Space technology
I am doing B.Tech. I would like to pursue a career in a space technology organisation. How can I do it?
Sravan Raghavendra
India has been performing exceedingly well in the field of space technology in the past few decades.
The satellites launched by Indian Space Research Organisation, in the recent years are examples of the country’s potential in the field.
The achievements from the application of the technology to areas like telecommunications, meteorological services, electronic media, and resource monitoring services have been quite impressive.
Government of India set up Space Commission and Department of Space in June 1972. Indian Space Research Organisation under the DOS executes various space programmes through various space centres like Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO Satellite Centre, Space Applications Centre, ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network and Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre. ISRO recruits candidates with specialisation in science or engineering that are relevant to it for all these centres. The centres individually also recruit candidates for some posts. The candidates seeking a job must send their bio-data when an opening matching their credentials is posted. Then they must undergo the further recruitment process if they clear the initial screening. ISRO takes mainly scientists, graduates/postgraduates in engineering, technology and science and Ph. D candidates. To be associated with any of the centres of ISRO, you can opt for one of the following courses:
Avionics: Avionics is a branch of electronics that deals with equipment in aircrafts, missiles and satellites. Madras Institute of Technology offers ME in Avionics. The eligibility criterion is B.E./ B.Tech in Aeronautical/ Electronics / Instrumentation / EIE / EEE / ECE / CSE / ICE / IT or M.Sc in Physics/ Electronics / Computer Science and having a minimum of two years experience in the organisations approved by Syndicate of Anna University equivalent thereto. The admission is based on GATE scores or scores obtained in the entrance test conducted by Anna University. For details, visit www.mitindia.edu or www.annauniv.edu.
Aerospace Engineering: IIT, Madras, is one of the institutes offering M. Tech aerospace engineering. The course is built on areas like aerodynamics, space technology, design, propulsion and structures. For details, visit www.ae.iitm.ac.in
Atmospheric Sciences: University of Pune offers M. Tech in atmospheric science and M. Sc in space sciences and atmospheric science. For details, visit www.unipune.ernet.in
Ocean Engineering: IIT, Madras offers M.Tech in Ocean Engineering. The admission is based on GATE scores.
Reliability Engineering: Equipment that operates under extreme environmental and operational conditions may fail due to several factors. Reliability engineering ensures the prevention, reliability, and failure management of the systems
even under extreme conditions. IIT, Kharagpur offers M.Tech in reliability engineering. The admission is based on GATE scores. For details, visit www.iitkgp.ac.in
IT: Information technology involves processing of data of any kind. Bulk data needs to be maintained, analysed, processed and retrieved as early as possible as per the demand. One of the institutes offering M. Tech IT is Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. For details, visit www.jntu.ac.in
Apart from this, to be associated with organisations related to space technology, you can have specialisation in the areas like aeronautics, agriculture, chemical, civil, computational fluid dynamics, computer, control systems, electrical, electro-optics, electronics, environmental, geology, thermal engineering, heat transfer, control dynamics, control theory, computer science, software engineering and many more .
T. MURALIDHARAN
TMI Networ
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