6th Semester Syllabus

Biology For Engineers [100601]

• Module 1: Introduction
  • Purpose: To Convey That Biology Is As Important A Scientific Discipline As Mathematics, Physics And Chemistry
  • Bring Out The Fundamental Differences Between Science And Engineering By Drawing A Comparison Between Eye And Camera, Bird Flying And Aircraft
  • Mention The Most Exciting Aspect Of Biology As An Independent Scientific Discipline
  • Why Do We Need To Study Biology
  • Discuss How Biological Observations Of 18th Century That Lead To Major Discoveries
  • Examples From Brownian Motion And The Origin Of Thermodynamics By Referring To The Original Observation Of Robert Brown And Julius Mayor
  • These Examples Will Highlight The Fundamental Importance Of Observations In Any Scientific Inquiry
• Module 2: Classification
  • Purpose: To Convey That Classification Per Se Is Not What Biology Is All About
  • The Underlying Criterion, Such As Morphological, Biochemical Or Ecological Be Highlighted
  • Hierarchy Of Life Forms At Phenomenological Level
  • A Common Thread Weaves This Hierarchy Classification
  • Discuss Classification Based On (A) Cellularity- Unicellular Or Multicellular (B) Ultrastructure- Prokaryotes Or Eukaryotes
  • (C) Energy And Carbon Utilization -Autotrophs, Heterotrophs, Lithotrophs (D) Ammonia Excretion - Ammonotelic, Uricotelic, Ureotelic
  • (E) Habitat- Aquatic Or Terrestrial (E) Molecular Taxonomy- Three Major Kingdoms Of Life
  • A Given Organism Can Come Under Different Categories Based On Classification
  • Model Organisms For The Study Of Biology Come From Different Groups
  • E.Coli, S.Cerevisiae, D. Melanogaster, C. Elegance, A. Thaliana, M. Musculus
• Module 3: Genetics
  • Purpose: To Convey That Genetics Is To Biology What Newton's Laws Are To Physical Sciences
  • Mendel's Laws, Concept Of Segregation And Independent Assortment
  • Concept Of Allele
  • Gene Mapping, Gene Interaction, Epistasis
  • Meiosis And Mitosis Be Taught As A Part Of Genetics
  • Emphasis To Be Give Not To The Mechanics Of Cell Division Nor The Phases But How Genetic Material Passed From Parent To Offspring
  • Concepts Of Recessiveness And Dominance
  • Concept Of Mapping Of Phenotype To Genes
  • Discuss About The Single Gene Disorders In Humans
  • Discuss The Concept Of Complementation Using Human Genetics
• Module 4: Biomolecule
  • Purpose: To Convey That All Forms Of Life Has The Same Building Blocks And Yet The Manifestations Are As Diverse As One Can Imagine Molecules Of Life
  • In This Context Discuss Monomeric Units And Polymeric Structures
  • Discuss About Sugars, Starch And Cellulose
  • Amino Acids And Proteins
  • Nucleotides And Dna/Rna
  • Two Carbon Units And Lipids
• Module 5: Enzymes
  • Purpose: To Convey That Without Catalysis Life Would Not Have Existed On Earth Enzymology
  • How To Monitor Enzyme Catalyzed Reactions
  • How Does An Enzyme Catalyzed Reactions
  • Enzyme Classification
  • Mechanism Of Enzyme Action
  • Discuss At Least Two Examples
  • Enzyme Kinetics And Kinetic Parameters
  • Why Should We Know These Parameters To Understand Biology
  • Rna Catalysis
• Module 6: Information Transfer
  • Purpose: The Molecular Basis Of Coding And Decoding Genetic Information Is Universal Molecular Basis Of Information Transfer
  • Dna As A Genetic Material
  • Hierarchy Of Dna Structure- From Single Stranded To Double Helix To Nucleosomes
  • Concept Of Genetic Code
  • Universality And Degeneracy Of Genetic Code
  • Define Gene In Terms Of Complementation And Recombination
• Module 7: Macromolecular Analysis
  • Purpose: How To Analyze Biological Processes At The Reductionistic Level
  • Proteins- Structure And Function
  • Hierarchy In Protein Structure
  • Primary Secondary, Tertiary And Quaternary Structure
  • Proteins As Enzymes, Transporters, Receptors And Structural Elements
• Module 8: Metabolism
  • Purpose: The Fundamental Principles Of Energy Transactions Are The Same In Physical And Biological World
  • Thermodynamics As Applied To Biological Systems
  • Exothermic And Endothermic Versus Endergonic And Exergonic Reactions
  • Concept Of Keq And Its Relation To Standard Free Energy
  • Spontaneity
  • Atp As An Energy Currency
  • This Should Include The Breakdown Of Glucose To Co2 + H2o (Glycolysis And Krebs Cycle) And Synthesis Of Glucose From Co2 And H2o (Photosynthesis)
  • Energy Yielding And Energy Consuming Reactions
  • Concept Of Energy Charge
• Module 9: Microbiology
  • Concept Of Single Celled Organisms
  • Concept Of Species And Strains
  • Identification And Classification Of Microorganisms
  • Microscopy
  • Ecological Aspects Of Single Celled Organisms
  • Sterilization And Media Compositions
  • Growth Kinetics
• Module 10A: Plant Physiology
  • Transpiration
  • Mineral Nutrition
• Module 10B: Ecology
  • Ecosystems: Components, Types, Flow Of Matter And Energy In An Ecosystem
  • Community Ecology- Characteristics, Frequency, Life Forms, And Biological Spectrum
  • Ecosystem Structure- Biotic And Abiotic Factors, Food Chain, Food Web, Ecological Pyramids

Suggested Text Books:

1. Biology: A Global Approach: Campbell, N. A.; Reece, J. B.; Urry, Lisa; Cain, M, L.; Wasserman, S. A.; Minorsky, P. V.; Jackson, R. B. Pearson Education Ltd
2. Outlines Of Biochemistry, Conn, E.E; Stumpf, P.K; Bruening, G; Doi, R.H., John Wiley And Sons
3. Principles Of Biochemistry (V Edition), By Nelson, D. L.; And Cox, M. M.W.H. Freeman And Company
4. Molecular Genetics (Second Edition), Stent, G. S.; And Calendar, R.W.H. Freeman And Company, Distributed By Satish Kumar Jain For Cbs Publisher
5. Microbiology, Prescott, L.M J.P. Harley And C.A. Klein 1995. 2nd Edition Wm, C. Brown Publishers

Computer Organization And Architecture [104601]

• Module 1: Introduction
  • Computer Arithmetic
  • Instruction Sets
  • Introduction To Computer Organization
  • Cpu Design
  • Micro Programmed Control: Control Memory, Address Sequencing, Micro Programming, Sequencing And Execution Of Microinstructions
• Module 2: Memory System
  • Hierarchical Memory Structure
  • Cache Memories
  • Set Associative Memory
  • Virtual Memory
  • Paging
  • Segmentation
  • Input-Output Inter- Face
  • Asynchronous Data Transfer
  • Programmed I/O
  • Interrupts
  • Direct Memory Access
• Module 3: Input-Output Organization
  • Basic Input/Output Structure Of Computers
  • Serial And Parallel Communications
  • Asynchronous Data Communication
  • Programmed I/O
  • Interrupt Driven I/O
  • Interrupt Controller
  • Dma
  • Device Drivers
  • Buses
• Module 4: Introduction To Parallel Processing
  • Evolution Of Computer Systems (Risc Vs. Cisc)
  • Parallelism In Uniprocessor Systems
  • Architectural Classification Schemes
• Module 5: Principles Of Pipelining And Vector Processing
  • Pipeline Strategy
  • Pipeline Performance
  • Controls And Data Paths
  • Overlapped Parallelism
  • Principles Of Designing Pipelined Processors
  • Vector Processing Requirements

Suggested Text Books:

1. Computer System Architecture By M. Morris Mano
2. Computer Architecture And Parallel Processing By Kai Hwang, Briggs, Mcgraw Hill
3. Computer Architecture By Carter, Tata Mcgraw Hill
4. Computer System Organization And Architecture By John D. Carpinelli, Pearson Education

Digital Communication [104602]

• Module 1: Introduction
  • Block Diagram Of Digital Communication System
  • Advantages Of Digital Communication System Over Analog Communication Systems
  • Sampling Theorem
  • Signal Reconstruction In Time Domain
  • Practical And Flat Top Sampling
  • Sampling Of Band-Pass Signal
  • Aliasing Problem
  • Uniform And Non-Uniform Quantization
  • Signal To Quantization Ratio Of Quantized Signal
• Module 2: Baseband Transmission
  • Line Coding And Its Properties
  • Various Types Of Pcm Waveforms
  • Attributes Of Pcm Waveforms
  • Mary Pulse Modulation Waveforms
  • Differential Pulse Code Modulation
  • Multiplexing Of Pcm Signals
  • Delta Modulation
  • Idling Noise And Slope Overload
  • Adaptive Delta Modulation
  • Adaptive Dpcm
  • Comparison Of Pcm And Dm
• Module 3: Baseband Detection
  • Error Performance Degradation In Communication Systems
  • Eb/No Parameter
  • Matched Filter And Its Derivation
  • Inter-Symbol Interference (Isi)
  • Nyquist Criterion For Zero Isi And Raised Cosine Spectrum
  • Correlation Detector: Decision Threshold And Error Probability For Binary, Unipolar (On-Off ) Signalling
• Module 4: Band-Pass Modulation And Demodulation
  • Types Of Digital Modulation
  • Waveforms For Amplitude, Frequency And Phase Shift Keying
  • Method Of Generation And Detection Of Coherent And Non-Coherent Binary Ask, Fsk And Psk
  • Differential Phase Shift Keying
  • Quadrature Modulation Techniques
  • M- Ary Fsk
  • Minimum Shift Keying (Msk)
  • Probability Of Error And Comparison Of Various Digital Modulation Techniques
• Module 5: Error
  • A Baseband Signal Receiver
  • Probability Of Error
  • The Optimum Filter
  • Matched Filter
  • Probability Of Error In Matched Filter
  • Coherent Reception
  • Coherent Reception Of Ask, Psk And Fsk
  • Non-Coherent Reception Of Ask, Fsk, Psk And Qpsk
  • Calculation Of Bit Error Probability Of Bpsk And Bfsk
  • Error Probability For Qpsk
• Module 6: Multiple Access Techniques
  • Time Division Multiplexing
  • Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • Code Division Multiplexing
  • Introduction To Upcoming Techniques Of Transmission

Suggested Text Books:

1. Communication Systems, Simon Haykin, Wiley Publication, 4th Edition, 2004
2. Digital Communication Fundamentals And Applications, Bernard Sklar, Pearson Education India, 2nd Edition, 2009
3. Modern Electronic Communication, Miller Gary M, Prentice-Hall, 6th Edition, 1999
4. Digital Communications, John Proakis, Tata Mc Graw Hill, 5th Edition, 2007
5. Electronic Communication Systems, Fundamentals Through Advanced, Wayne Tomsi, Pearson Education, 4th Edition, 2001

Disaster Management [104603]

Details for Disaster Management will be provided by the department. This component carries 4 credits.

Electronics Instruments And Measurement [104604]

• Module 1: Introduction
  • Introduction To Standards Of Measurement
  • Errors And Their Evaluation
  • Calibration
  • Accuracy
  • Precision Sensitivity
  • Resolution
  • Noise, Etc
• Module 2: Measurements Of Voltage, Current, Power And Energy
  • Moving Iron, Moving Coil, Thermal, Induction And Rectifier Type
  • Measurements Of Power Factor And Frequency
  • Dynamometer And Moving Iron Single And Three Phase Power Factor Meters
  • Resonance, Moving Coil And Moving Iron Frequency Meters
  • Range Extension Of Voltmeter, Ammeter, Wattmeter And Energy Meter
  • Voltmeter Multipliers
  • Ammeter Shunt
  • Current And Potential Transformers
• Module 3: Galvanometer
  • D' Arsonval
  • Vibration And Ballistic Galvanometers
• Module 4: Bridges
  • D.C. Bridges: Kelvin Double Bridge, Wheatstone Bridge And Carey-Foster Bridge
  • A.C. Bridges: Maxwell Bridge, Hay And Owen Bridges, Anderson Bridge, Wien Bridge, Schering Bridge And Heaviside-Campbell Bridge
• Module 5: Potentiometer's Principle, Standardization And Application
  • D.C. Potentiometers: Crompton And Vernier Potentiometers
  • A.C. Potentiometers: Coordinate Type And Polar Type
• Module 6: Magnetic Measurements
  • Measurement Of Magnetic Flux By Ballistic Galvanometer And Fluxmeter
  • Determination Of B-H Curve And Hysteresis Loop
  • Separation Of Iron Loss Into Hysteresis And Eddy Current Losses
  • Measurement Of Iron Loss And Its Separation On Lloyd-Fisher Squares
• Module 7: Digital Measurements
  • Digital Voltmeter And Multimeter Universal Counter And Its Uses For Measurements Of Frequency
  • Ratio Of Two Frequencies
  • Time Period And Pulse Width

Suggested Text/Reference Books:

1. Measurement System, Application And Design, E O Doeblin, Tmh
2. Course In Electrical And Electronic Measurement And Instrumentation, A K Sawhney, Dhanpat Rai And Sons
3. Electronic Measurements And Instrumentation, Rajendra Prasad, Khanna Publishers
4. Basic Electrical Measurements, M.B. Stout, Prentice Hall

Moocs / Swayam / Nptel Courses -2 [100604]

This is a placeholder for Moocs / Swayam / Nptel Courses -2. The specific subject and syllabus will be as per the course chosen by the student from the options provided by the university.

Program Elective: Digital CMOS VLSI Design

• 1. MOS transistor theory and modelling (8 Hours)
  • The Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) Structure
  • MOS System under External Bias
  • Structure and Operation of MOS Transistor (MOSFET)
  • Current-Voltage Characteristics
  • Scaling and Small-geometry Effects
  • MOSFET modelling
  • Small-signal model
• 2. Fabrication and Layout of CMOS ICS (8 Hours)
  • Fabrication Process Flow: Basic Steps
  • CMOS Well Process
  • Layout Design Rules
  • Full-Custom Mask Layout Design
• 3. MOS INVERTERS (10 Hours)
  • Static characteristics: Resistive-Load Inverter, Inverters with n-Type MOSFET Load, CMOS Inverter
  • Switching characteristics and interconnect effects: Delay-Time definitions, Calculation of Delay times, Inverter Design with Delay Constraints
  • Estimation of Interconnect Parasitics, Calculation of Interconnect Delay
  • Switching Power Dissipation of CMOS Inverters
• 4. Combinational MOS logic circuits (8 Hours)
  • MOS Logic Circuits with Depletion nMOS Loads
  • CMOS Logic Circuits
  • Complex Logic Circuits
  • CMOS Transmission Gates (Pass Gates)
• 5. Sequential MOS logic circuits (8 Hours)
  • Behaviour of Bistable elements
  • The SR Latch Circuit
  • Clocked Latch and Flip-Flop Circuits
  • CMOS D-Latch and Edge-Triggered Flip-Flop

Total: 42 Hours

Text/Reference Books:

1. "CMOS: Digital Integrated Circuits", by Sung-Mo Kang and Yusuf Leblibici, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003
2. "CMOS Logic Circuit Design", by John P. Uyemura, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001
3. "CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective", by Neil Weste and David Harris, 4th Edition
4. "CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation", by R. Jacob Baker, 3rd edition, IEEE press, 2010

Program Elective: Digital Image and Video Processing

• 1. Digital Image Fundamentals
  • Elements of visual perception
  • Image sensing and acquisition
  • Image sampling and quantization
  • Basic relationships between pixels – neighborhood, adjacency, connectivity, distance measures
• 2. Image Enhancements and Filtering
  • Gray level transformations
  • Histogram equalization and specifications
  • Pixel-domain smoothing filters – linear and order-statistics
  • Pixel-domain sharpening filters – first and second derivative
  • Two-dimensional DFT and its inverse
  • Frequency domain filters – low-pass and high-pass
• 3. Color Image Processing
  • Color models–RGB, YUV, HSI
  • Color transformations– formulation, color complements, color slicing, tone and color corrections
  • Color image smoothing and sharpening
  • Color Segmentation
• 4. Image Segmentation
  • Detection of discontinuities
  • Edge linking and boundary detection
  • Thresholding– global and adaptive
  • Region-based segmentation
• 5. Wavelets and Multi-resolution image processing
  • Uncertainty principles of Fourier Transform
  • Time frequency localization
  • Continuous wavelet transforms
  • Wavelet bases and multi-resolution analysis
  • Wavelets and Subband filter banks, wavelet packets
  • Image Compression: Redundancy–inter-pixel and psycho-visual; Lossless compression – predictive, entropy; Lossy compression predictive and transform coding; Discrete Cosine Transform; Still image compression standards–JPEG and JPEG-2000
• 6. Fundamentals of Video Coding
  • Inter-frame redundancy
  • Motion estimation techniques – full-search, fast search strategies, forward and backward motion prediction
  • Frame classification – I, P and B
  • Video sequence hierarchy–Group of pictures, frames, slices, macro-blocks and blocks
  • Elements of a video encoder and decoder
  • Video coding standards – MPEG and H.26X
  • Video Segmentation: Temporal segmentation–shot boundary detection, hard cuts and soft-cuts; spatial segmentation–motion-based; Video object detection and tracking

Text/Reference Books:

1. R.C. Gonzalez and R.E. Woods, "Digital Image Processing", Second Edition, Pearson Education, 3rd edition 2008
2. Anil Kumar Jain, "Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing", Prentice Hall of India, 2nd edition 2004
3. Murat Tekalp, "Digital Video Processing", Prentice Hall, 2nd edition 2015

Program Elective: Scientific Computing

• 1. Introduction
  • Sources of Approximations
  • Data Error and Computational
  • Truncation Error and Rounding Error
  • Absolute Error and Relative Error
  • Sensitivity and Conditioning
  • Backward Error Analysis
  • Stability and Accuracy
  • Computer Arithmetic: Floating Point Numbers, Normalization, Properties of Floating Point System, Rounding, Machine Precision, Subnormal and Gradual Underflow, Exceptional Values, Floating-Point Arithmetic, Cancellation
• 2. System of Linear Equations
  • Linear Systems, Solving Linear Systems
  • Gaussian elimination, Pivoting, Gauss-Jordan
  • Norms and Condition Numbers
  • Symmetric Positive Definite Systems and Indefinite System
  • Iterative Methods for Linear Systems
  • Linear least squares: Data Fitting, Linear Least Squares, Normal Equations Method, Orthogonalization Methods, QR factorization, Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization, Rank Deficiency, and Column Pivoting
• 3. Eigenvalues, Singular Values, Nonlinear Equations, and Optimization
  • Eigenvalues and singular values: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, Methods for Computing All Eigenvalues, Jacobi Method, Methods for Computing Selected Eigenvalues, Singular Values Decomposition, Application of SVD
  • Nonlinear equations: Fixed Point Iteration, Newton's Method, Inverse Interpolation Method
  • Optimization: One-Dimensional Optimization, Multidimensional Unconstrained Optimization, Nonlinear Least Squares
• 4. Interpolation, Numerical Integration, and Differential Equations
  • Interpolation: Purpose for Interpolation, Choice of Interpolating Function, Polynomial Interpolation, Piecewise Polynomial Interpolation
  • Numerical Integration And Differentiation: Quadrature Rule, Newton-Cotes Rule, Gaussian Quadrature Rule, Finite Difference Approximation
  • Initial Value Problems for ODEs: Euler's Method, Taylor Series Method, Runga-Kutta Method, Extrapolation Methods
  • Boundary Value Problems For ODEs: Finite Difference Methods, Finite Element Method, Eigenvalue Problems
• 5. Advanced Topics
  • Partial Differential Equations: Time Dependent Problems, Time Independent Problems, Solution for Sparse Linear Systems, Iterative Methods
  • Fast Fourier Transform: FFT Algorithm, Limitations, DFT, Fast polynomial Multiplication
  • Wavelets
  • Random Numbers And Simulation: Stochastic Simulation, Random Number Generators, Quasi-Random Sequences

Text/Reference Books:

1. Heath Michael T., "Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey", McGraw-Hill, 2nd Ed., 2002
2. Press William H., Saul A. Teukolsky, Vetterling William T and Brian P. Flannery, "Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing", Cambridge University Press, 3rd Ed., 2007
3. Xin-she Yang (Ed.), "Introduction To Computational Mathematics", World Scientific Publishing Co., 2nd Ed., 2008
4. Kiryanov D. and Kiryanova E., "Computational Science", Infinity Science Press, 1st Ed., 2006
5. Quarteroni, Alfio, Saleri, Fausto, Gervasio and Paola, "Scientific Computing With MATLAB And Octave", Springer, 3rd Ed., 2010