CEETA PG Exam 2027 - Date, Application Form, Eligibility, Cutoff, Admission Process

Part-II-Basic engineering and sciences: Unit 01

• Law of mechanics, Lame’s theorem, forces, moments and couples, displacement, velocity and acceleration, friction, moment of inertia

Part-II-Basic engineering and sciences: Unit 02

• Laws of thermodynamics, open and closed systems, equation of state, Heat and work

Part-II-Basic engineering and sciences: Unit 03

• Sound, latices, ultrasonic flaw detector, X-ray radiography, interference fringes, Planck’s quantum theory, laser and fibre optics

Part-II-Basic engineering and sciences: Unit 04

• Fracture, magnetic and dielectric materials, conductor and semiconductor materials, ceramic and superconductor materials

Part-II-Basic engineering and sciences: Unit 05

• Fluid statics and dynamics, boundary Layer, pumps and turbines, environmental pollution

Part-II-Basic engineering and sciences: Unit 06

• Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s law, A.C. circuits, D.C. machines, transformers, synchronous machines, instrumentation

Part-II-Basic engineering and sciences: Unit 07

• Computer organization, architecture, arrays, pointers, user defined function, C program

Part-II-Basic engineering and sciences: Unit 08

• Adsorption, chromatography, chemical kinetics, electrochemistry, spectroscopy, fuels and combustion

Part-III-Civil engineering: Unit 01

• Mechanics: Stress-strain relationships, principal stresses and principal strain in two dimension and three dimension
• Composite bars, composite beams, elastic constants
• Beams and bending, shear force and bending moment diagrams, flexural and shear stresses
• Slope and deflection of beams
• Thin and thick cylinders
• Torsion
• Theories of failure, unsymmetrical bending, curved beams, theories of columns, combined direct and bending stresses
• Combined direct and bending stresses

Part-III-Civil engineering: Unit 02

• Static and kinematic indeterminacy, energy principles, deflection of pin jointed plane frames, rigid frames
• Classical method of analysis of indeterminate structures (slope deflection and moment distribution), matrix method
• Arches and suspension bridges, influence line for determinate and indeterminate structures
• Plastic analysis of structures

Part-III-Civil engineering: Unit 03

• Cement, concrete, properties of ingredients, mix design, quality control, special concrete, concreting methods, brick, brick masonry, stone, timber, steel

Part-III-Civil engineering: Unit 04

• Design methods, limit state design for beams, slabs, columns and footings, retaining walls, water tanks
• Prestressed concrete, principles, methods, losses, deflection, design

Part-III-Civil engineering: Unit 05

• Steel sections, connections, design of tension and compression members beams, column bases, plate girders and trusses

Part-III-Civil engineering: Unit 06

• Soil mechanics: Nature of soil, phase relationships, soil classification; soil water, static pressure, effective stress principle; permeability, seepage; stress distribution in soil consolidation (Terzaghi’s one dimension consolidation theory)
• Soil mechanics: Compaction shear strength of soil Mohr-Coulomb theory, determination of shear strength by different methods; Slope stability analysis, protection measures
• Foundation engineering: Site investigation, scope and objectives, drilling techniques, depth and spacing of boreholes, sampling techniques, penetration tests (SPT and SCPT), plate load test, selection of foundation; foundation types
• Foundation engineering: Shallow foundation, bearing capacity (Terzaghi’s theory and BIS formula), allowable bearing pressure, bearing capacity from field tests, settlement of foundation, allowable settlement, codal provisions; design of foundations
• Foundation engineering: Isolated, combined and raft foundation, pile foundations, static and dynamic pile driving formulae (engineering news and Hiley method), pile groups, capacity and settlement, codal provisions, pile load test
• Foundation engineering: Negative friction on piles, earth pressure theories, earth pressure on retaining walls, stability analysis of retaining wall

Part-III-Civil engineering: Unit 07

• Highway Planning: Road classification, geometric design of highways, construction of earth, WBM, bituminous and concrete roads, design of flexible and rigid pavements. Drainage of roads, maintenance of roads
• Railways, airways, docks and harbour planning: Railway alignment components of permanent way, geometric design airport planning, components of airport, site selection, planning for terminal building, runways, harbour planning, components of harbour
• Railways, airways, docks and harbour planning: Inland water transport
• Traffic engineering: Traffic characteristics, traffic surveys, traffic signals, road markings and signs

Part-III-Civil engineering: Unit 08

• Fluid mechanics and hydraulics: Properties of fluids, fluid statics and relative equilibrium, basic concepts of fluid flow, kinematics and dynamics, concept of system and control volume application to continuity, momentum and energy equations
• Fluid Mechanics and hydraulics: Dimensional analysis and model studies, laminar and turbulent flow through pipes, boundary layers, steady uniform and gradually varied flow in open channels, rapidly varied flows
• Fluid Mechanics and hydraulics: Turbines and pumps and positive displacement pumps

Part-III-Civil engineering: Unit 09

• Hydrometeorology
• Hydrologic cycle
• Precipitation and its measurements
• Abstractions
• Runoff estimation
• Hydrograph analysis
• Unit hydrograph
• Hydrologic extremes floods and droughts
• Rainwater harvesting
• Properties of aquifer
• Groundwater development
• Gec norms
• Well hydraulics
• Steady and unsteady flows
• Ground water quality
• Irrigation Engineering: Irrigation system, national water policy, components of irrigation network, design of lined and unlined channels, waterways, head works, gravity dams and spillways, design of weirs on permeable foundation
• Irrigation Engineering: Soil water relations, crop water requirements, irrigation scheduling and methods, duty, delta and base period, irrigation water quality, irrigation water management, participatory approach

Part-III-Civil engineering: Unit 10

• Water and wastewater engineering; water requirements; water demand; quality standards; development of water supply source, conveyance system; basic unit processes and operations for water treatment; water distribution; sewage characteristics
• Sewage treatment, primary and secondary treatment of sewage, sludge disposal, sewage disposal
• Air pollution and control: Types of pollutants, their sources and impacts, air pollution meteorology, air pollution control, air quality standards and limits

Part-III-Civil engineering: Unit 11

• Impacts of noise, permissible limits of noise pollution, measurement of noise and control of noise pollution

Part-III-Civil engineering: Unit 12

• Chain surveying, compass surveying, plane table surveying, levelling, theodolite surveying, temporary and permanent adjustments for level and theodolite, trigonometric levelling, tacheometry, traversing, contouring, computation of areas and volumes
• Curve Setting, simple, compound and reverse curves, transition curves, vertical curves, electromagnetic distance measurement, total station, construction surveying, hydrographic surveying, route survey, triangulation, astronomical survey

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 01

• Random processes, probability distributions, queuing models and simulation, testing of hypothesis, design of experiments

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 02

• Formal language and automata-graph theory

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 03

• Optimization, code generation, implementation, principles of programming languages, programming paradigms

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 04

• Process management, storage management, I/O systems, design and implementation of LINUX OS, assemblers, loaders, linkers, macro processors

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 05

• Communication and distributed environment, distributed operating systems, distributed shared memory, protocols, fault tolerance and distributed file systems, distributed object based systems

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 06

• Problem solving techniques, trees, hashing and priority queues, sorting, graph, heap search

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 07

• Dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, advanced algorithms, NP completeness and approximation algorithms

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 08

• Digital fundamentals, combinational circuits, synchronous and asynchronous sequential circuits, instruction set architecture (RISC,CISC,ALU design), instruction level parallelism, processing unit and pipelining, memory organization

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 09

• FFT, filter design

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 10

• Data communication systems, applications

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 11

• Relational model, database design, implementation techniques, distributed databases, object oriented databases, object relational databases, data mining and data warehousing

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 12

• Software product and processes, software requirements management, requirement engineering, elicitation, analysis, requirements development and validation, requirements testing, object oriented analysis and design, modular design, architectural design
• User interface design, real time software design, system design, data acquisition system, software testing and quality assurance, SQA fundamentals, quality standards, quality metrics, software testing principles, defects, test case design strategies
• Software quality and reusability, software project management, software cost estimation, function point models, software configuration management, software maintenance

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 13

• Intelligent agents, search strategies, knowledge representation, learning, applications

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 14

• Wireless communication fundamentals, telecommunication systems, wireless networks

Part-III-Computer science and engineering/ Information technology: Unit 15

• Program security, security in operating systems, database and network security, scientific computing, information coding techniques, cryptography, network Security

Part-III-Electrical and electronics engineering: Unit 01

• KCL, KVL, nodal and mesh analysis, transient response of D.C. and A.C. networks; sinusoidal steady-state analysis; resonance in electrical circuits; concepts of ideal voltage and current sources, network theorems
• Driving point admittance and transfer functions of two port network, three phase circuits; fourier series and its application; Gauss theorem, electric field intensity and potential due to point, line plane and spherical charge distribution, dielectric
• Capacitance calculations for simple configurations; Ampere’s and Biot-Savart’ law, inductance calculations for simple configurations

Part-III-Electrical and electronics engineering: Unit 02

• Single phase transformer, equivalent circuit, phasor diagram, tests, regulation and efficiency; three phase transformer, connections; auto transformer; principles of energy conversion, windings of rotating machines
• D.C. generators and motors-characteristics, starting and speed control, armature reaction and communication, three phase induction motors-performance characteristics, starting and speed control; single-phase induction motors; synchronous generators
• Performance, regulation, synchronous motors, starting characteristics, applications, synchronous condensers; fractional horsepower motors, permanent magnet and stepper motors

Part-III-Electrical and electronics engineering: Unit 03

• Electric power generation, thermal, hydro, nuclear; transmission line parameters; steady, state performance of overhead transmission lines and cables and surge propagation; distribution system, insulators, bundle conductors
• Corona and radio interferences effects; per-unit quantities; bus admittance and impedance matrices; load flow; voltage control and power factor correction, economic operation; symmetrical components, analysis of symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults
• Principle of over current, differential and distance protections; concepts and solid state relays and digital protection; circuit breakers; principles of system stability, swing curves and equal area criterion; hdvc system, principle of operation
• Control and design consideration, HVDC circuit breaking; facts-reactive power control, uncompensated transmission line, series compensation, SVC, thyristor control, series capacitor, static synchronous compensator, UPFC and applications

Part-III-Electrical and electronics engineering: Unit 04

• Principles of feedback; transfer function; block diagram; steady, state errors; stability-Routh and Nyquist criteria; bode plots; compensation; root loci; elementary state variable formulation
• State transition matrix and response for linear time invariant systems

Part-III-Electrical and electronics engineering: Unit 05

• Semiconductor power devices-diodes, transistors, thyristors, triacs, GTO, MOSFETs and IGBT-static characteristic and principles of operation; triggering circuits; phase control rectifiers; bridge converters-fully controlled and half controlled
• Principles of choppers and inverters, basic concepts of adjustable speed D.C. and A.C. drives

Part-III-Electrical and electronics engineering: Unit 06

• Microprocessor: General 8 bit microprocessor architecture-8085, 8086 processor, architecture, memory, I/O interfacing, instruction set, addressing modes, timing diagram and delays, machine cycles, interrupts, counters, assembly language programming
• Microcontrollers: 8 bit microcontroller-8051 architecture, bus configuration, instruction sets, programming and applications

Part-III-Electrical and electronics engineering: Unit 07

• Analog signals-sampling and aliasing, discrete time signals and systems, LTI systems, convolution sum-difference equation representation-Z transform and its inverse, discrete fourier series and Fourier transform, radix 2 FFT
• Decimation in me and frequency, inverse DFT using FFT, analog Butterworth and Chebyshev filter design-IIR and FIR filter design and realization

Part-III-Electrical and electronics engineering: Unit 08

• Causes of overvoltages and its effects on power system, lightning, switching surges and temporary overvoltages, concepts of reflections and refraction of travelling waves
• Dielectric breakdown, gaseous breakdown, vacuum breakdown, corona discharges generation of high voltage, high current and its measurements, D.C., A.C., impulse voltages and currents; high resistance with series ammeter–dividers, resistance
• Capacitance and mixed dividers-peak voltmeter, CVT, electrostatic voltmeters, sphere gaps, high current shunts; high voltage testing of electrical power apparatus as per international and indian standards, insulation coordination

Part-III-Electrical and electronics engineering: Unit 09

• Fundamentals of electric drives, choice and applications; traction motors, characteristic features, electric braking train movement and energy consumption; design of illumination systems and various lighting schemes; electric heating methods
• Electric welding, principles of the conversion of solar radiation into heat; solar collectors, flat-plate collectors, concentrating collector, cylindrical parabolic; wind energy conversion system, basic principles, site selection, basic components
• Classification of WECS, types of wind machines

Part-III-Electronics and communication engineering: Unit 01

• D.C. circuit analysis, Thevenin’s and Norton’s equivalent circuits, sinusoidal steady state analysis, transient and resonance in RLC circuits

Part-III-Electronics and communication engineering: Unit 02

• Diodes, bipolar junction transistors, FET, MOSFET, UJT, Thyristor

Part-III-Electronics and communication engineering: Unit 03

• Small signal amplifiers using BJT and FET devices, large signal amplifiers, power supplies, feedback amplifiers, oscillators, pulse shaping circuits
• Digital electronics: Logic gates, combinational circuits, sequential circuits
• Linear integrated circuits: Operational amplifiers and its applications, PLL, voltage regulators, A/D and D/A converters
• Measurements and instrumentation: Transducers, digital Instruments, display and recording systems
• Microprocessor and its applications: Microprocessors-8085 and 8086 architectures and interfaces, microcontroller and applications

Part-III-Electronics and communication engineering: Unit 04

• Static electric and magnetic fields, time varying electric and magnetic fields, Maxwell equations
• Transmission lines and networks: Transmission line equations, impedance matching, filters
• EM waves and waveguides: Guided waves, rectangular and cylindrical waveguides
• Antennas and propagation: Aperture antennas, arrays, propagation of radio waves
• Microwave engineering: Microwave tubes, semiconductor devices, passive components, microwave measurements

Part-III-Electronics and communication engineering: Unit 05

• AM, FM and PM, sampling and quantization, PCM, DM, ADM, multiplexing
• Digital communication: Baseband signaling, band pass signaling, error control coding, spread spectrum techniques
• Computer communication networks: Definition of layers, data link protocols, network interconnection, message routing technologies, end-end protocols

Part-III-Electronics and communication engineering: Unit 06

• Optical fibers, optical transmitters and receivers

Part-III-Electronics and communication engineering: Unit 07

• Continuous time signals and systems, fourier transform, laplace transform, discrete time signals and systems-DTFT, DFT, Z-transform
• Digital signal processing: IIR and FIR filters, realization and implementation, quantization effects
• Control systems: Transfer function, time and frequency response analysis, stability analysis, state variable analysis

Part-III-Mechanical engineering: Unit 01

• Statics of particles, equilibrium of rigid bodies, properties of surfaces and solids, dynamics of particles, friction and elements of rigid body dynamics, basics of mechanisms, gears and gear trains, friction in machine elements, force analysis
• Balancing, single degree free vibration, forced vibration, mechanisms for control and vibration

Part-III-Mechanical engineering: Unit 02

• Stress, strain and deformation of solids, transverse loading on beams and stresses in beams, torsion, deflection of beams, energy principles, thin cylinders and thick cylinders, spherical shells
• Fundamentals of design for strength and stiffness of machine members, design of shafts and couplings, design of fasteners and welded joints, design of springs, design of engine parts, design of bearings, design of flywheels
• Design of transmission systems for flexible elements, spur gears and parallel axis helical gears, bevel gears, worm gears and crossed helical gears, design of gear boxes, design of CAM, clutches and brakes

Part-III-Mechanical engineering: Unit 03

• Fundamentals of computer graphics, geometric modeling, visual realism, assembly of parts, CAD standards, fundamentals of CIM, production planning and control and computerized process planning, cellular manufacturing
• Flexible manufacturing system and automated guided vehicle system, industrial robotics, one dimensional problems in FEA, two dimensional scalar variable problems, two dimensional vector variable problems, isometric parametric formulation

Part-III-Mechanical engineering: Unit 04

• Constitution of alloys and phase diagrams, steels, cast iron, TTT diagram, heat treatment of ferrous and non-ferrous metal, surface modification techniques, non-metallic materials, mechanical properties
• Testing, crystal defects and strengthening mechanisms, conducting and semiconducting materials, magnetic and dielectric materials, engineering ceramics, engineering and commodity polymers

Part-III-Mechanical engineering: Unit 05

• Foundry technology, hot and cold working, metal forming processes, metal joining processes, welding metallurgy, welding defects, metal cutting, center lathe and special purpose lathe, drilling, milling, grinding, gear cutting
• Broaching unconventional machining processes, CNC machine tools, part programming

Part-III-Mechanical engineering: Unit 06

• Linear and angular measurements, interferometry, laser interferometers, types, computer aided inspection, basic concept of CMM, types of CMM, machine vision, form measurement, straightness flatness, roundness
• Surface finish measurement, measurement of power, flow and temperature

Part-III-Mechanical engineering: Unit 07

• Basic concepts, zeroth, first and second laws of thermodynamics; thermodynamic system and processes; Carnot cycle
• Irreversibility and availability; behaviour of ideal and real gases, thermodynamic relations, properties of pure substances, calculation of work and heat in ideal processes; analysis of thermodynamic cycles related to energy conversion
• Fuel and combustion

Part-III-Mechanical engineering: Unit 08

• Modes of heat transfer; one dimensional heat conduction, resistance concept, electrical analogy, unsteady heat conduction, fins; dimensionless parameters in free and forced convective heat transfer
• Various correlations for heat transfer in flow over flat plates and through pipes; thermal boundary layer; effect of turbulence; radiative heat transfer, black and grey surfaces, shape factors, network analysis; heat exchanger performance
• IMTD and NTU methods
• Basic concepts of mass transfer, diffusion mass transfer, Fick’s law of diffusion, steady state molecular diffusion, convective mass transfer, momentum, heat and mass transfer analogy, convective mass transfer correlations
• Applications: Power engineering, steam tables, Rankine, Brayton cycles with regeneration and reheat, I.C. engines, air-standard otto, diesel cycles
• Refrigeration and air-conditioning: Vapour refrigeration cycle, heat pumps, gas refrigeration, reverse Brayton cycle; moist air, psychrometric chart, basic psychrometric processes
• Turbomachinery: Pelton-wheel, Francis and Kaplan turbines impulse and reaction principles, velocity diagrams

Part-III-Mechanical engineering: Unit 09

• Fluid properties; fluid statics, manometry, buoyancy; control-volume analysis of mass, momentum and energy; fluid acceleration; differential equations of continuity and momentum; Bernoulli’s equation; viscous flow of incompressible fluids
• Boundary layer; elementary turbulent flow; flow through pipes, head losses in pipes, bends, etc

Part-III-Automobile engineering: Unit 01

• Statics of particles, equilibrium of rigid bodies, properties of surfaces and solids, dynamics of particles, friction and element of rigid body dynamics-basics of mechanism, kinematics of linkage mechanism, kinematics of CAM mechanism
• Gears and gear trains, friction, force analysis, balancing and vibration

Part-III-Automobile engineering: Unit 02

• Stress, strain and deformation of solids, transverse loading on beams and stresses in beams, deflection of beams, energy principles, thin cylinders and spherical resells torsion, fundamentals of design for strength and stiffness of machine members
• Design of shaft and couplings, design of fasteners and welded joints, design of spring and engine parts, design of engine parts, bearing and flywheel, design of transmission system for flexible elements
• Spur gears and parallel axis helical gears, bevel, worm gears and crossed helical gears, design of gear boxes, design of cam, clutches and brakes

Part-III-Automobile engineering: Unit 03

• Basic concepts and first law, second law, entropy and availability, properties of steam, air standard cycles, otto, diesel and dual cycles, air compressors, Rankine cycle
• Brayton cycle, stream turbines, gas turbine , steam nozzle, refrigeration and air conditioning, conduction, phase change heat transfer and heat exchangers, radiation
• Refrigeration cycles, refrigerants, system components, VAR, psychrometry, air conditioning system

Part-III-Automobile engineering: Unit 04

• Foundry technology, hot and cold working, forging, principles and application of joining process, centre lathe and special purpose lathes, reciprocating machines, milling machines and gear cutting, cnc machine tools, part programming

Part-III-Automobile engineering: Unit 05

• Front axle types front wheel geometry condition for true rolling motion steering geometry Ackermann and Davis steering
• Types of steering gear box
• Propeller shaft universal joints
• Final drive differential types
• Type of brakes and constructional details
• types of suspension, independent suspension-front and rear rubber, pneumatic, hydro-elastic suspension

Part-III-Automobile engineering: Unit 06

• Construction and operation of friction clutches
• Different types of gear boxes
• Fluid couplings and torque converters
• Wilson gear box
• Hydrostatic drive systems
• Electric drive
• Continuously variable transmission (CVT), types of car bodies classification of bus bodies

Part-III-Automobile engineering: Unit 07

• Body optimization techniques for minimum drag
• Wind tunnel technology
• Classification of vibration, definitions, single degree of freedom, free, forced and damped vibrations
• Rolling resistance, cornering properties of tyres
• Directional stability of vehicle choice of suspension spring rate calculation of effective spring rate
• Vehicle suspension in FORE and AFT
• Vehicle ride model, load distribution

Part-III-Automobile engineering: Unit 08

• Types of batteries, principle, construction, starting system
• D.C. generators and alternators
• Regulations for charging electronic ignition systems
• Types of sensors and actuators for automobiles
• Microprocessor controlled devices in automobiles
• Components for electronic engine management system
• PID control types of solid state ignition systems and their operation
• Fuel control maps open loop control of fuel injection and closed loop lambda control-integrated engine control system
• Onboard diagnosis system

Part-III-Automobile engineering: Unit 09

• Emission formation in SI and CI engines
• Effects of design and operating variables controlling techniques constant volume sampling systems
• Measurement techniques of HC, CO, NOX and smoke emission
• Dilution tunnel and sound level meters

Part-III-Automobile engineering: Unit 10

• Properties alcohols, vegetable oils, biogas natural gas LPG and hydrogen as engine fuels methods of using all the fuels in SI and CI engines
• Performance, emission and combustion behaviour of the fuels in SI and CI engines

Part-III-Aeronautical and aerospace engineering: Unit 01

• Incompressible viscous and inviscid flows, dimensional analysis, fluid machinery, basic concepts in thermodynamics, basics of propulsion and heat transfer, air standard cycles, properties of pure substance, stresses in beams, deflection of beams, torsion
• Springs and columns, biaxial stress system, statically determinate and indeterminate structures, energy methods, failure theories, induced stresses basic aspects of boundary layer theory, flow through compressors, combustion chambers
• Gas turbines and nozzles of gas turbine engines, unsymmetrical bending, shear flow in open and closed sections, Buckling of plates and stress analysis, fundamentals of computational fluid dynamics, grid generation
• Time dependent methods and finite volume methods, finite element methods, discrete
• Continuum and isoparametric elements, field problem and method of solutions, composite materials

Part-III-Aeronautical and aerospace engineering: Unit 02

• Aircraft configurations, airplane structures, airplane power plants, airplane control systems, aircraft instruments, aircraft engine, air conditioning and pressurization system, airfoil theory, subsonic wing theory, steady level flight
• Gliding and climbing flight and accelerated flight of airplanes, fundamentals of hypersonic air breathing and rocket propulsion systems, stability and control of airplanes, fundamentals of supersonic flows, high speed flows over airfoils
• Wings and airplanes, experimental techniques for high speed flows

Part-III-Architecture: Unit 01

• Lime, brick, stone, clay products; timber, industrial timber; paints and varnishes, concrete, special concrete and lightweight concrete; ferrous metals; non ferrous metals; glass; plastics; eco friendly materials
• Thermal insulation materials and acoustic materials construction techniques and practices using the above listed materials; damp and waterproofing; pest control; construction systems and equipment; pre-stressed concrete and tensile structures
• Grids domes; folded plates; flat slabs, low cost construction and appropriate technologies

Part-III-Architecture: Unit 02

• Indian architecture: Hindu and Islamic; Indo saracenic; secular architecture of the princely states; colonial and post independence architecture; works of masters such as Charles correa; BV Doshi; Ananth Raje; Raj Rewal; Laurie Baker; Nari Gandhi
• Indian architecture: Works of masters such as Kanvinde
• Western architecture: Ancient Greek and Rome; early Christian; Gothic and renaissance; baroque; neoclassicism; Chicago school and development of skyscraper
• Modern architecture: Art and crafts; art nouveau; expressionism and Cubism; Bauhaus; international style; postmodernism and deconstructivism; critical regionalism; theories and projects of FL Wright; Le Corbusier; Gaudi; Gropius; Aalto; Mies; Eisenmann
• Modern architecture: Zaha Hadid; Soleri; Hasan fathy; Ando; Bawa; Gehry; Libeskind; Toyo Ito; Louis Kahn; Tschumi; Greg lynn; Asymptote

Part-III-Architecture: Unit 03

• Elements and ordering principles; organisation of form and space; design methodology and creative thinking; pattern language; contemporary process, diagrams, shape grammar, fractals, digital hybrid, liquid architecture

Part-III-Architecture: Unit 04

• Water supply and distribution systems, water and waste management; sewerage system; electrical systems; illumination and lighting; air conditioning; fire safety; building automation and ibms

Part-III-Architecture: Unit 05

• Climate responsive architecture; design of solar shading devices; acoustics and building design; architecture and energy-active and passive solar architecture, day lighting and natural ventilation, landscape designs; landscape and environment control

Part-III-Architecture: Unit 06

• National housing policy; Indira Awas Yojana; housing standards; housing projects in India; urban morphology of early and contemporary cities; case studies on urban revitalization from developed and developed economies; planning concepts-Patrick Geddes
• Planning concepts-Ebenezer Howard, Le corbusier, CA Perry; urban planning, regional planning and urban renewal in the Indian context

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 01

• Design and selection of machine elements, gears, pulleys, chains and sprockets and belts; shafts and couplings, temporary and permanent joints, energy storing elements and engine components, bearings, measurement of force, torque, speed
• Displacement and acceleration on machine elements

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 02

• Soil tillage forces acting on a tillage tool; hitch systems and hitching of tillage implements; functional requirements, principles of working, construction and operation of manual, animal and power operated equipment for tillage, Sowing, planting
• Fertilizer application, intercultivation, spraying, mowing, chaff cutting, harvesting, threshing and transport; calculation of performance parameters, field capacity, efficiency, application rate and losses; cost analysis of implements and tractors

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 03

• Sources of power on the farm, human, animal mechanical, electrical, wind, solar and biomass; bio-fuels

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 04

• Thermodynamic principles of IC engines; IC engine cycles; engine components; fuels and combustion; lubricants and their properties; IC engine systems, fuel, cooling, lubrication, ignition, electrical, intake and exhaust

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 05

• Type, selection, maintenance, and repair of tractors and power tillers; tractor clutches and brakes; power transmission systems, gear trains, differential, final drives and power take-off; mechanics of tractor chassis; traction theory
• Three point hitches; mechanical steering and hydraulic control systems used in tractors

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 06

• Ideal and real fluids, properties of fluids; hydrostatic pressure and its measurement; hydrostatic forces on plane and curved surface; continuity equation; Bernoulli’s theorem; laminar and turbulent flow in pipes
• Darcy-Weisbach and Hazen Williams equations, Moody’s diagram; flow through orifices and notches; flow in open channels

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 07

• Engineering properties of soils; fundamental definitions and relationships; index properties of soils permeability and seepage analysis; shear strength, Mohr’s circle of stress, active and passive earth pressures; stability of slopes

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 08

• Hydrological cycle and components; meteorological parameters, their measurement and analysis of precipitation data; runoff estimation; hydrograph analysis, unit hydrograph theory and application; stream flow measurement; flood routing

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 09

• Measurement of distance and area; instruments for surveying and leveling; chain surveying, methods of traversing; measurement of angles and bearings, plane table surveying; types of leveling; theodolite traversing; contouring

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 10

• Mechanics of soil erosion, soil erosion types, wind and water erosion, factors affecting erosion; soil loss estimation; biological and engineering measures to control erosion; terraces and bunds; vegetative waterways
• Gully control structures, drop, drop inlet and chute spillways; earthen dams; land use capability classification; rainwater harvesting structures, check dams and farm ponds

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 11

• Water requirement of crops; consumptive use and evapotranspiration; measurement of infiltration, soil moisture and irrigation water infiltration

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 12

• Design of irrigation channels and underground pipelines; irrigation scheduling; surface, sprinkler and micro irrigation methods, design and evaluation of irrigation methods; irrigation efficiencies

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 13

• Drainage coefficient; planning, design and layout of surface and subsurface drainage systems; leaching requirement and salinity control; irrigation and drainage water quality and reuse

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 14

• Groundwater occurrence; Darcy’s Law, steady flow in confined and unconfined aquifers, evaluation of aquifer properties; groundwater recharge

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 15

• Types of wells, steady flow through wells; classification of pumps; pump characteristics; pump selection and installation

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 16

• Steady state heat transfer in conduction, convection and radiation; psychrometry; concentration and drying of liquid foods-evaporators, tray, drum and spray dryers; hydrothermal treatment; drying and milling of cereals, pulses and oilseeds

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 17

• Mechanics and energy requirement in size reduction of granular solids, particle size analysis for comminuted solids; size separation by screening; pneumatic, bucket, screw and belt conveying; cleaning and grading; effectiveness of grain cleaners
• Centrifugal separation of solids, liquids and gases

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 18

• Controlled and modified atmosphere storage; godowns, bins and grains silos

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 19

• Water activity, sorption and desorption isotherms; kinetics of microbial death, pasteurization and sterilization of milk and other liquid foods; preservation of food by cooling and freezing

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 20

• Linear programming, irrigation water allocation, cropping pattern optimization; dynamic programming, application to design and operation of reservoirs, irrigation management; simulation, application to irrigation scheduling; decision support systems

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 21

• Precision farming; crop production modeling; on-line measurement of plant growth in the greenhouse, models of plants production and expert systems in horticulture; e-governance, e-commerce, e-business systems and applications
• Technology enhanced learning systems and solutions

Part-III-Agricultural and irrigation engineering: Unit 22

• IWRM framework, emerging issues in water management, watershed development, capacity building; participatory approach, water users association, farmers association, CADP, water delivery systems, people’s participation

Part-III-Biotechnology: Unit 01

• Analysis of STR, analysis of other configurations, bioreactor scale-up, modeling and simulation of bioprocesses, bioreactor considerations in enzyme systems

Part-III-Biotechnology: Unit 02

• Cells, cell lines, cell culture, cell organelles and its functions, types of cell divisions, cell cycle and its regulation mechanism, transport mechanism (passive, active, atpase pumps and na+ /k+ pumps), receptors, signal transduction
• Models of signal amplification secondary messengers, structure of nucleic acids, replication, transcription, translation and DNA repair mechanism in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, promoters, enhancers and transcription factors
• Genetic codes and lac and trp operons

Part-III-Biotechnology: Unit 03

• Structure, function and metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and proteins, enzymes and its mechanism
• Electron transport chain system, high energy compound and reducing equivalents
• History of microbiology
• Classification of microorganism, structural organization and multiplication of microorganism
• Physical and chemical control of microorganisms, primary and secondary metabolites and their applications

Part-III-Biotechnology: Unit 04

• Genes, control of gene expression, restriction enzymes, vectors (prokaryotic and eukaryotic) construction of cDNA and genomic library, screening of DNA libraries, RACE, PCR, RAPD, RFLP, AFLP, site directed mutagenesis, methods of nucleic acid sequencing
• Cloning vectors in plants, transgenic and knockout animals

Part-III-Biotechnology: Unit 05

• Immune system, immunity, lymphoid organs, antigens, adjutants, types of immune response, activation and different ion of t-cells and b-cells, antibodies, genes and generation of diversity, monoclonal antibodies
• MHC APC, regulation of t-cell and b-cell responses
• Immunity to viruses, bacteria fungi and parasites, cytokines, complements, immunosuppression, allergy and hypersensitivity
• Vaccines, transplantation, tumor, immunology, autoimmunity and autoimmune disorders

Part-III-Biotechnology: Unit 06

• Search engines and algorithms, data management, data technology, biological databases and their uses
• Pairwise sequence alignment (local and global), multiple sequence alignment, dot matrix, dynamic programming and Bayesian methods
• BLAST, FASTA, machine learning and hidden Markov models
• Phylogenetic tree analysis, bimolecular and cellular computing, microarray analysis and system biology

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 01

• Cell, cell potentials, sodium potassium pump, joints, respiratory mechanism conducting system of heart, volume and pressure changes, regulation of heart rate, structure of neuron conduction of action potential in neuron, brain lobes

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 02

• Carbohydrates, structural importance, metabolic pathways and metabolic disorders, lipid chemistry, its metabolic pathways and disorders

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 03

• D.C. circuit analysis, Thevenin’s and Norton’s equivalent circuits, sinusoidal steady state analysis, transient and resonance in RLC circuits

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 04

• Diodes, bipolar junction transistor, FET, MOSFET, UJT, thyristor, feedback amplifier, oscillators, differential amplifier, common mode and difference mode analysis

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 05

• Logic gates, combinational circuits, sequential circuits

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 06

• Operational amplifiers and its applications, voltage regulators, A/D and D/A converters

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 07

• Microprocessors, 8085 and 8086 architectures and interfaces, microcontrollers and applications

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 08

• Continuous time signals and systems, fourier transform, laplace transform, discrete time signals and systems, DTFT, DFT, Z transforms

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 09

• IIR and FIR filters, realisation and implementation

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 10

• Transfer function, time and frequency response analysis, stability analysis

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 11

• AM, FM, PM, sampling and quantisation, TDM, FDM, entropy, Huffman coding, FDMA, TDMA

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 12

• Strain gauge, applications, capacitive transducer, RTD, scintillation counter, photomultiplier tube, phototransistor, piezoelectric transducer, thermal recorder, indirect measurement of blood pressure, Ph electrode, GSR, spirometer, electrodes,
• Half cell potential, offset potential, types of electrodes and their equivalent circuits, artifacts during biopotential recording, characteristics of bio amplifier, ECG and EEG, lead system

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 13

• Blood cell counter, holter monitor, pacemaker and types, need for defibrillator, types of defibrillator, biofeedback, waveforms in stimulators, need for telemetry, modulation schemes used in telemetry
• Parameters to be monitored in heart lung machine and hemodialysis units, tissue response to different types of diathermy, physiological effects of electricity

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 14

• Elasticity, viscoelasticity, flow properties of blood, mechanical properties of bones, types of joints, lubrication of joints

Part-III-Biomedical engineering: Unit 15

• Ionising radiation and non ionising radiation, effects, cavitation effect, types of radioactive decay, interaction with matter
• Attenuation, annihilation, compton scattering, production of X-ray, radiation units, Roentgen, Gray Sievert, CT generations, mr signal generation, T1 and T2 relaxation processes, doppler shift, ultrasound echo generation, PACS

Part-III-Chemical engineering: Unit 01

• Classification of fluids, flow patterns, manometry, continuity equation, Navier-stokes’ equation, Bernoulli equation, dimensional analysis, flow through pipes, boundary layer concepts, flow through fixed and fluidized beds, pumps
• Classification affinity laws, performance curves
• Characteristics of solids, size analysis, screening, storage, conveyance, size reduction, classifier, centrifuges, cyclones, filtration, mixing and agitation

Part-III-Chemical engineering: Unit 02

• Gas calculations, material balance and energy balance, steady and unsteady state, humidity and saturation, combustion, thermochemistry, role of chemical engineers in process industry, cement, glass and ceramic industries, paper industry
• Oil, soap, petroleum refining and petrochemicals, polymer industry, fertilizers, food industry, other important process industries

Part-III-Chemical engineering: Unit 03

• Laws of thermodynamics, PVT behaviour of fluids, thermodynamic formulations, compression of fluids, phase equilibria, application of the correlation and prediction free energy change and reaction equilibria
• Refrigeration-principles, performance, reaction rate, laws, theories, analysis
• Design of reactors, factors affecting design, thermal reactors and rates of heat exchanges
• Non-ideal reactors, heterogeneous reactors and solid catalysts, gas, solid catalytic reactors, gas-solid non-catalytic reactors, gas-liquid reactors

Part-III-Chemical engineering: Unit 04

• Modes of heat transfer, heat conduction- steady and unsteady state, natural and forced convection, heat transfer to fluids with phase change, heat transfer coefficients
• Diffusion, mass transfer coefficients, humidification, drying, absorption, distillation, extraction, leaching, crystallization, adsorption and ion exchange, analogies

Part-III-Chemical engineering: Unit 05

• Open loop systems, closed loop systems, frequency response, advanced control systems, instrumentation
• Application of spreadsheet packages in chemical engineering, process flow sheeting, development of software for design of equipments
• Dynamic programming in chemical engineering

Part-III-Chemical engineering: Unit 06

• Carbohydrates, oils, fats and waxes, heterocyclic compounds, proteins, dyes and dyeing, pharmaceutical chemistry
• Adsorption, types, adsorption of gases over solids, isotherms, applications, ion exchange, adsorption chromatography, catalysis types, equations

Part-III-Chemical engineering: Unit 07

• Various methods of reduction of pollution, types of pollution, air pollution- sources and effects, control techniques, sources and effects, control techniques, soil pollution, sources and effects, control techniques and solid waste disposal

Part-III-Chemical engineering: Unit 08

• Structure: Hydrogen and hydrogen-like atoms, atomic orbitals; radial distribution function. multielectron atoms equilibrium, laws of thermodynamics, standard states
• Equilibrium: Laws of thermodynamics. Standard states, thermochemistry, thermodynamic functions and their relationships: Gibbs-Helmholtz and Maxwell relations, Gibbs-Duhem equation, Van’t Hoff equation, criteria of spontaneity and equilibrium
• Equilibrium: Absolute entropy, partial molar quantities, standard electrode potentials and electrochemical cells. Nernst Equation and its application, relationship between electrode potential and thermodynamic quantities
• Equilibrium: Potentiometric and conductometric titrations, phase rule. Clausius- Clapeyron equation, phase diagram of one component systems: Co, H2o, S; two component systems: Liquid- vapour, liquid-liquid and solid-liquid systems
• Kinetics: Elementary, parallel, opposing and consecutive reactions, steady state approximation, mechanisms of complex reactions. Unimolecular reactions. Transition state theory: Eyring equation, thermodynamic aspects
• Kinetics: Catalysis concepts and enzyme catalysis, kinetic isotope effects, fast reaction kinetics: Relaxation and flow methods. Diffusion controlled reactions. Kinetics of photochemical and photophysical processes
• Surfaces and interfaces: Physisorption and chemisorption. Langmuir, Freundlich and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) isotherms. Surface catalysis: Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism

Part-III-Chemical engineering: Unit 09

• Main group elements: Hydrides, halides, oxides, oxoacids, nitrides, sulfides, shapes and reactivity, structure and bonding of boranes, carboranes, silicones, silicates, boron nitride, borazines and phosphazenes
• Main group elements: Acid-base concepts and principles (Lewis, Bronsted, Hsab and acid-base catalysis)
• Transition elements: Coordination chemistry-structure and isomerism, theories of bonding (VBT,CFT, and MOT). Energy level diagrams in various crystal fields, CFSE, applications of CFT, Jahn-Teller distortion
• Transition elements: Electronic spectra of transition metal complexes, spectroscopic term symbols, selection rules, Orgel and Tanabe-Sugano diagrams, nephelauxetic effect and Racah parameter, charge transfer spectra
• Transition elements: Magnetic properties of transition metal complexes
• Lanthanides and actinides: Recovery. Periodic properties, spectra and magnetic properties
• Organometallics: 18-electron rule; metal-alkyl, metal-carbonyl, metal-olefin and metal-carbene complexes and metallocenes. Fluxionality in organometallic complexes. Types of organometallic reactions
• Organometallics: Homogeneous catalysis-hydrogenation, hydroformylation, acetic acid synthesis, metathesis and olefin oxidation. Heterogeneous catalysis, Fischer, Tropsch reaction, Ziegler-Natta polymerization
• Radioactivity: Detection of radioactivity, decay processes, half-life of radioactive elements, fission and fusion processes
• Solids: Crystal systems and lattices, miller planes, crystal packing, crystal defects, Bragg’s law, ionic crystals, structures of AX, AX2, ABX3 type compounds, spinels, band theory, metals and semiconductors

Part-III-Chemical engineering: Unit 10

• Stereochemistry: Chirality and symmetry of organic molecules with or without chiral centres and determination of their absolute configurations. Relative stereochemistry in compounds having more than one stereogenic centre
• Stereochemistry: Homotopic, enantiotopic and diastereotopic atoms, groups and faces, stereoselective and stereospecific synthesis
• Reaction mechanisms: Nucleophilic and electrophilic substitution reactions (both aromatic and aliphatic). Addition reactions to carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom (n and o) multiple bonds, elimination reactions. Reactive intermediates-carbocations
• Reaction mechanisms: Reactive intermediates-carbanions, carbenes, nitrenes, arynes and free radicals. Molecular rearrangements
• Pericyclic reactions and photochemistry: Electrocyclic, cycloaddition and sigmatropic reactions, orbital correlations-FMO and PMO treatments, Woodward-Hoffmann rule. Photochemistry of alkenes, arenes and carbonyl compounds
• Pericyclic reactions and photochemistry: Photooxidation and photoreduction. Di-n-methane rearrangement, Barton-MC Combie reaction, Norrish type-I and II cleavage reaction
• Heterocyclic compounds: Structure, preparation, properties and reactions of furan, pyrrole, thiophene, pyridine, indole, quinoline and isoquinoline

Part-III-Earth sciences: Unit 01

• Weathering process, kinds, products. internal structure of the earth, fundamentals of plate tectonics
• Landforms produced by river, winds, glacier and sea
• Drainage pattern, drainage index, geomorphic features

Part-III-Earth sciences: Unit 02

• Physical properties of industrial minerals classification, origin and description of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks
• Origin of Himalayas major earth geological events through time scale
• Origin of life, types of fossils evolution of mammals and man
• Joints, folds, faults and structures

Part-III-Earth sciences: Unit 03

• Origin, occurrence and distribution of economic mineral deposits-iron, manganese, gold, zinc, graphite, lead, coal and petroleum deposits
• Ore-dressing, ore-reserves, estimation
• Major elements, application in environmental studies REE-its implication in genesis/ provenance of rocks

Part-III-Earth sciences: Unit 04

• Sensors and platforms-indian remote sensing, spectral system characterizes of rocks and minerals, photogeology, photogrammetry, hydrogeology, groundwater, occurrence, movement, aquifer, field parameters and lab methods of estimations

Part-III-Earth sciences: Unit 05

• Engineering properties of rock
• Geological investigation required for dam, tunnel, highways and building constructions
• Renewable and non-renewable resources, pollution
• Continental and marine environmental studies
• Ocean features, physical, chemical and biological resources of the ocean

Part-III-Food technology: Unit 01

• Carbohydrates, protein and lipids and its functional properties, pigments, food flavors, enzyme activity, enzymatic and non-enzymatic browning
• Nutrition: Balanced diet, essential amino acids and essential fatty acids, water soluble and fat soluble vitamins, role of minerals in nutrition, co-factors, anti-nutrients, nutraceuticals, food acids, moisture relations in food
• Nutrition: Chemical and biochemical changes during processing and storage
• Food additives, role of of JECFA in safety assessment of food additives, definition, chemical structure, role in food processing and product end characteristics, nutritional disorders, diet therapy, probiotic and prebiotic foods
• Therapeutic, organic foods, nutraceutical and functional foods

Part-III-Food technology: Unit 02

• Characteristics and morphology of microorganisms, microbial growth, importance of microorganisms in food, primary sources in food, intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of food affecting microbial growth, microbial spoilage of foods
• Fermented and microbial foods-food borne diseases and safety, toxins from microbes, natural contaminants and health hazards associated with foods
• Food analytical methods, statistical evaluation of analytical data, principle and methods for subjective and objective quality evaluation of foods, measurement techniques and instruments for food quality determination
• Destructive and non-destructive quality evaluation, international and national food laws and standards

Part-III-Food technology: Unit 03

• High temperature processing, use of non-thermal technologies for preservation properties, processing and preservation of milk and milk products, meat products, fish and egg products, fruit and vegetable products
• Fermented foods and beverages from fruit and vegetables, aerated drinks, processing of cereal, pulse and oilseed products, spices and plantation crops processing, extraction of essential oils and oleoresins and encapsulation technologies
• Value addition and byproducts utilizations

Part-III-Food technology: Unit 04

• Classification of fluids, flow patterns, dimensional and non-dimensional analysis, flow through pipes, flow through fixed and fluidized beds, turbines and pumps
• Principles of stoichiometry-material balance and energy balance, stoichiometric principles and application heat capacity of solids, liquids, gases and solutions

Part-III-Food technology: Unit 05

• Heat transfer, momentum transfer, mass transfer, unit operations, membrane separation processes, mechanical separation process, thermal operations, thermodynamics, refrigeration-principles and applications, cold chain logistics
• Engineering properties of food, food plant equipment design, static and dynamic characteristics of instruments, open loop systems, closed loop systems, frequency response, advanced control systems,instrumentation food packaging
• Materials and their properties, equipment, testing, and its applications
• Recent trends in packaging, labelling requirements

Part-III-Geo informatics engineering: Unit 01

• Chain surveying, compass surveying, plane table surveying, levelling, theodolite surveying, temporary and permanent adjustments for level and theodolite, trigonometric levelling, tacheometry, traversing, contouring, computation of areas and volumes
• Curve setting simple, compound and reverse curves, transition curves, vertical curves, construction surveying, hydrographic surveying, route survey, triangulation, astronomical survey, electromagnetic distance measurement, total station and GPS surveying
• Adjustment of errors in surveying

Part-III-Geo informatics engineering: Unit 02

• Components of RS, electromagnetic spectrum, wave theory, particle theory, Stefan Boltzmann law and Wien’s law, radiation sources, radiation quantities, EMR interaction with atmosphere and earth materials, platforms and sensors
• Data product types-digital data file formats, resolution concept, elements of visual interpretation, interpretation keys
• Advanced remote sensing: Principles, characteristics and applications of thermal, hyperspectral, microwave and LIDAR images

Part-III-Geo informatics engineering: Unit 03

• Sources of image degradation and correction procedures, preprocessing, image enhancement techniques, image classification, spectral discrimination, pattern recognition concepts, Bayes approach, signature and training sets, separability test
• Supervised classification minimum distance to mean, parallelepiped, MLC, unsupervised classifiers, isodata means, support vector machine, segmentation (spatial, spectral), tree classifiers accuracy assessment
• Advanced classifiers, fuzzy set classification, sub, pixel classifier, hybrid classifiers, texture based classification, object based classifiers, artificial neural net, hebbian learning, expert system types and examples, knowledge systems

Part-III-Geo informatics engineering: Unit 04

• Types of photographs, photographic overlaps, film, based and digital aerial cameras, construction, camera accessories, camera calibration, geometric properties of aerial photographs, stereo plotters and orientation, aerotriangulation, terrain modeling
• Orthophoto digital photogrammetry work station and its components, analytical stereoplotters vs digital, photogrammetry, workstation basic system function, storage system, stereoscopic viewing and measuring system, photogrammetry project planning
• Other acquisition systems, UAV, Terrestrial imaging, oblique photography, close range photogrammetry, terrestrial and mobile LIDAR images

Part-III-Geo informatics engineering: Unit 05

• Functions, uses and types of maps, map scales and contents, map projections, shape, distance, area and direction properties, map coordinate systems, elements of a map, map layout principles, symbols and conventional signs, map lettering
• Map production and reproduction, map generalization, geometric transformations
• Digital cartography: Data capture and representation, digital map design, geovisualization, digital map modelling

Part-III-Geo informatics engineering: Unit 06

• Components of a GIS, data and attributes, scales/levels of measurements, spatial data models, raster and vector data structures, data entry, scanner raster data input, raster data file formats, georeferencing, vector data input, digitiser, datum
• Projection and reprojection, coordinate transformation, topology, adjacency, connectivity and containment, topological consistency, non topological file formats, attribute data linking, linking external databases
• GPS data integration, raster to vector and vector to raster conversion, data quality, completeness, logical consistency, positional accuracy, temporal accuracy, thematic accuracy and lineage, metadata, GIS standards, interoperability, OGC, spatial data
• Infrastructure, data output, map compilation, chart/ graphs
• Spatial analysis and applications: Raster analysis, vector analysis, network analysis surface and geostatistical analysis, customization, web GIS, mobile mapping

Part-III-Geo informatics engineering: Unit 07

• RS and GIS applications in the fields of agriculture and forestry, urban planning, hydrology and water resources, oceanography, geology, meteorology, environmental management, climate change and disaster mitigation and management

Part-III-Instrumentation, electronics and control engineering: Unit 01

• Voltage and current sources: Independent, dependent, ideal and practical; V-I relationships of resistor, inductor, and capacitor; transient analysis of RLC circuits with DC excitation
• Kirchoff’s laws, mesh and nodal analysis, superposition, Thevenin, Norton, maximum power transfer and reciprocity theorems
• Peak, average and RMS values of AC quantities; apparent, active and reactive powers; phasor analysis, impedance and admittance, series and parallel resonance, realization of basic filters with R, L and C elements
• One-port and two-port networks, driving point impedance and admittance, open-circuit, and short circuit parameters

Part-III-Instrumentation, electronics and control engineering: Unit 02

• Periodic, aperiodic and impulse signals; laplace, fourier and z-transforms; transfer function, time, response and frequency response of first and second order linear time invariant systems; convolution and correlation
• Discrete time system, impulse response, frequency response, pulse transfer function; DFT and FFT; basics of IIR and FIR filters

Part-III-Instrumentation, electronics and control engineering: Unit 03

• Characteristics and applications of diode, zener diode, bjt and mosfet; small signal analysis of transistor circuits; feedback amplifiers characteristics of operational amplifiers
• Applications of Op Amps: difference amplifier, adder, subtractor, integrator, differentiator, instrumentation amplifier, precision rectifier, active filters and other circuits
• Oscillators, signal generators, voltage controlled oscillators and phase locked loop

Part-III-Instrumentation, electronics and control engineering: Unit 04

• Combinational logic circuits, minimization of boolean functions; IC families: TTL and CMOS; arithmetic circuits, comparators, schmitt trigger, multi-vibrators, sequential circuits, flip-flops, shift registers, timers and counters
• Sample-and-hold circuit, multiplexer, analog-to-digital (successive approximation, integrating, flash and sigma-delta) and digital-to-analog converters (weighted R and R-2R ladder)
• Characteristics of ADC and DAC (resolution, quantization, significant bits, conversion/ settling time)
• 8-bit microprocessor and microcontroller: applications, memory and input-output interfacing; basics of data acquisition systems

Part-III-Instrumentation, electronics and control engineering: Unit 05

• SI units, systematic and random errors in measurement, expression of uncertainty, accuracy and precision, propagation of errors; PMMC, MI and dynamometer type instruments; D.C. potentiometer; bridges for measurement of R, L and C; Q-meter
• Measurement of voltage, current and power in single and three phase circuits; true rms meters; instrument transformers; time, phase and frequency measurements; digital voltmeter and digital multimeter; oscilloscope; shielding and grounding

Part-III-Instrumentation, electronics and control engineering: Unit 06

• Resistive, capacitive, inductive, piezoelectric, Hall effect sensors and associated signal conditioning circuits; transducers for industrial instrumentation: displacement (linear and angular), velocity, acceleration, force, torque, vibration, shock
• Pressure (including low pressure), flow (differential pressure, variable area, electromagnetic, ultrasonic, turbine and open channel flow meters) temperature (thermocouple, RTD (3/4 wire), thermistor, pyrometer and semiconductor)
• Liquid level, pH, conductivity and viscosity measurement

Part-III-Instrumentation, electronics and control engineering: Unit 07

• Spectral methods of analysis, spectrophotometers, sampling systems, source detectors and applications; conductivity and Ph meters; chromatography; NMR and X-ray spectroscopy; GM and proportional counters; mass spectrometer

Part-III-Instrumentation, electronics and control engineering: Unit 08

• Amplitude and frequency modulation and demodulation; Shannon's sampling theorem; frequency and time division multiplexing; digital communication, PCM, DPC, amplitude, phase, frequency, pulse shift keying for digital modulation
• Optical sources and detectors: LED, laser, photodiode, light dependent resistor and their characteristics; basics of fiber optic sensing

Part-III-Instrumentation, electronics and control engineering: Unit 09

• Feedback principles, signal flow graphs, transient response, steady-state-errors, bode plot, phase and gain margins; Routh and Nyquist criteria, root loci, design of lead, lag and lead-lag compensators, state-space representation of systems
• Time-delay systems; mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic system components, Synchro-pair, servo and stepper motors; on-off, P, P-I, P-I-D, cascade, feed-forward, and ratio controllers
• State models and state equations, controllability and observability, pole assignment
• Programmable logic controllers, SCADA, distributed control system and Hart and foundation fieldbus

Part-III-Leather technology: Unit 01

• Hides and skins, histological characteristics structure of hides and skins defects, curing and preservation methods, animal by products, soaking, unhairing, liming, deliming, bating, pickling
• Depickling and degreasing-their objectives and principles involved
• Biochemistry of collagen and other substances, chemicals and auxiliaries used in pre-tanning operations, general pre tanning processes for manufacture of different types of heavy and light leathers
• Process control in pre tanning, eco-friendly pretanning operations, physical and chemical testing, standards and quality control measures in pre tanning
• By products of animal and tannery operations

Part-III-Leather technology: Unit 02

• Tanning materials-vegetable, mineral and organic, their classification chemistry and technology of tanning materials and methods, characterization manufacture and analysis of various tanning materials
• Theory and mechanism of vegetable, chrome, aluminium, zirconium, iron, titanium, aldehyde, oil and other organic tanning
• Various unit operations involved in tanning processes their objectives and principles, cleaner processing options, analysis and characterization of various types of leathers, physical and chemical testing
• Standards and quality control measures in tanning operations

Part-III-Leather technology: Unit 03

• Retanning, dyeing, fatliquoring and finishing operations, their objectives and principles, chemicals used for the above unit operations syntans, fatliquors, dyes, dye-auxiliaries, pigments, acrylic and protein binders, wax emulsion, fillers, topcoats, NC
• CAB lacquers and lacquer emulsions, feel modifiers, their nature and properties in finishing machinery and methods for post tanning and finishing operations, upgradation methods, chemical and physical properties required for various finished leathers
• Physical and chemical testing of finished leathers, tannery effluent treatment, effluent treatment plant, liquid and solid waste management

Part-III-Leather technology: Unit 04

• Various types of leathers-upper, sole, garment, leather goods, sports and specially leathers, their characteristics, leather supplement and synthetics design and manufacture of footwear, leather goods and garments
• Leather economics and industrial management, project feasibility reports, organization and management of leather sector, marketing and export of leather and products, machines for leather products manufacture, mechanics and operation
• IT applications for leather and product design, professional ethics and human values

Part-III-Material science and ceramic technology: Unit 01

• Crystal structure of materials, Miller indices of directions and planes, packing geometry in metallic, ionic and covalent solids, determination of crystal structures by X-ray diffraction, crystal growth techniques
• Imperfections in crystalline solids and their role in influencing various properties, strengthening mechanisms, diffusion, Fick’s laws and application of diffusion in sintering, doping of semiconductors and surface hardening of metals

Part-III-Material science and ceramic technology: Unit 02

• Solid solutions, solubility limit, phase rule, binary phase diagrams, lever rule, intermediate phases, intermetallic compounds, iron-iron carbide phase diagram, heat treatment of steels, cold, hot working of metals, recovery
• Recrystallization and grain growth-microstructure, properties and applications of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys
• Polymers: Classification, polymerization, structure, properties, processing and applications
• Composites: Properties, processing and applications of various composites
• Nanomaterials: Synthesis, properties and applications biomaterials, shape memory alloys

Part-III-Material science and ceramic technology: Unit 03

• Modulus of elasticity, yield strength, tensile strength, toughness, plastic deformation, viscoelasticity, hardness, impact strength, creep, fatigue, ductile, and brittle fracture
• Thermal properties: Heat capacity, thermal conductivity, thermal expansion of materials
• Electronic properties: Concept of energy band diagram for materials, conductors, semiconductors and insulators, electrical conductivity, effect of temperature on conductivity, intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors
• Dielectric properties and applications, magnetic properties: Origin of magnetism, paramagnetism, diamagnetism, antiferro magnetism, ferromagnetism, ferrimagnetism, domain theory of ferromagnetism, hysteresis, hard and soft magnetic materials, applications

Part-III-Material science and ceramic technology: Unit 04

• Occurrence, properties and uses of clays, feldspar, quartz, sillimanite, bauxite, limestone, dolomite, magnesite, rutile, zircon
• Synthesis, properties and applications of calcined alumina, mullite, silicon carbide, boron carbide, tungsten carbide, silicon nitride, boron, nitrate, silicides, siaion, cermet, carbon compounds

Part-III-Material science and ceramic technology: Unit 05

• Body formulation and preparation of tiles, sanitary ware, tableware, insulators, stoneware products
• Glaze raw materials, fritting process, glaze application methods, causes and remedies for glaze defects
• Formation and structure of glass, glass batch preparation and melting annealing, special glasses
• Different types of refractories, important refractory properties and applications
• Coated abrasives preparation, types of bonds in bonded abrasives, different types of grinding wheels and grinding process

Part-III-Material science and ceramic technology: Unit 06

• Preparation and properties of glass fibers, alumina fibers, carbonaceous fibers, boron fibers
• Composites with different matrices and their properties
• Basic principle and fabrication of ceramic capacitors, ferroelectric ceramics, magnetic ceramics, varistors and fuel cells
• Special coatings by PVD, CVD, plasma spray, dip coating, electro coatings
• Calcium phosphate based and non calcium phosphate based bio-ceramic materials and their applications

Part-III-Pharmaceutical technology: Unit 01

• Biochemistry: Cell, enzymes, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, proteins and lipids
• Microbiology: Introduction to microbiology, microscopy and staining techniques, sterilization and disinfection, microbial assay

Part-III-Pharmaceutical technology: Unit 02

• Fermentation methods and fermenter design, biopharmaceuticals, types of immunity- humoral immunity, cellular immunity, structure of immunoglobulins, hypersensitivity reactions, immune stimulation and immune suppressions
• General method of preparation of bacterial vaccines and viral vaccines

Part-III-Pharmaceutical technology: Unit 03

• Introduction to dosage forms-tablets, parenterals, suspensions, emulsions, suppositories, semisolids, capsules, liquids, stability of formulated products and novel drug delivery systems
• Biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics-bioavailability and bioequivalence studies
• Pharmaceutical engineering-fluid flow, heat transfer, evaporation, distillation, drying, size reduction and size separation, filtration and centrifugation

Part-III-Pharmaceutical technology: Unit 04

• Theory, practice, working and pharmaceutical applications of the following analytical techniques: UV visible spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy and other important absorption and emission spectroscopic techniques
• Mass spectrometric technique
• Conventional chromatographic techniques, gas chromatography, high performance thin layer and liquid chromatographic techniques and recent advances in chromatography

Part-III-Pharmaceutical technology: Unit 05

• Classification, mechanism of action, uses, structure activity relationship of cardiovascular, anti-diabetic, analgesics, CNS drugs and anti-hyperlipidemic drugs
• Introduction to drug design, various approaches used in drug design, physicochemical parameters used in quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR), pharmacophore modeling and docking techniques

Part-III-Physics: Unit 01

• Vectors, equilibrium, moment of a force, Newton’s laws of motion, gravitation, work, energy, power, impulse and momentum, collisions, recoil
• Thermometry of thermal expansion, calorimetry and specific heats, transfer for heat thermal process of matter, law and processes of thermodynamics, applications
• Travelling waves, oscillations, spring, simple pendulum, forced oscillations, resonance, sound waves, acoustic phenomena and its applications, Doppler effect

Part-III-Physics: Unit 02

• Light and properties of matter, the nature and propagation of light, reflection of refraction at plane surfaces, interference, diffraction, polarization
• Elasticity, stress-strain diagram, hydrostatics, pressure in a fluid, pumps, Archimedes principle, surface tension, contact angle, capillarity, hydrodynamics, Bernoulli’s equation, applications and viscosity, Poiseuille’s law, Stokes law, Reynolds number

Part-III-Physics: Unit 03

• Electricity and magnetism, Coulomb’s law, Gauss’s law, applications, electrostatic potential capacitors, dielectrics, current, resistance, EMF, Kirchoff’s law, thermoelectric effect applications
• Magnetism, magnetic effects of current, motion of charge particles in magnetic field cyclotron, magnetic forces on current carrying conductor, Hall effect, electromagnetic induction, Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law, Eddy current, inductance
• Mutual and self inductance, magnetic properties of matters, diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, domains hysteresis, alternating current, circuits containing resistance, inductance or capacitance transformer

Part-III-Physics: Unit 04

• Emission and absorption of light, thermionic emission, photoelectric effect, atomic spectra, atom models, molecular spectra, dual nature of matter and radiation, nuclear structure, properties, natural radioactivity, nuclear stability
• Nuclear reactions-fission, fusion, fundamental particles, high energy physics

Part-III-Physics: Unit 05

• Structure and bonding in solids, properties of solids, semiconductors intrinsic, extrinsic, PN junction, diode characteristics, Zener diode, LED, laser diode, photodiode, transistor, action and characteristics, amplifier, oscillator, basic logic gates

Part-III-Physics: Unit 06

• Electron theory of solids, classical free electron theory, density of states, electron in a periodic potential, origin of energy band gap, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity Wiedemann Franz law

Part-III-Physics: Unit 07

• Dielectric and magnetic materials, different types of polarization, internal field Clausius-Mossotti equation, dielectric breakdown, applications of dielectric materials, different types of magnetic materials, domain theory of ferromagnetism, hysteresis
• Hard and soft magnetic materials-applications of magnetic materials

Part-III-Physics: Unit 08

• Superconducting materials, general properties of superconducting materials, Meissner effect, types of superconductors, HI TC2 superconductors-applications

Part-III-Physics: Unit 09

• Preparation, properties, applications, carbon nanotubes

Part-III-Printing technology: Unit 01

• Principles of graphic design, designing for print media, package design, imaging technology, colour reproduction, digital prepress, image carrier preparation for different printing process, quality control in prepress, electronic publishing

Part-III-Printing technology: Unit 02

• Principles of print process, principle and press configurations for commercial, newspaper, package, digital prepress and press consumables, quality control in press

Part-III-Printing technology: Unit 03

• Finishing operations for different jobs, mailroom operations, print finishing machines, print finishing consumables, converting operation for packaging, surface finishing operation, quality in post press operation

Part-III-Printing technology: Unit 04

• Manufacturing of printing and packaging substrates, properties and testing, printing inks for major printing processes, manufacturing properties and testing, quality control aspects

Part-III-Printing technology: Unit 05

• Print operation management, cost estimation for various printing jobs, design management, financial, quality and maintenance, management for printing

Part-III-Production and industrial engineering: Unit 01

• Mechanisms, friction, gearing and cams, balancing, vibration, fundamentals of design, design of basic machine elements, design of mechanical drives, design of automotive components, recent advances

Part-III-Production and industrial engineering: Unit 02

• Casting processes, welding processes, special casting processes, testing of castings; weldments, fundamentals of metal forming,forging and rolling, extrusion and drawing processes, sheet metal forming processes, recent advances, mechanisms, friction
• Gearing and cams, balancing, vibration, fundamentals of design, design of basic machine elements, design of mechanical drives, design of automotive components, recent Advances

Part-III-Production and industrial engineering: Unit 03

• Mechanics of metal cutting, tool material, tool wear and tool life, gear manufacture, general concepts of measurements, linear and angular measurements, measurement of surface finish measuring machines, metrology of screw thread; gears
• Computer aided inspection and laser metrology, strength and rigidity of machine tool structures, sideways, spindles and spindle supports, machine tool dynamic

Part-III-Production and industrial engineering: Unit 04

• Introduction and constitution of alloys and phase diagrams, heat treatment, ferrous and non ferrous metals, mechanical properties and testing, welding and foundry metallurgy, manufacturing processes for plastic
• Mechanical, chemical and electrochemical energy based processes, electrical energy based waste processes, thermal energy process, polymer matrix composites, metal matrix composites, ceramics matrix composites, advances in polymers; composites

Part-III-Production and industrial engineering: Unit 05

• Product design concepts, recent advances, process planning, estimating, costing and elements of cost, analysis of overhead expenses, estimation of costs for forging, casting and welding, estimation of machining time
• Purpose types and functions of jigs and fixtures, jigs, fixtures, press working terminologies and elements of dies and strip layout, design and development of dies

Part-III-Production and industrial engineering: Unit 06

• Computer aided design, computer graphics, geometric modelling, rapid prototyping, concept; programming of CNC machines, robotics-anatomy and specifications, automated production lines, GT and FMS

Part-III-Production and industrial engineering: Unit 07

• Linear programming, transportation, assignment CPM/ PERT, inventory models, decision analysis, game theory, waiting line models

Part-III-Production and industrial engineering: Unit 08

• Concept of productivity, method study and work measurement, ergonomics, forecasting, aggregate planning, capacity management, MRP, production activity control, estimation and costing, costing methods

Part-III-Production and industrial engineering: Unit 09

• Quality concepts, total quality management and six sigma concepts, statistical process control, process capability analysis, acceptance sampling, reliability concepts, failure data modeling, reliability prediction and modeling, maintenance concept
• Maintenance models, total productive maintenance

Part-III-Social sciences: Unit 01

• Settlement geography-rank-size relationship, urban environment-physical and social, regional delimitation, central place theory
• Urbanization in India and Tamilnadu, relationship, concept and types of region, regional development planning in India, globalization and economics reforms and competitiveness

Part-III-Social sciences: Unit 02

• Social institution, society, community, social roles, norms, status, values, social structure in India, social change and its relevance to economic development
• Urbanization as a way of life, social problems of developed and developing countries, impact of urbanization on society and rural development, impact of IT industry on society and development

Part-III-Social sciences: Unit 03

• Agglomeration economics, internal, external and urbanization economics, economic base of cities, meaning, types of economic base and methods of identifying economic base
• Multiplier concept and approaches of development, Indian national economy, five year plans, environmental economics, economic geography of India, land economics and industrialization policy, SEZs, IT, ITES industries

Part-III-Social sciences: Unit 04

• Role of social worker and NGOs in development, community, rural, social, and national level; public participation in developmental framework- city, regional, and national level, awareness programme on policies
• Counseling-rational emotive therapy, behavior modification therapy, family counseling, group work- treatment group, task group, community work-rural and urban community developments/ microcredit/ microfinance/ SHGs

Part-III-Textile technology: Unit 01

• Cotton varieties and their properties; silk, pre and post cocoon operations; varieties of silk and their properties; varieties of wool and their properties; properties of other natural fibres
• Production and properties of viscose rayon and other regenerated fibres
• Requirements of fibre forming polymers; structural principles of polymeric fibres; fluid flow during spinning; technology of melt, wet, dry, dry jet wet, liquid crystal and gel spinning of polymeric fibres
• Production, properties and applications of PET polyester, nylon-6, nylon-66, polyacrylonitrile and polypropylene
• Spin finishes, drawing, heat setting, crimping and texturisation, tow to top converters and tow to staple converters
• Structural investigation of fibres, study of moisture absorption, tensile behaviour, torsional rigidity and flexural rigidity, and optical, frictional, electrical and thermal properties of fibres

Part-III-Textile technology: Unit 02

• Yarn numbering systems-direct, indirect and conversions
• Description and working of short staple spinning machinery, blow-room machinery, card, comber preparatory machines, comber, draw-frame, speed-frame, ring-frame, calculation of process, parameters and process efficiencies, production calculations
• Methods of mixing and blending; two-folding of yarns; two for one twist principle; man-made fibre processing
• Principle and details of yarn formation in condensed yarn spinning, rotor spinning, friction spinning, air-jet spinning and other new spinning systems; structure of yarns produced from different spinning systems, control of waste, productivity and quality

Part-III-Textile technology: Unit 03

• Fundamental concepts in winding, modern automatic winders, yarn clearing, winding synthetic and blended yarns and sewing threads; weft winding; creels used in warping machines; beam and sectional warping machines; sizing materials and recipes
• Size preparation and application; control systems used in sizing machine; sizing filament yarns; combined dyeing and sizing; energy conservation in sizing; process control in weaving preparation; preparation of warp beam for weaving
• Yarns quality requirements and preparations for high speed weaving machines
• Principles and limitations of various shedding, picking mechanisms; power required for picking, timing different mechanisms, automation and modern developments in weaving machine, cloth formation, loom accessories, process control in weaving
• Cloth geometry; cover factor; concepts in fundamental and advanced woven fabric designs
• Quality and preparation of yarn required for knitting; basic weft knitted structures and their production; needle control in weft knitting machines; factors affecting the formation of loop; effect of loop length and shape on fabric properties
• Process control in knitting; warp knitting fundamentals
• Web forming techniques for dry method of web preparation; production of bonded fabrics by mechanical, chemical and thermal methods; productions of spun bonded and melt blown fabrics; end uses of bonded fabrics

Part-III-Textile technology: Unit 04

• Chemical structure and chemical properties of natural and man-made fibres; singeing; desizing; scouring; bio preparatory operations; mercerization; bleaching; heat setting; processing machines
• Adsorption isotherms; dye-fibre interaction; properties and application of direct, azoic, vat, sulphur, reactive, acid, mordant, metal-complex, disperse and basic dyes; dyeing of blends, garment dyeing, assessment of colour fastness
• Fundamentals of colour measurement; whiteness and yellowness indices; colour matching; spectrophotometers
• Methods and styles of printing; printing machines; printing paste, printing with direct, reactive, acid and disperse dyes and; pigments
• Calendering; crease proofing; anti-shrinking; softening; felting and non-felting of wool; bio-polishing; assessment of finishes; assessment of eco-friendliness of textiles; finishing of knits; garment washing

Part-III-Textile technology: Unit 05

• Textile quality parameters; online and offline testing methods
• Measurement of length and length uniformity, fineness, strength, maturity, trash content, moisture content of fibres using conventional and modern testing methods; advanced fibre information systems; high volume testing
• Measurement of lap, sliver and roving irregularity
• Assessment of count, twist, hairiness, strength and extension, evenness, imperfection, friction, crimp rigidity, work of rupture, fatigue, abrasion resistance of yarn, classification of yarn faults
• Determination of fabric construction parameters, assessment of tensile, bursting and tear strengths, low-stress mechanical properties, permeability, insulation properties, durability, comfort and handle properties of fabrics
• Grading of fabrics based on defects
• Sampling, statistical significance tests, control charts