ME101 ENGINEERING DRAWING & GRAPHICS

Introduction & Basics: Introduction to graphic language, Essential drawing instruments and their
correct use, Line types and lettering, Basic drafting techniques and standards, Curves used in
engineering.

Orthographic Projections: Orthographic multiview projection of some simple and composite

solids.

Sections: Sectioning and projection of auxiliary views.

Surface Development: Surface development of simple solids such as cylinder, cone, prism and
pyramid, surface development of intersecting solids.

Isometric Projections: Isometric projection/drawings of piping.

Freehand/Sketching: Sketching and basic rules of sketching.

Detail, assembly and Working Drawings: Preparing detail, assembly and working drawings of
various machine and engine parts such as, keys, cotters, foundation bolts, screws, pulleys,
couplings, bearings riveted joints and nut and bolts, Fundamentals of geometric dimensioning and
tolerancing.

Computer Aided Drawing: Computer aided drafting (CAD). Auto CAD Software

ME 141 WORKSHOP TECHNOLOGY

Precautions and safety rules, Introduction to machine tools, classification and their operations,
Lathe, Shaper, Milling, Drilling press, basic and elementary tools used in machine Shop, Bench
fitting, measuring tools, assembly tools, layout tools, filing, sawing, tap & die practice

Wood working: Its kinds and uses, seasoning of wood and tools for wood working.

Forging: Forging tools, types of forging, heat treatment furnaces.

Foundry: Molding and its types, molding tools, molding sands, melting furnaces, types of casting
defects & its remedies.

Welding: Types of welding, welding joints, defects in welding and its remedies.

MTH 102 APPLIED CALCULUS

Introduction to functions: Mathematical and physical meaning, graphs and types of function.

Introduction to limits: Theorems of limits and their applications to functions. Right hand and left
hand limits, Continuous and discontinuous functions and their applications.

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Derivatives: Introduction to derivatives, Geometrical and physical meaning of derivatives, Partial
derivatives and their geometric significance, Application problems (rate of change, marginal
analysis).

Higher Derivatives: Leibnitz theorem, Rolle’s theorem,Mean value theorem, Taylors and
Maclaurins series.

Evaluation of limits using L’ Hospital’s rule: Indeterminate forms (0/0), (∞/∞), (ox∞), (∞-∞), 1∞,
∞0, 00.

Application of Derivatives: Asymptotes, curvature and radius of curvature, differentials with

application.

Application of partial Derivatives: Euler’s theorem, total differentials; maxima and minima of
function of two variables.

Integral Calculus: Methods of integration by substitution and by parts, Integration of rational and
irrational algebraic functions, Definite integrals, improper integrals, Gamma and Beta functions;
reduction formulae.

Application of Integral Calculus: Cost function from marginal cost, rocket flights; area under
curve.

Vector Calculus: Vector differentiation and vector integration with their physical interpretation
and applications, operator, gradient, divergence and curl with their application.

EI 102 ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGY

Introduction: Basic two terminal circuit elements, Linear time-invariant resistor, Ohm’s law,
capacitor, inductor, energy concepts in two terminal elements, energy dissipated in a resistor,
energy stored in a capacitor and inductor, Ideal independent voltage and current sources, ideal
transformer, dependent and current sources.

Kirchoff’s Laws: Definitions of Branch, Loop, Node.Statements of Kirchoff’s voltage and current
laws.Linearly independent (KCL and KVL) equations.Elementary network topology, Nodal and
Loop analysis by systematic application of KVL and KCL.Series and parallel connections of two
terminal circuit elements.

Elementary Transient Analysis: Differential and integral forms of circuit equations, initial voltage
on a capacitor, initial current in an inductor, first- order circuits, solution of single first order
differential equations, Homogeneous, particular and total solutions, exponential responses, second-
order circuits.
Exponential Excitation and Transformed Network: Representation of excitations by exponential
functions, single element responses, forced response with exponential excitation, introduction to the
transformed network, driving point impedance and admittance.

Network Theorems: Linear and non-linear networks, Superposition theorem, Reciprocity theorem,
Maximum power transfer theorem, Equivalent networks, Thevenin’s theorem, Thevenin’s
equivalent network, Norton’s theorem, Norton’s equivalent networks, T-equivalent networks.
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Transfer Function: Transfer function on the basis of six sets of parameters, Crammer’s rule
applied to circuits.

ME 131 ENGINEERING MECHANICS

Force System: Introduction to the subject, fundamental concepts of statics, representation & types
of vectors, principle of transmissibility, graphical & analytical methods of vector operation,
rectangular and non-rectangular components, cartesian vectors, \position vector.

Equilibrium of Particle: Free body diagram of particle in equilibrium, equilibrium of particle for
2D and 3D systems.

Force System Resultants: Moment of a force (scalar and vector formulation), moment of force
about a specified axis, moment of a couple, resultant of a force and couple systems.

Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies: Free body diagram of rigid bodies in equilibrium, equilibrium of
rigid bodies for 2D and 3D systems.

Frames & Cables: Free body diagram for frames & machines, cables and beams subjected to
various loads.

Friction: Characteristics of dry friction, laws of friction, angle of friction, angle of repose, static
and dynamic friction, friction on horizontal and inclined planes, wedges.

Centre of Gravity & Centroid: Centre of gravity & centre of mass for system of particles, centre
of gravity, centre of mass & centroid of the rigid bodies.

Kinematics of Particle: Introduction, rectilinear motion, velocity and acceleration, equations of

motion and the graphs of motion for constant and variable acceleration, relative motion, curvilinear
motion, projectile motion, tangential and normal components of acceleration, cylindrical
components.

Kinetics of Particle: Newton’s laws of Motion. D’Alembert’s principle, equation of motion for
rectangular, normal & tangential & cylindrical coordinates. work, power, energy, work of force,
work-energy equation, law of conservation of energy, efficiency of machine, impulse and
momentum, impulse and impulsive force, linear momentum and its conservation, impact &
coefficient of restitution, angular momentum and its conservation.

Kinematics of Rigid body: Rigid body motion about fixed axes, relative motion analysis,

Kinetics of Rigid body: Planer kinetic equation of motion with regard to translation & rotation
about a fixed axes, general planer motion, kinetic energy of rotation, work of force & couple,
principle of work & energy, conservation of energy, principle of impulse & momentum,
conservation of momentum.

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ES 281 BASIC ELECTRONICS
Introduction to electronics: pn junction diode, forward and reverse characteristics of a diode,
ideal diode, practical diode, equivalent circuit of a diode, current equation of a diode, diode as a
switch.
Types of diodes: Schottky diode, zener diode, tunnel diode, LED, laser diode.

Applications of diode: Half-and full-wave rectifiers, clipper and clamper circuits, voltage
multipliers.

Bipolar junction transistor: Operation, npnand pnp transistors, unbiased transistors, DC

biasing of a transistor, static characteristics, DC circuit analysis, load line, operating point and
bias stabilization, Transistor as an amplifier.
Transistor biasing configurations: Common emitter, common base, common collector. Field-
effect transistor.

FET biasing techniques: Common drain, common source and common gate, fixed bias and self
bias configurations, voltage divider biasing, universal JFET bias curve, darlington pair.

Lab Outline: The emphasis is first on understanding the characteristics of basic circuits that use
resistors, capacitors, diode, bipolar junction transistors and field-effect transistors. The students
then use this understanding to design and construct more complex circuits such as rectifiers,
amplifiers and power supplies.

MTH 113 LINEAR ALGEBRA DIFFRENTIAL EQUATIONS AND SOLID GEOMETRY

Introductions to matrices and elementary row operations: Brief introduction of matrices,

types of matrices, Introduction to elementary row operations, Echelon and reduced echelon
forms, Rank of a matrix, Inverse of a matrix using elementary row operations.

System of linear equations: System of non-homogeneous and homogeneous linear equations,

Gaussian elimination method, Gauss Jordan method, Consistence criterion for solution of
homogeneous and non-homogeneous system of linear equations, Application of system of linear
equations.

Determinants: Introduction to determinants, Properties of determinants of order n, Rank of a

matrix by using determinants.

Differential equations of first order: Ordinary differential equations and their classification,
formation of differential equations, solution of differential equations, initial and boundary
conditions, Methods of solution of differential equation of first order and first degree.
Geometrical and physical applications of first order differential equations.

Higher order linear differential equations: Homogeneous and non-homogeneous linear

equations of order n with constants coefficients, Cauchy Euler equation, Method of variation of
parameters Applications of higher order linear differential equation.
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Analytic geometry of 3-dimensions: Introduction; Coordinates in R3.

Line: Coordination of a point dividing a line segment in a given ratio. Straight line, in R 3.
Vector form of a straight line, parametric equations of a straight line, equation of a straight line
in symmetric form, direction ratios and direction cosines, angle between two straight lines;
distance of a point from a line.

Plane: Equation of a plane, angle between two planes, intersection of two planes, a plane and a
straight line; skew lines. Cylindrical and spherical coordinates.

Sphere: General equation of sphere. Latitude and longitude directions; direction of Qibla.

Multiple Integrals: Evaluation of double and triple integrals in Cartesian and polar coordinates.

ME 121 ENGINEERING MATERIALS

Introduction: Crystalline structure of metals, allotropy, crystallographic planes, slip and slip
system, dislocation and twining.

Production of Iron and Steel and their alloy: Production of iron wrought iron, cast iron,
production of steel and its classification, production of various steel section, alloying elements
and their effect on the properties of alloy steel. Ferrite, Austenite, Cementite, Pearlite,
Martensite, Banite, etc. phase diagram & iron carbon phase diagram.

Non-ferrous and their alloy: Refining of copper, aluminum & zinc, aluminum alloys, zinc
alloys, copper alloys brass & bronze, metals & alloys for special applications.

Heat treatment: Heat treatment, critical temperature, transformation on heating/cooling,

annealing, normalizing, tempering, quenching, austempering, hardening.

Non-metallic Materials: Polymer, molecular structure, bonding, plastic & rubber, classification
of polymer, compounding forming operation etc., ceramic bonding, properties, ceramic material,
crystalline and amorphous glass etc, refractory materials and their types, composite materials and
their classifications, glass-fibre reinforced plastics, ceramic-metal composites (Cermets).

ME 201 STRENGTH OF MATERIALS-I

Stress, Strain and Axial Loading: Stress and strain, elastic stress and strain behavior of
materials, Hooke’s law, lateral strain and Poisson’s ratio, elastic constants and their relationship,
statically determinate and indeterminate problems in tension and compression, thermal stresses,
strain energy, stresses due to impact loading, stresses on oblique sections, factor of safety,
mechanical properties of materials, stress concentration.

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Biaxial Stresses: Analysis of biaxial stress, Mohr’s circle for plane stress, plane strain, Mohr’s
circle for plane strain, stresses in thin-walled cylinder and spherical shell under internal pressure,
principal stresses and volumetric strain.

Torsion: Torsion of solid and hallow circular shafts, shear stresses and twist in solid and hollow
circular shafts, strain energy in torsion and shear.

Stresses in Beams: Shear force and bending moment diagrams for simply supported and
cantilever beams, relationship between loading shear force and bending moment, simple bending
theory of beams, bending and shear stresses in beams.

Centroids and Moments of Inertia: Centroids of irregular sections, moment of inertia of an

area, product of inertia for an area, moment of inertia for composite sections, moment of inertia
with respect to inclined axis.

Deflection of Beams: Differential equation of deflection curve, deflection of simply supported

and cantilever beams, deflection by integration of bending moment equation, deflection by
integration of shear force and load equations.

ME 211 MECHANICS OF MACHINES-I

Introduction: Types of motion, mechanism and inversions, quick return mechanism, universal
joint, steering wheel mechanism.

Linkages: Velocity and acceleration analysis, instantaneous centre method, relative velocity
method, analytical method of velocity and acceleration of slider crank mechanism, forces in
slider crank mechanism.

Brakes and dynamometers: Types and their working mechanism.

ME 251 FLUID MECHANICS

Introduction: Fluid properties, continuum hypothesis, no slip condition, fluid energy,

Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids.

Fluid Statics: Pressure, pressure measuring devices, hydrostatic stress, equation in differential
and integral form, hydrostatic force on submerged plane, inclined and curved surfaces, buoyancy
and flotation, stability of immersed and floating body.

Fluid Kinematics: Eulerian and Lagragian description, flow pattern and flow visualization,
types of flow lines, velocity gradient, vorticity and circulation, velocity potential and stream
function.

Fluid Dynamics: Reynolds transport theorem, continuity equation, momentum equation,

Bernoulli’s theorem and energy equation.

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Fluid Flow through Conduits: Reynolds experiment, laminar & turbulent flow in pipes, flow
losses in pipes, piping network and pump selection, fluid flow between two parallel plates,
kinetic energy and momentum correction factor.

Dimensional Analysis & Similitude: Dimensions and units, dimensional homogeneity,

dimensional analysis methods, model studies, similitude, dimensionless numbers.

ME 221 THERMODYNAMICS-I

Introduction to Thermodynamics: Application areas, thermodynamic systems, properties,

state, processes and cycles, pure substances, ideal gas and ideal gas equation of state, work and
heat, forms of work, energy and forms of energy, energy transfer by heat and work.

Laws of Thermodynamics: the first law of thermodynamics, cyclic processes and non cyclic
processes applied to closed and open systems, stored energy, internal energy, flow energy,
enthalpy, specific heats, energy analysis of different thermodynamic systems, law-I efficiencies,
energy reservoirs, heat engines, refrigerators and heat pumps, statements of the second law of
thermodynamics, perpetual motion machines, reversible and irreversible processes, Carnot
cycle, the Carnot theorems/principles, thermodynamic temperature scale, Carnot heat engine.

Entropy: Clausius inequality, entropy; increase of entropy principle, isentropic process, entropy
as a coordinate, Gibbs equation, entropy change of ideal gases, entropy balance: entropy change,
entropy transfer, entropy generation, closed and open systems entropy balance.

Exergy / availability: Reversible work and irreversibility, law-II efficiency, exergy balance:
exergy changes, exergy transfer, exergy generation, closed and open systems.

Gas power cycles: Air standard assumptions; Otto cycle, Diesel cycle, Dual cycle, Stirling and
Ericson cycles, Brayton cycle.

Properties of steam and vapor power cycle: Processes in formation of steam, property
diagrams; property tables, Rankine cycle.

MTH 213 COMPLEX VARIABLES AND LAPLACE TRANSFORMS

Laplace transforms: Laplace and inverse Laplace transforms of elementary functions and their
properties, applications of Laplace transformation.

ME 481 INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Introduction: Introduction to project and project management, need for project management,
understanding the key terms related to project management.

Project initiation phase: Project management objectives, project organization, work breakdown
structure (WBS) organization breakdown structure (OBS) .

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Project planning and scheduling phase: Project planning techniques. Gantt/bar chart, network
scheduling techniques, network fundamentals, graphical evaluation and review technique
(GERT), precedence diagramming method (PDM), critical path method (CPM), the program
evaluation and review technique (PERT), estimation techniques, estimating time and cost,
resource management, optimizing the plan and compressing project duration, resource leveling.

Project Execution: Project executing phase, monitoring and controlling phase, closing phase,
learning phase, application of computer software’s for project management.

ME 241 THERMODYNAMICS-II

Fuels & combustion: Theoretical & actual combustion processes, enthalpy of formation &
enthalpy of combustion, first law analysis of reacting systems, adiabatic flame temperature,
entropy change of reacting systems.

Steam generators: Classification & working of different types of steam generators,

construction, mountings and accessories, methods to calculate the performance of steam
generators, heat balance sheets, draught and its classification, introduction to furnaces,
classification according to type of fuel used, combustion process in the furnace.

Nozzles: General flow analysis (one-dimensional) through nozzles, effect of varying area in
subsonic and supersonic flow, isentropic flow with varying area, maximum flow rate through
nozzle, critical pressure ratio, effect of back pressure on mass flow rate, under expansion and
overexpansion nozzles, nozzle efficiency, coefficients for nozzle, steam nozzle analysis
(supersaturated flow), stagnation condition and effects of friction.

Steam turbines: Classification of steam turbines, flow of steam, over blade, velocity diagrams,
stage efficiency, diagram efficiency overall efficiency and reheat factor, compounding of steam
turbine for velocity, pressure and pressure-velocity losses in the steam turbines, governing and
control.

Gas turbines: Gas turbine cycles, Brayton cycle (ideal, actual, and modified), developments in
gas turbines, applications, combustion process.

Air compressors: Classification of air compressors, working of reciprocating air compressors,

compression processes, isothermal efficiency, methods of increasing isothermal efficiency,
effects of cylinder clearance, volumetric efficiency, multistage compression and inter coolers,
conditions for maximum efficiency, steady-flow energy analysis, introduction to rotary
compressors, performance of rotary compressors.

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ME 261 MECHANICS OF MACHINES-II

Fly wheel and turning moment diagram: Turning moment diagram of single and multi
cylinder I.C engine, energy stored by fly wheel.

Cams and follower: Types, displacement diagram, types of follower motion, drawing of cam
profile, velocity and acceleration of follower.

Balancing: Balancing of rotating masses in single and different planes, balancing of

reciprocating masses, balancing of single cylinder and multi cylinder in-line engines, balancing
of V-Engines.

CS-225 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER AND C++ PROGRAMMING

Introduction: Fundamentals of Hardware, Object-Oriented Fundamentals, Programming

Paradigms, Conquering Complexity

C++ Basics: Built-in Types, Arrays and Pointers, Comments, Keywords, I/O Streams, Built-in
Operators and Control Constructs, Dynamic Free Store Operators.

C++ Functions: Definition and Prototypes, Inline Functions, Structures and References.

Classes and Objects: Encapsulation, Data Members, Member Functions, Private and Public
Constructors and Destructors, Default Arguments, Storage Allocation and Deallocation, Pointers,
Copy Constructors

Overloading: Overloading Functions, Overloading Operators, Unary and Binary Operators

Initialization vs. Assignment, Stream Input and Output

Polymorphic Programming: Inheritance, Public Inheritance and Subtyping, Base and Derived
Classes, Constructors and Destructors, Base Class Initialization, Using Protected keyword,
Virtual Functions, Base Class Pointers and References

Dynamic Binding: Abstract Base Classes, Pure Virtual Functions, Virtual Destructors.

Code Reuse in C++: Containment, Objects as Data Members, Member Initialization, Private
Inheritance , Base and Derived Relationship, Access Declarations.

Designing with C++: Templates, Template Functions, Template Classes

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 ME 231 STRENGTH OF MATERIALS-II

Theory of Columns: Failure of column, Euler’s theory of buckling, equivalent length of a

column, end conditions of a column, slenderness ratio, limitations of Euler’s column theory,
eccentric loading of long columns, empirical design formulae for columns.

Theories of Failure: Theories of failure and their graphical representations.

Triaxial Stress Analysis: Principal triaxial stresses and strains, volumetric strain, strain energy
and resilience of triaxial stress.

Thick-Walled Cylinders: Lame’s theory, radial and hoop stresses in thick-walled cylinders
under internal pressure, special cases.

Bending in Beams: Bending of curved beams with small initial curvature, bending of curved
beams with large initial curvature, crane hooks.

Plastic Bending of Beams: Plastic behaviour of materials, plastic bending of symmetrical

sections, shape factors of various geometric shapes, residual stresses in elasto-plastic and fully
plastic conditions.

Unsymmetrical Bending: Introduction to unsymmetrical bending, stress at a point due to

unsymmetrical bending, direction of principal and neutral axis.

Creep and Fatigue: Creep and its mechanism of failure, various parameter methods to calculate
time required to cause rupture by creep, fatigue behaviour of materials, mechanism of fatigue
failure, fatigue loads and stresses, stress concentration and notches, S-N curves.

Energy Methods: Castigliano’s theorem, Max well theorem, Rayleigh Ritz method.

ME 411 I.C ENGINES (AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING)

e Engine design features: Petrol engine, diesel engine, gas engine, two stroke and four stroke
engines, single and multi-cylinder engines, cylinder blocks, engine head, engine crankshafts,
firing order, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles.

Engine construction: Engine size, cylinder head gasket, combustion chamber, engine pistons,
piston construction, piston material, piston rings and pins, engine bearings and valves, exhaust
manifold, mufflers.

Engine Ignition system: Carburetor and EFI system, diesel fuel pump, atomizer and spark plug,
pre-ignition, knocking and detonation.

Engine Electrical Systems: Battery, generator, self starter, ignition coil and distributer, vehicle
lighting system.

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Engine cooling systems: Cooling system pump, radiator and air fan.

Suspension and Steering: Front suspension and rear suspension, torsion bar, shock absorber,
steering system.

Brakes: Hydraulic brakes, pneumatic brakes, ABS brakes.

MTH 311 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

Mathematical techniques used to model engineering systems, development of mathematical

models and the application of the computer to solve engineering problems using the
computational techniques: Taylor Series approximation, numerical differentiation, root-finding
using bracketing and open methods, linear and polynomial curve fitting, solution methods for
matrix equations, numerical integration, and the solution of differential equations. Laboratory
sessions for the application of numerical analysis to physical systems involving statics,
dynamics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, electrical circuits, and vibratory systems using
MATLAB.

ME 451 ENERGY TECHNOLOGY

Introduction: Energy types and classification, energy sources, energy conversion systems,
energy consumption, energy, economy and environment.

Steam Power Plant: Fossil fuels; composition and ranking; analysis, properties; basic power
cycle components and analyses, superheating and reheating of steam, regeneration, feed water
heaters, optimum degree of regeneration, supercritical pressure cycle, typical layout of steam
power plant, combustion equipments and firing methods for different fuels, clean-coal
technologies, fluidized bed combustion, and coal gasification, environmental impact
consideration, CO2 sequestration.

Cogeneration: Basic concepts of cogeneration, benefits, balance of energy demand, types of

prime movers, micro-cogeneration units.

Gas Turbine Power Plant: Basic power cycle components and analyses, regeneration and
modifications, site selection criterion, combustion equipment and firing methods, environmental
impact consideration.

Combined Cycle Power Plant: Basic concepts and benefits, binary vapor cycles, combined gas-
steam power plant, integrated gasification combined cycle power plant, environmental aspects.

Diesel Engine Power Plant: Types of diesel engine power plants, general layout, site selection
criterion, and performance characteristics, environmental impact consideration.

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Nuclear Power Plant: Nuclear fuels: fundamentals and nuclear reaction types, components of
nuclear power plant, parts of a nuclear reactor, types of reactors, site selection criterion, safety
operation of power plant, environmental pollution and its control.

Power Plant Economics and Management: Effects of variable load, terms and definitions, load
curves, energy conservation and management, applications of Pinch technology, energy storage,
and economics of thermal power plants.

Solar Energy: Solar radiation terms and definitions, solar energy collectors, solar thermal
conversion systems, storage and applications; economics and environmental aspects.

Wind Energy: Basic principle, Site selection, components and classification of WECS,
windmills and wind turbines, performance of wind machines, storage and applications;
economics and environmental aspects.

Biomass Energy: Biomass energy sources, conversion technologies - direct combustion; biogas
generation, biogas plants: types, classification and design, biomass gasification, pyrolysis,
biofuels; bioenergy storage and applications, economics and environmental aspects.

Hydropower: Hydrology, essential elements, classification, site selection, advantages and

disadvantages; storage, economics and environmental aspects.

Ocean Energy: Ocean thermal energy conversion, energy from tides, components of tidal power
plant, energy from ocean waves, wave energy conversion devices, site selection, advantages and
limitations; ocean energy storage; economics and environmental aspects.

Geothermal Energy: Geothermal sources, hydrothermal resources, hot dry rock resources,
magma resources, prime movers of geothermal energy conversion, geothermal energy
applications; storage, economics and environmental aspects.

Emerging Energy Technologies: Basic physics, chemistry, and engineering of emerging

energy technologies, including fuel cells, thermo-electrics, photovoltaic, batteries, hydrogen
technologies.

ME 431 MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY-I

Metal casting: Sand casting, making of sand molds, sand-molding machines, pattern and core
making, shell-mold casting, plaster-mold casting, die casting, hot and cold chamber processes,
centrifugal casting, inspection, cleaning, finishing and heat treating of castings.

Metal Forming: Rolling, forging, extrusion, drawing and sheet metal forming.

Forming and Shaping of Plastics: Casting, blow molding, compression molding, transfer
molding, injection molding and extrusion.

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Joining Processes: Welding and classification of welding processes, oxyacetylene gas welding
(OAW), shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), designation system for arc welding electrode,
resistance spot welding (RSW), ultrasonic welding (USW), thermite welding (TW), laser beam
welding (LBW), electron beam welding (EBW), weldability and weld quality, weld design and
process selection, welding of plastics, brazing, soldering and adhesive bonding.

Abrasive machining: Abrasives, grinding wheel balancing and dressing, honing, super finishing
and lapping.

Workholding devices: Introduction, standard parts of a workholder, general design criteria for
workholders.

ME 331 MACHINE DESIGN AND CAD-I

Introduction: The design process, needs analysis, concept of contrivances or conceptualization,

basic system concepts, optimization, cost evaluation, characteristics of a designer,
standardization.

Springs – Helical and Leaf: Primary functions of springs, spring materials, design of helical
springs, surge and vibration, buckling of compression springs, spring design formulae and
general data, standard wire size, helical springs subjected to fatigue loading, stresses and
deflection in helical springs of non- circular wire construction of leaf spring, equalized stresses
in spring leaves (Nipping), standard sizes of automobile suspension springs.

Riveted Joints: Introduction, material for rivets, types of joints, design of riveted joint, modes of
failure, efficiency of joint, general considerations, structural joints, boiler joints.

Welded Joints: Introduction, types of joints, failure of fillet welds, static loading, strength of
fillet welded joints, eccentric loading, welds subjected to fatigue loading.

Machine Rods: Design of push rod, connecting rod and piston rod.

Cotter and knuckle joints: Types of cotter joints, design of: socket and spigot cotter joint,
sleeve and cotter joint, gib and cotter joint, method of failure of knuckle joint, design procedure
of knuckle joint.

Spur Gears: Introduction, design considerations of a gear drive, beam strength of gear teeth
(Lewis equation), tooth loads (dynamic, static and wear), causes of gear tooth failure, design
procedure for spur gears.

Helical Gears: Introduction, equivalent spur gear and virtual number of teeth, design equation
for helical gears, force analysis.

Bevel Gears: Introduction, formative or equivalent number of teeth for bevel gears, forces acting
on a bevel gears, design of a shaft for bevel gears.

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Power Screws: Introduction, torque and efficiency of power screw, stress analysis of power
screws, design of screw Jack, differential and compound screws.

CAD: Design and analysis of some selected mechanical systems using Ansys.

EE 425 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Introduction to environmental hazards, types of environmental pollutions, risk identification and

assessment, current trends of environmental management systems.

ME 341 INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL

Instrumentation: Introduction, characteristics of instruments, calibration and traceability, basic

elements of instrumentation, introduction to sensors / transducers, signal conditioning and
display / recorders.

Applied Instrumentations: Measurement systems used for displacement, velocity, acceleration,

vibration, temperature, force, pressure, torque, stress, strain, power, viscosity, liquid level,
thickness, fluid flow and light.

Control: Introduction, Laplace transform, types of loop system, feedback/close loop control,
elements of close loop control and transfer function of positive and negative feedback control,
industrial controllers, system response and its types, control system response.

ME 321 FLUID MACHINERY

Navier Stokes equations of motion: Navier-Stokes equation in Cartesian and polar co-
ordinates, limiting cases of Navier-Stoke equation, simple application of Navier–stoke.

Numerical Methods in fluid flow: Numerical methods in fluid flow, finite difference method,
numerical solutions of Navier-stoke equation in different cases, turbulence modeling,
computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Boundary layer theory: Introduction, boundary layer definitions and characteristics, laminar
boundary layer, turbulent boundary layer, total drag due to laminar and turbulent layers,
boundary layer separation and its control.

Hydraulic Turbines: Introduction, classification of hydraulic turbines, draft tube, specific

speed, performance characteristics of hydraulic turbines, governing of hydraulic turbines,
cavitations, selection of turbines.

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Pumps:

(i) Centrifugal pumps: Component parts of a centrifugal pump, work done by impeller
on liquid, losses and efficiencies of centrifugal pump, effect of variation of discharge
on the efficiency, specific speed, characteristics of centrifugal pumps, priming of a
centrifugal pump, selection of pumps.
(ii) (ii) Reciprocating pumps: Main components and working of reciprocating pump,
co-efficient of discharge and slip of reciprocating pump, effect of acceleration of
piston on velocity and pressure in the suction and delivery pipes.

Fluid Systems: Hydraulic press jack, hydraulic ram, hydraulic intensifier, hydraulic crane,
hydraulic accumulator, air lift pump, hydraulic coupling

MTH 317 STATISTICAL METHODS AND ESTIMATION

Introduction to statistics: Nature and importance of statistics, descriptive and inferential

statistics; population and samples.

Data organization: Frequency distribution and its graphical representation.

Descriptive measures: Measures of central tendency and dispersions.

Probability: Introduction to probability, counting techniques, additive and multiplicative rules,

conditional probability; Bayes’ theorem.

ME 311 AERODYNAMICS

Atmosphere: Introduction, aerodynamics and its evolution, atmosphere and its properties,
viscosity temperature models for atmosphere, atmosphere standards (ISA)

Incompressible and In-viscid flow: Introduction, Bernoulli’s equation, flow through venture
tubes and wind tunnels, Pitot static tube, pressure coefficient, Laplace equation, uniform flow,
source or sink flow, combination of uniform and source flow, doublet flow, vortex flow, lifting
and non-lifting flow over cylinder.

Flow over airfoils and wings: Introduction, aerodynamic forces, moments and coefficients,
aerodynamic center and center of pressure, airfoil nomenclature, airfoil characteristics, high lift
airfoil sections, wing geometry parameters, down wash and induced drag, delta wing and swept
wing.

Compressible flow: Introduction, speed of sound, Mach number, flow regimes based on Mach
number, stagnation properties, special forms of energy equation, isentropic flow in a variable
area stream tube, normal and oblique shock waves, measurement of air speed in compressible
fluid flow.

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Propulsion: Introduction, Froude’s momentum theory, turbojet, turbofan, turboprop, helicopter
rotor dynamics, energy analysis.

ME 301 HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

Introduction: Importance of subject, three modes of heat transfer, steady, unsteady state,
Fourier’s law of heat conduction, basic terminology, thermal conductivity, dimensions and
units.

Conduction of Heat Transfer: One dimensional heat conduction through plane wall, composite
wall, cylinder, sphere, effect of variable thermal conductivity, over all heat transfer coefficient,
critical radius of insulation, heat source problem of wall, cylinder, and sphere, fins.

Convection Heat Transfer: Convection heat transfer numbers, bulk temperature, heat transfer in
laminar and turbulent flow for various geometrical shapes, thermal laminar and turbulent
boundary layers.

Heat Exchanger: Types of heat exchanger, LMTD, NTU methods, selection and design of heat
exchangers.

Radiation Heat Transfer: Boltzmann’s law, properties of radiation, environmental radiation,

momentum, heat transfer analogy, Kirchoft’s law and shape factor.

Mass Transfer: Introduction, analogy between heat and mass transfer, mass diffusion, Ficks
law, simultaneous heat and mass transfer.

ME 421 MECHATRONICS

Introduction: Mechatronics and Mechatronic system components, Introduction to operational

amplifiers, Digital logic and logic gates.

Sensors: Classification/types of sensors, principles of sensors, contact sensors, non-contact

sensors, electromagnetic sensors, temperature sensors, touch sensors, force sensors,
semiconductor strain gage, advanced tactile sensors, vision sensors, proximity sensors, limit
switches, light sensors, positional and velocity sensors, optical encoders, sensors programming,

Actuators: Introduction, electrical actuators and their working principles, motors and types of
motors. D.C motors: types, operation and speed control. stepper motors: specification and types,
mechanical actuators, hydraulic and pneumatic drive systems, hydraulic pumps and hydraulic
valves, mechanical switches, solenoid and relays, servo system, closed and open loop servo
system, principle of operation of a servo system, definition, terms and components of servo
system.

Control system design: Transient and steady state response, controller design and three term
controller, introduction to microprocessors and microcontrollers, types of microcontrollers,

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microcontroller programming, introduction to programmable logic controllers and field
programmable gate arrays.

Interfacing: Introduction to interfacing circuitry, interfacing of sensors and actuators, program

control for interfacing, input and output ports, analog to digital conversion, sampling theory,
digital to analog conversion, sample and hold, multiplexer, interfacing of switches, computer
control system.

Software based applications in mechatronics.

ME 351 MACHINE DESIGN AND CAD-II

Shaft Design: Introduction, transmission shafts, shaft design on the strength basis, shaft design
on torsional rigidity basis, ASME code for shaft design, design of hollow shaft on strength basis,
design of hollow shaft on torsional rigidity basis, flexible shafts.

Keys and Couplings: Types of keys, design of square and flat keys, design of Kennedy keys,
splines, types of coupling, design procedure for muff, clamp, rigid flange and bushed pin flexible
couplings.

Design / Selection of Friction clutches: Introduction, principles of friction clutches, practical

design aspects, theory of centrifugal clutch.

Design / Selection of Brakes: Types of brakes, material of brake lining, design of brakes.

Design / Selection of V-belt and Rope drives: Introduction, types of belts, Strength of belt,
creep, design procedure, Construction of wire ropes, designation of wire ropes, stresses in wire
ropes, design procedure for a wire rope.

Design / Selection of Bearings: Sliding contact bearing, types of sliding contact bearings,
assumptions in hydrodynamic lubricated bearings, sliding contact bearing materials, lubricants,
terms used in hydrodynamic journal bearings, design procedure for journal bearing, design of
bearing caps and bolts, rolling contact bearing, construction and types, standard dimensions and
designation of ball bearings, static equivalent load, life of bearing, basic dynamic load rating,
dynamic equivalent load, dynamic load rating for rolling contact bearing under variable load,
reliability of a bearing, selection of radial ball bearings, lubrication of Ball and roller bearings.

Design of Flywheel: Introduction, energy stored in a flywheel, stresses in a flywheel rim,

stresses in flywheel arms, construction of flywheels.

CAD: Design and analysis of some selected mechanical systems using Ansys.

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ME 401 INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

Industry and Engineering: Introduction to industry, choice and selection for the location of
industry, general industrial setup/layout, types of production (job, batch and mass), production
control, and its functions (scheduling and loading), material handling and its various types and
their applications, inspection and quality control, rating techniques.

Economics: Basic economic concepts and principles, laws of return (scarcity and diminishing),
GNP and GDP, circular flow of money, depreciation and its calculation, monetary and fiscal
policy, supply and demand chain and their laws, break-even chart, margin of safety, cost and its
various types (labour, material, overheads, marginal and standards costs), procurement
economic ordering quantity and its method of calculation, last-in-first-out (LIFO) and first-in-
first-out (FIFO) system, engineering economic analysis.

Management: Introduction to management, functions and responsibilities of a manager,

principles of management, organization structures.

ME 381 MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS

Introduction: Importance of the study of vibration, elementary parts of vibrating system, degree
of freedom, simple harmonic motion, addition of harmonic motions, free and forced vibration.

Systems with one degree of freedom: Damped free vibration, root locus study of damping,
logarithmic decrement, response of un-damped and damped systems under harmonic excitation,
base excitation, rotating unbalance, self-excitation and stability analysis, vibration under general
forcing conditions, response under periodic and non periodic forces.

Two degree of freedom systems: Free and forced vibration, analysis of un-damped and damped
systems, normal modes, co-ordinate coupling and principal coordinates vehicle suspension
systems.

Multi degree of freedom systems: Influence coefficient, generalized coordinates and

generalized forces, Lagrange’s equation, eigen value problems.

Numerical methods: Dunkerley’s formula, Holzer method, vibration of continuous system,

transverse vibration of a string, longitudinal vibration of a rod, torsional vibration of shaft, lateral
vibration of beams, Rayleigh-Ritz method.

Vibration control: Methods of vibration control, whirling of shaft, vibration isolation, dynamic
vibration absorber.

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ME 461 MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY-II

Theory of Material Removal Processes: Single point tool, cutting tool geometry, mechanics of
machining, chip formation and types of chips, oblique and orthogonal machining, forces, energy,
power and temperature in machining, Merchant’s analysis, tool failure and tool life, Taylor’s tool
life model, reconditioning of cutting tools, machinability and cutting fluids, cutting tool materials
and their characteristics, determination of machining time and material removal rate for various
machining operations.

Engineering Metrology: Measurement standards, errors in measurements line graduated

instruments, comparative length measuring instruments, measuring straightness, flatness,
roundness profile, coordinate measuring machines, gages, optical instruments, general
characteristics and selection of measuring instruments, laser scanning and machine vision
systems for measurement, standardization and interchangeability, limits and fits, standard
systems of limits and fits.

Non-Traditional Machining (NTM) Processes: Chemical machining (CHM), electrochemical

machining process (ECM), water jet machining (WJM), electrical discharge machining (EDM).

Powder Metallurgy: Basic process, production of metal powder, powder mixing and blending,
compaction, sintering and secondary operations, advantages and limitations of powder
metallurgy.

Introduction to computer integrated manufacturing (CIM), Introduction to rapid prototyping and

methods of rapid prototyping.

ME 471 MAINTENANCE ENGINEERING

Theory and Practice of Maintenance Engineering: Introduction, principles of organization,

primary and secondary functions, manpower requirements, selection and training, policies for the
operation of maintenance organization / department (work allocation, interplant relations,
control, centralization and decentralization, communication a/nd cost control) job/work order
forms, maintainability management in system life cycle.

Preventive Maintenance (PM): How to design PM program, how to start PM program, what to
inspect for PM (inspection), major benefits of PM, equipment repair history, corrosion control
and industrial chemical cleaning.

Lubrication: Conventional tests for lubrication and major benefits of lubrications.

Maintenance of Mechanical Equipment: Maintenance of bearings, couplings, power

transmission, gear drives, cranes, clutches and brakes.

Maintenance of major Electrical Equipment: Maintenance of electric motors and industrial

batteries.
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Storekeeping: Criteria for storage of parts and care during storage.

Safety: Emergency planning and alarm system.

ME 371 REFRIGERATION AND AIR CONDITIONING

Introduction: Major uses of refrigeration, terms and definitions, ice refrigeration and other
developments, reversed Carnot cycle.

Vapor compression refrigeration cycle: Ideal and actual vapor compression cycles, use of
property tables, Ph/Ts- diagrams, effects of suction and condensing temperatures and pressure
losses, energy and performance analyses, refrigerants, groups, chemistry and different properties,
heat pumps, classifications & applications, innovative vapor compression refrigeration systems,
cascade, multistage-compression, multipurpose refrigeration systems and cryogenics, domestic
and commercial units.

Vapor absorption refrigeration systems: Cycle of operations, different solutions used in the
system, terms and definitions, TPX (Poly methyl pentene), properties of different solutions,
calculation of mass flow rate and enthalpy of solutions, thermal analyses, analysis with heat
exchanger, domestic and commercial units, combined vapor compression and absorption system.

Steam jet refrigeration system: Principle of operations, representation of different processes on

Mollier and Ts-diagrams, energy and performance analyses.

Gas refrigeration: Theoretical cycles, reversed Brayton and Stirling cycles, energy and
performance analyses, modifications and applications.

Psychrometric properties of air: Adiabatic saturation temperature, measuring psychrometric

properties,, psychrometric charts, psychrometric processes, psychrometric processes related to
air conditioning equipments, and wet cooling towers.

Air conditioning systems: Functions of air conditioning systems, system selection, components
and applications, ventilation.

Cooling load calculations: Heating and cooling load calculations for buildings, human body and
thermal comfort, design conditions, heat gain from people, lights and appliances, heat transfer
through walls, roofs, floors, and basement walls, heat transfer through windows, solar heat gain,
air change load and weatherizing, cooling load calculation for refrigeration and freezing of
foods, methods of freezing, product load, air change load, internal load, refrigeration equipment
load, short method of load, some references from ASHRAE manuals.

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