ERC901: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Module I
Objectives and types of research: Motivation and objectives – Research
methods vs Methodology. Types of research – Descriptive vs. Analytical,
Applied vs Fundamental, Quantitative vs, Qualitative vs, Empirical.

Module II
Research Formulation - Defining and formulating the research problem
– Selecting the problem – Necessity of defining the problem - Importance
of literature review in defining a problem – Literature review – Primary
and secondary sources – reviews, treatise, monographs-patents – web as a
source – searching the web – Critical literature review – Identifying gap
areas from literature review – Development of work hypothesis.

Module III
Research design and Methods – Research design – Basic Principles –
Need of research design – Features of good design – Important concepts
relating to research design – Observation and Facts, Laws and Theories,
Prediction and explanation, Induction, Deduction, Development of Models.
Developing a research plan – Exploration, Description, Diagnosis,
Experimentation. Determining experimental and sample designs.

Module IV
Data Collection and Analysis - Execution of Research – Observation and
Collection of data – Methods of data collection – Sampling Methods –
Data Processing and Analysis strategies – Data Analysis with Statistical
Packages – Hypothesis – testing – Generalization and Interpretation.

Module V
Reporting and Thesis Writing - Structure and components of scientific
reports – Types of report – Technical reports and thesis – Significance –
Different steps in the preparation – Layout, structure and Language of
typical reports – Illustrations and tables – Bibilography, referencing and
footnotes – Oral presentation – Planning – Preparation Practice – Making
presentation – Use of visual aids – Importance of effective communication.

Text Books:
1. Research Methodology – Methods and Techniques by C.R. Kothari
2. Research Methods – William M.K.Trochim
 EBT901: INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
Module-I:
Metabolic engineering: Flux control analysis, Flux control coefficients,
summation theorem, elasticity coefficient, connectivity theorem. Genetic
engineering: Genetically engineered microbes for production of antibiotics.
Production of penicillin and semisynthetic analogs of penicillin. Production
of insulin and insulin analogs. Use of humanized yeast for glycosylation.

Module-II:
Pharmaceutical production using plant cell culture: Production of Digoxin
from cultured cells of Digitalis lanata. Production of Shikonin from cultured
cells of Lithospermum erythrorhizon. Biopharming: Agrobacterium
mediated genetic engineering for production of biopharmaceuticals from
plants. Engineered viral vectors for biopharmaceutical production. Hirudin
production from Brassica napus. Edible vaccines from transgenic banana
plants.

Module-III:
Animal cell culture and its applications. Equipment and media for animal
cell culture. The insect cell-baculovirus system. Production of
haematopoeitic growth factors (thrombopoeitin and GCSF (lenograstim)),
cytokines (IL2, ?-interferon), and cytokine inhibitors (TNF? inhibitors:
infliximab, adalimumab, etanercept).

Module-IV:
Types of cell lines. Transformed human cell lines and their applications.
Embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells (hematopoietic stem cells,
neuronal stem cells) and their therapeutic applications. Organ culture of
skin.

Module-V:
Engineering and regulatory issues in the scale up of fermentation processes:
Scale-up of manufacturing involving hazardous microbes – disinfection
and inactivation procedures. Verification of inactivation process at scale.
Security of stock cultures. NIH guidelines for minimum containment
requirements for different risk level agents. Regulations for biosafety related
to production of bioprocess-based pharmaceuticals.

Text books:
1. Glazer and Nikaido. Microbial biotechnology: Fundamentals of
Applied Microbiology. 2nd Ed. (2007)
2. S. Ozturk and Wei-shou Hu. Ed. Cell culture technology for
pharmaceutical and cell-based therapies (Biotechnology and
Bioprocessing series). (2005) CRC.
3. Biological safety: principles and practices. By Diane O. Fleming,
Debra Long Hunt. Chapter 34. Biosafety in the pharmaceutical
industry. ASM Press.2000. (For Module-V)

References:
1. M.El-Mansi, C.F.Bryce, A.L.Demain and A.R.Allman.
Fermentation microbiology and biotechnology. Taylor and
Francis.
2. V.A.Vinci and S.R.Parekh. Ed. Handbook of industrial cell
culture: Mammalian, microbial and plant cells. (2002). Humana
Press.
3. Stephanopoulos. Metabolic engineering. (1998) Academic Press.
(Module-I)
4. Andrian Slater. Nigel W.Scott. “Plant biotechnology: The genetic
manipulation of plants”. (2006) 2nd Edn. Oxford press.
5. D. Balasubramanian, CFA Bryce, K.Dhamalingam, J.Green and
Kunthala Jayaraman “Concepts in Biotechnology” Revise edition
Universities press.
 EBT902 : MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL
BIOTECHNOLOGY
Module I
Molecular diagnostics: Nucleic acid amplification, Hybridization,
Sequencing and Lab-on-a-chip methods. Molecular diagnosis for genetic
disorders, cancer and infectious diseases. Use of genomic sequence
information for genetic counseling.

Module II
Target identification: Role of metabolomics, proteomics, structural and
functional genomics. SNP analysis. Differential expression studies using
spectroscopy and microarrays.

Module III
Chemoinformatics: Molecular descriptors. Molecular similarity. 2D
substructure searching. Pharmacophore keys. Introduction to database
filters, property based & (drug- like) - Lipinski Rule of Five. QSAR.
Comparative Molecular field analysis (COMFA).Receptor based drug
design: Molecular Docking. Force fields for molecular modeling.

Module IV
Genetical engineering for production of pharmaceuticals and vaccines. Gene
therapy: Gene knockout and knockin. RNAi. Therapeutic genes used in clinical
trials. Methods for gene delivery. Viral vectors (Gammaretroviruses,
lentiviruses, adenoviruses, adeno-associated viruses, herpes simplex virus).
Gene therapy for immune system diseases and neurodegenerative diseases
(Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and ALS).

Module V
Cell, Tissue culture and Organ culture: Transformed human cell lines and
their applications. Embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells; hematopoietic
and neuronal stem cells and their therapeutic applications. Organ culture
of skin.

Text Books
1. P. Krogsgaard-Larsen, Textbook of drug design and discovery, Taylor
and Francis, 2002.
2. AR Leach and VJ Gillet. An introduction to chemoinformatics.
Springer. 2007.
3. S. S. Ozturk and W. Hu (Eds), Cell culture technology for
pharmaceutical and cell based therapies, CRC press, 2005.
 EBT903 : AGRICULTURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Module I
Basic concepts of physiological and metabolic adaptations of plant to the
changing environment, leaf water potential, relative water content, water
uptake capacity. Soil analysis, water analysis, 13C Isotope discrimination
mass spectrometry for studying the amount of the carbon incorporated in
the plant.

Module II
Screening and selection of plants for their tolerance to abiotic and biotic
stress. Analytical parameters for the identification of resistant / tolerant
plants, proline, glycine betaine, membrane permeability, sugars, thiamine
Abscisic acid (ABA)

Module III
Techniques used in gene, genome, cloning and transformation: Vectors in
gene cloning, transformation, blue white screening, reporter genes,
Blotting techniques, RFLP, RAPD, RACE, Native PAGE, Micro array,
PFGE, PCR, MALDI-TOF, ESI-Tandem Mass spectrometry, DNA
sequencing, Generation I, II and III High throughput sequencing
technologies.

Module IV
Machine vision (image analysis) and robotics for the separation and
regeneration of tissue cultures plants, Applications and potentials of
artificial neural networks in plant tissue culture, Bioengineering aspects
of bioreactor application in plant propagation, Design, development, types,
and applications of bioreactors for micropropagation and hairy root culture,
Bioreactor engineering for recombinant protein production using plant
cell suspension culture, Temporary immersion bioreactor, Integrating
automation technologies with commercial micropropagation, Physical and
engineering perspectives of in vitro plant cryopreservation.

Module V
Genetically Modified Organisms and Transgenic Research: Gene transfer
methods in plants, screening for transgenic plants, applications. Disease
resistant, environmental stress resistant, herbicide resistant plants,
molecular pharming. Transgenic domestic animals and their products of
economic importance: egg, milk, live stock and recombinant protein.
Text Books:
1. Introduction to Plant Biotechnology (3 rd Edition, 2008). H. S. Chawla.
Oxford IBH (Paperback). ISBN: 9788120417328, 8120417321
2. Plant Biotechnology: The Genetic Manipulation of Plants. (2nd Edition,
2008), Adrian Slater, Nigel Scott, and Mark Fowler. Oxford University
Press. (Paperback). 400pp. ISBN: 9780199560875, 0199560870
3. Plant Tissue Culture Engineering (2008). Edited by S. DUTTA GUPTA
and YASUOMI IBARAKI, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
480pp. ISBN 978-1-4020-3594-4 (HB); ISBN 978-1-4020-3694-1 (e-
book).
 EBT904 : NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY

Module I
Introduction to Nanotechnology: Size dependent properties. Size
dependence of sedimentation rate, adsorption effects, scattering of light,
absorption of electromagnetic radiation, electrical and magnetic properties.
Effects of confinement on protein stability.

Module II
Production of nanomaterials: Top down & bottom up strategies. Microbial
production. Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of self-assembly
and template directed assembly: The Ising model. Cooperative transitions
in biological systems. Zimm-Bragg theory for polypeptides and base-pairing
between complementary strands of nucleic acids. Vectors for drug delivery:
Micelles, viral capsids and diatom skeletons. Targeted drug delivery –
Nanobioconjugates for receptor targeting and magnetic guidance.
Controlled drug release.

Module III
BioNanomaterial characterization: Electron microscopy. Force microscopy.
Light Scattering. Optical tweezers and optical molasses. Localized surface
plasmon resonance.

Module IV
Nanomaterials for Biomedical imaging: Quantum dots. Nanomaterials for
MRI. Magnetic resonance – principles, theory of relaxation, relationship
between size and relaxation properties. Theranostics.

Module V
Diagnostics and Prognostics: Principles and applications of Nanoarrays
and Nanofluidics. Nanopore sequencing of DNA. BioNanomechanics:
NanoBiomotors. Mechanics of cilia and flagella. Nanobioelectronics:
Nanowires based on DNA. Molecular transistors. Voltage gated ion
channels.

Text books:
1. Neimeyer & Mirkin. Nanobiotechnology. Vol I & II. 2. Tuan Vo-
Dinh. Nanotechnology in biology and medicine: Methods, devices
and applications. (2007) Taylor & Francis. (Distributed by
IK.Publishers) 26
References:
1. Vijay K. Varadan. Nanomedicine: Design and Applications of
magnetic nanomaterials, nanosensors and nanosystems. (2008).
Wiley Dreamtech India.
2. Robert Freitas. Nanomedicine. Vol. I Basic capabilities.
3. Patrick Abgrall, Nam-Trung Nguyen . Nanofluidics . 2009. Artech
House. ISBN 159693350X, 9781596933507
4. G.T. Hermanson. Bioconjugate techniques. 2008. Academic Press.
5. C.M. Niemeyer. Bioconjugation protocols: strategies and methods.
In Methods in molecular biology. 2004. Humana Press. Isbn
9781588290984.
6. Challa SSR Kumar. Nanosystem characterization tools in the Life
Sciences (2006). Wiley
 ECE901: Advance Structural Analysis
Module I
Introduction: A brief history of FEM, Need of the method, Review of
basic principles of solid mechanics – principles, equations of equilibrium,
boundary conditions, compatibility, strain – displacement relations,
constitutive relationship.

Module II
Introduction: Basic wind speed, Design wind speed, Design wind pressure,
offshore wind velocity, Wind pressures and forces in buildings/ structures.
External pressures coefficients for various roofs, Dynamic effects. Design
of Tall Buildings: Analysis of tall building for lateral loads, cantilever
method, Portal method, Factor method; Design of structures for wind;
Computer application in analysis & design.

Module III
Concepts of Structural Safety : General, Design methods. Basic Statistics:
Introduction, Data reduction, Histograms, Sample correlation. Probability
Theory: Introduction, Random events, Random variables, Functions of
random variables, Moments and expectation, common probability
distribution, Extremal distribution, Histograms, Normal distributions and
Non-normal distributions.

Module IV
Introduction: Mass- spring-damper idealization of structural systems,
equation of motion for SDOF system, solution of the differential equations
viscous damping, dry friction damping and negative damping, under-
damped, critically damped and over-damped systems, logarithmic
decrement, determination of damping in the system

Module V
Earthquake Forces and Structural Responses : Introduction, Bureau of
Indian Standards for earthquake design, Earthquake magnitude and
intensity, Historical development, Basic seismic coefficient and seismic
zone factors, determination of design forces, Choice of method for multi-
storied buildings, Difference between wind and earthquake forces, Partial
safety factors for design, Distribution of seismic forces, Analysis of
structures other than buildings.
Text Books:
1. P.Zienkiewiez, “The Finite Element Method in Engineering
Science”, McGraw Hill, 1972.
2. R.Park&T.Paulay, “Reinforced Concrete Structures”, John Wiley
& Sons, 1975.
3. R. Ranganathan, “Structural Reliability Analysis and Design”, Jaico
Publishing House, Aug2006
4. John M. Biggs, “Introduction to Structural Dynamics”, 1st Edition,
McGraw Hill Inc., 1965
5. P.C.Varghese, “Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design”, 2nd
Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2005.
 ECE 902: ADVANCED CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY
Module I
Cement: Historical note, Chemical composition, Hydration of cement,
Microstructural developments due to hydration and their effects on
mechanical and material properties ,Setting, Fineness of cement, Structure
of hydrated cement, Different grades of cement, Tests on properties of
cement.

Module II
Properties of aggregates: General classification of aggregates,
Classification of natural aggregates, Sampling, Particle shape and texture,
Bond of aggregate, Strength of aggregate, Other mechanical properties of
aggregate, Specific gravity, Bulk density, Bulking of fine aggregate,
Deleterious substances in aggregate, Soundness of aggregate, Alkali-silica
reaction, Sieve analysis, Grading requirement, Practical grading. Recycled
aggregate: types, Properties of recycled aggregates, Properties of concrete
made with recycled aggregate, limitations and advantages.

Module III
Fresh concrete: Process of manufacture of concrete – Method of
transportation, Placing and curing of concrete. Quality of mixing
water.Properties of fresh concrete, Workability, Factors affecting
workability, Measurement of workability.Definitions of segregation,
bleeding and honey combing.
Admixtures: Benefits of admixtures, types of admixtures, supplementary
cementing materials, accelerating admixtures, retarding admixtures, water-
reducing admixtures, Superplasticizer, special admixtures.

Module IV
Strength of concrete: Water/cement ratio, effect of age on strength of
concrete, relation between compressive and tensile strengths, bond between
concrete and reinforcement. Testing of hardened concrete: Tests for
compressive strength, effect of condition of specimen and capping,
comparison of strengths of cubes and cylinders, tests for strength in tension,
flexure test, split tension test, accelerated curing test. Definitions of
Modulus of Elasticity, creep, shrinkage and Poisson’s ratio. NDT tests-
UPV, Rebound hammer, Carbonation.
Module V
Durability: Introduction, Physical properties of concrete related due to
durability; Resistance to destructive agents: Corrosion, carbonation,
chloride ingress, sulfate attack, acid attack, alkali silica reactions; Codal
provisions on Durability.
Behaviour of concrete members for fire resistance: Behaviour of
hardened cement paste and aggregate under high temperature, Effect of
high temperature on concrete, , Effect of high temperature on different
types of structural members, Assessing damage, repair, improving
performance, temperature tests on specimen (stressed/ unstressed).

Text Books:
1. P K Mehta and Paulo. J.M.Monteiro, Concrete Microstructure ,
Properties and Materials, Third Edition.
2. A M Neville, Properties of Concrete.
3. M S Shetty, Concrete Technology, S.Chand& Company Ltd.,
Reprint, 2008.
 ECE 903: SURFACE WATER AND GROUND WATER
HYDROLOGY
Module I
Hydrology and Precipitation : Global water budget –Rainfall Hyetograph
– Intensity Duration and Frequency analysis – Statistical analysis of rainfall
data – Infiltrarion:Evapotranspiration – Field Measurement – Empirical
Equations - Infiltration – Infiltrometers – Infiltration Equations -
Infiltration Indices.

Module II
Runoff and Water Conservation : Concept of catchment – Linear, Areal
and Relief Aspects – Detailed study of Runoff process – Factors affecting
Runoff – Hydrograph – Unit Hydrograph – Synthetic Hydrograph – Runoff
estimation - Strange and SCS methods.

Module III
Groundwater Hydraulics : Groundwater Movement - Darcy s law and
its limitations – 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 – Interference of wells.

Module IV
Pumping Test Analysis :Determining aquifer parameters for unconfined,
confined 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.

Module V
Special Topics : Water Conservation – Rain water and Runoff Harvesting
in Rural and Urban Areas - Methods of artificial groundwater recharge –
Groundwater Basin Management and conjunctive use - Groundwater
assessment and balancing – Regional Groundwater Modeling.

Text books:
1. Chow V.T., Maidment D.R., Mays L.W., “Applied Hydrology”,
McGraw Hill Publications, New York, 1995.
2. Subramanya K., “Hydrology,Tata McGraw Hill Co., New Delhi,
1994.
3. Jeya Rami Reddy.P, “Hydrology, Laximi Publications, New Delhi,
2004
4. Todd D.K., “Groundwater Hydrology”, John Wiley & Sons, Inc,
New York, 1976.
5. Bear J., “Hydraulics of Groundwater”, McGraw-Hill, New York,
1979.
6. Bouwer H., “Groundwater Hydrology”, McGraw-Hill, New York,
1978.
7. A.K. Rastogi, “Numerical Groundwater Hydrology”, 2011
 ECE904: TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
Module I
Traffic Characteristics: Physical, Physiological, Psychological,
Environmental Characteristics, Traffic Stream Characteristics, Vehicle
Characteristics – Static and Dynamic, Urban Road and Road Characteristics
– Geometric Design – An Overview

MODULE II
Surveys and Studies in Traffic Engineering: Conventional and Modern
Methods of Traffic Survey and Studies – Volume and Capacity – Headway
concepts and applications – Speed and Delay – Origin and Destination,
Parking, Accident – Level of Services (LoS)

Module III
Design Of Transport Infrastructure: Sight Distance, Design of Cycle
Tracks, Pedestrian Facilities, Parking Facilities – On Street, Off Street
Multi level Street Lighting

Module IV
Intersection Design: Design of Intersection – At grade intersection
– Uncontrolled, Channelization, Rotary, Traffic Signal Control, Signal
Co-ordination, Grade Separated Intersection - Types and Design

Module V
Traffic Operation and Management: Traffic Sign, Road Markings,
Traffic Control Aids, Street furniture, Road Arboriculture – Traffic
Regulation, Cost Effective Management Measures – Traffic Systems
Management and Travel Demand Management - Congestion Management,
Traffic Calming and Pricing

Text Books:
1. Nicholas T.Garber, Lester A Hoel, “Traffic and Highway
Engineering”, Fifth Edition, First Indian Reprint, Cengage
Learning, 2015
2. Kadiyali, L.R.,”Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning”,
Eighth Edition, Eighth Reprint, Khanna Publishers, 2016
3. Thomas Curinan, An Introduction to Traffic Engineering – A
Manual for Data Collection and Analysis, Books Cole, UK, 2001.
 ECE905: ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Module I
Quality and Analysis of Water: Physical, Chemical and Biological.
Drinking water quality standards.Treatment of Water : Flowchart of water
treatment plant, Treatment methods (Theory and Design) - Sedimentation,
Coagulation, Sedimentation with Coagulation, Filtration, Chlorination and
other Disinfection methods, Softening of Water.

Module II
Air Pollution Control Methods and Devices : Air Pollution – sources of
pollution – Classification – effects on human beings, Plants and Materials
– Global effects of Air pollution – Air emissions standards.Air pollution
Control Methods–Particulate control devices – Control of Gaseous
Emission.

Module III
Industrial Waste Water Treatment: Theories industrial waste treatment
– Volume reduction – strength reduction – Neutralization – Equalization
– Proportioning – Nitrification and Denitrification – Removal of Phosphates
– Effluent standards.

Module IV
Urban Solid Waste Management: Sources; Quantities and characteristics;
Classification; Collection and transportation; Recovery and reuse;
Treatment methods such as compositing, incineration, sanitary landfill
and pyrolysis.

Module V
E-Waste management E-waste : Sources- Types- components; Collection
process- Segregation-Disposal methods; Effect on air, water and soil; Health
hazards; Role of individual for E-waste management. Current E-waste
Management Rules.

Text Books:
1. Water Supply and Sanitary Engineering by G.S. Birde; Dhanpat
rai and sons, Delhi.
2. Environmental Engineering vol. II – Sewage disposal and air
pollution engineering by S. K. Garg; Khanna Publishers, Delhi.
3. Air Pollution and Control by MN Rao &H.N.Rao.
4. Environmental pollution control engineering by C. S. Rao; Wiley
Eastern Limited, New Delhi.
5. Solid and Hazardous Waste Management by Prof. M.N. Rao and
Dr.Razia Sultana, Hyderabad.
6. E-waste: Implications, regulations, and management in India and
current global best practices, TERI, Publications, New Delhi.
 ECE 906: GEO-ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Module I
Soil formation and composition: Introduction- Soil Formation- Phase
Composition-Solids Composition and Characterization-Mineral
Composition-Role of Composition in Engineering Behavior of Soils

Module II
Soil structure: Introduction-Different Scales of Soil Structure-Pore Sizes
Associated with Soil Structure-Single-Particle Arrangements; Gouy-
Chapman Theory of the Double Layer; Forces of Interaction between Clay
Particles; Role of Soil Structure in the Engineering Behavior of soils, soil
fabric.

Module III
Adsorption and soil reaction: Types of adsorption - adsorption
characteristics - forces of adsorption; adsorption of water. Acid –base
chemistry, charge in soil clays, and formulation of soil acidity and alkalinity.
Chemistry of soil weathering.

Module IV
Ground improvement: Need and objectives of ground improvement;
Emerging trends in ground Improvement. Stabilisations with admixtures
like cement, lime, calcium chloride, fly ash and bitumen.

Module V
Geosynthetics: Introduction: An overview on the development and
applications various geo-synthetics - the geo-textiles, geo-grids, geo-nets,
geo-membranes and geo-composites.

Text Books
1. KIM H.Tan - Principles of Soil chemistry - Makcel Dekker Ink,
fourth edition,2017
2. Donald L.Sparks- Environmental Soil chemistry - 2013.
3. Lakshmi N. Reddy, Hilary. I. Inyang – Geo-Environmental Engineering
–Principles and Applications – Makcel Dekker Ink, 2013.
4. P. Purushothama Raj, “Ground Improvement Techniques” Laxmi
Publications (P) Limited, 2015.
5. Jie Han et. al., “Advances in ground Improvement” Allied
Publications, 2011.
6. R. M. Koerner, “Designing with geosynthetics”, Pearson Education
Inc., 2015
 ECE 907: GROUND IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES
Module I
Role of ground improvement in foundation engineering, methods of ground
improvement, geotechnical problems in alluvial, laterite and black cotton
soils, selection of suitable ground improvement techniques based on soil
condition.

Module II
Insitu Treatment of Cohesionless and Cohesive Soils: Insitu densification
of cohesionless and consolidation of cohesive soils, dynamic compaction
and consolidation, vibrofloation, sand pile compaction, preloading with
sand drains and fabric drains, stone columns, lime piles, installation
techniques only - relative merits of various methods and their limitations.

Module III
Grout Techniques: Types of grouts, grouting equipment and machinery,
injection methods, grout monitoring, stabilization with cement, lime and
chemicals, stabilisation of expansive soils.

Module IV
An Overview of Geosynthetics: Description of Geosynthetics, Properties
and Functions Geosynthetics in Ground Improvement: Drainage, PVDs,
French Drains, etc.

Module V
Soil Reinforcement: Mechanism, Reinforced slopes, Embankments on soft
ground, Reinforced Embankments, Reinforced soil walls and Slope
stabilization.

Text Books:
1. R.M. Koerner, Construction and Geotechnical Methods in
Foundation Engineering, Tata McGraw Hill, 1994.
2. R.P. Purushothama, Ground Improvement Techniques, Tata
McGraw Hill,1995.
3. Rao, G. V. & Raju G. V. S. S. - Engineering with Geosynthetics
4. R.M. Koerner, Design with Geosynthetic, 3/e Prentice Hall, 2002.
References:
1. M.P. Moseley, Ground Improvement Block, IE Academic and
Professional, Chapman and Hall, 1993.
2. J.E.P. Jones, Earth Reinforcement and Soil Structure, Butterworths,
1995.
3. R.A. Jewell, “Soil Reinforcement with Geotextiles”, CIRIA special
publication,1996. 5. B.M. Das, Principles of Foundation
Engineering, Thomson Books / Cole, 2003.
 ECE 908: SOIL DYNAMICS AND MACHINE
FOUNDATIONS
Module I
Fundamentals of Vibration: Definitions, simple harmonic motion, response
of SDOF systems Of Free And Forced Vibrations With And Without Viscous
Damping, Frequency Dependent Excitation, Systems Under Transient
Loads, Rayleigh’s method of fundamental frequency, logarithmic
decrement, determination of viscous damping, transmissibility, systems
with two and multiple degrees of freedom, vibration measuring instruments.

Module II
Wave Propagation and Dynamic Soil Properties: Propagation of seismic
waves in soil deposits attenuation of stress waves, stress-strain behaviour
of cyclically loaded soils, strength of cyclically loaded soils, dynamic soil
properties, laboratory and field testing techniques, elastic constants of soils,
correlations for shear modulus and damping ratio in sand, gravels, clays
and lightly cemented sand, liquefaction of soils - an introduction and
evaluation using simple methods.

Module III
Vibration Analyses: Types, general requirements, permissible amplitude,
allowable soil pressure, modes of vibration of a rigid foundation block,
methods of analysis, lumped mass models, elastic half space method,
elastodynamics, effect of footing shape on vibratory response, dynamic
response of embedded block foundation, vibration isolation .

Module IV
Design of Machine Foundations: Analysis and design of block foundations
for reciprocating engines, dynamic analysis and design procedure for a
hammer foundation, is code of practice design procedure for foundations
of reciprocating and impact type machines, vibration isolation and
absorption techniques.

Module V
Machine Foundations on Piles: Introduction, analysis of piles under vertical
vibrations, analysis of piles under translation and rocking, analysis of
piles under torsion, design procedure for a pile supported machine
foundation.
Text Books:
1. I. Chowdhary and S P Dasgupta, Dynamics of Structures and
Foundation, 2009.
2. S.D. Arya, M. O’Neil, and G. Pincus, Design of Structures and
Foundations for Vibrating Machines, Gulf Publishing, 1979.

References:
1. F.E. Richart, J.R. Hall, and R.D. Woods, Vibrations of Soils and
Foundations, Prentice Hall, 1970.
2. Swami Saran, Soil Dynamics and Machine Foundation, Galgotia,
2010.
3. B.M. Das, Principles of Soil Dynamics, 2/e, PWS KENT, 2010.
4. S. Prakash, and V.K. Puri, Foundation for Machines: Analysis and
Design, John Wiley, 1998.
5. N.S.V. Kameswara Rao, Vibration Analysis and Foundation
Dynamics, Wheeler, 1998. 6. S.L. Kramer, Geotechnical Earthquake
Engineering, Prentice Hall, 1996.
 EID901: ADVANCED DBMS
Module I
Review of the fundamental principles of modern database management
systems (DBMS): architecture and functionality; relational databases (the
relational data model, the relational algebra, SQL); objectoriented databases
(ODMG data model and query language); object-relational DBMS: Oracle
10g.

Module II
Query processing and query optimization.

Module III
Transaction Management: ACID properties, concurrency control, and
recovery.

Module IV
Distributed databases: Distributed DBMS Architecture, distributed database
design, distributed query processing, distributed transaction management

Module V
Heterogeneous databases: architecture, schema translation and schema
integration, query processing, transaction management, and alternative
transaction models.

Text Books:
1. R. RamakrishnanGehrke, Database Management Systems,
McGraw-Hill , ISBN 0-07-050775-9
2. M.Tamer OZSU, PATRICK VALDURIEZ, Principles of Distributed
Database Systems, 2nd Edition,
3. A.Elmagarmid, M.Rusinkiewicz, A.Sheth (eds)Management of
Heterogeneous and Autonomous Database Systems, Morgan
Kaufmann, 1999, ISBN 1-55860-216-X.

References :
1. RamezElmasri and ShamkantB.Navathe Fundamentals of Database
Systems, Pearson Edn.
2. P.A. Bernstein, V. Hadzilacos, N.Goodman,Concurrency Control
and Recovery in Database Systems, Addison Wesley.
 EID902: DATA MINING
Module I
Introduction to Data Mining: What is Data Mining, Motivating
Challenges, The origins of Data Mining, Data Mining Tasks. Data: Types
of Data, Data quality, Data Preprocessing, Measures of Similarity and
Dissimilarity.

Module II
Classification: Basic Concepts, Decision Trees, and Model Evaluation
Preliminaries, General Approach to solving a classification Problem,
Decision Tree Induction, Model Overfitting, Evaluating the performance
of a classifier. Classification Alternate Techniques - Rule-based Classifier,
Nearest-Neighbor Classifiers, Bayesian Classifiers, Deep Learning, SVM.

Module III
Association Analysis: Basic Concepts and Algorithms, Problem Definition,
Frequent Itemset Generation, Compact Representation of Frequent
Itemsets, Alternative Methods for generating Frequent Itemsets, Evaluation
of Association Patterns, Handling a Concept Hierarchy, Sequential Patterns.

Module IV
Cluster Analysis: Basic Concepts and Algorithms, Overview, K-Means,
Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering, DBSCAN, Cluster Evaluation,
Scalable Clustering Algorithm, Which Clustering Algorithm?

Module V
Anomaly Detection: Characteristics of Anomaly Detection Problems,
Characteristics of Anomaly Detection Methods, Statistical Approaches,
Proximity-based Approaches, Clustering-based Approaches,
Reconstruction-based Approaches, One-class Classification, Information
Theoretic Approaches, Evaluation of Anomaly Detection.

Text Books:
1. Tan, Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Introduction to Data Mining, Pearson
Education,2006
2. Jiawei Han, MichelineKamber, Data Mining Concepts and
Techniques,Morgan Kaufman Publications.
References:
1. Margaret H Dunhan, Data Mining Introductory and Advanced
Topics,Pearson Education.
2. Ian H. Witten Eibe Frank, Data Mining, Morgan Kaufman
Publications
 EID903: WEB MINING
Module I
Introduction to Web Data Mining and Data Mining Foundations:
Introduction – World Wide Web(WWW), A Brief History of the Web and
the Internet, Web Data Mining-Data Mining, Web Mining.
Data Mining Foundations – Association Rules and Sequential Patterns –
Basic Concepts of Association Rules,Apriori Algorithm- Frequent
ItemsetGeneration,Association Rule Generation, Data Formats for
Association Rule Mining, Mining with multiple minimum supports –
Extended Model, Mining Algorithm,Rule Generation, Mining Class
Association Rules, Basic Concepts of Sequential Patterns, Mining Sequential
Patterns on GSP, Mining Sequential Patterns on PrefixSpan, Generating
Rules from Sequential Patterns.

Module II
Supervised and Unsupervised Learning: Supervised Learning - Basic
Concepts, Decision Tree Induction – Learning Algorithm, Impurity
Function, Handling of Continuous Attributes, Classifier Evaluation, Rule
Induction – Sequential Covering, Rule Learning, Classification Based on
Associations, Naïve Bayesian Classification , Naïve Bayesian Text
Classification - Probabilistic Framework, Naïve Bayesian Model
.Unsupervised Learning – Basic Concepts , K-means Clustering – K-means
Algorithm, Representation of Clusters, Hierarchical Clustering – Single
link method , Complete link Method, Average link method, Strength and
Weakness.

Module III
Information Retrieval and Web Search: Basic Concepts of Information
Retrieval, Information Retrieval Methods - Boolean Model, Vector Space
Model and Statistical Language Model,Relevance Feedback, Evaluation
Measures, Text and Web Page Preprocessing – Stopword Removal,
Stemming, Web Page Preprocessing, Duplicate Detection, Inverted Index
and Its Compression – Inverted Index, Search using Inverted Index, Index
Construction, Index Compression, Latent Semantic Indexing – Singular
Value Decomposition, Query and Retrieval, Web Search, Meta Search,
WebSpamming.

Module IV
Link Analysis and Web Crawling: Link Analysis - Social Network
Analysis, Co-Citation and Bibliographic Coupling, Page Rank Algorithm,
HITS Algorithm, CommModule y Discovery-Problem Definition, Bipartite
Core CommModuleies, Maximum Flow CommModuleies, Email
CommModuleies.
Web Crawling – A Basic Crawler Algorithm- Breadth First Crawlers,
Preferential Crawlers, Implementation Issues – Fetching, Parsing, Stopword
Removal, Link Extraction, Spider Traps, Page Repository, Universal
Crawlers, Focused Crawlers, Topical Crawlers, Crawler Ethics and
Conflicts.

Module V
Opinion Mining and Web Usage Mining: Opinion Mining - Sentiment
Classification – Classification based on Sentiment Phrases, Classification
Using Text Classification Methods , Feature based Opinion Mining and
Summarization – Problem Definition, Object feature extraction, Feature
Extraction from Pros and Cons of Format1, Feature Extraction from Reviews
of Format 2 and 3, Comparative Sentence and Relation Mining, Opinion
Search and OpinionSpam.
Web Usage Mining - Data Collection and Preprocessing- Sources and Types
of Data, Key Elements of Web usage Data Preprocessing, Data Modeling
for Web Usage Mining, Discovery and Analysis of Web usage Patterns -
Session and Visitor Analysis, Cluster Analysis and Visitor Segmentation,
Association and Correlation Analysis, Analysis of Sequential and Navigation
Patterns.

Text Book:
Web Data Mining: Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents, and Usage Data by
Bing Liu (Springer Publications)

References:
1. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Second Edition Jiawei Han,
MichelineKamber (ElsevierPublications)
2. Web Mining:: Applications and Techniques by AnthonyScime
3. Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data by
SoumenChakrabarti
 EID904: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Module I
Introduction to AI and Intelligent Agents: Introduction: What is AI?,
the foundations of artificial intelligence; Intelligent Agents: Agents and
environments. Good Behaviour: The concept of rationality, the nature of
environments, the structure of agents.

Module II
Problem Solving by Search and Exploration: Solving Problems by
Searching: Problem solving agents, example problems, Searching for
solutions, Uninformed search strategies, avoiding repeated states, searching
with partial information; Informed Search and Exploration: Informed
(heuristic) search strategies, heuristic functions, local search algorithms
and optimization problems, local search in continuous spaces.

Module III
Knowledge Representation: Logical Agents: Knowledge based agents,
the wumpus world, logic. Propositional Logic: A very simple logic,
reasoning patterns in propositional logic, effective propositional inference;
First-Order Logic: Representation revisited, syntax and semantics of first
order logic, using first order logic.

Module IV
Knowledge and Reasoning: Inference in First-Order Logic:
Propositional vs first order inference, unification and lifting, forward
chaining, backward chaining, resolution. Planning: Planning : The
planning problem, planning with state space search, partial order planning.

Module V
Uncertain Knowledge: Uncertainty : Acting under uncertainty, basic
probability notation, the axioms of Probability, Inference using full joint
distributions, independence, bayes’ rule and its use, the wumpus world
revisited. Learning: Learning from Observations: Forms of learning,
Inductive learning, learning decision trees, ensemble learning. Why
Learning Works: Computational learning theory.
Text Book:

1. Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern

Approach, 2/e, Pearson Education, 2010.
References

1. Elaine Rich, Kevin Knight and Shivashankar B. Nair, Artificial

Intelligence, 3/e, McGraw Hill Education, 2008.
2. Dan W. Patterson, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Expert
Systems, PHI Learning, 2012.
 EID905: NEURAL NETWORKS
Module I
Introduction: What is a neural network? Human Brain, Models of a Neuron,
Neural networks viewed as Directed Graphs, Network Architectures,
Knowledge Representation, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
(p. no’s 1 –49)
Learning Process 1 – Error Correction learning, Memory based learning,
Hebbianlearing,(50-55)

Module II
Learning Process 2: Competitive, Boltzmann learning, Credit Asssignment
Problem, Memory, Adaption, Statistical nature of the learning process, (p.
no’s 50 –116)
Single Layer Perceptrons – Adaptive filtering problem, Unconstrained
Organization Techniques, Linear least square filters, least mean square
algorithm, learning curves, Learning rate annealing techniques, perceptron
–convergence theorem, Relation between perceptron and Bayes classifier
for a Gaussian Environment (p. no’s 117 –155)

Module III
Multilayer Perceptron – Back propagation algorithm XOR problem,
Heuristics, Output representation and decision rule, Comuter experiment,
feature detection, (p. no’s 156 – 201)
Back Propagation - back propagation and differentiation, Hessian matrix,
Generalization, Cross validation, Network pruning Techniques, Virtues and
limitations of back propagation learning, Accelerated convergence,
supervised learning. (p. no’s 202 –234)

Module IV
Self Organization Maps – Two basic feature mapping models, Self
organizationmap, SOM algorithm, properties of feature map, computer
simulations, learning vector quantization, Adaptive patter classification,
Hierechel Vector quantilizer,contexmelMaps(p. no’s 443 –469, 9.1 –9.8)

Module V
Neuro Dynamics – Dynamical systems, stavility of equilibrium states,
attractors, neurodynamicalmodels , manipulation of attarctors as a recurrent
network paradigm (p. no’s 664 –680, 14.1 –14.6 )
Hopfield Models – Hopfield models, computer experiment I (p. no’s 680-
701, 14.7 – 14.8)
Text Book:
1. Neural networks A comprehensive foundations, Simon Hhaykin,
Pearson Education 2 nd Edition 2004

References:
1. Artifical neural networks - B.Vegnanarayana Prentice Halllof India
P Ltd2005
2. Neural networks in Computer intelligence, Li Min Fu TMH 2003
EID906: INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING
Module I
Introduction: overview of machine learning, related areas, applications,
parametric regression: linear regression, polynomial regression, locally
weighted regression, numerical optimization, gradient descent, kernel
methods.

Module II
Introduction, Concept Learning and Decision Trees: Learning
Problems - Designing Learning systems, Perspectives and Issues - Concept
Learning - Version Spaces and Candidate Elimination Algorithm -
Inductive bias - Decision Tree learning - Representation - Algorithm -
Heuristic Space Search.

Module III
Neural Networks And Genetic Algorithms : Neural network
representation, problems, perceptions, multilayer networks and back
propagation algorithms, advanced topics, Genetic algorithms, hypothesis
space search, genetic programming, models of evaluation and learning.

Module IV
Bayesian and Computational Learning : Bayes theorem , concept
learning, maximum likelihood, minimum description length principle,
Bayes optimal classifier, Gibbs Algorithm, Naïve Bayes Classifier, Bayesian
belief network, EM algorithm, probability learning, sample complexity,
finite and infinite hypothesis spaces, mistake bound model Instance Based
Learning: K-Nearest neighbor learning, locally weighted regression, radial
basis functions, case based learning.

Module V
Hidden Markov Models: Introduction, discrete Markov processes, hidden
Markov models, three basic problems of HMMs evaluation problem, finding
the state sequence, learning model parameters, continuous observations,
the HMM with input, model selection in HMM. 37

Text Book:
Tom M. Mitchell, Machine Learning, McGraw Hill , 2013. 2.
EthemAlpaydin, Introduction to Machine Learning (Adaptive Computation
and Machine Learning), The MIT Press, 2004
References:
1. T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, J. H. Friedman, The Elements of Statistical
Learning, 1/e, Springer, 2001.
2. 2. M NarasimhaMurty, Introduction to Pattern Recognition and
MachineLearning, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2015
 EID907: INTERNET OF THINGS
Module I
Introduction: The Internet of Things, An Overview, the flavour of the
internet of things, the internet of things, the technology of the internet of
things, enchanted objects, who is making the internet of things,
Design principles for connected devices : Calm and ambient technology,
magicas metaphor, privacy, web thinking for connected devices,
affordances.

Module II
Internet Principles: Internet communications, An overview (IP, TCP, the
IP protocol suite (TCP/IP), UDP), IP addresses (DNS, Static IP Address
assignment, dynamic IP address assignment, IPv6), MAC addresses, TCP
and UDP ports, application layer protocols.

Module III
Prototyping: Thinking About Prototyping: Sketching, familiarity, costs
versus ease of prototyping, prototypes and production, open source versus
closed source, tapping into the commModule y.
Prototyping embedded devices : Electronics, embedded computing basics,
developing on the arduino, raspberry pi beaglebone black, electric imp,
mobile phone and tablets, plug computing, always on internet of things.

Module IV
Prototyping the Physical Design : Preparation, sketch, iterate and explore,
non-digital methods, laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC milling, repurposing/
recycling. Techniques for Writing Embedded Code: Memory management,
performance and battery life, libraries, debugging.

Module V
Prototype to Reality: Business Models, a short history of business models,
the business model canvas, models, funding an internet of things startup,
lean startups.
Moving to manufacture: Designing kits, designing printed circuit boards,
manufacturing printed circuit boards, mass producing the case and other
fixtures, certification, costs, scaling up software.

Text Book:
Adrian McEwen, Hakim Cassimally, Designing the Internet of Things,1/
e, Wiley publication, 2013
References:
1. CharalamposDoukas , Building Internet of Things with the Arduino,
Create space, 2002.
2. Dieter Uckelmann (et.al), Architecting the Internet of Things,
Springer, 2011.
 EID908: BIG DATA ANALYTICS
Module I
Introduction: What Is Big Data and Why Is It Important. A Flood of
Mythic Start-Up Proportions, Big Data Is More Than Merely Big Why
Now. A Convergence of Key Trends, Relatively Speaking, A Wider Variety
of Data, The Expanding Universe of Unstructured Data.
Industry Examples of Big Data : Digital Marketing and the Non-line
World, The Right Approach: Cross-Channel Lifecycle Marketing.

Module II
Big Data Technology: The Elephant in the Room: Hadoop’s Parallel World.
Old vs. New Approaches,
Data Discovery: Work the Way People’s Minds Work, Open-Source
Technology for Big Data Analytics, The Cloud and Big Data, Predictive
Analytics Moves into the Limelight. A Brief History of Hadoop, Apache
Hadoop and the Hadoop Ecosystem.

Module III
MapReduce: Analyzing the Data with Hadoop, Map and Reduce, Java
MapReduce, Scaling Out, Data Flow, Combiner Functions, Running a
Distributed MapReduce Job, Hadoop Streaming, The Hadoop Distributed
File system, The Design of HDFS, HDFS Concepts, Blocks, Namenodes
and Datanodes, HDFS Federation, HDFS High-Availability, The
Command-Line Interface, Basic File system Operations, Hadoop File
systems.

Module IV
Information Management : The Big Data Foundation, Big Data
Computing Platforms, Big Data Computation, More on Big Data Storage,
Big Data Computational Limitations, Big Data Emerging Technologies.
Business Analytics : The Last Mile in Data Analysis, Geospatial
Intelligence Will Make Your Life Better, Consumption of Analytics, From
Creation to Consumption.
Visualizing: How to Make It Consumable, Organizations Are Using Data
Visualization as a Way to Take Immediate Action.

Module V
Data Privacy and Ethics: The Privacy Landscape, The Great Data Grab
Isn’t New, Preferences, Personalization, and Relationships, Rights and 29
Responsibility, playing in a Global Sandbox, Conscientious and Conscious
Responsibility, Privacy May Be the Wrong Focus Can Data Be
Anonymized? Balancing for Counter intelligence.
Text Books:
1. Michael Minelli, Michele Chambers, Big Data, Big Analytics, Wiley
Publications, 2013
2. Tom White, Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, 3/e, O’Reilly
Publications. (Module –III)

References:
1. Bill Franks, Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave, 1/e, Wiley, 2012.
2. Frank J. Ohlhorst, Big Data Analytics, 1/e, Wiley, 2012
 EID909: DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
Module I
Introduction: What is Digital Image Processing, Examples of fields that
use digital image processing, fundamental steps in digital image processing,
components of image processing system.. Digital Image Fundamentals: A
simple image formation model, image sampling and quantization, basic
relationships between pixels.

Module II
Image Enhancement in the Spatial Domain: Basic gray, level
transformation, histogram processing, enhancement using arithmetic and
logic operators, basic spatial filtering, smoothing and sharpening spatial
filters.

Module III
Image Restoration: A model of the image degradation/restoration process,
noise models, restoration in the presence of noise–only spatial filtering,
Weiner filtering, constrained least squares filtering, geometric transforms;
Introduction to the Fourier transform and the frequency domain, estimating
the degradation function. Color Image Processing- Color fundamentals,
color models.

Module IV
Image Compression: Fundamentals, image compression models, Lossless
Compression Huffman coding, Run length coding contour coding, a brief
discussion on Lossy Compression Image compression standards.
Morphological Image Processing: Preliminaries, dilation, erosion, open
and closing, hit or miss transformation, basic morphologic algorithms.

Module V
Image Segmentation: Detection of discontinuous, edge linking and
boundary detection, threshold, region–based segmentation.

Text Book(s)
1. Rafael C. Gonzalez,Richard E. Woods, Digital Image processing,
3/e, Pearson, 2009.19
References
1. B. Chanda, D. Dutta Majumder, Digital Image Processing and
Analysis,PHI, New Delhi, 2006.
2. A.K. Jain, Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, PHI, New
Delhi, 2006.
3. Qidwai ,Chen, Digital Image Processing, An algorithmic approach
with MATLAB, Taylor & Francis
4. Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods, Digital Image Processing
using MATLAB, Mc Graw Hill
 EID910: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Module I
Introduction and Overview What is Natural Language Processing, hands-
on demonstrations. Ambiguity and uncertainty in language. The Turing
test. Regular Expressions Chomsky hierarchy, regular languages, and
their limitations. Finite-state automata. Practical regular expressions for
finding and counting language phenomena. A little morphology. Exploring
a large corpus with regex tools. P rogramming in Python An introduction
to programming in Python. Variables, numbers, strings, arrays, dictionaries,
conditionals, iteration. The NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) String Edit
Distance and Alignment Key algorithmic tool: dynamic programming, a
simple example, use in optimal alignment of sequences. String edit
operations, edit distance, and examples of use in spelling correction, and
machine translation.

Module II
Context Free Grammars Constituency, CFG definition, use and
limitations. Chomsky Normal Form. Top-down parsing, bottom-up parsing,
and the problems with each. The desirability of combining evidence from
both directions Non-probabilistic Parsing Efficient CFG parsing with
CYK, another dynamic programming algorithms. Earley parser. Designing
a little grammar, and parsing with it on some test
data.ProbabilityIntroduction to probability theory Joint and conditonal
probability, marginals, independence, Bayes rule, combining evidence.
Examples of applications in natural language. Information Theory The
“Shannon game”—motivated by language! Entropy, cross-entropy,
information gain. Its application to some language phenomena.

Module III
Language modeling and Naive Bayes
Probabilistic language modeling and its applications. Markov models. N-
grams. Estimating the probability of a word, and smoothing. Generative
models of language. Part of Speech Tagging and Hidden Markov Models
,Viterbi Algorithm for Finding Most Likely HMM Path , Dynamic
programming with Hidden Markov Models, and its use for part-of-speech
tagging, Chinese word segmentation, prosody, information extraction,etc.

Module IV
Probabilistic Context Free Grammars
Weighted context free grammars. Weighted CYK. Pruning and beam
search.
Parsing with PCFGs
A treebank and what it takes to create one. The probabilistic version of
CYK. Also: How do humans parse? Experiments with eye-tracking. Modern
parsers.
Maximum Entropy Classifiers
The maximum entropy principle, and its relation to maximum likelihood.
Maximum entropy classifiers and their application to document
classification, sentence segmentation, and other language tasks

Module V
Maximum Entropy Markov Models & Conditional Random Fields
Part-of-speech tagging, noun-phrase segmentation and information
extraction models that combine maximum entropy and finite-state
machines. State-of-the-art models for NLP.

Text Books:
1. “Speech and Language Processing”: Jurafsky and Martin, Prentice
Hall
2. “Statistical Natural Language Processing”- Manning and Schutze,
MIT Press
3. “Natural Language Understanding”. James Allen. The Benajmins/
Cummings Publishing Company

References:
1. Cover, T. M. and J. A. Thomas: Elements of Information Theory.
Wiley.
2. Charniak, E.: Statistical Language Learning. The MIT Press.
3. Jelinek, F.: Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition. The MIT
Press.
4. Lutz and Ascher - “Learning Python”, O’Reilly
 EID911: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
Module I
Introduction: Definition, Objectives, Functional Overview, Relationship
to DBMS, Digital libraries and Data Warehouses, Information Retrieval
System Capabilities - Search, Browse, Miscellaneous.

Module II
Cataloging and Indexing : Objectives, Indexing Process, Automatic
Indexing, Information Extraction, Data Structures: Introduction, Stemming
Algorithms, Inverted file structures, N-gram data structure, PAT data
structure, Signature file structure, Hypertext data structure - Automatic
Indexing: Classes of automatic indexing, Statistical indexing, Natural
language, Concept indexing, Hypertext linkages

Module III
Document and Term Clustering : Introduction, Thesaurus generation,
Item clustering, Hierarchy of clusters - User Search Techniques: Search
statements and binding, Similarity measures and ranking, Relevance
feedback, Selective dissemination of information search, Weighted searches
of Boolean systems, Searching the Internet and hypertext - Information
Visualization: Introduction, Cognition and perception, Information
visualization technologies.

Module IV
Text Search Algorithms: Introduction, Software text search algorithms,
Hardware text search systems. Information System Evaluation:
Introduction, Measures used in system evaluation, Measurement example
– TREC results.

Module V
Multimedia Information Retrieval – Models and Languages – Data
Modeling, Query Languages, Indexing and Searching - Libraries and
Bibliographical Systems – Online IR Systems, OPACs, Digital Libraries.

Text Books:
1. Information Storage and Retrieval Systems: Theory and
Implementation by Kowalski, Gerald, Mark T Maybury Kluwer
Academic Press, 2000.
2. Modern Information Retrival by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Pearson
Education, 2007.
3. Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics by David A
Grossman and Ophir Frieder, 2nd Edition, Springer International
Edition, 2004.

References:
1. Information Retrieval Data Structures and Algorithms By William
B Frakes, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Pearson Education, 1992.
2. Information Storage &RetievalBy Robert Korfhage – John Wiley
& Sons.
3. Introduction to Information Retrieval By Christopher D. Manning
and PrabhakarRaghavan, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
 EID912: COMPUTER NETWORKS
Module I
Introduction - Building a Network, Applications, Requirements,
Connectivity, Cost-Effective Resource Sharing, Support for Common
Services, Network Architecture, Layering and Protocols, OSI Architecture,
Internet Architecture, Implementing Network Software, Application
Programming Interface (Sockets), Protocol Implementation Issues,
Performance, Bandwidth and Latency, Delay × Bandwidth Product, High-
speed Networks, Application Performance Needs, Ubiquitous Networking.

Module II
Direct Link Networks - Reliable Transmission - Stop-and-Wait, Sliding
Window, Concurrent Logical Channels; Ethernet (802.3) - Physical
Properties, Access Protocol, Experience with Ethernet; Rings - Token Ring
Media Access Control, Token Ring Maintenance, FDDI, Resilient Packet
Ring (802.17); Wireless -Bluetooth (802.15.1), Wi-Fi (802.11), WiMAX
(802.16), Cell Phone Technologies; Sensor Networks; Packet Switching -
Switching and Forwarding, Datagrams, Virtual Circuit Switching, Source
Routing; Bridges and LAN Switches - Learning Bridges, Spanning Tree
Algorithm, Broadcast and Multicast, Limitations of Bridges.

Module III
Internetworking - Simple Internetworking (IP) - What Is an Internetwork?
Service Model, Global Addresses, Datagram Forwarding in IP, Address
Translation (ARP), Host Configuration (DHCP), Error Reporting (ICMP),
Virtual Networks and Tunnels; Routing - Network as a Graph, Distance
Vector (RIP), Link State (OSPF), Metrics, Routing for Mobile Hosts,
Subnetting - Classless Routing (CIDR),Inter- domain Routing (BGP),
Routing Areas, IP Version 6 (IPv6); Multiprotocol Label Switching -
Destination-Based Forwarding, Explicit Routing, Virtual Private Networks
and Tunnels ;Deployment of IPv6.

Module IV
End-to-End Protocols - Simple Demultiplexer (UDP); Reliable Byte
Stream (TCP) - End-to-End Issues, Segment Format, Connection
Establishment and Termination, Sliding Window Revisited, Triggering
Transmission, 15 Adaptive Retransmission, Record Boundaries, TCP
Extensions, Alternative Design Choices; Transport for Real-Time
Applications (RTP) - Requirements, RTP Details, Control Protocol ;
Performance; Application Specific Protocols; Congestion Control and
Resource Allocation - Issues in Resource Allocation - Network Model,
Taxonomy, Evaluation Criteria; Queuing Disciplines - FIFO, Fair Queuing;
TCP Congestion Control - Additive Increase/Multiplicative Decrease, Slow
Start, Fast Retransmit and Fast Recovery; Congestion-Avoidance
Mechanisms – DEC bit, Random Early Detection (RED), Source-Based
Congestion Avoidance; Quality of Service - Application Requirements,
Integrated Services (RSVP), Differentiated Services (EF, AF), Equation-
Based Congestion Control; Inside versus Outside the Network.

Module V
Applications - Traditional Applications - Electronic Mail (SMTP, MIME,
IMAP), World Wide Web (HTTP), Name Service (DNS), Network
Management (SNMP); Web Services - Custom Application Protocols
(WSDL, SOAP), A Generic Application Protocol (REST), Multimedia
Applications, Session Control and Call Control (SDP, SIP, H.323), Resource
Allocation for Multimedia Applications; Overlay Networks - Routing
Overlays, Peer-to-Peer Networks (Gnutella, BitTorrent), Content
Distribution Networks.

Text Books:
1. Larry L. Peterson & Bruce S. Davie, Computer Networks, A Systems
Approach, 4/e, Morgan Kaufmann
2. D. Bertsekas, R. Gallager, Data Networks, PHI.

References:
1. W.R. Stevens, Unix Network Programming, Vol.1, Pearson
Education
2. J.Walrand, P. Varaiya, High Performance Communication Networks,
Morgan Kaufmann
3. Y. Zheng, S. Akhtar, Networks for Computer Scientists and
Engineers, Oxford.
4. A.S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 4/e, Prentice Hall.
5. James D. McCabe, Practical Computer Analysis and Design,
Harcourt Asia.
6. Darren L Spohn, Data Network Design, TMH.
 EID913: ADHOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS
Module I
Introduction to Ad Hoc Networks: Characteristics of MANETs,
Applications of MANETs and challenges of MANETs - Routing in
MANETs: Criteria for classification, Taxonomy of MANET routing
algorithms, Topology based routing algorithms, Position based routing
algorithms, Other routing algorithms.

Module II
Data Transmission: Broadcast storm problem, Broadcasting, Multicasting
and Geocasting -
TCP over Ad Hoc: TCP protocol overview, TCP and MANETs, Solutions
for TCP over Ad hoc

Module III
Basics of Wireless, Sensors and Applications: Applications, Classification
of sensor networks, Architecture of sensor network, Physical layer, MAC
layer, Link layer.

Module IV
Data Retrieval in Sensor Networks: Routing layer, Transport layer, High-
level application layer support, Adapting to the inherent dynamic nature of
WSNs, Sensor Networks and mobile robots - Security: Security in Ad Hoc
networks, Key management, Secure routing, Cooperation in MANETs,
Intrusion Detectionsystems.

Module V
Sensor Network Platforms and Tools: Sensor Network Hardware, Berkeley
motes, Sensor Network Programming Challenges, Node-Level Software
Platforms - Operating System: TinyOS - Imperative Language: nesC,
Dataflow style language: TinyGALS, Node-Level Simulators, ns-2 and its
sensor network extension, TOSSIM

Text Books:
1. Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks – Theory and Applications, Carlos
Corderio Dharma P.Aggarwal, World Scientific Publications, March
2006, ISBN – 981-256-681-3
2. Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach,
Feng Zhao, Leonidas Guibas, Elsevier Science, ISBN – 978-1-55860-
914-3 ( MorganKauffman)
 EID914: WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Module I
Overview of wireless sensor networks : The vision of ambient intelligence,
application example, types of applications, challenges for wireless sensor
networks, enabling technologies for wireless sensor networks.

Module II
Architectures: Single node architecture, hardware components, operating
systems and execution environments, network architecture, sensor network
scenarios.

Module III
Physical Layer: Introduction, wireless channel and communication
fundamentals, physical layer and transceiver design considerations in
WSNs. MAC protocols, contention based protocols, schedule based
protocols.

Module IV
Link layer protocols : Fundamentals: Tasks and requirements, error
control, causes and characteristics of transmission errors, ARQ techniques,
FEC techniques, framing, adaptive schemes, intermediate checksum
schemes, combining packet size optimization and FEC, link management,
link quality characteristics, link quality estimation.

Module V
Advanced application support: Advanced, network processing, going
beyond mere aggregation of data, distributed signal processing, distributed
source coding. Security, fundamentals security considerations in wireless
sensor networks, denial of service attacks.

Text Book:
Holger Karl & Andreas Willig, Protocols And Architectures for Wireless
Sensor Networks, John Wiley, 2005.

References:
1. Feng Zhao & Leonidas J. Guibas, Wireless Sensor Networks, An
Information Processing Approach, Elsevier, 2007.
2. Raghavendra, Cauligi S, Sivalingam, Krishna M., ZantiTaieb,
Wireless Sensor Network, Springer 1/e, 2004 (ISBN:
978,4020,7883,5).
3. KazemSohraby, Daniel Minoli, &TaiebZnati, Wireless Sensor
Networks, Technology, Protocols and Applications, John Wiley,
2007.
4. N. P. Mahalik, Sensor Networks and Configuration: Fundamentals,
Standards, Platforms, and Applications, Springer Verlag, 2007.
 EID915: ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Module -I
Introduction to Parallel Processing: Trends towards Parallel Processing;
Parallelism in Uniprocessors Systems :-Parallel Processing
Mechanisms,Balancing of subsystem bandwidth ; Parallel Computer
Structures:-Pipeline Computers, Array processors,Multiprocessor systems
; Architectural Classification Schemes:- Multiplicity of Instruction Data
Streams , Serial Vs Parallel Processing.

Module -II
Principles of Pipelining and Vector Processing: Pipelining:-Principles
of linear pipelining, Classification of pipeline processors; Principles of
designing pipelined processors; Vector Processing requirements. Vector
Processor :-The Architecture of CRAY-1, The Architecture of CYBER-
205, Vector Processing in CYBER-205.

Module -III
Structures and Algorithms for Array Processors: SIMD array
processors:-SIMD Computer Organization, masking and data routing
mechanism,Inter –PE Communication; SIMD interconnection networks;
Associative array processing:- Associative memory organization,
Associative Search Algorithms.

Module -IV
Multiprocessors Architecture and Programming : Functional structures:-
Loosely Coupled Multiporcessors, Tightly Coupled Multiporcessors;
Interconnection networks; Parallel memory organization:-Interleaved
Memory Configurations.

Module -V
Data Flow Computers: Data driven computing and languages, Data flow
computer Architecture.
Text Book:
Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing, Kai Hwang and Faye A.
Briggs.

References:
1. Advanced Computer Architecture, Kai Hwang, Tata McGraw Hill
 EID916: EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Module I
Introduction to Embedded Systems : Embedded Systems, Processor
Embedded into a System, Embedded Hardware Module s and Devices in a
System, Embedded Software, Complex System Design, Design Process in
Embedded System, Formalization of System Design, Classification of
Embedded Systems.

Module II
8051 and Advanced Processor Architecture : 8051 Architecture, 8051
Micro controller Hardware, Input/output Ports and Circuits, External
Memory, Counter and Timers, Serial data Input/Output, Interrupts,
Introduction to Advanced Architectures, Real World Interfacing, Processor
and Memory organization - Devices and Communication Buses for Devices
Network: Serial and parallel Devices & ports, Wireless Devices, Timer
and Counting Devices, Watchdog Timer, Real Time Clock, Networked
Embedded Systems, Internet Enabled Systems, Wireless and Mobile System
protocols.

Module III
Embedded Programming Concepts : Software programming in Assembly
language and High Level Language, Data types, Structures, Modifiers,
Loops and Pointers, Macros and Functions, object oriented Programming,
Embedded Programming in C++ & JAVA.

Module IV
Real – Time Operating Systems : OS Services, Process and Memory
Management, Real – Time Operating Systems, Basic Design Using an
RTOS, Task Scheduling Models, Interrupt Latency, Response of Task as
Performance Metrics - RTOS Programming: Basic functions and Types of
RTOSES, RTOS VxWorks, Windows CE.

Module V
Embedded Software Development Process and Tools : Introduction to
Embedded Software Development Process and Tools, Host and Target
Machines, Linking and Locating Software, Getting Embedded Software
into the Target System, Issues in Hardware-Software Design and Co-Design
- Testing, Simulation and Debugging Techniques and Tools: Testing on
Host Machine, Simulators, Laboratory Tools.
Text Books:
1. Embedded Systems, Raj Kamal, Second Edition TMH.

References:
1. Embedded/Real-Time Systems, Dr.K.V.K.K.Prasad, dreamTech
press
2. The 8051 Microcontroller and Embedded Systems, Muhammad Ali
Mazidi, Pearson.
3. The 8051 Microcontroller, Third Edition, Kenneth J.Ayala,
Thomson.
4. An Embedded Software Primer, David E. Simon, Pearson Education.
 EID917: CRYPTOGRAPHY AND NETWORK
SECURITY
Module I
Introduction: Cryptography, Cryptanalysis, Attacks, Services, Security
Mechanisms.
Classical Encryption Techniques : Symmetric Key Cryptography- Caesar
cipher, mono alphabetic Cipher, Play fair Cipher, Hill Cipher, Poly-
alphabetic Cipher, OTP, Transposition techniques, Rotor Machines,
Steganography.

Module II
Block Ciphers: Block Ciphers and the Data Encryption Standard: DES
Algorithm, Differential and linear cryptanalysis, Triple DES. Block cipher
design principles, Block cipher modes of operation, Advanced Encryption
Standard, RC6.

Module III
Arithmetic for Cryptography : Pseudorandom Number Generation, Prime
Numbers, Euler’s Theorem and CRT. Stream Ciphers: RC4 Public Key
Cryptography: Principles of Public Key Cryptosystem, RSA Algorithm,
Security of RSA. Diffie-Hellman key exchange, Elliptical curve
cryptography.

Module IV
Cryptographic Hash Functions : Applications of Hash Functions, Two
Simple Hash Functions, Secured Hashing Algorithm - 3.MAC & Digital
Signatures: Message Authentication Requirements, Message
Authentication Functions, MAC, Security of MAC, HMAC, Digital
Signatures, Digital Signature Standard.

Module V
Authentication Protocols : Remote User Authentication Principles,
Kerberos, Federated Identity Management. Email Security: Pretty Good
Privacy (PGP), S/MIME. IP Security: IP Security overview, IP Security
Policy. Malicious Software, Firewalls: Need for firewalls, Firewall
characteristics, Types of Firewalls.

Text Book(s)
William Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security, 5/e, Pearson
education
References
1. Mao, Modern cryptography: theory and practice, Pearson education.
2. Behrouz A .Forouzan, Cryptography and Network Security, TMH
3. AtulKahate, Cryptography and Network Security, 2/e, TMH
 EID918: ALGORITHMS IN BIO-INFORMATICS
Module I
Introduction: definitions, sequencing, biological sequence/structure,
genome projects, pattern recognition a prediction, folding problem,
sequence analysis, homology and analogy.
Protein Information Resources : Biological databases, protein pattern
databases, and structure classification databases. Secondary databases,
Protein pattern databases, and Structure classification databases.

Module II
Genome Information resources : DNA sequence databases, specialized
genomic resources. DNA sequence analysis: Importance of DNA analysis,
gene structure and DNA sequences, features of DNA sequence analysis,
EST (Expressed Sequence Tag) searches, gene hunting, profile of a cell,
EST analysis, effects of EST data on DNA databases.

Module III
Pair wise alignment techniques : Database searching, alphabets and
complexity, algorithm and programs, comparing two sequences,
subsequence, identity and similarity, the dot plot, local and global similarity,
different alignment techniques, dynamic programming, pair wise database
searching.

Module IV
Multiple sequence alignment : Definition and goal, the consensus,
computational complexity, manual methods, simultaneous methods,
progressive methods, databases of multiple alignments and searching.
Secondary database searching: Importance and need of secondary database
searches, secondary database structure and building a sequence search
protocol.

Module V
Introduction to Algorithms and Complexity : Definition of algorithm,
biological algorithms versus computer algorithms, the change problem,
correct versus incorrect algorithms, recursive algorithms, iterative versus
recursive algorithms, fast versus slow algorithms, big-O notation, algorithm
design techniques, exhaustive search, branch and bound algorithms, greedy
algorithms, dynamic programming, divide and conquer algorithms,
machine learning, randomized algorithms.
Text Book:
William Stalling, Lawrie Brown, Computer Security: Principles and
Practice, Pearson Indian Edition, 2010

References:
1. Chuck Easttom, Computer Security Fundamentals, Pearson, 2012.
 EID919: CYBER SECURITY
Module I
The Cyber Security Challenge : Defining the Cybersecurity Challenge,
The Cyberattacks of Today, Types of Cyber attackers, The Steps of a Cyber
intrusion, Why Cyber intrusions succeed.

Module II
Enterprise Cyber Security Architecture : Systems Administration,
Network Security, Identity, Authentication, and Access Management,
Application Security, Data Protection and Cryptography, Policy, Audit, E-
Discovery, and Training.

Module III
Implementing Enterprise Cybersecurity : IT Organization, IT System
Life Cycle, Defining Security Policies, Defining Security Scopes,
Identifying Security Scopes, Selecting Security Controls, Selecting Security
Technologies.

Module IV
Operating Enterprise Cyber security : Operational Responsibilities,
High-level IT and Cyber Security Processes, Operational Processes and
Information Systems, Functional Area Operational Objectives.

Module V
Managing a Cyber Security Crisis : Devastating Cyber-attacks and Falling
Off the Cliff, Keeping Calm and Carrying On, Recovering Cyber security
and IT Capabilities, Ending the Crisis.

Text Book
Scott E. Donaldson, Stanley G. Siegel, Chris K. Williams, Abdul Aslam,
Enterprise Cybersecurity, 1/e, Apress.

Reference
1. GurpreetDhillon, Enterprise Cyber Security,2/e,Chegg Publishers
 EID920: WEB SERVICES
Module I
Evolution and Emergence of Web Services - Evolution of distributed
computing, Core distributed computing technologies – client/server,
CORBA, JAVA RMI, Micro Soft DCOM, MOM, Challenges in Distributed
Computing, role of J2EE and XML in distributed computing, emergence
of Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Introduction
to Web Services – The definition of web services, basic operational model
of web services, tools and technologies enabling web services, benefits
and challenges of using web services.

Module II
Web Services Architecture – Web services Architecture and its
characteristics, core building blocks of web services, standards and
technologies available for implementing web services, web services
communication, basic steps of implementing web services, developing web
services enabled applications. Describing Web Services – WSDL – WSDL
in the world of Web Services, Web Services life cycle, anatomy of WSDL
definition document, WSDL bindings, WSDL Tools, limitations of WSDL.

Module III
Core fundamentals of SOAP – SOAP Message Structure, SOAP encoding,
SOAP message exchange models, SOAP communication and messaging,
SOAP security. Developing Web Services using SOAP – Building SOAP
Web Services, developing SOAP Web Services using Java, limitations of
SOAP.

Module IV
Discovering Web Services – Service discovery, role of service discovery in
a SOA, service discovery mechanisms, UDDI – UDDI Registries, uses of
UDDI Registry, Programming with UDDI, UDDI data structures, support
for categorization in UDDI Registries, Publishing API, Publishing
information to a UDDI Registry, searching information in a UDDI Registry,
deleting information in a UDDI Registry, limitations of UDDI.

Module V
Web Services Interoperability – Means of ensuring Interoperability,
Overview of .NET and J2EE. Web Services Security– XML security frame
work, XML encryption, XML digital signature, XKMS structure, guidelines
for signing XML documents.
Text Books:
1. Developing Java Web Services, R. Nagappan, R. Skoczylas, R.P.
Sriganesh, WileyIndia.
2. Developing Enterprise Web Services, S. Chatterjee, J. Webber,
Pearson Education.
3. XML, Web Services, and the Data Revolution, F.P.Coyle, Pearson
Education.
 EID921: SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
Module I
SOA and Web Services Fundamentals: Introducing SOA- Fundamental
SOA,Common Characteristics of Contemporary SOA ,Common tangible
benefits of SOA,Common pitfalls of adopting SOA.The Evolution of SOA
– An SOA timeline,The continuing evolution of SOA,The roots of SOA.Web
Services and primitive SOA- The Web Services frame
work,Services,Servicedescriptions,Messaging.

Module II
SOA and WS-* Extensions: Web Services and Contemporary SOA (Part
I-Activity management and Composition)- Message exchange
patterns,Service Activity Coordination, Atomictransactions,
BusinessActivities, Orchestration, Choreography. Web Services and
Contemporary SOA (Part-II-Advanced Messaging, Metadata, and Security)
– Addressing , Reliable messaging, Correlation, Policies, Metadataexchange,
Security, Notification andeventing.

Module III
SOA and Services – Orientation: Principles of Service-Orientation –
Service – Orientation and the enterprise,Anatomy of SOA,Common
Principles of Service – Orientation,interrelation between Principles of
Service- Orientation,Service Orientation and Object Orientation,Native Web
Services support for Principles of Service-Orientation.Service Layers-
Service-Orientation and Contemporary SOA , Service Layer abstraction ,
Application Service Layer , Business Service Layer,Orchestration Service
Layer,AgnosticServices,Service Layer Configuration Scenarios.

Module IV
Building SOA(Planning and Analysis): SOA Delivery Strategies-SOA
delivery lifecycle phases,The top-down strategy,The bottom-up strategy,The
agile strategy.Service Oriented Analysis(Part I-Introduction)-Introduction
to Service Oriented Analysis,Benefits of a Business Centric SOA,Deriving
Business Services. Service Oriented Analysis(Part-II-Service Modelling)-
Service Modelling,Service Modelling guidelines,Classifying Service model
logic,Contrasting Service modelling approaches.

Module V
Building SOA(Technology and Design): Service Oriented Design(Part I-
Introduction)-Introduction to Service-Oriented design,WSDL related XML
Schema language basics,WSDL language basics,Service interface design
tools. Service Oriented Design(Part II-SOA Composition Guidelines)-SOA
Composing steps,Considerations for choosing service layers,Considerations
for positioning core SOA standards,Considerations for choosing SOA
extensions. Service Oriented Design(Part III- Service Design)-Service
Design overview,Entity-centric business Service Design,Application Service
Design,Task-centric business Service Design, Service Design guidelines.
Service Oriented Design(Part IV-Business Process Design)-WS-BPEL
language basics,WS- Coordination overview, Service Oriented Business
process Design.Fundamental WS-* Extensions-WS- Addressing language
basics,WS-Reliable Messaging language basics,WS-Policy language
basics,WS-MetadataExchange language basics,WS-Security language
basics.SOA Platforms- SOA platform basics,SOA support in J2EE and
.NET,Integration consideration

Text Books:
1. Service-Oriented Architecture-Concepts,Technology,and
Design,ThomasErl,Pearson Education.
2. Understanding SOA with Web Services, EricNewcomer,
GregLomow, Pearson Education.

References:
1. The Definitive guide to SOA,JeffDavies&Dreamtech.
2. Java SOA Cookbook,E.Hewitt,SPD.
3. SOA inPractice,N.M.Josuttis,SPD.
 EID922: PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
PRAGMATICS
Module I
Introduction: The Art of language design, the programming language
spectrum, why study programming languages?, compilation and
interpretation, programming environments. Names, scopes, and bindings,
the notion of binding time, object lifetime and storage management, static
allocation, stack based allocation, heap based allocation, garbage collection,
scope rules, implementing, the meaning of names within a scope.

Module II
Control Flow: Expression evaluation, structured and unstructured flow,
sequencing, selection, iteration, recursion.
DataTypes: Type systems, type checking, records (structures) and variants
(unions), arrays, strings, sets, pointers and recursive types, lists, files and
input/output.

Module III
Subroutines and Control Abstraction : Review of stack layout, calling
sequences, parameter passing, generic subroutines and modules, exception
handling, co-routines, events.
Data abstraction and object orientation : Object oriented programming,
encapsulation and inheritance, initialization and finalization, dynamic
method binding, multiple inheritance, object oriented programming
revisited.

Module IV
Functional Languages : Historical origins, functional programming
concepts, a review/overview of scheme.
Logic Languages : Logic programming concepts, prolog, logic
programming in perspective.

Module V
Concurrency: Background and motivation, concurrent programming
fundamentals, implementing synchronization, semaphores, language level
mechanisms message passing.
Scripting Languages: What is a scripting language? problem domains,
scripting the world wide web, innovative features.
Text Book(s)
Michael L. Scott, Programming Language Pragmatics, 3/e, Elsevier
Inc., 2009.

References
1. Friedman, Wand and Haynes, Essentials of Programming
Languages, PHI, 1998.
2. Tennant, Principles of Programming Languages, PHI, 1981.
 EID:923 ADVANCED DATA STRUCTURES
Module I

Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms, Performance Analysis:

Time Complexity, Space Complexity, Amortized Complexity, Asymptotic
Notations, Randomized Algorithms, Linked List, Stacks, Queues, Sparse
Matrices. Algebraic Problems: General Method, Evaluation and
Interpolation.

Module II
Introduction to Graphs, Graph Traversal. Introduction to Trees and Tree
Traversals, Binary Search Trees, AVL Trees, B-Trees, Priority Queues.

Module III
Divide and Conquer: General Method, Selection Problem, Strassen’s Matrix
Multiplication, and Convex Hull Problem. The Greedy Method: General
Method, Knapsack, Job Sequencing with Dead Lines, Minimum Cost
Spanning Trees using Kruskal’s Algorithm, using union and find, Dijkstra’s
algorithm for single source shortest path.

Module IV
Dynamic Programming: General Method, Matrix Chain Multiplication,
Longest Common Subsequence, Reliability Design, Traveling Sales Person
Problem. Back Tracking: General Method, 8 Queens Problem, Hamiltonian
Cycle, Graph Coloring Problem.

Module V
Branch-and-Bound: General Method, FIFO Branch and Bound, LIFO
Branch and Bound, LC Branch and Bound, Traveling Sales Person
Problem. P-Class Problem, NP-Class Problems, NP-Complete Problems,
NP-Hard problems.

Text Book(s)
1. Ellis Horowitz, SartazSahni, SanguthevarRajasekharan ,
Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms , 2/e, University Press.
2. SartajSahni, Data Structures, Algorithms and Applications in C++,
2/e, Universities Press.
3. Varsha H Patil, Data Structures using C++, Oxford Higher
Education.
References
1. Thomas H. Cormen, et al., Introduction to Algorithms,3/e, MIT
Press.
2. Mark Allen Weiss, Data Structures and Algorithms.
3. Michel T. Goddrich,RobertoTamassia, Algorithm Design, John
Weily and Sons.
Web Resources http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/
Algorithms/ algorithm.html
 EID924: CLOUD COMPUTING
Module I
Understanding Cloud Computing: Cloud Origins and Influences, Basic
Concepts and Terminology, Goals and Benefits, Risks and Challenges
Fundamental Concepts and Models: Roles and Boundaries, Cloud
Characteristics, Cloud Delivery Models, Cloud Deployment Models.

Module II
Cloud-Enabling Technology: Data Center Technology, Virtualization
Technology, Web Technology, Multitenant Technology, Service Technology.

Module III
Cloud Infrastructure Mechanisms: Logical Network Perimeter, Virtual
Server, Cloud Storage Device, Cloud Usage Monitor, Resource Replication.

Module IV
Fundamental Cloud Architectures: Workload Distribution Architecture,
Resource Pooling Architecture, Dynamic Scalability Architecture, Elastic
Resource Capacity Architecture, Service Load Balancing Architecture,
Cloud Bursting Architecture, Elastic Disk Provisioning Architecture,
Redundant Storage Architecture.

Module V
Cloud Delivery Model Considerations: The Cloud Provider Perspective:
Building IaaS Environments, Equipping PaaS Environments, Optimizing
SaaS Environments. The Cloud Consumer Perspective: Working with IaaS
Environments, working with PaaS Environments, Working with SaaS
Services.

Text Book(s)
1. Thomas Erl, Ricardo Puttini, Zaigham Mahmood, Cloud
Computing:Concepts, Technology & Architecture, Prentice Hall.

References
1. John W. Rittinghouse, James F.Ransome, Cloud Computing:
Implementation, Management and Security, CRC Press, 2012.
2. Anthony T.Velte, Toby J Velte Robert Elsenpeter, Cloud Computing
a practical approach, TMH 2010
3. Michael Miller, Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That
Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online, Que Publishing,
August 2008.
4. Haley Beard, Cloud Computing Best Practices for Managing and
Measuring Processes for On-demand Computing, Applications and
Data Centers in the Cloud with SLAs, Emereo Pty Limited, July
2008.
5. Gautam Shroff, Enterprise Cloud Computing: Technology,
Architecture, applications, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
6. Ronald Krutz Russell Dean Vines, Cloud Security:A comprehensive
guide to Secure cloud computing,Wiley, 2010.
 EID925: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Module I
Introduction to Parallel Computing: Flynn’s Classical Taxonomy, A Cluster
Computer and its Architecture, Parallel Applications and Their
Development, Parallel Programming Models and Tools, Methodical Design
of Parallel Algorithms, Parallel Programming Paradigms, Parallel
Computer Languages, Optimization Techniques

Module II
Message Passing Interface (MPI): An Interface Specification, Reasons for
Using MPI, General MPI Program Structure, Environment Management
Routines, Buffering, Blocking vs. Non-blocking, Basic MPI Library Calls

Module III
Introduction to Open MP, Shared Memory Model, Shared Memory
Programming, Why OpenMP ?, OpenMP Programming Model, OpenMP
Code Structure, PARALLEL Region Construct, Work-Sharing Constructs,
Synchronization Constructs, Data Scope Attribute Clauses, Run-Time
Library Routines, Environment Variables.

Module IV
POSIX Threads (Pthreads): Basic PthreadCalls, Programming.
MPI-Open MP (Hybrid Programming) : Programming efforts for mixing
MPI and OpenMP, Programming.

Module V
Introduction to Multi-Core Computing: Evolution of Multi-Core
Technology, Comparison of Single and Multiprocessor, Dual CPU Core
Chip , Defining Threads, Computation model of threading, System View
of Threads

Text Book(s)
1. Thomas Sterling, Matthew Anderson, High Performance
Computing: Modern Systems and Practices, Morgan Kaufmann.
2. Georg Hager, Gerhard Wellein, Introduction to High Performance
Computing for Scientists and Engineers, CRC Press.
 EID926: SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS
Module I
Network, Relations and Structure The Social Networks Perspective;
Network Data; Boundary Specification and Sampling; Types of Networks;
Network Data, Measurement and Collection.

Module II
Mathematical Representations of Social Networks Graph Theoretic
Notation; Sociometric Notation; Algebraic Notation; Graphs; Directed
Graphs; Signed Graphs; Signed Directed Graphs; Valued Graphs; Valued
Directed Graphs; Multi Graphs; Hyper Graphs; Relations; Matrices;
Properties.

Module III
Structural and Locational Properties Actor Centrality; Degree Centrality;
Closeness Centrality; Betweenness Centrality; Information Centrality;
Structural Balance; Clusterability; Generalizations of Clusterability;
Transitivity

Module IV
Roles and Positions Background; Structural Equivalence; Automorphic
and Isomorphic Equivalence; Regular Equivalence; Types of Ties; Local
Role Equivalence; Ego Algebras

Module V
Dyadic and Triadic Methods The Dyad Census; The Example and Its Dyad
Census; An Index for Mutuality; Simple Distributions on Digraphs;
Conditional Uniform Distributions; The Triad Census; The Example and
Its Triad Census; Mean and Variance of a Triad Census

Text Books:
1. John Scott, Social Network Analysis – A Handbook, 2/e SAGE
Publications.

References:
1. Stanley Wasserman and Katherine Faust, Social Network Analysis
– Methods and Applications, Cambridge University Press.
2. David Knoke and Song Yang, Social Network Analysis,2/e SAGE
Publications.
3. Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle, Introduction to Social
Networks.
 EID927: DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Module -I:
Characterization of Distributed Systems: Introduction, Examples of
Distributed Systems, Resource Sharing and the Web, Challenges.
System Models: Introduction, Architectural Models- Software Layers,
System Architecture, Variations, Interface and Objects, Design
Requirements for Distributed Architectures, Fundamental
Models- Interaction Model, Failure Model, Security Model.

Module -II:
Interprocess Communication: Introduction, The API for the Internet
Protocols- The Characteristics of Interprocess communication, Sockets,
UDP Datagram Communication, TCP Stream Communication; External
Data Representation and Marshalling; Client Server Communication;
Group CommunicationIP
Multicast- an implementation of group communication, Reliability and
Ordering of Multicast.

Module -III:
Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation: Introduction, Communication
between Distributed
Objects- Object Model, Distributed Object Modal, Design Issues for RMI,
Implementation of RMI, Distributed Garbage Collection; Remote Procedure
Call, Events and Notifications, Case Study: JAVA, RMI

Module -IV:
Operating System Support: Introduction, The Operating System Layer,
Protection, Processes and Threads –Address Space, Creation of a New
Process, Threads.
Distributed File Systems: Introduction, File Service Architecture; Peer-to-
Peer Systems: Introduction, Napster and its Legacy, Peer-to-Peer
Middleware, Routing Overlays. Coordination and Agreement: Introduction,
Distributed Mutual Exclusion, Elections, Multicast Communication.

Module -V:
Transactions & Replications: Introduction, System Model and Group
Communication, Concurrency Control in Distributed Transactions,
Distributed Dead Locks, Transaction Recovery; ReplicationIntroduction,
Passive (Primary) Replication, Active Replication.
Text Books:
1. Ajay D Kshemkalyani, MukeshSighal, “Distributed Computing,
Principles, Algorithms and Systems”, Cambridge
2. George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, “Distributed
Systems- Concepts and Design”, Fourth Edition, Pearson
Publication
 EID928: CYBER FORENSICS
Module I
Introduction and Overview of Cyber Crime, Nature and Scope of Cyber
Crime, Types of Cyber Crime, Social Engineering, Categories of Cyber
Crime, Property Cyber Crime.

Module II
Unauthorized Access to Computers, Computer Intrusions, White collar
Crimes, Viruses and Malicious Code, Internet Hacking and Cracking, Virus
Attacks, Pornography, Software Piracy, Intellectual Property, Mail Bombs,
Exploitation, Stalking and Obscenity in Internet, Digital laws and
legislation, Law Enforcement Roles and Responses.

Module III
Introduction to Digital Forensics, Forensic Software and Hardware,
Analysis and Advanced Tools, Forensic Technology and Practices, Forensic
Ballistics and Photography, Face, Iris and Fingerprint Recognition, Audio
Video Analysis, Windows System Forensics, Linux System Forensics,
Network Forensics.

Module IV
Introduction to Cyber Crime Investigation, Investigation Tools, eDiscovery,
Digital Evidence Collection, Evidence Preservation, E-Mail Investigation,
E-Mail Tracking, IP Tracking, Email Recovery, Hands on Case Studies,
Encryption and Decryption Methods, Search and Seizure of Computers,
Recovering Deleted Evidences, Password Cracking.

Module V
Laws and Ethics, Digital Evidence Controls, Evidence Handling
Procedures, Basics of Indian Evidence ACT IPC and CrPC, Electronic
Communication Privacy ACT, Legal Policies.

Text Books:
1. Bernadette H Schell, Clemens Martin, Cybercrime, ABC, CLIO
Inc, California, 2004.
2. Understanding Forensics in IT, NIIT Ltd, 2005.
3. Nelson Phillips and EnfingerSteuart, Computer Forensics and
Investigations, Cengage Learning, New Delhi, 2009.
References:
1. Kevin Mandia, Chris Prosise, Matt Pepe, Incident Response and
Computer Forensics, Tata McGraw -Hill, New Delhi, 2006.
2. Robert M Slade, Software Forensics, Tata McGraw - Hill, New
Delhi, 2005.
 EID929: OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE
ENGINEERING
Module I
Object Oriented Concepts and Modeling: What is Object Orientation?
Model: Importance of Modeling, Object Oriented Modeling. Object oriented
system development: Function/data methods, Object oriented analysis,
Object oriented construction, Object oriented testing. Identifying the
elements of an object model: Identifying classes and objects, Specifying
the attributes, defining operations, Finalizing the object definition.

Module II
Introduction to UML: Overview of UML, Conceptual Model of UML,
Architecture, S/W Development Life Cycle ,Basic and Advanced Structural
Modeling: Classes Relationship, Common mechanism,Diagrams, Class
diagram . Advanced classes, Advanced Relationship, Interface, Types and
Roles, Packages, Object Diagram.

Module III
Basic Behavioral Modeling: Interactions, Use cases, Use Case Diagram,
Interaction Diagram, Activity Diagram, State chart Diagram ,Architectural
Modeling: Component, Components Diagram, Deployment Diagram

Module IV
Object Oriented Design: Generic components of OO Design model, System
Design process: Partitioning the analysis model, Concurrency and
subsystem allocation, Task Mgmt component, Data Mgmt component,
Resource Mgmt component, Inter sub-system communication. Object
Design process

Module V
Object Oriented Analysis: Iterative Development. Unified process & UP
Phases: Inception, Elaboration, Construction, Transition. Understanding
requirements. UP Disciplines. Agile UP. Object Oriented Testing:
Overview of Testing and object oriented Testing, Types of Testing, Object
oriented Testing strategies, Test case design for OO software, Inter class
test case design
Text Book:
1. The Unified Modeling Language User Guide by Grady Booch,
JamesRaumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson.
References:
1. Object Oriented Software Engineering by Ivar Jacobson
2. Software Engineering by Pressman
3. Applying UML and Patterns by Craig Larman
 EID930: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Module I
Introduction to Software Engineering: Software, software engineering, the
changing nature of software, software myths. A Generic view of process:
Software engineering, a layered technology, a process framework, CMMI.
Process models: The waterfall model, incremental process models,
evolutionary process models.

Module II
Requirements engineering: Requirements engineering tasks, initiating the
requirements engineering process, eliciting requirements, negotiating
requirements, validating requirements. Building the analysis model:
Requirements analysis, data modeling concepts, scenario-based modeling
,flow-oriented modeling ,class-based modeling, creating a behavioral
model.

Module III
Design Engineering: Design process and design quality, design concepts,
the design model. Creating an architectural design: Software architecture,
architectural styles and patterns. Performing User interface design: Golden
rules.

Module IV
Testing Strategies: A strategic approach to software testing, test strategies
for conventional software Module testing, integration testing, validation
testing, system testing. Testing tactics: Software testing fundamentals,
white-box testing : Basis path testing, control structure testing, black-box
testing methods.

Module V
Product metrics: Software quality, measurement principles, product metrics
landscape, function based metrics. Risk management: Reactive vs.
Proactive risk strategies, software risks, risk identification, risk projection,
risk refinement, RMMM, RMMM plan. Quality Management: Quality
concepts, software quality assurance, software reviews, formal technical
reviews.

Text Book:
Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, 7/
e, McGraw Hill, Int. Edit, 2009.
References:
1. K.K. Agarwal &Yogesh Singh, Software Engineering, New Age
International Publishers, 2007.
2. Waman S Jawadekar, Software Engineering Principles and Practice,
McGraw Hill, 2004.
3. Rajib Mall, Fundamentals of Software Engineering, 4/e, PHI, 2009.
 EEC901: CMOS DIGITAL VLSI DESIGN
Module I
Review of Digital Logic Gate Design, Digital Integrated circuit design,
MOS Transistors, Structure and Operation of MOS transistor, Threshold
voltage, first order current voltage characteristics, subthreshold conduction,
capacitances

Module II
Fabrication, Layout and Simulation, IC Fabrication Technology, Layout
Basics, Modeling the MOS transistor for circuit simulation, SPICE MOS
Level 1 device model, Additional Effects in MOS transistors.

Module III
MOS Inverter Circuits, Voltage Transfer Characteristics, NMOS transistors
as load devices, CMOS Inverters, Static MOS Gate circuits, CMOS gate
circuits, Complex CMOS gates, XOR and XNOR gates, Multiplexer
circuits, Flipflops and Latches, Power dissipation in CMOS gates.

Module IV
Transfer Gate and Dynamic Logic Design: Basic Concepts, CMOS
transmission gate logic, Dynamic D-latches and D-flip flops. Introduction
to Domino Logic

Module V
Semiconductor Memory design, MOS decoders, static RAM cell design,
SRAM column I/O circuitry, memory architecture. Interconnect design,
interconnect RC delays, buffer insertion for very long wires, Interconnect
coupling capacitance.

Text Book:
1. Jackson & Hodges, Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated
circuits, 3/e,Tata McGraw Hill, 2012.

References:
1. Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, Borivoje Nikolic, Digital
IntegratedCircuits – A design perspective, 2/e, Prentice Hall of India,
2010.
2. S. M. Kang & Y. Leblebici, CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits, 3/e,
TataMcGraw Hill, 2010.
3. Ken Martin, Digital Integrated Circuit Design, 2/e, Oxford
Publications, 2012.
 EEC902: ANALOG VLSI DESIGN
Module I
Analog IC Design: MOS Device Operation and Small signal models, Single
State Amplifiers, Differential Amplifiers.

Module II
Current Sources and Mirrors, High Frequency response of analog circuits,
Design of Operational Amplifiers, Stability and Frequency Compensation

Module III
CMOS Processing Technology, Layout and Packaging, Bandgap
References: Supply independent, temperature independent references,
constant Gm biasing. Gm/Id methodology

Module IV
Mixed Signal Circuit Design: Switched Capacitor Circuits, Data Converter
Fundamentals, Nyquist Rate D/A and A/D converters, Oversampling
Converters.

Module V
RF IC Design: Basic Concepts in RF Design, Transceiver Architectures,
Low Noise Amplifiers, Mixer design, Oscillators, Phase locked loops, Power
Amplifiers.

Text Books:
1. B. Razavi, Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, McGraw
Hill, 2011.
2. Ken Martin, Analog Integrated Circuit Design, 2/e, Wiley
Publications, 2012.
3. BehzadRazavi, RF Microelectronics, 2/e, Pearson Education, 2011.
 EEC903: VLSI DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
Module I
Introduction: Overview of digital signal processing, FPGA technology,
dsp technology requirements, fpga and programmable signal processors.
Computer Arithmetic: Number representation, fixed-point
numbers,unconventional fixed-point numbers, floating-point numbers,
binary adders, pipelined adders, modulo adders, binary multipliers,
multiplier blocks, binary dividers, fixed-point arithmetic implementation,
floating-pointarithmetic implementation.

Module II
FIR Filters: Digital filters, FIR theory, designing FIR filters, constant
coefficient FIR design. IIR Filters: IIR coefficient computation, IIR filter
implementation, Fast IIR filter.

Module III
Multirate Signal Processing: Decimation and interpolation, polyphaser
decomposition, Hoegenaur CIC filters. Fourier Transforms: DFT
algorithms, FFT algorithms, computing DCT using FFT.

Module IV
Adaptive Systems: Application of adaptive systems, optimum estimation
techniques, LMS algorithm, transform domain LMS algorithms,
implementation of the LMS algorithm.

Module V
Communication Systems: Error control, basic concepts from coding theory,
block codes, convolutional codes, modulation and demodulation.

Text Book:
1. Uwe Meyer-Baese, Digital Signal Processing with Field
Programmable Gate Arrays, 4/e, Springer Publications, 2014

References:
1. Roger Woods, John McAllister, Dr. Ying Yi, FPGA-based
Implementation of Signal Processing Systems, Wiley Publications,
2011.
2. Shoab Ahmed Khan, Digital Design of Signal Processing Systems,
Wiley Publications, 2011.
3. Keshab Parhi, VLSI Digital Signal Processing, Wiley Student
Edition, 2010.
 EEC904: ADVANCED DSP TECHNIQUES
Module I
FIR and IIR filter design: Introduction to the design of FIR filters,FIR
Coefficient calculation methods,Window method,the optimal
method,Frequency sampling method,Design of IIR filters:Introduction,
Design stages for digital IIR filters, Performance specification, Calculation
of IIR filter Coefficients

Module II
Introduction: Discrete time Fourier transform, Discrete time Fourierseries,
Discrete Fourier transform (DFT), Fast Fourier Transform. Power Spectrum
Estimation: Estimation of spectra from finite-durationobservations of
signals, nonparametric methods for power spectrumestimation, and
parametric methods for powerspectrum estimation.

Module III
Multirate Digital Signal Processing: Introduction, decimation by aFactor
D, interpolation by a factor I, sampling rate conversion by arational factor
I/ D, implementation of sampling rate conversion, digitalfilter banks,
quadrature mirror filter banks. Introduction to time frequency analysis,
Short time Fourier transform, continuous timewavelet transform, discrete
wavelet transform, construction of wavelets,multiresolution analysis

Module IV
Linear Prediction and Optimum Linear Filters: Random signals,correlation
functions and power spectra, innovations representation ofa stationary
random process, forward and backward linear prediction,solution of the
normal equations, the Levinson-Durbin algorithm, ARlattice, ARMA
lattice-ladder filters, wiener filters for filtering andprediction.

Module V
Adaptive Filters: Applications of adaptive filters, adaptive directformFIR
filters, the LMSalgorithm, adaptive direct-form FIR filters,RLS algorithms.

Text Book(s)
1. J.G.Proakis& D. G. Manolakis, Digital Signal Processing–
Principles,Algorithms, Applications, 4/e, PHI/ Pearson Education
2007.
2. Sanjit K. Mitra, Digital Signal Processing, A Computer–Based
approach,TMH, 1998.

References
1. MonsomH.Hayes, Statistical Signal Processing, John Wiley & Sons,
INC,2009.
2. Raghuveer M Rao, Ajit S, Bopardikar, Wavelet Transforms:
Introductionto Theory and Applications, Pearson Education, 2000.
 EEC905: IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING
Module I
Digital image fundamentals – image acquisition, representation,
visualperception, quality measures, sampling and quantization, basic
relationshipbetween pixels, imaging geometry, color spaces, Video spaces,
analog and digital video interfaces, video standards.

Module II
Two dimensional systems – properties, analysis in spatial, frequency
andtransform domains. Image transforms - DFT, DCT, Sine, Hadamard,
Haar,Slant, KL transform, Wavelet transform.

Module III
Image enhancement – point processing, spatial filtering, Image restoration–
inverse filtering, de-blurring Image compression – lossless and
lossycompression techniques, standards for image compression –
JPEG,JPEG200

Module IV
Image segmentation – feature extraction, region oriented
segmentation,descriptors, morphology, Image recognition

Module V
Video processing – display enhancement, video mixing, video scaling,scan
rate conversion, Video compression – motion estimation, intra
andinterframe prediction, perceptual coding, standards - MPEG, H.264

Text Books:
1. R. C. Gonzalez and R E Woods, Digital Image Processing, Pearson
Education,2002
2. Keith Jack, Video Demystified:A Handbook for the Digital
Engineer,3/e,LLH,2001

References:
1. Anil K. Jain, “Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing”,Pearson
Education,2003
2. W Pratt, Digital Image Processing, Wiley, 2001
3. Bovik, Handbook of Image and Video Processing, Academic Press,
2000
 EEC906: RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING
Module I
Introduction: History and Applications of Radar, Basic Radar
Functions,Elements of a pulsed radar, signal processing concepts and
operations,basic radar signal processing. Sampling and Quantization of
Pulsed RadarSignals: Domains and criteria for sampling radar signals,
Sampling in thefast time domain, Sampling in the slow time: selecting
the PRI, samplingthe Doppler spectrum, sampling in the spatial and angle
dimensions,quantization, I/Q imbalance and digital I/Q

Module II
Range Processing: Introduction, The waveform matched filter,
matchedfiltering of moving targets, The ambiguity function, The pulse
burstwaveform. Frequency modulated pulse compression waveforms,
rangeside lobe control for FM waveforms, the stepped frequency
waveform,phase modulated pulse compression waveforms, costas frequency
codes.

Module III
Doppler Processing: Alternate forms of the Doppler spectrum, Movingtarget
indication (MTI), Pulse Doppler processing, Pulse pair processing,Clutter
mapping and moving target detector, MTI for moving platforms:Adaptive
displaced phase center antenna processing.

Module IV
Detection Fundamentals: Radar Detection as Hypothesis Testing,Threshold
Detection in Coherent Systems, Threshold Detection of RadarSignals,
Introduction to CFAR Detection. Basic Principles of Synthetic Aperture
Radar

Module V
Beamforming and Space Time Adaptive Processing: Spatial
Filtering,Beamforming, Adaptive Beam forming. Introduction to Space
TimeAdaptive Processing, Space Time Signal Environment, Space Time
signalmodeling, Processing the space-time signal.

Text Book:
1. Mark Richards, Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing, 2/e Tata
McGraw Hill Publications, 2014
References:
1. N. Levanon, and E. Mozeson, Radar Signals, Wiley-Interscience,
2004.
2. M. I. Skolnik, Introduction to Radar Systems, 3/e, Tata McGraw
Hill, 2001.
3. Mark A. Richards, Principles of Modern Radar – Basic Principles,
Yesdee Publications, 2012.
4. Mark A. Richards, Principles of Modern Radar – Advanced
Techniques, Yesdee Publications, 2014.
 EEC907: ADVANCED ELECTROMAGNETICS
Module I
Time-varying Fields and Maxwell’s Equations: Faraday’s law,displacement
current, Maxwell’s equations in point form and integral form, retarded
potentials, Poynting vector and power considerations. Propagation in good
conductors: skin effect, polarization. Reflection ofuniform plane waves at
normal incidence, standing wave ratio, wave reflection from multiple
interfaces

Module II
Wave equations, propagation and properties: Introduction, time-varying
electromagnetic fields, time-harmonic electromagnetic fields, solution to
the wave equation, TEM modes, TEM in lossy media, polarization, normal
incidence-lossless media, oblique incidence-lossless media, lossy media,
reflection and transmission of multiple interfaces, polarization
characteristics on reflection.

Module III
Transmission Lines: Transmission line parameters, transmission
lineequations, transmission line examples, input impedance, characteristic
impedance, reflection coefficient, VSWR, RF lines. Smith Chart and
Applications: Graphical methods and applications: Smithchart-
construction, application, measurement of VSWR, impedance, reflection
coefficient, quarter wave transformer, single and double stub matching
techniques

Module IV
EMI and EMC Techniques: Natural and nuclear sources of EMI /
EMC:Electromagnetic environment, concepts of EMI and EMC and
definitions, an overview of EMI / EMC, celestial electromagnetic noise,
lightning discharge,electrostatic discharge, electromagnetic pulse.
Electromagnetic emissions, noise from relays and switches, nonlinearities
in circuits, passive intermodulation, transients in power supply lines,
electromagnetic interference. Open area test sites and measurements.

ModuleV
Radiated and conducted interference measurement: Anechoic chamber,
TEM cell, giga-Hertz TEM Cell, comparision of test facilities,
characterization of conduction currents /voltages, conducted EM noise on
power lines, conducted EMI from equipment, immunity to conducted EMI,
detectors and measurements.
Grounding, shielding, bonding and EMI filters: EMC technology,
grounding, shielding, electrical bonding, characteristics of filters,
impedance mismatch effects, lumped element LPF, HPF, BPF, BRF, power
lines filter design.

Text Books:
1. William H. Hayt, John A. Buck, Engineering Electromagnetics,
8/e, Tata McGraw Hill, 2012.
2. Edward C. Jordan, Keith G. Balmain, Electromagnetic Waves and
Radiating Systems, 2/e, Prentice Hall, 2012. 1989.
3. R. Shevgaonkar, Electromagnetic Waves, Tata McGraw Hill, 2006.
4. V.P. Kodali, Engineering Electromagnetic Compatibility, 2/e,
Wiley-IEEE Press, 2001.
5. Electromagnetic Interference and Compatibility IMPACT series,
IIT Delhi.
EEC 908 MODERN ANTENNA DESIGN TECHNIQUES
Module I
Radiation Integrals and Auxiliary Potential Functions: Introduction, The
Vector Potential A for an Electric Current Source J, The Vector Potential F
for a Magnetic Current Source M, Electric and Magnetic Fields for Electric
(J) and Magnetic (M) Current Sources, Solution of the Inhomogeneous
Vector Potential Wave Equation, Far-Field Radiation, Duality Theorem,
Reciprocity and Reaction Theorems,

Module II
Arrays & Synthesis: Introduction, Two-Element Array, NElement Linear
Array: Uniform Amplitude and Spacing, N-Element Linear Array:
Directivity, Design Procedure, , Planar Array, Design Considerations,
Circular Array, Multimedia., Fourier Transform Method, Woodward-
Lawson Method, Taylor Line-Source (Tschebyscheff-Error), Taylor Line-
Source (One-Parameter), Triangular, Cosine, and Cosine-Squared
Amplitude Distributions, Line-Source Phase Distributions, Continuous
Aperture Sources.

Module III
Introduction to Microstrip Antennas Definition, advantages, disadvantages
of microstrip antenna. Radiation mechanism and radiated
fields of microstrip antenna.Various microstrip antenna configurations and their
excitation techniques. Surface wave phenomena. Modern Microstrip
Antennas PIFA – Vivaldi Antennas - UWB Antennas - Antennas in
Medicine – Leaky Wave Antennas – Plasma Antennas – Wearable Antennas
– RFID Antennas - Automotive antennas, Reconfigurable antennas.

Module IV
Applications of antenna arrays to mobile communications: Performance
improvement, feasibility, and system considerations application of antenna
arrays to mobile communications, beam-Forming and direction-of-arrival
considerations. Introduction to Smart antennas: Spatial processing for
wireless systems, key benefits of smart antennas, smart antenna
introduction, smart antenna configuration, SDMA, architecture of smart
antenna systems.

Module V
The Linear Phased Array Antenna: Linear phase taper, beam broadening,
grating lobes and visible space, means of phase shifting: Phase shifting by
changing frequency, Phase shifting by changing length, Phase shifting by
changing permittivity, Phase shifting by changing permeability. The Planar
Array and Phased Array Antenna: Introduction, geometry, planar array
antenna: Radiation, side lobe level, grating lobes, planar phased array
antenna: Radiation, grating lobes.

Text Books:
1. Balanis, C.A., “Antenna Theory and Design”, 3rd Ed., John Wiley
& Sons. 2005
2. Jordan, E.C. and Balmain, K.G., “Electromagnetic Waves and
Radiating Systems”,2nd Ed., Prentice-Hall of India. 1993
3. Microstrip Antennas – Prakash Bhartia and InderBahl, Artech
House.
4. Bancroft, Microstrip and Printed Antenna Design, Prentice Hall,
India
 EEC909: RF COMPONENTS AND CIRCUIT DESIGN
Module I
Introduction to RF and Microwave concepts and applications: Introduction,
reasons for using rf/microwaves, RF/microwave applications, radio
frequency waves, RF and microwave circuit design, the unchanging
fundamentals versus the ever-evolving structure, general active circuit block
diagrams.
Module II
RF Electronics Concepts: Introduction, RF/Microwaves versus DC or low
AC signals, EM spectrum, wave length and frequency, introduction to
component basics, resonant circuits, analysis of a simple circuit in phasor
domain, impedance transformers, RF impedance matching, three element
matching.
Module III
Smith Chart and its Applications: Introduction, a valuable graphical aid
the smith chart, derivation of smith chart, description of two types of smith
charts, smith charts circular scales, smith charts radial scales, the
normalized impedance-admittance (ZY) smith chart introduction,
applications of the smith chart, distributed circuit applications, lumped
element circuit applications.
Module IV
RF and Microwave Amplifiers Small and Large Signal Design:
Introduction, types of amplifiers, small signal amplifiers, design of different
types of amplifiers, multistage small signal amplifier design, high-power
amplifiers, large signal amplifier design, microwave power combining/
dividing techniques, signal distortion due to inter modulation products,
multistage amplifiers, large signal design.
Module V
Radio Frequency and Microwave Oscillator Design: Introduction, oscillator
versus amplifier design, oscillation conditions: Two port NR oscillators, a
special case: One port NR oscillator, condition of stable oscillation, design
of transistor oscillators, generator-tuning networks: Fixed frequency
oscillators, frequency tunable oscillators.
Text Books:
1. Mathew M. Radmanesh, Radio Frequency and Microwave
Electronics, Prentice hall, 2001.
2. John W. M Rogers, Calvin Plett, Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit
,Second Edition, Artech House, 2010
3. Joseph Helszain, Microwave Engineering - Active and Non-
reciprocal Circuits, McGraw Hill International Edition, 1992
 EEC910: MIMO OFDM WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Module I
The Wireless Channel: Large Scale Fading, Small scale fading,
SISOChannel Models, Indoor channel models, Outdoor channel models,
MIMOChannel Models, Statistical MIMO model, I-Metra MIMO channel
model.
Module II
Introduction to OFDM:Single-Carrier vs. Multi-Carrier
Transmission,Basic Principle of OFDM, Coded OFDM, OFDMA: Multiple
AccessExtensions of OFDM
Module III
Synchronization for OFDM: Effect of STO, Effect of CFO,
Estimationtechniques for STO, Estimation techniques for CFO, Effect of
Samplingclock offset. Channel Estimation: Pilot structure, Training symbol
basedchannel estimation, DFT based channel estimation, Decision
directedchannel estimation.
Module IV
PAPR Reduction: Introduction to PAPR, PAPR reduction techniques.MIMO
Channel Capacity: Deterministic MIMO channel capacity,Channel capacity
of random MIMO channels.
Module V
Antenna Diversity and Space-time Coding Techniques: Antennadiversity,
Space Time Coding Overview, Space-Time Block Code. SignalDetection
for Spatially Multiplexed MIMO Systems: Linear SignalDetection, OSIC
Signal Detection, ML Signal Detection. Fundamentals of Massive MIMO
and millimeter wave communications.
Text Books
1. Yong Soo Cho, Jaekwon Kim, Won Young Yang, Chung G. Kang,
MIMOOFDMWireless Communications With MATLAB, IEEE Press,
John Wileyand Sons, USA, 2010.
References
1. T.D.Chiueh and P.Y.Tsai, “OFDM Baseband Receiver Design for
WirelessCommunications”, Wiley, 2007
2. L. Hanzo, M. Munster, B.J. Choi, and T.Keller, “OFDM and MC-
CDMA forBroadband Multiuser Communications, WLANs, and
Broadcasting”, Wiley,2003.
3. J. Proakis, “Digital Communications”, New York - McGraw Hill, 2001
4. D. Tse and P. Vishwanath, “Fundamentals of Wireless
Communications”, Cambridge Press, 2005.
 EEC911: WIRELESS NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS
Module I
The Wireless Channel: Antennas, Spectrum Considerations, Line-Of-Sight
Transmission, Fading in the Mobile Environment, Channel Correction
Mechanisms. Signal Encoding Techniques. Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing: Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Single-Carrier FDMA.
Spread Spectrum: The Concept of Spread Spectrum, Frequency Hopping
Spread Spectrum, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum, Code Division
Multiple Access.

Module II
Wireless LAN Technology: IEEE 802 Architecture, IEEE 802.11
Architecture and Services, IEEE 802.11 Medium Access Control, IEEE
802.11 Physical Layer, Gigabit Wi-Fi. Bluetooth and IEEE 802.15: The
Internet of Things, Bluetooth Motivation and Overview, Bluetooth
Specifications, Bluetooth High Speed and Bluetooth Smart, IEEE 802.15,
ZigBee 402.

Module III
Cellular Wireless Networks: Principles of Cellular Networks, First-
Generation Analog, Second-Generation TDMA, Second-Generation
CDMA, Third-Generation Systems, Fourth Generation Systems and LTE-
Advanced: Purpose, Motivation, and Approach to 4G, LTE Architecture,
Evolved Packet Core, LTE Resource Management, LTE Channel Structure
and Protocols, LTE Radio Access Network, LTE-Advanced.

Module IV
Wireless sensor networks: Challenges for wireless sensor networks,
Comparison of sensor network with ad hoc network, Single node
architecture – Hardware components, energy consumption of sensor nodes,
Network architecture – Sensor network scenarios, types of sources and
sinks, single hop versus multi-hop networks, multiple sinks and sources,
design principles, Development of wireless sensor networks. Design
Considerations in WSNs: physical layer and transceiver design
consideration in wireless sensors networks, Energy usage profile, choice
of modulation, power Management, contention-based protocols, schedule-
based protocols, link layer protocols.
Module V
Security & Challenges in WSNs: Security in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks,
Network Security Requirements, Issues and Challenges in Security
Provisioning, Network Security Attacks, Key Management, Secure Routing
in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks. Case Study: Target detection tracking,
Habitat monitoring, Environmental disaster monitoring, practical
implementation issues, IEEE 802.15.4 low rate WPAN, Sensor Network
Platforms and tools-Sensor node hardware, Node-level software platforms,
node –level simulators.

Text Books:
1. Cory Beard, William Stallings, Wireless Communication Networks
and Systems, Pearson Education, 2016.
2. Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach –
Feng Zhao & Leonidas J Guibas, Elsevier publication, 2007.

References:
1. Wireless Sensor Networks – C.S.Raghavendra Krishna,
M.Sivalingam and TaiebZnati, Springer Publication,2004.
2. Wireless Sensor Networks: Architecture and Protocol – Edgar H
Callaway, CRC Press. “Protocol and Architectures for Wireless
Sensor Networks” – Holger Karl & Andreas Willig, John Wiley
Publication, Jan, 2006.
3. Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks: Protocols, Performance and
Control- JagannathanSarangapani, CRCPress.
4. KazemSohraby, Daniel Minolo&TaiebZnati, “Wireless Sensor
Networks – Technology, Protocols and Applications”,JohnWiley,
2007.
EEC912: SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS AND GPS
SYSTEMS
Module I
Elements of Orbital Mechanics: Equations of motion. Tracking and
orbitdetermination, orbital correction/control, satellite launch systems,
multistagerocket launchers and their performance.Elements of
Communication Satellite Design: Spacecraft subsystems,reliability
considerations, spacecraft integration.

Module II
Multiple Access Techniques: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, Random
accesstechniques, Satellite onboard processing.Satellite Link Design:
Performance requirements and standards, design
of satellite links, DOMSAT, INSAT, INTELSAT and INMARSAT.
Satellitebased
personal communication. Earth Station Design: Configurations, antenna
and tracking systems,satellite broadcasting.

Module III
Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Introduction to GNSS: Basic concept,
system architecture, Different GNSS constellations: GALILEO,
GLONASS, GPS: space segment, user segments. Signals : Signal structure,
anti-spoofing (AS), selective availability, Difference between GPS and
GALILEO satellite construction.

Module IV
GPS coordinate frames, Time references, formats: Geodetic and Geo centric
coordinate systems, ECEF coordinate world geodetic 1984 (WGS 84), GPS
time, GPS aided Geo-augmented navigation (GAGAN) architecture. GPS
orbital parameters, description of receiver independent exchange format
(RINEX) – Observation data and navigation message data parameters,
GPS position determination.

Module V
GPS Errors: GPS error sources – clock error, ionospheric error, tropospheric
error, multipath, ionospheric error estimation using dual frequency GPS
receiver. Augmentation Systems and regional systems: WASS, SBAS, GPS
aided Geo-augmented navigation (GAGAN) architecture,IRNSS
Text Books:
1. Dennis Roddy, Satellite Communications, 4/e, Tata McGraw Hill,
2006.
2. T. Pratt, S. W. Bostian, Satellite Communication, 2/e, John Wiley
and Sons,2006.
3. B. Hoffman – Wellenhof, H. Liehtenegger and J. Collins, ‘GPS –
Theory and Practice’, Springer – Wien, New York (2001).

References:
1. Dharma Raj Cheruku, Satellite Communication, 1/e, IK
InternationalPublishing, 2010.
2. James Ba – Yen Tsui, ‘Fundamentals of GPS receivers – A software
approach’, John Wiley & Sons (2001).
 EEC913: MEMS and NANOTECHNOLOGY

Module-I
Introduction to MEMS and Microsystems, Introduction to Microsensors,
Applications of MEMS, MEMS Materials and properties, modelling of
MEMS, cantilever beams.

Module II
MEMS fabrication techniques – Deposition, Lithography, Etching, Surface
Micromaching, Wafer Bonding, Thick-Flim screen printing, electroplating,
LIGA, Electrochemical etch stop, Ion beam etching.

Module III
MEMS devices and design – Pressure sensors – Capacitive, Piezoresistive,
Accelerometer – Piezoresistive, Capacitive. MEMS Gyroscope.

Module IV
BioMEMS – Evolution of micro sensor array designs for medical research,
sensor design evolution from 2D to 3D, Biosensors- principle of biosensors,
biosensor applications

Module V
Introduction to nanotechnology, Structures and properties of carbon
nanotubes, Computational nanotechnology of CNT, Growth of CNT by
Arc discharge, Laser ablation, CVD and PECVD, Characterization
techniques in CNT research. Applications: biosensors, chemical sensors,
physical sensors, nanoelectronics.

Text Books:
1. MEMS Applications – The MEMS handbook – Mohamed Gad el
Hak, CRC Press, Second edition
2. Carbon Nanotubes Science and Applications, M. Meyyappan, CRC
Press.
3. Modelling MEMS and NEMS – John A Pelesko, David H Bernstein,
CRC Press.
4. An Introduction to Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Engineering
– Nadim Maluf, Kirt Williams, Artech House.
5. BioMEMS - Gerald a Urban, Springer
 EEC914: ADVANCED CONTROL SYSTEMS

Module I
Nonlinear Systems: Introduction – Non-Linear Systems - Types Of Non-
Linearities – Saturation – Dead-Zone - Backlash – Jump Phenomenon
etc.– Singular Points – Introduction to Linearization of nonlinear systems,
Properties of Non-Linear systems – Describing function–describing
function analysis of nonlinear systems – Stability analysis of Non-Linear
systems through describing functions

Module II
Stability Analysis: Stability in the sense of Lyapunov, Lyapunov’s stability
and Lypanov’s instability theorems - Stability Analysis of the Linear
continuous time invariant systems by Lyapunov second method– Direct
method of Lyapunov – Generation of Lyapunov functions – Variable
gradient and Krasoviskii’s methods – estimation of transients using
Lyapunov functions.

Module III
Optimal Control: Introduction to optimal control - Formulation of optimal
control problems – calculus of variations – fundamental concepts,
functionals, variation of functionals – fundamental theorem of Calculus
of variations – boundary conditions – constrained minimization –
formulation using Hamiltonian method – Linear Quadratic regulator

Module IV
Model Predictive Control: MPC Strategy – Industrial Technology – MPC
elements – Nonlinear predictive control – Dynamic Matrix control –
Generalized predictive control – Constrained Receding horizon predictive
control - Multivariable MPC –matrix fraction description, state space
formulation - Robust MPC – Process models and Uncertainities.

Module V
Fuzzy Logic: Type-1 Fuzzy Set theory, Fuzzy Relation, Fuzzification,
Minmax Composition, Defuzzification, Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Rule based
systems, Fuzzy Decision Making, Fuzzy Control Systems, Fuzzy
Classification, Type-2 Fuzzy Logic controller, Karnik mendel Algorithm,
Nie-tan method.
Text Books:
1. M. Gopal – Digital Control and state variable methods, Tata Mcgraw
Hill, 2nd edition
2. M. Gopal - Modern Control System Theory - New Age International
(P. Ltd,) 2nd eddition,1984
3. Carlos Bordons, Eduardo F.Camacho “Model Predictive Control”,
Springer,1999.
4. Fuzzy Logic by Klir Stafanietal, “Design of Feedback Control
Systems” – Oxford Press, 4th edition
5. Ogata K, “Modern Control Engineering,” Prentice Hall, 4th edition.
 EEC915: INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM DESIGN
Module I
Basic Concepts on Instrument Design: Functional requirements and
specification, operational environment commercial, industrial, military,
NEMA, DIN, BIS and ANSI standards with special reference packaging,
online diagram of hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical instrumentation
system, Instruments symbols and signals.

Module II
Design of Signal Conditioning Circuits: Design of V/I Converter and I/V
Converter-Analog and Digital filter design and Adaptive filter design –
Signal conditioning circuit for pH measurement, Air-purge Level
Measurement –Signal conditioning circuit for Temperature measurement:
Thermocouple, RTD and Thermistor -Cold Junction Compensation and
Linearization –software and Hardware approaches.

Module III
Design of Transmitters: Study of 2 wire and 4 wire transmitters –Design
of RTD based Temperature Transmitter, Thermocouple based Temperature
Transmitter, Capacitance based Level Transmitter and Smart Flow
Transmitters.

Module IV
Design of Data Logger And Pid Controller: Design of ON / OFF Controller
using Linear Integrated Circuits -Electronic PID Controller –
Microcontroller Based Digital Two-degree of freedom PID Controller -
Micro -controller based Data Logger –Design of PC based Data Acquisition
Cards.

Module V
Orifice and Control Valve Sizing: Orifice, Venturi and flow nozzle Sizing:
-Liquid, Gas and steam services –Control valve sizing –Liquid, Gas and
steam Services –Design of Rotameter, Design of Alarm and Annunciation
circuits using Analog and Digital Circuits.

Text Books:
1. B. G. Liptak, Instrument Engineers Handbook, Vol. I and II, Third
Edition, Chilton and Book Company, 1990.
2. D. M. Considine, Process/Industrial Instruments and Control
Handbook, Fourth Edition, McGraw-Hill Inc., 1993.
3. C. D. Johnson, Process Control Instrumentation Technology, Fourth
Edition, PHI, 1996.
4. Andrew and Williams, Applied Instrumentation in Process
Industries, Vol. I, II, III, IV, Gulf Publishing Company, 1979.
5. John P. Bentley, Principles of Measurement Systems, Addison-
Wesley publication, 1999.
6. T. R. Padmanabhan, Industrial Instrumentation: Principles and
Design, Springer-Verlag Publications, 1999.
 EEC916: ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL AND
AUTOMATION
Module I
Process Control Concepts: Introduction, Process control objectives, benefits,
levels of process control, block diagram of process control system, process
variables, degrees of freedom, process dynamics- resistance type processes,
capacitance type processes, first order processes.

Module II
Control Modes: Basic control actions: characteristics of on-off,
proportional, integral and derivative modes, composite control modes -
PI, PD and PID control modes, Response of controllers for different types
of test inputs – impulse, step, ramp. Tuning PID Controllers: Introduction,
1/4th decay ratio, process reaction curve method, Ziegler-Nichols method,
damped oscillation method, process flow diagrams, piping and
instrumentation drawings.

Module III
Control Of Time-Varying And Nonlinear Systems Models for Time-varying
and Nonlinear systems –Input signal design for Identification –Real-time
parameter estimation –Model Validation -Types of Adaptive Control -Gain
scheduling -Adaptive Control -Deterministic Self-Tuning Controller and
Model Reference Adaptive Controller –Control of Hammerstein and Wiener
Systems.

Module IV
Optimal Control & Filtering Introduction –Performance Measure for
optimal control problem –Dynamic Programming –Computational
Procedure for solving Control Problem –LQR –Introduction to Optimal
Filtering –Discrete Kalman Filter –LQG, Fractional Order System &
Controller: Fractional-order Calculus and Its Computations –Frequency
and Time Domain Analysis of Fractional-Order Linear Systems -Filter
Approximations to Fractional-Order Differentiations –Model reduction
Techniques for Fractional Order Systems –Controller Design Studies for
Fractional Order.

Module V
Fault Diagnosis And Fault-Tolerant Control: Process Monitoring -
Introduction –Statistical Process Control –Fault Detection with Principal
Component Analysis –Fault Detection with State Observers –Fault
Detection with signal models -Fault Detection of Control Loops, Sensor
and Actuator Fault-Tolerant Control Design.

Text Books:
1. SK Singh, Process Control: Dynamics Concepts and Applications,
PHI, 2009.
2. Peter Harriot, Process Control, TMH, 2008.
3. Computer-based Industrial Control, Krishna Kant, PHI Publishers,
2003.
4. Computer Aided Process Control, S.K.Singh, PHI, 2005.
5. Computer control of Processes, M Chidambaram, Narosa publishers.
6. Eckman, D.P, Automatic Process Control, 2/e, Wiley Eastern, 1997.
7. Curtis Johnson, Process Control Instrumentation Technology, 8/e,
PHI, 2006.
8. D.Patrnabis, Principles of Process Control, 2/e, TMH, 1996.
9. B.G. Liptak, Instrument Engineers’ Handbook: Process Control,
Volume 2, CRC Press, 2006.
10. Michael L. Luyben and William L. Luyben, Essentials of Process
Control, McGraw Hill, 1997.
 EEE 901: POWER SYSTEM DYNAMICS AND
STABILITY
Module I
Basic Concepts: Power system stability, states of operation and system
security, system dynamic problems, system model, analysis of steady state
stability and transient stability, simplified representation of excitation
control.

Module II
Dynamic Stability: Steady state stability, Steady state stability limit,
dynamic stability limit, Dynamic Stability analysis, state space
representation of synchronous machine connected to infinite bus,
Examination of dynamic stability of Routh’s criterion.

Module III
Types Of Ecicitation Systems: Type - 2 system: rotating rectifier system,
Type 3 system: static with terminal potential and current supplies, Type 4
system: non-continuous acting, Block diagram representation – state space
modeling equations of these types.

Module IV
Application Of Power System Stabilizers: Introduction, Basic concepts in
applying PSS, Control signals, structure and tuning of PSS.

Module V
Analysis of Multi- Machine System: Classical system model, Detailed
model of multi machine system, Inclusion of load and SVC dynamics,
modal analysis of large power systems.

Text Books:
1. Power system Dynamics, Stability and control” by K.R. Padiyar,
Interline Publishing private limited, Bangalore,India.
2. “Power system stability and control” by P.M. Anderson and A.A.
Fouad, Ezalgotia Publications.
3. R. Ramanujam.,”Power system Dynamics” – PHI Publications.
4. Prabha Kundur., “Poer system stability and control”, Tata McGraw
Hill
5. M.A. Pai, Power system stability – Analysis by the direct method
of Lyapunov. North Holland Publishing Company, Newyork, 1981.
 EID 950: MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS AND
CONDITION MONITORING
Module I
Fundamentals of Vibration: Brief history of vibration, Importance of the
study of vibration, basic concepts of vibration, classification of vibrations,
vibration analysis procedure, spring elements, mass or inertia elements,
damping elements, harmonic analysis. Free Vibration of Single Degree of
Freedom Systems: Introduction, Free vibration of an undamped
translational system, free vibration of an undamped torsional system,
stability conditions, Raleigh’s energy method, free vibration with viscous
damping, free vibration with coulomb damping, free vibration with
hysteretic damping.

Module II
Two Degree of Freedom Systems: Introduction, equations of motion for
forced vibration, free vibration analysis of an undamped system, torsional
system, coordinate coupling and principal coordinates, forced vibration
analysis.

Module III
Multi-degree of Freedom Systems: Introduction, modeling of continuous
systems as multi degree of freedom systems, using Newton’s second law
to derive equations of motion, influence coefficients, free and forced
vibration of undamped systems, forced vibration of viscously damped
systems. Determination of natural frequencies and mode shapes: Using
Dunkerley’s method and Rayleigh’s method.

Module IV
Practical analysis of transients: Analysis as a periodic signal. Analysis by
repeated playback (constant bandwidth), Analysis by repeated playback
(variable bandwidth).

Module V
Condition monitoring in real systems: Diagnostic tools, Condition
monitoring of two stage compressor, Cement mill foundation, I.D. fan,
Sugar centrifugal cooling tower fan, Air separator, Preheater fan, Field
balancing of rotors, ISO standards on vibrations.
Text Books:
1. S.S.Rao, Mechanical Vibrations, 5th edition, Pearson publications.
2. DevdasShetty and Richard A. Kolk, Mechatronics System Design,
5th edition, P.W.S. Publishing Company.

References:
1. G.K. Grover, Mechanical Vibrations, 8th edition, S. Chand & Co.
2. W.T. Thomson, Mechanical Vibrations, 2nd edition, Prentice Hill
India.
3. S. Graham Kelly, Fundamentals of mechanical vibrations, 2nd
edition McGraw-Hill.
4. W. Bolton, Mechatronics, 3rdedition, Pearson Education
EID951: MECHANICS OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS
Module I
Introduction to composite materials: Classification and characteristics of
composite materials, Mechanical behavior of composites, Basic terminology
of laminated fiber reinforced composite materials, Advantages,
Applications, Different types of fibers and matrix materials, Manufacture
of laminated fiber reinforced composite materials.

Module II
Macro mechanical behavior of a lamina: Introduction, Stress-strain
relations for anisotropic materials - generalized hooks law, Stiffnesses,
compliances and engineering constants for orthotropic materials,
Restrictions on engineering constants, Stress-strain relations for plane stress
in orthotropic materials, Stress-strain relations for a lamina of arbitrary
orientation.

Module III
Micromechanical behavior of lamina: Introduction, Mechanics of materials
approach to stiffness, Elasticity approach to stiffness, comparison of
approaches to stiffness, Mechanics of materials approach to strength.

Module IV
Macro mechanical behavior of laminate: Introduction, Classical lamination
theory, Special cases of laminate stiffnesses, Theoretical versus measured
laminate stiffnesses, Strength of laminates, Inter laminar stresses. Bending
of laminated plates: Introduction, Governing equation for bending of
laminated plates, Deflection of simply supported laminated plates under
distributed transverse load.

Module V
Metal matrix Composites: Introduction, Mechanical behavior of MMC,
deformation and damage behavior, Fatigue of discontinuous MMCs

Text Books:
1. R. M. Jones, Mechanics of composite materials, 2nd edition, Taylor
and Francis, 1999.
2. Metal and ceramic Matrix composites,Brian Cantor, Fionn .P.E
Dunne, Ian C Stone, CRC press, 2003,ISBN 9780750308724 -
CAT# IP449
References:
1. B. D. Agarwal, L. J. Broutman and K. Chandrasekhara, Analysis
and performances of Fibercomposites, 3rd edition, John Wiley &
Sons, Inc., 2006.
2. J. C. Halpin, Primer on composite materials, revised edition,
Technomic Publishing Company,
 EID952: RAPID PROTOTYPING AND
MANUFACTURING
Module I
Introduction: Need for time compression in product development, Product
development – conceptual design – development – detail design – prototype
tooling. Classification of Rapid Prototyping systems, Introduction, Rapid
Prototyping Terminology, Stereo lithography (SLA), Stereo lithography
Process Preparation,SLA Process, Advantages and Disadvantages of SLA,
Advantages of SLA, Disadvantages of SLA, Benefits of Rapid Prototyping
Technology.

Module II
Solid Ground Curing (SGC), SGC Process Preparation, SGC Process,
Advantages and Disadvantages of SGC, Advantages of SGC, Disadvantages
of SGC.

Module III
Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM) , LOM Process Preparation, LOM
Process, Advantages and Disadvantages of LOM , Advantages of LOM,
Disadvantages of LOM.

Module IV
Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), SLS Process Preparation, SLS Process,
Advantages and Disadvantages of SLS, Advantages of SLS, Disadvantages
of SLS.

Module V
Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), FDM Process, FDM Support System,
Advantages and Disadvantages of FDM, Advantages of FDM,
Disadvantages of FDM.

Text Books:
1. Pham,D.T. &Dimov.S.S., Rapid manufacturing, Springer-Verlag,
London, 2001.
2. Computer-Based Design and Manufacturing An Information-Based
Approachby EmadAbouel Nasr and Ali K. Kamrani 2007 Springer
Science Business Media, LLC

References:
1. Rapid Prototyping and manufacturing – Fundamentals of
Streolithography, Paul F Jacobs, Society of Manufacturing
Engineering Dearborn, USA 1992.
 EID 953: ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
PROCESSES
Module I
Advanced Machining processes: Introduction: Process principle, Material
removal mechanisms, Parametric analysis and applications of processes
such as ultrasonic machining (USM), Abrasive jet machining (AJM), Water
jet machining (WJM) and Abrasive water jet machining (AWJM)

Module II
Advanced Chemical and Thermal machining processes: Chemical
Machining (CHM), Electrochemical machining (ECM), Electro discharge
machining (EDM), Electric Discharge Grinding (EDG), Electric Discharge
Diamond Grinding (EDDG), Electron beam machining (EBM) and Laser
beam machining (LBM) processes.

Module III
Advanced Casting processes: Metal mould casting, Continuous casting,
Squeeze casting, Vacuummould casting, Evaporative pattern casting,
Ceramic shell casting and Centrifugal casting processes.

Module IV
Advanced Welding processes: Details of electron beam welding (EBW)
laser beam welding (LBW), Solid state welding processes and Resistance
welding processes.

Module V
Advanced Metal Forming processes: Details of high energy rate forming
(HERF) process, Electro-magnetic forming, explosive forming, Electro-
hydraulic forming and Contour roll forming processes.

Text Book:
1. Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, Kalpakjian and
Schmid, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2013.
References:
1. V.K. Jain,Advanced Machining Processes,Allied Publishers, 2009.
2. Gary F.Benedict, Nontraditional Manufacturing Processes, Taylor
& Francis, 1987.
3. J.A. McGeough,Advanced Methods of Machining, Springer, 1988.
4. Hassan El-Hofy,Advanced Machining Processes: Nontraditional and
Hybrid Machining Processes, McGraw-Hill Prof Med/Tech, 2005.
5. V.K. Jain, Introduction to Micromachining,Alpha Science
International Limited, 2010
 EID954: ADVANCED HEAT & MASS TRANSFER
Module I
Conduction Heat Transfer: One dimensional steady state heat conduction
with heat source -extended surface heat transfer- Fins of non-uniform cross
section- unsteady state conduction with moving source.

Module II
Turbulent Forced Convective Heat Transfer: Von- Karman and Van Driest
expressions for diffusivity - mixing length concept, friction factor
,turbulence model – k -ª model - analogy between heat and momentum
transfer– Reynolds, Colburn, Prandtl analogies - turbulent flow in a tube
for various boundary conditions. Heat transfer at high velocities for constant
and variable fluid property.

Module III
Radiation Heat Transfer: Heat radiation through absorbing and transmitting
media. Combined mode of heat transfer -Radiation with conduction and
convection surfaces.Gas radiation – radiative properties of gases, radiation
from gases.

Module IV
Heat Exchangers: Heat exchangers with phase change - Heat transfer
coefficient during phase change on tube bank, Simplified relations for
boiling heat transfer with water - transpiration cooling - ablation,
classification, construction and applications of heat pipe-compact heat
exchangers.

Module V
Mass Transfer: Diffusion of gases, Liquids- Mass transfer coefficient.
Theories of Mass Transfer, Vaporization of droplets, combined heat and
mass transfer problems, Heat Transfer Correlations in I.C. Engines.

Text Books:
1. Heat Transfer by J.P. Holman, Tata McGraw Hill Publication, 9th
ed. 2002.
2. Heat and mass Transfer by N. Ozisik
3. Incropera F.P. and DeWitt. D.P., Fundamentals of Heat & Mass
Transfer, John Wiley & Sons, 2002
References:
1. Nag.P.K, Heat Transfer, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2002
2. Ghoshdastidar. P.S., Heat Transfer, Oxford University Press, 2004
3. Heat pipe theory application Springer link Publication, by S. W.
Chi, 1998
 EID955: ADVANCED INTERNAL COMBUSTION
ENGINES
Module I
Engine Design and Operating Parameters:Important Engine
Characteristics,Geometrical Properties of Reciprocating Engines ,Brake
Torque and Power ,Indicated Work Per Cycle ,Mechanical Efficiency ,Road-
Load Power,Mean Effective Pressure ,Specific Fuel Consumption and
Efficiency ,Air/Fuel and Fuel/Air RatiosVolumetric Efficiency,Engine
Specific Weight and Specific Volume,Correction Factors for Power and
Volumetric Efficiency.

Module II
Combustion in Compression-Ignition Engines: Types of Diesel Combustion
Systems- direct and indirect injection systems, Phenomenological Model
of Compression ignition Engine Combustion-photographic studies,
combustion in direct injection and multi spray systems Analysis of Cylinder
Pressure Data, Fuel Spray Behavior, Ignition Delay.

Module III
Pollutant Formation and Control: Nature and Extent of Problem- Kinetics
of NO Formation,NO formation in Compression-Ignition Engines,
Nitrogen Oxides, Carbon Monoxide. Hydrocarbon Emission Mechanisms
in Diesel Engines, Characteristics of Diesel Particulates, Particulate
Distribution within the Cylinder, Soot Formation Fundamentals, Soot
Oxidation Adsorption and Condensation.

Module IV
Modeling Real Engine Flow and Combustion Processes: Governing
Equations for Open Thermodynamic System-conservation of mass, energy
and Momentum, Intake and Exhaust Flow Models- Background, Quasi-
Steady Flow Models, Gas Dynamic Models, Thermodynamic based in
cylinder Models- Spark-Ignition Engine Models, direct injection Engine
Models, Multi cylinder and Complex Engine System Models.

Module V
Engine Operating Characteristics: Engine Performance Parameters,
Indicated and Brake Power and MEP, operating Variables that affect SI
Engine Performance, Efficiency, and Emissions - Load, Speed and
compression ratio. Variables that affect CI Engine Performance, Efficiency,
and Emissions- Load and Speed , Fuel Injection Parameters , Air Swirl
and Bowl in Piston Design.
Text Books:
1. Internal Combustion engines by John B.L Heywood- McGraw Hill
Education; July 2017.
2. C.R. Ferguson and A.T. Kirk Patrick, ¯ Internal Combustion
Engines- John Wiley & Sons. Inc. 2001.
3. Stephen R Turns, ¯ Introduction to Combustion: Concepts and
Applications- McGraw Hill, 2000
 EID956: SUPPLY CHAIN MAGANEMENT
Module I
Introduction to Supply Chain Management (SCM): Concept of supply
management and SCM, Importance of supply chain flows, Core
competency, Value chain, Elements of supply chain efficiency, Key issues
in SCM, Decision phases, Supply chain integration, Process view of a
supply chain, Competitive Strategy and supply chain strategies,
Uncertainties in supply chain, Supply chain drivers.

Module II
Inventory Management: Introduction, Selective control techniques, Cost
involved in inventory system, Single stage inventory control, Economic
lot size models, application to economic production quantity, Effect of
demand uncertainty, Single period models, Initial inventory, Multiple order
opportunities, Deterministic Models, Quantity discounts. Periodic and
Quantity review policies.

Module III
Designing Supply Chain Network: Introduction, Network design, factors
influencing network design, Data collection, Data aggregation,
Transportation rates, Warehouse costs, Capacities and locations, Models
and data validation, Key features of a network configuration, Impact of
uncertainty on network design, Network design in uncertain environment,
Value of information: Bullwhip effect, Information sharing, Information
and supply chain trade-offs, Distribution strategies Direct shipment
distribution strategies, transshipment and selecting appropriate strategies.

Module IV
Supply Chain Integration: Introduction, Push, Pull and Push-pull supply
chains, identifying appropriate supply chain strategy. Sourcing and
procurement, Outsourcing benefits, Importance of suppliers, evaluating a
potential supplier, Supply contracts, Competitive bidding and Negotiation.
Purchasing, Objectives of purchasing , Relations with other departments,
Centralized and Decentralized purchasing, Purchasing procedure, Types
of orders, Tender buying, E-procurement, Role of E business in supply
chains.

Module V
Issues in Supply Chain Management: Introduction, Risk management,
Managing global risk,Issues in international supply chain, regional
differences in logistics. Local issues in supply chain, issues in natural
disaster and other calamities, issues form SMEs, Organized retail in India,
Reverse logistics.

Text Books:
1. Designing & Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies &
Case Studies, Simchi-Levi, D. Kaminsky, P. Simchi-Levi, E. and
Ravi Shankar. Third Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, Third Edition,
2008.
2. Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning & Operations,
Chopra, S. and Meindl, P. Second Edition, Pearson Education
(Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 2004

References:
1. Purchasing & Supply Chain Management, Doebler, D.W. and Burt,
D.N. Text and Cases, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New
Delhi, 1996
2. Principles of Inventory & Materials Management, Tersine, R.J
Prentice Hall Inc., New Jersey,
 EID 957: SIX SIGMA AND QUALITY CONTROL
Module I
Quality Perception : Quality in Manufacturing, Quality in Service Sector;
Differences between Conventional and Six Sigma concept of quality; Six
Sigma success stories. Statistical foundation and methods of quality
improvement, Application of six sigma for various industries, Descriptive
statistics- Data Type, Mean, Median, Mode, Range, Variation, Standard
Deviation, Skewness, Kurtosis.

Module II
Hours Basics of Six Sigma: Concept of Six Sigma, Defects, DPMO, DPU,
Attacks on X’S, Customer focus, Six Sigma for manufacturing, Six Sigma
for service. Z score, Understanding Six Sigma organization, Leadership
council, Project sponsors and champions, Master Black Belt, Black Belt,
Green Belts. Probability Distribution: Normal, Binomial, Poisson
distribution.

Module III
Methodology of Six Sigma: DMAIC, DFSS, Models of Implementation of
Six Sigma, Selection of Six Sigma Projects.Six Sigma Tools: Project
Charter, Process mapping, Measurement system analysis, Quality Function
deployment, Failure mode effect analysis.

Module IV
Sustenance of Six Sigma, Communication plan, Company culture,
Reinforcement and control, Introduction to software for Six Sigma,
Understanding Minitab, Graphical analysis of Minitab plots.Statistical
Quality Control: Introduction, Concept of variability , Common vs. Special
Causes, Types of Control charts, Measurement of control limits, Control
charts for variables, Variable control charts for large sample data, Warning
limits, Revised control limits, Process capability analysis, Group control
chart, Control chart with line trend.

Module V
Acceptance Sampling: Introduction, Advantages and Disadvantages of
Sampling methods, Sampling methods, Sampling Risks and indices,
Operating characteristic curves, Average outgoing quality Limit.Sampling
plans Single ,Double ,Multiple and Sequential Sampling Plans Tightened
Inspection, Dodge-Roming system, Sequential plans, Sampling by
variables, Economic choice of quality decisions
Text Books:
1. Six Sigma: SPC and TQM in manufacturing and service, Geoff
Tennant, Gower Publishing Co.
2. Design Statistical Quality Control, E L Grant Richard S Leaven
Worth, McGraw-Hill Pvt Ltd New Delhi,7th Edition.
3. Statistical Quality Control, D C Montgomery, John Wiley & Sons,
5th Edition

References:
1. Six Sigma for managers, Greg Brue, TMH
2. What is Six Sigma, Pete Pande, TMH
3. Quality Management, Jeh-Nan Pan, Hwa-Tai Publishing Co.,
Evaluation process
4. Introduction to Statistical quality control by Douglas C
Montogomerry John Wiley and Sons. Quality Engineering in
Production systems/G.Taguchi, A.Elasayed et al/Mc.Graw Hill Intl.
Edition, 1989.
 EID958: EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND
OPTIMIZATION
Module I
Strategy of Experimentation: History of Statistical design, Strategy of
Experimentation, Applications of Experimental Design, Basic Principles,
Guidelines for Designing experiments, Inferences about the differences in
means, Orthogonality, Randomized Designs, Inferences of variance of
normal distributions.
Data Transformation: Data types, Analysis of different data types, Need
for transformationfunction.

Module II
Design of Experiments: Introduction and need of Design of Experiments
(DOE); Basic types of DOE- Taguchi, RSM, Latin square, Factorial,
Randomized Block Designs , Latin Square designs.
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA): one and two way ANOVA, F-Test; Practical
interpretation of the results, Statistical Regression Technique and its
approaches, Non Parametric methods in analysis of variance, Hypothesis
Testing.

Module III
Introduction to factorial Design: Basic Designs , Advantages of factorials
, Two factorial designs, Fitting response curves and Designs and Blocking
in a factorial design.
Taguchi robust design, Box Behken design, Plackett and Burman designs
,2k Factorial Designs, Blocking in 2 k Designs, two level factorial designs
,3 level factorial designs

Module IV
Conventional Optimization: Introduction, statement of an optimization
problem-design vector, design constraints, constraint surface, objective
function, classification of optimization techniques. Multi variable
optimization with Kuhn-tucker conditions.
Non-linear programming: Introduction, classification, Hooke and jeeves
method, steepest descent method, Interior and Exterior penalty function
methods.

Module V
Non-conventional Optimization: Artificial Neural Networks, Gray
Relational Analysis (GRA), Principal Component Analysis (PCA),
Mathematical Iterative Search Methods- GA, PSO, SA, VIKOR, ABC etc.
Artificial Neural Networks: Basics of artificial neural networks (ANN) –
Characteristics and basic learning laws- Training set and Test set -
Generalization - Learning curves.
Fuzzy Logic: The concept of uncertainty and associated solutions - Fuzzy
sets - Basic properties and characteristics of fuzzy sets - Fuzzy set operations
and reasoning- Design of fuzzy systems.

Text books:
1. Design and Analysis of Experiments Douglas C Montogomerry
John Wiley and Sons.
2. S.S. Rao-engineering optimization, theory and practice-new age
international Pvt. Ltd.

References:
1. Taguchi methods explained: Practical steps to Robust Design/
PapanP.Bagchi/Prentice HallInd. Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.
2. Optimization Design by Kalyan Moy Deb.
3. Advanced Modeling and Optimization of Manufacturing Processes,
R. VenkataRao, Springer-Verlag London Limited 2011, ISBN 978-
0-85729-014-4, DOI 10.1007/978-0-85729-015-1
4. Statistical and Computational Techniques in Manufacturing, J. Paulo
Davim, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012, ISBN: 978-3-642-
25859-6, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25859-6
5. Taguchi Techniques for Quality Engineering by Phillip J. Ross,
McGraw Hill, 2nd Edition, 1995.
6. Mechanical Design Optimization Using Advanced Optimization
Techniques, R. VenkataRao and Vimal J. Savsani, Springer-Verlag
London Limited 2012, ISBN: 978-1-4471-2748-2, DOI: 10.1007/
978-1-4471-2748-2.