Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal

(Formerly West Bengal University of Technology)

Syllabus for B. Tech in CSE(Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)
(Applicable from the academic session 2020-2021)

SEMESTER – VIII

Natural Language Processing

Code: PEC-AIML 801A
Contacts: 3L

Name of the Course: Natural Language Processing

Course Code: PEC-AIML 801A Semester: VIII

Duration: 6 months Maximum Marks:100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme

Theory: 3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15

Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz: 10 marks
Attendance : 5 marks
Practical:NIL End Semester Exam :70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

Regular Expressions and AutomataRecap) - Introduction
1 to NLP, Regular Expression, Finite State Automata [2L] 11
Tokenization - Word Tokenization, Normalization, Sentence
Segmentation, Named Entity Recognition, Multi Word
Extraction, Spell Checking – Bayesian Approach, Minimum
Edit Distance [5L]
Morphology - Morphology – Inflectional and Derivational
Morphology, Finite State Morphological Parsing, The
Lexicon and Morphotactics, Morphological Parsing with
Finite State Transducers, Orthographic Rules and Finite State
Transducers, Porter Stemmer [4L]

Language Modeling Introduction to N-grams, Chain Rule,

2 Smoothing – Add-One Smoothing, Witten-Bell Discounting; 8
Backoff, Deleted Interpolation, N-grams for Spelling and
Word Prediction, Evaluation of language models. [4L]
Hidden Markov Models and POS Tagging Markov Chain,
Hidden Markov Models, Forward Algorithm, Viterbi
Algorithm, Part of Speech Tagging – Rule based and Machine
Learning based approaches, Evaluation. [4L]

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Text Classification Text Classification, Naïve Bayes’ Text

3 Classification, Evaluation, Sentiment Analysis – Opinion 9
Mining and Emotion Analysis, Resources and Techniques.
[4L]
Context Free Grammar Context Free Grammar and
Constituency, Some common CFG phenomena for
English, Top-Down and Bottom-up parsing,
Probabilistic Context Free Grammar, Dependency
Parsing [4L]
Computational Lexical Semantics Introduction to Lexical
4. Semantics – Homonymy, Polysemy, Synonymy, Thesaurus – 9
WordNet, Computational Lexical Semantics – Thesaurus
based and Distributional Word Similarity [4L]
Information Retrieval Boolean Retrieval, Term- document
incidence, The Inverted Index, Query Optimization, Phrase
Queries, Ranked Retrieval – Term Frequency – Inverse
Document Frequency based ranking, Zone Indexing, Query
term proximity, Cosine ranking, Combining different features
for ranking, Search Engine Evaluation, Relevance Feedback
[5L]

Text book and Reference books:

1. Speech and Language Processing, Jurafsky and Martin, Pearson Education

2. Foundation of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Manning and Schutze,
MIT Press
3. Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications from Theory to Practice:
Bikel, Pearson.

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Cyber Law and Ethics

Code: PEC-AIML801B
Contacts: 3L

Name of the Course: Cyber Law and Ethics

Course Code: PEC-AIML801B Semester: VIII
Duration:6 months Maximum Marks: 100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme
Theory: 3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15
Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz : 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: NIL End Semester Exam: 70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

Intellectual Property: Intellectual property, copyrights,
1 patents, trade secrets and its laws, employees and trade 8
secret, key intellectual property issues, plagiarism,
reverse engineering, open source code, competitive
intelligence, trademark infringement, cybersquatting.
Software Development: Strategies for engineering
2 quality software, importance of software quality, 8
software product liability, software development
process, capability maturity model integration, safety
critical system, quality management standards.
The Impact of Information Technology on
3 Productivity and 8
Quality of Life: Impact of IT, IT investment and
productivity, digital divide, impact of it on healthcare
cost, electronic health records, use of mobile and
wireless technology in healthcare industry,
telemedicine, medical information websites.
Social Networking: Social networking website,
4. business Application of online social networking, 8
social networking ethical issues: cyberbullying, cyber
stalking, sexual predators, uploading inappropriate
material. Online virtual world: crime in virtual world,
educational and business uses.
5 Ethics of IT Organization: Key ethical issues, non- 8
traditional
Workers, contingent workers, H-1 B workers,
outsourcing, whistle blowing, green computing, ICT
industry code of conduct.

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Text book and Reference books:

1. “Ethics in Information Technology”, 4th Edition, George Reynolds Strayer

University, 2012.
2. “Ethics and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies for Ethical
Computing”, 3rd Edition,Herman T. Tavani, John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
2. “Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives”, Soraj Hon ladarom,
Charles Ess, Idea GroupInc (IGI), 2007.
3. “Information Security and Cyber Laws” by Gupta & Gupta, Khanna Book
Publishing, New Delhi.

Mobile Computing
Code: PEC- AIML801C
Contacts: 3L

Name of the Course: Mobile Computing

Course Code: PEC- AIML801C Semester: VIII
Duration: 6 months Maximum Marks: 100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme

Theory:3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15

Tutorial: 3L Assignment and Quiz: 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: NIL End Semester Exam: 70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

Introduction to Personal Communications Services 5
1 (PCS): PCS Architecture, Mobility management,
Networks signalling. Global System for Mobile
Communication (GSM) system overview: GSM
Architecture, Mobility management, Network
signalling.
General Packet Radio Services (GPRS): GPRS 5
2 Architecture, GPRS Network Nodes. Mobile Data
Communication: WLANs (Wireless LANs) IEEE
802.11 standard, Mobile IP.
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP): The Mobile 7
3 Internet standard, WAP Gateway and Protocols, wireless
mark up Languages (WML). Wireless Local
Loop(WLL): Introduction to WLL Architecture,
wireless Local Loop Technologies.
Third Generation (3G) Mobile Services: Introduction to 7
4. International Mobile Telecommunications 2000 (IMT
2000) vision, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
(W-CDMA), and CDMA 2000, Quality of services in
3G
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5 Global Mobile Satellite Systems; case studies of the 7

IRIDIUM and GLOBALSTAR systems. Wireless
Enterprise Networks: Introduction to Virtual Networks,
Blue tooth technology, Blue tooth Protocols.
Server-side programming in Java, Pervasive web 8
6 application architecture, Device independent example
Application
Text book and Reference books:

1. "Pervasive Computing", Burkhardt, Pearson

2. "Mobile Communication", J. Schiller, Pearson
3. "Wireless and Mobile Networks Architectures", Yi-Bing Lin & Imrich Chlamtac,
John Wiley& Sons, 2001
4. "Mobile and Personal Communication systems and services", Raj Pandya, Prentice
Hall ofIndia, 2001.
5. "Guide to Designing and Implementing wireless LANs", Mark Ciampa, Thomson
learning,Vikas Publishing House, 2001.
6. "Wireless Web Development", Ray Rischpater, Springer Publishing,
7. "The Wireless Application Protocol", Sandeep Singhal, Pearson .
8. "Third Generation Mobile Telecommunication systems", by P.Stavronlakis, Springer
Publishers,
9. Brijesh Gupta “Mobile Computing”, Khanna Publishing House, New Delhi

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Economic Policies in India

Code: OEC- AIML801A
Contacts: 3L

Economic Development and its Determinants

Approaches to economic development and its measurement – sustainable
development; Role ofState, market and other
institutions; Indicators of development – PQLI, Human Development
Index (HDI), genderdevelopment indices.
Planning in India
Objectives and strategy of planning; Failures and achievements of Plans;
Developing grass-rootorganizations for
development – Panchayats, NGOs and pressure groups.
Demographic Features, Poverty and Inequality
Broad demographic features of Indian population; rural-urban migration; Urbanization
and civic amenities; Poverty and
Inequality.
Resource Base and Infrastructure
Energy; social infrastructure – education and health; Environment; Regional
imbalance; Issues and policies in financing
infrastructure development.
The Agricultural Sector
Institutional Structure – land reforms in India; Technological change in agriculture –
pricing of agricultural inputs and output;
industry; Agricultural finance policy; Agricultural Marketing and Warehousing; Issues
Terms of trade between agriculture
and in food security – policies for sustainable agriculture.
Section – II
Industrial policy; Public Sector enterprises and their performance; Problem of sick units in
India;
Privatization and
disinvestment debate; Growth and pattern of industrialization; Small-scale sector;
Productivity in industrial sector; Exit
policy – issues in labour market reforms; approaches for employment generation.
Public Finances
Fiscal federalism – Centre-State financial relations; Finances of central government;
Finances of state governments; Parallel
economy; Problems relating to fiscal policy; Fiscal sector reforms in India.
Money, Banking and Prices
Analysis of price behaviour in India; Financial sector reforms; Interest rate policy;
Review of monetary policy of RBI; Money
and capital markets; Working of SEBI in India.
External Sector
Structure and direction of foreign trade; Balance of payments; Issues in export-import
policy and FEMA; Exchange rate
policy; Foreign capital and MNCs in India; The progress of trade reforms in India.
Economic Reforms

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Rationale of internal and external reforms; Globalization of Indian economy;

WTO and its impact on the different sectors of
the economy; Need for and issues in good governance; Issues in competition and
safety nets in Indian economy.

BASIC READING LIST

1. Ahluwalia, I. J. and I. M. D Little (Eds.) (1999), India's Economic Reforms and
Development (Essays in honour of Manmohan
Singh), Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
2. Bardhan, P. K. (9th Edition) (1999), The Political Economy of Development in
India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
3. Bawa, R. s. and P. S. Raikhy (Ed.) (1997), Structural Changes in Indian
Economy, Guru Nanak Dev University Press,
Amritsar.
4. Brahmananda, P. R. and V. R. Panchmukhi (Eds.) (2001), Development
Experience in the Indian Economy: Inter-State
Perspectives, Book well, Delhi.
5. Chakravarty, S. (1987), Development Planning : The Indian Experience, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi.
6. Dantwala, M. L. (1996), Dilemmas of Growth : The Indian Experience, Sage
Publications, New Delhi.
7. Datt, R. (Ed.) (2001), Second Generation Economic Reforms in India, Deep
& Deep Publications, New Delhi.
8. Government of India, Economic Survey (Annual), Ministry of Finance, New Delhi.
9. Jain, a. K. (1986), Economic Planning in India, Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi.
10. Jalan, B. (1992), The Indian Economy – Problems and Prospects, Viking, New Delhi.

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Micro-electronics and VLSI Design

Code: OEC- AIML801B
Contact: 3L
Credits: 3
Allotted Hrs: 39L

Introduction to CMOS circuits: MOS Transistors, MOS transistor switches, CMOS Logic, The
inverter, Combinational Logic, NAND gate, NOT Gate, Compound Gates, Multiplexers, Memory-
Latches and Registers. [6L]
Processing Technology: Silicon Semiconductor Technology- An Overview, wafer processing,
oxidation, epitaxy deposition, Ion-implantation and diffusion, The Silicon Gate Process- Basic
CMOS Technology, basic n-well CMOS process, p-well CMOS process, Twin tub process,
Silicon on insulator, CMOS process enhancement-Interconnect, circuit elements, 3-D CMOS.
Layout Design Rule: Layer Representations, CMOS n-well Rules, Design Rule of background
scribe line, Layer Assignment, SOI Rule [10L] .

Power Dissipation: Static dissipation, Dynamic dissipation, short-circuit dissipation, total power
dissipation. Programmable Logic, Programmable Logic structure, Programmable interconnect,
and Reprogramable Gate Array: Xilinx Programmable Gate Array, Design Methods: Behavioural
Synthesis, RTL synthesis [8L]

Placement: placement: Mincut based placement – Iterative improvement placement simulated

annealing. Routing: Segmented channel routing – maze routing – routability and routing resources
– net delays. [5L]

Verification and Testing: Verification Versus Testing, Verification: logic simulation design
validation – timing verification – Testing concepts: failures – mechanisms and faults – fault
coverage – ATPG methods – types of tests – FPGAs – programmability failures – design for
testability. [5L]

Overview of VHDL [5L]

Text Book:

1. “Digital Integrated Circuit”, J.M.Rabaey, Chandrasan, Nicolic, Pearson

2. “CMOS Digital Integrated Circuit”, S.M.Kang & Y.Leblebici, TMH
3.”Modern VLSI Design” Wayne Wolf, Pearson
4.“Algorithm for VLSI Design & Automation”, N.Sherwani, Kluwer
5.”VHDL”, Bhaskar, PHI

References:

1. “ Digital Integrated Circuits” Demassa & Ciccone, Willey Pub.

2. “Modern VLSI Design: system on silicon” Wayne Wolf; Addison Wesley Longman Publisher
3. “Basic VLSI Design” Douglas A. Pucknell & Kamran Eshranghian; PHI
4. “CMOS Circuit Design, Layout & Simulation”, R.J.Baker, H.W.Lee, D.E. Boyee, PHI

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Software Engineering
Code:OEC-AIML 801C
Contact: 3L

Name of the Course: Software Engineering

Course Code: OEC-AIML 801C Semester: VIII
Duration:6 months Maximum Marks:100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme
Theory:3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15
Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz: 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: hrs./week End Semester Exam:70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

Overview of System Analysis & Design , Business
1 System Concept, System Development Life Cycle, 10
Waterfall Model ,
Spiral Model, Feasibility Analysis, Technical
Feasibility, Cost- Benefit Analysis, COCOMO
model. [10L]
System Design – Context diagram and DFD, 5
2 Problem Partitioning, Top-Down And Bottom-Up
design; Decision tree,
decision table and structured English; Functional vs.
Object- Oriented approach. [5L]
Coding & Documentation – Structured 12
3 Programming, OO Programming, Information
Hiding, Reuse, System
Documentation. [4L]
Testing – Levels of Testing, Integration Testing,
Test case Specification, Reliability Assessment,
Validation & Verification
Metrics, Monitoring & Control. [8L]
Software Project Management – Project Scheduling, 7
4. Staffing, Software Configuration Management,
Quality Assurance,
Project Monitoring. [7L]

5 Static and dynamic models, why modeling, UML 10

diagrams: Class diagram, interaction diagram:
collaboration diagram,
sequence diagram, state chart diagram,
activity diagram, implementation diagram.
[10 L]
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Text book and Reference books:

1. Pressman, Software Engineering : A practitioner’s approach– (TMH)

2. Pankaj Jalote, Software Engineering- (Wiley-India)
3. N.S. Gill, Software Engineering – (Khanna Publishing House)
4. Rajib Mall, Software Engineering- (PHI)
5. Agarwal and Agarwal, Software Engineering – (PHI)
6. Sommerville, Software Engineering – Pearson
7. Martin L. Shooman, Software Engineering – TMH

Human Resource Development and Organizational Behavior

Code: OEC-AIML 802 A
Contact: 3L

Name of the Course: Human Resource Development and

OrganizationalBehavior
Course Code: OEC-AIML 802 A Semester: VIII
Duration:6 months Maximum Marks:100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme
Theory:3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15
Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz: 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: NIL End Semester Exam:70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

Organizational Behaviour: Definition, Importance,Historical
1 Background, Fundamental Concepts of OB, 4
Challenges and Opportunities for OB. [2] Personality and
Attitudes: Meaning of personality,Personality Determinants
and Traits, Developmentof
Personality, Types of Attitudes, Job Satisfaction.
Perception: Definition, Nature and Importance, Factors 8
2 influencing Perception, Perceptual Selectivity, Link between
Perception and DecisionMaking. [2]
4. Motivation: Definition, Theories of Motivation - Maslow’s
Hierarchy of Needs Theory, McGregor’sTheory X &
Y, Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Theory, Alderfer’s ERG
Theory, McClelland’s Theory ofNeeds, Vroom’s
Expectancy Theory.
Group Behaviour: Characteristics of Group, Types 4
3 of Groups, Stages of Group Development, GroupDecision

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Making. [2]
Communication: Communication Process, Directionof
Communication, Barriers to Effective Communication. [2]
Leadership: Definition, Importance, Theories of

Leadership Styles.
Organizational Politics: Definition, Factors 8
4. contributing to Political Behaviour. [2]
Conflict Management: Traditional vis-a-vis ModernView of
Conflict, Functional and Dysfunctional Conflict,
Conflict Process, Negotiation – Bargaining Strategies,
Negotiation Process. [2] Organizational Design: Various
Organizational Structures and their Effects on Human
Behaviour,Concepts of
Organizational Climate and Organizational Culture.

Text book and Reference books:

1. Robbins, S. P. & Judge, T.A.: Organizational Behavior, Pearson Education, 15th Edn.
2. Luthans, Fred: Organizational Behavior, McGraw Hill, 12th Edn.
3. Shukla, Madhukar: Understanding Organizations – Organizational Theory & Practice in
India, PHI
4. Fincham, R. & Rhodes, P.: Principles of Organizational Behaviour, OUP, 4th Edn.
5. Hersey, P., Blanchard, K.H., Johnson, D.E.- Management of Organizational Behavior
Leading Human Resources,
PHI, 10th Edn.

Research Methodology
Code: OEC-AIML 802B
Contact: 3L

Name of the Course: Research Methodology

Course Code: OEC-AIML 802B Semester: VIII
Duration:6 months Maximum Marks:100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme
Theory:3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15
Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz: 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: NIL End Semester Exam:70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

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RESEARCH FORMULATION AND DESIGN

1 Motivation and objectives – Research methods vs. 9
Methodology. Types of research – Descriptive vs.
Analytical, Applied vs. Fundamental, Quantitative vs.
Qualitative, Conceptual vs. Empirical, concept of applied
and basic research process, criteria of good research.
Defining and formulating the research problem, selecting
the problem, necessity of defining the problem,
importance of literature review in defining a problem,
literature review-primary and secondary sources, reviews,
monograph, patents, research databases, web as a source,
searching the web, critical literature review, identifying
gap areas from literature and research database,
development of working hypothesis.
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS 9
2 Accepts of method validation, observation and
collection of data, methods of data collection, sampling
methods, data processing and analysis strategies and
tools,data analysis with statically package (Sigma
STAT,SPSS for student t-test, ANOVA, etc.),
hypothesis testing.
RESEARCH ETHICS, IPR AND SCHOLARY 9
3 PUBLISHING
Ethics-ethical issues, ethical committees (human &
animal); IPR- intellectual property rights and patent
law, commercialization, copy right, royalty, trade
related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS);
scholarly publishing- IMRAD concept and design of
research paper, citation and acknowledgement,
plagiarism, reproducibility and accountability.
INTERPRETATION AND REPORT WRITING 9
4. Meaning of Interpretation, Technique of Interpretation,
Precaution in Interpretation, Significance of Report
Writing, Different Steps in Writing Project Report,
Layout of the Project/Research Report, Types of
Reports, Oral Presentation, Mechanics of Writing a
Project/Research Report, Precautions for Writing
Research Reports, Conclusions.
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Text book and Reference books:

1. Garg, B.L., Karadia, R., Agarwal, F. and Agarwal, U.K., 2002. An introduction to Research
Methodology, RBSA Publishers.
2. Kothari, C.R., 1990. Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques. New Age International.
418p.
3. Sinha, S.C. and Dhiman, A.K., 2002. Research Methodology, Ess Ess Publications. 2 volumes.
4. Trochim, W.M.K., 2005. Research Methods: the concise knowledge base, Atomic Dog Publishing.
270p.
5. Wadehra, B.L. 2000. Law relating to patents, trade marks, copyright designs and geographical
indications. Universal Law Publishing.

Additional reading

1. Anthony, M., Graziano, A.M. and Raulin, M.L., 2009. Research Methods: A Process of Inquiry,
Allyn and Bacon.
2. Carlos, C.M., 2000. Intellectual propertyrights, the WTO and developing countries: the TRIPS
agreement and policy options. Zed Books, New York.
3. Coley, S.M. and Scheinberg, C. A., 1990, "Proposal Writing", Sage Publications.
4. Day, R.A., 1992.How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, Cambridge University Press.
5. Fink, A., 2009. Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper. Sage
Publications
6. Leedy, P.D. and Ormrod, J.E., 2004 Practical Research: Planning and Design, Prentice Hall.
7. Satarkar, S.V., 2000. Intellectual property rights and Copy right. Ess Ess Publications.

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Soft Skill & Interpersonal Communication

Code: OEC-AIML802C
Contact: 3L

Name of the Course: Soft Skill & Interpersonal Communication

Course Code: OEC-AIML802C Semester: VIII
Duration: 6 months Maximum Marks: 100
Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme
Theory: 3 hrs./week Mid Semester exam: 15
Tutorial: NIL Assignment and Quiz: 10 marks
Attendance: 5 marks
Practical: NIL End Semester Exam: 70 Marks
Credit Points: 3

Unit Content Hrs/Unit Marks/Unit

Introduction: A New Approach To Learning, Planning And
1 Goal-Setting, Human Perceptions: Understanding People, 5
Types Of Soft Skills: Self-Management Skills, Aiming For
Excellence: Developing Potential And Self- Actualization,
Need Achievement And SpiritualIntelligence
Conflict Resolution Skills: Seeking Win-Win Solution,
2 Inter-Personal Conflicts: Two Examples, Inter-Personal 5
Conflicts: Two Solutions, Types Of Conflicts: Becoming A
Conflict Resolution Expert
Types Of Stress: Self-Awareness About Stress, Regulating
Stress: Making The Best Out Of Stress
Habits: Guiding Principles, Habits: IdentifyingGood And
3 Bad Habits, Habits: Habit Cycle, 5
Breaking Bad Habits, Using The ZeigarnikEffect For
Productivity And Personal Growth,
Forming Habits Of Success
Communication: Significance Of Listening,
Communication: Active Listening,
4. Communication: Barriers To Active Listening, Telephone 5
Communication: Basic Telephone Skills , Telephone
Communication: Advanced Telephone Skills, Telephone
Communication:Essential Telephone Skills

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Technology And Communication:

5. Technological Personality, Technology And 5
Communication: Mobile Personality?, Topic: Technology
And Communication: E-Mail Principles, Technology And
Communication: How Not To Send E-Mails!, Technology
And Communication: Netiquette, Technology And
Communication: E-Mail Etiquette
Communication Skills: Effective
Communication, Barriers To Communication: Arising Out 5
6 Of Sender/Receiver’s Personality, Barriers To
Communication: Interpersonal Transactions, Barriers To
Communication: Miscommunication, Non-Verbal
Communication: Pre-Thinking Assessment-1, Non-Verbal
Communication: Pre-ThinkingAssessment-2

Nonverbal Communication: Introduction And Importance,

Non-Verbal Communication: Issues And Types, 5
7 Non-Verbal Communication: Basics And
Universals, Non- Verbal Communication: Interpreting
Non-Verbal Cues, Body Language: For Interviews,
Body Language: For Group Discussions
Presentation Skills: Overcoming Fear, 5
8 Presentation Skills: Becoming A Professional,
Presentation Skills: The Role Of Body
Language, Presentation Skills: Using Visuals, :Reading
Skills: Effective Reading, Human Relations: Developing
Trust And Integrity

TEXT BOOKS AND REFERENCES

1. Dorch, Patricia. What Are Soft Skills? New York: Execu Dress
Publisher, 2013.
2. Kamin, Maxine. Soft Skills Revolution: A Guide for
Connecting with Compassion for Trainers,Teams, and
Leaders. Washington, DC: Pfeiffer & Company, 2013.

3. Klaus, Peggy, Jane Rohman & Molly Hamaker. The

Hard Truth about Soft Skills. London:HarperCollins
E-books, 2007.
4. Petes S. J., Francis. Soft Skills and Professional
Communication. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill
Education, 2011.
5. Stein, Steven J. & Howard E. Book. The EQ Edge:
Emotional Intelligence and Your Success.Canada:
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Project-II
Code: PROJ-AIML 881
Contact: 12P

Project Work II & Dissertation

The object of Project Work II & Dissertation is to enable the student to extend
further the investigative study taken up under EC P1, either fullytheoretical/practical or involving
both theoretical and practical work, under the guidance of a Supervisor from the Department alone or
jointly with a Supervisor drawn from R&D laboratory/Industry. This is expected to provide a good
training for the student(s) in R&D work and technical leadership. The assignment to normally include:
1. In depth study of the topic assigned in the light of the Reportprepared under EC P1;
2. Review and finalization of the Approach to the Problem relatingto the assigned topic;
3. Preparing an Action Plan for conducting the investigation, including teamwork;
4. Detailed Analysis/Modelling/Simulation/Design/ProblemSolving/Experiment as needed;
5. Final development of product/process, testing, results,conclusions and future directions;
6. Preparing a paper for Conference presentation/Publication in Journals, ifpossible;
7. Preparing a Dissertation in the standard format for beingevaluated by the Department.
8. Final Seminar Presentation before a Departmental Committee.

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