Interdisciplinary Research

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I had heard during my  childhood period that science has no boundaries now I am experiencing it. One of my friend from IITK finished his BE and M Tech in Mechanical and now pursuing PhD from Biology department in one of the best University of USA. Another friend completed his graduation in Electronics and now pursuing PhD in pharmacology. By this blog I would like to share some information on studies and research in Interdisciplinary field being carried out in India especially in IITs. IITs offers many PhD and M Tech programs in  interdisciplinary field.

What is interdisciplinary Program.
- Interdisciplinary Program can be defined in two ways
1. Any program which is offered jointly by two or more engineering/science departments. It means faculties from different field collaborate and undertake research jointly with common objective. For example in IOER program at IIT Bombay faculties from Electrical, Mechanical,Mathematics and Business School jointly undertake research. MSP, NET and LTP at IIT Kanpur etc. It is obvious that such program admits students from diverse background but have certain academic qualification criteria also like MSP at IIT Kanpur will not admit students with background in Bio Tech or Textile Engineering but IEOR at IITB will.

2. Any program which is offered by one department but does not require specific academic/Engineering qualifications.Its means students with any engineering background can join the program for M Tech or PhD. For example IME at IIT Kanpur. There are high chances that academic curriculum in such program may be entirely different from your BE curriculum but you can work in any field of your choice depending upon on availability of the faculty of interest.

Why is interdisciplinary field is becoming very popular?
Since Engineering also has  no boundaries :P Jokes apart. Let us try to analyze our surrounding or anything in front of us. Take example of car- Currently most of the cars are embedded with electronic system like auto lock here two field mechanical and Instrumentation converges.In Bio medical engineering Instrumentation, Electronics, biology and signal processing converges. Computer Science and biology blends to originate field of bioinformatics where theory of  computer science and mathematics is applied for the management of biological information. Computers are used to gather, store, analyze and integrate biological and genetic information which can then be applied to gene-based drug discovery and development.

Now any field of research is not limited to one branch of Engineering. In this era of era of computer and internet research and studies at interdisciplinary departments are highly relevant.

I will soon come up with list of interdisciplinary programs at IITs in my next blog

Thanks and regards
Lokendra

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