Hydroinformatics?
National Institute of Technology Agartala(Tripura) is offering 2 years course on M.Tech in Hydro-Informatics Engineering. Graduates from Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and MSc students of Environment Engineering, GIS are eligible to apply.
If you have a valid GATE score, you can enrol through the Spot Round counselling which will be held online by the CCMT.
The course is nine years old and the passed out students are either doing PhD in a reputed institute like IIT Roorkee, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Ropar etc.or have been appointed as Assistant Professor in different colleges like University of Engineering and Management(Kol), Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology(Kol) etc. Few students have also cracked the campus interview to join in L&T, Infosys etc.
But according to the course coordinator, the School of Hydro-Informatics Engg., which is conducting the course, wants a student who is interested in doing research in interdisciplinary topics. As for example, climate change, natural resource management, fluvial hydraulics, water and energy efficiency, hydropower development,water-energy nexus, data science and AI&ML in water resources management etc.
There is ample scope of novel research where multi-disciplinary people can work under the same roof to carry out problem-solving exercises in mitigating various hazards and avoiding disasters due to the climatic impacts on the water resources. Studies for providing optimal solutions to present uncertainty in the energy sector along with numerous multi-criteria decision-making studies are also conducted.
In the syllabus new subjects like Hydro-Informatics Engg, Natural Resources Management and old topics like Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Principle of Water Resources etc. are included.
Tools like GIS, WaterCAD, GMDH etc. and new age data science techniques like nature-based algorithms like Ant colony, Bat, Swarm etc., Multi-Criteria Decision Making are also taught during the course.
The lab page can be found at Research Gate.
Students who want to pursue their career in research are welcome to apply for this course.
For more details, please visit http://www.nitagartala.in > Civil Dept. > Hydroinformatics