Centre for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) is established in 2008. The main focus of the teaching and research in the department is centered on interdisciplinary area to achieve worldwide attention and appreciation. Important mission of the department is to generate human resource of excellent quality, including Chemists, Physicist, and Engineers with high professional competence in interdisciplinary research area encompassing of biology, chemistry physics, nanomaterials and material science at international competence level for the need of nation. This centre started its first batch PhD degrees from Jan 2010 and M.Tech from June 2010. At present, CMSE have several advanced research facilities including synthesis and characterization techniques. CMSE features six faculty members with expertise in frontier areas of research.
The faculty members have contributed towards the publication of more than 200 research papers in international journals, and, 1 Japanese patent and 9 books.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering was established in 2008. The centre recruited its permanent faculty (one professor and two assistant professors) in 2009 and the activities of the centre were started from September, 2009. The Centre was established to provide centralized facilities to characterize materials and develop interdisciplinary research and education program in materials science and engineering. Till date the centre has many facilities such as x-ray diffraction, Field-emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), UV-visible absorption spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infra-red (FTIR) spectroscopy, Scanning probe microscopy (which includes AFM, MFM, STM and EFM), Micro-Raman & photo luminescence spectroscopy, Electrical transport (resistivity, I-V) measurements systems. Centre have also developed laboratories for materials synthesization such as ceramic materials synthesization laboratory, Nano-materials synthesization laboratory, Polymer-composite laboratory, Pulse laser deposition (PLD) for thin films and multilayer depositions. Center has started M.Tech. (Materials Science) and Ph.D. program in the year 2010 and a B. Tech. programme in Materials Science and Engineering in 2017.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering has identified the following goals:
To achieve identified goals by the centre, following strategies have been worked out. It will be modified from time to time in order to check the gaps in the implementation by considering the progress in research and development needs for new phenomenon, materials and services. The corrective steps/directions will be followed over the subsequent years.
| Name | Designation | Phone No. (01972) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sh. Gulab Singh | Stenographer SG-II | 254380 | gsthakur@nith.ac.in |
| Sh. Kehar Singh | Attendant | 254380 |
Presently DoMSE offers one PG program (M.Tech. in Material Science and Engineering) and one UG program (B.Tech in Material Science and Engineering). The PG program was started in 2010 with the intake of 12 students whereas the UG program was recently started in 2017 with the sectioned intake of 30 students. CMSE also runs the Ph.D. program for enthusiastic students, who are willing to take up challenging research problems in various areas of materials science. CMSE offers various open elective courses in each semester to B.Tech. and M.Tech. students of other departments of NIT Hamirpur.
| Sr. No. | Lab | Instruments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spectroscopy Lab | UV-Visible-NIR Spectrophotometer |
| FTIR | ||
| Scanning Probe Microscope | ||
| Zeta Sizer | ||
| 2 | Polymer Composite Lab | Twin Screw Extruder |
| Motorized Diamond Cutter | ||
| Planatary Ball Mill | ||
| High Speed Homogenizer | ||
| 3 | X-ray Diffraction Lab | Panalytical Xpert Pro XRD Machine |
| Vaccum Coating Unit | ||
| 4 | Low Temperature Electric Properties Lab | Keithley System for I-V Study with temperature Controller |
| Fume Hood | ||
| 5 | Raman Spectroscopy Lab | Renishaw Raman and Photo-Luminescence Microscope |
| 6 | Nano material synthesis laboratory | Magnetic Stirrers, Weighing Balance, Spin Coater, Microwave Oven, Hot Air Oven, Purified Water Unit, Heating Mentle, |
Bench top Fume hood, Water Purification Plant, pH meter, Spin Coating unit, Electronics Balance, Heating Ultra Sonicator Bath, Vacuum Coater, Hot plate magnetic stirrer.
Planetary Mill ,Laboratory Type Twin Extruder, Low Speed Precession Saw.
UV- Visible NIR Absorption Spectrometer, Raman spectroscopy, with low temperature photo luminescence, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer, Zeta Size Scanning Probe Microscope & Nano indenter.
Powder X-Ray Diffraction ,Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope .
Electrometer/ high resistance measurements Dual Channel Source meter ,Close Cycle Refrigerator
Muffle Furnace (1400 C) & (1700 C) ,Pulsed Laser Deposition System
Programmes Offered: Presently DoMSE offers one PG program (M.Tech. in Material Science and Engineering) and one UG program (B.Tech in Material Science and Engineering). The PG program was started in 2010 with the intake of 12 students whereas the UG program was recently started in 2017 with the sectioned intake of 30 students. CMSE also runs the Ph.D. program for enthusiastic students, who are willing to take up challenging research problems in various areas of materials science. CMSE offers various open elective courses in each semester to B.Tech. and M.Tech. students of other departments of NIT Hamirpur.
Research Activities: Over the last few years the Institute has been rapidly changing from a predominantly teaching Institute to a research-project-teaching Institute. There has been a major transformation in the research ambience which is shown by the output indicators in table1.
| Output Indicator | Number (Upto Sep., 2017) |
|---|---|
| Number of paper published by CMSE faculties | 297 |
| Sponsored research projects | 3 |
| Research scholars registered in present | 4 |
| PhD awarded | 4 |
CMSE aims to contribute in the advancement of knowledge in emerging areas of material science. Research culture needs to be fostered in the minds of faculty and young students. Presently, CMSE faculties are working on following research areas:
