MS-PhD Program
The M.S. by Research program has fewer courses that the M.Tech program, and scholars are expected to spend their time on a specific research problem under the guidance of a faculty member who acts as their Guide. A minimum of five courses are prescribed from the M.Tech curriculum, in consultation with the Graduate Test Committee. The GTC is also the guiding body that monitors the progress of the scholar's research program. The normative time for graduation is 3 years. Students may register under different schemes
- Regular (with institute's financial support)
- Project (with support from their Guide)
- External (employed elsewhere, but resident for 6 months in IITM)
- Part-time (teaching in Chennai)
PhD students have typically excelled in their Bachelor's program, completed a Master's program elsewhere, or complete their coursework in IITM and upgrade from MS or M.Tech to the PhD program. Please visit the IITM Research website for more information
Entrance Exam
Following syllabus will be followed in written/oral exams for the admission in MS/PhD program
| Topic | Syllabus |
|---|---|
| Field and Wave Electromagnetics | Steady electric currents, Vector Analysis |
| Static electric and magnetic field poissons, Laplace equations, method of images | |
| Time varying fields and Maxwells equations | |
| Plane electromagnetic waves in free space - Reflection & transmission off an interface, Snell's law | |
| Waveguides, transmission lines and antennas | |
| Solid State Electronic Devices & Circuits | Holes and electrons |
| Wave function of an electron, Density of states, Band diagram | |
| Semiconductor Diodes, transistors | |
| Operational Amplifiers (ideal/practical, op-amp circuits) Noise in circuits | |
| Signals and Systems, Signal Processing | Fourier Series, Fourier Transforms |
| Frequency Response, Sampling Theorem | |
| Causality, stability, linearity and time invariance of filters, FIR vs IIR filters, group delay in filters |