B.E. /B.

Tech in Computer Science & Business Systems

Semester 1

TCS

Computer Science & Business

Systems
Semester 1 Curriculum
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Discrete Mathematics (PCC-CS401)

Boolean algebra: Introduction of Boolean algebra, truth table, basic logic gate, basic postulates
of Boolean algebra, principle of duality, canonical form, Karnaugh map.

Abstract algebra: Set, relation, group, ring, field.

Combinatorics: Basic counting, balls and bins problems, generating functions, recurrence
relations. Proof techniques, principle of mathematical induction, pigeonhole principle.

Graph Theory: Graphs and digraphs, complement, isomorphism, connectedness and reachability,
adjacency matrix, Eulerian paths and circuits in graphs and digraphs, Hamiltonian paths and
circuits in graphs and tournaments, trees; Planar graphs, Euler’s formula, dual of a planer graph,
independence number and clique number, chromatic number, statement of Four-color theorem.

Logic: Propositional calculus - propositions and connectives, syntax; Semantics - truth

assignments and truth tables, validity and satisfiability, tautology; Adequate set of connectives;
Equivalence and normal forms; Compactness and resolution; Formal reducibility - natural
deduction system and axiom system; Soundness and completeness.

Text Books:
1. Topics in Algebra, I. N. Herstein, John Wiley and Sons.
2. Digital Logic & Computer Design, M. Morris Mano, Pearson.
3. Elements of Discrete Mathematics, (Second Edition) C. L. LiuMcGraw Hill, New Delhi.
4. Graph Theory with Applications, J. A. Bondy and U. S. R. Murty, Macmillan Press, London.
5. Mathematical Logic for Computer Science, L. Zhongwan, World Scientific, Singapore.

Reference Books:
1. Introduction to linear algebra. Gilbert Strang.
2. Introductory Combinatorics, R. A. Brualdi, North-Holland, New York.
3. Graph Theory with Applications to Engineering and Computer Science, N. Deo, Prentice Hall,
Englewood Cliffs.
4. Introduction to Mathematical Logic, (Second Edition), E. Mendelsohn, Van-Nostrand,
London.
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STATISTICS, PROBABILITY AND CALCULUS

Introduction to Statistics: Definition of Statistics. Basic objectives. Applications in various
branches of science with examples. Collection of Data: Internal and external data, Primary and
secondary Data. Population and sample, Representative sample. Descriptive Statistics:
Classification and tabulation of univariate data, graphical representation, Frequency curves.
Descriptive measures - central tendency and dispersion. Bivariate data. Summarization, marginal
and conditional frequency distribution.

Probability: Concept of experiments, sample space, event. Definition of Combinatorial

Probability. Conditional Probability, Bayes Theorem. Probability distributions: discrete &
continuous distributions, Binomial, Poisson and Geometric distributions, Uniform, Exponential,
Normal, Chi-square, t, F distributions. Expected values and moments: mathematical expectation
and its properties, Moments (including variance) and their properties, interpretation, Moment
generating function.

Calculus: Basic concepts of Differential and integral calculus, application of double and triple
integral.

Text Books:
1. Introduction of Probability Models, S. M. Ross, Academic Press, N.Y.
2. Fundamentals of Statistics, vol. I & II, A. Goon, M. Gupta and B. Dasgupta, World Press.
3. Higher Engineering Mathematics, B. S. Grewal, Khanna Publication, Delhi.

Reference Books:
1. A first course in Probability, S. M. Ross, Prentice Hall.
2. Probability and Statistics for Engineers, (Fourth Edition), I. R. Miller, J.E. Freund and R.
Johnson, PHI.
3. Introduction to the Theory of Statistics, A. M. Mood, F.A. Graybill and D.C. Boes, McGraw
Hill Education.
4. Advanced Engineering Mathematics, (Seventh Edition), Peter V. O'Neil, Thomson Learning.
5. Advanced Engineering Mathematics, (Second Edition) M. D. Greenberg, Pearson Education.
6. Applied Mathematics, Vol. I & II, P. N. Wartikar and J. N. Wartikar, Vidyarthi Prakashan.
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FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE + Lab

General problem Solving concepts: Algorithm, and Flowchart for problem solving with
Sequential Logic Structure, Decisions and Loops.

Imperative languages: Introduction to imperative language; syntax and constructs of a specific

language (ANSI C)
• Types Operator and Expressions with discussion of variable naming and Hungarian Notation:
Variable Names, Data Type and Sizes (Little Endian Big Endian), Constants, Declarations,
Arithmetic Operators, Relational Operators, Logical Operators, Type Conversion, Increment
Decrement Operators, Bitwise Operators, Assignment Operators and Expressions, Precedence
and Order of Evaluation, proper variable naming and Hungarian Notation.

• Control Flow with discussion on structured and unstructured programming: Statements and
Blocks, If-Else-If, Switch, Loops – while, do, for, break and continue, goto labels, structured
and un- structured programming.

• Functions and Program Structure with discussion on standard library: Basics of functions,
parameter passing and returning type, C main return as integer, External, Auto, Local, Static,
Register Variables, Scope Rules, Block structure, Initialisation, Recursion, Pre-processor,
Standard Library Functions and return types.

• Pointers and Arrays: Pointers and address, Pointers and Function Arguments, Pointers and
Arrays, Address Arithmetic, character Pointers and Functions, Pointer Arrays, Pointer to
Pointer, Multi-dimensional array and Row/column major formats, Initialisation of Pointer
Arrays, Command line arguments, Pointer to functions, complicated declarations and how they
are evaluated.

• Structures: Basic Structures, Structures and Functions, Array of structures, Pointer of

structures, Self-referral structures, Table look up, typedef, unions, Bit-fields

• Input and Output: Standard I/O, Formatted Output – printf, Formated Input – scanf, Variable
length argument list, file access including FILE structure, fopen, stdin, sdtout and stderr, Error
Handling including exit, perror and error.h, Line I/O, related miscellaneous functions.

• Unix system Interface: File Descriptor, Low level I/O – read and write, open, create, close and
unlink, Random access – lseek, Discussions on Listing Directory, Storage allocator.

Programming Method: Debugging, Macro, User Defined Header, User Defined Library
Function, makefile utility.
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FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE + Lab (continued)

Laboratory
1. Algorithm and flowcharts of small problems like GCD
2. Structured code writing with:
i. Small but tricky codes
ii. Proper parameter passing
iii. Command line Arguments
iv. Variable parameter
v. Pointer to functions
vi. User defined header
vii. Make file utility
viii. Multi file program and user defined libraries
ix. Interesting substring matching / searching programs
x. Parsing related assignments

Text Books:
1. The C Programming Language, (Second Edition) B. W. Kernighan and D. M. Ritchi, PHI.
2. Programming in C, (Second Edition) B. Gottfried, Schaum Outline Series.

Reference Books:
1. C: The Complete Reference, (Fourth Edition), Herbert Schildt, McGraw Hill.
2. Let Us C, Yashavant Kanetkar, BPB Publications.
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PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING + Lab

Introduction: Concept of Potential difference, voltage, current, Fundamental linear passive and
active elements to their functional current-voltage relation, Terminology and symbols in order to
describe electric networks, voltage source and current sources, ideal and practical sources, concept
of dependent and independent sources, Kirchhoff-s laws and applications to network solutions
using mesh and nodal analysis, Concept of work, power, energy, and conversion of energy.

DC Circuits: Current-voltage relations of the electric network by mathematical equations to

analyze the network (Thevenin’s theorem, Norton's Theorem, Maximum Power Transfer theorem)
Simplifications of networks using series-parallel, Star/Delta transformation. Superposition
theorem.

AC Circuits: AC waveform definitions, form factor, peak factor, study of R-L, R-C,RLC series
circuit, R-L-C parallel circuit, phasor representation in polar and rectangular form, concept of
impedance, admittance, active, reactive, apparent and complex power, power factor, 3 phase
Balanced AC Circuits (⅄-∆ & ⅄-⅄).

Electrostatics and Electro-Mechanics: Electrostatic field, electric field strength, concept of

permittivity in dielectrics, capacitor composite, dielectric capacitors, capacitors in series and
parallel, energy stored in capacitors, charging and discharging of capacitors, Electricity and
Magnetism, magnetic field and Faraday's law, self and mutual inductance, Ampere's law, Magnetic
circuit, Single phase transformer, principle of operation, EMF equation, voltage ratio, current ratio,
KVA rating, efficiency and regulation, Electromechanical energy conversion.

Measurements and Sensors: Introduction to measuring devices/sensors and transducers

(Piezoelectric and thermo-couple) related to electrical signals, Elementary methods for the
measurement of electrical quantities in DC and AC systems (Current & Single-phase power).
Electrical Wiring and Illumination system: Basic layout of the distribution system, Types of
Wiring System &Wiring Accessories, Necessity of earthing, Types of earthing, Safety devices &
system.

For Further Reading - Principle of batteries, types, construction and application, Magnetic
material and B-H Curve, Basic concept of indicating and integrating instruments.
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PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING + Lab (continued)

Laboratory
1. Familiarization of electrical Elements, sources, measuring devices and transducers related to
electrical circuits
2. Determination of resistance temperature coefficient
3. Verification of Network Theorem (Superposition, Thevenin, Norton, Maximum Power
4. Transfer theorem)
5. Simulation of R-L-C series circuits for XL>XC , XL< XC
6. Simulation of Time response of RC circuit
7. Verification of relation in between voltage and current in three phase balanced star and delta
connected loads.
8. Demonstration of measurement of electrical quantities in DC and AC systems.

Text Books:
1. Electric Machinery, (Sixth Edition) A. E. Fitzgerald, Kingsely Jr Charles, D. Umans Stephen,
Tata McGraw Hill.
2. A Textbook of Electrical Technology, (vol. I), B. L. Theraja, Chand and Company Ltd., New
Delhi.
3. Basic Electrical Engineering, V. K. Mehta, S. Chand and Company Ltd., New Delhi.
4. Theory and problems of Basic Electrical Engineering, (Second Edition), J. Nagrath and
Kothari, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd.

Reference Books:
1. Basic of Electrical Engineering, T. K. Nagsarkar and M. S. Sukhija, Oxford University Press.
T. K. Nagsarkar and M. S. Sukhija, Basic of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Press,
2011.
2. Introduction to Electrodynamics, D. J. Griffiths, (Fourth Edition), Cambridge University Press.
3. Engineering Circuit Analysis, William H. Hayt & Jack E. Kemmerly, McGraw-Hill Book
Company Inc.
4. Fundamentals of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Smarjith Ghosh, Prentice Hall
(India) Pvt. Ltd.
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PHYSICS FOR COMPUTING SCIENCE + Lab

Oscillation: Periodic motion-simple harmonic motion-characteristics of simple harmonic motion-
vibration of simple spring mass system. Resonance-definition., damped harmonic oscillator –
heavy, critical and light damping, energy decay in a damped harmonic oscillator, quality factor,
forced mechanical and electrical oscillators.

Interference-principle of superposition-young’s experiment: Theory of interference fringes-

types of interference-Fresnel’s prism-Newton’s rings, Diffraction-Two kinds of diffraction-
Difference between interference and diffraction-Fresnel’s half period zone and zone plate-
Fraunhofer diffraction at single slit-plane diffraction grating. Temporal and Spatial Coherence.

Polarization of light: Polarization - Concept of production of polarized beam of light from two
SHM acting at right angle; plane, elliptical and circularly polarized light, Brewster’s law, double
refraction.

Basic Idea of Electromagnetisms: Continuity equation for current densities, Maxwell’s equation
in vacuum and non-conducting medium.

Quantum Mechanics: Introduction - Planck’s quantum theory- Matter waves, de-Broglie

wavelength, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle, time independent and time dependent
Schrödinger’s wave equation, Physical significance of wave function, Particle in a one
dimensional potential box, Heisenberg Picture.

Crystallography: Basic terms-types of crystal systems, Bravais lattices, miller indices, d spacing,
Atomic packing factor for SC, BCC, FCC and HCP structures.

Semiconductor Physics: Conductor, Semiconductor and Insulator; Basic concept of Band theory.

Laser and Fiber optics: Einstein’s theory of matter radiation interaction and A and B coefficients;
amplification of light by population inversion, different types of lasers: Ruby Laser, CO2 and
Neodymium lasers; Properties of laser beams: mono-chromaticity, coherence, directionality and
brightness, laser speckles, applications of lasers in engineering. Fiber optics and Applications,
Types of optical fibers.

Thermodynamics: Zeroth law of thermodynamics, first law of thermodynamics, brief discussion

on application of 1st law, second law of thermodynamics and concept of Engine, entropy, change
in entropy in reversible and irreversible processes.
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PHYSICS FOR COMPUTING SCIENCE + Lab (continued)

Laboratory
1) Magnetic field along the axis of current carrying coil – Stewart and Gee
2) Determination of Hall coefficient of semi-conductor
3) Determination of Plank constant
4) Determination of wave length of light by Laser diffraction method
5) Determination of wave length of light by Newton’s Ring method
6) Determination of laser and optical fiber parameters
7) Determination of Stefan’s Constant.

Text Books:
1. Concepts of Modern Physics, (Fifth Edition) A Beiser, McGraw Hill International.
2. Fundamentals of Physics, David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, Wileyplus.

Reference Books:
1. Optics, (Fifth Edition) Ajoy Ghatak, Tata McGraw Hill.
2. Sears & Zemansky University Physics, Addison-Wesley.
3. Fundamentals of Optics, (Third Edition) Jenkins and White, McGraw-Hill.
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Business Communication & Value Science - I

TEACHING SCHEME: EXAMINATION SCHEME: CREDITS ALLOTTED:

Lectures: 3 Hr./Week Semester Examination: 50 marks 4
Tutorials: 0 Hr. / Week Continuous Assessment: Yes
Lab: 2-4 Hrs. / Week Term Work: 50 marks

Course ID:

1.6 (Year 1 Semester 1)

Leadership Oriented Learning (LOL)

Nature of Course Behavioral

Pre requisites Basic Knowledge of high school English

Course Objectives:
1 Understand what life skills are and their importance in leading a happy and well-adjusted life

2 Motivate students to look within and create a better version of self

3 Introduce them to key concepts of values, life skills and business communication

Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, students shall have ability to
C1.6.1 Recognize the need for life skills and values
[U]

C1.6.2 Recognize own strengths and opportunities [U]

C1.6.3 Apply the life skills to different situations [AP]
C1.6.4 Understand the basic tenets of communication [U]
C1.6.5 Apply the basic communication practices in different types of communication [AP]
Course Contents:
• Overview of the course with immersion activity
• Overview of biz communication
• Self-awareness, confidence and communication
• Essentials of Business communication
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• Application of communication skills

• Application of Life Skills
• Assignment

Total Hours: 65
Text Books:

There are no prescribed texts for Semester 1 – there will be handouts and reference
links shared.

Reference Books:
1 English vocabulary in use – Alan Mc’carthy and O’dell

2 APAART: Speak Well 1 (English language and communication)

3 APAART: Speak Well 2 (Soft Skills)

4 Business Communication – Dr. Saroj Hiremath

Web References:
1 Train your mind to perform under pressure- Simon sinek

https://curiosity.com/videos/simon-sinek-on-training-your-mind-to-perform-under-
pressure-capture-your-flag/
2 Brilliant way one CEO rallied his team in the middle of layoffs
https://www.inc.com/video/simon-sinek-explains-why-you-should-put-people-before-
numbers.html
3 Will Smith's Top Ten rules for success
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBsT9omTeh0
Online Resources:
1 https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
2 https://www.coursera.org/specializations/effective-business-communication

Assessment Methods & Levels (based on Blooms’ Taxonomy)

Formative assessment (Max. Marks:20)
Bloom’s
Course Outcome Assessment Component Marks
Level
C1.6.1 Understand Immersion (interview) 5
C1.6.2 Understand Create Resume 4
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C1.6.3 Apply Group Assignment – community service 5

C1.6.4 Understand Group activities 3
C1.6.5 Apply Record a conversation 3
Summative Assessment based on End Semester Project
Bloom’s Level
Understand Paper 50
Apply Trek followed by project
Analyse

Lesson Plan

Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Duration

No Level Class
1 Recognize the Understand Overview of LOL (include activity Lecture & 1 hour
need for life on introducing self) reflection
skills and values Class activity – presentation on Activity 1 hour
favorite cricket captain in IPL and
the skills and values they
demonstrate
Self-work with immersion – Immersion 2 hours
interview a maid, watchman, activity
sweeper, cab driver, beggar and
narrate what you think are the
values that drive them
Overview of business Lecture 1 hour
communication with videos
Activity: Write a newspaper Class 1 hour
report on an IPL match activity
with 3
iterations -
Formative
Evaluation
Activity: Record a conversation Class 1 hour
between a celebrity and an activity
interviewer with 3
iterations -
Formative
Evaluation
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Duration

No Level Class
Quiz Time Summative 30 mins
Evaluation
for Unit
Recognize own Understand Self-awareness – identity, body Anubhaab 4 hours
strengths and awareness, stress management Activities
opportunities
(Please
conduct at
least one
activity per
week and
include the
Meditation
session in it)
2 Understand the Understand Essential Grammar – I: Refresher Lecture 1 hour
basic tenets of on Parts of Speech – Listen to an with audio
communication audio clip and note down the and video
different parts of speech
Unit name: Be At followed by discussion
Ease (BAE) (in Tenses: Applications of tenses in
Millennial lingo it Functional Grammar – Take a
means Before quiz and then discuss
Anyone Else)
Sentence formation (general & Lecture 1 hour
Technical), Common errors, with
Voices. Show sequence from film video/audio
where a character uses wrong
sentence structure (e.g. Zindagi
Na Milegi Dobara where the
characters use ‘the’ before every
word)

Communication Skills: Overview

of Communication Skills

Barriers of communication,
Effective communication
1 hour
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Duration

No Level Class
Activity 1 hour
Types of communication- verbal based
and non – verbal – Role-play learning
based learning

Importance of Questioning
Activity 1 hour
Listening Skills: Law of nature- based
Importance of listening skills, learning
Difference between listening and
hearing, Types of listening.
Recognize own Understand Expressing self, connecting with Anubhaab 4 hours
strengths and emotions, visualizing and Activities
opportunities experiencing purpose
(Please
conduct at
least one
activity per
week and
include the
Meditation
session in it)
Apply the basic Apply Activity: Skit based on Formative 4 hours
communication communication skills Evaluation
practices in Evaluation on Listening skills – Formative 30 mins
different types of listen to recording and answer Evaluation
communication questions based on them
3 Understand the Understand Email writing: Formal and Activity 1 hour
basic tenets of informal emails, activity based
communication learning
Talk Mail Write Verbal communication: Audio and 30
(TMW) - In Pronunciation, clarity of speech video based minutes
Millennial it learning
means That Vocabulary Enrichment: Activity 1 hour
Moment When Exposure to words from General based
Service List (GSL) by West, learning
Academic word list (AWL) (Group
technical specific terms related Discussion)
to the field of technology, Flipped
phrases, idioms, significant classroom
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Duration

No Level Class
abbreviations formal business where
vocabulary – Read Economic students
Times, Reader’s Digest, National will study
Geographic and take part in a words
GD, using the words you before
learnt/liked from the articles. coming to
Group discussion using words class
learnt

Practice: Toastmaster style Table Activity 2 hours

Topics speech with evaluation based over 2/3
learning days
Written Communication: Activity 1 hour
Summary writing, story writing based
learning
Build your CV – start writing your Formative 30
comprehensive CV including Evaluation minutes
every achievement in your life,
no format, no page limit
Apply the basic Apply Project: Create a podcast on a Formative 1 hour
communication topic that will interest college Evaluation
practices in students
different types of
communication
Recognize own Understand Life skill: Stress management, Anubhaab 4 hours
strengths and working with rhythm and Activities
opportunities balance, colours, and teamwork
(Please
conduct at
least one
activity per
week and
include the
Meditation
session in it)
Apply the basic Apply Project: Create a musical using Formative 2 hours
communication the learnings from unit Evaluation
practices in
different types of
communication
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Duration

No Level Class
4 Unit 4 Understand Understanding Life Skills: Movie Interactive 3 hours
Recognize the based learning – Pursuit of learning
need for life Happyness. What are the skills
skills and values and values you can identify, what
can you relate to?
Unit name:
Realities of
Facing Life
(ROFL)
Introduction to life skills Activity and 1 hour
What are the critical life skills Video

Multiple Intelligences Video and 1 hour

Embracing diversity – Activity on activity
appreciation of diversity based

Apply the life Apply Life skill: Community service – Field work: 10 hours
skills to different work with an NGO and make a Formative
situations presentation Evaluation
Life skill: Join a trek – Values to Field work: 12 hours
be learned: Leadership, Formative
teamwork, dealing with Evaluation
ambiguity, managing stress,
motivating people, creativity,
result orientation

TOTAL 65 hours
Summative Bloom’s Type of Assessment Marks Total
Evaluation Level
Understand Knowledge Test 20 marks 50 marks
Apply Project (to be evaluated by TCS) 20 marks
Apply Group discussion (to be 10 marks
evaluated by TCS)
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Induction Program (Non Credit)

(To be Finalised by Respective Institute)
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TCS

Computer Science & Business

Systems
Semester 2 Curriculum
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LINEAR ALGEBRA
Introduction to Matrices and Determinants; Solution of Linear Equations; Cramer's rule; Inverse
of a Matrix.
Vectors and linear combinations; Rank of a matrix; Gaussian elimination; LU Decomposition;
Solving Systems of Linear Equations using the tools of Matrices.
Vector space; Dimension; Basis; Orthogonality; Projections; Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization and
QR decomposition.
Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; Positive definite matrices; Linear transformations; Hermitian and
unitary matrices;
Singular value decomposition and Principal component analysis; Introduction to their applications
in Image Processing and Machine Learning.
Note:
Assignments & tutorials covering the following: Vectors and linear combinations, Matrices,
Linear transformations, Complete solution to Ax = b, Determinants, Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

Text Books:
1. Higher Engineering Mathematics, B. S. Grewal, Khanna Publishers.
Reference Books:
1. Advanced Engineering Mathematics, (Seventh Edition), Peter V. O'Neil, Cengage Learning.
2. Advanced Engineering Mathematics, (Second Edition), Michael. D. Greenberg, Pearson.
3. Introduction to linear algebra, (Fifth Edition), Gilbert Strang, Wellesley-Cambridge Press.
4. Applied Mathematics (Vol. I & II), P. N. Wartikar & J. N. Wartikar, Pune Vidyarthi Griha
Prakashan.
5. Digital Image Processing, R C Gonzalez and R E Woods, Pearson.
6. https://machinelearningmastery.com/introduction-matrices-machine-learning/
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STATISTICAL METHODS + Lab

Sampling Techniques: Random sampling. Sampling from finite and infinite populations.
Estimates and standard error (sampling with replacement and sampling without replacement),
Sampling distribution of sample mean, stratified random sampling.

Linear Statistical Models: Scatter diagram. Linear regression and correlation. Least squares
method. Rank correlation. Multiple regression & multiple correlation, Analysis of variance (one
way, two way with as well as without interaction).

Estimation: Point estimation, criteria for good estimates (un-biasedness, consistency), Methods
of estimation including maximum likelihood estimation.
Sufficient Statistic: Concept & examples, complete sufficiency, their application in estimation.
Test of hypothesis: Concept & formulation, Type I and Type II errors, Neyman Pearson lemma,
Procedures of testing.
Non-parametric Inference: Comparison with parametric inference, Use of order statistics. Sign
test, Wilcoxon signed rank test, Mann-Whitney test, Run test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.
Spearman’s and Kendall’s test. Tolerance region.
Basics of Time Series Analysis & Forecasting: Stationary, ARIMA Models: Identification,
Estimation and Forecasting.

Laboratory
R statistical programming language: Introduction to R, Functions, Control flow and Loops,
Working with Vectors and Matrices, Reading in Data, Writing Data, Working with Data,
Manipulating Data, Simulation, Linear model, Data Frame, Graphics in R

Data Source:
• www.rbi.org.in

Text Books:
1. Probability and Statistics for Engineers (Fourth Edition), I.R. Miller, J.E. Freund and R.
Johnson, Prentice Hall India Learning Private Limited.
2. Fundamentals of Statistics (vol. I & vol. II), A. Goon, M. Gupta and B. Dasgupta, World Press.
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3. The Analysis of Time Series: An Introduction, Chris Chatfield, Chapman & Hall/CRC.

Reference Books:
1. Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis, D.C. Montgomery and E. Peck, Wiley-
Interscience.
2. Introduction to the Theory of Statistics, A.M. Mood, F. A. Graybill and D.C. Boes, McGraw
Hill.
3. Applied Regression Analysis, N. Draper and H. Smith, Wiley-Interscience.
4. Hands-on Programming with R, Garrett Grolemund, O′Reilly.
5. R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics, Jared P. Lander, Addison-Wesley
Professional.
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DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS (PCC-CS301) + Lab

Basic Terminologies and Introduction to Algorithm & Data Organisation: Algorithm
specification, Recursion, Performance analysis, Asymptotic Notation - The Big-O, Omega and
Theta notation, Programming Style, Refinement of Coding - Time-Space Trade Off, Testing, Data
Abstraction
Linear Data Structure: Array, Stack, Queue, Linked-list and its types, Various Representations,
Operations & Applications of Linear Data Structures
Non-linear Data Structure: Trees (Binary Tree, Threaded Binary Tree, Binary Search Tree, B &
B+ Tree, AVL Tree, Splay Tree) and Graphs (Directed, Undirected), Various Representations,
Operations & Applications of Non-Linear Data Structures
Searching and Sorting on Various Data Structures: Sequential Search, Binary Search,
Comparison Trees, Breadth First Search, Depth First Search Insertion Sort, Selection Sort, Shell
Sort, Divide and Conquer Sort, Merge Sort, Quick Sort, Heapsort, Introduction to Hashing
File: Organisation (Sequential, Direct, Indexed Sequential, Hashed) and various types of accessing
schemes.
Graph: Basic Terminologies and Representations, Graph search and traversal algorithms and
complexity analysis.
Laboratory
1. Towers of Hanoi using user defined stacks.
2. Reading, writing, and addition of polynomials.
3. Line editors with line count, word count showing on the screen.
4. Trees with all operations.
5. All graph algorithms.
6. Saving / retrieving non-linear data structure in/from a file
Text Books:
1. Fundamentals of Data Structures, E. Horowitz, S. Sahni, S. A-Freed, Universities Press.
2. Data Structures and Algorithms, A. V. Aho, J. E. Hopperoft, J. D. UIlman, Pearson.
Reference Books:
1. The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms, Donald E. Knuth.
2. Introduction to Algorithms, Thomas, H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest,
Clifford Stein, The MIT Press.
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Semester 2

3. Open Data Structures: An Introduction (Open Paths to Enriched Learning), (Thirty First
Edition), Pat Morin, UBC Press.
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PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING + Lab

Semiconductors: Crystalline material: Mechanical properties, Energy band theory, Fermi levels;
Conductors, Semiconductors & Insulators: electrical properties, band diagrams. Semiconductors:
intrinsic & extrinsic, energy band diagram, P&N-type semiconductors, drift & diffusion carriers.
Diodes and Diode Circuits: Formation of P-N junction, energy band diagram, built-in-potential,
forward and reverse biased P-N junction, formation of depletion zone, V-I characteristics, Zener
breakdown, Avalanche breakdown and its reverse characteristics; Junction capacitance and
Varactor diode. Simple diode circuits, load line, linear piecewise model; Rectifier circuits: half
wave, full wave, PIV, DC voltage and current, ripple factor, efficiency, idea of regulation.
Bipolar Junction Transistors: Formation of PNP / NPN junctions, energy band diagram;
transistor mechanism and principle of transistors, CE, CB, CC configuration, transistor
characteristics: cut-off active and saturation mode, transistor action, injection efficiency, base
transport factor and current amplification factors for CB and CE modes. Biasing and Bias stability:
calculation of stability factor
Field Effect Transistors: Concept of Field Effect Transistors (channel width modulation), Gate
isolation types, JFET Structure and characteristics, MOSFET Structure and characteristics,
depletion and enhancement type; CS, CG, CD configurations; CMOS: Basic Principles
Feed Back Amplifier, Oscillators and Operational Amplifiers: Concept (Block diagram),
properties, positive and negative feedback, loop gain, open loop gain, feedback factors; topologies
of feedback amplifier; effect of feedback on gain, output impedance, input impedance, sensitivities
(qualitative), bandwidth stability; effect of positive feedback: instability and oscillation, condition
of oscillation, Barkhausen criteria. Introduction to integrated circuits, operational amplified and
its terminal properties; Application of operational amplifier; inverting and non-inverting mode of
operation, Adders, Subtractors, Constant-gain multiplier, Voltage follower, Comparator,
Integrator, Differentiator
Digital Electronics Fundamentals: Difference between analog and digital signals, Logic ICs,
half and full adder/subtractor, multiplexers, demultiplexers, flip-flops, shift registers, counters.
Laboratory
1. Semiconductor Diodes and application,
2. Transistor circuits,
3. JFET, oscillators and amplifiers.
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Semester II
PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING + Lab (continued)
Text Books:
1. Microelectronics Circuits, Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth Carless Smith, Oxford University Press.
2. Millman’s Integrated Electronics, Jacob Millman, Christos Halkias, Chetan Parikh, McGraw
Hill Education.
3. Digital Logic & Computer Design, M. Morris Mano, Pearson
Reference Books:
1. Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, Robert L. Boylestad, Louis Nashelsky.
2. Solid State Electronic Devices, 6th Edition, Ben Streetman, Sanjay Banerjee
3. Electronic Principle, Albert Paul Malvino.
4. Electronics Circuits:Discrete & Integrated, D Schilling C Belove T Apelewicz R Saccardi.
5. Microelectronics, Jacob Millman, Arvin Grabel.
6. Electronics Devices & Circuits, S. Salivahanan, N. Suresh Kumar, A. Vallavaraj
7. Electronic Devices & Circuit Theory, 11th Edition, Robert L. Boylestad, Louis Nashelsky.
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FUNDAMENTALS OF ECONOMICS
Microeconomics: Principles of Demand and Supply - Supply Curves of Firms - Elasticity of
Supply; Demand Curves of Households - Elasticity of Demand; Equilibrium and Comparative
Statics (Shift of a Curve and Movement along the Curve); Welfare Analysis - Consumers’ and
Producers’ Surplus - Price Ceilings and Price Floors; Consumer Behaviour - Axioms of Choice -
Budget Constraints and Indifference Curves; Consumer’s Equilibrium - Effects of a Price Change,
Income and Substitution Effects -Derivation of a Demand Curve; Applications - Tax and Subsidies
- Intertemporal Consumption - Suppliers’ Income Effect; Theory of Production - Production
Function and Iso-quants - Cost Minimization; Cost Curves - Total, Average and Marginal Costs -
Long Run and Short Run Costs; Equilibrium of a Firm Under Perfect Competition; Monopoly and
Monopolistic Competition
Macroeconomics: National Income and its Components - GNP, NNP, GDP, NDP; Consumption
Function; Investment; Simple Keynesian Model of Income Determination and the Keynesian
Multiplier; Government Sector - Taxes and Subsidies; External Sector - Exports and Imports;
Money - Definitions; Demand for Money -Transactionary and Speculative Demand; Supply of
Money - Bank’s Credit Creation Multiplier; Integrating Money and Commodity Markets - IS, LM
Model; Business Cycles and Stabilization - Monetary and Fiscal Policy - Central Bank and the
Government; The Classical Paradigm - Price and Wage Rigidities - Voluntary and Involuntary
Unemployment
Text Books:
1. Microeconomics, Pindyck, Robert S., and Daniel L. Rubinfeld.
2. Macroeconomics, Dornbusch, Fischer and Startz.
3. Economics, Paul Anthony Samuelson, William D. Nordhaus.
Reference Books:
1. Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, Hal R, Varian.
2. Principles of Macroeconomics, N. Gregory Mankiw.
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Semester II

BUSINESS COMMUNICATION & VALUE SCIENCE – II

TEACHING SCHEME: EXAMINATION SCHEME: CREDITS ALLOTTED:

Theory: 3 Hrs./Week Semester Examination: 50 marks 4
Practical: 7 Hrs. / Week Continuous Assessment: Yes
Lab: 7 Hrs. / Week Term Work: 50 marks
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Course ID:

1.6 (Year 1 Semester 2)

Leadership Oriented Learning (LOL)

Nature of Course Behavioral

Pre requisites
Basic Knowledge of English (verbal and written)
Completion of all units from Semester 1

Course Objectives:

1 Develop effective writing, reading, presentation and group discussion skills.

2 Help students identify personality traits and evolve as a better team player.

Introduce them to key concepts of

3 a) Morality
b) Behavior and beliefs
c) Diversity & Inclusion

Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, students shall have ability to:

C2.6.1 Understand tools of structured written communication [U]

C2.6.2 Use tools of structured written communication [AP]
C2.6.3 Use electronic/social media to share concepts and ideas [AP]
C2.6.4 Develop materials to create an identity for an organization dedicated to a social
[C]
cause
C2.6.5 Understand the basics of presentation [U]
C2.6.6 Apply effective techniques to make presentations. [AP]
C2.6.7 Assess presentations based on given criteria [E]
C2.6.8 Understand tools for quick reading. [U]
C2.6.9 Apply the basic concept of speed reading, skimming and scanning. [AP]
C2.6.10 Identify individual personality types and role in a team. [U]
C2.6.11 Recognize the concepts of outward behavior and internal behavior [AP]
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C2.6.12 Understand the basic concepts of Morality and Diversity [U]

C2.6.13 Create communication material to share concepts and ideas [C]
C2.6.14 Argue on a topic based on morality and diversity [E]
C2.6.15 Articulate opinions on a topic with the objective of influencing others [C]
C2.6.16 Organize an event to generate awareness and get support for a cause [C]

Course Contents:

• Identification of common errors in written communication and ways of rectification

• Understanding speed reading techniques – Skimming and Scanning
• Application of reading and writing skills
• Analyzing personality traits and team player style
• Understanding the concepts of Morality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Application of these concepts
• Creation of communication material
• Experiencing diversity and organizing events to support inclusion
• Assignment – Assimilation of concepts and present them effectively

Total Hours: 61
Text Books:

There are no prescribed texts for Semester 2 – there will be handouts and reference links
shared.

Reference Books:
1 Guiding Souls : Dialogues on the purpose of life; Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam ;Publishing Year-
2005; Co-author--Arun Tiwari
2 The Family and the Nation; Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam; Publishing year: 2015; Co-
author: Acharya Mahapragya
3 The Scientific India: A twenty First Century Guide to the World around Us; Dr. A.P.J
Abdul Kalam; Publishing year: 2011; Co-author- Y.S.Rajan

4 Forge Your Future: Candid, Forthright, Inspiring ; Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam; Publishing
year: 2014
5 Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think; Peter H. Diamandis and Steven
Kotler; Published: 21 Feb, 2012; Publisher: Free Press
6 Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action; Simon Sinek;
Published: 6 October 2011; Publisher: Penguin
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7 Advertising & IMC: Principles and Practice; Sandra Moriarty, Nancy D. Mitchell, William
D. Wells; Published: 15 June 2016; Publisher: Pearson Education India
Web References:
1 ETHICS FUNDAMENTALS AND APPROACHES TO ETHICS
https://www.eolss.net/Sample-Chapters/C14/E1-37-01-00.pdf
2 A Framework for Making Ethical Decisions
https://www.brown.edu/academics/science-and-technology-studies/framework-making-
ethical-decisions
3 Five Basic Approaches to Ethical Decision-
http://faculty.winthrop.edu/meelerd/docs/rolos/5_Ethical_Approaches.pdf
Online Resources:
1 https://youtu.be/CsaTslhSDI

2 https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=IIKvV8_T95M

3 https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=e80BbX05D7Y

4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dT_D68RJ5T8&feature=youtu.be

5 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7sLLEdBgYYY&feature=youtu.be

Assessment Methods & Levels (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy)

Formative assessment (Max. Marks:20)
Bloom’s
Course Outcome Level Assessment Component Marks
C1.6.1 Understand Immersion (interview) 5

C1.6.2 Understand Create CV 4

C1.6.3 Apply Group Assignment- Form an NGO 5

C1.6.4 Understand Group activities 3

C1.6.5 Create Create and present a street play to articulate and 3

amplify the social cause.

Summative Assessment based on End Semester Project

Bloom’s Level
Understand 50
Apply
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Analyze Written Assessment, project and group discussion

Lesson Plan

Unit Objective Bloom’s Level Content Type of Class Duration

No
Icebreaker. 1) Participate in
‘Join Hands Movement’.
Individual identification of
social issues.2) Each
Individual chooses one
particular social issue which Group discussion, 60
1 they would like to address. 3) Practical Minutes
Class to be divided in teams
for the entire semester. All
activities to be done in teams
and the grades, credit points
will be captured in the leader
board in the class room.4)
Theory to introduce the
participant Slam book to be
used for capturing individual
learning points and
observations.

Understand
1 tools of
Research on the social cause 90
structured Understand Practical (practical)
each group will work for. Minutes
written
communication

Use tools of Class discussion- Good and

1 structured Understand Bad Writing. Common errors, PPT, Theory and 90
written punctuation rules, use of Practical Minutes
communication words.

Group Practical – As a group,

they will work on the social
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Level Content Type of Class Duration

No
1 issue identified by them. Formative evaluation
Research, read and generate a 70
report based on the findings. Minutes
(Apply the learning and recap
from the session)
Practical: Plan and design an E
Create Magazine. Apply and
1 communication Create assimilate the knowledge Practical (Practical)
material to gathered from Sem-1 till date.
share concepts Share objective & guideline. 120
and ideas All members to contribute an Minutes
article to the magazine,
trainer to evaluate the
content.
1 Understand Understand Lucid Writing: Encourage Theory and 30 mins
tools for Lucid the students to go through Discussion
writing the links given about
Catherine Morris and
Joanie Mcmahon’s writing
techniques.

Create
1 communication Create Create the magazine Practical (Lab) 90
material to Minutes
share concepts
and ideas

SATORI – Participants share

the personal take away
acquired from GD, writing and
1 reading skills activities
Understand captured in their handbook. Theory/Discussion 60
Share the most important Minutes
learning points from the
activities done so far and how
that learning has brought a
change.
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Level Content Type of Class Duration

No
1 Use
electronic/social
media to share Apply Launching an E Magazine. Practical (Lab) 120
concepts and Minutes
ideas

1 Quiz Time Summative 60

Evaluation for Unit Minutes
Unit 2
Develop
materials to
Each group will form an NGO.
2 create an
Create Vision, Mission, Value Practical and 90
identity for an Create
statement, tagline and Design Practical Minutes
organization
a logo.
dedicated to a
social cause

Understand the Introduction to basic 60

2 basics of Understand presentation skills & ORAI app Theory and video Minutes
presentation

Apply effective Groups to present their NGOs.

techniques to Apply the learning gathered
make Apply from session 2. Presentation
2 presentations. to be recorded by the groups. Formative evaluation 60
feedback from the audience/ Minutes
Professor
Assess
2 presentation Group to come back and Sharing of learning,
based on given Evaluate share their findings from the written Practical and 60
criteria recording. Post work- formative evaluation Minutes
individual write up to be &
written and evaluated for the 60
E- magazine Minutes
Create Prepare and publish the
communication Second episode of the E
2 material to Create Magazine.
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Level Content Type of Class Duration

No
share concepts Apply Practical (Lab) 120
and ideas minutes

Use
electronic/social
media to share
concepts and
ideas

2 Understand the
tools for speed Theory and Practical
reading. Understand 30
Apply Minutes
Speed Reading session:
Apply the basic
Introduction to skimming and
concepts of
scanning; practice the same.
speed reading,
skimming and
scanning.

2 SATORI – Join the dots- Share the most

Understand Participants to connect their important learning 60
learning gathered from AIP points Minutes
Unit-2 with their existing
curriculum

2 Quiz Time Summative 60

Evaluation for Unit Minutes
Unit 3
3 Develop
materials to
create an Ad campaign- Brain storming
identity for an session- Students to discuss
organization and explore the means of Discussion 60
dedicated to a articulating and amplifying the Minutes
Create
social cause
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Level Content Type of Class Duration

No
social issue their NGOs are
working for.

Create Create Design a skit- a) write the Practical based a) 30

3 communication script articulating the message learning. Formative Minutes
material to of their respective NGOs. evaluation by Theory
share concepts Read out the script. (Skit time- b) 60
and ideas. 5 minutes). Feedback of Minutes
Theory.

Use Apply Promote the play through a Practical based Lab

electronic/social social media and gather your learning Time: 90
3 media to share Apply audience. Enact the play. Minutes
concepts and Capture the numbers of likes Formative Evaluation
ideas and reviews. Theory to assign Class
grades to individual team. Time:60
Minutes

(1) Theory to find out from

Identify the participants their views,
individual observations and experiences
personality of working in a team(2) Intro
3 types and role Understand of Dr. Meredith Belbin and his Discussion and 60
in a team. research on team work and Theory Minutes
how individuals contribute.

3 Identify Cont. (3) Belbin's 8 Team Practical based

individual Understand Roles and Lindgren's Big 5 learning followed by
personality personality traits.(4) Belbin's 8 a presentation 40
types and role team player styles Minutes
in a team.

Identify
individual
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Level Content Type of Class Duration

No
3 personality Understand (1) Team Falcon Practical to Practical based (1 &2)
types and role identify individual personality learning followed by 40
in a team. traits with Belbin's 8 team a presentation. Minutes
player styles

Recognize the (2) Similar personality types to

3 concepts of form groups (3) Groups
outward Understand present their traits. Presentation (3) 60
behavior and minutes
internal
behavior

Create
communication
3 material to Create Prepare and publish the third Practical 60
share concepts episode of the E Magazine. Minutes
and ideas. Apply

Use the
electronic/social
media to share
concepts and
ideas

Understand SATORI – (join the dots with Share the most 60

participants personal life) important learning Minutes
Participants share the points from the
personal take away acquired activities done so far.
3 Understand from working in teams, GD, Participants talk
learning about presentations, about the changes
presenting their NGOs they perceive in
themselves

3 Quiz Time Summative 60

Evaluation for Unit Minutes

Unit 4
Understand the Ten minutes of your time – a
basic concepts short film on diversity. Play
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Level Content Type of Class Duration

No
4 of Morality and Understand the video (link to be attached Video & discussion 30
Diversity in the FG) Minutes

Discuss key take away of the Practical 30

film. Theory to connect the Minutes
4 Understand the Understand key take away of the film to
basic concepts the concept of empathy.
of Morality and
Diversity

4 Understand the Understand Touch the target (Blind man) - Practical and 60
basic concepts Debriefing of the Practical. discussion Minutes
of Morality and
Diversity Film: “The fish and I’’ by
Babak Habibifar” (1.37mins)

4 Create Create Groups to create a story – 10

communication minutes of a person's life
material to affected by the social issue
share concepts. groups are working on.
Narrate the story in first Practical, sharing and 120
person. Practical Minutes

Feedbacks to be shared by the

other groups.

4 Understand the Understand Research on a book, incident

basic concepts or film based on the topic of
of Morality and your respective NGO Research and written 120
Diversity Practical Minutes

4 Create Create Write a review in a blog on

communication the topics they are covering in
material to their research. Theory will Written Practical and 60
share concepts. give grades to each team. Formative Evaluation Minutes
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Level Content Type of Class Duration

No
4 Understand the Understand Session on Diversity & PPT, Theory, 60
basic concepts Inclusion- Different forms of discussion Minutes
of Morality and Diversity in our society.
Diversity

4 Create Create Teams to video record

communication interviews of people from
material to diverse groups (Ask 5 Practical 120
share concepts. questions). Share the Minutes
recordings in FB

4 Argue on a topic Evaluate Debate on the topic of

based on diversity with an angle of
morality and ethics, morality and respect Practical and 60
diversity for individual (In the presence formative evaluation Minutes
of an external moderator).
Groups will be graded by the
professor.

4 Articulate Create Prepared speech- Every

opinions on a student will narrate the
topic with the challenges faced by a member Practical and 90
objective of of a diverse group in 4 formative Evaluation Minutes
influencing minutes (speech in first
others person).

Theory to give feedback to

each student.

4 Understand the Understand Discussion on TCS values, PPT, Theory,

basic concepts Respect for Individual and Practical and
of Morality and Integrity. discussion 60
Diversity Minutes

4 Create Practical
communication 120
material to Create Prepare and publish the final Minutes
share concepts episode of the E Magazine.
and ideas. Apply
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Level Content Type of Class Duration

No
Use the
electronic/social
media to share
concepts and
ideas

4 Understand SATORI –Participants share Discussion 60

the personal take away Minutes
acquired from working in
teams, GD, learning about
presentations and
understanding diversity
inclusion.

4 Use tools of Apply Revisit your resume Include Submit it to the Lab
structured your recent achievements in Professor time-30
written your resume. Minutes
communication

4 Quiz Time Summative 60

Evaluation for Unit Minutes
4 Organize an Create Project- 1) Each team to Field work: 7 Hours
event to look for an NGO/ social Formative Evaluation
generate group in the city which is
awareness and working on the issue their
get support for
college group is supporting.
a cause
2) Spend a day with the
NGO/ social group to
understand exactly how
they work and the
challenges they face.
3) Render voluntary service
to the group for one day
4) Invite the NGO/ social
group to address their
university students for
couple of hours. Plan the
entire event, decide a
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Level Content Type of Class Duration

No
suitable venue in the
university, gather audience,
invite faculty members etc.
(they need to get their plan
ratified their professor).
Outcome-- Host an
interactive session with the
NGO spokesperson
5) The groups to present
their experience of a day
with the NGO and inspire
students to work for the
cause.

TOTAL 61 hours
Assessment Understand Written Assessment of 20
marks
Create Project of 20 marks (E-
Magazine 4 editions)
Analyze, Create Focus Group Discussion 10
marks

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Non-Credit)

(To be Finalised by Respective Institute)
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TCS

Computer Science & Business

Systems
Semester 3 Curriculum
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FORMAL LANGUAGE & AUTOMATA THEORY (PCC-CS502)

Introduction: Alphabet, languages and grammars, productions and derivation, Chomsky
hierarchy of languages.
Regular languages and finite automata: Regular expressions and languages, deterministic finite
automata (DFA) and equivalence with regular expressions, nondeterministic finite automata
(NFA) and equivalence with DFA, regular grammars and equivalence with finite automata,
properties of regular languages, Kleene’s theorem, pumping lemma for regular languages, Myhill-
Nerode theorem and its uses, minimization of finite automata.
Context-free languages and pushdown automata: Context-free grammars (CFG) and languages
(CFL), Chomsky and Greibach normal forms, nondeterministic pushdown automata (PDA) and
equivalence with CFG, parse trees, ambiguity in CFG, pumping lemma for context-free languages,
deterministic pushdown automata, closure properties of CFLs.
Context-sensitive languages: Context-sensitive grammars (CSG) and languages, linear bounded
automata and equivalence with CSG.
Turing machines: The basic model for Turing machines (TM), Turing recognizable (recursively
enumerable) and Turing-decidable (recursive) languages and their closure properties, variants of
Turing machines, nondeterministic TMs and equivalence with deterministic TMs, unrestricted
grammars and equivalence with Turing machines, TMs as enumerators.
Undecidability: Church-Turing thesis, universal Turing machine, the universal and
diagonalization languages, reduction between languages and Rice s theorem, undecidable
problems about languages.
Basic Introduction to Complexity: Introductory ideas on Time complexity of deterministic and
nondeterministic Turing machines, P and NP, NP- completeness, Cook’s Theorem, other NP -
Complete problems.
Text Books:
1. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev
Motwani and Jeffrey D. Ullman.
Reference Books:
1. Elements of the Theory of Computation, Harry R. Lewis and Christos H. Papadimitriou.
2. Automata and Computability, Dexter C. Kozen.
3. Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Michael Sipser.
4. Introduction to Languages and the Theory of Computation, John Martin.
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5. Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP Completeness, M. R. Garey and

D. S. Johnson.
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COMPUTER ORGANIZATION & ARCHITECHTURE (PCC-CS 402)

Revision of basics in Boolean logic and Combinational/Sequential Circuits.
Functional blocks of a computer: CPU, memory, input-output subsystems, control unit.
Instruction set architecture of a CPU: Registers, instruction execution cycle, RTL interpretation
of instructions, addressing modes, instruction set. Outlining instruction sets of some common
CPUs.
Data representation: Signed number representation, fixed and floating point representations,
character representation.
Computer arithmetic: Integer addition and subtraction, ripple carry adder, carry look-ahead
adder, etc. multiplication – shift-and-add, Booth multiplier, carry save multiplier, etc. Division
restoring and non-restoring techniques, floating point arithmetic, IEEE 754 format.
Introduction to x86 architecture.
CPU control unit design: Hardwired and micro-programmed design approaches, design of a
simple hypothetical CPU.
Memory system design: Semiconductor memory technologies, memory organization.
Peripheral devices and their characteristics: Input-output subsystems, I/O device interface, I/O
transfers – program controlled, interrupt driven and DMA, privileged and non-privileged
instructions, software interrupts and exceptions. Programs and processes – role of interrupts in
process state transitions, I/O device interfaces – SCII, USB
Pipelining: Basic concepts of pipelining, throughput and speedup, pipeline hazards.
Parallel Processors: Introduction to parallel processors, Concurrent access to memory and cache
coherency.
Memory organization: Memory interleaving, concept of hierarchical memory organization,
cache memory, cache size vs. block size, mapping functions, replacement algorithms, write
policies.
Text Books:
1. Computer System Architecture M. M. Mano:, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 1993.
2. Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, David A. Patterson
and John L. Hennessy.
3. Computer Organization and Embedded Systems, Carl Hamacher.
Reference Books:
1. Computer Architecture and Organization, John P. Hayes.
2. Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance, William Stallings.
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3. Computer System Design and Architecture, Vincent P. Heuring and Harry F. Jordan.
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OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (PCC-CS503) + Lab

Procedural programming, An Overview of C: Types Operator and Expressions, Scope and
Lifetime, Constants, Pointers, Arrays, and References, Control Flow, Functions and Program
Structure, Namespaces, error handling, Input and Output (C-way), Library Functions (string, math,
stdlib), Command line arguments, Pre-processor directive
Some difference between C and C++: Single line comments, Local variable declaration within
function scope, function declaration, function overloading, stronger type checking, Reference
variable, parameter passing – value vs reference, passing pointer by value or reference, #define
constant vs const, Operator new and delete, the typecasting operator, Inline Functions in contrast
to macro, default arguments
The Fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming: Necessity for OOP, Data Hiding, Data
Abstraction, Encapsulation, Procedural Abstraction, Class and Object.
More extensions to C in C++ to provide OOP Facilities: Scope of Class and Scope Resolution
Operator, Member Function of a Class, private, protected and public Access Specifier, this
Keyword, Constructors and Destructors, friend class, error handling (exception)
Essentials of Object Oriented Programming: Operator overloading, Inheritance – Single and
Multiple, Class Hierarchy, Pointers to Objects, Assignment of an Object to another Object,
Polymorphism through dynamic binding, Virtual Functions, Overloading, overriding and hiding,
Error Handling
Generic Programming: Template concept, class template, function template, template
specialization
Input and Output: Streams, Files, Library functions, formatted output
Object Oriented Design and Modelling: UML concept, Use case for requirement capturing,
Class diagram, Activity diagram and Sequence Diagram for design, Corresponding C++
code from design
Laboratory

Text Books:
1. The C++ Programming Language, Bjarne Stroustrup, Addison Wesley.
2. C++ and Object-Oriented Programming Paradigm, Debasish Jana, PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Reference Books:
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Semester 3

1. Programming – Principles and Practice Using C++, Bjarne Stroustrup, Addison Wesley.
2. The Design and Evolution of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup, Addison Wesley.
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COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS + Lab

Multivariate Normal Distribution: Multivariate Normal Distribution Functions, Conditional
Distribution and its relation to regression model, Estimation of parameters.
Multiple Linear Regression Model: Standard multiple regression models with emphasis on
detection of collinearity, outliers, non-normality and autocorrelation, Validation of model
assumptions.
Multivariate Regression: Assumptions of Multivariate Regression Models, Parameter
estimation, Multivariate Analysis of variance and covariance
Discriminant Analysis: Statistical background, linear discriminant function analysis, Estimating
linear discriminant functions and their properties.
Principal Component Analysis: Principal components, Algorithm for conducting principal
component analysis, deciding on how many principal components to retain, H-plot.
Factor Analysis: Factor analysis model, Extracting common factors, determining number of
factors, Transformation of factor analysis solutions, Factor scores.
Cluster Analysis: Introduction, Types of clustering, Correlations and distances, clustering by
partitioning methods, hierarchical clustering, overlapping clustering, K-Means Clustering-
Profiling and Interpreting Clusters.

Laboratory
Python Concepts, Data Structures, Classes: Interpreter, Program Execution, Statements,
Expressions, Flow Controls, Functions, Numeric Types, Sequences and Class Definition,
Constructors, Text & Binary Files - Reading and Writing
Visualization in Python: Matplotlib package, Plotting Graphs, Controlling Graph, Adding Text,
More Graph Types, Getting and setting values, Patches
Multivariate data analysis: Multiple regression, multi variate regression, cluster analysis with
various algorithms, factor analysis, PCA and linear discriminant analysis. Various datasets should
be used for each topic

Text Books:
1. An Introduction to Multivariate Statistical Analysis, T.W. Anderson.
2. Applied Multivariate Data Analysis, Vol I & II, J.D. Jobson.
3. Statistical Tests for Multivariate Analysis, H. Kris.
4. Programming Python, Mark Lutz.
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5. Python 3 for Absolute Beginners, Tim Hall and J-P Stacey.

6. Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional, Magnus Lie Hetland. Edition, 2005.
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Semester III
COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS + Lab (continued)
Reference Books:
1. Regression Diagnostics , Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearety, D.A.
Belsey, E. Kuh and R.E. Welsch
2. Applied Linear Regression Models, J. Neter, W. Wasserman and M.H. Kutner.
3. The Foundations of Factor Analysis, A.S. Mulaik.
4. Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis, D.C. Montgomery and E.A. Peck.
5. Cluster Analysis for Applications, M.R. Anderberg.
6. Multivariate Statistical Analysis, D.F. Morrison.
7. Python for Data Analysis, Wes Mc Kinney.
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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING + Lab

Introduction: Programming in the small vs. programming in the large; software project failures
and importance of software quality and timely availability; engineering approach to software
development; role of software engineering towards successful execution of large software projects;
emergence of software engineering as a discipline.
Software Project Management: Basic concepts of life cycle models – different models and
milestones; software project planning – identification of activities and resources; concepts of
feasibility study; techniques for estimation of schedule and effort; software cost estimation models
and concepts of software engineering economics; techniques of software project control and
reporting; introduction to measurement of software size; introduction to the concepts of risk and
its mitigation; configuration management.
Software Quality and Reliability: Internal and external qualities; process and product quality;
principles to achieve software quality; introduction to different software quality models like
McCall, Boehm, FURPS / FURPS+, Dromey, ISO – 9126; introduction to Capability Maturity
Models (CMM and CMMI); introduction to software reliability, reliability models and estimation.
Software Requirements Analysis, Design and Construction: Introduction to Software
Requirements Specifications (SRS) and requirement elicitation techniques; techniques for
requirement modeling – decision tables, event tables, state transition tables, Petri nets;
requirements documentation through use cases; introduction to UML, introduction to software
metrics and metrics based control methods; measures of code and design quality.
Object Oriented Analysis, Design and Construction: Concepts -- the principles of abstraction,
modularity, specification, encapsulation and information hiding; concepts of abstract data type;
Class Responsibility Collaborator (CRC) model; quality of design; design measurements; concepts
of design patterns; Refactoring; object oriented construction principles; object oriented metrics.
Software Testing: Introduction to faults and failures; basic testing concepts; concepts of
verification and validation; black box and white box tests; white box test coverage – code coverage,
condition coverage, branch coverage; basic concepts of black-box tests – equivalence classes,
boundary value tests, usage of state tables; testing use cases; transaction based testing; testing for
non-functional requirements – volume, performance and efficiency; concepts of inspection.
Laboratory
Development of requirements specification, function oriented design using SA/SD, object-oriented
design using UML, test case design, implementation using C++ and testing. Use of appropriate
CASE tools and other tools such as configuration management tools, program analysis tools in
the software life cycle.
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Semester III
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING + Lab (continued)
Text Books:
1. Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville
Reference Books:
1. Fundamentals of Software Engineering, Carlo Ghezzi, Jazayeri Mehdi, Mandrioli Dino
2. Software Requirements and Specification: A Lexicon of Practice, Principles and Prejudices,
Michael Jackson
3. The Unified Development Process, Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh
4. Design Patterns: Elements of Object-Oriented Reusable Software, Erich Gamma, Richard
Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
5. Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach, Norman E Fenton, Shari Lawrence
Pfleeger
6. Software Engineering: Theory and Practice, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and Joanne M. Atlee
7. Object-Oriented Software Construction, Bertrand Meyer
8. Object Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach --Ivar Jacobson
9. Touch of Class: Learning to Program Well with Objects and Contracts --Bertrand Meyer
10. UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language --Martin Fowler

INDIAN CONSTITUTION (Non Credit)

(To be finalised by Respective Institute)
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TCS

Computer Science & Business

Systems
Semester 4 Curriculum
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OPERATING SYSTEMS (PCC-CS-403) + Lab (Unix)

Introduction: Concept of Operating Systems (OS), Generations of OS, Types of OS, OS Services,
Interrupt handling and System Calls, Basic architectural concepts of an OS, Concept of Virtual
Machine, Resource Manager view, process view and hierarchical view of an OS.
Processes: Definition, Process Relationship, Different states of a Process, Process State
transitions, Process Control Block (PCB), Context switching.
Thread: Definition, Various states, Benefits of threads, Types of threads, Concept of multithreads.
Process Scheduling: Foundation and Scheduling objectives, Types of Schedulers, Scheduling
criteria: CPU utilization, Throughput, Turnaround Time, Waiting Time, Response Time.
Scheduling algorithms: Pre-emptive and non-pre-emptive, FCFS, SJF, RR; Multiprocessor
scheduling: Real Time scheduling: RM and EDF.
Inter-process Communication: Concurrent processes, precedence graphs, Critical Section, Race
Conditions, Mutual Exclusion, Hardware Solution, Semaphores, Strict Alternation, Peterson’s
Solution, The Producer / Consumer Problem, Event Counters, Monitors, Message Passing,
Classical IPC Problems: Reader’s & Writer Problem, Dinning Philosopher Problem, Barber’s shop
problem.
Deadlocks: Definition, Necessary and sufficient conditions for Deadlock, Deadlock Prevention,
Deadlock Avoidance: Banker’s algorithm, Deadlock detection and Recovery.
Concurrent Programming: Critical region, conditional critical region, monitors, concurrent
languages, communicating sequential process (CSP); Deadlocks - prevention, avoidance, detection
and recovery.
Memory Management: Basic concept, Logical and Physical address maps, Memory allocation:
Contiguous Memory allocation – Fixed and variable partition– Internal and External fragmentation
and Compaction.
Virtual Memory: Basics of Virtual Memory – Hardware and control structures – Locality of
reference, Page allocation, Partitioning, Paging, Page fault, Working Set, Segmentation, Demand
paging, Page Replacement algorithms: Optimal, First in First Out (FIFO), Second Chance (SC),
Not recently used (NRU) and Least Recently used (LRU).
I/O Hardware: I/O devices, Device controllers, Direct Memory Access, Principles of I/O.
File Management: Concept of File, Access methods, File types, File operation, Directory
structure, File System structure, Allocation methods (contiguous, linked, indexed), Free-space
management (bit vector, linked list, grouping), directory implementation (linear list, hash table),
efficiency and performance.
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Disk Management: Disk structure, Disk scheduling - FCFS, SSTF, SCAN, C-SCAN, Disk
reliability, Disk formatting, Boot-block, Bad blocks.
Case study: UNIX OS file system, shell, filters, shell programming, programming with the
standard I/O, UNIX system calls.

Text Books:
1. Operating System Concepts Essentials. Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg
Gagne.
Reference Books:
1. Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles. William Stallings.
2. Operating System: A Design-oriented Approach. Charles Patrick Crowley.
3. Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective. Gary J. Nutt.
4. Design of the Unix Operating Systems. Maurice J. Bach.
5. Understanding the Linux Kernel, Daniel Pierre Bovet, Marco Cesati.
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DATATBASE MANGEMENT SYSTEMS (PCC-CS503) + Lab

Introduction: Introduction to Database. Hierarchical, Network and Relational Models.
Database system architecture: Data Abstraction, Data Independence, Data Definition Language
(DDL), Data Manipulation Language (DML).
Data models: Entity-relationship model, network model, relational and object oriented data
models, integrity constraints, data manipulation operations.
Relational query languages: Relational algebra, Tuple and domain relational calculus, SQL3,
DDL and DML constructs, Open source and Commercial DBMS - MYSQL, ORACLE, DB2, SQL
server.
Relational database design: Domain and data dependency, Armstrong's axioms, Functional
Dependencies, Normal forms, Dependency preservation, Lossless design.
Query processing and optimization: Evaluation of relational algebra expressions, Query
equivalence, Join strategies, Query optimization algorithms.
Storage strategies: Indices, B-trees, Hashing.
Transaction processing: Concurrency control, ACID property, Serializability of scheduling,
Locking and timestamp based schedulers, Multi-version and optimistic Concurrency Control
schemes, Database recovery.
Database Security: Authentication, Authorization and access control, DAC, MAC and RBAC
models, Intrusion detection, SQL injection.
Advanced topics: Object oriented and object relational databases, Logical databases, Web
databases, Distributed databases, Data warehousing and data mining.

Text Books:
1. Database System Concepts. Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth and S. Sudarshan.
Reference Books:
1. Principles of Database and Knowledge – Base Systems, Vol 1 by J. D. Ullman.
2. Fundamentals of Database Systems. R. Elmasri and S. Navathe.
3. Foundations of Databases. Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, Victor Vianu.
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SOFTWARE DESIGN EITH UML + Lab

Introduction to on Object Oriented Technologies and the UML Method.

• Software development process: The Waterfall Model vs. The Spiral Model.
• The Software Crisis, description of the real world using the Objects Model.
• Classes, inheritance and multiple configurations.
• Quality software characteristics.
• Description of the Object Oriented Analysis process vs. the Structure Analysis Model.

Introduction to the UML Language.

• Standards.
• Elements of the language.
• General description of various models.
• The process of Object Oriented software development.
• Description of Design Patterns.
• Technological Description of Distributed Systems.

Requirements Analysis Using Case Modeling

• Analysis of system requirements.
• Actor definitions.
• Writing a case goal.
• Use Case Diagrams.
• Use Case Relationships.

Transfer from Analysis to Design in the Characterization Stage: Interaction Diagrams.

• Description of goal.
• Defining UML Method, Operation, Object Interface, Class.
• Sequence Diagram.
• Finding objects from Flow of Events.
• Describing the process of finding objects using a Sequence Diagram.
• Describing the process of finding objects using a Collaboration Diagram.

The Logical View Design Stage: The Static Structure Diagrams.

• The Class Diagram Model.
• Attributes descriptions.
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• Operations descriptions.
• Connections descriptions in the Static Model.
• Association, Generalization, Aggregation, Dependency, Interfacing, Multiplicity.

Package Diagram Model.

• Description of the model.

• White box, black box.
• Connections between packagers.
• Interfaces.
• Create Package Diagram.
• Drill Down.

Dynamic Model: State Diagram / Activity Diagram.

• Description of the State Diagram.
• Events Handling.
• Description of the Activity Diagram.
• Exercise in State Machines.

Component Diagram Model.

• Physical Aspect.
• Logical Aspect.
• Connections and Dependencies.
• User face.
• Initial DB design in a UML environment.

Deployment Model.
• Processors.
• Connections.
• Components.
• Tasks.
• Threads.
• Signals and Events.

Text Books:
1. Object-Oriented Software Engineering: using UML, Patterns, and Java. Bernd Bruegge and Allen
H. Dutoit.
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Reference Books:
1. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Erich Gamma, Richard Helm,
Ralph Johnson, and John M. Vlissides.
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Introduction to Innovation, IP Management & Entrepreneurship

Course ID:
2.2.4 (Year 2 Semester 2)

Course Pre Requisite(s):

Good knowledge of Fundamentals of Management (Covered in Year 2, Semester 1)

Course Outcome(s):
The major emphasis of the course will be on creating a learning system through which management
students can enhance their innovation and creative thinking skills, acquaint themselves with the special
challenges of starting new ventures and use IPR as an effective tool to protect their innovations and
intangible assets from exploitation.

As a part of this course, students will:

• Learn to be familiar with creative and innovative thinking styles

• Learn to investigate, understand and internalize the process of founding a startup
• Learn to manage various types of IPR to protect competitive advantage

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Innovation: What and Why?

Innovation as a core business process, Sources of innovation, Knowledge push vs. need pull
innovations.

Class Discussion- Is innovation manageable or just a random gambling activity?

UNIT – II

Building an Innovative Organization

Creating new products and services, Exploiting open innovation and collaboration, Use of innovation
for starting a new venture
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Class Discussion- Innovation: Co-operating across networks vs. ‘go-it-alone’ approach

UNIT – III

Entrepreneurship:

• Opportunity recognition and entry strategies

• Entrepreneurship as a Style of Management
• Maintaining Competitive Advantage- Use of IPR to protect Innovation

UNIT – IV

Entrepreneurship- Financial Planning:

• Financial Projections and Valuation

• Stages of financing
• Debt, Venture Capital and other forms of Financing

UNIT – V

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

• Introduction and the economics behind development of IPR: Business Perspective

• IPR in India – Genesis and Development
• International Context
• Concept of IP Management, Use in marketing

UNIT – VI

Types of Intellectual Property

• Patent- Procedure, Licensing and Assignment, Infringement and Penalty

• Trademark- Use in marketing, example of trademarks- Domain name
• Geographical Indications- What is GI, Why protect them?
• Copyright- What is copyright
• Industrial Designs- What is design? How to protect?

Class Discussion- Major Court battles regarding violation of patents between corporate companies
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Home Assignment:
Case study materials book will be given to students. Students are required to meet in groups before
coming to class and prepare on the case for the day. Instructor may ask the student groups to present
their analysis and findings to the class.

Further, the topic for class discussion will be mentioned beforehand and students should be ready to
discuss these topics (in groups) in class. Students are required to meet in groups before coming to class
and prepare on the topic. Few topics are mentioned below as examples. Instructor can add or change
any topic as per requirement.

Topic 1- Is innovation manageable or just a random gambling activity?

Topic 2- Innovation: Co-operating across networks vs. ‘go-it-alone’ approach

Topic 3- Major Court battles regarding violation of patents between corporate companies

Text Books:

1. Joe Tidd, John Bessant. Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and
Organizational Change
2. Case Study Materials: To be distributed for class discussion
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Business Communication & Value Science 3

TEACHING SCHEME: EXAMINATION SCHEME: CREDITS ALLOTTED:

Theory: 2.5 Hrs./Week Semester Examination: 50 marks 4
Practical: 1.5 Hrs. / Week Continuous Assessment: Yes
Lab: 2 Hrs. / Week Term Work: 50 marks

Course ID:

1.6 (Year 2 Semester 4)

Leadership Oriented Learning (LOL)

Nature of Course Behavioral

Pre requisites
Basic Knowledge of English (verbal and written)
Completion of all units from Semesters 1, 2 and 3

Course Objectives:

1 Develop technical writing skills

2 Introduce students to Self-analysis techniques like SWOT & TOWS

Introduce students to key concepts of:
3
a) Pluralism & cultural spaces
b) Cross-cultural communication
c) Science of Nation building
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Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, students shall have ability to

C2.6.1 Apply & analyze the basic principles of SWOT & life positions. [U]
C2.6.2 Understand, analyze & leverage the power of motivation in real life [AP]
C2.6.3 Identify & respect pluralism in cultural spaces [AP]
C2.6.4 Understand and apply the concepts of Global, glocal and translocational [C]
C2.6.5 Analyze cross cultural communication [U]
C2.6.6 Apply the science of Nation building [AP]
C2.6.7 Identify the common mistakes made in cross-cultural communication [E]
C2.6.8 Understand, apply & analyze the tools of technical writing [U]
C2.6.9 Recognize the roles and relations of different genders. [AP]
C2.6.10 Understand Artificial intelligence &recognize its impact in daily life [U]
C2.6.11 Identify the best practices of technical writing [AP]
C2.6.12 Differentiate between the diverse culture of India [E]

Course Contents:

Objectives for Semester 4

After completing this semester, learners will be able to:

• Summarize the basic principles of SWOT and Life Positions.
• Apply SWOT in real life scenarios.
• Recognize how motivation helps real life.
• Leverage motivation in real-life scenarios.
• Identify pluralism in cultural spaces.
• Respect pluralism in cultural spaces.
• Differentiate between the different cultures of India.
• Define the terms global, glocal and translocational.
• Differentiate between global, glocal and translocational culture.
• Recognize the implications of cross-cultural communication.
• Identify the common mistakes made in cross-cultural communication.
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• Apply cross-cultural communication.

• Differentiate between the roles and relations of different genders.
• Summarize the role of science in nation building.
• Define AI (artificial intelligence).
• Recognize the importance of AI.
• Identify the best practices of technical writing.
• Apply technical writing in real-life scenarios.

Total Hours:
48 hours
Text Books:

There are no prescribed texts for Semester 4 – there will be handouts and reference
links shared.
Reference Books:
1

Web References:
1 Examples of Technical Writing for Students
https://freelance-writing.lovetoknow.com/kinds-technical-writing
2 11 Skills of a Good Technical Writer
https://clickhelp.com/clickhelp-technical-writing-blog/11-skills-of-a-good-technical-
writer/
3
13 benefits and challenges of cultural diversity in the workplace

https://www.hult.edu/blog/benefits-challenges-cultural-diversity-workplace/
Online Resources:
1 https://youtu.be/CsaTslhSDI
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2 https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=IIKvV8_T95M

3 https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=e80BbX05D7Y

4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dT_D68RJ5T8&feature=youtu.be

5 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7sLLEdBgYYY&feature=youtu.be

Assessment Methods & Levels (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy)

Formative assessment (Max. Marks:20)
Bloom’s
Course Outcome Assessment Component Marks
Level
C1.6.1 Analyze SWOT in real life 5
C1.6.2 Analyze Motivation in real life 4

Summative Assessment based on End Semester Project

Bloom’s Level
Understand 50
Apply Written Assessment, project and group discussion
Analyze

Lesson Plan

Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
Guest lecture by a renowned This will be outside 90 mins
personality to kick start this the total hours for
semester. this Semester

1 REUNION Activity
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
Recap activity on the earlier
learning after a 6 months
break.
60
If we can flash the projects Minutes
they completed in the last
semester……
End with a Quiz in multiple
format rounds testing the
objectives.
Summarize the 2 SWOT and Life Positions
basic principles of
1 SWOT and Life Meet Dananjaya: Meet
Positions. Dananjaya Hettiarachchi The
World Champion of Public
Speaking 2014 who made the
winning speech which was
rated amongst the “Most
talked-about speeches of
2014”.

https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=bbz2boNSeL0&t=24s
60
Lecture and activity
Minutes
Debrief on the video. How it
relates to SWOT.

Intro activity: Give story of

an individual* and divide
people into 4 groups S W O
T and ask them to jot down
the SWOT. Start with a
different nomenclature
(demystifying SWOT)
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
1 Apply SWOT in 3 Pat your back
real life activity…strength will be
scenarios. written by others other points Practical 60
by you Minutes

Create your SWOT

1 Apply SWOT in 3 SWOT Vs. TOWS Lab 120

real life The Balancing Act minutes
scenarios.
Ted talk on biomimicry:
(Only first 8 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=RHrO4t86phA

Debrief on the Ted talk in

which the facilitator gently
guides the group towards the
understanding that survival
happens only when we seek
ideas from the external world
to turn the threat into
opportunity

Research on TOWS and find

out how you can turn your
threat into opportunity. Two
people mutually identifying
opportunities from each
other's threats.

1 Apply SWOT in 3 Formative 90 mins

real life Presentation on what are the evaluation
scenarios. strengths they have identified
to survive in the VUCA
World.
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
Group presentations of 10
mins each.

1 Recognize how 1 Motivation Lecture and activity 90 mins

motivation helps
real life. Stories
YouTube videos on
Maslow’s Theory
Leverage 3 Scenario based activity on Formative 60 mins
motivation in identifying and leveraging evaluation/Lab
1 real-life motivation
scenarios.

1 Recognize how 1 Present their findings and Practical 60 mins

motivation helps approaches as groups. They
real life. need to explain the idea of
motivation with the help of
examples.
Unit 2
Identify pluralism 1 Rivers of India
in cultural spaces. a. Divide participants into
2 groups of 5. Each group Activity 90
should assign themselves a Minutes
name from the Indian Rivers.
These groups will continue
throughout this Unit.

b. Learn and Exchange

Group activity in which

participants need to learn the
following four greetings of a
state (different from their
own) and exchange it with
another group:

• Good morning
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
• Thank you
• Sorry
• Good night
Indicative only

Identify pluralism 2
in cultural spaces. a. Awareness and respect for
pluralism in cultural spaces Theory/Discussion 90
2 Respect pluralism using Phir Miley Sur Minutes
in cultural spaces. Mera Tumhara
3 b. Announce the Rhythms of
India activity to be held in
the next session. The rules of
the activity will be detailed at
this point. Teams to prepare
for the performance beyond
class hours.
2 Differentiate 2 Rhythms of India (Cultures
between the in India)
different cultures Practical/Discussion 120
of India. Group activity: Each group Minutes
to perform a short dance
piece (3 mins) from any of
the Indian states (to be
decided by lots).

They have to present the

background and unique
features of the dance form (5
min).
2 • Define the terms 1, 2 a. Global, glocal, Lecture/Discussion 60 mins
global, glocal and translocational
translocational.
Use Ted and YouTube
• Differentiate videos to show examples
between global,
glocal and b. Announce debate to be
translocational held in the next session. They
culture. have to come prepared for
the debate/discussion.
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
2 Differentiate 2 Debate on Global, glocal, Activity 60 mins
between global, tanslocational impacts (topics
glocal and to be decided by the faculty
translocational or suggested by the students).
culture.
Debate to be held in the
presence of an external
moderator.

Eight groups will get four

topics to debate upon.
2 • Recognize the 1, 2 Cross-cultural Lecture/Discussion 60 mins
implications of communication
cross-cultural
A. Verbal and non-verbal
communication.
communication (approach is
• Identify the through videos). Point out
common the obvious mistakes. From
mistakes made our perspective…how
in cross-cultural anyone would feel if
communication. someone else made mistakes
about our cultures.

B. Let participants have a

group discussion on the
implications of cross cultural
communication.
2 Apply cross 3 Suggested long-term activity:
cultural A VR game in which
communication. learners can visit different
locations of the world and
overcome challenges by
using cross cultural skills.
Identify the 2 Culture shock Practical 60 mins
2 common mistakes
made in cross- Group activity to perform
cultural skits based on situations
communication provided by the lecturer.
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
2 Differentiate 2 Gender awareness Discussion 90 mins
between the roles
and relations of Participants will view
different genders. relevant scenarios in the class
and then participate in a
reflection activity in group.
The scenarios can be
presented using an
Augmented Reality
intervention.

2 Differentiate 2 Gender awareness campaign Activity 60 mins

between the roles
and relations of Groups to present the
different genders. detailed plan of Gender
awareness campaigns with
four different themes.

• College
• Workplace
• Family
• Friends

2 Quiz Time Summative 60

Evaluation for Unit Minutes
Unit 3
3 Summarize the Role of science in nation
role of science in building
nation building.
Introduce the topic and
discuss the role of scientists
and mathematicians from
2 Theory and lab 90 mins
ancient India.

Break the students into

groups and give them ten
minutes to access internet
and get information about ten
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
eminent scientists and
mathematicians of ancient
India. Groups will be given
five minutes to present on the
next day. Groups will also
frame two questions which
they will ask after presenting.

This can also be taught

through Augmented Reality,
where images of the
scientists will be put up
around the class and they
will be able to gather the
information by using their
phones and AR app.

Groups present their Activity 90 mins

findings.

Other groups note down their

learning.

At the end there will be a

quiz to assess their learning.
Summarize the 2 Role of science post- Lab and practical 120 mins
role of science in independence
nation building.
Groups to present using
multiple formats on any one
of the four given topics.

• Inventions
• Inventors
• Institutes
• Information
technology
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
Identify the best 1 Introduction to technical Lecture (Guest 60 mins
practices of writing faculty, over
technical writing. webinar)
Basic rules of technical
writing through examples.

Identify the best 1 Practice activity on technical Lab 60 mins

practices of writing.
technical writing.

Apply technical 3 Assessment on technical Summative 60 mins

writing in real- writing on the following evaluation
life scenarios. topic:

Explain the following to a

visually impaired person:

• DNA
• Rings of Saturn
• Structure of an
oxygen atom
• Structure of heart

Unit 4
4 Define AI 1 “Voice of the Future” Activity 90 mins
(artificial Activity
intelligence).
How will a voice assistant
evolve in 25 years from
now? Each group will
present a skit.
Recognize the 1 AI in Everyday Life Lab and Activity 90 mins
importance of AI.
Discussion in groups on
given topics and then cross
sharing of discussion points
amongst the groups.
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
Recognize the 1 Design your college in the Lab and Practical 90 mins
importance of AI. year 2090

Groups need to create the

college of future with the
future teachers, teaching
methods, types of students,
etc.

We will end the session with

the question: How will
offices/workplaces change in
future? Who do you think
would be your colleagues?
Recognize the 1 Communicating with Lecture 60 mins
importance of AI. machines

Theory and Ted talk videos

Recognize the 1 Debate in the presence of an Discussion 90 mins

importance of AI. external moderator.

Will machines control us in

future?

Identify the best 1 Applying technical writing in Lecture 90 mins

practices of profession
technical writing.
Theory with YouTube and
Dr Bimal Ray’s videos.

Dr Bimal Kumar Roy, a

former Director of the Indian
Statistical Institute, is a
cryptologist from the
Cryptology Research Group
of the Applied Statistics Unit
of ISI, Kolkata.
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
Apply technical 3 Scenario-based Assessment Summative 60 mins
writing in real- on technical writing evaluation
life scenarios.
Each group will make a
presentation on the
following:

a) Sell Analytics and

Insight to the local tea
seller.
b) Explain the concept of
Cloud to your 87 year
old grandmother.
c) Introduce the concept of
friendly robots to a class
3 kid.
Explain IOT to your helping
hand at home
Project
Visit rural area/ Project 10 hours
underprivileged parts of city
to address some of the local
issues; if relevant, suggest a
practical technology solution
to the issues.
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Operations Research + Lab

Introduction to OR:
Origin of OR and its definition. Concept of optimizing performance measure, Types of OR
problems, Deterministic vs. Stochastic optimization, Phases of OR problem approach – problem
formulation, building mathematical model, deriving solutions, validating model, controlling and
implementing solution.
Linear Programming:
Linear programming – Examples from industrial cases, formulation & definitions, Matrix form.
Implicit assumptions of LPP.
Some basic concepts and results of linear algebra – Vectors, Matrices, Linear Independence /
Dependence of vectors, Rank, Basis, System of linear eqns., Hyperplane, Convex set, Convex
polyhedron, Extreme points, Basic feasible solutions.
Geometric method: 2-variable case, Special cases – infeasibility, unboundedness, redundancy &
degeneracy, Sensitivity analysis.
Simplex Algorithm – slack, surplus & artificial variables, computational details, big-M method,
identification and resolution of special cases through simplex iterations.
Duality – formulation, results, fundamental theorem of duality, dual-simplex and primal-dual
algorithms.
Transportation and Assignment problems:
TP - Examples, Definitions – decision variables, supply & demand constraints, formulation,
Balanced & unbalanced situations, Solution methods – NWCR, minimum cost and VAM, test for
optimality (MODI method), degeneracy and its resolution.
AP - Examples, Definitions – decision variables, constraints, formulation, Balanced & unbalanced
situations, Solution method – Hungarian, test for optimality (MODI method), degeneracy & its
resolution.
PERT – CPM:
Project definition, Project scheduling techniques – Gantt chart, PERT & CPM, Determination of
critical paths, Estimation of Project time and its variance in PERT using statistical principles,
Concept of project crashing/time-cost trade-off.
Inventory Control:
Functions of inventory and its disadvantages, ABC analysis, Concept of inventory costs, Basics of
inventory policy (order, lead time, types), Fixed order-quantity models – EOQ, POQ & Quantity
discount models. EOQ models for discrete units, sensitivity analysis and Robustness, Special cases
of EOQ models for safety stock with known / unknown stock out situations, models under
prescribed policy, Probabilistic situations.
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Operations Research + Lab (continued)

Queuing Theory:
Definitions – queue (waiting line), waiting costs, characteristics (arrival, queue, service discipline)
of queuing system, queue types (channel vs. phase).
Kendall’s notation, Little’s law, steady state behaviour, Poisson’s Process & queue, Models with
examples - M/M/1 and its performance measures; M/M/m and its performance measures; brief
description about some special models.
Simulation Methodology:
Definition and steps of simulation, random number, random number generator, Discrete Event
System Simulation – clock, event list, Application in Scheduling, Queuing systems and Inventory
systems.
Text Books:
1. Operations Research: An Introduction. H.A. Taha.
Reference Books:
1. Linear Programming. K.G. Murthy.
2. Linear Programming. G. Hadley.
3. Principles of OR with Application to Managerial Decisions. H.M. Wagner.
4. Introduction to Operations Research. F.S. Hiller and G.J. Lieberman.
5. Elements of Queuing Theory. Thomas L. Saaty.
6. Operations Research and Management Science, Hand Book: Edited By A. Ravi Ravindran.
7. Management Guide to PERT/CPM. Wiest & Levy.
8. Modern Inventory Management. J.W. Prichard and R.H. Eagle.
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Essence of Indian Traditional Knowledge (Non Credit)

(To be finalised by Respective Institute)
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TCS

Computer Science & Business

Systems
Semester 5 Curriculum
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DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS (PCC-CS 404) + Lab

Introduction: Characteristics of Algorithm. Analysis of Algorithm: Asymptotic analysis of
Complexity Bounds – Best, Average and Worst-Case behavior; Performance Measurements of
Algorithm, Time and Space Trade-Offs, Analysis of Recursive Algorithms through Recurrence
Relations: Substitution Method, Recursion Tree Method and Masters’ Theorem.
Fundamental Algorithmic Strategies: Brute-Force, Heuristics, Greedy, Dynamic Programming,
Branch and Bound and Backtracking methodologies; Illustrations of these techniques for Problem-
Solving, Bin Packing, Knapsack, Travelling Salesman Problem.
Graph and Tree Algorithms: Traversal algorithms: Depth First Search (DFS) and Breadth First
Search (BFS); Shortest path algorithms, Transitive closure, Minimum Spanning Tree, Topological
sorting, Network Flow Algorithm.
Tractable and Intractable Problems: Computability of Algorithms, Computability classes – P,
NP, NP-complete and NP-hard. Cook’s theorem, Standard NP-complete problems and Reduction
techniques.
Advanced Topics: Approximation algorithms, Randomized algorithms, Class of problems
beyond NP – P SPACE, Introduction to Quantum Algorithms.
Lab
Implementation of Different Algorithms based on various algorithmic strategies using C/C++

Books:
1. Fundamental of Computer Algorithms, E. Horowitz and S. Sahni.
2. The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms, A. Aho, J. Hopcroft and J. Ullman.

Reference Books:
1. Introduction to Algorithms, T. H. Cormen, C. E. Leiserson and R. L. Rivest.
2. Computer Algorithms: Introduction to Design and Analysis, S. Baase.
3. The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1, Vol. 2 and Vol. 3, .D. E. Knuth.

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Michael A. Nielsen and Isaac L. Chuang.
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COMPILER DESIGN (PCC-CS 601) + Lab (LEX & YACC)

Introduction: Phases of compilation and overview. Lexical Analysis (scanner): Regular
languages, finite automata, regular expressions, relating regular expressions and finite automata,
scanner generator (lex, flex).
Syntax Analysis (Parser): Context-free languages and grammars, push-down automata, LL(1)
grammars and top-down parsing, operator grammars, LR(O), SLR(1), LR(1), LALR(1) grammars
and bottom-up parsing, ambiguity and LR parsing, LALR(1) parser generator (yacc, bison)
Semantic Analysis: Attribute grammars, syntax directed definition, evaluation and flow of
attribute in a syntax tree.
Symbol Table: Basic structure, symbol attributes and management. Run-time environment:
Procedure activation, parameter passing, value return, memory allocation, scope.
Intermediate Code Generation: Translation of different language features, different types of
intermediate forms.
Code Improvement (optimization): control-flow, data-flow dependence etc.; local optimization,
global optimization, loop optimization, peep-hole optimization etc.
Architecture dependent code improvement: instruction scheduling (for pipeline), loop
optimization (for cache memory) etc. Register allocation and target code generation.
Advanced topics: Type systems, data abstraction, compilation of Object Oriented features and
non-imperative programming languages.
Lab
Assignments using Lex and Yaac

Books:

1. Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, V. Aho, R. Sethi and J. Ullman.

2. Lex & Yacc, Levine R. John, Tony Mason and Doug Brown

Reference Books:
The Design and Evolution of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup.
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FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT

Course Outcome(s):
This course will teach students the management theories, evolution of management over the years and
few basic concepts without going into the details. After studying this course the students will develop an
understanding about how organizations work and find it easier to grasp the intricacies of other
management areas such as finance, marketing, strategy etc. which will be taken up in future terms.

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Management Theories: Concept and Foundations of Management, Evolution of Management Thoughts

[Pre-Scientific Management Era (before 1880), Classical management Era (1880-1930), Neo-classical
Management Era (1930-1950), Modern Management era (1950-on word). Contribution of Management
Thinkers: Taylor, Fayol, Elton Mayo etc.

UNIT – II

Functions of Management- Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Controlling

UNIT – III

Organization Behavior: Introduction, Personality, Perception, Learning and Reinforcement, Motivation,

Group Dynamics, Power & Influence, Work Stress and Stress Management, Decision Making, Problems in
Decision Making, Decision Making, Organizational Culture, Managing Cultural Diversity

UNIT – IV

Organizational Design: Classical, Neoclassical and Contingency approaches to organizational design;

Organizational theory and design, Organizational structure (Simple Structure, Functional Structure,
Divisional Structure, Matrix Structure)

UNIT – V

Managerial Ethics: Ethics and Business, Ethics of Marketing & advertising, Ethics of Finance & Accounting,
Decision – making frameworks, Business and Social Responsibility, International Standards, Corporate
Governance, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility
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UNIT – VI

Leadership: Concept, Nature, Importance, Attributes of a leader, developing leaders across the
organization, Leadership Grid

Home Assignment:
The topic for class discussion will be mentioned beforehand and students should be ready to discuss these
topics (in groups) in class. Students are required to meet in groups before coming to class and prepare on
the topic. Few topics are mentioned below as examples. Instructor can add or change any topic as per
requirement.

1. Topic: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and HRM implications: What does it mean to be
socially responsible within an increasingly financially driven market economy?
2. Topic: Leaders are Born, Not Made! The debate

Text Books:

1. Richard L. Daft, Understanding the Theory and Design of Organizations

Reference Books:
1. Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge, Neharika Vohra, Organizational Behavior
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BUSINESS STRATEGY

Course Outcome(s):
This course will help students,

• To learn the fundamental concepts of strategic management to analyze business situations and
apply these concepts to solve business problems.
• To understand the fundamental principles of and interrelationships among business functions
such as: R&D, production, marketing, finance, HR and information technology
• To understand the inter-relationships of business to individuals, other organizations, government
and society.
• To analyze complex, unstructured qualitative and quantitative problems, using appropriate tools.

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Introduction to Strategic Management

• Importance of Strategic Management

• Vision and Objectives
• Schools of thought in Strategic Management
• Strategy Content, Process, and Practice
• Fit Concept and Configuration Perspective in Strategic Management

UNIT – II

Internal Environment of Firm- Recognizing a Firm’s Intellectual Assets

• Core Competence as the Root of Competitive Advantage

• Sources of Sustained Competitive Advantage
• Business Processes and Capabilities-based Approach to Strategy

UNIT – III

External Environments of Firm- Competitive Strategy

• Five Forces of Industry Attractiveness that Shape Strategy

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• The concept of Strategic Groups, and Industry Life Cycle

• Generic Strategies
• Generic Strategies and the Value Chain

UNIT – IV

Corporate Strategy, and Growth Strategies

• The Motive for Diversification

• Related and Unrelated Diversification
• Business Portfolio Analysis
• Expansion, Integration and Diversification
• Strategic Alliances, Joint Ventures, and Mergers & Acquisitions

UNIT – V

Strategy Implementation: Structure and Systems

• The 7S Framework
• Strategic Control and Corporate Governance

Home Assignment:
• Latest business events would be discussed in class and students should be ready to discuss these
events (in groups). The topic will be mentioned beforehand. Students are required to meet in
groups before coming to class and prepare on the topic.
• There will be periodic homework assignments relating to the course concepts or mini-cases.
Specific instructions will be given separately.

Final Project:
Students (in groups) are required to work on a project and submit the project report and deliver
presentation. The topic of the project will be given later.

Text Books:

1. Robert M. Grant (2012). Contemporary Strategic Management, Blackwell, 7th Edition.

Reference Books:
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1. M.E. Porter, Competitive Strategy, 1980. M.E. Porter,

2. Competitive Advantage, 1985 Richard Rumelt (2011).
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters.
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DESIGN THINKING
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CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS + Lab (Elective I)

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CLOUD, MICROSERVICES & APPLICATION + Lab (Elective I)

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MACHINE LEARNING + Lab (Elective I)

Topics to Be Covered:

1. Introduction to Machine Learning (ML); Relationship between ML and human learning; A quick survey
of major models of how machines learn; Example applications of ML
2. Classification: Supervised Learning; The problem of classification; Feature engineering; Training and
testing classifier models; Cross-validation; Model evaluation (precision, recall, F1-mesure, accuracy,
area under curve); Statistical decision theory including discriminant functions and decision surfaces;
Naive Bayes classification; Bayesian networks; Decision Tree and Random Forests; k-Nearest neighbor
classification; Support Vector Machines; Artificial neural networks including backpropagation;
Applications of classifications; Ensembles of classifiers including bagging and boosting
3. Hidden Markov Models (HMM) with forward-backward and Vierbi algorithms; Sequence classification
using HMM; Conditional random fields; Applications of sequence classification such as part-of-speech
tagging
4. Regression: Multi-variable regression; Model evaluation; Least squares regression; Regularization;
LASSO; Applications of regression
5. Association rule mining algorithms including apriori
6. Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for unsupervised learning
7. Clustering: average linkage; Ward’s algorithm; Minimum spanning tree clustering; K-nearest
neighbors clustering; BIRCH; CURE; DBSCAN
8. Anomaly and outlier detection methods

Lab Sessions:
(1) Introduction to WEKA and R
(2) Classification of some public domain datasets in UCI ML repository

Mini projects in the Lab:

(1) Implementation of one clustering algorithm
(3) Implementation of one association rule mining algorithm
(4) Implementation of one anomaly detection algorithms
(5) Implementation of EM algorithm for some specific problem

References:
[1] R.O. Duda, P.E. Hart, D.G. Stork, Pattern Classification, 2/e, Wiley, 2001.
[2] C. Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer, 2007.
[3] E. Alpaydin, Introduction to Machine Learning, 3/e, Prentice-Hall, 2014.
[4] A. Rostamizadeh, A. Talwalkar, M. Mohri, Foundations of Machine Learning, MIT Press.
[5] A. Webb, Statistical Pattern Recognition, 3/e, Wiley, 2011.
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TCS

Computer Science & Business

Systems
Semester 6 Curriculum
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Semester 6

COMPUTER NETWORKS + LAB

Introduction: Computer networks and distributed systems, Classifications of computer networks,
Preliminaries of layered network structures.
Data communication Components: Representation of data and its flow, Various Connection
Topology, Protocols and Standards, OSI model, Transmission Media.
LAN: Wired LAN, Wireless LAN, Virtual LAN.
Techniques for Bandwidth utilization: Multiplexing - Frequency division, Time division and
Wave division, Concepts on spread spectrum.
Data Link Layer and Medium Access Sub Layer: Fundamentals of Error Detection and Error
Correction, Block coding, Hamming Distance, CRC; Flow Control and Error control protocols -
Stop and Wait, Go-back–N ARQ, Selective Repeat ARQ, Sliding Window, Piggybacking,
Random Access, Multiple access protocols - Pure ALOHA, Slotted ALOHA, CSMA/CD,
CDMA/CA
Network Layer: Switching, Logical addressing – IPV4, IPV6; Address mapping – ARP, RARP,
BOOTP and DHCP–Delivery, Forwarding and Unicast Routing protocols.
Transport Layer: Process to Process Communication, User Datagram Protocol (UDP),
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), SCTP Congestion Control; Quality of Service (QoS), QoS
improving techniques - Leaky Bucket and Token Bucket algorithms.
Application Layer: DNS, DDNS, TELNET, EMAIL, FTP, WWW, HTTP, SNMP, Bluetooth,
Firewalls.
Network Security: Electronic mail, directory services and network management, Basic concepts
of Cryptography.
Computer Networks Lab
1. Socket Programming using C/C++
2. Network System Administration: Understanding switches and routers

Books:
1. Computer Networks, A. Tannenbaum.
2. Data and Computer Communication, William Stallings.
Reference Books:
3. Network Security, Kaufman, R. Perlman and M. Speciner.
4. UNIX Network Programming, Vol. 1,2 & 3, W. Richard Stevens
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INFORMATION SECURITY + LAB

Overview of Security Parameters: Confidentiality, integrity and availability; Security violation
and threats; Security policy and procedure; Assumptions and Trust; Security Assurance,
Implementation and Operational Issues; Security Life Cycle.

Access Control Models: Discretionary, mandatory, roll-based and task-based models, unified
models, access control algebra, temporal and spatio-temporal models.

Security Policies: Confidentiality policies, integrity policies, hybrid policies, non-interference and
policy composition, international standards.

Systems Design: Design principles, representing identity, control of access and information flow,
confinement problem. Assurance: Building systems with assurance, formal methods, evaluating
systems.

Logic-based System: Malicious logic, vulnerability analysis, auditing, intrusion detection.

Applications: Network security, operating system security, user security, program security. Special
Topics: Data privacy, introduction to digital forensics, enterprise security specification.

Operating Systems Security: Security Architecture, Analysis of Security in Linux/Windows.

Database Security: Security Architecture, Enterprise security, Database auditing.

Lab
1. Analysis of security in Unix/Linux.
2. Administration of users, password policies, privileges and roles

Books:

1. Security Engineering, Ross Anderson.

2. Computer Security: Art and Science, M. Bishop, Pearson Education.
3. Information Security: Principles and Practice, M. Stamp.

Reference Books:
1. Security in Computing, C.P. Pfleeger, S.L. Pfleeger, J. Margulies.
2. Secure Programming HOWTO, David Wheeler.
3. Browser Security Handbook, Michael Zalewski.
4. Handbook of Database Security, M. Gertz, S. Jajodia.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE + LAB

Course Outcome(s):
This course introduces students to the basic knowledge representation, problem solving, and learning
methods of artificial intelligence.

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Introduction, Overview of Artificial intelligence: Problems of AI, AI technique, Tic - Tac - Toe problem.
Intelligent Agents, Agents & environment, nature of environment, structure of agents, goal based agents,
utility based agents, learning agents.

UNIT – II

Problem Solving, Problems, Problem Space & search: Defining the problem as state space search,
production system, problem characteristics, issues in the design of search programs.

UNIT – III

Search techniques: Problem solving agents, searching for solutions; uniform search strategies: breadth
first search, depth first search, depth limited search, bidirectional search, comparing uniform search
strategies. Heuristic search strategies Greedy best-first search, A* search, AO* search, memory bounded
heuristic search: local search algorithms & optimization problems: Hill climbing search, simulated
annealing search, local beam search

UNIT – IV

Constraint satisfaction problems: Local search for constraint satisfaction problems. Adversarial search,
Games, optimal decisions & strategies in games, the minimax search procedure, alpha-beta pruning,
additional refinements, iterative deepening.

UNIT – V

Knowledge & reasoning: Knowledge representation issues, representation & mapping, approaches to
knowledge representation. Using predicate logic, representing simple fact in logic, representing instant &
ISA relationship, computable functions & predicates, resolution, natural deduction. Representing
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knowledge using rules, Procedural verses declarative knowledge, logic programming, forward verses
backward reasoning, matching, control knowledge.

UNIT – VI
Probabilistic reasoning: Representing knowledge in an uncertain domain, the semantics of Bayesian
networks, Dempster-Shafer theory, Planning Overview, components of a planning system, Goal stack
planning, Hierarchical planning, other planning techniques.

UNIT – VII
Expert Systems: Representing and using domain knowledge, expert system shells, and knowledge
acquisition.

Home Assignments:
Assignments should include problems related to the topics covered in lectures, like heuristics, optimal
search, and graph heuristics. Constraint satisfaction problems, k-nearest neighbors, decision trees, etc.
can be included in home assignments.

Text Books:

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

2. Artificial Intelligence, Russel, Pearson

Reference Books:

1. Artificial Intelligence, Ritch & Knight, TMH

2. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, Patterson, PHI
3. Logic & Prolog Programming, Saroj Kaushik, New Age International
4. Expert Systems, Giarranto, VIKAS
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FINANCIAL & COST ACCOUNTING

Course Outcome(s):
This course will help students

• To create an awareness about the importance and usefulness of the accounting concepts and
their managerial implications
• To develop an understanding of the financial statements and the underlying principles and learn
to interpret financial statements
• To create an awareness about cost accounting, different types of costing and cost management

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Accounting Concept: Introduction, Techniques and Conventions, Financial Statements- Understanding &
Interpreting Financial Statements

UNIT – II

Accounting Process:

• Book Keeping and Record Maintenance

• Fundamental Principles and Double Entry
• Journal, Ledger, Trial Balance, Balance Sheet, Final Accounts
• Cash Book and Subsidiary Books
• Rectification of Errors

UNIT – III

Financial Statements: Form and Contents of Financial Statements, Analyzing and Interpreting Financial
Statements, Accounting Standards.

Class Discussion: Corporate Accounting Fraud- A Case Study of Satyam

UNIT – IV

Cash Flow and Fund Flow Techniques: Introduction, How to prepare, Difference between them
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UNIT – V

Costing Systems:

• Elements of Cost
• Cost Behavior, Cost Allocation, OH Allocation
• Unit Costing, Process Costing, Job Costing
• Absorption Costing, Marginal Costing, Cost Volume Profit Analysis
• Budgets
• ABC Analysis

Class Discussion: Application of costing concepts in the Service Sector

UNIT – VI

Company Accounts and Annual Reports:

• Audit Reports and Statutory Requirements

• Directors Report
• Notes to Accounts
• Pitfalls

Home Assignment:
Case study materials book will be given to students. Students are required to meet in groups before
coming to class and prepare on the case for the day. Instructor may ask the student groups to present
their analysis and findings to the class.

Further, the topic for class discussion will be mentioned beforehand and students should be prepared to
discuss these topics in class. Few topics are mentioned below as examples. Instructor can add or change
any topic as per requirement.

1. Topic: Corporate Accounting Fraud: A Case Study of Satyam

2. Topic: Application of costing concepts in the Service Sector

Text Books:

1. Robert N Anthony, David Hawkins, Kenneth Marchant, Accounting: Texts and Cases, McGraw-Hill
2. Case Study Materials: To be distributed for class discussion
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BUSINESS COMMUNICATION & VALUE SCIENCE – IV

TEACHING SCHEME: EXAMINATION SCHEME: CREDITS ALLOTTED:
Theory: 5 Hrs./Week Semester Examination: 50 4
Practical: 2 Hrs. / Week Continuous Assessment: Yes
Lab: 1 Hr / Week Term Work: marks

Leadership Oriented Learning (LOL)

Nature of Course Behavioral

Pre requisites
Basic Knowledge of English (verbal and written)
Completion of all units from Semesters 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

Course Objectives:
Recognize the importance of diversity in workplace
1
Recognize the best practices of communicative writing
2
Understand the importance of emotional intelligence in personal and professional lives
3

4 Apply emotional intelligence in real life scenarios

5 Use the best practices of public speaking in real life scenarios

6 Understand the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR)

7 Understand the importance of corporate etiquettes

8 Practice corporate etiquettes in real life scenarios

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9 Recognize the best practices to share and receive feedback

10 Use the basic guidelines required to manage conflicts

11 Understand how stress impacts life and work

12 Use the best practices to manage stress

13 Practice the best time management practices

Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, students shall have ability to

Understand the importance of diversity in workplace [U]

Apply emotional intelligence in real life scenarios [AP]
Recognize the best practices of communicative writing [AP]
Understand the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) [C]
Recognize the importance of time management [U]
Apply knowledge of multiple intelligences and learning styles in interpersonal [AP]
interactions
Recognize the impact of stress in life and work [E]
Understand how stress impacts life and work [U]
Identify the best practices to manage stress [AP]
Recognize the attributes needed to function and grow in a corporate [U]
environment
Recognize the best practices to share and receive feedback [AP]
Identify the best time management practices [E]

Course Contents:
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Objectives for Semester 6

• Understand the importance of diversity in workplace

• Identify the key aspects of communicative writing
• Apply communicative writing in real life scenarios
• Use charts and graphs in communicative writing
• Understand what is emotional intelligence
• Recognize the importance of emotional intelligence in personal and professional lives
• Understand why you would need public speaking at your workplace
• Identify the best practices of public speaking
• Apply public speaking in real life scenarios
• Recognize the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
• Recognize the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
• Recognize the attributes needed to function and grow in a corporate environment
• Recognize the best practices to share and receive feedback
• Apply emotional intelligence in real life scenarios
• Apply knowledge of multiple intelligences and learning styles in interpersonal interactions
• Recognize the impact of conflicts
• List the basic guidelines required to manage conflicts
• Recognize the key features of corporate etiquette
• Recognize the business idioms and corporate terms
• Apply the business idioms and corporate terms
• Recognize the impact of stress in life and work
• Identify the best practices to manage stress
• Recognize the importance of time management
• Identify the best time management practices

Total Hours:
45 hours
40 hours of
must know +
5 hours of
nice to know
learning
Text Books:
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There are no prescribed texts for Semester 6 – there will be handouts and reference links
shared.

Reference Books:
1 Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman

2 Putting Emotional Intelligence To Work by Ryback David

3 How to Develop Self Confidence and Improve Public Speaking - Time - Tested Methods
of Persuasion by Dale Carnegie
4 TED Talks: The official TED guide to public speaking: Tips and tricks for giving
unforgettable speeches and presentations
Web References:
1 https://www.tata.com/about-us/tata-group-our-heritage

2 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tata-success-story-is-based-on-humanity-
philanthropy-and-ethics/articleshow/41766592.cms
Online Resources:
1 https://youtu.be/reu8rzD6ZAE
2 https://youtu.be/Wx9v_J34Fyo

3 https://youtu.be/F2hc2FLOdhI

4 https://youtu.be/wHGqp8lz36c

5 https://youtu.be/hxS5He3KVEM

6 https://youtu.be/nMPqsjuXDmE

Assessment Methods & Levels (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy)

Formative assessment (Max. Marks:20)
Bloom’s
Course Outcome Assessment Component Marks
Level
C1.6.1 5
C1.6.2 4

Summative Assessment based on End Semester Project

Bloom’s Level
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Understand
Apply
Analyze

Lesson Plan

Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
1 NA – Recall Auld Lang Syne Activity 45 mins
Recapitulation information
activity This will be a group activity in
which lecturer will give some
key words (from what they
taught in the previous
semesters). Each group will
identify topics related to the
key words and take 2 mins to
share a summary of what they
learnt in that topic.

They can refer to their Satori

books and finally note down
these key learnings too.
1 Understand the 2 Introduce the concept of Activity 45 mins
importance of Diversity in corporate
diversity in environments through an
workplace activity.

1 Understand the 2 Discussion, role plays and Discussion and 60 mins

importance of sharing reference materials. Practical
diversity in
workplace
1 Identify the key 2 Communicative Writing
aspects of • Principles of 90 mins
communicative Communicative Writing (30 mins
writing Lecture and practice lecture +
• Formal and Business
60 mins
letters practice)
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
1 Apply 3 Writing proposals
communicative
writing in real life This will be taught through a
scenarios
group activity in which
students will be asked to
create a business proposal to
get funding to begin a start-up
of their choice.

After they share their

presentations, lecturer will
share the best practices and
templates for writing
Lecture and activity 90 mins
proposals (will be provided to
the lecturer as part of the
Faculty guide) and ask
students to review their
proposal and update it.

Students should save this

proposal for reference later in
the sem.

Students will have to continue

in these groups for the rest of
this sem.
1 Use charts and 3 How to tell a story with
graphs in charts and graphs
communicative
writing Session will begin with a
couple of demo videos. Practical 60 mins

This will be followed by an

activity on how to visually
represent information to tell a
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complete story. Students will
be required to use the
proposal for the start-up that
they created in the previous
class for this.

1 Understand what 2 Emotional Intelligence Lecture and activity 90 mins

is emotional
intelligence Begin with a short
video/movie clip showing
Recognize the manifestations of EI.
importance of
emotional Introduce the concept of EI
intelligence in and give them the experience
personal and through a game/activity.
professional lives
Discuss the findings that
students with higher EQ write
better exam papers.

Ref reading: 10 Ways to Build

EI by Daniel Goleman

Ask students to note down

the names of at least two
movies in their Satori slam
book, in which the characters
display EI.
1 Understand why 2 Why do we need public Lecture and 60 mins
you would need speaking? discussion
public speaking at
your workplace Any two of the YouTube
/IncTalks videos:
a. Swami Vivekananda’s
Chicago speech
b. Steve Jobs’ first
iPhone launch
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No Level
c. Martin Luther King Jr
(I have a dream…)
d. J K Rowling
commencement
speech address 2008
e. APJ Abdul Kalam
f. Any regional speakers

Professors to ask what is

common in these videos and
lead them to the concept of
public speaking (directions will
be provided in the Facilitator’s
Guide).

Session for students to re-visit

the group discussion and
value proposition sessions
that they participated in
during the previous
semesters. (This will be
integrated in the semester 6
content)
1 Identify the best Public speaking – best Activity 60 mins
practices of public practices
speaking
Ask each group (formed
earlier) to research and come
up with a list of best practices
along with examples (in the
class).

After each group presents

their list of best practices,
students will discuss and
create a consolidated list of
best practices by considering
all common or overlapping
ones and map it against the
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No Level
guidelines provided by the
TCS team.

Additional: Possible guest

lecture or webinar (Dr Giri)
1 Apply public 3 Get, Set, Go – sell your start- Formative 120 mins
speaking in real up ideas assessment
life scenarios
Each group to pitch their
start-up idea to a panel
consisting of external
professors.

They will use the presentation

they created earlier and the
best practices of public
speaking to tell their story
leveraging the storytelling and
doodling methods they learnt
in the previous semester
(Design Thinking). Their story
should at least include:
• Name of their start-up
• Who is the target
audience/end user?
• What problem will
their start-up solve?
• How do they plan to
run start up?
• How much
money/budget would
they need to begin
their work?
Professors to share the results
of this formative assessment
with the TCS Team so that we
can use it for reference in GD
post sem.
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
1 NA Let’s relax Activity 45 mins

This will be a short session in

which students will participate
in at least 2 Anubhaav
Activities (to be specified in
the Fac Guide).
2 Recognize the 1 Corporate Social Lecture 45 mins
importance of Responsibility (CSR)
corporate social
responsibility Ubuntu story – A story to
(CSR) introduce the concept of
social responsibility.

The story will be played

through an audio embedded
in the PPT (similar to an
audiobook).

2 Recognize some of 1 Hear CSR stories Lecture 60 mins

the stalwarts in • Meeting of JNT and Swami
CSR Vivekananda.
• Societal connect of JNT.
Stalwarts in CSR (Led by
Tatas)
• More Tata Group CSR
stories --- from Titan and
Tata Chemicals

Initially, Professors will share

any two of the above CSR
stories. Thereafter, they will
discuss the stories in the class
and ask the students to share
their thoughts.

Lecturer to ask students why

they need to conduct CSR
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
activities? (Answers will be
given in handouts provided by
the TATA Team)

Why do corporates need to

engage in CSR? Is it for
compliance only? The answers
to these questions (given in
the content) will refer back to
the topics on TCS values, life
skills and empathy taught in
the earlier semesters.

Lecturer to explain to the

students how CSR connects to
their values and how CSR
activities can add value to
their resumes.
2 Recognize the 1 Tell a CSR story Practice activity 90 mins
importance of
corporate social Activity - Groups will research
responsibility in class, prepare and present
(CSR) CSR activity of Tata Steel,
Microsoft, Google, TCS,
Starbucks, Titan, Tata
Chemicals and TOMS Shoes.

2 Recognize the 1 Attributes required for work Lecture and 60 mins

attributes needed and life discussion
to function and • Qualities of a good team
grow in a
member:
corporate
environment a) Resilience
b) Flexibility
c) Strategic thinking and
planning
d) Decision making
e) Resolving conflicts
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
Professors to first show
examples and non-examples
and then the participants to
identify the traits that set
them apart.

NA Let’s relax Activity 45 mins

This will be a short session in

which students will participate
in at least 2 Anubhaav
Activities (to be specified in
the Fac Guide).
3 Recognize the 1 Activity – Who am I? (Image Activity 60 mins
attributes needed Management. Building a
to function and perfect image)
grow in a
corporate
environment This is an individual activity in
which each participant needs
to reflect upon the following
questions (in the order given
below) and jot down the
answers. They will be given a
handout with the questions
printed on it for this activity.

1. What do I wish to be
seen as?
(aspirational state)
2. How do I see myself
now? (present state)
3. How others see me?
(perceptions)
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
4. What is the gap between
how others see me and
how I see myself?
5. How do I fill the gap?

Why is it important to fill the

gap (connect to importance
of personal branding to stay
relevant). Professor to share
examples of personal
branding in the corporate
world, as mentioned in the
content.
3 Recognize the 1 Examination Result Activity - Activity 90 mins
best practices to Locus of control
share and receive (referring back to
feedback
Emotional intelligence)
One person from each
group (to be decided
through drawing lots) will
be asked to step aside to
act as teachers. The rest of
the group members will
participate as students.
Each group will be given a
scenario in which they will
get mock grades in an
examination. They will be
asked to react to their
result. Their reactions will
be noted.
• Examination Result
Activity-Phase II –Role play
on feedback.
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
Now the teachers will be
asked to have a discussion
with each one to two
people from each group
sharing their feedback on
their reactions.

After the activity, tips to

receive and give feedback
will be shared. Handouts
will be shared with
lecturers.

3 Apply emotional 3 Applying emotional Lab Activity 60 mins

intelligence in real intelligence
life scenarios
Activity for applying
Emotional Intelligence using
scenarios within each start-up
group. There will be separate
scenarios for each group.

Professors will judge the

groups based on guidelines
provided by the TCS team.

NA Let’s relax Activity 45 mins

This will be a short session in

which students will participate
in at least 2 Anubhaav
Activities (to be specified in
the Fac Guide).
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
4 Apply knowledge 3 Sensitivity to diversity - Quiz Formative 60 mins
of multiple assessment
intelligences and A scenario-based quiz on
learning styles in
(handouts to refresh Sem-1
interpersonal
interactions content on multiple
intelligences and learning
styles followed by scenario-
based quiz) – awareness of
multiple intelligences and
learning styles in
communication. The
questions will be based on
scenarios that the students
might face later in their work
environment.

4 Recognize the Understanding conflicts Activity 90 mins

impact of conflicts
This will be a group activity.
Each group will be given a
scenario of typical conflicts
that occurs in a corporate
office. In each group roles will
be assigned to the group
members who would be
expected to play it.

Each group will enact the

situation while others watch
and note down their
observations on:

1. What is the conflict?

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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
2. What has caused the
conflict?
3. What is the negative
impact of the conflict?
4. What can be a
positive impact of the
conflict?

Each group will be requested

to draw up a list of tips to
manage conflicts at work and
share in the next class and
post on their Fb/Insta page.
They can compare it with
handout provided to
lecturers.

Student needs to reflect upon

lessons in empathy and active
listening (taught in the
previous semesters) while
managing conflicts.

Each person will be requested

to capture at least one Satori
moment from these
enactments of real-life
scenarios.

4 List the basic 1 Tips to manage conflicts Lecture 60 mins

guidelines
required to Each group will share their list
manage conflicts
of guidelines to manage
conflicts, post which the
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No Level
lecturer can share the
standard list provided (as a
hand-out) and discuss the
main points in the class.

After that the lecturer will ask

them to reflect on what are
the changes they need to
bring about in their behaviour,
based on Belbin’s Team Player
roles (Sem 2 Unit 3).
4 Recognize the key 1 Corporate etiquette Activity 60 mins
features of
corporate Mock interview rounds for
etiquette
each group with a prospective
employer followed by
discussions on corporate
etiquette (leverage Interview
Ready app)

4 Recognize the 1 Business idioms and Lab activity 60 mins

business idioms Corporate Terms
and corporate
terms This will begin with a quiz in
which in the first four rounds
Apply the business 3 each group needs to identify
idioms and the business idioms and
corporate terms corporate terms from given
excerpts. In the next four
rounds they will be asked to
supply the correct idiom or
term in a given business
scenario.

After the quiz, the lecturer

would share handouts of
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
common business idioms and
guide them to download the
TCS BizVocab on their
smartphones.

4 Recognize the 1 Managing Stress Lecture 60 mins

impact of stress in
life and work Participants will first watch a
short YouTube video:

Managing Stress - Brainsmart

– BBC (2:24 mins)

Then the lecturer will discuss

stress and its impact through
the following questions:

1. Have you ever felt

stressed?
2. What are the
situations that make
you feel stressed?
3. Does the stress help
you in overcoming the
situation?
4. Do you know how
stress affects your
health?

After this they will watch a

video on how stress impacts
health:

YouTube: The Long-term

Effects of Stress (5 mins)

Finally, each group will be

asked to create a poster with
stress management tips to be
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
presented in the next class
and uploaded on their
Fb/Insta pages.

5 Identify the best 1 Tips to manage stress Discussion Activity 60 mins

practices to
manage stress Each group will present their
posters and the class will
come up with a list of stress
management tips to be put up
on the Fb/Insta page.

They should also note this in

their journals so that they can
refer to it whenever they feel
stressed.
Recognize the 1 Time management Lecture 45 mins
importance of
time management Session begins with an
introductory activity that
establishes the fact that we
often manage time poorly and
as a result experience stress.

After that participants will

watch the YouTube video:

Importance of Time
Management For Better Life
Style (3:33 mins)

Now the lecturer will conduct

an open house discussion,
where the participants will
share their challenges to
manage time.
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level
Now the lecturer will ask the
participants to evaluate their
ability to handle their daily
task within 24 hrs on a scale
of 10. This is a confidential
rating which participants
needs to note down in their
satori book with date and
time for future reference. (
this activity will be repeated
at a later stage)

Identify the best 1 Managing your time better Activity 90 mins

time management
practices The class will start with the
YouTube video:

A valuable lesson for a happy

life (2:33 mins)

After viewing this, the

facilitator will ask the
participants to identify the
rocks, pebbles and sands in
their life.

This will be followed by the

Time Squared Activity:

Each participant gets 3 pages
with 24 squares representing
the hours in a day.

Participants need to fill out:

The first page with the

everyday activities in their day
(example, brushing teeth,
bathing, meals, travelling, etc)
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level

The second page with the

non-productive work that
they do every day (social
media, mobile-games, etc)

On the third page they can

add everything from the first
two pages to find out the
empty spaces. That is their
productive time when they
can study. This gives them a
view of what they can adjust
in order to increase their
study time.

Reference video:
Study Skills – Managing your
time (4:29 mins)

Participants to repeat the self-

evaluation exercise. In this
instant, the participants will
evaluate their ability to plan
their daily task on a scale of 1
to 10 with date and time.
Lecturer to encourage
participants to evaluate their
time management skills on a
regular basis.

NA Let’s relax Activity 45 mins

This will be a short session in

which students will participate
in at least 2 Anubhaav
Activities (to be specified in
the Fac Guide).
1 Create memories 30 mins
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Unit Objective Bloom’s Content Type of Class Duration

No Level

Recap activity on the entire

BCVS Course.

Total 30 hours

Project

Each group to create a POC 10 hours

(Proof of Concept) for their
start-up applying their
learnings from the CSBS
course (core subjects + BCVS).

The evaluation for this POC

will be done as part of the
Sem end assessment by the
TCS team. During the
assessment, students need to
share the journey of creating
their start-up: from inception
to POC.
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ROBOTICS + Lab (Elective III)

Work In Progress
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MODERN WEB APPLICATIONS + Lab (Elective III)

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DATA MINING AND ANALYTICS + LAB (ELECTIVE III)

Course Outcome(s):
Students will be able to

1. Understand basic concepts and techniques of Data Mining

2. Develop skills of using data mining software for solving practical problems
3. Understand and apply several statistical analysis techniques: regression, ANOVA, data reduction

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Introduction to Data Mining: What is data mining? Related technologies - Machine Learning, DBMS,
OLAP, Statistics, Stages of the Data Mining Process, Data Mining Techniques, Knowledge Representation
Methods, Applications

UNIT – II

Data preprocessing: Data cleaning, Data transformation, Data reduction, Discretization and generating
concept hierarchies, Installing Weka 3 Data Mining System, Experiments with Weka - filters, discretization
Data mining knowledge representation: Task relevant data, Background knowledge, Representing input
data and output knowledge, Visualization techniques
Attribute-oriented analysis: Attribute generalization, Attribute relevance, Class comparison, Statistical
measures

UNIT – III

Data mining algorithms - Association rules: Motivation and terminology, Example: mining weather data,
Basic idea: item sets, Generating item sets and rules efficiently, Correlation analysis
Data mining algorithms - Classification: Basic learning/mining tasks, Inferring rudimentary rules: 1R,
algorithm, Decision trees, covering rules
Data mining algorithms – Prediction: The prediction task, Statistical (Bayesian) classification, Bayesian
networks, Instance-based methods (nearest neighbor), linear models

UNIT – IV
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Descriptive analytics: Data Modeling, Trend Analysis, Simple Linear Regression Analysis
Forecasting models: Heuristic methods, predictive modeling and pattern discovery, Logistic Regression:
Logit transform, ML estimation, Tests of hypotheses, Wald test, LR test, score test, test for overall
regression, multiple logistic regression, forward, backward method, interpretation of parameters, relation
with categorical data analysis. Interpreting Regression Models, Implementing Predictive Models
Generalized Linear model: link functions such as Poisson, binomial, inverse binomial, inverse Gaussian,
Gamma.
Non Linear Regression (NLS): Linearization transforms, their uses & limitations, examination of non-
linearity, initial estimates, iterative procedures for NLS, grid search, Newton-Raphson, steepest descent,
Marquardt’s methods. Introduction to semiparametric regression models, additive regression models.
Introduction to nonparametric regression methods

UNIT – V

Time Series Analysis: Auto - Covariance, Auto-correlation and their properties. Exploratory time series
analysis, Test for trend and seasonality, Exponential and moving average smoothing, Holt – Winter
smoothing, forecasting based on smoothing
Linear time series models: Autoregressive, Moving Average, Autoregressive Moving Average and
Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average models; Estimation of ARMA models such as Yule-Walker
estimation for AR Processes, Maximum likelihood and least squares estimation for ARMA Processes,
Forecasting using ARIMA models
Prescriptive Analytics: Mathematical optimization, Networks modeling-Multi-objective optimization-
Stochastic modeling, Decision and Risk analysis, Decision trees.

Home Assignments:
1. Experiments with Weka – Visualization Techniques, using filters and statistics, mining association
rules, decision trees rules, Prediction
2. Mining real data: Preprocessing data from a real domain (Medical/ Retail/ Banking); Applying
various data mining techniques to create a comprehensive and accurate model of the data
3. Analytics Assignment 1: Conduct and Present a summary report on an End to end statistical
model building exercise using sample data – Data preprocessing, Descriptive Analysis (Exploratory
Data Analysis), Hypothesis building, Model Fitting, Model Validation and Interpretation of results
4. Analytics Assignment 2: Build statistical models using any two linear and non-linear regression
techniques: Simple Linear Regression; Multiple Regression; Variable Selection Problem;
Multicollinearity and Ridge Regression; Nonlinear regression; Non-parametric regression; Logistic
regression (binary and multiple); Poisson/Negative binomial regression (Use sample data sets)
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Text Books:
1. Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, “Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques”, Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, 3rd ed, 2010.
2. Lior Rokach and Oded Maimon, “Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook”, Springer,
2nd edition, 2010
3. Box, G.E.P and Jenkins G.M. (1970) Time Series Analysis, Forecasting and Control, Holden-Day.

Reference Books:
1. Draper, N. R. and Smith, H. (1998). Applied Regression Analysis (John Wiley) Third Edition.

Hosmer, D. W. and Lemeshow, S. (1989). Applied Logistic Regression (Wiley).

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Enterprise Systems (Elective IV)

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Advance Finance (Elective IV)

Course Pre Requisite(s):

Good knowledge of Fundamentals of Management (Covered in Year 2, Semester 1)

Course Outcome(s):
This course will help students to develop in-depth knowledge about the financial techniques and
instruments. The students will learn to

• Imbibe knowledge about the decisions and decision variables involved with financial activities of
the firm.
• Develop skills for interpretation business information and application of financial theory in
corporate investment decisions, with special emphasis on working capital management.
• Familiarizing the students with the corporate and financial restructuring.

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Sources of Funds (including regulatory framework)

• Types of securities
• Issuing the capital in market
• Pricing of issue
• Valuation of Stocks and bonds

UNIT – II

Dividend Decisions: Traditional Approach, Dividend Relevance Model, Miller and Modigliani
Model, Stability of Dividends, Forms of Dividends, Issue of bonus shares, Stock Split

UNIT – III

Evaluation of Lease Contracts

UNIT – IV

Corporate Restructuring
• Mergers and Acquisitions- Types of Mergers, Evaluation of Merger Proposal
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• Take-over
• Amalgamation
• Leverage buy-out
• Management buy-out
• Corporate Failure and Liquidation

UNIT – V

Financial Restructuring
• Share Split
• Consolidation
• Cancellation of Paid-up Capital
• Other Mechanisms

UNIT – VI

Working Capital Management:

• Working Capital Planning
• Monitoring and Control of Working Capital
• Working Capital Financing
• Managing the Components of Working Capital
o Cash Management
o Receivable Management
o Inventory Management

UNIT – VII

Introduction to derivatives
• Basics of Futures, Forwards, Options, Swaps
• Interest rate Payoff Diagrams, Pricing of Futures, Put Call Parity, Option Pricing using
Binomial Model and Black Scholes Model
• Use of Derivatives for Risk-Return Management- Credit Default Swaps

Home Assignment:
Case study materials book will be given to students. Students are required to meet in groups before
coming to class and prepare on the case for the day. Instructor may ask the student groups to present
their analysis and findings to the class.
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Further, the topic for class discussion will be mentioned beforehand and students should be prepared to
discuss these topics in class. Few topics are mentioned below as examples. Instructor can add or change
any topic as per requirement.

1. Topic: Historical perspectives of markets like major boom and busts, bull and bear
cycles, major market crashes, bubbles
2. Topic: Major scams in the market, e.g. Satyam case

Text Books:

1. Brealey, Myers and Allen, Principles of Corporate Finance

Case Study Materials: To be distributed for class discussion

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Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (Elective IV)

Introduction: Image processing systems and its applications. Basic image file formats
Image formation: Geometric and photometric models; Digitization - sampling, quantization;
Image definition and its representation, neighbourhood metrics.
Intensity transformations and spatial filtering: Enhancement, contrast stretching, histogram
specification, local contrast enhancement; Smoothing, linear and order statistic filtering,
sharpening, spatial convolution, Gaussian smoothing, DoG, LoG.
Segmentation: Pixel classification; Grey level thresholding, global/local thresholding; Optimum
thresholding - Bayes analysis, Otsu method; Derivative based edge detection operators, edge
detection/linking, Canny edge detector; Region growing, split/merge techniques, line detection,
Hough transform.
Image/Object features extraction: Textural features - gray level co-occurrence matrix;
Moments; Connected component analysis; Convex hull; Distance transform, medial axis
transform, skeletonization/thinning, shape properties.
Registration: Mono-modal/multimodal image registration; Global/local registration; Transform
and similarity measures for registration; Intensity/pixel interpolation.
Colour image processing: Fundamentals of different colour models - RGB, CMY, HSI, YCbCr,
Lab; False colour; Pseudo colour; Enhancement; Segmentation.
Morphological Filtering Basics: Dilation and Erosion Operators, Top Hat Filters
Text Books:
1. Digital Image Processing. R. C. Gonzalez and R. E. Woods, Prentice Hall.
Reference Books:
1. Image Processing: The Fundamentals. Maria Petrou and Panagiota Bosdogianni, John Wiley
& Sons, Ltd.
2. Digital Image Processing. K. R. Castleman:, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs.
3. Visual Reconstruction. A. Blake and A. Zisserman, MIT Press, Cambridge.
4. Digital Pictures. A. N. Netravali and B. G. Haskell, Plenum Press.
5. Digital Images and Human Vision. A. B. Watson:, MIT Press, Cambridge.
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TCS

Computer Science & Business

Systems
Semester 7 Curriculum
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Usability Design of Software Applications + Lab

Course Pre Requisite(s):

Basic understanding of web and mobile app development

Course Outcome(s):
The major emphasis of the course will be on creating a learning system through which management
students can enhance their innovation and creative thinking skills, acquaint themselves with the special
challenges of starting new ventures and use IPR as an effective tool to protect their innovations and
intangible assets from exploitation.

To sensitise the students to the fundamentals of User Centred Design and User Experience their
relevance and contribution to businesses

Familiarise them to the facets of User Experience (UX) Design, particularly as applied to the digital
artefacts

Appreciation of user research, solution conceptualisation and validation as interwoven activities in

the design and development lifecycle

Acquire the ability to constructively engage with the Design professionals they would work with in
the future

Topics to Be Covered:

Introduction to User Centred Design

Aspects of User Centred Design

Product Appreciation Assignment – Evaluating the product from user centred design aspects such as
functionality, ease of use, ergonomics, aesthetics.
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Heuristic Evaluation: 10 Heuristic Principles, Examples

Heuristic Evaluation: Group Assignment initiation (Website and App)
Evaluation for key tasks of the app or website for heuristic principles, severity, recommendations.

Group Assignment Presentations and reviews.

Group Project identification

Students will identify a project such as a website or mobile app to redesign. They will take this
redesign project through the design lifecycle:
Discovery
Define
Design
Implement (Design Prototype)
Usability Testing
The below design methods and techiques will be imparted w.r.t. the group project selected by the
students.
UX Research
Understanding users, their goals, context of use, environment of use.
Research Techniques: Contextual Enquiry, User Interviews, Competitive Analysis for UX

Scenarios and Persona Technique

Presentation of Personas for the group project

Design Thinking Technique
Discovery and brainstorming
Concept Development
Task flow detailing for the Project

Prototyping Techniques
Paper, Electronic, Prototyping Tools

Project Prototyping Iteration 1

Project Prototyping Iteration 2
Review and feedback
Final presentation of solution – Exam
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Text Books:
1. Class Handouts
2. Online forum links, reference articles, blogs
3. Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, 4th Edition, Jenny Preece, Helen
Sharp and Yvonne Rogers
4. About Face, 4th Edition, Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann
5. Observing the User Experience, Second Edition: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research.
Elizabeth Goodman, Mike Kuniavsky, Andrea Moed
6. The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web and Beyond.
2nd Edition, Jesse James Garrett
7. Understanding Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile - Jonny Schneider
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IT Workshop Skylab / Matlab (PCC-CS 302) + Lab

Introduction to MATLAB
History, basic features, strengths and weaknesses, good programming practices and plan your
code
Working with variables, workspace and miscellaneous commands
Creating MATLAB variables, overwriting variable, error messages, making corrections,
controlling the hierarchy of operations or precedence, controlling the appearance of floating point
number, managing the workspace, keeping track of your work session, entering multiple
statements per line, miscellaneous commands,
Matrix, array and basic mathematical functions
Matrix generation, entering a vector, entering a matrix, matrix indexing, colon operator, linear
spacing, creating a sub-matrix, dimension, matrix operations and functions matrix generators,
special matrices, array and array operations, solving linear equations, other mathematical
functions.
Basic plotting
Overview, creating simple plots, adding titles, axis labels, and annotations, multiple data sets in
one plot, specifying line styles and colours
Introduction to programming
Introduction, M-File Scripts, script side-effects, M-File functions, anatomy of a M-File function,
input and output arguments, input to a script file, output commands
Control flow and operators
``if ... end'' structure, relational and logical operators, ``for ... end'' loop, ``while ... end'' loop, other
flow structures, operator precedence, saving output to a file
Debugging M-files
Debugging process, preparing for debugging, setting breakpoints, running with breakpoints,
examining values, correcting and ending debugging, correcting an M-file
Laboratory
Implementation of various Image Processing Algorithms
Text Books:
1. Digital Image Processing using MATLAB. Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods, Steven
Eddins, Pearson Education, Inc., 2004.
2. MATLAB: A Practical Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving. Stormy Attaway,
Butterworth-Heinemann.
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Reference Books:
1. https://www.mathworks.com/content/dam/mathworks/mathworks-dot-
com/moler/exm/book.pdf
2. https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2014b/pdf_doc/matlab/getstart.pdf
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Course Outcome(s):
Students will be able to

• Understand the fundamental concepts of financial management

• Appreciate basic concepts such as time value of money, cost of capital, risk and return, working
capital management, capital budgeting etc.
• Leverage the concept for deciding financial angle of IT projects

Topics to Be Covered:

UNIT - I

1. Introduction : Introduction to Financial Management - Goals of the firm - Financial

Environments.

2. Time Value of Money : Simple and Compound Interest Rates, Amortization, Computing
more that once a year, Annuity Factor.

UNIT - II

3. Valuation of Securities : Bond Valuation, Preferred Stock Valuation , Common Stock

Valuation, Concept of Yield and YTM.

4. Risk & Return: Defining Risk and Return, Using Probability Distributions to Measure Risk,
Attitudes Toward Risk, Risk and Return in a Portfolio Context, Diversification, The Capital
Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

UNIT - III

5. Operating & Financial Leverage: Operating Leverage, Financial Leverage, Total Leverage,
Indifference Analysis in leverage study
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6. Cost of Capital : Concept , Computation of Specific Cost of Capital for Equity - Preference –
Debt, Weighted Average Cost of Capital – Factors affecting Cost of Capital 4L

7. Capital Budgeting : The Capital Budgeting Concept & Process - An Overview, Generating
Investment Project Proposals, Estimating Project, After Tax Incremental Operating Cash Flows,
Capital Budgeting Techniques, Project Evaluation and Selection - Alternative Methods

UNIT – IV

8. Working Capital Management: Overview, Working Capital Issues, Financing Current

Assets (Short Term and Long Term- Mix), Combining Liability Structures and Current Asset
Decisions, Estimation of Working Capital.

9. Cash Management: Motives for Holding cash, Speeding Up Cash Receipts, Slowing Down
Cash Payouts, Electronic Commerce, Outsourcing, Cash Balances to maintain, Factoring.

10. Accounts Receivable Management: Credit & Collection Policies, Analyzing the Credit
Applicant, CreditReferences, Selecting optimum Credit period. 4L

Text Book

Chandra, Prasanna - Financial Management - Theory & Practice, Tata McGraw Hill.

References Books :

Srivastava, Misra: Financial Management, OUP

Van Horne and Wachowicz : Fundamentals of Financial Management, Prentice Hall/ Pearson
Education.
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Human Resource Management

Course Outcome(s):
Students must be aware of the basic principles of Human Resource Management because success in
today’s complex business environment depends on effective management of its human resources. This
introductory course on Human Resource Management will familiarize the students with the basic
concepts, roles, functional areas and activities of HR and help students understand organization’s
employees, their interest, motivation and satisfaction, and their belief of fair treatment- all of which
actually impact the firm’s current performance and sustainability in the long run.

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Human Resource Management: Concept and Challenges, HR Philosophy, Policies, Procedures and
Practices.

UNIT – II

Human Resource System Design: HR Profession, and HR Department, Line Management Responsibility in
HRM, Measuring HR, Human resources accounting and audit; Human resource information system

UNIT – III

Functional Areas of HRM: recruitment and staffing, benefits, compensation, employee relations, HR
compliance, organizational design, training and development, human resource information systems
(H.R.I.S.) and payroll.

UNIT – IV

Human Resource Planning: Demand Forecasting, Action Plans– Retention, Training, Redeployment &
Staffing, Succession Planning

UNIT – V

Strategic Management of Human Resources: SHRM, relationship between HR strategy and overall
corporate strategy, HR as a Factor of Competitive Advantage, Managing Diversity in the Workplace

UNIT – VI
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Human Resource Management in Service Sector- Special considerations for Service Sector including

• Managing the Customer – Employee Interaction

• Employee Empowerment and Customer Satisfaction
• Service Failure and Customer Recovery – the Role of Communication and Training
• Similarities and Differences in Nature of Work for the Frontline Workers and the Backend
• Support Services - Impact on HR Practices Stressing Mainly on Performance
• Flexible Working Practices – Implications for HR

Home Assignment:
Further, the topic for class discussion will be mentioned beforehand. Students are required to meet in
groups before coming to class and prepare for the topic to be discussed. Instructor may ask the student
groups to present their analysis and findings to the class. Few topics are mentioned below as examples.
Instructor can add or change any topic as per requirement.

1. Topic: Understanding the issues and challenges involved in managing a diverse workforce
2. Topic: Is The Only Purpose of a Corporation to Maximize Profit?
3. Topic: Similarities and Differences in Manufacturing and Service Sector - Impact on HR Practices

Text Books:
Gary Dessler, Human Resource Management
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Cognitive Science & Analytics (Elective V)

SECTION – I: THEORY
UNIT 1: FOUNDATIONAL AREAS OF ANALYTICS
Introduction to Analytics: Definition, Description & Evolution of Analytics, History of
Analytics, and Applicability of Analytics with development of Technology and Computer, How
Analytics entered mainstream

Concepts of Analytics: Various overlapping concepts and fields of Analytics such as Data
Mining, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Simulation

Emerging Areas in Analytics: Understanding of emerging research areas of Analytics:

Mathematical programming, Evolutionary computation, Simulation, Machine learning/data
mining, Logic-based models, and, Combinations of categories

Value Chain of Analytics: Descriptive Analytics Covering Exploratory Data Analysis & Basic
of Statistics, Diagnostics Analytics: BI/Analysis, Trend, Pattern, Simultaneous Relationship,
Predictive Analytics: Cause-Effect Relationship and Futuristic prediction in terms of probabilities,
Continuous & Categorical Predictions, Simulation, Optimization, Multi-faceted Intelligent
Technology driven Analytics combining Machine Intelligence with Human Brain Processing
Abilities

UNIT 2: FOUNDATIONAL AREAS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Introduction & Evolution of Cognitive Science: Introduction to the study of cognitive sciences,
Brief history of cognitive science development and Methodological concerns in philosophy

Understand Brain and Sensory Motor Information: Fundamentals of Neuro Science,

Processing of sensory information in the brain, and Brain Imaging Elements

Language & Linguistic Knowledge: Background and details of Syntax & Semantics,
Understanding of Generative Linguistic

Memory & Processing: Theory of Information Processing, Fundamentals of Short term Memory
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UNIT 3: DATA THEORY & TAXONOMY OF DATA

Data as a whole: Understanding of Data as a whole for distinguishing and relating various types
of data and Categorization of Data: Structured, Unstructured Data, Quantitative & Qualitative
Data.

Views of Data: Understanding Data as an interdisciplinary framework for learning methodologies:

covering statistics, neural networks, and fuzzy logic
Measurement & Scaling Concepts: Measurement of variables and commonly used statistical
tools: Number of procedures for measurement of the variables,
Categorization procedures, Scale construction procedures and Techniques of data processing for
qualitative as well as quantitative data;
Various types of Scales: Nominal, Ordinal, Interval & Ratio Scales

UNIT 4: MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYTICS & COGNITIVE

ANALYTICS
Overview: High level overview of Categorization of Techniques: Inter-dependence Relationship
Techniques and Dependence Relationship Techniques

Overview of Commonly Used Inter-dependence Techniques: Factor Analysis, Principal

Component Analysis (PCA), Cluster Analysis

Overview of Commonly Used Dependence Techniques: Regression, Logistic Regression

Analytics Value Chain &Application of Analytics across Value Chain:

a. Basic statistical concepts such as Descriptive & Diagnostics statistics, concept of random
variables, discrete and continuous random variables, confidence interval, hypothesis testing,
analysis of variance and correlation.

b. Predictive analytics techniques such as multiple linear regression, logistic regression, decision
tree learning Clustering and forecasting techniques.

c. Prescriptive analytics Concepts: linear programming, integer programming, goal programming

& stochastic models
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d. Cognitive analytics Concepts: Text Analytics, Learning Analytics, Data Mining, Cognitive
Systems, Cognitive Computing, Learning Data Science, Machine Learning, Big data Analytics
and Business analytics

UNIT 5: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE LEARNING

Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence: Various areas of AI:

a. Knowledge: Text Analytics, Topic Modelling, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural
Language Generation (NLG), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Named-entity recognition
(NER)
b. Perception: Image Analytics, Video Analytics & Audio Analytics
c. Memory: Cognitive Engagement: BOTs, Virtual & Digital Assistants, Augmented Reality, Virtual
Reality, Mixed Reality
d. Learning: Intelligent Automation

Spectrum of AI

a. Reactive Machine: Low memory, works on Known rules, such as Object

Detection/Games/Recommendations specific to known Rules
b. Limited Memory: Memory used to learn and improve continuously such as Most ML Models,
Automated Vehicles
c. Theory of Mind: Machine Understands and responds such as BoTs/Virtual/Digital Assistants
d. Self-Aware: Human like intelligence such as Super Robots in Space etc.

UNIT 6: APPROACH & METHODOLOGY

World Standard Methodology: CRISP-DM Methodology, SEMMA Methodology

Real Life Work around Multi-Variate Analytics: A few Selected Commonly used Techniques:
Predictive & Classification Models, Regression, Clustering

Real Life Work around Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning: A few Selected
Commonly used Techniques & Algorithms: ANN (Artificial Neural Network), CNN (Convolutional Neural
Network), RNN (Recurrent Neural Network);

RN Architecture: LSTM, Bidirectional LSTM, Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), CTRNN (Continuous Time
RNN) CNN Architectures: VGG16, Alexnet, InceptionNet, RestNet, Googlenet
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Object Detection models: R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, Faster R-CNN, cascade R-CNN. Mask RCNN, Single Shot
MultiBox Detector (SSD) ,You Only Look Once (YOLO), Single-Shot Refinement Neural Network for
Object Detection (RefineDet), Retina-Net

Autoencoders: Denoising Autoencoder, GAN

Transformers: Attention based Encoder and Decoder: Eg- BERT(Bidirectional Encoder Representations
from Transformers), Generative Pretrained Transformers GPT-3, GPT-2, BERT, XLNet, and RoBERTa

SECTION – II: LAB EXERCISES

Structured Data Analytics: Segmentation & Clustering, Classification & Prediction, Forecasting
Association Mining & Sequence Mining

Textual Data Analytics: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Generation (NLG),
Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Named-entity recognition (NER) driven Analytics: Key Word
Extraction, Text Summarization, Insight Generation

Image Analytics: Malaria/Carcinoma/COVID detection, Visual inspection for QA/QC

Video Analytics: Motion based Behavior Recognition, Behavioural Observations, and Parkinson’s
Disease Prediction

Audio Analytics: Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Transcript Services

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning driven Automation: Banking Process Automation, Hospital
Triage Process Automation AR/VR enabled Guided Operations

Conversational Analytics: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality,
Robotics, Digital/Virtual Assistant, Chat-BOT/ Program BOT, Email-BOT
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SECTION – III: TEXT BOOKS

Text Books
Unit 1
1. Hall, P., Phan, W., & Whitson, K. (2016). Evolution of Analytics. O'Reilly Media
Incorporated.

Unit 2
1. Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind by José Luis Bermúdez
2. Cognitive Computing and Big Data Analytics by Judith S. Hurwitz (Author), Marcia Kaufman
(Author), Adrian Bowles (Author)
3. Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Advances and Applications: Authors:
Gurumoorthy, Sasikumar, Rao, B Narendrakumar, Gao, Xiao-Zhi
Unit 3
1. Cherkassky, V., & Mulier, F. M. (2007). Learning from data: concepts, theory, and methods.
John Wiley & Sons.
2. The visual display of Quantitative Information: Edward Tufte, Graphics Press, 2001.
3. Scaling Measurement and Statistical Tools for Extension Workers by Krunal D. Gulkari,
Hemant V. Borate , Mayur S. Shitap , 2016.
Unit 4

1. Hair, J. F., Anderson, R. E., Tatham, R. L., & Black, W. C. (1998). Multivariate data analysis.
Englewood Cliff. New Jersey, USA, 5(3), 207-2019.

2. Kumar, U. D. (2017). Business analytics: The science of data-driven decision making. Wiley.

3. Özköse, H., Arı, E. S., & Gencer, C. (2015). Yesterday, today and tomorrow of big data.
Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 195, 1042-1050.

4. Gudivada, Venkat N., M. T. Irfan, E. Fathi, and D. L. Rao. "Cognitive analytics: Going beyond
big data analytics and machine learning." In Handbook of statistics, vol. 35, pp. 169-205. Elsevier,
2016.
Unit 5

1. Kao, A., & Poteet, S. R. (Eds.). (2007). Natural language processing and text mining. Springer Science
& Business Media.
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2. Demystifying Artificial intelligence: Simplified AI and Machine Learning concepts for Everyone (English
Edition) Paperback – Import, 5 January 2021by Prashant Kikani

3. Kelleher, J. D., Mac Namee, B., & D'arcy, A. (2020). Fundamentals of machine learning for predictive
data analytics: algorithms, worked examples, and case studies. MIT press.

4. Goodfellow, Ian, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, and Yoshua Bengio. Deep learning. Vol. 1, no. 2.
Cambridge: MIT press, 2016.

5. Practical Deep Learning for Cloud, Mobile, and Edge: Real-World AI & Computer-Vision Projects
Using Python, Keras & TensorFlow 1st Edition,

6. Conversational Chatbots for Analytics Third Edition by Gerardus Blokdyk

7. BORNET, P. B. (2020). Intelligent automation: Welcome to the world of hyperautomation. World
Scientific Publishing Company.
Unit 6:

1. Maimon, O., & Rokach, L. (Eds.). (2005). Data mining and knowledge discovery handbook.

2. Hair, J. F., Anderson, R. E., Tatham, R. L., & Black, W. C. (1998). Multivariate data analysis.
Englewood Cliff. New Jersey, USA, 5(3), 207-2019.

3. Zhang, C., & Ma, Y. (Eds.). (2012). Ensemble machine learning: methods and applications.
Springer Science & Business Media.
Reference Books
Unit 1
1. Seminal Paper: The evolution of analytics and implications for industry and academic
programs MR Bowers, JD Camm, G Chakraborty - Interfaces, 2018 -
pubsonline.informs.org.

Unit 2
2. Cognitive Analytics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (4 Volumes)
Information Resources Management Association (USA)A first course in Probability, S. M.
Ross, Prentice Hall.
Unit 3
1. Seminal paper: Shneiderman, B. (2003). The eyes have it: A task by data type taxonomy for
information visualizations. In The craft of information visualization (pp. 364-371). Morgan
Kaufmann.C: The Complete Reference, (Fourth Edition), Herbert Schildt, McGraw Hill.
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SECTION – IV: PEDAGOGY

Unit 1
1. Instructor Led
2. Mini Assignments & Quiz.

Unit 2
1. Instructor Led
2. Mini Assignments & Quiz.

Unit 3
1. Instructor Led
2. Mini Assignments & Quiz.

Unit 4
1. Instructor Led
2. Mini Assignments & Quiz
3. Industry Speakers

Unit 5
1. Instructor Led
2. Mini Assignments & Quiz
3. Industry Speakers

Unit 6
1. Industry Speakers

2. Mini Assignments & Quiz

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Introduction to IoT + Lab (Elective V)

Course Outcome(s):
This course will help students understand basic principles and concepts of Internet-of-Things use cases,
applications, architecture and technologies. Students will get an overview of an end to end IoT system
encompassing the edge, cloud and application tiers. This course will build upon the foundations created in
the pre-requisite courses and will equip the students to architect a complete IoT application on their own.
The lab exercises will consist of hands-on experiments that will lead to building an IoT application end-to-
end. Some of the specialized topics will be covered via student seminars where students are expected to
research and present their findings in a seminar format.

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Introduction to IoT and Use cases: Understanding basic concepts of IoT, Consumer IoT vs Industrial
Internet, Fundamental building blocks, Use Cases of IoT in various industry domains,

UNIT – II

Architecture: IoT reference architectures, Industrial Internet Reference Architecture, Edge Computing,
IoT Gateways, Data Ingestion and Data Processing Pipelines, Data Stream Processing

UNIT – III

Sensors and Industrial Systems: Introduction to sensors and transducers, integrating sensors to sensor
processing boards, introduction to industrial data acquisition systems, industrial control systems and their
functions

UNIT – IV

Networking and Communication for IoT: Recap of OSI 7 layer architecture and mapping to IoT
architecture, Introduction to proximity networking technologies (ZigBee, Bluetooth, Serial
Communication), Industrial network protocols (Modbus, CANbus), Communicating with cloud
applications (web services, REST, TCP/IP and UDP/IP sockets, MQTT, WebSockets, protocols. Message
encoding (JSON, Protocol Buffers)
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UNIT – V

IoT Data Processing and Storage: Time Series Data and their characteristics, time series databases, basic
time series analytics, data summarization and sketching, dealing with noisy and missing data, anomaly and
outlier detection,

IoT Seminars:
Selected topics in IoT should be handled via student seminars. Recommended that students form a group
do research on at least one of the following topics and present it through seminars. They are expected to do
a literature survey of the topic and present their survey paper to the class. The suggested topics are –

a) IoT Applications
• Smart Cities
• Connected Vehicles and Telematics
• Smart Grids
• Smart Homes
b) IoT data visualization
c) Survey of cloud based IoT platforms
d) Low power wide area networks for IoT
e) IoT device management
f) Survey of chips, embedded modules and development boards for IoT devices
g) Embedded and real-time operating systems for IoT
h) IoT Security
• Security risks in IoT
• Securing IoT endpoint devices and secure communication protocols for IoT
• Security and Privacy of IoT data

Lab Exercises

1. Setting up the Arduino Development Environment, connecting analog sensors to an Arduino

Boarding and reading analog sensor data
2. Digital Input and Output reading using and Arduino board and Arduino Development Environment
3. Integrate an Arduino Board to a Raspberry Pi computer and send sensor data from Arduino to the
R Pi
4. Setup Python on the R Pi and run sample R Pi programs on the R Pi. Read the data from Arduino
using Python language
5. Connect a R Pi Camera module to the Raspberry Pi and using Python programming capture still
images and video
6. Set up TCP/IP socket server on a PC. Send a message from the R Pi to the PC using socket
communication
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7. Set up a MQTT broker on the PC. Send data from R Pi to PC using MQTT protocol. Receive data
from PC to R Pi using MQTT protocol
8. Connect LED lights to an Arduino. Connect the Arduino to the R Pi. Send Message from PC to R
Pi via MQTT protocol. On receipt of the message , toggle the LED lights on the Arduino
9. Set up an account in a cloud service (such as Google / AWS or Azure). Set up a simple Http server
using a language of your choice. Push the image captured from the R Pi camera to this web service.
On receiving the image, store the image in a database or file
10. Develop a mobile application to view the images captured by the R Pi camera

Text Books:
1. The Internet of Things, Samuel Greengard, MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series,

Reference Books / Links:

1. Industrial Internet Reference Architecture - http://www.iiconsortium.org/IIRA.htm
2. World Economic Forum Report on Industrial Internet of Things -
https://www.weforum.org/reports/industrial-internet-things
3. 50 Sensor Applications for a Smarter World -
http://www.libelium.com/resources/top_50_iot_sensor_applications_ranking/
4. Visualizing Data-Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment, By Ben Fry,
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
5. Raspberry Pi Computer Architecture Essentials, by Andrew K Dennis
6. Getting Started with Arduino, M. Banzi, O Reilly Media
7. GSMA IoT Security Guidelines & Assessment - https://www.gsma.com/iot/future-iot-
networks/iot-security-guidelines/
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Cryptology (Elective V)
Introduction to Cryptography: Elementary number theory, Pseudo-random bit generation,
Elementary cryptosystems.
Bas ic security services: confidentiality, integrity, availability, non-repudiation, privacy
Symmetric key cryptosystems: Stream Cipher: Basic Ideas, Hardware and Software
Implementations, Examples with some prominent ciphers: A5/1, Grain family, RC4, Salsa and
ChaCha, HC128, SNOW family, ZUC; Block Ciphers: DES, AES, Modes of Operation; Hash
Functions; Authentication
Public Key Cryptosystems: RSA, ECC; Digital signatures
Security Applications (Selected Topics): Electronic commerce (anonymous cash, micro-
payments), Key management, Zero-knowledge protocols, Cryptology in Contact Tracing
Applications, Issues related to Quantum Cryptanalysis
Introductory topics in Post-Quantum Cryptography: Refer to
https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography. May discuss any two ciphers from this
list.
Text Books:
3. Cryptography, Theory and Practice. D. R. Stinson, CRC Press.
4. Handbook of Applied Cryptography. A. J. Menezes, P. C. van Oorschot, and S. A. Vanstone,
CRC Press
Reference Books:
3. A course in number theory and cryptography. N. Koblitz:, GTM, Springer.
4. Cryptography and Network Security. W. Stallings, Prentice Hall.
5. Security Engineering, R. Anderson, Wiley
6. RC4 Stream Cipher and Its Variants. G. Paul and S. Maitra: CRC Press, Taylor
7. & Francis Group, A Chapman & Hall Book, 2012
8. Design & Cryptanalysis of ZUC - A Stream Cipher in Mobile Telephony. C. S. Mukherjee, D.
Roy, S. Maitra, Springer 2020
9. Contact Tracing in Post-Covid World - A Cryptologic Approach. P. Chakraborty, S. Maitra,
M. Nandi, S. Talnikar, Springer 2020
10. Presskil Lecture notes: Available online: http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/ph229/
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Note: If any student also opts for Quantum Computation & Quantum Information course, in that
case the ciphers discussed in this course must differ from the ciphers that will be discussed in
Quantum Computation & Quantum Information course.
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Quantum Computation & Quantum Information (Elective VI)

Introduction to Quantum Information: States, Operators, Measurements, Quantum
Entanglement: Quantum Teleportation, Super-dense coding, CHSH Game, Quantum gates and
circuits
Quantum Algorithms: Deutsch-Jozsa, Simon, Grover, Shor, Implication of Grover’s and
Simon’s algorithms towards classical symmetric key cryptosystems, Implication of Shor’s
algorithm towards factorization and Discrete Logarithm based classical public key cryptosystems
Quantum True Random Number Generators (QTRNG): Detailed design and issues of
quantumness, Commercial products and applications
Quantum key distribution (QKD): BB84, Ekert, Semi-Quantum QKD protocols and their
variations, Issues of Device Independence, Commercial products
Introductory topics in Post-Quantum Cryptography: Refer to
https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography. May discuss any two ciphers from this
list.
Text Books:
1. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information. M. A. Nielsen and I. L. Chuang, Cambridge
University Press
2. Presskil Lecture notes: Available online: http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/ph229/
Reference Books:
1. An Introduction to Quantum Computing. P. Kaye, R. Laflamme, and M. Mosca, Oxford
University Press, New York
2. Quantum Computer Science. N. David Mermin:, Cambridge University Press
3. Quantum Cryptography. D. Unruh:, Available online:
https://courses.cs.ut.ee/all/MTAT.07.024/2017_fall/uploads/
4. NIST Post Quantum Cryptography, Available online: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-
quantum-cryptography/round-2-submissions
5. Quantum Algorithms for Cryptographically Significant Boolean Functions - An IBMQ
Experience. SAPV Tharrmashastha, D. Bera, A. Maitra and S. Maitra, Springer 2020.
6. Quantum Algorithm Zoo. https://quantumalgorithmzoo.org/
7. Handbook of Applied Cryptography. A. J. Menezes, P. C. van Oorschot, and S. A. Vanstone.
CRC Press
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Note: If any student also opts for Cryptology course, in that case the ciphers discussed in this
course must differ from the ciphers that will be discussed in Cryptology course.
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Advanced Social, Text and Media Analytics (Elective VI)

Course Outcome(s):
Students will be able to

• To be able to use various tools for Text Mining and carry out Pattern Discovery, Predictive
Modeling
• Explore the use of social network analysis to understand the growing connectivity and complexity
in the world around us on different scales – ranging from small groups to the World Wide Web
• Perform social network analysis to identify important social actors, subgroups (i.e., clusters), and
network properties in social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Text Mining: Introduction, Core text mining operations, Preprocessing techniques, Categorization,
Clustering, Information extraction, Probabilistic models for information extraction, Text mining
applications
Methods & Approaches: Content Analysis; Natural Language Processing; Clustering & Topic Detection;
Simple Predictive Modeling; Sentiment Analysis; Sentiment Prediction
UNIT – II

Web Analytics: Web analytics tools, Clickstream analysis, A/B testing, online surveys; Web search and
retrieval, Search engine optimization, Web crawling and Indexing, Ranking algorithms, Web traffic models

UNIT – III

Social Media Analytics: Social network and web data and methods. Graphs and Matrices. Basic measures
for individuals and networks. Information visualization; Making connections: Link analysis. Random
graphs and network evolution. Social contexts: Affiliation and identity; Social network analysis

Home Assignments:
1. Language Analysis: Students are expected to analyze the language of a category of text (e.g.,
literary, academic, social media) of their selection. Based on the analysis, students are expected to
provide a critical description of the texts involved and possibly distinguishing them from other texts
and/or uncovering relationships or concepts communicated by the text authors.
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2. Students are required Perform sentiment analysis using Twitter. Students will be required to use
off the-shelf software and/or code of their own to detect sentiment/emotion in the data and write a
description of the methods they use and the results.

Text Books:
1. Ronen Feldman and James Sanger, “The Text Mining Handbook: Advanced Approaches in
Analyzing Unstructured Data”, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
2. Hansen, Derek, Ben Sheiderman, Marc Smith. 2011 Analyzing Social Media Networks with
NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World, Morgan Kaufmann, 304
3. Avinash Kaushik. 2009. Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability.
4. Hanneman, Robert and Mark Riddle. 2005. Introduction to Social Network Method

Reference Books:
1. Wasserman, S. & Faust, K. (1994). Social network analysis: Methods and applications. New
York: Cambridge University Press.
2. Monge, P. R. & Contractor, N. S. (2003). Theories of communication networks. New York:
Oxford University Press. http://nosh.northwestern.edu/vita.html
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Mobile Computing (Elective VI)

Introduction: Overview of wireless and mobile infrastructure; Preliminary concepts on cellular
architecture; Design objectives and performance issues; Radio resource management and
interface; Propagation and path loss models; Channel interference and frequency reuse; Cell
splitting; Channel assignment strategies; Overview of generations:- 1G to 5G.

Location and handoff management: Introduction to location management (HLR and VLR);
Mobility models characterizing individual node movement (Random walk, Fluid flow, Markovian,
Activity based); Mobility models characterizing the movement of groups of nodes (Reference
point based group mobility model, Community based group mobility model); Static (Always vs.
Never update, Reporting Cells, Location Areas) and Dynamic location management schemes
(Time, Movement, Distance, Profile Based); Terminal Paging (Simultaneous paging, Sequential
paging); Location management and Mobile IP; Overview of handoff process; Factors affecting
handoffs and performance evaluation metrics; Handoff strategies; Different types of handoffs
(soft, hard, horizontal, vertical).

Wireless transmission fundamentals: Introduction to narrow and wideband systems; Spread

spectrum; Frequency hopping; Introduction to MIMO; MIMO Channel Capacity and diversity
gain; Introduction to OFDM; MIMO-OFDM system; Multiple access control (FDMA, TDMA,
CDMA, SDMA); Wireless local area network; Wireless personal area network (Bluetooth and
zigbee).

Mobile Ad-hoc networks: Characteristics and applications; Coverage and connectivity problems;
Routing in MANETs.

Wireless sensor networks: Concepts, basic architecture, design objectives and applications;
Sensing and communication range; Coverage and connectivity; Sensor placement; Data relaying
and aggregation; Energy consumption; Clustering of sensors; Energy efficient Routing (LEACH).

Cognitive radio networks: Fixed and dynamic spectrum access; Direct and indirect spectrum
sensing; Spectrum sharing; Interoperability and co-existence issues; Applications of cognitive
radio networks.

D2D communications in 5G cellular networks: Introduction to D2D communications; High

level requirements for 5G architecture; Introduction to the radio resource management, power
control and mode selection problems; Millimeter wave communication in 5G.
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Laboratory
Development and implementation of different network protocols using network simulators such
as NS-3 and OMNET++.

Text Books:
1. Mobile Communications. Jochen Schiller, Pearson Education.
2. Wireless Communications. Andrea Goldsmith, Cambridge University Press.

Reference Books:
3. Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice. Theodore Rappaport, Pearson Education.
4. Wireless Communications. Ezio Biglieri, MIMO, Cambridge University Press.
5. Handbook of Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing. Ivan Stojmenovic, Wiley.
6. Dynamic Location Management in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks. James Cowling,
7. MIT Thesis. http://people.csail.mit.edu/cowling/hons/jcowling-dynamic-Nov04.pdf
8. Location Management in Wireless Cellular Networks. Travis Keshav,
https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse574-06/ftp/cellular_location.pdf
9. Location Management in Wireless Data Networks. Fahd A. Batayneh, https://www.cse.
wustl.edu/~jain/cse574-06/ftp/wireless_location.pdf
10. Principles of Mobile Communication. Gordon L. Stber, Springer.
11. Wireless Device-to- DeviceCommunications and Networks. Lingyang Song, Dusit Niyato, Zhu
Han, and Ekram Hossain, Cambridge University Press.
12. Principles of Cognitive Radio. Ezio Biglieri, Andrea J. Goldsmith, Larry J. Greenstein,
Narayan Mandayam and H. Vincent Poor, Cambridge University Press.
13. Wireless Sensor Networks: Architecturesand Protocols. Edgar H. Callaway, Jr. and Edgar H.
Callaway, CRC Press.

A Discrete-Event Network Simulator. https://www.nsnam.org/docs/manual/html/index.html

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TCS

Computer Science & Business

Systems
Semester 8 Curriculum
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Services Science & Service Ops Management

Course Pre Requisite(s):

Fundamentals of Management, Operations Research

Course Outcome(s):
Students will be able to

• Understand concepts about Services and distinguish it from Goods

• Able to identify characteristics and nature of Services
• Comprehend ways to design Services and evaluate them using Service qualities
• Understand how various methods can be used to operate and manage Service businesses
• Understand how innovation can be approached from Services point of view

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Introduction: Introduction to the course, Introduction to service operations, Role of service in economy
and society, Introduction to Indian service sector
Nature of Services and Service Encounters: Differences between services and operations, Service
package, characteristics, various frameworks to design service operation system, Kind of service
encounter, importance of encounters
Service-Dominant Logic: From Goods-Dominant logic to Service-Dominant logic, Value Co-creation

UNIT – II

Service Strategy and Competitiveness: Development of Strategic Service Vision (SSV), Data Envelopment
Analysis
New Service Development: NSD cycle, Service Blueprinting, Elements of service delivery system
Service Design: Customer Journey and Service Design, Design Thinking methods to aid Service Design
Locating facilities and designing their layout: models of facility locations (Huff's retail model), Role of
service-scape in layout design
Service Quality: SERVQUAL, Walk through Audit, Dimensions of Service quality & other quality tools

UNIT – III

Service Guarantee & Service Recovery: How to provide Service guarantee? How to recover from Service
failure?
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UNIT – IV

Forecasting Demand for Services: A review of different types of forecasting methods for demand
forecasting.
Managing Capacity and Demand: Strategies for matching capacity and demand, Psychology of waiting,
Application of various tools used in managing waiting line in services.
Managing Facilitating Goods: Review of inventory models, Role of inventory in services
Managing service supply relationship: Understanding the supply chain/hub of service, Strategies for
managing suppliers of service
Vehicle Routing Problem: Managing after sales service, Understanding services that involve
transportation of people and vehicle, Techniques for optimizing vehicle routes

UNIT – V

Service Innovation: Services Productivity, Need for Services Innovation

Student Project:
Option 1: Choose any service organization around and present it from the perspective of: nature of
service, classification of service, blueprint or service design analysis, service quality, and any additional
perspective you would like to add.

Option 2: Choose any latest research paper in services and explain your understanding and feedback on
the same.

Text Books:
1. Fitzsimmons & Fitzsimmons, Service Management: Operations, Strategy, Information Technology,
McGraw Hill publications (7th edition)

Reference Books:
1. Wilson, A., Zeithaml, V. A., Bitner, M. J., & Gremler, D. D. (2012). Services marketing: Integrating
customer focus across the firm. McGraw Hill.
2. Lovelock, C. (2011). Services Marketing, 7/e. Pearson Education India
3. Reason, Ben, and Lovlie, Lavrans, (2016) Service Design for Business: A Practical Guide to
Optimizing the Customer Experience, Pan Macmillan India,
4. Chesbrough, H. (2010). Open services innovation: Rethinking your business to grow and compete
in a new era. John Wiley & Sons.
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Reference Papers:
1. Karmarkar, U. (2004). Will you survive the services revolution? Harvard Business Review, 100-107.
2. Vargo, S. L., & Lusch, R. F. (2008). From goods to service (s): Divergences and convergences of
logics. Industrial marketing management, 37(3), 254-259.
3. Vargo, S. L., & Lusch, R. F. (2008). “Service-Dominant Logic: Continuing the Evolution,” Journal of
the Academy of Marketing Science (36:1), pp. 1-10
4. Silvestro, R., Fitzgerald, L., Johnston, R., & Voss, C. (1992). Towards a classification of service
processes. International journal of service industry management, 3(3), 62-75.
5. Vargo, S. L., Maglio, P. P., & Akaka, M. A. (2008). On value and value co-creation: A service systems
and service logic perspective. European management journal, 26(3), 145-152.
6. Shostack, G.L., (1984), “Designing Services That Deliver,” Harvard Business Review, January-
February 1984, pp. 132-139
7. Evenson, S., & Dubberly, H. (2010). Designing for service: Creating an experience advantage.
Introduction to service engineering, 403-413.
8. Edvardsson, B., & Olsson, J. (1996). Key concepts for new service development. Service Industries
Journal, 16(2), 140-164.
9. Goldstein, S. M., Johnston, R., Duffy, J., & Rao, J. (2002). The service concept: the missing link in
service design research? Journal of Operations management, 20(2), 121-134.
10. Kumar, A., Zope, N. R., & Lokku, D. S. (2014, April). An approach for services design by
understanding value requirements, identifying value carriers, developing value proposition, and
subsequently realizing value. In Global Conference (SRII), 2014 Annual SRII (pp. 298-304). IEEE.
11. Parasuraman, A., Zeithaml, V.A., and Berry, L.L., (1985), “A Conceptual Model of Service Quality
and Its Implications for Future Research,” The Journal of marketing, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 41-50
12. Cronin, J.J., and Taylor, S.A., (1992), “Measuring Service Quality: A Reexamination and Extension,”
The Journal of Marketing, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 55-68
13. Van Ree, H. J., (2009), Service Quality Indicators for Business Support Services, Ph.D. Thesis,
University College London, London.
14. Zope, N. R., Anand, K., & Lokku, D. S. (2014, April). Reviewing Service Quality for IT Services
Offerings: Observations in the Light of Service Quality Models & Determinants. In Global
Conference (SRII), 2014 Annual SRII (pp. 43-49). IEEE.
15. Heskett, J.L., Jones, T.O., Loveman, G.W., Sasser, W.E., and Schlesinger, L.A., (2008), “Putting the
Service-Profit Chain to Work,” Best of HBR, Harvard Business Review, July-August 2008, pp. 118-
128
16. Clatworthy, S. (2011). Service innovation through touch-points: Development of an innovation
toolkit for the first stages of new service development. International Journal of Design, 5(2).
17. Barras, R. (1986). “Towards a Theory of Innovation in Services,” Research Policy (15), pp. 161-173.
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18. Gustafsson, A., and Johnson, M. (2003). Competing in a Service Economy: How to Create a
Competitive Advantage Through Service Development and Innovation, San Francisco: Jossey-
Bass.
19. Barrett, M., Davidson, E., Prabhu, J., & Vargo, S. L. (2015). “Service innovation in the digital age:
key contributions and future directions”. Mis Quarterly, 39(1), 135-154.
20. Lusch, R. F., and Nambisan, S. (2015). “Service Innovation; A Service-Dominant Logic Perspective,”
MIS Quarterly (39:1), pp.155-175
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IT Project Management (includes Agile / DevOps)

Course Outcome(s):
After completion of this course, students will learn the techniques to effectively plan, manage, execute, and
control projects within time and cost targets with a focus on Information Technology and Service Sector.
Students will also learn agile project management techniques such as Scrum and DevOps.

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Project Overview and Feasibility Studies- Identification, Market and Demand Analysis, Project Cost
Estimate, Financial Appraisal

UNIT – II

Project Scheduling: Project Scheduling, Introduction to PERT and CPM, Critical Path Calculation,
Precedence Relationship, Difference between PERT and CPM, Float Calculation and its importance, Cost
reduction by Crashing of activity.

UNIT – III

Cost Control and Scheduling: Project Cost Control (PERT/Cost), Resource Scheduling & Resource
Leveling

UNIT – IV

Project Management Features: Risk Analysis, Project Control, Project Audit and Project Termination

UNIT – V

Agile Project Management: Introduction, Agile Principles, Agile methodologies, Relationship between
Agile Scrum, Lean, DevOps and IT Service Management (ITIL).

UNIT – VI

Scrum: Various terminologies used in Scrum (Sprint, product backlog, sprint backlog, sprint review, retro
perspective), various roles (Roles in Scrum), Best practices of Scrum.

UNIT – VII
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DevOps: Overview and its Components, Containerization Using Docker, Managing Source Code and
Automating Builds, Automated Testing and Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration,
Configuration Management, Continuous Deployment, Automated Monitoring.

UNIT – VIII

Other Agile Methodologies: Introduction to XP, FDD, DSDM, Crystal

Workshop:
Workshops will be conducted as a part of this course which is mandatory for students to attend. The primary
objective of the workshops is to teach the students the agile project management including Scrum and
DevOps through group activities.

Home Assignment:
Case studies will be distributed to students beforehand and students should prepare and try to solve these
cases before coming to class. Students will be asked submit and present their understanding of the cases
and solutions before the class.

Text Books:
1. Mike Cohn, Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum
2. Notes to be distributed by the course instructor on various topics

Reference Books:
1. Roman Pichler, Agile Product Management with Scrum
2. Ken Schwaber, Agile Project Management with Scrum (Microsoft Professional)
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Advance Finance (Elective IV)

Course Outcome(s):
This course will help students to develop in-depth knowledge about the financial techniques and
instruments. The students will learn to

• Imbibe knowledge about the decisions and decision variables involved with financial activities of
the firm.
• Develop skills for interpretation business information and application of financial theory in
corporate investment decisions, with special emphasis on working capital management.
• Familiarizing the students with the corporate and financial restructuring.

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Sources of Funds (including regulatory framework)

• Types of securities
• Issuing the capital in market
• Pricing of issue
• Valuation of Stocks and bonds

UNIT – II

Dividend Decisions: Traditional Approach, Dividend Relevance Model, Miller and Modigliani
Model, Stability of Dividends, Forms of Dividends, Issue of bonus shares, Stock Split

UNIT – III

Evaluation of Lease Contracts

UNIT – IV

Corporate Restructuring
• Mergers and Acquisitions- Types of Mergers, Evaluation of Merger Proposal
• Take-over
• Amalgamation
• Leverage buy-out
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• Management buy-out
• Corporate Failure and Liquidation

UNIT – V

Financial Restructuring
• Share Split
• Consolidation
• Cancellation of Paid-up Capital
• Other Mechanisms

UNIT – VI

Working Capital Management:

• Working Capital Planning
• Monitoring and Control of Working Capital
• Working Capital Financing
• Managing the Components of Working Capital
o Cash Management
o Receivable Management
o Inventory Management

UNIT – VII

Introduction to derivatives
• Basics of Futures, Forwards, Options, Swaps
• Interest rate Payoff Diagrams, Pricing of Futures, Put Call Parity, Option Pricing using
Binomial Model and Black Scholes Model
• Use of Derivatives for Risk-Return Management- Credit Default Swaps

Home Assignment:
Case study materials book will be given to students. Students are required to meet in groups before
coming to class and prepare on the case for the day. Instructor may ask the student groups to present
their analysis and findings to the class.
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Further, the topic for class discussion will be mentioned beforehand and students should be prepared to
discuss these topics in class. Few topics are mentioned below as examples. Instructor can add or change
any topic as per requirement.

1. Topic: Historical perspectives of markets like major boom and busts, bull and bear
cycles, major market crashes, bubbles
2. Topic: Major scams in the market, e.g. Satyam case

Text Books:

1. Brealey, Myers and Allen, Principles of Corporate Finance

Case Study Materials: To be distributed for class discussion

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Marketing Research & Marketing Management

Course Outcome(s):
Students will be able to

• Understand basic marketing concepts

• Comprehend the dynamics of marketing and analyze how its various components interact with
each other in the real world
• Leverage marketing concepts for effective decision making
• Understand basic concepts and application of statistical tools in Marketing research

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Marketing Concepts and Applications: Introduction to Marketing & Core Concepts, Marketing of Services,
Importance of marketing in service sector.
Marketing Planning & Environment: Elements of Marketing Mix, Analyzing needs & trends in
Environment - Macro, Economic, Political, Technical & Social
Understanding the consumer: Determinants of consumer behavior, Factors influencing consumer
behavior
Market Segmentation: Meaning & Concept, Basis of segmentation, selection of segments, Market
Segmentation strategies, Target Marketing, Product Positioning

UNIT – II

Product Management: Product Life cycle concept, New Product development & strategy, Stages in New
Product development, Product decision and strategies, Branding & packaging

UNIT – III

Pricing, Promotion and Distribution Strategy: Policies & Practices – Pricing Methods & Price
determination Policies. Marketing Communication – The promotion mix, Advertising & Publicity, 5 M’s of
Advertising Management. Marketing Channels, Retailing, Marketing Communication, Advertising

UNIT – IV

Marketing Research: Introduction, Type of Market Research, Scope, Objectives & Limitations
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Marketing Research Techniques, Survey Questionnaire design & drafting, Pricing Research, Media
Research, Qualitative Research
Data Analysis: Use of various statistical tools – Descriptive & Inference Statistics, Statistical Hypothesis
Testing, Multivariate Analysis - Discriminant Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Segmenting and Positioning, Factor
Analysis

UNIT – V

Internet Marketing: Introduction to Internet Marketing. Mapping fundamental concepts of Marketing

(7Ps, STP); Strategy and Planning for Internet Marketing

UNIT – VI

Business to Business Marketing: Fundamental of business markets. Organizational buying process.

Business buyer needs. Market and sales potential. Product in business markets. Price in business markets.
Place in business markets. Promotion in business markets. Relationship, networks and customer
relationship management. Business to Business marketing strategy

Home Assignments:
1. Written Analyses of Cases – Students are expected to report on their analysis and
recommendations of what to do in specific business situations by applying concepts and principles
learned in class (Case Studies to be shared by Faculty) e.g. “Marketing Myopia”
2. Field visit & live project covering steps involved in formulating Market Research Project
3. Measuring Internet Marketing Effectiveness: Metrics and Website Analytics

Text Books:

1. Marketing Management (Analysis, Planning, Implementation & Control) – Philip Kotler

2. Fundamentals of Marketing – William J. Stanton & Others
3. Marketing Management – V.S. Ramaswamy and S. Namakumari
4. Marketing Research – Rajendra Nargundkar
5. Market Research – G.C. Beri
6. Market Research, Concepts, & Cases – Cooper Schindler

Reference Books:
5. Marketing Management – Rajan Saxena
6. Marketing Management – S.A. Sherlekar
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7. Service Marketing – S.M. Zha

8. Journals – The IUP Journal of Marketing Management, Harvard Business Review
9. Research for Marketing Decisions by Paul Green, Donald, Tull
10. Business Statistics, A First Course, David M Levine at al, Pearson Publication
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Behavioral Economics + Lab

TEACHING SCHEME: EXAMINATION SCHEME: CREDITS ALLOTTED:
Lectures: 4 Hrs/Week Semester Examination: 60 marks 4
Tutorials: Nil Continuous Assessment: 40 marks
Lab: Nil Term Work: Nil
Behavioral Economics (Elective – II)
Course Objective: To impart knowledge on current ideas and concepts regarding decision making
in Economics, particularly from a behavioral science perspective, which can affect choices and
behavior of firms, households and other economics entities

Course Outcome: Students will be able to understand and apply various concepts in traditional and
modern Microeconomics, focusing on decision making, and develop a holistic understanding of
these concepts and their interconnections

Unit I

I. Introduction

The neoclassical/standard model and behavioral economics in contrast; historical background;

behavioral economics and other social sciences; theory and evidence in the social sciences and in
behavioral economics; applications – gains and losses, money illusion, charitable donation.

Unit II
II. Basics of choice theory

Revisiting the neoclassical model; utility in economics and psychology; models of rationality;
connections with evolutionary biology and cognitive neuroscience; policy analysis – consumption
and addiction, environmental protection, retail therapy; applications – pricing, valuation, public
goods, choice anomalies
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Unit III
III. Beliefs, heuristics and biases

Revisiting rationality; causal aspects of irrationality; different kinds of biases and beliefs; self-
evaluation and self-projection; inconsistent and biased beliefs; probability estimation; trading
applications – trade in counterfeit goods, financial trading behavior, trade in memorabilia

Unit IV
IV. Choice under uncertainty

Background and expected utility theory; prospect theory and other theories; reference points; loss
aversion; marginal utility; decision and probability weighting; applications – ownership and trade,
income and consumption, performance in sports.

Unit V

V. Intertemporal choice

Geometric discounting; preferences over time; anomalies of inter-temporal decisions; hyperbolic

discounting; instantaneous utility; alternative concepts – future projection, mental accounts,
heterogeneous selves, procedural choice; policy analysis – mobile calls, credit cards, organization of
government; applications – consumption and savings, clubs and membership, consumption planning

Unit VI

VI. Strategic choice

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1. Review of game theory and Nash equilibrium – strategies, information, equilibrium in pure and
mixed strategies, iterated games, bargaining, signaling, learning; applications – competitive sports,
bargaining and negotiation, monopoly and market entry

2. Individual preferences; choice anomalies and inconsistencies; social preferences; altruism; fairness;
reciprocity; trust; learning; communication; intention; demographic and cultural aspects; social
norms; compliance and punishment; inequity aversion; policy analysis – norms and markets, labor
markets, market clearing, public goods; applications – logic and knowledge, voluntary contribution,
compensation design

Text Book: An Introduction to Behavioral Economics, by N. Wilkinson and M. Klaes

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Computational Finance & Modeling (Elective – II)

Course Objective:

Post successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Understand existing financial models in a quantitative and mathematical way.

2. Apply these quantitative tools to solve complex problems in the areas of portfolio
management, risk management and financial engineering.
3. Explain the approaches required to calculate the price of options.
4. Identify the methods required to analyse information from financial data and trading
systems.

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

Numerical methods relevant to integration, differentiation and solving the partial differential equations
of mathematical finance: examples of exact solutions including Black Scholes and its relatives, finite
difference methods including algorithms and question of stability and convergence, treatment of near
and far boundary conditions, the connection with binomial models, interest rate models, early exercise,
and the corresponding free boundary problems, and a brief introduction to numerical methods for
solving multi-factor models.

UNIT – II

Black-Scholes framework: Black-Scholes PDE: simple European calls and puts; put-call parity. The PDE for
pricing commodity and currency options. Discontinuous payoffs - Binary and Digital options. The Greeks:
theta, delta, gamma, vega & rho and their role in hedging. The mathematics of early exercise - American
options: perpetual calls and puts; optimal exercise strategy and the smooth pasting condition. Volatility
considerations - actual, historical, and implied volatility; local vol and volatility surfaces.

Simulation including random variable generation, variance reduction methods and statistical analysis of
simulation output. Pseudo random numbers, Linear congruential generator, Mersenne twister RNG. The
use of Monte Carlo simulation in solving applied problems on derivative pricing discussed in the current
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finance literature. The technical topics addressed include importance sampling, Monte Carlo integration,
Simulation of Random walk and approximations to diffusion processes, martingale control variables,
stratification, and the estimation of the “Greeks. ”

UNIT – III

Financial Products and Markets: Introduction to the financial markets and the products which are traded
in them: Equities, indices, foreign exchange, and commodities. Options contracts and strategies for
speculation and hedging.

UNIT – IV

Application areas include the pricing of American options, pricing interest rate dependent claims, and
credit risk. The use of importance sampling for Monte Carlo simulation of VaR for portfolios of options.

UNIT – V

Statistical Analysis of Financial Returns: Fat-tailed and skewed distributions, outliers, stylized facts of
volatility, implied volatility surface, and volatility estimation using high frequency data.

UNIT – VI

Copulas, Hedging in incomplete markets, American Options, Exotic options, Electronic trading, Jump
Diffusion Processes, High-dimensional covariance matrices, Extreme value theory, Statistical Arbitrage.

References:

1. R. Seydel: Tools for Computational Finance, 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004.
2. P. Glasserman: Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering, Springer-Verlag, New York,
2004.
3. W. Press, S. Teukolsky, W. Vetterling and B. Flannery, Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of
Scientific Computing, 1997. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Available on-line at:
http://www.nr.com/
4. A. Lewis: Option Valuation under Stochastic Volatility, Finance Press, Newport Beach,
California, 2000.
5. A. Pelsser: Efficient Methods for Valuing Interest Rate Derivatives, Springer-Verlag, New York,
2000.
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6. D. Ruppert, Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering

7. R. Carmona: Statistical Analysis of Financial Data in S-Plus
8. N. H. Chan, Time Series: Applications to Finance
9. R. S. Tsay, Analysis of Financial Time Series
10. J. Franke, W. K. Härdle and C. M. Hafner, Statistics of Financial Markets: An Introduction
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INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Course Objective:
Introduces students to the content areas of industrial psychology and the application of psychological
theory to organizational issues. Topics include employment law, job analysis, recruitment and selection,
training, performance appraisal and discipline, employee motivation, and workplace safety. Using an
applied approach, this course will help prepare students for their roles as employees and managers.

Course Outcome(s):
Students will be able to

• Become conversant about the major content areas of Industrial Psychology (i.e., job analysis,
recruitment, selection, employment law, training, performance management, and health/well-
being issues in the workplace).
• Gain further comfort with statistical concepts in the context of making personnel decisions to
reinforce content learned in PSY203 or an equivalent introductory statistics course.
• Gain practical experience by completing a series of hands-on projects involving job analysis,
selection decisions, training programs, and employee well-being.
• Deepen your understanding of tests and measurements so that you can collect accurate
information and make sound data-based decisions.
• Prepare for other focused seminar courses in Industrial/Organizational Psychology or Human
Resource Management.

Topics to Be Covered:
UNIT – I

What is I/O Psychology? Research Methods, Statistics, and Evidence-based Practice,

Introduction & Legal Context of Industrial Psychology, Job Analysis & Competency Modeling, Job
Evaluation & Compensation, Job Design & Employee Well-Being, Recruitment
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UNIT – II

Identifying Criteria & Validating Tests and Measures, Screening Methods, Intensive Methods,

UNIT – III

Performance Goals and Feedback, Performance Coaching and Evaluation, Evaluating Employee
Performance,

UNIT – IV

Employee Motivation, Satisfaction and Commitment, Fairness and Diversity

UNIT – V

Leadership, Organizational Climate, Culture, and Development, Teams in Organizations, The

Organization of Work Behavior

UNIT – VI

Stress Management: Demands of Life and Work

Text Book:

Landy, F. J. and Conte, J. M. (2013). Work in the 21st Century (4th Edition). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
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Enterprise Systems + Lab

Attached Separately
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Image Processing and Pattern Recognition + Lab

Introduction: Image processing systems and its applications. Basic image file formats
Image formation: Geometric and photometric models; Digitization - sampling, quantization;
Image definition and its representation, neighbourhood metrics.
Intensity transformations and spatial filtering: Enhancement, contrast stretching, histogram
specification, local contrast enhancement; Smoothing, linear and order statistic filtering,
sharpening, spatial convolution, Gaussian smoothing, DoG, LoG.
Segmentation: Pixel classification; Grey level thresholding, global/local thresholding; Optimum
thresholding - Bayes analysis, Otsu method; Derivative based edge detection operators, edge
detection/linking, Canny edge detector; Region growing, split/merge techniques, line detection,
Hough transform.
Image/Object features extraction: Textural features - gray level co-occurrence matrix;
Moments; Connected component analysis; Convex hull; Distance transform, medial axis
transform, skeletonization/thinning, shape properties.
Registration: Mono-modal/multimodal image registration; Global/local registration; Transform
and similarity measures for registration; Intensity/pixel interpolation.
Colour image processing: Fundamentals of different colour models - RGB, CMY, HSI, YCbCr,
Lab; False colour; Pseudo colour; Enhancement; Segmentation.
Morphological Filtering Basics: Dilation and Erosion Operators, Top Hat Filters
Text Books:
1. Digital Image Processing. R. C. Gonzalez and R. E. Woods, Prentice Hall.
Reference Books:
1. Image Processing: The Fundamentals. Maria Petrou and Panagiota Bosdogianni, John Wiley
& Sons, Ltd.
2. Digital Image Processing. K. R. Castleman:, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs.
3. Visual Reconstruction. A. Blake and A. Zisserman, MIT Press, Cambridge.
4. Digital Pictures. A. N. Netravali and B. G. Haskell, Plenum Press.
5. Digital Images and Human Vision. A. B. Watson:, MIT Press, Cambridge.