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Logistics
When does the semester begin?
The new semester begins on 1st January 2022 and is scheduled to end on 30th April 2022
Is the semester going to be in-person or online?
All courses will run online.
This applies to students who may be physically on campus as well.
What are some important dates to know?
Semester starts: 1st January 2022.
Course registration deadline: 17th January 2022.
Last date for dropping a course without mention on the transcript: 1st March 2022
Last date for dropping a course with mention on the transcript: 1st April 2022.
Last date of instruction: 17th April 2022
End term examinations: –
I am a new PhD student. What orientation programs should I attend?
New student orientation program on 3rd January 2022 in the A. R. Auditorium, Mechanical Engineering Department, IISc at 2:00 PM..
Look for updates (timing, meeting links) on the IISc (www.iisc.ac.in) and the ME@IISc (www.mecheng.iisc.ac.in) pages
I joined the M.Tech (Coursework) program in Aug 2021. What should I be doing during my first week of this semester?
Meet with the DCC about project allotment lookout for instruction sent by email
Read the course requirements (under the “Course Requirements” tab on this page)
Check the course timetable for this semester (under the “Current Semester” tab on this page)
You may register for 12-18 credits this semester.
Recommended: Four courses, with the consent of your faculty advisor. Pick a few electives that will help with your project work.
If you are unsure about which electives to pick, attend the first week or two of lecture for multiple courses. Reach out to course instructors and your faculty advisor, or if required, to the Department Curriculum Committee (DCC).
Register for courses before the registration deadline.
I joined the M.Tech (Research) program in Aug 2021. What should I be doing during my first week of this semester?
Read the course requirements (under the “Course Requirements” tab on this page)
Check the course timetable for this semester (under the “Current Semester” tab on this page)
You may register for 12-18 credits this semester.
Recommended: Complete the course requirements for your program, in consultation with your research advisor.
Register for courses before the deadline.
I am a new student joining the PhD program. What should I be doing during my first week?
Read the course requirements (under the “Course Requirements” tab on this page)
Check the course timetable for this semester (under the “Current Semester” tab on this page)
Identify a research advisor (read below).
Pick courses in consultation with your research advisor, paying attention to satisfying the RTP requirements.
Register for courses before the deadline.
Academics
What courses are being offered by the ME department this semester?
Click on the “Current semester Jan – April 2022” tab to see the list of course
Where do I find class meeting links to attend lectures?
Visit the department bulletin board (intranet.iisc.ac.in -> Academics -> Division of Mechanical Sciences -> Mechanical Engineering) or check on the course webpage.
I am joining the PhD program. How do I identify my research advisor?
The orientation programs during the first week of the semester will provide a glimpse of the active research areas in the department. Over the next few days, DCC will guide you through the process of identifying a research advisor. Get in touch with prospective mentors asap to setup times for one-on-one discussions. Reach out to several faculty members, including those who may not appear to be working in your specific field of interest.
I am a M.Tech (Coursework) student. How and when do I decide my project topic?
Project allotment will happen at the start of your second semester.
I need help/advice choosing courses. Who can I talk to?
Reach out to:
- The instructor if you would like to discuss specifics of a course
- Your research or faculty advisor
- The Department Curriculum Committee
How do I find out about courses offered in other departments?
You may pick electives from across the institute. See
intranet.iisc.ac.in -> Academics -> Division Name -> Department Name
Consult your advisor.
What should I expect with online courses?
The online format is challenging for both instructors and students.
The course shopping period is likely to be more so.
Keep a regular tab on course webpages, ensure that you attend live lectures and watch recorded lectures on time.
Lecture notes, recordings and assignments will be made available on course webpages.
Interact regularly with teaching assistants (TAs) for your courses.
I am a M.Tech Res student. What is my expected time to graduate?
Expected: 2 years
Extension possible: 6 months
Termination scholarship at 2 years + 6 months.
I am a Ph.D student. What milestones should I meet?
RTP course completion: 1 year (recommended)
Comprehensive exam: 2 years
Expected time to completion for students with a masters degree: 4.5 years
Expected time to completion for direct PhD students: 5 years
Termination of scholarship: 5 years
I am an incoming PhD / M.Tech-Res student. How do I get started with research?
We hope that you will arrive on campus asap. Your research advisor will help you get started, though discussions about possible thesis topics, reviewing the literature, planning experimental setups and more. Stay engaged with you research group.
Can I attend research seminars?
Besides thesis colloquia and routine research presentations, the department organizes a weekly seminar on Fridays at 4pm. The Department Student Research Committee (DSRC) also organizes short lectures and presentations. You are welcome to attend these, as well as seminars elsewhere on campus, by logging in to the meeting link.
Staying Connected
How do I connect with my cohorts?
Signup for the common whatsapp group.
Batch-wise mailing groups will help you get in touch with your peers.
The department will organize frequent and informal interaction sessions as well.
Current semester: Jan 2022 to Apr 2022
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ME 224 (3:0) Mechanical Vibrations | ME 246 (3:0) Introduction to Robotics |
Jishnu Keshavan | Ashitava Ghosal |
Mon, Wed and Fri: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM | Tue and Thu: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM |
ME 249 (3:0) Fundamentals of Acoustics | ME 251 (3:0) Biomechanics |
Venkata R. Sonti | Namrata Gundiah |
Tue and Thu: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM | Tue and Thu: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM |
ME 253 (3:0) Vibrations of Plates and Shells | ME 254 (3:0) Compliant Mechanisms |
Venkata R. Sonti | G. K. Ananthasuresh |
Tue and Thu: 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM |
ME 257 (3:0) Finite Element Method | ME 272 (3:0) Thermal Management of Electronics |
Ramsharan Rangarajan | Amrit Ambirajan, Pradip Dutta and Susmita Dash |
Mon, Wed and Fri: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM |
ME 273 (3:0) Solid and Fluid Phenomena at Small Scale | ME 274 (3:0) Convective Heat Transfer |
M. S. Bobji and Raghuraman N. Govardhan | Pramod Kumar and Saptarshi Basu |
Mon and Wed: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM | Mon, Wed and Fri: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM |
ME 281 (3:0) Thermodynamics of Crystalline Solids | ME 282 (3:0) Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow |
Navaneetha Krishnan Ravichandran | Ratnesh K. Shukla |
Tue and Thu: 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM |
ME 287 (3:0) Refrigeration Engineering | ME 288 (3:0) Air Conditioning Engineering |
G. S. V. L. Narasimham | G. S. V. L. Narasimham |
Tue and Thu: 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM |
ME 293 (3:0) Fracture Mechanics | ME 298 (3:0) Fluid Turbulence |
R. Narasimhan | Jaywant H. Arakeri |
Mon, Wed and Fri: 12:00 AM to 1:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM |
For PhD students with a Masters degree
For PhD students without a Masters degree
For M.Tech Research students
A More Detailed Table of Credit Requirement from the Handbook

For M.Tech Coursework students
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- ME 261 (3:0) Engineering Mathematics OR AE 211 (3:0) Mathematical methods for Aerospace Engineerings
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- ME 299: Dissertation project
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- ME 297: Departmental Seminar
Current Year
Previous Year
ME 201 (AUG) 3:0 Fluid Mechanics
ME224 (JAN) 3:0 Mechanical Vibrations
ME 225 (AUG) 1:0 Introduction to Soft Matter
ME 228 (AUG) 3:0 Materials and Structure Property Correlations
ME 240 (AUG) 3:0 Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems
ME 242 (AUG) 3:0 Solid Mechanics
ME 243 (AUG) 3:0 Continuum Mechanics
ME 244 (JAN) 3:0 Experimental Methods of Microfluidics
ME 246 (JAN) 3 :0 Introduction to Robotics
ME 249 (JAN) 3:0 Fundamentals of Acoustics
ME 250 (AUG) 3:0 Structural Acoustics
ME 253 (JAN) 3:0 Vibrations of Plates and Shells
ME 254 (JAN) 3:0 Compliant Mechanisms
ME 255 (AUG) 3:0 Fundamentals of Tribology
ME 256 (JAN) 3:0 Variational Methods and Structural Optimization
ME 257 (JAN) 3:0 Finite Element Methods
ME 259 (AUG) 3:0 Nonlinear Finite Element Methods
ME 260 (AUG) 3:0 Structural Optimization: Size, Shape, and Topology
ME 261 (AUG) 3:0 Engineering Mathematics
ME 271 (AUG) 3:0 Thermodynamics
ME 273 (JAN) 3:0 Solid and Fluid Phenomena at Small Scales
ME 274 (JAN) 3:0 Convective Heat Transfer
ME 279 (JAN) 3:0 Radiative Transport
ME 280 (AUG) 3:0 Fundamentals of Nanoscale Conduction Heat Transport
ME 282 (JAN) 3:0 Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow
ME 283 (JAN) 3:0 Two Phase Flow and Boiling Heat Transfer
ME 284 (JAN) 3:0 Applied Combustion
ME 285 (AUG) 3:0 Turbomachine Theory
ME 287 (JAN) 3:0 Refrigeration Engineering
ME 288 (JAN) 3:0 Air Conditioning Engineering
ME 289 (AUG) 3:0 Principles of Solar Energy Engineering
ME 290 (JAN) 3:0 Mechanical of Slender Elastic Structures
ME 291 (JAN) 3:0 Analysis of Manufacturing Process
ME 293 (JAN) 3:0 Fracture Mechanics
ME 295 (JAN) 3:0 Geometric Modelling for Computer Aided Design
ME 297 (AUG) 1:0 Departmental Seminar
ME 298 (JAN) 3:0 Fluid Turbulence
ME 299 (JAN) 0:27 Dissertation Project
ME 303 (JAN) 3:0 Partial Differential Equations with Applications
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Aug 2021 to Dec 2021
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ME 201 (3:0) Fluid Mechanics | ME 228 (3:0) Materials and Structure-Property Correlations |
Ratnesh Shukla and Aloke Kumar | Koushik Viswanathan |
Tue and Thu: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM | Tue and Thu: 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM |
ME 240 (3:0) Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems | ME 242 (3:0) Solid Mechanics |
G. R. Jayanth and Jishnu Keshavan | Chandrashekar S. Jog |
Tue and Thu: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM | Mon, Wed and Fri: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM |
ME 243 (3:0) Continuum Mechanics | ME 250 (3:0) Structural Acoustics |
Chandrashekar S. Jog | Venkata R. Sonti |
Tue and Thu: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM | Tue and Thu: 10:00 PM to 11:30 PM |
ME 255 (3:0) Principles of Tribology | ME 259 (3:0) Nonlinear Finite Element Methods |
M. S. Bobji | R. Narasimhan |
Tue and Thu: 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM |
ME 260 (3:0) Structural Optimization: Size, Shape, and Topology | ME 261 (3:0) Engineering Mathematics |
G. K. Ananthasuresh | Gaurav Tomar, Ventaka R. Sonti and Koushik Viswanthan |
Tue and Thu: 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM | Tue and Thu: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM |
ME 271 (3:0) Thermodynamics | ME 285 (3:0) Turbomachine Theory |
R. V. Ravikrishna and Navaneetha Krishnan Ravichandran | Raghuraman N. Govardhan |
Tue and Thu: 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM |
ME 289 (3:0) Principles of Solar Energy Engineering | ME 290 (3:0) Mechanical of Slender Elastic Structures |
G. S. V. L. N. Narasimhamam | Ramsharan Rangarajan |
Tue and Thu: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM | Mon, Wed and Fri: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM |
ME 297 (1:0) Departmental Seminar | |
Navaneetha Krishnan Ravichandran | |
Fri: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM |
Feb 2021 to June 2021
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ME 224 (3:0) Mechanical Vibrations | ME 246 (3:0) Introduction to Robotics |
Jishnu Keshavan | Ashitava Ghosal |
Tue and Thu: 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM | Mon, Wed and Fri: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM |
Course webpage | Course webpage |
ME 249 (3:0) Fundamentals of Acoustics | ME 251 (3:0) Biomechanics |
Venkata R. Sonti | Namrata Gundiah |
Tue and Thu: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM |
Course webpage | Course webpage |
ME 253 (3:0) Vibrations of Plates and Shells | ME 254 (3:0) Compliant Mechanisms |
Venkata R. Sonti | G. K. Ananthasuresh |
Tue and Thu: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM |
Course webpage | Course webpage |
ME 257 (3:0) Finite Element Method | ME 273 (3:0) Solid and Fluid Phenomena at Small Scale |
Ramsharan Rangarajan | M. S. Bobji and Raghuraman N. Govardhan |
Mon, Wed and Fri: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM |
Course webpage | Course webpage |
ME 274 (3:0) Convective Heat Transfer | ME 279 (3:0) Radiative Transport |
Pramod Kumar and Saptarshi Basu | Navaneetha K. Ravichandran |
Tue and Thu: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM |
Course webpage | Course webpage |
ME 282 (3:0) Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | ME 283(3:0) Two Phase Flow and Boiling Heat Transfer |
Ratnesh K. Shukla | Susmita Dash and Gaurav Tomar |
Tue and Thu: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM |
Course webpage | Course webpage |
ME 287 (3:0) Refrigeration Engineering | ME 288 (3:0) Air Conditioning Engineering |
G. S. V. L. Narasimham | G. S. V. L. Narasimham |
Tue and Thu: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM | Tue and Thu: 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM |
Course webpage | Course webpage |
ME 293 (3:0) Fracture Mechanics | ME 298 (3:0) Fluid Turbulence |
R. Narasimhan | Jaywant H. Arakeri |
Tue and Thu: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM | Mon, Wed and Fri: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM |
Course webpage | Course webpage |
ME 299 (0:27) Dissertation Project | |
ME Faculties | |
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Oct 2020 to Jan 2021
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ME 201 (3:0) Fluid Mechanics | ME 228 (3:0) Materials and Structure-Property Correlations |
Aloke Kumar and Ratnesh Shukla | Koushik Viswanathan |
Tue and Thu: 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM | Tue and Thu: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM |
Course webpage: | Course webpage: |
ME 240 (3:0) Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems | ME 242 (3:0) Solid Mechanics |
Ashitava Ghosal and G. R. Jayanth | Chandrashekar S. Jog |
Tue and Thu: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM | Mon, Wed and Fri: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM |
Course webpage: | Course webpage: |
ME 243 (3:0) Continuum Mechanics | ME 250 (3:0) Structural Acoustics |
Chandrashekar S. Jog | Venkata R. Sonti |
Tue and Thu: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM | Mon, Wed and Fri: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM |
Course webpage: | Course webpage: |
ME 255 (3:0) Fundamentals of Tribology | ME 260 (3:0) Structural Optimization: Size, Shape, and Topology |
M. S. Bobji | G. K. Ananthasuresh |
Tue and Thu: 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM |
Course webpage: https://mecheng.iisc.ac.in/bobji/funtri/me_255.html | Course webpage:https://mecheng.iisc.ac.in/suresh/me260/ |
ME 261 (3:0) Engineering Mathematics | ME 271 (3:0) Thermodynamics |
Gaurav Tomar, Ventaka R. Sonti and Koushik Viswanthan | Susmita Dash, Pramod Kumar and Pradip Dutta |
Mon, Wed and Fri: 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM | Tue and Thu: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM |
Course webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/me261 | Course webpage: https://indianinstituteofscience.sharepoint.com/sites/ME271-ThermodynamicsFall2020 |
ME 280 (AUG) 3:0 Fundamentals of Nanoscale Conduction Heat Transport | ME 285 (3:0) Turbomachine Theory |
Navaneetha Krishnan Ravichandran | Raghuraman N. Govardhan |
Mon, Wed and Fri: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | Tue and Thu: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM |
Course webpage:https://piazza.com/iisc.ernet.in/fall2020/me280 | Course webpage: |
ME 289 (3:0) Principles of Solar Energy Engineering | ME 290 (3:0) Mechanical of Slender Elastic Structures |
G. S. V. L. N. Narasimhamam | Ramsharan Rangarajan |
Mon, Wed and Fri: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM | Mon, Wed and Fri: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM |
Course webpage: | Course webpage: https://piazza.com/iisc.ernet.in/fall2020/me290/home |
ME 297 (1:0) Departmental Seminar | |
ME Faculty | |
Fri: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | |
Course webpage: |