Applications for the M. Tech. programme (Research Assistant
category), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay,
are invited from eligible candidates. The candidates are
required to have
   1. a valid GATE score of 350 or above,
   2. applied for M.Tech EE, IIT Bombay (before the due date: 30/3/07), and
   3. exceptional practical abilities and experience in one or more
      of the following areas:

         Electronic circuits and instrumentation
         DSP, microprocessors and Embedded Systems
         RF circuits
         Power Systems and Electrical Machines
         Power Electronics
         VLSI
         Computer lab and System Administration

Candidates with good skills in above areas will have excellent
opportunities to further nurture these skills/abilities and acquire other 
value adding abilities within the M.Tech programme of EE, IITB.

The candidates admitted to this programme will be assigned
laboratory duties in an area suitable to the candidate's
background. In addition, candidate
will also study towards an M.Tech degree in a suitable specialization
in the Dept of Electrical Engg. This M.Tech programme is for three years.

Interested candidates are required to respond immediately
by sending details about their skills. Participation/awards
in design contests or similar competitive events will be strongly
preferred; if called for interview, the candidates are required
to show the relevant documents at the time of interview for
verification. Precise details required and format of your email is
explained below, please read that very carefully while responding. 

Your response by email should reach us on or before 18th May, 2007.
The decision regarding your selection for interview will be conveyed
to you by email by 25th May 2007. Only these candidates are to appear
for a written test and interview on Thursday, 7th June, 2007 in
the Electrical Engg Department, IITB.

Information about rules about the particular EE M.Tech specialization
that you can choose from and monetary details can be found in
the M.Tech brochure, in the section about "Research Assistantship",
specifically "Institute Research Assistantship (RA)". The brochure
is also available at 
  http://www.iitb.ac.in/academic/mtech/2007/mtechbrochure07.pdf

The candidates called for this interview will also be
considered for the PA and PS category (these are also 3-year
M. Tech. programmes as explained in the brochure).

Information about practical abilities and experience
in one or more of the above areas is to be sent in the
following format by email to
      mtechra@ee.iitb.ac.in
on or before 18th May, 2007. Please read the following information
very carefully.

Subject of your email should say:
   "Your GATE score and Resume"
 (Please mention your GATE score in the subject itself, this
 helps us in sorting purposes.)

Within the email:

Name: 
Gate Registration Number and year:
GATE score:
Mention the relevant areas of your experience from the list below:

         Electronic circuits and instrumentation
         DSP, microprocessors and Embedded Systems
         RF circuits
         Power Systems and Electrical Machines
         Power Electronics
         VLSI
         Computer lab and System Administration

A brief description of your experience in one or more of the
above areas, and details of participation/awards in design contests
or similar competitive events. 

Please note that we expect to be receiving and going through
a large number of emails and hence we require that
your entire email is of just 30 lines and in PLAIN TEXT.
Absolutely no attachments will be read; only plain text
emails are required; no html please. Due to the same reason of
a large number of emails, we might not be able to entertain
individual queries. Some general queries will be answered
and notices will be put up at
 http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~mtechra/
(No need to scan any certificates, just a brief description
suffices; your email should be atmost 30 lines and in plain text.)

Postal address (only if required): 

  "M.Tech RA admissions"
  Head,
  Department of Electrical Engineering,
  IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076.
  
We look forward to hearing from candidates having exceptional
skills as above and who are interested in developing such
skills further.

With best wishes,
PG Admissions
Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Bombay, Powai
Mumbai 400 076


PS: Please note that if you have already received a direct admission
offer under the TA category, then that offer still remains. Receipt
of this email does not mean that your direct admission offer is cancelled
or that there is no possibility of receiving a direct admission offer
in the next few weeks. (Please check http://www.iitb.ac.in/pgprgm.html
for details about TA admissions. The EE M.Tech RA and the M.Tech TA
admission processes are independent.)

If such a candidate who has a TA admission (direct admission) offer
wishes to respond to this email (due to interest in different
EE-specialization/M.Tech RA, for example), then such candidates may
apply as explained above. If all the procedures for TA position have been
followed (like early payment of fees, etc), then the TA offer still remains
and adjustment of the fees is possible after joining for the M.Tech
programme.