Junior Research Fellowship from GATE

What is JRF-GATE ?
From 2002 onwards Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India has introduced a research fellowship program for the students who have qualified GATE with BTech/BE/BArch/BPharm. This fellowship is know as Junior Research Fellowship(JRF-GATE).
What the candidates will do ?
The candidates who will be selected for this will get golden opportunity of working with CSIR scientists in R&D works. The BE/BTech students after getting selected into JRF they have to either take admission directly into Ph.D program in IIT/NIT/REC etc. or they will continue doing MTech as a part of Ph.D.
Age Limit
The upper age limit to apply for JRF is 28 years. The age relaxation is 5 years in case the candidate belongs to SC, ST, OBC, women or physically handicapped.
Duration of Fellowship
Duration of this fellowship is 5 years within which the candidate has to complete the Ph.D. During this fellowship the candidate will get a stipend of Rs 16,000/- per moth in addition with HRA. The candidate will also get a contingency grant of Rs 20,000/-  per annum. After two years as JRF-GATE the fellowship may be upgraded to SRF-GATE and your stipend may increase to 18,000/- per month.

To know detail about this fellowship, eligibility criteria, selection procedure and how to apply for this please visit  http://csirhrdg.res.in/gate.htm  and  http://csirhrdg.res.in/jrfsrfra2.htm

One suggestion for all: Start preparing for GATE seriously and grab these golden opportunities of working with scientists in R&D. Good Luck.

ISRO 2011 Final Result

The interview result of ISRO in 2011 for the post of SCIENTISTS/ENGINEERS 'SC' in the discipline of ELECTRONICS, MECHANICAL and COMPUTER SCIENCE is as follows.

In Electronics total 60 candidates have been listed out, in which 54 have been short listed and 6 are in waiting list. In Mechanical total 40 students have been short listed. In Computer Science total 26 candidates have been listed out, in which 23 have been short listed and 3 are in waiting list. So in total 117 have been shortlisted to whom offer of appointment has been issued.

To get detail list of all candidates who have been short listed click here. Since very less no. of vacancies are there you have to work very hard to get this prestigious opportunity. Download previous year question papers(2006-2011) and try to solve them. This process will help you to know the question paper pattern. To get ISRO 2010 solved paper click here.

ISRO Previous year question papers for Electronics:

http://www.isro.org/pdf/EC-2006.pdf

http://www.isro.org/pdf/EC-2007.pdf

http://www.isro.org/pdf/EC-2008.pdf

http://www.isro.org/pdf/EC-2009.pdf

http://www.isro.org/pdf/EC-2010.pdf 

http://www.isro.org/pdf/Electronics-2011.pdf
 

How to contact ISRO qualified candidates: Just search their names in facebook, send them friend request and if you are lucky enough your request will be accepted. Once your request is accepted ask them all your questions regarding ISRO and take suggestions regarding preparation. To get names of the shortlisted candidates click here. Good luck.

ISRO Interview Questions-2

About ISRO

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is really a great place to work. If you are really lucky enough you will get a job here. ISRO is among the six dominant space research organization in the world. ISRO's first satellite was Aryabhata which was launched in 1975. Starting from that day ISRO is gradually getting momentum in advanced space research. ISRO's reputation got increased after the successful Chandrayaan-1 mission in 2008 which was India's first mission to the moon. According to Chandrayan-2 mission a moon rover will be sent to moon which will move on moon's surface with wheels, collect soil and rock samples, do analysis on it and send the data to spacecraft.

Image Credit: ISRO

Another very exciting news is that after the moon mission ISRO is going to start mars mission very soon. In this mission a spacecraft will be launched in mars orbit which will study its atmosphere. This could be launched in Nov 2013.

ISRO offers the opportunity for the post of Scientists/Engineers 'SC' in the discipline of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering. Currently the pay band for Scientists/Engineers 'SC' is Rs. 15600-39100 with a grade pay of Rs. 5400/-. So at present the gross amount will be  Rs. 33,180/- per month. Besides this House Rent Allowance (HRA) and Transport Allowance (TA) will also be provided who are not availing housing and transport facilities. The employees will also get pension according to new pension scheme. Other facilities include medical facilities for self and dependents, subsidized canteen facilities, limited housing facilities for freshers and many more.

ISRO is a Govt. job. So you can enjoy your life as well as you will learn a lot of things from it. Once you qualify it, you will get a lot of reputation from your society, from you family, from your neighbors and friends. If you want to do research in your life especially about space then ISRO is a good choice. But as there are very less vacancies available, a huge competition will must be there in ISRO exam. You need to prepare accordingly.

After all if some body asks you, "What do you do ?". You will feel proud to say "I am a scientist in ISRO". So do a smart preparation, grab the exciting opportunities from ISRO and finally be a scientist in your life.  

Some Interview Questions 

Q) What do you mean by input bias current in op-amp ? How to mitigate this problem ?
Q) What is the need of pre-emphasis in communication system ?
Q) What is common mode rejection ratio ? How it is measured and what is its unit ?
Q) What is Q factor of a parallel RLC circuit ? What is the significance of Q factor ? 
Q) What is voltage standing wave ratio ? If VSWR=1 then what does it signifies ?
Q) What do you mean by dominant mode of waveguide ? What are the dominant modes of circular and rectangular waveguides ?
Q) Which type of waveguides do not allow TEM modes and why ?