NITT JRF and Project Associate EEE Recruitment 2026

NITT JRF and Project Associate EEE Recruitment 2026: Overview

National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NITT) is recruiting project staff in its Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering under principal investigator Dr. Shelas Sathyan. The work is funded through the ANRF Advanced Research Grant and focuses on a reconfigurable bidirectional direct-current converter for electric vehicles and DC microgrids. The project aims to reduce power losses and improve converter operation when voltage and load vary widely. This is a project-based appointment at the institute in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu.

Posts and Disciplines

• Junior Research Fellow: the fellowship route within the electrical and power-electronics project. You would work on the same converter research programme described in this notice.
• Project Associate-I: the alternative appointment route for the shared project opening. It belongs to the same department and research team; these titles do not represent separate projects or additional openings.

Service Conditions and Caveats

• Research setting: The study combines changes to converter structure with advanced modulation methods. Its intended applications include electric vehicles and DC microgrids, where the converter needs to operate across changing load and voltage conditions.
• Project scope: The research considers Dual Active Bridge converters and their limits in Zero Voltage Switching. The team will assess ways to reduce circulating currents and extend efficient operation across a wider range of conditions.
• Tenure: Your initial appointment lasts one year. Extension up to three years or the project end depends entirely on satisfactory performance. The longer duration is therefore conditional on the project and your performance.
• Doctoral registration: After appointment, you may have an opportunity to register for a Ph.D. at NITT. This depends on meeting the institute’s norms; appointment to the project does not itself complete doctoral admission.
• Travel and stay: NITT will not pay travel or daily allowance for attending the interview. You need to arrange your own transport to Tiruchirappalli and accommodation for the visit.
• Appointment limits: The fellowship gives you no right to a permanent position at NITT. The institute may cancel the fellowship if a selected JRF or Project Associate-I is found unsuitable.
• Committee discretion: Fellowship awards remain at the selection committee’s discretion. The notice makes clear that applying does not create an entitlement to a fellowship or require the committee to accept an applicant.

Application Submission Notes

Email your prescribed application and supporting material together as one PDF to both apclabnitt@gmail.com and shelassathyan@nitt.edu. The notice also asks you to complete its linked Google Form, so the email and form are both parts of the submission.

Use apclabnitt@gmail.com for questions about the application. The principal investigator’s department is at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu 620015; application delivery itself is by the stated electronic route.

• Design and develop power electronic converters for the project.
• Simulate converter topologies and analyse their operation.
• Develop and assess advanced modulation strategies.
• Build hardware prototypes through printed circuit board fabrication.
• Implement modulation methods and test converter performance.
• Prepare project reports and technical research articles.