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SM 490 Human Resource Management OPC 3–0–0 3 Credits

Course outcomes: At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

CO1 Develop awareness on the evolution, current issues, practices and trends of human
resource management and its effective management in organizations

CO2 Gain an understanding of human resource management functions and practices

including man power planning, recruitment, selection methods, training, and
performance appraisal

CO3 Secure the ability to conduct job analysis and job evaluation, develop job descriptions,
and determine compensation policies.

CO4 Develop an understanding of employee welfare programs, incorporation of health-care

policies and safety concerns; industrial relations and illustrate the enduring global
contexts of International HRM

Detailed syllabus

Concept, Nature and Scope of HRM: History and Evolution of HRM- Growth and Development of

HRM in India-Emerging Trends of HRM in a globalised economy- Outsourcing- Globalization-

Mergers and Acquisitions- Organizational objectives- functions- relationships- organizational

structure of formal organizations-Talent Management process- Manpower planning- Man power

forecasting process and techniques- Job analysis and job design-Job description and job

specification- Job enrichment, job enlargement and job rotation.

Recruitment and Selection: Developing sources, methods of recruitment, selection processes -

psychometrics, assessment centres, social media for selection, recruitment yield pyramid, job offer,

onboarding, orientation Training: The nature of training, objectives in training, types of training,

requirements of effective training conventional training techniques, management development,

evaluating training effectiveness, training in a virtual environment. Performance management &

appraisal: Philosophy of employee performance management, Traditional and

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contemporaryperformance appraisal systems, high performance work system.

Compensation and Benefits: Principles of employee compensation- Managing Basic

Remuneration and Incentive-, Factors affecting compensation policy - Equity and compensation -

Comparable value- Job evaluation- Cost to the company- Financial and Non-financial Employee

Benefits- Career Management- Empowering Employees, Promotions- Basis of Promotions-

Transfers- Separations and Rightsizing- Attrition Analysis-Retention Employee Relation:-Industrial

Relations in India- Labour Laws and Labour Codes- Employee Engagement- Employee Health and

Safety- Mental health, Employee Assistance Programme,-Empowering Employees-International

HRM- Future of HRM.

References:
1. Dessler G and Varkkey, B, Human Resource Management, Pearson, 16th Edition,

2018

2. K. Aswathappa, Human Resource Management, Tata McGraw Hill, 2008.

3. Durai, Pravin. Human Resource Management. Pearson, 2010

4. Bernardin, John H. Human Resource Management.Mc-Grawhill,2012

5. Richard I. Henderson. Compensation Management in a Knowledge Based World.

Pearson, 2006
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Tentative Syllabus for EC490

EC490 Computer Vision OPC 3-0-0 3 credits

Prerequisites: None
Course Outcomes: At the end of the course the student will be able to:
Development of algorithms and techniques to analyze and interpret the
CO1 visible world.
CO2 Apply feature extraction methods for computer processing.

CO3 Implement pattern recognition algorithms for real world problems

CO4 Design of face detection and recognition algorithms

Mapping of course outcomes with program outcomes:

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Detailed Syllabus:

Digital Image Formation and Low-level processing: Overview and State-of-the-art,

Fundamentals of Image Formation, Transformation: Orthogonal, Euclidean, Affine, Projective,
etc; Fourier Transform, Convolution and Filtering, Image Enhancement, Restoration, Histogram
Processing.

Digital Image Formation: Overview and State-of-the-art, Fundamentals of Image Formation,

Transformation: Orthogonal, Euclidean, Affine, Projective, etc; Fourier Transform, Convolution
and Filtering, Image Enhancement, Restoration, Histogram Processing

Feature Extraction: Edges - Canny, LOG, DOG; Line detectors (Hough Transform), Corners -
Harris and Hessian Affine, Orientation Histogram, SIFT, SURF, HOG, GLOH, Scale-Space
Analysis- Image Pyramids and Gaussian derivative, Gabor Filters and DWT.

Image Segmentation: Region Growing, Edge Based approaches to segmentation, Graph-Cut,

Mean-Shift, MRFs, Texture Segmentation; Object detection.
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sPattern Analysis: Clustering: K-Means, K-Medoids, Mixture of Gaussians, Classification:

Discriminant Function, Supervised, Un-supervised, Semi-supervised; Classifiers: Bayes, KNN.

Motion Analysis: Background Subtraction and Modeling, Optical Flow, KLT, Spatio-Temporal
Analysis, Dynamic Stereo; Motion parameter estimation.

Use Cases on Finger print recognition, Face detection and recognition, Object tracking, medical
Diagnosis etc

Reading:
1. Richard Szeliski, Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, Springer-Verlag London
Limited 2011.
2. D. A. Forsyth, J. Ponce, Computer Vision: A Modern Approach, PHI Learning 2009.
3. R.C. Gonzalez and R.E. Woods, Digital Image Processing, Pearson Education.
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MA490 Applied Linear Algebra OPC L-T-P: 3 Credits

IV Year B.Tech. II Semester (Open Elective) 3-0-0

Pre-requisites: Basic knowledge of Differential Calculus,

Differential Equations and Matrices.
Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, student will be able to:
CO1 Understand the concept of Vector space, Basis and Dimension.
CO2 Determine the angle between two vectors and able to find orthogonal basis.
CO3 Find Singular Value Decomposition of a given matrix.
CO4 Discuss convergence of iterative methods for solving Ax=b.

Mapping of course outcomes with program outcomes

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Vector Spaces: Vector spaces and subspaces – Review of solving system of linear
equations – Basis and dimension – Linear transformations – Applications in electric
circuits. (10)

Inner Product Spaces and Orthogonality: Vector norms – Inner product spaces –
orthogonal vectors and subspaces – Cosines and projections onto lines – Projections &
least squares – Orthogonal bases and Gram-Schimdt process. (10)

Positive definite matrices: Normal matrices – Positive definite matrices- Pseudo

inverse – Singular value decomposition and applications. (10)
Iterative Methods: Introduction – Matrix norm & Condition number – Computation of
eigenvalues – Iterative methods for solving Ax=b (6)
Perron Frobenius theory: Introduction – Positive matrices – Nonnegative matrices –
Stochastic matrices – Markov Chains. (6)

Text/ Reference Books:

1. K. Hoffman and R. Kunze, Linear Algebra, Pearson, 2015

2. Carl D. Mayer, Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra, SIAM, 2004.
3. Gilbert Strang, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 4th Edition, Cengage Learning
Pvt Ltd., 2008.