and institute activities, and provide service to the University.
IIT Kanpur is one of the premier institutes in India and South-East Asia, housing some of the best-equipped teaching and research facilities in this region. The department of Mechanical Engineering has fostered an active and vibrant research environment with support of good R&D infrastructure and opportunities for funding from both national and international, government and private agencies.
We have 40 faculty members and a large population of research staff and graduate student actively involved in strategic research and development work. Our department has an enrollment of over 400 undergraduate students with over 40 faculty members working in well-equipped state-of-the-art laboratories. A growing postgraduate student population of over 230 is also actively engaged in strategic research and development work.
We provide
- An active and vibrant research environment
- Excellent R&D infrastructure and opportunities for research funding
- Well-equipped state-of-the-art laboratories
- Attractive research start-up grants and scholarships for the PhD and M. Tech. students
- A very competitive remuneration package and attractive benefits
We are looking for:
Highlights
- List of candidates from CFTI selected for provisional admission for PhD program in Mechanical Engineering for the session 2025-26-I.New
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur Presents 2nd Mechanical Sciences Young Investigators Meet MSYIM 2025 17-19 March 2025. Visit the website for more details: MSYIM 2025
- Guidelines for the Application of Institute Post Doctoral Fellows
- Applications invited for direct PhD students for the semester 2025-26-I. Last date of application February 20, 2025
- List of Selected candidates: Winter PG Admission 2024
- Candidates Shortlisted for Interview: Winter Admission PhD Programme 2024
- Dates for PhD winter admission 2024 written exam and interviews: November 27-28, 2024
- Reporting date of all new PG students: Jul 18 - 19, 2024
- Departmental Orientation of new PG Students: Jul 20, 2024, 2:30 PM onward, Venue: L16
- PhD admission (Round 2): Application form available here. Last date of application: 4th July 2024. Online written test: 7th July, 2024, Online/Offline Interviews: 10th July, 2024
- M.Tech. Admission (through COAP): Cutoff score, Vacancy and fee paid data
- Selected candidates for provisional admission in PhD programme
- Selected and WL candidates for MS(R) admission (Institute-sponsored category) Round 1
- Rolling advertisement for faculty recruitment
Utilization of Primary Alcohols in Dual-Fuel Injection Mode in a Gasoline Direct Injection Engine
Ankur Kalwar, Avinash Kumar Agarwal*
Vibration Stabilization by a Non-resonant Secondary Limit Cycle Oscillator
D.D Tandel, Pankaj Wahi and Anindya Chatterjee
Vibration Stabilization by a Non-resonant Secondary Limit Cycle Oscillator
Dhananjay Kumar and Avinash Kumar Agarwal
Estimation of Interfacial Heat Flux for an Air-Water System placed inside a Circular Enclosure
Manish Bhendura, K. Muralidhar* and Sameer Khandekar
Modelling static indentation induced damage in composites using a novel mesh-directed damage mechanics approach
Manish Kumar and Supratik Mukhopadhyay*
Development of novel low cost sustainable abrasive flow finishing media from ground tire rubber
Irfan Ahmad Ansari and Kamal K. Kar*
Development of a Transported FDF solver within LES framework
Krishna Chaitan Marthi and SantanuDe
Modulation of elastic properties of active latticed structures
Amanpreet Singh, Bishakh Bhattacharya
A continuum model for anisotropic friction between graphene sheets accounting for surface and edge effects
Aningi Mokhalingam, Gourav yadav, Roger A. Sauer and Shakti S. Gupta
Development of a thermo-evaporative model of laser powder bed fusion for macroscale simulations
Ashish Kumar Mishra, Arvind Kumar*, Dr. Govind
Two problems in the vibrations of beams
Bidhayak Goswami and Anindya Chatterjee
Continuous Vapor Generation for Thermal-Desalination Application Using a Thermosyphon Based Heat Localization Strategy
Debartha Chatterjee and Sameer Khandekar*
Effect of Liquid Splattering on Thermal Performance of Jets and Sprays over Plain and Pillared Surfaces
Gopinath Sahu, Sameer Khandekar, K. Muralidhar
Study of Elevated Jet in Crossflow
Jyoti Gupta and Arun K Saha
Proper Orthogonal Decomposition of Axis-Symmetric Isolated Synthetic Jet
Malkeet Singh* and Arun K Saha
Method development for estimating the optical efficiency of a heliostat field
Manish Raj and Jishnu Bhattacharya
Dynamics of turbulent mixing driven by Faraday instability in miscible fluids in a rotating environment
Narinder Singh, Anikesh Pal
The study of propeller slipstream in the advancing condition at low velocity
Bipin Kr. Mishra and Dr. Pranav Joshi*
Footstep Planning of Biped Robot for Walking on Uneven Deformable Terrain
Sunil, Shakti S. Gupta and Ashish Dutta
Push Recovery Control of a Humanoid Robot Incorporating Joint and Link Torsional Compliance
Vyankatesh Ashtekar and Ashish Dutta
Development of droplet condensation model of pure vapor on tubular surfaces
Waquar Raza* and K Muralidhar