IIT Tirupati Invites Application for Research Scholar Recruitment 2021

Vacancy Circular No:

Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (IIT Tirupati)
invites applications for recruitment of Research Scholar

Research Scholar

Number of Vacancy: 4 Posts

Educational Qualification: B.Tech/B.E, M.E/M.Tech, MS

Applications are invited from eligible Indian nationals for the post of Research Scholar in a timebound Government of India Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH), New Delhi sponsored project undertaken in the Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.

1. Post Name: Research Scholars

2. No. of Post: 04

3. Essential Qualification: B.E. / B.Tech in Civil Engineering or Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent degree) with 80% marks and valid GATE score or B.Tech from IIT with minimum 8 CGPA out of 10 or MS/ME/MTech in Civil Engineering or Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent degree) with minimum of 80% marks

4. Project Title National facility for Accelerated Testing of Pavements and Vehicle Dynamics (NATPaVeD)

5. Consolidated monthly Salary Rs. 35,000

6. Department/Centre: Civil & Environmental Engineering; Mechanical Engineering

7. Tenure of Assignment 01 year, extendable to another 01 year subject to satisfactory performance

8. Essential skills/ knowledge For Civil Engineers: Pavement technology, pavement materials characterization, construction technology, and finite element modeling. For Mechanical Engineers: Dynamic analysis, vibrations, machine design, Strength of materials, and finite element modeling.

9./ Desired Experience: 

a. For Civil Engineers: Must have exposure to interdisciplinary fields of civil and mechanical engineering encompassing vehicle- pavement interaction, mechanics, laboratory and field-testing experience, life-cycle assessment, statistics as well as numerical modeling and analysis.

b. For Mechanical Engineers: Must have exposure to interdisciplinary fields of civil and mechanical engineering encompassing material characterization, vehicle-pavement interaction, laboratory and data-acquisition, signal processing as well as statistics

10. Nature of the Work Civil Engineering: The project includes conducting field and laboratory experiments on a variety of paving mixtures (example: field instrumentation, mix design and characterization), collection of data pertinent to highways as well as post-processing that involves life cycle assessment as well as numerical modeling and computation.

11. Given the nature of the project, work needs to be carried out in the laboratory and field. Therefore, it is expected that the candidate resides on-campus IITT to create and use the laboratory facilities to complete the tasks.