Syllabus for Ph.D.

Programme

PCE1001 Transportation Engineering

UNIT - I Traffic Engineering and Management

Traffic Characteristics: Urban Road user characteristics- Vehicle and Traffic Stream
Characteristics.
Traffic Studies: Volume, speed, travel time and delay, O-D, Accident and parking studies –LOS
concept, factors affecting capacity and LOS, capacity of different types of facilities.
Traffic Control and Management: Signs, markings, islands and signals; At-grade and grade
separated Intersections; Rotaries; Basic principles of intersection signalization; Signal
Design.Traffic Regulation,– Traffic Systems Management and Travel Demand Management -
Congestion Management, Traffic Calming and Pricing-Design of Cycle Tracks, Pedestrian
Facilities and parking design.
Intersection Design and Analysis:Design of Intersection – At grade intersection – Uncontrolled,
Channelisation, Rotary, Traffic Signal Control, Signal Co-ordination, Grade Separated
Intersection - Types Design and Analysis.
Traffic Flow Fundamentals and Characteristics: Flow Parameters - Approaches to Traffic
Flow - Spacing, Gap and Headway Characteristics –Macroscopic and Microscopic Traffic Flow
Models-Vehicular Stream Models- Queuing Theory-Delay at Intersections-Concepts and
application of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) -Traffic Enforcement.

UNIT - II Urban and Transportation Planning

Urban Planning:Classification of urban settlements, Urban infrastructure developmentZoning
Regulation, Layout and Building Regulations.Economic and social concepts in urban and
regional planning-Financing of Urban Developments projects and planning.Town and Country
planning act.
Urban Transportation Planning Process:systems approach to planning process, problem
definition, solution generation, solution analysis, evaluation and choice. Environmental and
social Impat Assesment of Transport Projects.
Transportation Systems Planning:Stages in Transportation Planning-TravelForecasting
Process-Modal split models – Mode choice behavior-Traffic assignment and methods-Land Use

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Transport Model.Urban Transport System-Bus Transit Planning And Scheduling-Rail Transit
Terminals And Performance Evaluation-Policies and Strategies for Mass Transport.
Transport Economics: Principles of Economic Analysis-Factors affecting vehicle operating
cost-Transport demand and supply concepts-Public and Private Transport Financing and
Pricing.
Transportation Surveys: Transportation surveys – definition of study area, zoning, home-
interview survey, cordon-line and screen line surveys, traffic surveys, inventory of transport
facilities, inventory of land-use and economic activities.

UNIT - III Highway Design

Highway alignment: Horizontal: Theoretical, general and design considerations; Super
elevation; Simple, compound, reverse and transition curves; Guidelines for design; Vertical:
Terrain; Grades; Climbing lanes; General considerations in vertical curves; Crest and sag
vertical curves; Coordination of horizontal and vertical curves; Guidelines for design of hill
roads.
Design controls and criteria: Vehicle, driver and traffic characteristics and their influence on
geometric design of highways; Access control -At grade intersectiononflict
points,channelization.
Cross section elements: Considerations with regard to cross section elements such as,
carriageway width, right-of-way, camber, shoulders, kerbs, footpaths, drainage elements, traffic
barriers and medians; Frontage roads- Pedestrian crossings- Bicycle facilities-Bus bays.
Sight distances: Stopping, decision, overtaking and intermediate sight distances- Sight distances
on horizontal curves and at intersections- Applications of sight distances for various situations

UNIT - IV Pavement Materials, Design and Evaluation

Pavement Materials and Construction: subgrade soils - aggregates- Bituminous binders and
modified binders- Bituminous paving mixtures – Mix Design, Material testing and evaluation-
Construction of gravel and stabilized bases-Cement concrete for highway construction- Types of
pavements-Stresses in bituminous pavements and concrete pavements- Various design methods
for Flexible and rigid pavements.

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Pavement Evaluation and Maintenance: Failures in pavements- evaluation and equipments-
structural stability assessment of pavements- repair and maintenance-ovelays-Pavement
serviceability rating and index.

PCE1002 Computer methods and applications in Structural Engineering /

Structural Engineering

UNIT - I Reinforced Cement Concrete Structures and Prestressed Concrete Structures

Concrete structures –Design of reinforced concrete elements, flat slabs and yield line theory
based design, design of water tanks, retaining walls, inelastic behavior of concrete structures,
ductile detailing. Design of long and short span bridges, analysis and design of tall buildings,
stability of tall buildings, wind effects on structures. Prestressed concrete -Design of flexural
members-continuous and cantilever beams, design of tension and compression members,
composite members ,losses of prestress, design of prestressed bridges, chimneys, poles, sleepers.

UNIT - II Advanced Steel Structures

Design of members subjected to combined forces - Design of connections - Riveted, Bolted and
Welded - Analysis and design of industrial buildings - Sway and Non-sway frames - Plastic
analysis of structures - Design of light gauge steel structures.

UNIT - III Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering - Free and Forced Vibration of Single, Two and Multi
Degree of Freedom Systems; Normal modes of vibration of Two Degree of Freedom Systems;
Orthogonality of modes; Mode superposition techniques; Dynamic response of Single, Two and
Multi degree freedom systems, Mode superposition techniques, Dynamic response of continuous
systems, Free and forced vibration of continuous systems, Rayleigh-Ritz method, Formulation
using conservation of energy , virtual work, Direct integration methods for dynamic response;
Nonlinear MDOF systems, Numerical Integration Algorithms, Substructure technique.
Earthquake Ground motion, Engineering Seismology, Characteristics of earthquakes, Estimation
of earthquake parameters - Effects of earthquake on structures, Response spectra, Evaluation of
earthquake forces, Earthquake resistant design of masonry and RC structures, Capacity based
design and detailing, Structural systems, Shear walls, Rigid Frames, Principles and guidelines

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for earthquake resistant design, Design guidelines for earthquake resistant masonry buildings,
Vibration control techniques, Tuned Mass Dampers, Seismic base isolation.

UNIT - IV Concrete Technology and Repair and Rehabilitation Of Structures

Concrete making materials - Mix Design - Special Concretes - High strength Concrete - High
Performance Concrete - High density Concrete - Fibre Reinforced Concrete - Geopolymer
Concrete - Bacterial Concrete - Nano Concrete - Ready mixed Concrete - Self compacting
Concrete - Concrete made out of Industrial Wastes - Fresh and hardened concrete properties-
Concreting Techniques - Life cycle behaviour of Structures - Different forms of cracks - factors
responsible for deterioration of concrete - Defects in steel ,masonry and concrete structures -
causes - effects-Damage assessment - strength and durability parameters - NDT - Repair
Techniques-Strengthening of structural elements - Engineered Demolition.

UNIT - V Structural Analysis and Finite Element Analysis

Axial deformation of bars, Analysis of framed structures, Plates and shells, Applications of finite
element for elastic stability, Dynamic analysis.

PCE1003 Advanced Construction Technology / Construction Engineering

and Management / Infrastructure Engineering
UNIT - I Construction Planning, Scheduling and Control

Defining Work Tasks - Estimating Activity Durations - Construction Schedules - Critical Path
Method – Scheduling Calculations- Use of Advanced Scheduling Techniques- Crashing and
Time/Cost Tradeoffs- The Project Budget- Schedule and Budget Updates- Relating Cost and
Schedule Information- Total Quality Control - Quality Control by Statistical Methods- Safety-
Types of Project Information-- Computerized Organization and Use of Information.

UNIT - II Project Formulation and Appraisal and Contract Laws and Regulations
Project Formulation, Project Costing, Project Appraisal, Project Financing, Private Sector
Participation- Contract Laws and Regulations - Construction contracts, Indian contract act,
Torts, Contractual problems, Tamilnadu transparency in tenders act, E-tenders, Arbitration,
Legal requirements, Insurance and bonding, Labour acts.

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UNIT - III Resource Management and Control and Quantitative Techniques In Management
Resource planning, Labour management, Materials and equipment, Time management, Resource
allocation and leveling .Operations research, Production management, Working capital
Management, Decision theory, Managerial economics.

UNIT - IV Concrete Technology and Repair and Rehabilitation of Structures

Concrete making materials - Mix Design - Special Concretes - High strength Concrete - High
Performance Concrete - High density Concrete - Fibre Reinforced Concrete - Geopolymer
Concrete - Bacterial Concrete - Nano Concrete - Ready mixed Concrete - Self compacting
Concrete - Concrete made out of Industrial Wastes - Fresh and hardened concrete properties-
Concreting Techniques - Life cycle behaviour of Structures - Different forms of cracks - factors
responsible for deterioration of concrete - Defects in steel ,masonry and concrete structures -
causes - effects-Damage assessment - strength and durability parameters - NDT - Repair
Techniques-Strengthening of structural elements - Engineered Demolition.

UNIT - V Construction Techniques and Equipment

Equipment for earthwork, asphalt and concrete plants and materials handling - Equipment for
dredging, trenching, tunneling, drilling, blasting, pile driving, demolition, dewatering and
grouting - Cranes- Modern equipment- Construction Equipment Management - Construction
techniques for sub structure construction - Super structure construction techniques for buildings
including tall buildings, prestressing and post tensioning – Construction techniques for the
construction of special structures like towers, silos, chimneys, TLT, skyscrapers, bridges, domes,
jetties, breakwater structures, support structure for heavy machinery, articulated structures and
space decks – Demolition Techniques.

PCE1004 Geotechnical Engineering / Soil Mechanics and Foundation

Engineering
UNIT - I Soil Properties and Strength Behaviour

Different soil deposits — classification and identification — clay minerals — diffused double
layer — swelling and shrinkage behavior — liquefaction potential — factors affecting
compressibility, permeability, shear strength -— conduction phenomena-Factors affecting stress-

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strain characteristics — triaxial testing and stress path — pore pressure parameters — failure
theories — constitutive law for soil — limitations of model — critical state line — dilation effect.

UNIT - II Subsurface Investigation and Instrumentation

Method of exploration for preliminary and detailed design —- Geophysical methods — Drilling
in difficult subsoil conditions — bore logs — factor influencing sampling and samplers in
onshore and offshore — field tests — interpretation of test results — instrumentation methods.

UNIT - III Shallow and Deep Foundations

Types of shallow foundations — conceptual design principles — ultimate safe bearing capacity
under axial and eccentric loading — components of settlement of soil — stress path method —
allowable settlement and bearing capacity — raft foundation — soil structure interaction —
structural design of shallow foundation — foundation for tower and offshore environment —
machine foundation- Classification of piles based on usage, function, and material — vertical
and lateral load carrying capacity of piles and pile group — settlement of piles — structural
design of pile and pile caps — settlement of caisson.

UNIT - IV Earth and earth retaining structures

Earth pressure theories — active and passive cases — stability of retaining structures both for
regular and earthquake forces — design of cantilever and anchored sheet pile walls — lateral
pressure on sheeting in braced excavation — earth pressure around tunnel lining, shafts and
silos — soil anchors and soil pinning — diaphragm walls — stability of infinite and finite slopes
— stability charts — slope stabilization.

UNIT - V Ground Improvement and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Need for ground improvement — column methods — sand, stone and lime columns — soil
nailing — root piles — soil reinforcement — functions of geosynthetics in soil — soil grouting —
electro- chemical stabilization- Consequence of waste on the behaviour of soil — soil-pollutant
interaction — remediation of contaminated sites — stabilization of waste with soil

PCE1005 Environmental Engineering / Environmental Management

Environmental chemistry

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Aquatic chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, soil chemistry-environmental chemicals and their fate

Environmental Microbiology
Classification and characteristics of Microorganisms-microbes and nutrient cycles- metabolism
of microorganisms- pathogens in wastewater- toxicology

Design of water and wastewater treatment systems

Sources and types of water pollutants, water quality standards- conventional and advances in
water treatment. Physical and chemical treatment of waste water- sludge treatment and
disposal-Principles of biological treatment-Design of water and wastewater treatment plant
units-Residual management- construction operation and maintenance aspects;

Industrial wastewater management, treatment & disposal

Industrial pollution prevention & waste minimization-Industrial wastewater treatment-
Wastewater reuse and residual management, Zero liquid Discharge Systems

Air pollution and control

Air Pollutants-Types-NAAQS-Emission and Ambient Air sampling and Analysis-Effect of
Meteorological Parameters-Control of particulate contaminants-Control of gaseous
contaminants-Indoor air quality management-Noise Pollution and Control

Solid and hazardous waste management

Sources, classification and regulatory framework- Waste characterization and source reduction-
Storage, collection and transport of wastes-Waste Processing technologies-Waste disposal

Environmental and socio-economic impact assessment

Components and methods - Socio-economic impact assessment- Environmental management
plan-Sectoral EIA; Environmental risk assessment and management- Elements of environmental
risk assessment-Tools and methods for risk assessment-Risk management

Sustainable Development and Climate Change

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Sustainability and Development, Principles and Frame Work - Climate Change-Adaptation and
Mitigation
PCE1006 Water Resources Engineering

UNIT - I
Continuum hypothesis, fluid properties, basic thermodynamic relations, perfect gas, scalars and
vectors, cartesian tensors, Gauss' theorem, Stokes theorem. Lagrangian and Eulerian
description, material derivative and stream function.Control volume concepts, Reynolds
transport theorem, conservation of mass, momentum and energy, Navier-Stokes equation, non-
dimensional parameters determined from differential equations, Buckingham's Pi theorem,
similitude and model testing.Stream function and velocity potential, Laplace equation,
application of complex variables, flow at a wall angle, source, sink, doublet, flow past Rankine
half-body, flow past a circular cylinder with circulation, source near a wall, method of images,
conformal mapping and applications.Basic concepts of uniform flow – characteristics of open
channel flows - computations. Specific energy – transitions – weirs - specific force concepts –
hydraulic jump – stilling basins.Sharp-Crested weirs, broad-crested weirs, critical depth
flumes.Physical modeling in hydraulics. Dimensional analysis. Modeling closed flows and free
surface flows. Distorted models. Design of physical models.Chezy and Manning formulae –
turbulence and flow resistance – channels with composite roughness – uniform flow
computations. Spatially varied flows and rapidly varied flows.Governing equations –
classification of water surface profiles – sketching water surface profiles – computation of
varied flow profiles – direct step method – standard step method – simultaneous solution
procedure – Spatially varied flows

UNIT - II
Hydro meteorology – Groundwater in Hydrologic Cycle –Occurrence of groundwater – zone of
Aeration and Saturation – Hydrogeology –– Types of aquifers soil sample analysis - Water
bearing materials – Aquifer parameters and its determination. Groundwater Movement -
Darcy’s law and its limitations - Stream lines and flow net analysis – Potential flow theory –
Discharge and draw down for various condition of groundwater flow - Principles of
groundwater flow and its equation – Dupuit – Forchheimer assumptions – Influent and Effluent
streams - Evaluation of well loss parameters – Partial penetration of wells – Interference of

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wells Determining aquifer parameters for unconfined, leaky and non-leaky aquifers – steady and
transient conditions - Slug test – Locating hydro geological boundaries – Image well theory –
Determination of well characteristics and specific capacity of wells – Well characteristics of
large diameter wells.
UNIT - III
Well design criteria – Construction of wells – Well drilling methods – Filter design – Artificial
and natural packing – Well casings and screens – Production test – Maintenance of production
wells – Pumping Equipment – protection of wells and Rehabilitation – Horizontal wells -
Collector wells and Infiltration galleries Methods of artificial groundwater recharge –
Groundwater Basin Management and conjunctive use - Groundwater assessment and balancing
– Seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers – Land Subsidence – Groundwater flow in Hard Rock
System: conceptual models –structure and hydrodynamic properties of hard rock aquifers.
UNIT - IV
Hydrologic cycle – System concept – Hydrologic system Model – Classification of
HydrologicModels – Statistical, Stochastic and Deterministic Approaches – Statistical
characteristics ofHydrological Data – Probability distribution of Hydrologic Variables
Correlation Analysis –Developing Prediction Equation by Simple and Multiple Linear
Regression – Reliability of theModel. Stochastic Process – Classification – Stationary Process –
Time series – Classification –Component of Time series – Method of Investigation – Auto
Correlation coefficient – MovingAverage Process – Auto Regressive Process - Auto Regressive
Moving Average Process -Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average Process – Thomas
Fiering Model – BoxJenkins Model – Model formulation – Parameter Estimation – Calibration
and Validation – Application to hydrologic data Generation and Forecasting.
UNIT - V
Classification of Deterministic Model – Black Box, Conceptual and Physically based Models–
Rational method - Models of IUH, Nash and Chow-Kulandaiswamy Models – Lumped and
Distributed Conceptual Models – Single event and Continuous Conceptual Models Hydrologic
Design Scale – Estimating Limiting Value – Hydrologic Design level – Hydrologic Design Data
- Hydraulic structure Design methods - Estimation of PMP - Computation of Design Storm - IDF
Relationships - Design Flows - Hydrologic Risk, Reliability and Safety Factor.

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PCE1007 Irrigation Water Management
Water Resources of India - Irrigation- Need, Advantages and Disadvantages- Crop and
Cropping seasons in India and Tamil Nadu-National Water Policy- Inadequacy of Irrigation
Management-Criteria for good Irrigation management. Soil physical properties influencing Soil-
water relationship-Forms and occurrence of Soil Water-Classification of Soil Water- Soil Water
Constants- Energy concept of Soil Water-Forces acting on Soil Water- Soil Water Potential
concept- Soil Water retention- Soil Moisture Measurement. Water requirement of crops -
Evapotranspiration and Consumptive use- Methods of estimating Evapotranspiration- Effective
Rainfall- Irrigation Requirement-Duty of Water- Irrigation Efficiencies-Irrigation Scheduling-
Irrigation measurement. Canal network and canal design- Surface irrigation methods- Types-
Border irrigation, Furrow irrigation, Basin Irrigation and Micro irrigation - Specifications,
Hydraulics and Design. Irrigation Management systems in India - Warabhandi, Shejpali and
Localisation - Diagnostic Analysis of Irrigation systems - Performance Indicators - Main system
management - Command area Development - OFD - Irrigation policies - Irrigation institution -
Irrigation Management Transfer.

PCE1008 Coastal Engineering and Management

Wind and waves - Sea and Swell -Introduction to small amplitude wave theory - use of wave
tables- Mechanics of water waves - Linear (Airy) wave theory, Introduction to Tsunami
Behaviour of waves in shallow waters, Introduction to non-linear waves and their properties -
Waves in shallow waters - Wave Refraction, Diffraction and Shoaling -Hindcast wave
generation models, wave shoaling; wave refraction; wave breaking; wave diffraction random
and 3D waves- Short term wave analysis - wave spectra and its utilities - Long term wave
analysis- Statistics analysis of grouped wave data. Dynamic beach profile; cross-shore
transport; along shore transport (Littoral transport), sediment movement Field measurement;
models, groins, sea walls, offshore breakwaters, artificial nourishment - planning of coast
protection works - Design of shore defense structures -Case studies. Physical modeling in
Coastal Engineering - Limitations and advantages - Role of physical modeling in coastal
engineering - Numerical modeling - Modeling aspects - limitations - Case studies using public
domain models, Tsunami mitigation measures

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PCE1009 Geomatics / Geo Informatics / Remote Sensing / Spatial
Information Technology

UNIT - I
Physics of remote sensing- Data Acquisition - Scattering System - Thermal and Hyper Spectral
Remote Sensing - Data Analysis – Microwave Remote Sensing - Spaceborne SAR Systems -
Concepts and Application of Microwave Remote Sensing – Passive Microwave Remote Sensing –
Altimeter and Scatterometer Concepts.
UNIT - II
Basics of photogrammetry - Geometry of Aerial Photographs – Project Planning, Ground
Control and Mosaic - Analogue, Analytical and Digital Photogrammetry - Aero- Triangulation
and Terrestrial Photogrammetry - Basics of Airborne Laser Terrain Mapping - Lidar - Lidar
data processing - Lidargrammetry - Study of Different GPS - GPS Data Processing.
UNIT - III
Basics of Cartography Earth - Sources of Data - Perception and Design - Cartography
Abstraction - Map projection -Map reproduction - Basics of GIS -Data Model and Input - Data
Analysis and Output - Spatial Modeling Data Quality. GIS Application -Location Based analysis
- route analysis – Land Information System.
UNIT - IV
Plane and Geodetic surveying basics. Basics of Electronic Surveying - Electromagnetic Waves -
Electronic Total Station - Survey Error Analysis and Adjustment - Geodesy geoid Ellipsoid
Geometric, Physical and Space Geodesy Geodetic astronomy.
UNIT - V
Basics of Hydrology - Drainage Basin - Area! Assessment - Ground Water and Water Quality -
Remote Sensing Application to Coastal Zone Management, Urban Planning, Agriculture,
Forestry, Transportation Engineering – Ocean Applications.

PME2001 CAD / Engineering Design / Machine Design

UNIT - I
Design concepts: Design fundamentals, methods and material selection; Design for Quality;
Failure mode effect analysis and design for six sigma; Design of experiments; Statistical
consideration and reliability.
UNIT - II

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Introduction to computer graphics fundamentals; Curves and surfaces modeling; Concepts of
Solid modeling; Visual realism; Assembly of parts and product data Exchange.Finite Element
Analysis related to 1D and 2D problems. Problems of static and dynamic analysis using Finite
Element Analysis.
UNIT - III

Basic concepts of material behavior: Elasticity and plastic behavior of metallic and non-metallic
materials. Metallurgical aspects of Materials. Effect of temperature, strain and strain rate on
plastic behavior - Super plasticity -Ductile, brittle transition in steel - High temperature fracture,
creep - Larson Miller parameter - Deformation and fracture mechanism maps. Selection of
metals based on mechanical properties- Selection for surface durability corrosion and wear
resistance - Relationship between materials selection and processing - Case studies in materials
selection with relevance to aero, auto, marine, machinery and nuclear applications. Non-
metallic materials: Polymeric materials - Formation of polymer structure - Production
techniques of fibers, foams, adhesives and coating - structure, properties and applications of
engineering polymers.

UNIT - IV

Elasticity: Stress-Strain relations-Equations of equilibrium-compatibility-boundary conditions-

three-dimensional stress of a tension generalized hook's law - St. Venant's principle - plane
stress - Airy's stress function;; Applications of fatigue and fracture mechanics. Mechanics of
composite materials and laminated composites
UNIT - V
Design of components - Shafts, Gears and Gear Boxes, Brakes, Cam & Follower, flywheel etc.
Integrated Design of mechanical systems, for example Elevators, Escalators, Gear Box, Valve
gear Mechanisms, Machine Tools.Kinematic and dynamic analysis of mechanisms.
Fundamentals of vibration - Harmonic and periodic excitations.

PME2002 CAM

UNIT - I

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Design concepts: Design fundamentals, methods and material selection; Design for Quality;
Failure mode effect analysis and design for six sigma; Design of experiments; Statistical
consideration and reliability.
UNIT - II
Introduction to computer graphics fundamentals; Curves and surfaces modeling; Concepts of
Solid modeling; Visual realism; Assembly of parts and product data Exchange. Finite Element
Analysis related to 1D and 2D problems. Problems of static and dynamic analysis using Finite
Element Analysis.
UNIT - III
Basic concepts of material behavior: Elasticity and plastic behavior of metallic and non-metallic
materials. Metallurgical aspects of Materials. Effect of temperature, strain and strain rate on
plastic behavior - Super plasticity -Ductile, brittle transition in steel - High temperature fracture,
creep - Larson Miller parameter - Deformation and fracture mechanism maps. Selection of
metals based on mechanical properties- Selection for surface durability corrosion and wear
resistance - Relationship between materials selection and processing - Case studies in materials
selection with relevance to aero, auto, marine, machinery and nuclear applications. Non-
metallic materials: Polymeric materials - Formation of polymer structure - Production
techniques of fibers, foams, adhesives and coating - structure, properties and applications of
engineering polymers.
UNIT - IV
NC, CNC and DNC –CNC Programming Basics - Computer Aided Process Planning- Group
technology - Part families - classification and coding - Production flow analysis - Machine cell
design - Benefits. Components of FMS- Characteristics of JIT-Kanban system- lean production
system.
UNIT - V
Engineering Data Management (EDM), Product Data Management (PDM), Collaborative
Product Definition Management (cPDm), Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC), Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) - Additive manufacturing processes-Benefits Applications – rapid
tooling - Reverse Engineering – Digitizing technique.

PME2003 Product Design and Development

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UNIT - I

Design concepts: Design fundamentals, methods and material selection; Design for Quality;
Failure mode effect analysis and design for six sigma; Design of experiments; Statistical
consideration and reliability.
UNIT - II
Introduction to computer graphics fundamentals; Curves and surfaces modeling; Concepts of
Solid modeling; Visual realism; Assembly of parts and product data Exchange. Finite Element
Analysis related to 1D and 2D problems. Problems of static and dynamic analysis using Finite
Element Analysis.
UNIT - III

Basic concepts of material behavior: Elasticity and plastic behavior of metallic and non-metallic
materials. Metallurgical aspects of Materials. Effect of temperature, strain and strain rate on
plastic behavior - Super plasticity -Ductile, brittle transition in steel - High temperature fracture,
creep - Larson Miller parameter - Deformation and fracture mechanism maps. Selection of
metals based on mechanical properties- Selection for surface durability corrosion and wear
resistance - Relationship between materials selection and processing - Case studies in materials
selection with relevance to aero, auto, marine, machinery and nuclear applications. Non-
metallic materials: Polymeric materials - Formation of polymer structure - Production
techniques of fibers, foams, adhesives and coating - structure, properties and applications of
engineering polymers.
UNIT - IV
Introduction to Product Development, Customer Need Analysis, Product Specification, Concept
Generation, Selection, and Testing, Product Architecture and Industrial Design, DFM and
Prototyping, Product Development Economics and Managing Projects.
UNIT - V

Introduction to marketing research, exploratory research design, measurement and scaling,

frequency distribution and data analysis, Additive manufacturing processes-Benefits
Applications – rapid tooling - Reverse Engineering – Digitizing techniques.

PME2004 Energy Engineering

UNIT - I
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Conduction: General heat Conduction equation, initial and boundary conditions, Extended
surfaces, Lumped system analysis, Heisler charts-semi infinite solid, Moving Boundary
problems. Convective Heat Transfer: SteadyLaminar and Turbulent Heat Transfer in External
and Internal Flows – HeatTransfer at High Speeds – Unsteady Laminar and Turbulent Forced
Convection in Ducts and on Plates. Radiation Heat Transfer: Radiation in Enclosures, Network
analogy, Radiation shields, Gas Radiation. Boiling, Condensation& Heat exchangers.
UNIT - II
Laws of Thermodynamics, Concepts of Energy, Entropy and Exergy - Reversibility and
Irreversibility - Principle of increase in Entropy - Entropy Generation - Availability analysis of
simple cycles. Thermodynamic property relations. Real Gas behavior, I & II Law Efficiency -
Fugacity - Compressibility - Principle of corresponding States. Real gas mixtures, equilibrium in
multiphase systems - Gibbs phase rule for non - reactive components. Chemical
Thermodynamics and Equilibrium - Thermo chemistry - Adiabatic flame temperature.
UNIT - III
Mass, Momentum and Energy equations and their applications. Potential flow theory - Stream,
Potential functions and Vorticity. Viscous flow theory - flow between parallel plates and flow
through pipes. Major and minor head losses. Boundary layer theory. Compressible fluid flow in
variable area passage. Types of sensors, error and uncertainty analysis. Measurements of
Density, Temperature, Pressure, Flow, heat flux and thermo - physical properties (thermal
conductivity, viscosity and specific heat). Calibration methods. Data logging and acquisition.
UNIT - IV
Plant analysis - Bio Energy, Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Geo thermal, Tidal energy, Small
hydro and OTEC – Fuel cell – Hydrogen production and storage - Analysis of Carnot, Rankine,
Stirling, Ericsson, Otto, Diesel, Dual, Lenoir, Atkinson and Brayton, Binary and IGCC cycles -
Thermoelectric Converters –Thermionic converters – MHD - Design aspects of Fluidized bed
combustion – Analysis of Nuclear reactors – Power plant load curves – Proximate and Ultimate
analysis and utilization of coal - Biomethanation, Gasification, Pyrolysis, Carbonisation and
Combustion – Production of Biofuels.
UNIT - V
Boiler basics and performance analysis, combustion principles and heat loss analysis - Thermic
Fluid Heaters – Furnaces – Insulation and Refractories - Cogeneration types, principles and

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economic analysis - Energy conservation in Fans, Pumps, Compressors, Transformers, Motors
and Refrigeration and Air Conditioning systems – DG set and Cooling tower performance
analysis – Energy conservation measures in buildings - Waste disposal and recycling.

PME2005 Thermal Engineering spl. in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning

UNIT - I
Conduction: General heat Conduction equation, initial and boundary conditions, Extended
surfaces, Lumped system analysis, Heisler charts-semi infinite solid, Moving Boundary
problems. Convective Heat Transfer: SteadyLaminar and Turbulent Heat Transfer in External
and Internal Flows – HeatTransfer at High Speeds – Unsteady Laminar and Turbulent Forced
Convection in Ducts and on Plates. Radiation Heat Transfer: Radiation in Enclosures, Network
analogy, Radiation shields, Gas Radiation. Boiling, Condensation& Heat exchangers.
UNIT - II
Laws of Thermodynamics, Concepts of Energy, Entropy and Exergy - Reversibility and
Irreversibility - Principle of increase in Entropy - Entropy Generation - Availability analysis of
simple cycles. Thermodynamic property relations. Real Gas behavior, I & II Law Efficiency -
Fugacity - Compressibility - Principle of corresponding States. Real gas mixtures, equilibrium in
multiphase systems - Gibbs phase rule for non - reactive components. Chemical
Thermodynamics and Equilibrium - Thermo chemistry - Adiabatic flame temperature.
UNIT - III
Mass, Momentum and Energy equations and their applications. Potential flow theory - Stream,
Potential functions and Vorticity. Viscous flow theory - flow between parallel plates and flow
through pipes. Major and minor head losses. Boundary layer theory. Compressible fluid flow in
variable area passage. Types of sensors, error and uncertainty analysis. Measurements of
Density, Temperature, Pressure, Flow, heat flux and thermo - physical properties (thermal
conductivity, viscosity and specific heat). Calibration methods. Data logging and acquisition.
UNIT - IV
Refrigeration Cycles - vapor compression cycle, Multi pressure System, Cascade Systems-
Analysis. Vapor Absorption Systems - Aqua Ammonia & Li-Br Systems, Steam Jet Refrigeration,
Thermo Electric Refrigeration, Air Refrigeration cycles, Refrigeration System Components.

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Refrigerants - Desirable properties- Designation of refrigerants - Secondary refrigerants - Heat
pumps.
UNIT - V
Air conditioning systems and psychometrics, Head load calculation, Design of air conditioning
ducts, Evaporative, Winter and all Year Air Conditioning Systems. Air Conditioning in
Automobiles, Railway Wagons, Marine Vessels, Aircraft and Other Commercial Applications.
Indoor air quality and measurements. Heating and Ventilation systems.

PME2006 Internal Combustion Engineering

UNIT - I
Conduction: General heat Conduction equation, initial and boundary conditions, Extended
surfaces, Lumped system analysis, Heisler charts-semi infinite solid, Moving Boundary
problems. Convective Heat Transfer: SteadyLaminar and Turbulent Heat Transfer in External
and Internal Flows – HeatTransfer at High Speeds – Unsteady Laminar and Turbulent Forced
Convection in Ducts and on Plates. Radiation Heat Transfer: Radiation in Enclosures, Network
analogy, Radiation shields, Gas Radiation. Boiling, Condensation& Heat exchangers.
UNIT - II
Laws of Thermodynamics, Concepts of Energy, Entropy and Exergy - Reversibility and
Irreversibility - Principle of increase in Entropy - Entropy Generation - Availability analysis of
simple cycles. Thermodynamic property relations. Real Gas behavior, I & II Law Efficiency -
Fugacity - Compressibility - Principle of corresponding States. Real gas mixtures, equilibrium in
multiphase systems - Gibbs phase rule for non - reactive components. Chemical
Thermodynamics and Equilibrium - Thermo chemistry - Adiabatic flame temperature.
UNIT - III
Mass, Momentum and Energy equations and their applications. Potential flow theory - Stream,
Potential functions and Vorticity. Viscous flow theory - flow between parallel plates and flow
through pipes. Major and minor head losses. Boundary layer theory. Compressible fluid flow in
variable area passage. Types of sensors, error and uncertainty analysis. Measurements of
Density, Temperature, Pressure, Flow, heat flux and thermo - physical properties (thermal
conductivity, viscosity and specific heat). Calibration methods. Data logging and acquisition.
UNIT - IV

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Combustion in SI and CI engines, Heat release correlations, Emission formation in SI and CI
engines, Advanced fuel injection and boosting systems, Emission control – In-cylinder and after
treatment methods, Emission measurement techniques, Engine sensors and actuators.
UNIT - V
Supercharging, Scavenging, Turbocharging, Materials, Engine components – functions, Design
of engine components, Simulation of SI and CI engine processes, Alternative fuels and utilisation
methods in IC engines, Low temperature combustion concepts.

PME2007 Manufacturing Systems Management and Lean Manufacturing

UNIT - I Advanced Manufacturing Processes
Advances in manufacturing processes – Casting, Welding, forming, Unconventional machining
processes, Additive manufacturing, Micro and nano-machining processes, Metrology for quality
control.

UNIT - II Manufacturing Management and Operations Research

Facility, capacity & layout planning, Forecasting, Scheduling, Project Management, Production
planning and control, Inventory control, Maintenance strategies. Linear programming,
Sequencing, Replacement.

UNIT - III Quality Control

Statistical process control, online/offline quality control, Process capability, Design of
experiments, Reliability, Maintainability

UNIT - IV Lean Manufacturing

Seven wastes, Lean Tools to eliminate Muda – 5S, TPM, Standardised work, Poka-Yoke, SMED,
Kanban, JIT, Value stream mapping, Six Sigma – Methodology, tools.

UNIT - V Manufacturing Automation

Automation and control techniques, Numerical control, Robotics, Material handling, FMS,
Cellular manufacturing.

PME2008 Welding Engineering

UNIT - I Phase Diagrams and Heat Treatment

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Diffusion in solids, Strengthening mechanisms, Phase diagrams - Iron - Iron carbide diagram-
TTT and CCT diagrams- Heat Treatment processes – Effect of Heat various heat treatment
processes on the properties of materials, Surface Hardening.

UNIT - II Welding Processes and Design

Welding processes, Weld joints, Weld Symbols, Codes and Standards, Design of Weldments for various
loads. Thermal cycles in welding: basic heat transfer equations, temperature distributions and cooling
curves.
UNIT - III Welding of Ferrous Materials
Welding of plain carbon steels-low alloy steels-HSLA steels-Stainless steels and Cast Irons-
problems encountered and solutions. Formation of different microstructural zones in welding of
plain carbon steels-heat flow in welding.

UNIT - I V Welding of Non-Ferrous Materials

Welding of Aluminium and its alloys-Magnesium and its alloys-Copper and its alloys -Nickel and
its alloys-Titanium and its alloys-problems encountered and solutions.

UNIT - V Defects, Weldability and Standards

Weld defects, Remedies-Joining of dissimilar materials, weldability and testing of weldments,
Failure analysis, Introduction to International Standards and Codes.

PME2009 Materials and Metallurgical Engineering

UNIT - I Phase Diagrams and Heat Treatment
Diffusion in solids, Strengthening mechanisms, Phase diagrams - Iron - Iron carbide diagram-
TTT and CCT diagrams- Heat Treatment processes – Effect of Heat various heat treatment
processes on the properties of materials, Surface Hardening.
UNIT - II Phase Diagrams and Heat Treatment
Diffusion in solids, Strengthening mechanisms, Phase diagrams - Iron - Iron carbide diagram-
TTT and CCT diagrams- Heat Treatment processes – Effect of Heat various heat treatment
processes on the properties of materials, Surface Hardening.
UNIT - III Metal Forming

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Theory of plasticity, Fundamentals of Metal forming Cold working & Hot working, Forging &
Rolling, Extrusion & Drawing. Powder Metallurgy, Different Casting Processes, melting,casting
design, Directional Solidification, Casting Defects. Different Welding processes, Welding
Metallurgy of Ferrous and non- ferrous materials.
UNIT - IV Metallic and Non-Metallic Materials
Metallurgy of Iron and Steel Making, Alloy steels, Cast irons,Non-Ferrous Metallurgy- Cu, Al,
Ni, mg, Ti, Pb, Zn,Sn And their alloys. Precious metals, Ceramics, Composites and Polymers.
UNIT - V Characterisation and Inspection
Optical Microscopy, X-ray Spectroscopy, Electron Microscopy, Surface Analysis techniques,
Atomic force microscopy, Scanning Probe microscopy, Field ion microscopy.
Non-Destructive testing - VE, LPT, MPT, IR & Thermal Methods, EDT, Radiography, UT & AE.
Failure Analysis - Corrosion failures, Fatigue failures, Wear failures, Creep failure.

PME2010 Industrial Engineering and Quality Engineering and Management

Unit - I Probability and statistics
One dimensional random variables - two dimensional random variables - multivariate methods-
testing of hypotheses -factor analysis- discriminate analysis- cluster analysis.
Unit - II Operations Research and Simulation
Linear Programming - Network Analysis- Decision And Game Theory- Queuing Theory –
Random Numbers And Random Variates - Simulation Experiment.
Unit - III Work Design and Facility layout
Method study- Work measurement - Applied work measurement- Physical ergonomics -
environmental factors - Plant location - Facilities layout - Group technology and line balancing
- Materials handling
Unit - IV Operations Management
Demand forecasting - Production planning - Inventory planning and control - Capacity
analysis and operational control - single machine scheduling - parallel machine scheduling -
job shop scheduling

Unit - V Quality control and Reliability

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Control charts - Statistical process control - Sampling -TQM principles - Implementation of
TQM - Single factor experiments - Multifactor experiments - Taguchi methods - Reliability
concepts - Reliability assessment.

PME2011 Advanced Manufacturing Engineering / Computer Integrated

Manufacturing
UNIT - I
Theory of metal cutting, tool materials, conventional and unconventional machining processes,
super finishing processes, high speed machining, tool condition monitoring, tool based
micromachining, MEMS based micro-machining.
UNIT - II

Additive manufacturing techniques, processing techniques of different composites, hybrid

composites, Optical microscopy, TEM, SEM, AFM, Hardness, micro hardness, Impact test,
Synthesis of nano materials, Top down and bottom up approaches, surface mount technology.

UNIT - III

Measurements, errors, accuracy, precision, calibration, surface roughness, interferometers,

laser metrology, co-ordinate measuring machine, in-process inspection, vision system, image
processing, lean manufacturing, Just In Time, Total Quality Management, Smart manufacturing,
machine learning and IoT.

UNIT - IV

Finite Element Analysis, welding types, HAZ, defects, special casting processes, casting defects,
metal forming, plastic deformation, stress strain curves for different materials, work hardening,
strain hardening, fatigue, failure analysis, material selection, creep, wear resistance, heat
treatment, powder metallurgy.

UNIT - V

Robot classification, end effectors, robot vision, robot programming languages, sensors,
transducers, actuators, PLC, artificial intelligence. CNC machines, Automation in
manufacturing, adaptive control, Group technology, Computer Aided Design, Computer Aided
Manufacturing, flexible manufacturing system, Discrete System Simulation.

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PME2012 Printing and Packaging Technology
UNIT - I Fundamentals of Printing and Packaging
Fundamentals of Graphic Design, Colour theory, Halftone screening, Prepress workflow,
Package Design and Development, Brand Management, Anticounterfeiting, Cost estimating,
Sustainable packaging.
UNIT - II Printing Processes

Offset, Flexo, Gravure, Screen, Digital - Principle, Image carrier preparation, Machine
configuration.

UNIT - III Printing and Packaging Materials

Paper and Board, Plastics, Glass, Wood, Metal, Printing Inks and Coatings, Adhesives,
Cushioning materials, Ancillary materials for printing and packaging.

UNIT - IV Packaging Technologies

Paper and Board Conversion, Plastic Conversion, Closures, Packaging Machineries,

Automotive and Industrial Packaging, Food Packaging, Healthcare Packaging

UNIT - V Testing and Quality Control

Printing and Packaging Materials - Testing and Standards, Quality control and ISO standards
for printing processes, Packaging Performance and Testing, Shelf life, Packaging Laws and
Regulations.

PME2013 Mechatronics
UNIT - I Mechanics

Kinematic Link, Pair and Chain and Classification, Constraints and Motions, Degrees of
Freedom, Mechanism - Slider Crank, Single and Double, Crank Rocker Mechanisms-Inversions
and its Applications- Kinematic Analysis of Mechanisms- Velocity and Acceleration
Consideration - Gears – Gear Train – Speed and Torque Relations –Belt Drives – Screws
Drives - Nuts – Bearing – Friction – Power Transmission- Spring - Vibration – Damped and
Undammed System.

UNIT - II Electronics

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Resistor, Inductor, Capacitor, Diodes, MOSFET, Transistor, SCR Family, LED, and LCD –
Operating Amplifiers and its Applications – Digital Electronics –Logic Gates, Arithmetic and
Logic Circuits - Sequential and Combination Circuits, Flip Flop – Memory – Power Supply –
Measurements of Voltage, Current, Frequency, and RLC Values– Oscilloscope- Signal
Conditioning Circuits – Bridge Circuits – Sample and Hold Circuit, D/A and A/D Converter –
Data Acquisition Cards.

UNIT - III Sensors and Drives

Sensor and Transducer Classification, Characteristics –Signals Types - Displacement, Proximity

and Ranging Sensors - Force, Magnetic and Heading Sensors - Optical, Pressure, Temperature-
Chemical Sensors.Electrical Drives – Types and Working of DC Motors – Types and Working of
Single Phase and Three Phase AC Motors- Stepper Motors – Servomotors – BLDC Motors –
Piezomotors – Protection and Switching Circuits – Relays – Solenoids – DC Drives – AC Drives
– VFD. Fluid Power Drives - Fluid Power System Generation Systems - Linear and Rotary
Pneumatic and Hydraulic Actuators – Types of Pumps – Types of Valves – Regulating and
Controlling Elements of Pneumatic and Hydraulics - Sequencing and combinational Logic
Circuit Design - Cascade Method – KV Mapping.

UNIT - IV Control Systems and Controllers

System Modelling – Mathematical Modelling of Mechanical, Electrical, Thermal, Fluid

Transportation, and Fluid Powered Systems– Block Diagram Reduction and Signal Flow Graph
– First and Second Order System – Time and Frequency Domain Specification- Methods and
Analysis - Design of Compensators and Controllers – PID Combination - Control and Analysis
of Motor – State Space Model.8051 Microcontroller – Architecture – Addressing Modes –
Instruction Set – Communication - Working and its Applications – PLC Architecture – Types of
Programming – Ladder Logic – Timer and Counter – Applications - Industrial Communication
Protocols.

UNIT - V Robotics, Machine Vision and Cnc Machines

Mechatronic System Integration - Industrial Serial Manipulators – Configuration -

Classification – Forward and Inverse Kinematics – Dynamics – Trajectory Planning - End
Effectors – Programming –Work cell and Safety Systems - Machine Vision System – Sensors –

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Lighting Techniques – Lens and Mounting Selections – Image Processing - CNC and Automation
Techniques - Subsystems - Mechatronic Elements in CNC Machine - CNC Measurement System
and Tooling - CNC Programming.

PME2014 Manufacturing Engineering / Production Engineering

UNIT - I
Engineering Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Kinematics of Machines - Design of machine elements
- Jig fixture and tool designs.

UNIT - II
NC/CNC Machineries - GT - Automated process planning - FMS -Computer Aided Product
Design-CIM - Robotics – Mechatronics - Fluid power automation

UNIT - III
Engineering Materials and metallurgy - Machining Processes - Special purpose machine tools -
Unconventional/Advanced Machining processes
UNIT - IV
Powder metallurgy - Composite materials - Casting, Welding and forming processes –Non
Destructive Evaluation, Material Characterization – Metrology
UNIT - V
Inventory management - Plant location and layout - Materials handling - Method, study - work
measurement - Break even analysis - Cost accounting - Quality control - Control
chartsacceptances sampling – TQM- TPM –Operational Research - Design of Experiments

PME2015 Automobile Engineering / Automotive Engineering / Automotive

Materials and Manufacturing

UNIT - I Automotive Chassis

Front axle types, Front wheel geometry. Condition for true rolling motion. Steering geometry.
Ackermann and Davis steering. Types of steering gear box. Propeller shaft. Universal joints.
Final drive. Differential-types. Type of brakes and constructional details. Types of suspension.
Independent suspension- front and rear. Rubber, pneumatic, hydro- elastic suspension.

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UNIT - II Automotive Transmission

Construction and operation of friction clutches. Different types of gear boxes. Fluid couplings
and torque converters. Wilson gear box. Hydrostatic drive systems. Electric drive. Continuously
Variable Transmission (CVT). Types of car bodies.

UNIT - III Vehicle Body Engineering and Vehicle Dynamics

Classification of bus bodies. Body optimization techniques for minimum drag. Wind tunnel
technology. Classification of vibration, definitions. Single degree of freedom, free, forced and
damped vibrations. Rolling resistance, cornering properties of tyres. Directional stability of
vehicle. Choice of suspension spring rate. Calculation of effective spring rate. Vehicle
suspension in fore and aft. Vehicle ride model. Load distribution.

UNIT - IV Automotive Electrical and Electronics

Automotive Batteries, Electrical systems for Automobiles. Automotive sensors and actuators,
Vehicle networking, Vehicle Control system, PID control, Different control schemes.
Components for electronic engine management system. Types of solid-state ignition systems and
their operation. Fuel control maps, open loop control of fuel injection and closed loop lambda
control - Integrated engine control system. Onboard diagnosis system.

UNIT - V Engines Emission Control, Alternative Fuels and Hybridelectric Vehicles

Emission formation in SI and CI Engines. Controlling techniques. CVS Systems. Measurement

techniques of HC, CO, NOx and Smoke emissions. Dilution Tunnel and Sound level meters.
Properties of alcohols, vegetable oils, biogas, natural gas, LPG and hydrogen. Methods of using
all the fuels in SI and CI engines. Design requirement for electric vehicles. Batteries and Motors
for Electric vehicles, Power Split devices for Hybrid Vehicles - Operation modes - Control
Strategies for Hybrid Vehicle- Economy of hybrid Vehicles.

PME2016 Aeronautical Engineering / Aerospace Technology

UNIT - I

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Aerodynamics: Introduction to Aerodynamics - Incompressible Flow Theory - Compressible
Flow Theory - Airfoils, Wings and Airplane Configuration in High Speed Flows - Viscous Flow
and Flow Measurements.
UNIT - II
Aircraft Structural Mechanics: Bending of Beams - Shear Flow in Open Sections - Shear Flow in
Closed Sections - Stability Problems - Analysis of Aircraft Structural Components.
UNIT - III
Aerospace Propulsion: Elements of Aerospace Propulsion - Propeller Theory - Inlets, Nozzles
and Combustion Chambers - Axial Flow Compressors, Fans and Turbines - Rocket and Electric
Propulsion.
UNIT - IV
Flight Mechanics: Principles of Flight - Aircraft Performance in Level, Climbing and Gliding
Flights - Accelerated Flight - Longitudinal Stability and Control - Lateral, Directional Stability
and Control.
UNIT - V
Aircraft system instruments: Fuel System Jet Engine, Ignition systems Jet engine,Pitot static
systems, Altimeter Mach meter and Gyroscopic instruments.

PME2017 Avionics
UNIT - I
Digital Avionics: Introduction to Avionics - Avionics System Data Buses, Design and Integration
- Avionics System Essentials: Displays, I/O Devices and Power - Packaging - System
Assessment, Validation and Certification - Maintenance and Costs of Avionics.
UNIT - II
Electro Optic System: Introduction - Laser Systems - Infrared Systems - Imaging Devices and
Tracking Systems - Fiber Optic Systems. Flight Instrumentation: Measurements Science and
Displays - Air Data Instruments and Synchro Transmission Systems.
UNIT - III
Gyroscopic Instruments - Aircraft Compass Systems & Flight Management System - Power
Plant Instruments. NAVIGATION SYSTEM: Navigation System & Inertial Sensors - Inertial
Navigation Systems - Radio Navigation - Approach and Landing Aids - Satellite Navigation &
Hybrid Navigation.

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UNIT - IV
Aerospace Guidance And Control : Introduction - Augmentation Systems - Longitudinal
Autopilot - Lateral Autopilot - Missile and Launch Vehicle Guidance.

UNIT - V

Mathematical Modeling And Simulation: System Models and Simulation - Probability, Concepts
in Simulation - System Simulation - System Dynamics and Mathematical Models for Flight
Simulation - Flight Simulators as a Training Device and Research Tool. Rocketry And Space
Mechanics: Orbital Mechanics - Satellite Dynamics - Rocket Motion - Rocket Aerodynamics -
Staging and Control of Rocket Vehicles.

PME2018 Solar Energy

UNIT - I
Conduction: General heat Conduction equation, initial and boundary conditions, Extended
surfaces, Lumped system analysis, Heisler charts-semi infinite solid, Moving Boundary
problems. Convective Heat Transfer: SteadyLaminar and Turbulent Heat Transfer in External
and Internal Flows – HeatTransfer at High Speeds – Unsteady Laminar and Turbulent Forced
Convection in Ducts and on Plates. Radiation Heat Transfer: Radiation in Enclosures, Network
analogy, Radiation shields, Gas Radiation. Boiling, Condensation& Heat exchangers.
UNIT - II
Laws of Thermodynamics, Concepts of Energy, Entropy and Exergy - Reversibility and
Irreversibility - Principle of increase in Entropy - Entropy Generation - Availability analysis of
simple cycles. Thermodynamic property relations. Real Gas behavior, I & II Law Efficiency -
Fugacity - Compressibility - Principle of corresponding States. Real gas mixtures, equilibrium in
multiphase systems - Gibbs phase rule for non - reactive components. Chemical
Thermodynamics and Equilibrium - Thermo chemistry - Adiabatic flame temperature.
UNIT - III
Mass, Momentum and Energy equations and their applications. Potential flow theory - Stream,
Potential functions and Vorticity. Viscous flow theory - flow between parallel plates and flow
through pipes. Major and minor head losses. Boundary layer theory. Compressible fluid flow in
variable area passage. Types of sensors, error and uncertainty analysis. Measurements of

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Density, Temperature, Pressure, Flow, heat flux and thermo - physical properties (thermal
conductivity, viscosity and specific heat). Calibration methods. Data logging and acquisition.
UNIT - IV
Solar Radiation - Solar angles - Thermal analysis of solar collectors–Flat plate, Evacuated
tube,Concentrated collector - Tracking and control systems for Concentrated collectors -
Techno-economic analysis of solar thermal power plants, performance study, site
selection.Vapour cycles - Organic cycles - Combined cycles - Binary Cycles -Stirling and other
cycles- Solar Cooking - Solar Desalination - Solar Ponds – Solar Drying – Solar Refrigeration
and air conditioning - Solar Thermal Energy Storage.
UNIT - V
Solar PV basics - Solar PV material types – Solar PV Modules and Arrays -Standalone PV
system – GridConnected SPV Systems –Load Estimation -– Balance of system components – DC
to AC converter, Batteries, Charge controller, and MPPT - Hybrid SPV system – Net metering–
Building materials - Solar heating and cooling of buildings - Zero energy building.

PEE3001 High Voltage Engineering

UNIT - I High Voltage Generation and Measurment

Voltage stress, testing voltages,AC to DC conversion, analysis of single phase rectifier, voltage
multiplier, Cockcroft-Walton, Electrostatic generators, analysis of cascaded transformer and
resonant circuit, Marx generator circuit analysis, generation of switching surges, non-standard
impulse and VFTO, analysis of impulse current generator circuits, measurement of High AC,DC
and Impulse voltages, Field sensors, voltage divider, impulse current measurement, fast digital
transient recorders

UNIT - II Insulation Technology

Properties of dielectrics in static fields, behaviour of dielectrics in alternating fields, breakdown

mechanisms in gaseous, solid and liquid dielectrics, thermal modelling, Application of insulating
materials in power equipment

UNIT - III Electromagnetic Field Computation and Insulation Design

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Review of basic field theory – Maxwell’s equations – Laplace, Poisson and Helmholtz equations
for EM field analyses, governing equations , problem definition, boundary conditions, circuit
parameters from the EM field solutions-Electrical field distribution and breakdown strength of
insulating materials - factors affecting the breakdown strength - electric field distribution in
homogenous and multi-dielectric isotropic materials- electrical field control techniques-
insulation design and electric stress control in insulators, bushings, transformers and surge
arresters

UNIT - IV High Voltage Testing Techniques

Classification of testing methods,IS/IEC/IEEE standards,measurement techniques,diagnostic

techniques and online measurement, Determination of probability values, Distribution function,
confidence limits, ‘Up and Down’ method,multi stress ageing, life data analysis,Testing of
insulators, bushings, air break switches, isolators, circuit breakers, power transformers, voltage
transformers, current transformers, surge arresters ,cable testing methodology,non-destructive
insulation test techniques,pollution tests and design of high voltage lab.

UNIT - V Transients In Power Sysytems and Ehvtransmission

Lightning overvoltage’s, switching and temporary overvoltage’s, travelling waves on

transmission line, insulation co-ordination,Standard transmission voltages- Calculation of line
parameters, voltage gradients of conductors,design concepts of EHV and HVDC lines

PEE3002 Embedded Systems Technology

UNIT - I Microprocessor and Microcontroller Based System Design
8051, PIC and ARM architecture, Peripherals, interfacing, applications and programming.

UNIT - II Embedded System Design

Basic components, Embedded System design flow, Hardware/Software co-design, selection of
processor and memory devices- Memory management methods- Timers and counting devices-
sensors, actuators- Nyquist criterion-sampling for signals-RTOS Based Embedded System
Design- Embedded System Application Development

UNIT - III Software For Embedded Systems

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Assembly language, C, Embedded C and Python programming, Distributed embedded
computing concepts, Android OS concepts, Software development tools,IDE- Applications.

UNIT - IV Communication For Embedded System

Embedded Networking design and concepts- Network topologies- OSI -USB -UART – Inter
Integrated Circuits (I2C)-CAN BUS- wireless communication-Blue tooth-Zigbee-Wifi- IoT
Applications.

UNIT - V Digital Design and Vlsi

Digital systems-Combinational and sequential design- CMOS design-FPGA technologies-HDL -
SoC

PEE3003 Electrical Machines / Power Electronics And Drives

UNIT - I Electrical Machines

Principles of Electromagnetic energy conversion - Dc machines- reference frame theory-

induction machines- synchronous machines

UNIT - II Power Converters

Switched mode DC-DC converters; buck, boost, sepic and cuk topologies-single phase and three
phase controlled converters- single phase and three phase vsi and csi - performance parameters-
pwm techniques-modern inverters- control techniques

UNIT - III DC, AC and Special Electrical Drives

Mechanical systems fundamental- converter and chopper control of dc drives- closed loop
anddigital control of d.c drive- stator and rotor controlled induction motor - field oriented
control of induction machines- synchronous motor drives- permanent magnet brushless dc
motors- permanent magnet synchronous motors- switched reluctance motors- stepper motors

UNIT - IV Microcontroller and DSP Based System Design

8051 architecture and programming- pic microcontroller- peripheral of pic microcontroller-

motor control signal processors- assembly language programming- peripherals of signal
processors- event manager and drive control- applications

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UNIT - V Power Electronics For Power Systems

Electrical machines for renewable energy conversion- analysis of wind and pv systems- hybrid
renewable energy systems – power quality analysis of single phase and three phase system-
conventional load compensation methods- load compensation using dstatcom-series
compensation of power distribution system-analysis of hvdc converters and hvdc systems control
– thyristor and vsc based facts controllers

PEE3004 Power Engineering and Management

UNIT - I Deregulation In Power Systems

Deregulation of various power systems- Market models- Comparison of various market models-
Market Architecture-Importance of Congestion management, Features of congestion
management- Classification of congestion Management methods – Calculation of ATC-
Locational marginal pricing- Financial Transmission rights-Types of Ancillary servicesMarginal
transmission pricing– Framework of Indian power sector -Reform initiatives -Open access issues
– Power exchange.

UNIT - II Power Business Management

Emerging Trends in Metering Technology-Power scenario in India- Load management in power

sector, Grid Management - Electricity Act 2003–Tamil Nadu Solar Energy Policy -Tariff policy,
Tariff regulations, Tariff structure, Fixed Tariff, Availability Based Tariff (ABT), Time Of the
Day (TOD) Tariff, Multi Year Tariff - Power Purchase Agreement, Desirable Principles of
Power Purchase Agreements- Case Study: Power demand study and Load management study in
Tamil Nadu

UNIT - III Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Systems

Concept of Micro Grids and their types, Different types of grid interfaces, Issues related to grid
integration - Interconnection standards and grid code requirements for integration-Network
Integration of Wind Power -Influence of Wind Farms on Network Dynamic Performance-Power
Systems Stabilizers and Network Damping capability of Wind Farms - Stand Alone and Grid
Connected PV System

UNIT - IV SMART GRIDS and SCADA

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Evolution of Electric Grid, Concept, Definitions and Need for Smart Grid -Smart Grid drivers,
functions, opportunities, challenges and benefits-Smart Grid Technologies (Transmission) -
Smart Grid Technologies (Distribution) -Smart Meters and Advanced Metering Infrastructure
(AMI) -Local Area Network (LAN), House Area Network (HAN), Wide Area Network
(WAN),Broadband over Power line (BPL) -CLOUD Computing to make Smart Grids smarter,
Cyber Security for Smart Grid

UNIT - V Energy Management and Auditing

Need for Energy Management - Energy Accounting -Energy Monitoring -Economic models-
Load management and Demand control techniques-Utility monitoring- Energy Management for
Motors andTransformers-Metering techniques and practical examples- Concept of lighting
systems and lighting controls- Optimizing lighting energy-Power factor and effect of harmonics
on power quality - Cogeneration - Forms of cogeneration –Case Study: Feasibility of
Cogeneration

PEE3005 Electrical and Electronics Engineering / Electrical Energy System /

Power System Engineering
UNIT - I Power System Analysis, Operation and Control
State Estimation - Power System Security - Hydrothermal Scheduling Problem - Unit
Commitment And Economic Dispatch - Power Flow Analysis - Optimal Power Flow - Short
Circuit Analysis – Stability Analysis
UNIT - II Power System Protection

Over Current And Earth Fault Protection - Transformer Protection - Busbar Protection -
Distance And Carrier Protection Of Transmission Lines - Generator Protection And Motor
Protection - Substation Automation

UNIT - III Power System Dynamics

Synchronous Machine Modelling - Modelling Of Excitation And Speed Governing Systems –

Small Signal Stability Analysis - Enhancement Of Small Signal Stability - Transient Stability
Analysis - Subsysnchronous Resonance And Oscillations

UNIT - IV Power Converters And Facts Devices

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Single Phase Ac-Dc Converter - Three Phase Ac-Dc Converter - Single Phase Inverters - Three
Phase Inverters - Multilevel Inverters - Static Var Compensator - Thyristor And Gto Thyristor
Controlled Series Capacitors - Voltage Source Converter Based Facts Controllers - Controllers
And Their Coordination – Hvdc Transmission

UNIT - V Restructured Power System

Introduction To Restructuring Of Power Industry - Transmission Congestion Management -
Locational Marginal Prices And Financial Transmission Rights - Ancillary Service Management
And Pricing Of Transmission Network - Reforms In Indian Power Sector

PEE3006 Control System / Control and Instrumentation / Electronics and

Control / Instrumentation Engineering / Process Control
Instrumentation

UNIT - I Measurement and Instrumentation

Principle of Transduction - Error and uncertainty analysis -Static and dynamic characteristics of
Sensors / Transducers - Resistive, Capacitive, Inductive, Piezoelectric, Magnetostrictive and
Hall effect sensors - HART and FF Enabled Smart Transmitter - Measurement of Flow, Level,
Temperature and Pressure - Design of signal conditioning circuits for sensors.

UNIT - II Control System

Mathematical Modeling and System Analysis: Lumped and distributed parameter models -
Nonlinear systern elements - Linearization of nonlinear systems - Transfer functions and state
space models - Stability analysis - Lyapunov's method - Controllability and Observability -
Transfer Function matrix and state space representation of multivariable systems - Poles and
Zeros of MIMO System - Directions in multivariable systems -Singular value decomposition -
Relative Gain Array - State Feedback Control - Observer.

UNIT - III Process Control

Basics of process control - Degrees of Freedom - lnteracting and non-interacting systems -

Characteristic of ON-OFF, P, P+1, P+D and P+l+D control modes - Reset windup - PID
Controller tuning - Cascade control - Feed forward control - Multi-loop PID Controller:-

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Decoupling Control - Multivariable PID Controller - DCS - SCADA - PLC programming -
Realization of PID Controller using OPAMPs and Embedded system

UNIT - IV Advanced Control Schemes

Smith predictor control - Control, Model Reference LOR, LQG,DMC, GPC. IMC - IMC PID
Adaptive Control Adaptive control:- Gain Scheduled Adaptive and Self Tuning Controller -
Optimal Control.

UNIT - V State and Parameter Estimation and Soft Computing Techniques

System identification: Models for Linear and Nonlinear Systems - Prediction Error Method
(PEM) - Maximum Likelihood Estimation - Recursive Estimation. State Estimation: Kalman
filter. Soft computing Techniques: Artificial Neural Networks: BPN, RNN, RBF- Fuzzy Logic
Control - SVM - ANFIS - Genetic Algorithm and Hybrid control schemes.

PIC4001 Applied Electronics Engineering / Electronics and Communication

Engineering / Vlsi Design

UNIT - I Semiconductor Devices, Electronic Circuits

Biasing , BJTs and MOSFETs, Amplifiers, Low & High frequency analysis, IC MOSFET,
Oscillators; Analog ICs - A-D & D-A Convertors, Applications of Analog ICs; Digital
Electronics - Combinatorial circuits and Sequential circuits

UNIT - II Communication

Line coding, amplitude modulation and demodulation, spectra of AM and FM, PCM, DPCM,
digital modulation schemes: amplitude, phase and frequency shift keying (ASK, PSK, FSK),
QAM, MAP and ML decoding, TDMA, FDMA and CDMA

UNIT - III Basics Of Signals And Systems , Digital Signal Processing

Fourier series and Fourier transform, DFT, FFT, Z-transform, digital filter design techniques;
Digital image Processing- Spatial and Frequency domain techniques, image enhancement,
Segmentation, Restoration, Compression techniques, Laplace transforms, Zeros, Poles, Stability,
Gain Margin, Phase Margin

UNIT - IV Microprocessor and Micro Controller

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8085 & 8086 Microprocessor architectures - Memory Interfacing and I/O interfacing;
Embedded Systems - 8051& PIC Microcontroller- Special Function Registers, Interfacing, PIC
Development Tools And Programming; VLSI - FPGA architectures

UNIT - V Low Power Vlsi

Power Dissipation, Power Optimization, Low Power CMOS Circuits, Power Estimation,
Synthesis and Software Design For Low Power

PIC4002 Biomedical Engineering / Medical Electronics

UNIT - I Semiconductor Devices, Electronic Circuits

Biasing , BJTs and MOSFETs, Amplifiers, Low & High frequency analysis, IC MOSFET,
Oscillators; Analog ICs - A-D & D-A Convertors, Applications of Analog ICs; Digital
Electronics - Combinatorial circuits and Sequential circuits

UNIT - II Communication

Line coding, amplitude modulation and demodulation, spectra of AM and FM, PCM, DPCM,
digital modulation schemes, amplitude, phase and frequency shift keying (ASK, PSK, FSK),
QAM, MAP and ML decoding, TDMA, FDMA and CDMA

UNIT - III Basics Of Signals And Systems, Digital Signal Processing

Fourier series and Fourier transform, DFT, FFT, Z-transform, digital filter design techniques,
Adaptive Filter Structures; Digital image Processing- Spatial and Frequency domain
techniques, image enhancement, Segmentation, Restoration, Compression techniques, Laplace
transforms, Zeros, Poles, Stability, Gain Margin, Phase Margin

UNIT - IV Biomedical Instrumentation

Bio Potential Recording, Biomedical Transducers And Amplifiers, Non Electrical Parameter
Measurements , Diathermy and Stimulator

UNIT - V Human Assist Devices

Scanning Techniques- Heart Lung Machine and Artificial Heart, Cardiac Assist Devices,
Artificial Kidney, Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices, Respiratory and Hearing Aids.

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PIC4003 Advanced Communication System / Computer And Communication
/ Communication Systems / Digital Communication and
Networking Engineering / Electronics Engineering / Networking
Technology / Optical Communication / Wireless Communication

UNIT - I Semiconductor Devices, Electronic Circuits

Biasing , BJTs and MOSFETs, Amplifiers, Low & High frequency analysis, IC MOSFET,
Oscillators; Analog ICs - A-D & D-A Convertors, Applications of Analog ICs; Digital
Electronics - Combinatorial circuits and Sequential circuits

UNIT - II Communication

Line coding, amplitude modulation and demodulation, spectra of AM and FM, PCM, DPCM,
digital modulation schemes, amplitude, phase and frequency shift keying (ASK, PSK, FSK),
QAM, MAP and ML decoding, TDMA, FDMA and CDMA

UNIT - III Basics Of Signals and Systems, Digital Signal Processing

Fourier series and Fourier transform, DFT, FFT, Z-transform, digital filter design techniques,
Adaptive Filter Structures; Digital image Processing - Spatial and Frequency domain
techniques, image enhancement, Segmentation, Restoration, Compression techniques, Laplace
transforms, Zeros, Poles, Stability, Gain Margin, Phase Margin

UNIT - IV Electromagnetic Theory

Static Electric & Magnetic Field, Time Varying Electric And Magnetic Fields, Plane EM Waves
in Isotropic Media; Transmission Line & Wave Guide - Impedence Matching And
Transformation, Network Components, Rectangular & Cylindrical Wave Guides; RF- Antennas,
antenna types, radiation pattern, gain and directivity, return loss, antenna arrays

UNIT - V Optical Communication

Optical sources and detectors, fiber types, Dispersion Compensation Schemes; Microwave -
Passive Microwave Devices And Circuits, Microwave Generation, Microwave Measurements;
Wireless communication - Channel Models , Digital Modulation , Multi antenna
Communication , Cellular Concepts ; Communication networks - Internet Routing Protocols ,
Mobile & Adhoc Networks.

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PIC4004 Advanced Computing / Computer Science and Engineering /
Distributed Computing System / Information Technology / Main
Frame Technology / Multimedia Technology / Pervasive Computing
/ Software Engineering / System Engineering and Operations
Research / Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

UNIT - I Probability and Statistics

Random Variables, Probability Distributions, Correlation, Regression, Testing of hypothesis;
Theory of Computation - Finite State Machine, Pushdown Automata, Context Free Grammar,
Turing Machine

UNIT - II Data Structures and Algorithms

Arrays, Lists, Stacks, Queues, Trees, Graphs, Searching and Sorting Algorithms; Programming
– C, Object Oriented Programming

UNIT - III Databases

Relational Databases, Query Language, E-R modeling, Normalization, Query Processing,

Transaction Processing, Integrity and Security; Operating Systems – Process Management,
Scheduling, Deadlocks, Memory Management, File Systems

UNIT - IV Networking

TCP/IP model, Layers, Functions and Protocols; Security – Cryptography, Symmetric Key and
Public Key Algorithms; Computer Architecture – Instruction Set Architectures, Arithmetic
Operations, Pipelines and Hazards, Caches

UNIT - V Software Engineering

Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Maintenance, Metrics, Object Oriented Analysis and
Design; Web Technology – Scripting Languages, Client-Server Applications, Database
Connectivity; Cloud Computing – Virtualization; Big Data Analytics, NoSQL.

PTE5001 Textile Technology

UNIT - 1 Fibre Science

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Physical and chemical properties, moisture, tensile, frictional, optical, thermal, electrical
properties of fibres; structure investigation techniques; different methods of fibre production,
electrospinning; post spinning operations- spin finish application, drawing and heat setting
UNIT - II Yarn Formation
Principles of opening and cleaning; theory of carding, drafting and twisting; mechanisms -
opening, cleaning and carding; drawing, combing, roving formation and yarn formation;
alternative spinning systems; calculations; yarn defects; process control in spinning; structural
mechanics of yarn.
UNIT - III Fabric Formation
Principles of winding, winding defects and control; warping, sizing, beam preparation;
principles of weaving, settings, calculations; fabric defects, process control in weaving
preparatory and weaving; fabric structure; principles of shuttleless weaving, mechanisms,
calculations; principle and mechanism of weft and warp knitting; principles of non-woven fabric
manufacturing.
UNIT - IV Yarn and Fabric Quality Evaluation
Fibre, yarn and fabric properties – measurement and analysis; low stress mechanical properties
of fabrics – measurement and analysis
UNIT - V Dyeing and Finishing
Preparatory process for dyeing, dyeing and printing of different fibres; adsorption isotherms,
thermo dynamics of dyeing – dye affinity, activity of dyes, heat of dyeing, entropy; rate of dyeing
and half dyeing time; colour measurement and matching; finishes

PTE5002 Textile Chemistry

UNIT - 1 Fibre Science
Physical and chemical properties, moisture, tensile, frictional, optical, thermal, electrical
properties of fibres; structure investigation techniques; different methods of fibre production,
electrospinning; post spinning operations- spin finish application, drawing and heat setting.
UNIT - II Fabric and Garment Quality Evaluation
Fabric properties – measurement and analysis; low stress mechanical properties of fabrics –
measurement and analysis
UNIT - III Dyeing

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Preparatory for dyeing; basic characteristics of dyes and pigments; classification of dyes and
principle of application of dyes; chemistry and technology of application of different dyes;
determination of fastness properties; theory of dyeing
UNIT - IV Printing
Methods and styles of printing; printing machines; constituents of printing paste; printing with
direct, reactive, acid and disperse dyes; printing with pigments; Instrumental colour assessment
and matching.
UNIT - V Finishing
Water and soil repellent finishes; softening finish; antistatic finish; fire retardant finish;
antibacterial finish; application of nanotechnology in finishing; assessment of finishes

PTE5003 Apparel Technology / Fashion Technology

UNIT - I Quality Evaluation of Fabrics and Garments
Yarn numbering, fabric specification, fabric structure, fabric properties- measurement and
analysis, low stress mechanical properties of fabrics- measurement and analysis, fabric
inspection-different systems, fabric defect-analysis and control; quality assessment of garments
UNIT - II Apparel Manufacture
Standardization of size charts, 3D body scanning; flat pattern techniques, dart manipulation;
grading; marker planning- manual and computerised; cut order planning; garment production
machinery and work-aids; influence of fabric characteristics on sewing parameters, sewing
needle design, sewing thread, trims and accessories

UNIT - III Clothing Comfort

Role of wetting and wicking on comfort properties of garments, thermal comfort, body and
tactile sensations, comfort perception and preferences, evaluation of moisture comfort, thermal
comfort and physiological comfort

UNIT - IV Speciality Textiles and Garments

Intimate wear, protective wear and sportswear- selection of fibre and fabric parameters, testing;
seamless apparel, stretch pattern development and garment construction; smart garments;
garments for hygiene applications; home textiles

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UNIT - V Production Planning and Control

Productivity concepts; method study, work measurement; ergonomics; different production

systems of garment industry; production planning, line balancing; apparel costing; application of
statistics in process control

PTE5004 Nano Science and Nano Technology

UNIT - I
Quantum Mechanics: Basics of quantum mechanics - Time dependent and Time independent
Schrödinger equation - Approximate methods - Quantum computation, Nanocomposites:
Basics of nanocomposites - Metal based nanocomposites - Polymer based nanocomposites -
Nanocomposite from biomaterials - Nanocomposite technology.

UNIT - II
Physics and Chemistry of Materials: Physics aspects - Chemistry aspects - Diffusion and
surface defects – Nanostructures - Nanosystems. Synthesis and Processing of Nanomaterials :
Mechanical alloying and milling - chemical approaches - physical approaches - nanoporous
materials - application of nanomaterials - Deformation processing and metal forming -
Microstructural properties - Processing of polymers - powders of metals and ceramics -
Processing of functional nanomaterials.

UNIT - III
Physico-chemical and imaging techniques: Optical microscopy - Scanning electron microscopy
- Transmission electron microscopy - Atomic force microscopy - Scanning tunneling microscopy
- Spectroscopic techniques - Diffraction methods Thermal analysis methods Nanomechanical
analysis.

UNIT - IV
Nanomaterials for Energy and Environment: Renewable energy technology- Nanomaterials in
fuel cell and storage technology - Hydrogen storage and photocatalysis - Environmental
applications & impacts of nanomaterial. Nanoelectronics, NEMS, Nano-sensors and
Biosensors: Two-terminal junction transistors - Sensors and actuator characteristics - Memory

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devices and sensors – MEMS – Microsystems - Materials for MEMS- Quantum confined
materials - Plasmonics – Nanophotonics - Photonic crystals – Biophotonics – Nanofluids.

UNIT - V
Nanostructures in Biological systems and Toxicology: Cellular nanostructures - DNA
nanotechnology - Protein and enzyme - Carbohydrates and GLYCO nanoparticles - Lipids and
lipid based nanoparticles - Lipid based nanocarriers - Microbes and antibody based
nanocarriers - Nanomaterials for drug delivery - Toxicology – Nanotoxicology - Protocols in
toxicology studies - Risk assessment and execution

PTE5005 Leather Technology

UNIT - I Chemistry and Physics of Collagen
Molecular Structure of Collagen, Chemistry of Collagen and its Distribution, Collagen
Crosslinks, Isolation and Characterisation of Collagen, Biosynthesis of Collagen, Collagen
Degradation, Physico-Chemical Techniques for Collagenous Matrices.

UNIT - II Instrumental Methods In Leather Science

Spectroscopic Techniques, Chromatographic Techniques, Applications of Spectroscopic and

Chromatographic methods in Leather Science, Electroanalytical Methods, Principles of
Microscopic and other testing methods in Leather.

UNIT - III Science of Leather Making

Chemical Principles involved in Pre Tanning operations, Chemistry of Tanning materials,

Mechanism of Tanning, Post Tanning and Finishing.

UNIT - IV Leather and Leather Process Design Engineering

Speciality Leathers, Cleaner Processing – Beamhouse, Tanning, Post Tanning and Finishing,
Advanced Finishing Techniques, Property requirements of various leathers.

UNIT - V Tannery Waste Management And Engineering

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Physico - Chemical treatment of waste water, Biological treatment of wastewater, Advanced
wastewater treatment for the removal of Refractory Organic Compounds, Solid waste disposal,
Utilization of tannery solid wastes.

Science and Technology of Leather Chemicals – leather, auxiliaries, syntans, fatliquors,

pigments, binders, plasticizers, feel modifiers

PTE5006 Footwear Science and Engineering

UNIT - I Anatomy and Solid Modelling of Foot
Anatomy of Human Foot, Growth and Deformities, Bio Mechanics, Essentials of Therapeutic
Footcare, Solid Modelling.

UNIT - II Technology of Footwear Manufacturing

Design and Pattern Development, Cutting, Pre-Closing and Closing, Lasting, Post Lasting and
Finishing.

UNIT - III Footwear Chemicals, Polymers, Components And Accessories

Polymeric Materials for Footwear Industry, Chemistry & Technology involved in manufacturing
of polymeric materials, Modifications of Polymeric Materials for different footwear components,
Polymer materials- Properties, Specific uses and testing, Adhesives, Footwear Dressing
Chemicals. Footwear - Components, Grinderies and Chemicals, Fasteners, Accessories,
Reinforcements.

UNIT - IV Modern Footwear Styling and Computer Applications In Footwear

Historical Evaluation and International Trends, Fashion Considerations, Product Development,
Presentation Techniques, Fashion Forecast. Computer Aided Design and Manufacture for
Footwear - Computer Applications in Footwear Sector, Hardware in CAD, Pattern Engineering,
Last Modelling, Advanced Computational Techniques in CAD, Rapid Prototyping

UNIT - V Technology For Specialty and Non Leather Footwear

Lasting, Good Year Welted Construction, Stitch down and other Constructions, Sports &
Moulded Footwear, Orthopedic & Therapeutic Footwear

PTE5007 Ceramic Technology

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UNIT - I Material Science
Structure of solids - imperfections - point, line, surface, volume - phase diagrams - Gibbs Phase
Rule, single component system , two component system - Diffusion - Fick’s Law and its
applications - Properties - Physical, mechanical, electrical, thermal and optical.

UNIT - II Processing Ceramics

Plastic and non plastic raw materials - clay and its types - properties of clay water mixture -
size reduction - forming -pressing, extrusion, slip casting – firing. Powder preparation -
powder characterization - modern ceramic processing - sintering.

UNIT - III Glass and Refractory

Glass- Raw Material - manufacturing - melting forming - annealing - properties - special
glasses. Refractories - Types - acidic, basic, neutral - classification - properties - applications
- refractories for special application.

UNIT - IV Electronic Ceramics

Insulators - dielectric polarization, dielectric strength, dielectric loss, types, properties -
capacitors - barium titanate and its types , film capacitors, multilayer capacitors -
Piezoelectric - PZT, PLZT, properties - Magnetic - classification, types and properties - fuel
cells – sensors.
UNIT - V Advanced Ceramics
Properties and Applications - silica, alumina, zirconia, carbides, nitrides Composites- Types -
CMC, PMC, MMC, Reinforcements - fibers, whiskers, particles - properties – applications

PTE5008 Plastic Technology / Polymer Technology / Rubber And

Plastics Technology
UNIT - I Polymer Science

Polymers- Functionality of Monomers- Polymerization mechanisms-Industrial polymerization

techniques - Molecular weight of polymers and their significance - States of aggregation in
polymers - Amorphous polymers - Tg - Factors affecting Tg - Semicrystalline Polymers - Tm -
Crystal nucleation and growth - Spherulite formation - Factors affecting crystallinity -
Structure Property relationships in Polymers- Classification of Polymers.

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UNIT - II Plastics Materials
Preparation, Properties and Applications of Polyolefin based plastics- Plastics based on
Styrene and acrylates -PVC, Fluoroplastics - Polyamides and polyesters - Natural and synthetic
fibers - Thermosets including epoxy and unsaturated poyester resins - Engineering Plastics -
High performance and specialty polymers.

UNIT - III Rubber Materials

Natural Rubber - Rubber Latex - Synthetic Rubbers - BR, CR, IIR, SBR, NBR, EPM and EPDM
- Structure Property relationship and applications of General Purpose Rubbers - Special
Purpose Rubbers- Silicone Rubbers - Fluorocarbon and Fluorosilicone rubbers, Polyurethanes
and Thermoplastic Elastomers.
UNIT - IV Polymer Processing and Testing
Test for Processability - Melt Viscosity - Melt Flow characteristics - Non-Newtonian behaviour
-MFI - Gelation and Gel time - Molecular weight studies - Compounding and Mixing processes
- Forming Operations - Extrusion, Injection molding, Blow molding, Compression and Transfer
molding, Rotational molding, Thermoforming, Calendaring, Reaction Injection Molding -
Vulcanization Tests for rubber - Test for Mechanical, Electrical and Optical Properties - Test
for durability; Thermal analysis, Spectroscopic and Morphological studies.

UNIT - V Product Design And Applications

Effect of Temperature and time on mechanical properties of Polymers - Creep - Stress
relaxation - Design of Simple geometries - Spring rates of rubber products - - Design to
Specific Spring rates, Rubber under complex loading, Rubber products under dynamic
conditions - Property considerations in designing of Plastics Parts, Design of moulds and dies
for Rubber and Plastics products, Applications of polymers in the field of civil, automobile,
aeronautical, electronics and biomedical Engg.
PTE5009 Biotechnology / Bioengineering / Biomedical Engineering /
Bioinformatics / Biopharmaceutical Technology / Industrial
Biotechnology / Microbial technology
UNIT - I Biochemistry, Cell Biology and Microbiology

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Bonding (covalent and non-covalent bonds), Water, Acid, Base, Buffer and pH, Stoichiometric
calculations- Molarity, Molality, Normality etc., Basic thermodynamics, Laws of
thermodynamics. Good laboratory practice, Biomolecules- structure and functions, metabolism
of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids, Hormonal regulation of metabolism. Membrane structure
and function, action potential and transport processes, Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell structure,
cell division , cell cycle and cell signaling and signal transduction. Microbial taxonomy and
diversity (bacteria, fungi, virus), microbial nutrition, growth and metabolism, host-microbe
interactions, mode of action and resistance to antibiotics, microbial genetics-Mutations –
spontaneous and induced, DNA damage and repair mechanisms. Genetic recombination in
bacteria – Conjugation, Transformation and Transduction, Principles of microscopy.

UNIT - II Molecular Biology and Immunology

Nucleic acids, DNA Replication, Protein synthesis, regulation of gene expression in prokaryotes
and eukaryotes. Recombinant DNA Technology, DNA libraries, PCR, Blotting, Gene sequencing,
Gene silencing and genome editing techniques, Signal transduction pathways and their
elucidation. Cells of Immune system, types of immunity, Hematopoiesis, Immunoglobulin
structure, types and functions, Antigen-Antibody interaction, Hypersensitivity reactions,
Autoimmune disorders and Immunology of infectious diseases, Structure and functions of MHC
molecules. Monoclonal antibodies and vaccine technology. Cell culture technologies,
Regenerative medicine & transplantation technology, Biosafety, Animal Ethics, Reduction in
animal uses, Human experiments - basic clearances, Research methodology
UNIT - III Statistics and Bioinformatics

Measures of central tendency and dispersion; Probabiity and Statistics: Mean, median, mode
and standard deviation. Probability distributions (Binomial, Poisson and normal); Sampling
distribution; parametric and non-parametric statistics; Confidence Interval; Errors; Levels of
significance; Regression and Correlation; t-test; Analysis of variance and multiple range tests,
chi-square test, experimental design, data transformation. Sequence analysis-types, algorithms,
multiple sequence alignment and Phylogeny. Biological databases-DNA and protein. Structure
prediction and visualization tools, docking and molecular modeling. Basics of Systems Biology
and Linux Operation System. Data mining and analytical tools for genomics and proteomics
studies.

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UNIT - IV Bioprocess Technology and Analytical Techniques

Enzyme kinetics, Enzyme immobilization, Types of bioreactors, bioreactor scale up, Transport
phenomena in bioprocess. Media design and optimization for fermentation process, sterilization
kinetics. Fermenter description, Engineering principles of bioprocessing- Upstream and
Downstream processing, Bioprocess design and development- Scale-up operations, Microbial
production of primary and secondary metabolites and various bioproducts etc. Environmental
biotechnology-Pollution, Bioremediation and biodegradation. Theory and instrumentation, of
the following: Spectroscopy- Beer Lambert’s Law, stokes shift, IR, NMR and Mass Spectrometry,
Optical Rotatory Dispersion, Chromatography- Principle, HPLC, HPTLC, GC and hyphenated
techniques (LC-MS), TGA, DTA, DSC and XRD, Electrophoresis, Microarray.

UNIT - V Plant and Animal Biotechnology

Totipotency, Regeneration of plants, Plant growth regulators and elicitors, Tissue culture and
Cell suspension culture system, Production of secondary metabolites by plant suspension
cultures, transgenic plants. Animal cell culture, media composition and growth conditions,
Animal cell and tissue preservation, Anchorage and non-anchorage dependent cell culture,
Kinetics of cell grow th, Hybridoma technology, Stem cell technology

PSH7009 Applied Plant Science / Biochemistry / Bioinformatics / Botany /

Biotechnology / Biomedical Science / Biomedical Instrumentation
Science /Biological sciences / Immunology/Clinical Immunology /
Genomics /Human Genetics / Life sciences / Microbiology /
Molecular biology / Molecular virology / Plant Biology and
Plant Biotechnology / Zoology

UNIT - I Basic Chemistry and Statistics

Atoms, Molecules, Atomic number, Mass number, Isotopes, Molecular weight, Equivalent
weight, Bonding (covalent and non-covalent bonds), Water, Acid, Base, Buffer and pH,
Stoichiometric calculations- Molarity, Molality, Normality etc., Basic thermodynamics, Laws of
thermodynamics. Good laboratory practice, Measures of central tendency and dispersion;
Probability and Statistics: Mean, median, mode and standard deviation. Probability
distributions (Binomial, Poisson and normal); Sampling distribution; parametric and non-

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parametric statistics; Confidence Interval; Errors; Levels of significance; Regression and
Correlation; t-test; Analysis of variance and multiple range tests, chi-square test, experimental
design, data transformation.

UNIT - II Fundamentals in Biology

Biomolecules – Chemistry of Carbohydrates, Proteins, Lipids, Nucleic acids and Vitamins.

Anatomy of a cell, cellular organelles and their functions, Membrane properties, transport and
protein targeting, hormones and signal transduction, Structure and function of cytoskeleton,
tissue and their cellular interactions, Cell cycle and cancer, Prokaryotic cell structure; Central
dogma and its regulation, DNA repair, post-transcriptional and –translational processing. Stem
cell and their characteristics. Characterization, classification and identification of microbes.
Morphology, cultivation and reproduction of microbes in relation to disease and health.
Glycolysis, mitochondrial ETC and Oxidative phosphorylation. Carbohydrate, lipid, amino acids
and nucleotides metabolism and their regulation. Photosynthesis - Emphasis on mechanisms of
electron transport; photoprotective mechanisms; CO2 fixation, Respiration and Nitrogen
metabolism - Nitrate and ammonium assimilation; amino acid biosynthesis. Plant hormones -
physiological effects and mechanisms of action. Sensory photobiology - Structure, function and
mechanisms of action of phytochromes, cryptochromes and phototropins; stomatal movement
and biological clocks. Solute transport and photoassimilate translocation - transpiration;
mechanisms of loading and unloading of photoassimilates.

UNIT - III Immunology

Immunity-cell classification, tissues and organs of the immune systems, Antigens, epitopes and
antibody reactivity, structure of antibodies, Classification and functions. Complement system.
Arrangement of Ig genes and their expression and diversity, B - and T - cells development and
cytokines. Major histocompatibility complex and their importance. Immune response to
infections, classification of allergy, allergens.

UNIT - IV Recombinant DNA Technology and Bioinformatics

Restriction and modifying enzymes, Vectors, Selection and screening strategies, Southern,
northern and western blot. PCR and its types. Real time PCR-SYBR green, Taqman and

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molecular beacons strategies. Gene expression analysis – reverse transcriptase PCR and DNA
microarray. DNA sequencing – Basic and next generation DNA sequencing. Gene editing – Zinc
finger nuclease, TALEN, CRISPR/Cas nucleases. Reporter assays, Electrophoretic mobility shift
assay/Gel shift assay. Sequence analysis-types, algorithms, multiple sequence alignment and
Phylogeny. Biological databases-DNA and protein. Structure prediction and visualization tools,
docking and molecular modeling. Basics of Systems Biology and Linux Operation System. Data
mining and analytical tools for genomics and proteomics studies.

UNIT - V Analytical Methods

Spectroscopy techniques – Beer-Lambert’s law, UV/visible, florescence, circular dichroism,

NMR and ESR. Microscopy – Phase contrast, dark and bright field microscopy, transmission
and scanning electron microscopy, Atomic force microscopy, Fundamentals of confocal imaging
and flow cytometry. Molecular structure determination methods, mass spectrometry, Analytical
Ultracentrifugation: Sedimentation velocity and equilibrium, determination of molecular
weights, Theory and principles of Chromatography. Electrophoresis – Agarose, SDS-PAGE and
2D-PAGE.

PTE5010 Biopharmaceutical Technology / Biochemistry / Immunology/

Clinical Immunology/ Microbiology / Pharmaceutical technology /
Pharmaceutical chemistry / Pharmacy / Pharmaceutics /
Pharmaceutical analysis / Pharmacoinformatics / Pharmacology /
Pharmacognosy

UNIT - I Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Biomolecules and its metabolism, genetic code and protein synthesis. Metabolism of enzymes.
Classification and identification of microbes, sterilization, Immunology-types of antigens,
antigen-antibody interactions, immunization, monoclonal antibody production and vaccine
technology. Recombinant DNA technology, Enzyme immobilization and fermentation methods.
Production of penicillins and vitamin B12.

UNIT - II Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacology

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Bonding (covalent and non-covalent bonds), Water, Acid, Base, Buffer and pH, Stoichiometric
calculations- Molarity, Molality, Normality etc., Basic thermodynamics, Laws of
thermodynamics. Good laboratory practice, Basics of stereochemistry, structure activity
relationships, mechanism of action and synthesis of drugs:Anti-cancer,anti-tubercular,anti-
diabetic,anti-hypertensive and anti-microbials. Computer aided drug design and molecular
modeling. General pharmacological principles involving types of receptors and drug receptor
interaction. Basic concepts of toxicology. Pharmacology of drugs acting on nervous system,
cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, hemotopoietic and endocrine system.

UNIT - III Statistics, Pharmaceutical Analysis and Regulatory Affairs

Measures of central tendency and dispersion; Probabiity and Statistics: Mean, median, mode
and standard deviation. Probability distributions (Binomial, Poisson and normal); Sampling
distribution; parametric and non-parametric statistics; Confidence Interval; Errors; Levels of
significance; Regression and Correlation; t-test; Analysis of variance and multiple range tests,
chi-square test, experimental design, data transformation

Principles, instrumentation and applications of spectroscopic methods, Thermal,

Electrophoretic, chromatographic and hyphenated techniques. Drugs and cosmetics act, GMP,
Schedule Y, Patent, Trademarks, Quality assurance, TQM and Validation. Regulation and
dispensing of herbal drugs. Herbal drug standardization: WHO and AYUSH guidelines.

UNIT - IV Pharmaceutics

Importance of unit processes in manufacturing-Fluid flow, heat transfer,

evaporation,distillation,drying,sizereduction,mixing,filtration,centrifugation,crytallisation,humid
ity control, refrigeration and air conditioning. ICH guidelines for Stability testing of various
pharmaceutical products. Design, formulation, packaging and evaluation of liquid, semi-solid
and solid dosage forms. Design, development, production and evaluation of controlled, sustained
and targeted drug delivery systems. Conventional herbal formulations like syrups, mixtures and
tablets and novel dosage forms like phytosomes.

UNIT - V Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics

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Mechanism of drug absorption, Factors affecting drug absorption, distribution and
biotransformation. Biopharmaceutical classification system, Invitro-invivo correlation,
Comparison of dissolution profiles by model dependent and model independent methods.
Bioavailability and bioequivalence studies. Basic concepts of Pharmacokinetics, determination
of pharmacokinetic parameters from urine and plasma data after drug administration by
Compartment and Non-compartment models, Non-linear Pharmacokinetics

PTE5011 Biochemistry / Food Technology / Food Process Engineering /

Food and Nutritional Biotechnology / Food Safety and
Quality Management / Food Safety and Quality Assurance /
Food Science and Technology / Food Science and Nutrition /
Microbiology
UNIT - I Food Chemistry and Nutrition
Bonding (covalent and non-covalent bonds), Water, Acid, Base, Buffer and pH, Stoichiometric
calculations- Molarity, Molality, Normality etc., Basic thermodynamics, Laws of
thermodynamics. Good laboratory practice, Composition of food, nutrient and non-nutrient
components of food, water activity and water relations, lipid, carbohydrate, protein, pigments,
food additives: their function and application,Food flavours, Enzymes: specificity, simple and
inhibition kinetics, coenzymes, enzymatic and nonenzymatic browning. Nutrition: balanced diet,
essential amino acids and essential fatty acids, protein efficiency ratio, water soluble and fat-
soluble vitamins, role of minerals in nutrition, co-factors, anti-nutrients, nutraceuticals, nutrient
deficiency diseases. Chemical and biochemical changes occur in foods during different
processing. Food Analysis, Instrumental methods of Food analysis.

UNIT - II Food Microbiology and Microbial Technology

Characteristics of microorganisms: morphology of bacteria, yeast, mold and actinomycetes,

spores and vegetative cells, gram-staining. Microbial growth kinetics. Food spoilage. Toxins
from microbes,bioreactor and upstream processing, fermentation processes: batch, continuous
and fed batch, fermented food products (plant and animal-based products), microbial production
of food additives viz. preservatives, colorants, flavours. SCP, Food contaminants viz. aflatoxins.
Food intoxication, infection.

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UNIT - III Food Product Processing and Preservation

Principles and methods of food preservation: thermal processing, canning, chilling, freezing,
dehydration, addition of preservatives and food additives, microwave, irradiation, fermentation,
hurdle technology, intermediate moisture foods, use of non-thermal technologies, alternate
thermal technologies (ohmic heating, dielectric heating, infrared and induction heating),
biological technologies (antibacterial enzymes, bacteriocins, proteins and peptides). Food grain
processing and products,Fruits and vegetables processing and Preservation, Plantation crops
processing and products: tea, coffee, cocoa, spice, extraction of essential oils and oleoresins
from spices. Milk and milk products processing, Processing of animal products: Waste
utilization: by-products from plant and animal food processing.

UNIT - IV Statistics, Food Engineering, Packaging and Labelling

Measures of central tendency and dispersion; Probabiity and Statistics: Mean, median, mode
and standard deviation. Probability distributions (Binomial, Poisson and normal); Sampling
distribution; parametric and non-parametric statistics; Confidence Interval; Errors; Levels of
significance; Regression and Correlation; t-test; Analysis of variance and multiple range tests,
chi-square test, experimental design, data transformation.

Mass and energy balance, Momentum transfer, Heat transfer, Mass transfer, Mechanical
operations: size reduction of solids, high pressure homogenization, filtration, centrifugation,
settling, sieving, mixing & agitation of liquid. Thermal operations, Mass transfer
operations.Principles of refrigeration, cold chain logistics, food plant equipment design Food
packaging and storage: packaging materials, recent trends in packaging, principle of package
design, nutritional requirements of labelling, aseptic packaging, controlled and modified
atmosphere storage, traditional and advanced food storage unit.

UNIT - V Food Quality Management/ Safety Regulations

Objectives and importance of quality control, quality systems and tools used for QA including
control charts, acceptance and auditing inspections, CCP, reliability, safety, recall and liability.
Food and hygiene regulations. Total quality management and good management practices,
HACCP and codex in food. International and National Food laws. USFDA, ISO and FSSAI.

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Food adulteration. Sensory evaluation, panel screening, selection methods. Sensory and
instrumental analysis in quality control. Non-destructive quality evaluation methods. Food plant
sanitation and cleaning in place (CIP).

PTE5012 Chemical Engineering

UNIT - I
Fluid Mechanics, Process Calculations, Chemical Technology, Mechanical Operations

UNIT - II
Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer

UNIT - III
Chemical Reaction Engineering , Process Instrumentation Dynamics and Control, Process Plant
Safety and Risk Analysis
UNIT - IV
Modern control theory, Process Engineering Economics, Process Equipment Design, Analysis of
Transport Phenomena

UNIT - V
Chemical Process Design , Process Modeling and Simulation, Process optimization,
Computational methods

PTE5013 Petroleum Refining and Petrochemicals Engineering

UNIT - I
Fluid Mechanics, Process Calculations, Chemical Technology, Mechanical Operations
UNIT - II
Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer

UNIT - III
Chemical Reaction Engineering, Process Instrumentation Dynamics and Control, Process Plant
Safety and Risk Analysis

UNIT - IV

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Petroleum Exploration, Drilling technology, Petroleum Geology, Enhanced Oil Recovery,
petroleum production operations, Petroleum refinery engineering, Petrochemicals, Natural Gas
Engineering.
UNIT - V
Pipeline Engineering, Modeling and Simulation of Industrial Process, Multi component
Distillation, Multiphase Flow, Petroleum Process Equipment Design.

PTE5014 Fire Engineering and Safety Management / Industrial Safety

Engineering
UNIT - I Probability and Reliability

Probability – random variable, special distributions, sampling, curve fitting, time series
analysis, reliability – concept, failure data analysis, prediction models, reliability management,
risk assessment –Computer programming and software tools.

UNIT - II Safety and Risk Assessment in Chemical Industries

Safety in chemical industry – concept of safety and safety auditing, hazardous chemicals –
precautions in handling, tolerance limits of industrial emissions, carcinogens – health hazards
of insecticides – computer aided hazards analysis, hazard, risk issues and hazard assessment,
instrumentation, testing, risk analysis quantification and software, consequences analysis,
dispersion model analysis and case studies – industrial safety and hazards management.
UNIT - III Safety Management And Fire Engineering Explosion Control

Safety, accident investigation and reporting, safety performance monitoring, safety education
and training – physics & chemistry of fire, fire prevention and protection, industrial fire
protection systems, building fire safety, explosion protection systems – relief systems,
toxicology, leaks and leakages – process simulators – fire and explosive control and transport
phenomena.

UNIT - IV Safety in Engineering Industries

Safety in engineering industry – metals and woodworking machines, guarding, welding and gas
cutting, cold forming and hot working, finishing, inspection and testing – safety in material

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handling – noise and vibration controls – electrical safety – Industrial safety – measurement
and analysis of noise level & vibration, friction & impact sensitivity test – PPE – human factors
in process safety.

UNIT - V Safety Regulations and Fundamentals in Environmental Protection

Regulations for health, safety and environment – safety management – construction – air
pollution control – drinking water standards – environmental pollution control and industrial
hygiene, EIA, impact assessment and documentation.

PTE5015 Environmental Science and Technology

UNIT - I
Fluid Mechanics, Process Calculations, Chemical Technology, Mechanical Operations
UNIT - II
Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer

UNIT - III
Chemical Reaction Engineering, Process Instrumentation Dynamics and Control, Process Plant
Safety and Risk Analysis
UNIT - IV
Unit operations and processes in Environmental Technology , Biological Wastewater
Treatment, Separation Processes in Environmental Applications
UNIT - V
Air Pollution Control, Environmental Impact Assessment, Solid and Hazardous Waste
Management , Environmental Biotechnology, Modeling of Environmental Systems

PAP6001 Digital Architecture / General Architecture / Landscape

Architecture

Evolution and principles of city planning; types of cities & new towns; planning regulations
and building byelaws; eco-city concept; Concept of housing and neighborhood ; housing
standards ,policies and typology , housing infrastructure; housing programs in India; selfhelp
housing. settlement system planning; growth of cities & metropolises; rural-urban migration;
urban conservation; urban renewal; Traffic and Transportation Planning. Indian architecture
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from Indus civilization to Modern contemporary period. European architecture from Egyptian
modern architectural styles to contemporary period. Vernacular and traditional architecture.
Principles of landscape design and site planning; history of landscape styles, elements and
materials, plant characteristics. environmental considerations in landscape planning.
Application of computers in architecture and planning; understanding elements of hardware
and software; computer graphics; programming languages and usage of software packages.
Components of Ecosystem and environment, climate responsive and energy efficient building
design. Principles of Building Science - lighting, architectural acoustics etc. Building Services
on Water supply, sewerage and drainage systems, electrification of buildings, air-conditioning
intelligent buildings; fire fighting systems, building safety and security systems -principles,
types, standards and uses; Infrastructure, Services and Amenities in city level planning.
Behavioral characteristics of all types of building materials ;principles of strength of materials;
design of structural and principles of disaster resistant structures. Building Construction and
Management: Building construction techniques, methods and details; professional practice;
project management techniques. Development Administration and Management: Planning
laws; development control and zoning regulations.

PAP6002 Town and Country Planning

Process of evolution of human settlement planning - Planning systems in India - Type of
planning surveys - Sociological and Economic concepts and frameworks - Social and economic
Impacts of urban growth and expansion - City-region, urban sprawl, and urban fringe - Current
trends in the traffic and transportation development sector in India.- Pedestrian planning-
Parking and Public Transport Surveys - Inventory of Transport facilities - Different modes -
Private transport - Scope and function of statistics in planning analysis - Distribution and
structure of population - Population projection methods - Research processes and planning
processes - Access to Information: nature, types and sources - Hypothesis - Housing character
and its information with reference to culture and technological changes and development -
Impact of industrialization and urbanization on housing and built environment - Green house
and eco friendly housing - Housing market and housing finance -Gated community-emergence
and management system - Contemporary theories and concepts in city planning - Concept and
need for regional planning and regional development - Multi-level planning, block and District

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planning. Environmental concerns at local, regional and global levels - environmental impact
assessment practice in India - Sustainability and environmental - Legislative requirements,
public awareness and community participation - Evolution, scope and significance of planning
legislation - Review of Town and Country Planning Act of Tamil Nadu - Professional role
responsibility and planning consultancy service - project cycle - Planning process and project
planning - Funding options for urban development projects - Planning Norms and standards -
Basic concepts of government and governance - Governance and urban governance - Urban and
rural administration in developed, and developing countries - e-Governance-concepts, theories
and practices - e-Readiness indices - Approaches to understanding organizations - Human
resource planning and management - Participatory governance - Public relations- Introduction
to real property ownership - Real estate investment analysis and portfolio management -
Classification of spatial and non-spatial data application of spatial data in urban and regional
plans - Ecotourism - Leisure, recreation and society - Tourist and local community - Tourist
site planning- processes and sustainability - Urban development through Five Year Plans -
Budgetary allocation from central and state governments for urban development - Asset
management - Disaster cycle - Disaster-types, causes and consequences - Disaster preparedness
and rehabilitation - Spatial planning and technology interface - Socio-economic and
environmental Impact of techno cities - communities and people in building smart cities and
smart communities - Information need and the role of web in planning - Web sites and
information sources in urban and regional planning.

PSH7001 Media Science

UNIT - I Mass Communication
Evolution of Visual communication - Visual Elements - Visual analysis- Modern methods of
Visual Communication –Films & Genres and their impact on society-Functions of mass media:
Mass Society – Socialisation Process – Mass Culture - Landmarks in mass communication-
Mass Concepts – Characteristics of Mass Audience- Advertising -PR- Ethics of PR- public
broadcasting in India
UNIT - II Journalism and Current Affairs
Fundamental values and principles of journalism- different forms & genres- New trends- Duties
and Responsibilities- Theoretical approaches & Ethics- Fundamentals of News Reporting -

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Developing the news and news values –Press in India -Current Affairs - Aptitude and Reasoning
ability
UNIT - III Electronic Media
Evolution and Growth of Media - Traditional media & new media -Types of Media: Radio, TV,
Film, Print - Digital Media Revolution - Internet History & impacts-Applications of Information
and Communication Technologies (ICTs) - Fundamentals of computer hardware and software -
Mobile Application - Computer graphics and animation -2D and 3D animation- User interface
and experience
UNIT - IV Research in Communication
Nature and process of communication- Functions of communication-Theories and Models of
communication- Development communication: Role of media in Development communication-
communication research: research problem - objectives - variables - sampling - population -
qualitative research methods: field observation - focus groups - interviews - case studies -
quantitative methods: content analysis - survey research - questionnaire - statistics.
UNIT - V Trends In Media and Critical Issues
Media Laws and Human Rights-Environmental science: understanding of ecology and
ecological issues - Health and Children Rights in Media – Feministic theories-Media literacy-
culture and Media

PSH7002 Applied Mathematics / Mathematics

UNIT - I Algebra and Graph Theory

Algebra: Groups, Subgroups, Normal subgroups – Homomorphism– Automorphism – Sylow’s

theorems with applications – Rings – Euclidean domains – Principal ideal domains - Unique
factorization domains - Prime &maximal ideals in commutative rings – Fields – Finite fields.
Graph Theory: Graphs and Subgraphs – Degree sequence - Graph representation - Isomorphism
– Trees – Connectivity – Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs – Matching – Independent sets and
cliques – Vertex coloring – Planar graphs – Directed graphs.

UNIT - II Real and Complex Analysis

Real Analysis: Sequences and series – Uniform convergence – Compactness – Connectedness –
Implicit functions – Taylor’s theorem – Maxima and Minima for functions of two variables –

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Lebesgue Theory. Complex Analysis: Analytic functions – Conformal mapping – Riemann
mapping theorem – Homological version of Cauchy’s theorem – Residue calculus – Complex
Integration – Entire functions – Harmonic functions.

UNIT - III Functional and Numerical Analysis

Functional Analysis: Banach Spaces– Hahn Banach Theorem – Open mapping & closed graph
theorem –Uniform Boundedness – Hilbert Spaces – Orthonormal bases – Riesz representation
theorem – Bounded linear operators. Numerical Analysis: Iterative methods of Gauss Jacobi &
Gauss Seidel – Convergence – Lagrange’s interpolation and Error estimation – Newton’s
forward & Backward difference formulae for equidistant points – Numerical differentiation –
Newton Cotes formulae, Taylor Series and Euler’s Method, Runge-kutta method of 4thorder –
Finite difference solution of one dimensional heat &wave equations using explicit, implicit
methods – Solution of Laplace and Poisson equations in a rectangular region.

UNIT - IV Mechanics, Calculus of Variations, Differential and Integral Equations

Mechanics: Kinematics – Dynamics in space – Lagrangian mechanics – Hamiltonian methods –
Tensors–Calculus of Variations: Variational problems with fixed boundaries – Sufficient
conditions for extremum– Differential and Integral Equations: System of linear ODEs –
Fundamental matrix – Strum Liouville problems – Stability for linear system - Bessel’s and
Legendre’s differential equations - Linear first order PDEs – Method of Characteristics –
Classification of Second order PDEs – Hyperbolic Equation – Diffusion Equation – Green’s
function for Laplace equation – Linear integral equations of Fredholm and Volterra type - their
iterative solutions – Fredholm alternative.

UNIT - V Probability and Random Variables

Axioms of Probability – Conditional Probability – Total Probability – Baye’s Theorem –
Random variables (Discrete and Continuous) – Marginal and conditional distributions –
Transformation of random variables – Central limit theorems –Binomial, Poisson, Normal and
Exponential distributions – Moment Generating Functions.

PSH7003 Computer Science / Information Technology

UNIT - I Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science

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Mathematical Logic –Statement Calculus – Predicate Calculus – Normal Forms – Inference
Theory – Mathematical Induction – Sets – Relations – Equivalence relations – Functions –
Posets – Lattices – Boolean Algebra – Groups –Subgroups and Homeomorphism – Cosets –
Normal subgroups – Groups codes – Graphs – Representation of Graphs – Trees – Digital
Logic Circuits Gate Level Minimization – Stack – Queues and Lists – Searching – Finite State
Automata – Context Free Languages – Pushdown Automata – Turing Machines Model – Sorting
Algorithms – Graph Algorithms – NP Completeness.

UNIT - II Programming Languages and Software Engineering

Elementary Data Types - Programming in C - Object Oriented Programming - Programming in
C++ - Web Programming, Software Process Models - Software Requirements - Software Design
- Software Quality - Estimation and Scheduling of Software Projects - Software Testing -
Software Configuration Management.

UNIT - III Databases and System Software

Database System Concepts and Architecture - Data Modeling – SQL - Normalization for
Relational Databases - Enhanced Data Models - Data Warehousing and Data Mining - Big Data
Systems – NOSQL-System Software - Basics of Operating Systems- Process Management –
Threads - CPU Scheduling – Deadlocks - Memory Management - Storage Management - File
and Input/Output Systems – UNIX/Linux Operating Systems.
UNIT - IV Data Communication and Networking
Data Communication - Computer Networks - Network Models - Functions of OSI and TCP/IP
Layers - World Wide Web (WWW) - Network Security - Mobile Technology - Cloud Computing
and IoT.
UNIT - V E-Technologies
E-commerce – Electronic Payment Systems(EPS) - Electronic Data Interchange(EDI – E-Cash
E- Business – ERP – Digital Libraries – Geographical Information System (GIS).

PSH7004 Material Science / Physics

UNIT - I Mathematical Physics

Vector algebra and vector calculus – Tensor analysis. Linear algebra, matrices, Cayley-
Hamilton theorem. Eigenvalues and eigen vectors. Linear ordinary differential equations of

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first and second order. Partial differential equations - Special functions. Fourier series, Fourier
and Laplace transformations. Green’s function techniques and integral equations. Elements of
complex analysis, analytic functions; Taylor & Laurent series; poles, residues and evaluation of
integrals. Probability theory, random variables, binomial, Poisson and normal distributions.
Central limit theorem. Numerical methods: root of functions, interpolation, extrapolation, curve
fitting, integration and solving ODEs.
UNIT - II Classical Physics
Newtonian mechanics, dynamical systems, dynamics in phase-space – Lagrange’s formulation –
central force motion and rigid-body dynamics – Hamilton’s formulation – Noether’s theorem -
small oscillations and classical field theory – relativistic mechanics - special relativity. Classical
electromagnetism – charged particle in an electro-magnetic field. Thermodynamics and
statistical mechanics: Equilibrium thermodynamics – ensembles – quantum statistics – Bose-
Einstein condensation – phase transitions.
UNIT - III Quantum Mechanics
Wave-particle duality - Schrodinger equation and operator formalism – exactly solvable bound-
state problems: Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions by solving the one dimensional Schrodinger¨
equation; Particle in a box – Rectangular barrier potential – Tunnel effect – harmonic oscillator
- rigid rotator – angular momentum – time independent perturbation theory – variation method
– WKB approximation – time dependent perturbation theory – many-electron atoms – scattering
- relativistic quantum mechanics: Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations – Semi-classical theory of
radiation.
UNIT - IV Solid State Physics
Structure of crystalline solids – imperfections in solids – diffusion. Mechanical properties of
solids – dislocations and strengthening mechanisms – failure – phase diagrams – phase
transformations – metal alloys – ceramics – polymer structures - composite materials –
corrosion – electrical, magnetic, dielectric, thermal and optical properties of materials –
characterization of materials – nanomaterials – nuclear materials. Lasers: emission of radiation
– Einstein coefficients – optical resonators – modes and coherence length and types of lasers.
UNIT - V Electronics And Instrumentation
Semiconductor devices. Analog electronic circuits: op-amp, mathematical operations, analog
computation, filters, oscillators. Voltage regulators. Digital electronics: Types of logic gates,

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combinational and sequential circuits, flip-flops, shift-registers, counters, multiplexing and de-
multiplexing – microprocessors. Transducers and bridge circuits, instrumentation amplifier,
sample-and-hold circuits, impedance matching, signal conditioning and noise reduction,
shielding and grounding, lock-in detector, box-car integrator and modulation techniques.

PSH7005 Medical Physics

UNIT- I Basics of Radiation Physics and Radiological Instruments
Atomic Structure - Nuclear Transformation - Radioactivity, radioactive decay - methods and
radioactive equilibrium - production of radioisotopes - Interaction of electromagnetic radiation,
charged particle and neutron with matter -radiation attenuation coefficients - Radiation
dosimetric concepts, radiation quantities and units - Bragg gray cavity theories - Radiation
generating equipments - telcobalt - linear accelerators - Brachytherapy units - Principles of
radiation detection and measurements - radiation dosimeters and radiation monitors.

UNITS - II Radiation Therapy Physics

Radiation therapy with sealed and unsealed radionuclides -Physics of modern radiotherapy
machines - 3D CRT, IMRT, SRS & SRT, IGRT, Cyber knife and proton beam therapy - Radiation
dosimetry protocols ( TRS 398), calibration of theletherapy equipments - quality assurance of
radiotherapy machines - Treatment planning system in radiation therapy- Brachytherapy
radionuclide and their ideal properties - LDR, MDR and HDR - pulsed dose rate brachytherapy
- source specification and calibration - reference air kerma rate and air kerma strength -
Interstitial , Intracavitary, intraluminal and surface mould brachytherapy - montecarlo based
source dosimetry - quality assurance of brachytherapy equipments.

UNIT - III Biological Effects of Radiation

Physics of radiation absorption - cell survival curves - Fractionation in radiation therapy -

dose rate effect - oxygen enhancement ratio (OER) - Relative biological effect (RBE) - Linear
Energy Transfer (LET) - molecular mechanism of DNA & chromosomal damage due to
radiation - 5 R's of Radiobiology - Bioeffect models - NSD, CRE, TDF and ERD - Hyperthermia
- Radio sensitizers - Radio protectors - Effects of radiation on embryo and fetus - Acute and
chronic radiation effect and syndrome.

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UNIT - IV Radiation Hazard Evaluation ond Control

Basic concepts of radiation protection standards - philosophy behind radiation protection -

External radiation protection and internal radiation protection - ICRT recommendations -
Radiation dose limits - system of radiological protection - radiation exposure - equivalents dose
- effective dose -committed dose - Evaluation of external and internal radiation hazard and
control - ALI- DAC - MPBB - Planning and shielding calculation of radiation therapy
equipments installations - Transport of Radioactive materials - radioactive waste disposal -
radiation emergencies , medical management and legislation.

UNIT - V Physics of Medical Imaging:

Physics of diagnostic radiology - production and properties of X-rays- X-ray tube electrical
circuits - tube rating - X-ray film, properties and processing - Intensifying screens - factors
affecting radiographic imaging - fluoroscopy - computer tomography (CT) - Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI) - Gamma camera - Single photon emission computer tomography
(CPECT) - positron emission tomography (PET) - quality assurance of diagnostic equipments -
Technetium Generator - Radiopharmaceuticals - Propagation of ultrasound through body tissues
- Acoustic impedance - ultrasound scanning modes - double Doppler shift - laser tissue
interaction mechanism - optical properties of lasers - medical application of non ionizing
radiation.

PSH7006 Chemistry
UNIT - I Organic Chemistry
IUPAC nomenclature of organic compounds, Principles of stereochemistry, conformational
analysis, isomerism and chirality, Reactive intermediates and organic reaction mechanisms,
Concepts of aromaticity, Pericyclic reactions, Named reactions, Transformations and
rearrangements, Principles and applications of organic photochemistry, Free radical reactions,
Reactions involving nucleophotic carbon intermediates, Oxidation and reduction of functional
groups, Common reagents (organic, inorganic and organometallic) in organic synthesis,
Chemistry of natural products such as steroids, alkaloids, terpenes, peptides, carbohydrates,
nucleic acids and lipids, Selective organic transformations – chemoselectivity, regioselectivity,
stereoselectivity, enantioselectivity, Protecting groups, Chemistry of aromatic and aliphatic
heterocyclic compounds.

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UNIT - II Inorganic Chemistry

Atomic structure, Chemical periodicity; Structure and bonding in homo- and heteronuclear
molecules, including shapes of molecules; Concepts of acids and bases; Chemistry of the main
group elements and their compounds - Allotropy, synthesis, bonding and structure; Chemistry of
transition elements and coordination compounds – bonding theories, spectral and magnetic
properties, reaction mechanisms; Inner transition elements – spectral and magnetic properties,
analytical applications; Organometallic compounds - synthesis, bonding, structure and
reactivity, Organometallics in homogenous catalysis, Cages and metal clusters; Bioinorganic
chemistry – photosystems, porphyrines, metalloenzymes, enzyme catalysis, oxygen transport,
electron- transfer reactions, nitrogen fixation. Solidstate chemistry - defects in solids,
preparation of solids, properties - conductance, thermal, mechanical, thermoelectric, magnetic -
Applications. Nuclear chemistry.

UNIT - III Physical Chemistry

Basic principles and applications of quantum mechanics – hydrogen atom, angular momentum,
Variational and perturbational methods, Basics of atomic structure, electronic configuration,
shapes of orbitals, hydrogen atom spectra, Theoretical treatment of atomic structures and
chemical bonding, Chemical applications of group theory, Chemical thermodynamics, Phase
equilibria, Statistical thermodynamics, Chemical equilibria, Electrochemistry – Nernst equation,
electrode kinetics, electrical double layer, Debye-Hückel theory, Chemical kinetics – empirical
rate laws, Arrhenius equation, theories of reaction rates, determination of reaction mechanisms,
experimental techniques for fast reactions, Solids - structural classification of binary and ternary
compounds, diffraction techniques, bonding, thermal, electrical and magnetic properties
Colloids and surface phenomena, Phase rule.

UNIT - IV Analytical Chemistry

Sampling and error analysis, wet chemical methods of analysis electroanalytical techniques,
thermal methods of analysis, separation techniques, basic principles and applications of
spectroscopy – rotational, vibrational, electronic, Raman, ESR, NMR, mass spectrometry and
mossbauer spectroscopy.

UNIT - V Applied Chemistry

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Polymer chemistry, Molecular weights and their determinations, Kinetics of chain
polymerization, catalysis and its industrial application, corrosion and its control, coatings,
fuel/solar cells, pollution and its control, nanochemistry and technology, environmental
chemistry, green chemistry.

PSH7007 Applied Geology / Geology

UNIT - I Geomorphology and Geological Remote Sensing
Geomorphic cycle, process of weathering and indices of weathering. Landforms formed by
river,wind, glacierand coastal processes. Aerial and space borne remote sensing platforms,
Format and structure of multispectral digital image data. Spectral properties of natural and
geologic features, image interpretation elements.Role of aerial photographs and satellite images
in geomorphic, lithology and structural mapping. Components of GIS, standard GIS packages.
Applications of Remote sensing and GIS for mineral and groundwater exploration

UNIT - II Mineralogy and Petrology

Physical, chemical and crystallographic characteristics of common rock forming minerals of

igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Optical properties of rock forming minerals.
Formation of igneous rocks, classification, texture and structure, magmatic differentiation, two
component systems, solid solution systems, Igneous rocks of ocean basins and lithosphere.
Metamorphic rocks-texture, structure, grades of metamorphism, metamorphic facies. Types of
sedimentary rocks, sedimentary texture and structures, diagenesis, provenance, heavy minerals
and deposition systems. System tracts. Sedimentary basins of India.

UNIT - III Stratigraphy, Palaeontology and Economic Geology

Cratons of India, Proterozoic stratigraphy and mineral deposits, Phanerozoic stratigraphy of

Spiti, Assam, Kutch, Narmada,Trichinopoly-Ariyalur, and Bengal Basins. Gondwana super
group, Siwalik system, Himalayan orogeny, stratigraphy boundaries, and mass extinction in
Indian stratigraphy records. Fossil records through Geological time scale, fossil preservation,
morphology and significance of body and ichnofossils, molluscs, trilobites, graptolites,
brachiopods. Organic mineral walled microfossils. Foraminifera, Ostracoda and dinoflagellates.
Gondwana plant fossils. Ore genesis, ores and metamorphism, origin and distribution of metal,
non-metal, refractory, abrasives, placer, phosphatic, minerals and coal, petroleum deposits,

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nuclear minerals of Proterozoic to recent geological time, strategic, critical and essential
minerals.
UNIT - IV Structural Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry
Deformation structures and their characteristics, stress-strainand rheological properties of
rocks, structural behaviour of igneous intrusions, petrofabric analysis, joint and shear fractures,
Moh’s circle and criteria for failure of rocks.Faults, dynamics, and types; folding mechanisms,
types and structural analysis. Physical properties of the Earth,electrical, seismic, magnetic and
gravity methods of prospecting. Geochemical cycles, Mineral stability, compositional changes in
minerals, river and sea waters.Distribution of trace components in rocks and melts and its
application in petrogenesis. Goldschmidt’s classification of elements. Isotope dating methods.
UNIT - V Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology
Darcy’s law, aquifer systems, groundwater parameters- confined and unconfined and semi
confined aquifers, recharge systems, effect of aquifer boundaries, pumping test, groundwater
resource evaluation-unsaturated flow, tracer technique, testing for yield, groundwater quality
criteria, source of groundwater contamination, solute and particle transport. Engineering
properties of rocks, geological investigations for building, Dam, reservoirs and Tunnel
constructions. Landslides- types-causes and prevention.
PSH7008 English
UNIT - I
Chaucer to the Elizabethan Age: 1. Geoffrey Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, 2.
Paradise Lost: John Milton Books 4 & 9, 3. Edmund Spenser: The Fairie Queen , 4. John
Donne: All poems , 5.Andrew Marvel, 6.Robert Herrick, 7. George Herbert, 8 .Abraham Cowley,
9.Henry Vaughan The University Wits, John Webster, Ben Johnson, Shakespeare’s sonnets and
plays.

The Augustan Age:

Pope, Dryden, Thomas Gray, Addison & Steele, Swift, Goldsmith, William Congreve, John
Bunyan, Henry Fielding, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Johnson

UNIT - II The Romantic Ageto the Twentieth Century

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William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John
Keats, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Edmund Burke,
William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, Robert Burns.Thomas Carlyle, the Bronte sisters, Robert
Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lewis Carroll, Charles
Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, John
Galsworthy, E.M. Forester, G.K. Chesterton, John Masefield, Joseph Conrad, T.S. Eliot, Ezra
Pound, D.H. Lawrence. James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Wilfred Owen, Aldous Huxley, Virginia
Woolf,Ted Hughes, Christopher Fry, John Osborne, Harold Pinter

UNIT - III American Literature

James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Mark Twain, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, J.D. Salinger, John Steinbeck, Eugene
O’ Neill, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, E.E. Cummings, Theodore Dreiser, Toni
Morrison, Langston Hughes, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Stephen Crane, Thomas Wolfe,
Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Joseph Heller, Vladimir Nabakov. Arthur Miller

UNIT - IV World Literature

William Golding, Muriel Spark, Toru Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, George Orwell, Kingsley
Amis, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Vikram Seth, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ben Okri,
BuchiEmecheta, William Trevor, Margret Drabble, Nadine Gordimer, AmitavGhosh,
RohintonMistry, SashiTharoor, Arundathi Roy, John Barth, Margret Atwood, Ian Mcewan,
Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Dylan Thomas, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Samuel Beckett,
NgugiwaThiong’o, Bessie Head, Patrick White, DavidMalouf, R.K. Narayan, Amrita Pritam,
GirishKarnad, JhumpaLahiri, KiranDesia, NayantaraSehgal, MeenaKandasamy, Anita Nair,
Kamala Das, IsmatChugthai, Mahasweta Devi, SashiDespande. Amiri Baraka, David Henry
Hwang, Tony Kushner

UNIT - V English Language Teaching and Linguistics

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Major approaches and methods in language teaching – Theories of learning:Behaviorism,
Cognitivism, Constructivism –Current trends in ELT,
 Krashen’s five hypotheses of second
language acquisition: a) Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis, b) Monitor Hypothesis, c) Natural
Order Hypothesis, d) Input Hypothesis, and e) Affective-Filter Hypothesis – Merrill Swain’s
output hypothesis – Richard Schmidt’s noticing hypothesis – Applied Linguistics: Discourse
analysis, Contrastive analysis, Error Analysis, 
 Curriculum versus Syllabus – Principles of
Syllabus Design –Types of Syllabus – Bangalore Project by N.S. Prabhu on procedural syllabus
– Bridge course Syllabus – English for Specific Purposes (ESP) –Types of ESP: English for
Academic Purposes, English for Occupational Purposes, English for Science and Technology,
and Business English, 
 Assessment versus evaluation – principles of testing – formative and
summative assessments – norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests – types of tests – wash
back effect in testing - feedback in testing – current trends in language testing,
 Issues in
neurolinguistics; social and psychological factors in second language learning; language
pathology and disorders- aphasia, anomia, and dyslexia; stuttering; use of linguistics in
diagnosis and prognosis of language disorders- therapeutic intervention.-Harry Whitaker-
(Seminal work-Brain and Language)

PMS8001 Master of Business Administration with any specialization

General Management and Business Research : Evolution of Management Thought - Managing

globally - Planning - MBO - Decision making - Organizing - Departmentation - Directing -
Controlling. Types of Research - Research Process - Research Problem - Research objectives -
Research hypotheses - Research Design - Measurement and scaling - Types of data - Data
collection - Construction of questionnaire and instrument - Validation of questionnaire -
Sampling - Data Preparation - Data Analyses - Statistical techniques - Research report - ethics
in research. Marketing Management : Marketing Environment - Marketing Planning Process -
Marketing Mix Elements - Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning - Strategic marketing -
Customer Relationship Management - Marketing Information System - Marketing Research -
Recent Marketing Trends. Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management :
Organizational behaviour - Behaviour modification - Personality -Misbehaviour management -
Emotions - Emotional intelligence - Perception - attitudes - values - Motivation -
Communication - Group behaviour - interpersonal relations - Power - politics - Teams -

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leadership -Organizational development - Gender sensitive workplace - Organizational climate
- change - Culture - Stress - Organizational effectiveness. Evolution of Human Resource
Management -- sources of HR - Recruitment - Induction - Socialisation - HR Planning -
Selection - Training & Executive development - Performance measurement - Career
management - worklife balance - Grievance - redressal mechanism -Inclusive growth -
Affirmative action. Operations Management: Demand forecasting - Capacity planning -
Aggregate Planning - Product Design Vendor rating and Value analysis. Project Management -
Scheduling Technique, PERT, CPM; Scheduling shop floor control; Flow shop scheduling -
Quality - Vision, mission and policy statements. Customer Focus - customer perception of
quality, dimensions of product and service quality. Cost of quality. Concepts of quality circle,
Japanese 5S principles. Six sigma - concepts of process capability - Quality functions
development (QFD) - Benefit, Voice of customer, information organization, House of Quality
(HOQ), building a HOQ, QFD process, Failure mode effect analysis (FMEA) - FMEA stages,
design, process and documentation. Seven Tools, Bench marking and POKA YOKE. Systems
Management : Introduction - Information Technology, Information system, evolution, types
based on functions and hierarchy, System development methodologies, SAD Tools, DBMS -
Functional Information Systems, DSS, EIS, KMS, GIS, International Information, ERP, System
Data warehousing and Data Mart. Security, Testing, Error detection, Controls, IS
Vulnerability, Disaster Management, Computer Crimes, Securing the Web, Intranets and
Wireless Networks, Software Audit, Ethics in IT, User Interface and reporting, Cloud
computing. Financial Management: Time value of Money, Risk and return concept - Capital
Budgeting - Evaluation Techniques - Capital rationing, Cost of Capital, Measurement of
specific cost and overall cost of capital, Capital Structure, Designing capital structure,
Financial and operating leverages - Dividend Policy, Forms of dividends, Share splits,
Working capital Management, Determinants, working capital finance. Export and Import
Finance - FOREX Management - Documentation in Exports and Imports - Corporate
Governance - Provision of Company’s Act - SERA - FEMA-SEBI guidelines.

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