Learn all about Engineering Physics and Physics from IIT prof (ft. Prof. Nirmalya Kajuri)

During JoSAA counselling, while filling in the choices of various Departments students have to rely on scattered bits of information, hearsay and sometimes even guesswork. It would be much better if they can base their options on some reliable information from trusted sources.

What source could be more trustworthy than the Professors themselves of the various Departments!

In this video, I sit down for a discussion with a faculty member from the Department of Physics so that students can find comprehensive information about this Department.

The interview is with Prof. Nirmalya Kajuri from the Department of Physics at IIT Mandi.

The following questions are discussed:

What are the broad areas within Physics?

What are the differences between the Physics degree and the Engineering Physics degree?

Can you give us an idea of the important/fundamental courses that are taught?

How important is mathematics for Physics?

How heavy is the course load? Does it leave time for extra-curricular or co-curriculuar activities (like learning programming)

What kind of core jobs are there? Are these available in India?

To what extent do you envisage the future of Physics and Engineering Physics being impacted by AI? (Not in terms of research but in terms of requirements of engineers from this Department)

What kind of skills, expertise do you think engineers from this Department would need to develop beyond their core skills?

What are the things to keep in mind for those students who would be joining Physics?

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[gouravkumartanti]

I graduated with an Engineering Physics degree from NIT Agartala last month, and I would definitely say that the diversity of coursework in the EP program is very appealing!
We had a good mix of math, physics, analytical chemistry, materials science, numerical methods, programming, semiconductor physics and economics, apart from electives. For someone who's interested, there are ample online resources to study these exciting topics, and honestly, one's curiosity will only grow with time.
Despite a small batch size of 20-25, and the program being only 11 years old, our alumni (who were indeed motivated) are well placed in their careers both in academia and in corporate houses. I personally know many seniors who have gone into core engineering programs (like, EE, ME, AE, MSE) for their M. Tech. or PhD degree following their B. Tech. in EP, because during the undergraduate program, they discovered their 'calling'.
I certainly believe that EP in IITs would offer far more academic prospects than I had at NIT-A.

Anyways, it was great to see Prof. Chakraborty and Prof. Kajuri together in one frame :)
The session was spot on!

[Physicslover]

A much needed session was this only sir.
I want to pursue in physics just want more reviews from various resources and here is one of them.

[supercool]

Sir please make video on mathematics and computing

[souradeepchakraborty]

Extremely wonderful video!! I am a first year student of Physics Department, IIT Kharagpur. Even though I am quite aware about the coursework of Physics in my college, it's magnificent to verify my knowledge from a professor. Thank you Prof. Chakraborty and Prof. Kajuri for your valuable time in enlightening the minds of future aspiring physicists and engineers! ❤

[aryansudan]

My 2 cents on this being an IIT DEP student:
Deep Learning in Physics doesnt have a direct use case but DL models are widely used in finding Hamiltonian of complex systems. Hamiltonian is an imprtant function that allows to find dynamics of the system.
This is more towards applied mech side but EP guys can work here. Several GNNS are trained to accuarately find Hamiltonian of Quantum and complex classical systems.

Second use case is in high energy physics. Data sets from CERN is analyzed using regression models. I dont know the exact details of it though as I have very limited knowledge of High energy phy.

How to study EP?
Studying EP should be done to maximize employabilty. We study lot of linear algebra. (study it very well) Linear algebra is very imp for ML and AI. So while studying LA, pick up libraries like NumPy, tensorFlow.

When studying Probability/ Statistical phy, pick up learning about probability models and stochastic processes. This is extremely useful in quant/finance. In fact Black Scholes eqn was solved by physicists as it was similar to the brownian motion.

Though EP has very less direct employability, (unlike CS). One can be smart and pick up practical skills along with their curriculum.

[arvindvishwakarma]

Great initiatives taken by Prof Jeevan … students getting exposure of different engineering branches will help them to choose their courses n carrier beyond studies 👍

[AstrovvCha]

Sir, you are literally doing god's work. Heartful thanks from engg lovers

[nerdherd]

BS in physics or Engineering physics
Please answer sir I am really confused.
I want to do research in physics.

[nancyjoseph]

Another highly anticipated video from you sir would be : Top 5 btech branches to choose(from iit's and nit's), if you want to make a career in research ...please!!

[VENOM-rpth]

Sir please also make such a session on mettalurgy department

Also sir a big thank you
These sessions are Pure Gems

[evilgaming]

Please make a video on ECM ( Engineering in Computational Mechanics)

[SohamGaonkhadkar]

Please also video on energy engineering

[SONUKUMAR-vrjg]

Bioscience and Biotechnology Engineering, next video sir plz..

[gamerumble]

thank u sir for considering my comment

[shivamjhariy]

Sir please make video on production and industrial engineering

[srik]

This is brilliant, thanks for creating this. My ward was very interested in this but we were not sure if this is good. This helped me immensely

[yashwanthv]

Actually the fact is that nothing can run in the world without an intuitive application of mathematics. Either it's engineering or medicine or so on.

[ParthBnsl-iitis]

Sir please make on energy engineering... Its a new branch and I'm not able to get any good resource to get info about it

[Your_Study_Buddy_SD]

Please Reply

Respected Sir
I am looking forward to pursue a dual degree with Btech in Engineering Physics and MS in Astronomy and Astrophysics from IIST Trivandrum. Will this degree help me in building my career in space science?
Since pure science research has limited scope in India and pays little that's why I am opting for this course since it also has Engineering with it.

Also what do you think is the better option here? Doing this dual degree from IIST or going for Btech in mechanical engineering and then Mtech in aerospace engineering from IITs?

[DhruvJEE]

Sir, please bring a session about MnC