Doctoral education has become of paramount significance in a world where knowledge is the new fuel. There has been a growing consensus among policy-makers that post-industrial society requires more highly educated people with technical and professional skills in a knowledge-based economy. Ideation and innovation are the order of the day and research provides the right platform for trained engineers to think, create and innovate. Researchers are a country’s intellectual pool and it has to be tapped into. IIT Bhubaneswar offers following research programmes in the following disciplines: