Interdisciplinary Dual Degree program (IDDD)
Atmospheric and Climate Sciences
OVERALL GOAL/OBJECTIVE:
To provide detailed understanding about atmospheric processes and their interactions covering the range from molecular to global scale helping in improved knowledge about climate change.
Specific objectivities:
- Running the courses, which are relevant to the requirements as basis by the top institutions for their doctoral programs
- Educate students with strong fundamentals, intellectual discipline, research aptitude in atmospheric and climate sciences with strong ethics
- To cover the larger aspect of the fundamentals in atmospheric and climate sciences so that students satisfied the broad need of climate change aspect across the diverse spectrum of fundamental research to industry-oriented requirements
Drawing from the expertise available at IIT Madras, a multidisciplinary program is proposed for UG Engineering / International / Sponsored Candidates with faculty from following departments :
- Civil Engineering (CE)
- Applied Mechanics (AM)
- Chemistry (CY)
- Chemical Engineering (CH)
- Mechanical Engineering (ME)
- Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)
Proposed credit structure
Project: 85 credits to be completed in the Summer (after 8th Semester), 9th and 10th semester
Electives: 3 electives to be completed from the basket of elective courses given below.
In tune with the overall structure of the dual degree program being offered in the Institute, the number of courses to be offered and the credit distribution are as follows:
No. of PMT CORE courses to be offered: 3 (27 credits)
No. of electives to be offered: 3 (27 credits)
No. of CORE laboratory courses to be offered: 2 (18 credits)
Project work/internship: 1 (85 credits
Who can enroll in this program?
What is the curriculum ?
Structure of the laboratory courses
List of Electives
Infrastructure
The major infrastructure required for this program is adequately and sufficiently available at IIT Madras, which include but not limited to advanced state-of-the-art particle and gas phase instruments, weather stations, and supercomputing facilities.
Potential Career Options
- Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Climate Sciences Program all over the World. Nominally there are more than 100 PhD positions are advertised per year all across the globe in atmospheric and climate sciences, and allied areas. With increasing awareness about climate change impacts, a demand for climate scientists is also on increase specifically about Indian climate system.
- Organisations working on Environment, Weather, Climate Change, Ecology and Energy Issues (E.g. TERI, IMD (Indian Meteorological Department, WMO (World meteorological Organisation), UNEP (United Nations Environment Program), CPCB (Central Pollution Control Board), Climate Investment Funds (CIF), GCF (Green Climate Fund))
- Industries manufacturing meteorological/climate/environmental sensors.
- Non-Governmental Organisations, consultancy firms, and think tanks working in the areas of climate sustainability, climate policies, climate change and risk assessment, etc.
