The Ph.D. programmes are designed to prepare working engineers, scientists and teachers from R&D establishments, Corporate Sectors and recognized technical/educational institutions to enter their professional life with right perspective and breadth of knowledge related to their respective fields of specialization through enabling research experience during their stay in the Institute, thereby to develop high quality scientific and engineering specialists having strong base of principles of science and the scientific methods, deep understanding of their chosen areas of specialization, the motivation to learn continually, interact with multi-disciplinary groups and dare to handle new challenges offered by the front-end technologies. Till date, 4 PhD students have been granted degree, 3 have already submitted and 10 research scholars are pursuing their work.
The department has been very successfully offering Master of Engineering Course in Instrumentation and Control with a starting Intake of 12 students since 2005. The intake started increasing gradually and the present intake for the above programme has risen to 26. In addition, the department also conducts ME (Instrumentation & Control) Modular Programme with an intake of 40.
The department has also been very active in conducting the need based short term training programmes every year as per the institute Operational Plan. To mention a few are: