Some tips to make PhD jouney in the Department of Aerospace Engineering IIT KGP peaceful

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In order to download the content, click on green colored "codes" then "download ZIP".

Points

• main.pdf
• How to remote lab system (see remote.mp4).
• How to structure a research paper click here
• How to write article in LyX
• Beamer presentation in LyX
• Synopsis & Thesis submission procedure is also included (Thanks to Nagappa Siddgonde)
• Useful youtube playlist by Dr. Ranjan Ganguli for M.Tech, Ph.D, and Post Doc.

For thesis writing

• Use PHD thesis template for IIT KGP on overleaf
• For more content space (which leads to less number of pages in the thesis) and less number of pages to print (economic)
• Add this code at line no. 52 (just before style) in the main.tex

  \addtolength{\textheight}{0.75in}
  \setlength{\floatsep}{4pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}
  \setlength{\textfloatsep}{4pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}
  \setlength{\intextsep}{4pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}
  
  \usepackage{titlesec}
  \titlespacing\section{0pt}{5pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}{4pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}
  \titlespacing\subsection{0pt}{5pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}{4pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}
  \titlespacing\subsubsection{0pt}{5pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}{4pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}

Things need to do after synopsis

• Take expereince certificate from our supervisor. (PhD will count as teaching and research expereince).

A sample expereince certificate can be find in "Things need to do after synopsis" folder.

• Take other relvant certificates accordingly.
• Why we are taking the certificates?

To justify that you have contributed.

There are points for other activities and it require proofs.

For thesis printing

• Shyamal Das (Good quality and cheap printing and binding)

+91 8927057125 | +91 7602460878 | [email protected]

• BRH Keshab Da (Cheap printing)

+91 9800579011 | [email protected]

• Quest printer (High quality printing)

+91 9933079866

For defense treat

• RadhaKant sweets and packaging is better for Profs.
• A sample image of sweet packet can be find in "Things need to do after defense" folder.

How you can contribute

• Fork and create pull request
• If contributors want their name to be mentioned. It will be done with Love.

Contributors

• Special thanks to Nandi Da (Rana Nandi)
• Abha Gupta (Structures), [email protected]
• Narayan Sharma (Structures), +91 9003243450, [email protected]

Eternally indebted to 'Bhagavad Gita As It Is'🙂. Enjoy