PHD Syllabus

DAYANANDA SAGAR UNIVERSITY
Shavige Malleshwara Hills,

Kumarswamy Layout,
Bengaluru-560078, Karnataka.
PH.D COURSE WORK SYLLABUS

2017
SL COURSE TITLE OF THE COURSE
CODE
1 15PHRM01 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
2 17ENG001 PRINCIPLES OF IOT AND CLOUD COMPUTING
3 17ENG002 DATA SCIENCE ANALYTICS
4 17ENG003 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION
5 17ENG004 DATA SCIENCE
6 17ENG005 ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION
7 17ENG006 CRYPTOGRAPHY AND NETWORK SECURITY
8 17ENG007 CLOUD COMPUTING
9 17ENG008 DATA MINING TECHNIQUES
10 17ENG009 IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING
11 17ENG010 ALGORITHMS IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
12 17ENG011 MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING
13 17ENG012 ADVANCED BIG DATA ANALYTICS
14 17ENG013 ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
15 17ENG014 DATA MINING
16 17ENG015 CLOUD COMPUTING AND SECURITY
17 17ENG016 INFORMATION AND NETWORK SECURITY
18 17ENG017 ADVANCED COMPUTER NETWORKS
19 17ENG018 ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN DATABASE SYSTEMS
20 17ENG019 COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
21 17ENG020 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND PARALLEL PROCESSING
22 17ENG021 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
23 17ENG022 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
24 17ENG023 ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE DATA DISCOVERY
25 17ENG024 ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING
26 17ENG025 ADVANCED COMPUTER NETWORKS AND PROTOCOLS
27 17ENG026 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS & PROTOCOLS
28 17ENG027 ANTENNA THEORY AND DESIGN
29 17ENG028 VLSI DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
30 17ENG029 ADVANCED OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
31 17ENG030 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
32 17ENG031 VLSI TECHNOLOGY
33 17ENG032 IMAGE PROCESSING
34 17ENG033 ADVANCED INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
35 17ENG034 COMPUTER NETWORKS & MANAGEMENT
36 17ENG035 BASIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
37 17ENG036 BASIC CONCEPTS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
38 17ENG037 MATERIALS AND CHARACTERIZATION
39 17ENG038 BIOMATERIALS AND CHARACTERIZATION
40 17ENG039 NANOMATERIALS SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES
41 17ENG040 APPLICATIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY
42 17ENG041 ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
43 17ENG042 PHYTOCHEMISTRY
44 17ENG043 ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
45 17ENG044 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF POLYMERS
46 17ENG045 MATERIALS SCIENCE
47 17ENG046 BATTERY TECHNOLOGY AND ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES
48 17ENG047 RADIATION PHYSICS
49 17ENG048 MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
50 17ENG049 ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES
51 17ENG050 CRYSTAL ENGINEERING
52 17ENG051 INTRODUCTION TO MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, DATABASE AND BIOINFORMATIC
53 17ENG052 INTRODUCTION TO BIOSTATISTICS
54 17ENG053 THEORY OF I C ENGINES
55 17ENG054 ALTERNATE FUELS FOR I C ENGINE APPLICATION
56 17ENG055 COMPOSITE MATERIALS
57 17ENG056 POLYMER AND BIOMATERIALS
58 17BAS001 RECENT ADVANCES IN BIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES
59 17BAS002 NANO-PHYTOTHERAPEUTICS AND BACTERIAL SIGNALING
60 17BAS003 NEURO-INFLAMMATION AND NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE
61 17BAS004 STRUCTURAL STUDY OF CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASES
62 17BAS005 BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC STRESS IN PLANTS
63 17BAS006 OXIDATIVE STRESS AND MITOCHONDRIAL BIOLOGY
64 15HSC001 MODERN ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES
65 15HSC002 PHARMACOLOGY
66 17HSC001 PHARMACEUTICS
67 17CMS001 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
68 17CMS002 HR METRICS AND ANALYTICS
69 17CMS003 COST ACCOUNTING
70 17CMS004 RETAIL MANAGEMENT
71 17CMS005 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
72 17CMS006 FINANCIAL MARKETS & INTERMEDIARIES
73 17CMS007 EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AND ENGAGEMENT
74 17CMS008 CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
75 17CMS009 BRAND MANAGEMENT
Course Code 15PHRM01
Title of Course RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Maximum Marks 100
Duration of Examination 3 Hours
Note : (i) Eight (8) questions to be set covering entire Syllabus

(ii) Each Question is of 20 marks
(iii) Any Five Full questions to be answered out of Eight questions
Meaning, Objectives and Characteristics of research - Research methods Vs Methodology - Types
of research - Descriptive Vs. Analytical, Applied Vs. Fundamental, Quantitative Vs. Qualitative,
Conceptual Vs. Empirical - Research process - Criteria of good research - Developing a research
plan.
Defining the research problem - Selecting the problem - Necessity of defining the problem -
Techniques involved in defining the problem - Importance of literature review in defining a
problem - Survey of literature - Primary and secondary sources - Reviews, treatise, monographs
patents - web as a source - searching the web - Identifying gap areas from literature review -
Development of working hypothesis.
Research design and methods – Research design – Basic Principles- Need of research design ––
Features of good design – Important concepts relating to research design – Observation and Facts,
Laws and Theories, Prediction and explanation, Induction, Deduction, Development of Models -
Developing a research plan - Exploration, Description, Diagnosis, and Experimentation -
Determining experimental and sample designs.
Sampling design - Steps in sampling design - Characteristics of a good sample design - Types of
sample designs - Measurement and scaling techniques - Methods of data collection - Collection of
primary data - Data collection instruments
Testing of hypotheses - Basic concepts - Procedure for hypotheses testing flow diagram for
hypotheses testing - Data analysis with Statistical Packages – Correlation and Regression -
Important parametric test - Chi-square test - Analysis of variance and Covariance
Interpretation and report writing - Techniques of interpretation - Structure and components of
scientific reports - Different steps in the preparation - Layout, structure and language of the report
- Illustrations and tables - Types of report - Technical reports and thesis
REFERENCES:
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.
Course Code 17ENG001
Title of Course PRINCIPLES OF IOT AND CLOUD COMPUTING
Maximum Marks 100

INTRODUCTION TO IoT
Internet of Things - Physical Design- Logical Design- IoT Enabling Technologies - IoT Levels &
Deployment Templates - Domain Specific IoTs - IoT and M2M - IoT System Management with
NETCONF-YANG- IoT Platforms Design Methodology, IoT Architecture - M2M high-level ETSI
architecture - IETF architecture for IoT - OGC architecture - IoT reference model - Domain model -
information model - functional model - communication model - IoT reference architecture
IoT PROTOCOLS
Protocol Standardization for IoT – Efforts – M2M and WSN Protocols – SCADA and RFID Protocols
– Unified Data Standards – Protocols –
IEEE 802.15.4 – BACNet Protocol – Modbus– Zigbee Architecture – Network layer – 6LowPAN -
CoAP– Security.
COMPUTING PARADIGMS
High-Performance Computing - Parallel Computing - Distributed Computing - Cluster

Computing. Grid Computing - Cloud Computing - Biocomputing - Mobile Computing. Quantum
Computing, Optical Computing. Nano computing.Cloud Computing Fundamentals: Motivation
for Cloud Computing, The Needfor Cloud Computing, Defining Cloud Computing, Definition of
Cloud computing, CloudComputing Is a Service, Cloud Computing Is a Platform, Principles of
Cloud computing, FiveEssential Characteristics...Four Cloud Deployment Models. Cloud
Computing Architecture and Management: Cloud architecture, Layer,Anatomy of the Cloud,
Network Connectivity in Cloud Computing, Applications on the Cloud,Managing the Cloud,
Managing the Cloud Infrastructure, Managing the Cloud application,Migrating, Application to
Cloud, Phases of Cloud Migration Approaches for Cloud Migration.
CLOUD SERVICE MODELS
Infrastructure as a Service, Characteristics of IaaS.Suitability of IaaS, Pros and Cons of IaaS,

Summary of IaaS Providers, Platform as aService, Characteristics of PaaS, Suitability of PaaS,
Pros and Cons of PaaS, Summary ofPaaS Providers, Software as a Service, Characteristics of SaaS,
Suitability of SaaS, Prosand Cons of SaaS, Summary of SaaS Providers. Other Cloud Service
Models.VIRTUALIZATION : Basics of Virtual Machines - Process Virtual Machines – System
Virtual Machines –Emulation – Interpretation – Binary Translation - Taxonomy of Virtual
Machines. Virtualization –Management Virtualization –– Hardware Maximization – Architectures
– Virtualization Management – Storage Virtualization – Network Virtualization
VIRTUALIZATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Comprehensive Analysis – Resource Pool – Testing Environment –Server Virtualization – Virtual
Workloads – Provision Virtual Machines – Desktop Virtualization – Application Virtualization -
Implementation levels of virtualization – virtualization structure – virtualization of CPU, Memory
and I/O devices – virtual clusters and Resource Management – Virtualization for data center
automation.
REFERENCES:
1. ArshdeepBahga, Vijay Madisetti, ―Internet of Things – A hands-on approach‖, Universities
Press, 2015
2. Dieter Uckelmann, Mark Harrison, Michahelles, Florian (Eds), ―Architecting the Internet of
Things‖, Springer, 2011.
3. Honbo Zhou, ―The Internet of Things in the Cloud: A Middleware Perspective‖, CRC Press,
2012.
4. Danielle Ruest, Nelson Ruest, ―Virtualization: A Beginner‟s Guide‖, McGraw-Hill Osborne
Media, 2009.
5. Jim Smith, Ravi Nair , "Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes",
Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2005
6. John W.Rittinghouse and James F.Ransome, "Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management,
and Security", CRC Press, 2010.
7. Kai Hwang, Geoffrey C Fox, Jack G Dongarra, "Distributed and Cloud Computing, From
Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2012.
Title of Course DATA SCIENCE ANALYTICS
Maximum Marks 100
INTRODUCTION TO BIG DATA :Big Data – Definition, Characteristic Features – Big Data
Applications - Big Data vs Traditional Data - Risks of Big Data - Structure of Big Data - Challenges
of Conventional Systems - Web Data – Evolution of Analytic Scalability - Evolution of Analytic
Processes, Tools and methods - Analysis vs Reporting - Modern Data Analytic Tools.
DATA ANALYSIS :Statistical Methods: Regression modelling, Multivariate Analysis -
Classification: SVM & Kernel Methods - Rule Mining - Cluster Analysis, Types of Data in Cluster
Analysis, Partitioning Methods, Hierarchical Methods, Density Based Methods, Grid Based
Methods, Model Based Clustering Methods, Clustering High Dimensional Data - Predictive
Analytics – Data analysis using R. . Hadoop: History of Hadoop- the Hadoop Distributed File
System – Components of HadoopAnalysing the Data with Hadoop- Scaling Out- Hadoop
Streaming- Design of HDFS-Java interfaces to HDFS Basics- Developing a Map Reduce
Application-How Map Reduce Works-Anatomy of a Map Reduce Job run-Failures-Job
Scheduling-Shuffle and Sort – Task execution - Map Reduce Types and Formats- Map Reduce
Features,Hadoop environment.
MINING DATA STREAMS :Streams: Concepts – Stream Data Model and Architecture -
Sampling data in a stream - Mining Data Streams and Mining Time-series data - Real Time
Analytics Platform (RTAP) Applications - Case Studies - Real Time Sentiment Analysis, Stock
Market Predictions.
MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES :Introduction- overview of machine learning-
Different forms of learning- Generative 6 learning- Gaussian parameter estimation- maximum
likelihood estimation- MAP estimation- Bayesian estimation- bias and variance of estimators-
missing and noisy features- nonparametric density estimation- applications- software tools.
TREES AND GRAPHICAL MODELS:Classification Methods-Nearest neighbour- Decision
trees- Linear Discriminant Analysis - Logistic regression-Perceptrons- large margin
classification- Kernel methods- Support Vector Machines. Classification and Regression Trees.
Graphical and sequential models- Bayesian networks- conditional independence Markov random
fields- inference in graphical models- Belief propagation- Markov models- Hidden Markov
models- decoding states from observations- learning HMM parameters.
REFERENCES:
1. Michael Berthold, David J. Hand, “Intelligent Data Analysis”, Springer, 2007.
2. Tom White “Hadoop: The Definitive Guide” Third Edition, O’reilly Media, 2012.
3. Chris Eaton, Dirk DeRoos, Tom Deutsch, George Lapis, Paul Zikopoulos, “Understanding Big
Data: Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop nd Streaming Data”, McGrawHill Publishing,2012.
4. T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman, “Elements of Statistical Learning”, Springer, 2009.
5. E. Alpaydin, “Machine Learning”, MIT Press, 2010.
6. K. Murphy, “Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective”, MIT Press, 2012.
7. Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Shai Ben-David, “Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to
Algorithms”, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Title of Course ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Necessity of Artificial Intelligence in the field of Education,

Active Learning with SVM, Adaptive Neural Algorithms for PCA & ICA, Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy
Systems, Adaptive Technology & Its Applications, Agent-Based Intelligent System Modelling
Algorithms for Association Rule Mining, Artificial Neural Networks & Cognitive Modelling, Chaotic
Neural Networks, Behavior-Based Clustering of Neural Networks, Bio-Inspired Algorithms
Class Prediction in test Sets with Shifted Distributions, Combining Classifiers & Learning Mixture-of-
Experts, Commonsense Knowledge Representation, Complex-Valued Neural Networks
Decision Making in Intelligent Agents, Decision Tree Applications for Data Modelling, Designing
Unsupervised Hierarchical Fuzzy Logic Systems, Cooperation with Metaheuristics
Differential Evolution with Self-Adaptation, Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning, Information
Theoretic Learning, Intelligent Query Answering Mechanism in Multi-Agent Systems
REFERENCES:
1. Deepak Khemani, 2017, McGraw Hill Education, A First Course in Artificial Intelligence
2. Joseph Aoun, 2017, MIT Press, Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial
Intelligence
3. Susanne P. Lajoie, M. Vivet, 1999, Artificial Intelligence in Education: Open Learning
Environments: New Computational Technologies to Support Learning, Exploration &
Collaboration
4. Benedict Du Boulay, R. Mizoguchi, B. Du Boulay, 1997, IOS Press, Artificial Intelligence in
Education: Knowledge & Media in Learning Systems: 39 FAIA (Frontiers in Artificial
Intelligence & Applications)
5. V. Dimitrova, R. Mizoguchi, B. Du Boulay, A. Graesser, 2009, IOS Press, Artificial Intelligence
in Education: Building Learning Systems That Care: From Knowledge Representation to
Affective Modeling (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence & Applications)
6. M.F. Verdejo, 2003, IOS Press, US, Artificial Intelligence in Education: Shaping the Future of
Learning through Intelligent Technologies (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence & Applications)
Title of Course DATA SCIENCE
Maximum Marks 100

Big Data – Beyond the Hype, Big Data Skills & Sources of Big Data, Big Data Adoption, Characteristics
of Big Data, Understanding Big Data with Examples, Key Aspects of a Big Data Platform
Governance for Big Data, Overview of High Value Big Data Use Cases, Text Analytics & Streams,
Cloud & Big Data, Predictive Analytics, Recommendation Analytics
Introduction to Hadoop, Hadoop Distributed File System, YARN, Map-Reduce Framework, NoSQL
Databases, Open Source Big Data Tools
Aggregate Model, Schema-less Models, Data Integrity, Compression, Serialization, AVRO, File-Based
Data Structures,
Data Format, Scaling Out, Streaming & Pipes, Data Flow, Data Storage, Grid Computing, Volunteer
Computing, Convergence of Key Trends, Web Analytics, Big Data
REFERENCES:
1. Nathan Marz, James Warren, 2015, Dream Tech Press, Big Data: principles & Best
Practices of Scalable Real-Time Data Systems
2. Parag Kulkarni, Sarang Joshi, Meta S. Brown, 2016, Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., Big
Data Analytics
3. Judith Hurwitz, Alan Nugent, Fern Halper, Marcia Kaufman, 2013, Wiley, Big Data for
Dummies
4. Tom White, 2015, Shroff Publishers & Distributers Private Limited, Fourth Edition,
5. Hadoop – Definitive Guide Seema Acharya, Subhashini Chellappan, 2015, Wiley, Big
Data & Analytics (WIND)
Title of Course ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction to Robotic Process Automation, Automation of Automation, From Transactional to

Analytical: The Upside of Robotic Process Automation, Difference between RPA & Traditional
Automation
Robotic Process Automation at Telefonica O2, Next Digital Shift in Business, Technologies Driving
Next Digital Era, Work Fusion, UI Path, Blue Prism
Introduction to Deep Learning, Deep Learning Techniques Used in Industry, Linear Alegra, Probability
Theory, Information Theory, Numerical Computation
Deep Feedforward Networks, Regularization, Optimization Algorithms, Convolutional Networks,
Sequence Modelling, Monte Carlo Methods, Deep Generative Models
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Active Learning with SVM, Adaptive Neural Algorithms for PCA
& ICA, Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Systems, Adaptive Technology & Its Applications, Agent-Based
Intelligent System Modelling
REFERENCES:
1. Frank Casale, Rebecca Dilla, Heidi Jaynes, Lauren Livingston, 2015, Introduction to Robotic
Process Automation
2. Mary Lacity, Leslie Wilcocks, Andrew Craig, 2015, Robotic Process Automation at Telefonica
O2
3. Louis Lamoureux, Third Digital Inc.,2017, Doing Digital Right: How Companies Can Thrive in
the Next Digital Era
4. Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, MIT Press, 2017, Deep Learning (Adaptive
Computation & Machine Learning Series)
5. Deepak Khemani, 2017, McGraw Hill Education, A First Course in Artificial Intelligence
Title of Course CRYPTOGRAPHY AND NETWORK SECURITY
Maximum Marks 100

INTRODUCTION AND NUMBER THEORY: Classic Cipher Techniques – Substitution Ciphers,

Mono-alphabetic Substitution and Poly-alphabetic Substitution – Transposition Ciphers. Number
Theorem and Euler’s Theorem- Exponentiation.

SINGLE AND PUBLIC KEY CIPHERS : DES - 3DES – AES – RSA Algorithm, ElGamal Algorithm
– Key Management using Exponential Ciphers - Diffie-Hellman.
MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION, DIGITAL SIGNATURES AND CERTIFICATES :

Security Services and Mechanisms – Message Authentication (Integrity) – MAC – Hash
Functions – Digital Signature: Digital Signature Standards (FIPS 186-2), DSA (ANSI X9.30),
RSA (ANSI X9.31) – RSA Certification –PKI Certificates.
TRUSTED IDENTITY AND WIRELESS SECURITY :Security Concerns – Password System:

Fixed and One time Passwords (S/Key) RFC 2289 – Callback Systems, Challenge and Response Systems
– RADIUS – Kerberos v4 & v5 – Needham Schroeder Protocol – ITU-T X.509 – Authentication:
Framework,Simple, Protected, Strong – PKI Life Cycle Management - Current Wireless Technology -
Wireless Security WEP Issues.
PROTOCOLS AND FIREWALLS:SSL/TLS - SSH - IPSec – Firewall Concepts, Architecture, Packet
Filtering, Proxy Services and Bastion Hosts – Electronic Mail Security – PGP, S/MIME
REFERENCES:
1. William Stallings “Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice”, 3rd
Edition, Pearson Education, 2002.
2. William Stallings “Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards”, 2nd
3. Behrouz A.Forouzan, “Cryptography and Network Security”, special edition, Tata
McGraw Hill, 2007.
4. Bruce Scheneier, “Applied Cryptography”, John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
5. Douglas R.Stinson, “Cryptography: Theory and Practice”, CRC Press Series on Discrete
Mathematics and its Applications, 1995.
Title of Course CLOUD COMPUTING
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction, Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud computing, Cloud computing delivery models and services, Ethical issues, Cloud
vulnerabilities, Cloud computing at Amazon, Cloud computing the Google perspective,
Microsoft Windows Azure and online services, Open-source software platforms for private
clouds, Cloud storage diversity and vendor lock-in, Energy use and ecological impact,
Service level agreements, User experience and software licensing.
Cloud Computing: Application Paradigms.

Challenges of cloud computing, Architectural styles of cloud computing, Workflows:
Coordination of multiple activities, Coordination based on a state machine model: The
Zookeeper, The Map Reduce programming model, A case study: The GrepTheWeb
application , Cloud for science and engineering, High-performance computing on a cloud,
Cloud computing for Biology research, Social computing, digital content and cloud
computing.
Cloud Resource Virtualization.

Virtualization, Layering and virtualization, Virtual machine monitors, Virtual Machines,
Performance and Security Isolation, Full virtualization and paravirtualization, Hardware
support for virtualization, Case Study: Xen a VMM based paravirtualization, Optimization
of network virtualization, vBlades, Performance comparison of virtual machines, The dark
side of virtualization.
Cloud Resource Management and Scheduling.

Policies and mechanisms for resource management, Application of control theory to task
scheduling on a cloud, Stability of a two-level resource allocation architecture, Feedback
control based on dynamic thresholds, Coordination of specialized autonomic performance
managers, A utility-based model for cloud-based Web services, Resourcing bundling:
Combinatorial auctions for cloud resources, Scheduling algorithms for computing clouds,
Fair queuing, Start-time fair queuing, Borrowed virtual time, Cloud scheduling subject to
deadlines, Scheduling Map Reduce applications subject to deadlines, Resource
management and dynamic scaling.
Cloud Security, Cloud Application Development.

Cloud security risks, Security: The top concern for cloud users, Privacy and privacy impact
assessment, Trust, Operating system security, Virtual machine Security, Security of
virtualization, Security risks posed by shared images, Security risks posed by a
management OS, A trusted virtual machine monitor, Amazon web services: EC2 instances,
Connecting clients to cloud instances through firewalls, Security rules for application and
transport layer protocols in EC2, How to launch an EC2 Linux instance and connect to it,
How to use S3 in java, Cloud-based simulation of a distributed trust algorithm, A trust
management service, A cloud service for adaptive data streaming, Cloud based optimal
FPGA synthesis.
References:
1. Rajkumar Buyya , James Broberg, Andrzej Goscinski: Cloud Computing Principles and
Paradigms, Willey 2014.
2. John W Rittinghouse, James F Ransome:Cloud Computing Implementation, Management
and Security, CRC Press 2013
3. Dan C Marinescu: Cloud Computing Theory and Practice. Elsevier(MK) 2013.
Title of Course DATA MINING TECHNIQUES
Maximum Marks 100

Data warehouse: Introduction to Data warehouse, Difference between operational

database systems and data warehouses, Data warehouse characteristics, Data warehouse
Architecture and its components, Extraction- Transformation-Loading, Logical (Multi-
Dimensional), Data Modeling, Schema Design, Star and show-Flake Schema, Fact
Consultation, Fact Table, Fully Addictive, Semi-Addictive, Non Addictive Measures;
Fact-Less Facts, Dimension Table Characteristics; OLAP Cube, OLAP Operations,
OLAP Server Architecture-ROLAP, MOLAP and HOLAP.
Introduction to Data Mining: Introduction, What is Data Mining, Definition, KDD,

Challenges, Data Mining Tasks, Data Processing, Data Cleaning, Missing data,
Dimensionality Reduction, Feature Subset Selections, Discretization and Binaryzation,
Data Transformation; Measures of Similarity and Dissimilarity-Basics.
Association Rules: Problem Definition, Frequent item set generation, The APRIORI
Principle, support and confidence measures, association rule generation; APRIORI
algorithm. The Partition Algorithms, FP-Growth Algorithms, Compact Representation of
Frequent item Set-Maximal Frequent item set, closed frequent item set.
Classification: Problem Definition, General Approaches to solving classification

problem, Evaluation of Classifiers, Classification techniques, Decision Trees-Decision
trees construction, Methods, for expressing attribute test conditions, Measures for
selecting the best split, Algorithm for Decision tree induction; Naive- Bayes Classifier,
Bayesian Belief Network; K-Nearest neighbor classification-Algorithm and
characteristics.
Clustering: Problem Definition, Clustering Overview, Evaluation of Clustering

algorithms, partitioning clustering-K-Means Algorithm, K-Means Additional issues,
PAM Algorithm; Hierarchical Clustering- Agglomerative Methods and divisive methods,
Basic Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms Specific techniques, Key issues
in Hierarchical Clustering, Strengths and weakness; outlier detection.
REFERENCES:
1. Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, “Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques”, 2e, Elsevier,
2008.
2. Pang-ning Tan Vipin Kumar Micaelsteinbanch, “Introduction to data mining “, Pearson
Education.
3. Margaret H Dunham, “Data Mining Introductory and Advanced Topics”, 2e, Pearson
Education, 2006.
4. Amitesh Sinha, “Data Warehousing”, Thomson Learning, 2007.
5. Arun K pujari, “Data Mining Techniques”, 3e, Universities Press.
6. VikramPudi, P Radha Krishna, “Data Mining”, Oxford University Press.
Title of Course IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction: What is Digital Image Processing, Origins of Digital Image Processing, Examples
of fields that use DIP, Fundamental Steps in Digital Image Processing, and Components of an
Image Processing System. Digital Image Fundamentals: Elements of Visual Perception, A
Simple Image Formation Model, Basic Concepts in Sampling and Quantization, Representing
Digital Images, Spatial and Gray-level Resolution, Zooming and Shrinking Digital Images, Some
Basic Relationships Between Pixels, Linear and Nonlinear Operations.
Image Enhancement in the Spatial Domain: Some Basic Gray Level Transformations,
Histogram Processing, Enhancement Using Arithmetic/Logic Operations, Basics of Spatial
Filtering, Smoothing Spatial Filters, Sharpening Spatial Filters, Combining Spatial Enhancement
Methods. Image Enhancement in the Frequency Domain: Introduction to the Fourier
Transform and the Frequency Domain, Smoothing Frequency-Domain Filters, Sharpening
Frequency Domain Filters, Homomorphic Filtering.
Image Restoration: A Model of the Image degradation/Restoration process, Noise Models,
Restoration in the Presence of Noise Only–Spatial Filtering, Periodic Noise Reduction by
Frequency Domain Filtering, Linear, Position-Invariant Degradations, Estimating the
Degradation Function, Inverse Filtering, Minimum Mean Square Error (Wiener) Filtering,
Constrained Least Square Filtering, Geometric Mean Filter. Video processing – Video spaces,
analog and digital video interfaces, video standards, display enhancement, video mixing, video
scaling, scan rate conversion,
Color Fundamentals: Color Models, Pseudo color Image Processing, Basics of Full-Color
Image Processing, Color Transformations, Smoothing and Sharpening, Color Segmentation,
Noise in Color Images, Color Image Compression. Wavelets and Multiresolution Processing:
Image Pyramids, Subband coding, The Haar Transform, Multiresolution Expansions, Wavelet
Transforms in one Dimension, Fast Wavelet Transform, Wavelet Transforms in Two
Dimensions, Wavelet Packets. Image Compression: Fundamentals, Image Compression
Models, Error-free (Lossless) compression, Lossy Compression.
Morphological Image Processing: Preliminaries, Dilation and Erosion, Opening and Closing,
The Hit-or-Miss Transformation, Some Basic Morphological Algorithms. Image Segmentation:
Detection of Discontinuities, Edge Linking and Boundary Detection, Thresholding, Region-
Based Segmentation.
REFERENCES:
1. R. C. Gonzalez and R E Woods, Digital Image Processing, Pearson Education, 2002
2. A K Jain, Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Pearson Education,1989
3. W Pratt, Digital Image Processing, Wiley, 2001
4. Al Bovik, Handbook of Image and Video, Academic Press, 2000
5. Keith Jack, Video Demystified, LLH, 2001
Title of Course ALGORITHMS IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Maximum Marks 100
DNA Computing: DNA Structure, and Processing , Computational operations and Step involve in
DNA computing, Bio-soft Computing Based on DNA Length, Beginnings of Molecular
ComputingAdelman Experiment. RNA secondary structure prediction: Base pair maximisation
and the Nussinov folding algorithm, Energy minimisation and the Zuker folding algorithm, Design
of covariance models, Application of RNA fold.
Combinatorial Pattern Matching- Hash Tables, Repeat Finding, Exact Pattern Matching; Genetic
Algorithm:- Basic Concepts, Reproduction, Cross over, Mutation, Fitness Value, Optimization
using GAs; Applications of GA in bioinformatics.
Hidden Markov Model: Markov processes and Markov Models, Hidden Markov Models. Forward
and Backward Algorithms, Most probable state path: Viterbi algorithm, Parameter Estimation for
HMMs:-Baum-Welch Algorithm, EM Algorithm, Applications of profile HMMs for multiple
alignment of proteins and for finding genes in the DNA.
Support Vector Machines: Introduction, hyperplane separation (maximum and soft margin
hyperplanes), linear classifier, Kernel functions, Large Margin Classification, Optimization
problem with SVM, Applications of SVM in bioinformatics. Bayesian network: Bayes Theorem,
Inference and learning of Bayesian network, BN and Other Probabilistic Models.
Artificial Neural Network: Historic evolution – Perceptron, characteristics of neural networks

terminology, models of neuron Mc Culloch – Pitts model, Perceptron, Adaline model, Basic
learning laws, Topology of neural network architecture, single layer ANN, multilayer perceptron,
back propagation learning, input - hidden and output layer computation, back propagation
algorithm, Applications of ANN
Text Books:
1. Biological sequence analysis: Probabilistic models of proteins and nucleic acids by Richard
Durbin, Eddy, Anders Krogh, 1998
2. An introduction to bioinformatics algorithms by Neil C. Jones, Pavel Pevzner. MIT Press.2004
3. Algorithms for Molecular Biology by Ron Shamir Lecture, Fall Semester, 2001
4. Neural Networks: A Systematic Introduction by Raul Rojas. Springer. 1996 5. DNA Computing:
New Computing Paradigms By Gheorghe Paun, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa.
Reference Books:
1. Bioinformatics: the machine learning approach by Pierre Baldi, Søren Brunak. MIT
Press.2001
Title of Course MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING
Maximum Marks 100

Digital image fundamentals: Image digitization, sampling and quantization, neighbour of

pixels, connectivity, relations, equivalence and transitive closure, distance measures,
arithmetic / logic operations, discrete transform, fast Fourier transform, 2-D Fourier transform,
inverse Fourier transform.
Image enhancement fundamentals: Spatial domain method, frequency domain method,

contrast enhancement, histogram processing, image smoothing, image averaging, masking,
image sharpening, removing of blur caused by uniform linear motion, enhancement in the
frequency domain – low pass, high pass, mean and band-pass filtering.
Image restoration fundamentals: Degradation model, discrete formulation, algebraic approach

to restoration – unconstrained & constrained.
Image compression and segmentation fundamentals: Fidelity criteria, image compression

models, lossy and lossless compression technique. Image segmentation: point detection, line
detection, edge detection, edge linking and boundary detection.
Algorithms used in medical image processing: Brief of reconstruction techniques – algebraic,

simultaneous iterative and simultaneous algebraic. Reconstruction algorithm for parallel
projections, fan beam projection and back projection. Introduction to various approaches of
pattern recognition.
Text books:
1. Digital image processing by Gonzalez and Woods, 2 nd ed., Pearson
2. Digital image processing and analysis by Chanda & Majumdar, PHI
3. Fundamental of digital image processing by Jain, PHI
4. Pattern recognition by Tou and Gonzalez
Title of Course ADVANCED BIG DATA ANALYTICS
Maximum Marks 100
Introduction to Big Data Platform – Challenges of conventional systems – Web data – Evolution
of Analytic scalability, analytic processes and tools, Analysis vs reporting – Modern data
analytic tools, Stastical concepts: Sampling distributions, resampling, statistical inference,
prediction error
Integration of Big Data and Data Warehouse, Data Driven Architecture, Information
Management and Lifecycle, Big Data Analytics, Visualization and Data Scientist, Implementing
The "Big Data" Data. Choices in Setting up R for Business Analytics, R Interfaces, Manipulating
Data, Exploring Data, Building Regression Models, Clustering and Data Segmentation,
Forecasting and Time Series Models
Writing Hadoop Map Reduce Programs, Integrating R and Hadoop, Using Hadoop Streaming with
R, Learning Data Analytics with R and Hadoop, Understanding Big Data Analysis with Machine
Learning. Big Data, Web Data, A Cross-Section of Big Data Sources and the Value They Hold,
Taming Big Data, The Evolution of Analytic Scalability.
The Evolution of Analytic Processes, The Evolution of Analytic, Processes The Evolution of Analytic
Tools and Methods. Legacy Data, Hypothesis Testing, Prediction, Software, Complexity, Business
problems suited to big data analytics.
High Performance Appliances for Big Data Management, Using Graph analytics, Visual data analysis
techniques The New Information Management Paradigm, Big Data's Implication for Businesses, Big
Data Implications for Information Management, Splunk's Basic Operations on Big Data.
REFERENCES:
1. Data Warehousing in the Age of Big Data by Krish Krishnan, Morgan Kaufmann.
2. A.Ohri, “R for Business Analytics”, Springer, 2012.
3. Michael Berthold, David J. Hand, Intelligent Data Analysis, Springer, 2007.
4. Big Data Analytics with R and Hadoop by Vignesh Prajapati
5. Principles of Big Data Preparing, Sharing, and Analyzing Complex Information, 1st
Edition, by J Berman, published by Morgan Kaufmann
6. “Big Data Analytics - From Strategic Planning to Enterprise Integration with Tools,
Techniques, NoSQL, and Graph” By David Loshin, Morgan Kaufmann
Title of Course ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Maximum Marks 100

INTRODUCTION : System Concepts – Software Engineering Concepts - Software Life Cycle–

Development Activities – Managing Software Development – Unified Modelling Language – Project
Organization – Communication.
ANALYSIS: Requirements Elicitation – Use Cases – Unified Modelling Language, Tools –
Analysis Object Model (Domain Model) – Analysis Dynamic Models – Non-functional
requirements – Analysis Patterns.
SYSTEM DESIGN: Overview of System Design – Decomposing the system -System Design
Concepts – System Design Activities – Addressing Design Goals – Managing System Design.
IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGING CHANGE: Programming languages and coding-
Human computer interaction- Reusing Pattern Solutions – Specifying Interfaces – Mapping
Models to Code – Testing Rationale Management – Configuration Management – Project
Management -real time interface design( eg: mobile design)
ASPECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: AO Design Principles -Separations
of Concerns, Subject Oriented Decomposition, Traits, Aspect Oriented Decomposition, Theme
Approach, Designing Base and Crosscutting Themes, Aspect-Oriented Programming using
Aspect-J.
REFERENCES:
1. Bernd Bruegge, Alan H Dutoit, Object-Oriented Software Engineering, 2nd ed,
Pearson Education, 2004.
2. Craig Larman, Applying UML and Patterns, 3rd ed, Pearson Education, 2005.
3. Stephen Schach, Software Engineering 7th ed, McGraw-Hill, 2007.
4. AspectJ in Action, RamnivasLaddad, Manning Publications, 2003
5. Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Robert E. Filman, TzillaElrad, Siobhan Clarke,
and Mehmet Aksit, October 2006.
6. Aspect-Oriented Software Development with Use Cases, (The Addison-Wesley Object
Technology Series), Ivar Jacobson and Pan-Wei Ng, December 2004
7. Aspect-Oriented Analysis and Design: The Theme Approach, (The Addison-Wesley
Object Technology Series), Siobhàn Clarke and Elisa Baniassad, March 2005.
8. Mastering AspectJ: Aspect-Oriented Programming in Java, Joseph D. Gradecki and
Nicholas Lesiecki, March 2003.
Title of Course DATA MINING
Maximum Marks 100
Introduction: What is Data Mining, Motivating Challenges, The Origins of Data Mining, Data
Mining Tasks. Data: Types of Data, Data Quality, Data Preprocessing, Measures of Similarity and
Dissimilarity.
Exploring Data: Summary Statistics, OLAP and Multidimensional Data Analysis
Basic Concepts, Decision Trees, and Model Evaluation: Preliminaries, General Approach to
Solving a Classification Problem, Decision Tree Induction, Model Overfitting, Evaluating the
Performance of a Classifier, Methods for Comparing Classifiers.
Classification-Alternative techniques: Rule-Based Classifier, Nearest-Neighbor Classifiers,

Bayesian Classifiers, Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, Ensemble Methods,
Class Imbalance Problem, Multiclass Problem
Association Analysis- Basic Concepts and Algorithms: Problem Definition, Frequent Item set
Generation,Rule Generation, Compact Representation of Frequent Item sets, Alternative Methods
for GeneratingFrequent Item sets, FP-Growth Algorithm, Evaluation of Association Patterns,
Effect of Skewed SupportDistribution
Cluster Analysis- Basic Concepts and Algorithms: Overview, k-means, Agglomerative

Hierarchical Clustering, DBSCAN, Cluster Evaluation,
Cluster Analysis-Additional Issues and Algorithms: Characteristics of Data, Clusters, and

Clustering Algorithms, Prototype-Based Clustering, Density-Based Clustering, Graph-Based
Clustering-Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) Clustering, Chameleon, Scalable Clustering
Algorithms-Scalability-General Issues and Approaches, BIRCH, CURE
REFERENCES:
1. Introduction to Data Mining, Pang-Ning Tan, Vipin Kumar, Michael Steinbach, Pearson
2. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, Elsevier, Second Edition, 2006
Title of Course CLOUD COMPUTING AND SECURITY
Maximum Marks 100
Introduction, Cloud Infrastructure: Cloud computing, Cloud computing delivery models and
services, Ethical issues, Cloud vulnerabilities, Cloud computing at Amazon, Cloud computing the
Google perspective, Microsoft Windows Azure and online services, Open-source software
platforms for private clouds, Cloud storage diversity and vendor lock-in, Energy use and ecological
impact, Service level agreements, User experience and software licensing.
Cloud Computing: Application Paradigms: Challenges of cloud computing, Architectural styles
of cloud computing, Workflows: Coordination of multiple activities, Coordination based on a state
machine model: The Zookeeper, The Map Reduce programming model, A case study: The Grep ,
TheWeb application , Cloud for science and engineering, High-performance computing on a cloud,
Cloud computing for Biology research, Social computing, digital content and cloud computing
Storage systems : Storage models ,File systems and databases, Distributed file systems: The
precursors, General parallel file systems, Google file systems, Apahe hadoop, Locks and
chubby, Transaction processing and nosql databases, Big table, megastore.
Cloud security risks, Security: The top concern for cloud users, Privacy and privacy impact assessment,
Trust, Operating system security, Virtual machine Security, Security of virtualization, Security risks
posed by shared images, Security risks posed by a management OS, A trusted virtual machine monitor
Cloud application development: Amazon web services: EC2 instances, Connecting clients to cloud
instances through firewalls, Security rules for application and transport layer protocols in EC2, How to
launch an EC2 Linux instance and connect to it, How to use S3 in java, Cloud-based simulation of a
distributed trust algorithm, A trust management service, A cloud service for adaptive data streaming,
Cloud based optimal FPGA synthesis
REFERENCES:
1) Dan C Marinescu: Cloud Computing Theory and Practice. Elsevier(MK) 2013
2) RajkumarBuyya,James Broberg, AndrzejGoscinski: Cloud Computing Principles and
Paradigms, Willey 2014.
3) John W Rittinghouse, James F Ransome: Cloud Computing Implementation, Management
and Security, CRC Press 2013.
4) Cloud Computing Bible, Barrie Sosinsky, Wiley-India, 2010
5) Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications, Editors: Nikos Antonopoulos,
Lee Gillam, Springer, 2012
6) Cloud Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Secure Cloud Computing, Ronald L. Krutz,
Russell Dean Vines, Wiley-India, 2010
Title of Course INFORMATION AND NETWORK SECURITY
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction to Information Security: what is security? Critical characteristics of information,
NSTISSC security model, Approaches to information security implementation, The Security System
Development Life Cycle.
Planning for Security: Introduction, Information Security Policy, Standards, and Practices.
Security Technology: Firewalls and VPNs: Introduction, Physical Design, Firewalls, Protecting
Remote Connections. Intrusion Detection: Introduction; Intrusion Detection System, Honey Pots,
Honey Nets and Padded Cell Systems.
Introduction to Network Security: Attacks, Services and Mechanisms, Security Attacks, Security
Services, A model for Internetwork Security.
Cryptography : Symmetric Cipher Model, Cryptography, the feistel Cipher, The Data Encryption
Standard, Triple DES, Advance Encryption Standard, Cipher Block Modes of Operation, Location of
Encryption devices; Key distribution . Approaches to message authentication: Approaches to
message authentication; Principles of public-key cryptosystems. Public-key cryptosystems.
Applications for public-key cryptosystems, requirements for public-key cryptosystems; The RSA
algorithm; Diffie-Hellman key exchange, the algorithm.
Authentication Application: Kerberos, motivation, Kerberos version 4, Kerberos version 5, Differences
between version4 and version5.
Electronic Mail Security: Pretty Good Privacy(PGP), Notation ,Operational Description,
Cryptographic Keys and Key Rings.
IP Security: IP Security Overview, IP Security Architecture, Authentication Header, Encapsulating
Security Payload, Combining Security Association.
Malicious Software: Viruses and Related Threats, Virus Countermeasures.
REFERENCES:
1. Michael E. Whiteman and Herbert J. Mattord: Principles of Information Security , 2nd Edition ,
Cengage Learning, 2005.
2. William Stallings : Network Security Essentials Applications and Standards , person 2000.
3. Behrouz A. Forouzan : Cryptography and Network security, Tata McGraw-Hill 2007.
Title of Course ADVANCED COMPUTER NETWORKS
Maximum Marks 100
Foundation of Networking Protocols: 5-layer TCP/IP Model, 7-Layer OSI Model, Internet
Protocols and Addressing, Equal-Sized Packets Model: ATM , The Link Layer and Local Area
Networks: Link Layer: Introduction and Services, Error Detection and Error-Correction techniques,
Multiple Access Protocols, Link Layer Addressing and Ethernet.
Routing and Internetworking: Network–Layer Routing, Least-Cost-Path algorithms, Non Least-Cost-
Path algorithms, Intra-domain Routing Protocols, Inter-domain Routing Protocols.
Logical Addressing: IPv4 Addresses, IPv6 Addresses - Internet Protocol: Internetworking, IPv4, IPv6,
Transition from IPv4 to IPv6.
Wireless Networks: Infrastructure of Wireless Networks, Wireless LAN Technologies, IEEE 802.11
Wireless Standards, Cellular Networks -Optical Networks and WDM Systems: Overview of Optical
Networks, Basic Optical Networking Devices, Large-Scale Optical Switches, and Optical Routers.
Multimedia Networking Applications: Properties of video, properties of Audio, Types of multimedia
Network Applications, Streaming stored video: UDP Streaming, HTTP Streaming, Adaptive streaming
and DASH, content distribution Networks, case studies: Netflix, You Tube and Kankan.
Network Support for Multimedia: Dimensioning Best-Effort Networks, Providing Multiple Classes of
Service, Diffserv, Per-Connection Quality-of Service (QoS) Guarantees: Resource Reservation and Call
Admission.
Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks: Overview of Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks, Routing in Ad-Hoc Networks,
Routing Protocols for Ad-Hoc Networks ,Wireless Sensor Networks: Sensor Networks and Protocol
Structures, Routing Protocols.
REFERENCES:
1. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, James F. Kurose,
Keith W.Ross, Third Edition, Pearson Education, 2007.
2. Computer Networks :A System Approach , Larry Peterson and Bruce S Davis 5th Edition
,Elsevier -2014.
3. Ad hoc Wireless Networks, 2nd Edition, C. Siva Ram Murthy & B. S. Manoj, Pearson
Education, 2011 .
4. James F Kurose and Keith W Ross, Computer Networking, A Top-Down Approach,
Sixth edition, Pearson,2017 .
5. Behrouz A Forouzan, Data and Communications and Networking, Fifth Edition, McGraw
Hill, Indian Edition
Title of Course ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN DATABASE SYSTEMS
Maximum Marks 100

Memory hierarchy - Data formats - file structures - Indexes -B-trees Hash tables – external sorting.
Evaluation of relational operators - Algorithms
Normalization, Query optimization Use of Heuristics – Cost Estimations. Transaction concept -
Schedules - Serializability.
Guidelines for index selection - Clustering and indexing - Index tuning, Conceptual Schema tuning,
Tuning queries and views.
Concurrency control techniques: Timestamp based - Lock based - Optimistic – Multiversion :
Log based recover- undo, redo, undo/redo - logging - Shadow paging - media recovery.
Applications: Data Mining, Data warehousing, Web databases
Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Image enhancement in spatial domain

REFERENCES:
1. R. Elmasri and S. B. Navathe, "Fundamentals of Database System", 2nd edition, The Benjamin
/Cummings Publishing Co
2. A.Silberschaiz, HF. Korth, S.Sudarshan, "Database System Concepts ", 3rd edition, McGraw Hill
3. C J Date, "Database an Introduction to Database Systems ", 8th edition, Addison Wesley, 2003
4. Digital Image Processing by R.C. Gonzalez and R.E. Woods, Second Edition, Addison Wesley,
ISBN: 81-7808-629-
Title of Course COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Maximum Marks 100

INTRODUCTION TO SOFT COMPUTING
Introduction to Soft Computing – Evolutionary Computing – Hard computing vs Soft computing
– Recent Trends in Soft Computing
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
History – Mathematical model of neuron – ANN architectures – Learning rules and paradigms –
Perceptron – Backpropagation Network – BPA Learning – Associative Memory: Auto Correlation and
Hetero correlation – Self Organizing Map
FUZZY SETS AND RELATIONS
Uncertainty and Imprecision - Chance vs ambiguity - Classical Sets and Fuzzy Sets - Classical Relations
and Fuzzy Relations - Membership functions - Properties of Membership functions - Fuzzification and
Defuzzification
FUZZY LOGIC
Classical Logic and Fuzzy logic – Fuzzy Rule based systems – Fuzzy Classification – Fuzzy Pattern
Recognition
ROUGH SETS
Introduction to Rough Sets - Information Tables and Attributes – Set Approximation -Knowledge
representation and reduction systems – Comparison with other systems – Case studies
REFERENCES:
1. T.J.Ross, “Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications”, McGraw Hill, 1995.
2. S. Rajasekaran and G.A.V. Pai, “Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithms:
Synthesis and Applications”, PHI, 2007
3. S. Haykins, “Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation”, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall,
2008.
4. Zurada, J.M. “Introduction to Artificial Neural systems”, Jaico Publishing House, 2009.
5. C.M. Bishop, “Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition”, Oxford University Press, 2008.
6. Pawalak, “Rough Sets: Theoretical aspects of reasoning about data”, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, (Dordrecht / Boston / London), 1991
Title of Course COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND PARALLEL
PROCESSING
Maximum Marks 100

THEORY OF PARALLELISM
Parallel computer models - the state of computing, Multiprocessors and Multicomputers and
Multivectors and SIMD computers, PRAM and VLSI models, Architectural development tracks.
Program and network properties- Conditions of parallelism.
PARTITIONING AND SCHEDULING

Program partitioning and scheduling, Program flow mechanisms, System interconnect
architectures. Principles of scalable performance - performance matrices and measures, Parallel
processing applications, speedup performance laws, scalability analysis and approaches.
HARDWARE TECHNOLOGIES
Processor and memory hierarchy advanced processor technology, superscalar and vector
processors, memory hierarchy technology, virtual memory technology, bus cache and shared
memory - backplane bus systems, cache memory organisations, shared memory organisations,
sequential and weak consistency models.
PIPELINING AND SUPERSCALAR TECHNOLOGIES

Parallel and scalable architectures, Multiprocessor and Multicomputers, Multivector and SIMD
computers, Scalable, Multithreaded and data flow architectures.
SOFTWARE AND PARALLEL PROGRAMMING

Parallel models, Languages and compilers, Parallel program development and environments,
UNIX, MACH and OSF/1 for parallel computers.
REFERENCES:
1. Kai Hwang, " Advanced Computer Architecture ", McGraw Hill International, 2001.
2. Dezso Sima, Terence Fountain, Peter Kacsuk, ”Advanced Computer architecture – A
design Space Approach” , Pearson Education , 2003.
3. John P.Shen, “Modern processor design . Fundamentals of super scalar processors”, Tata
McGraw Hill 2003.
4. Kai Hwang, “Scalable parallel computing”, Tata McGraw Hill 1998.
5. William Stallings, “ Computer Organization and Architecture”, Macmillan Publishing
Company, 1990.
6. M.J. Quinn, “ Designing Efficient Algorithms for Parallel Computers”, McGraw Hill
International, 1994.
7. Barry, Wilkinson, Michael, Allen “Parallel Programming”, Pearson Education Asia ,2002
8. Harry F. Jordan Gita Alaghband, “ Fundamentals of parallel Processing”, Pearson
Education , 2003
9. Richard Y.Kain, “ Advanced computer architecture –A systems Design Approach”,PHI,
2003.
Title of Course DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
Maximum Marks 100

FUNDAMENTALS OF IMAGE PROCESSING

Introduction – Steps in Image Processing Systems – Image Acquisition – Sampling and
Quantization – Pixel Relationships – Colour Fundamentals and Models, File Formats, Image
operations – Arithmetic, Geometric and Morphological.
IMAGE ENHANCEMENT
Spatial Domain Gray level Transformations Histogram Processing Spatial Filtering – Smoothing
and Sharpening.Frequency Domain : Filtering in Frequency Domain – DFT, FFT, DCT –
Smoothing and Sharpening filters – Homomorphic Filtering.
IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND FEATURE ANALYSIS
Detection of Discontinuities – Edge Operators – Edge Linking and Boundary Detection –

Thresholding – Region Based Segmentation – Morphological WaterSheds – Motion
Segmentation, Feature Analysis and Extraction.
MULTI RESOLUTION ANALYSIS AND COMPRESSIONS
Multi Resolution Analysis : Image Pyramids – Multi resolution expansion – Wavelet

Transforms. Image Compression : Fundamentals – Models – Elements of Information Theory –
Error Free Compression – Lossy Compression – Compression Standards.
APPLICATIONS OF IMAGE PROCESSING
Image Classification – Image Recognition – Image Understanding – Video Motion Analysis –

Image Fusion – Steganography – Digital Compositing – Mosaics – Colour Image Processing..
REFERENCES:
1. Rafael C.Gonzalez and Richard E.Woods, “Digital Image Processing” Second Edition,
Pearson Education, 2003.
2. Milan Sonka, Vaclav Hlavac and Roger Boyle, “Image Processing, Analysis and
Machine Vision”, Second Edition, Thomson Learning, 2001
3. Anil K.Jain, “Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing”, Person Educaiton, 2003.
Title of Course ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Maximum Marks 100

INTRODUCTION
Intelligent Agents – Agents and environments – Good behavior – The nature of environments –
structure of agents – Problem Solving – problem solving agents – example problems – searching
for solutions – uniformed search strategies – avoiding repeated states – searching with partial
information.
SEARCHING TECHNIQUES
Informed search strategies – heuristic function – local search algorithms and optimistic problems
– local search in continuous spaces – online search agents and unknown environments – Constraint
satisfaction problems (CSP) – Backtracking search and Local search – Structure of problems –
Adversarial Search – Games – Optimal decisions in games – Alpha – Beta Pruning – imperfect
real-time decision – games that include an element of chance.
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
First order logic - syntax and semantics – Using first order logic – Knowledge engineering –
Inference – prepositional versus first order logic – unification and lifting – forward chaining –
backward chaining – Resolution – Knowledge representation – Ontological Engineering –
Categories and objects – Actions – Simulation and events – Mental events and mental objects.
LEARNING
Learning from observations – forms of learning – Inductive learning - Learning decision trees –
Ensemble learning – Knowledge in learning – Logical formulation of learning – Explanation based
learning – Learning using relevant information – Inductive logic programming - Statistical learning
methods – Learning with complete data – Learning with hidden variable – EM algorithm – Instance
based learning – Neural networks – Reinforcement learning – Passive reinforcement learning – Active
reinforcement learning – Generalization in reinforcement learning.
APPLICATIONS
Communication – Communication as action – Formal grammar for a fragment of English –
Syntactic analysis – Augmented Grammars – Semantic interpretation – Ambiguity and
disambiguation – Discourse understanding – Grammar induction – Probabilistic
language processing – Probabilistic language models – Information retrieval – Information
Extraction – Machine translation.
REFERENCES:
1. William Stallings “Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice”, 3rd
2. William Stallings “Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards”, 2nd
3. Behrouz A.Forouzan, “Cryptography and Network Security”, special edition, Tata
McGraw Hill, 2007.
4. Bruce Scheneier, “Applied Cryptography”, John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
5. Douglas R.Stinson, “Cryptography: Theory and Practice”, CRC Press Series on Discrete
Mathematics and its Applications, 1995.
Title of Course ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE DATA DISCOVERY
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction: Why data mining, what is data mining, what kinds of data can be mined, what kinds of
patterns can be mined, which Technologies Are used, which kinds of Applications are targeted, Major
issues in data mining.
Data Pre-processing: An overview, Data cleaning, Data integration, Data reduction, Data transformation
and data discretization and Concept Hierarchy Generation.
Mining Frequent Patterns, Associations, and Correlations: Basic Concepts and a Road Map, Efficient
and Scalable Frequent Itemset Mining Methods, Mining Various Kinds of Association Rules, From
Association Mining to Correlation Analysis, Constraint-Based Association Mining.
Classification: Basic Concepts: Basic Concepts, Decision tree induction, Bays Classification Methods,
Rule-Based classification, Classification by Back propagation, Support Vector Machines, Associative
Classification: Classification by Association Rule Analysis, Lazy Learners (or Learning from Your
Neighbors), other classification algorithms.
Cluster Analysis: Basic concepts and methods: Cluster Analysis, Types of Data in Cluster Analysis, A
Categorization of Major Clustering Methods Partitioning methods, Hierarchical Methods, Density-based
methods, Grid-Based Methods, Outlier Analysis .
REFERENCES:
1. Discovering Knowledge in Data: An introduction to Data Mining, Daniel T. Larose, John
Wiley, 2nd Edition, 2014
2. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, By Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, 3rd Edition,Morgan
Kaufmann Series, 2011
Title of Course ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING
Maximum Marks 100

INTRODUCTION, CONCEPT LEARNING AND DECISION TREES: Learning Problems – Designing
Learning systems, Perspectives and Issues – Concept Learning – Version Spaces and Candidate
Elimination Algorithm– Inductive bias – Decision Tree learning – Representation – Algorithm
NEURAL NETWORKS AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS: Neural Network Representation – Problems
– Perceptrons – Multilayer Networks and Back Propagation Algorithms
BAYESIAN LEARNING: Bayes Theorem – Concept Learning – Maximum Likelihood – Minimum
Description Length Principle – Bayes Optimal Classifier – GibbsAlgorithm – Naïve Bayes Classifier –
Bayesian Belief Network
INSTANT BASED LEARNING: K- Nearest Neighbor Learning – Locally Weighted Regression –
Radial Basis Functions – Case-Based Reasoning
ANALYTICAL LEARNING AND REINFORCED LEARNING Perfect Domain Theories –
Explanation Based Learning – Inductive-Analytical Approaches - FOCL Algorithm – Reinforcement
Learning – Task – Q-Learning – Temporal Difference Learning
REFERENCES:
1. Tom M. Mitchell, “Machine Learning”, McGraw-Hill Education (INDIAN EDITION),
2013.
2. Ethem Alpaydin, “Introduction to Machine Learning”, 2ndEd., PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.,
2013.
3. T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, J. H. Friedman, “The Elements of Statistical Learning”, Springer; 1st
edition, 2001.
Title of Course ADVANCED COMPUTER NETWORKS AND
PROTOCOLS
Maximum Marks 100
Review of Network Fundamentals: Network Systems and the Internet, Network Systems
Engineering, Packet Processing, Network Speed, A conventional computer system, Fetch-
Store paradigm, Network Interface Card functionality, Onboard Address Recognition,
Packet Buffering, Promiscuous Mode, IP Datagram, Fragmentation, Reassembly,
Forwarding, TCP Splicing.
Internetworking: Motivation, Concept, Goals, IP addressing, Address Binding with ARP,
IP Datagram, Encapsulation IP Fragmentation and Reassembly, ICMP, TCP, UDP concept
and datagram protocols, Remote Login, Introduction to Protocol Specification, Validation
and Testing.
Network Standards and Standard Organizations: Proprietary, Open and De-facto
Standards, International Network Standard Organizations, Internet Centralization
Registration Authorities, Modern hierarchy of registration authority, RFC categories, The
Internet Standardization Process.
TCP/IP Network Interface Layer Protocol: TCP/IP Serial Internet Protocols, Point to
Point Protocols, PPP core protocols, PPP Feature Protocols, PPP Protocol Frame Formats,
ARP and RARP Protocols, IPv4 and IPv6, IP Network Address Translation Protocol, ICMP
Protocols and IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol.
Routing and Application Layer Protocols: Communication Protocols, Connection
Oriented, Connection Less, Working with Network Layer and Transport Layer, Routing
Information Protocol (RIP, RIP-2, and Ripping), Border Gateway Protocol, User Datagram
protocol, SMTP and FTP protocols, TFTP Protocols, Hypertext Transfer Protocols.
Text Books:
1. Farrel, A., The Internet and Its Protocols - A Comparative Approach, Morgan
Kaufmann (2004).
2. Puzmanová, R., Routing and Switching - Time of Convergence, Addison-Wesley
(2001).
Reference Books:
1. Tanenbaum, A.S., Computer Networks, Prentice Hall (2007).
2. Hunt, C., TCP/IP Network Administration, O'Reilly Media (2002).
3. Keshav, S., An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking, Addison-
Wesley (1997).
Title of Course WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS & PROTOCOLS
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction: The vision of Ambient Intelligence., Application examples, Types of

applications, Challenges for WSNs, why are sensor networks different? Enabling
technologies.
Single Node Architecture: Hardware components, Energy consumption of sensor nodes,
Operating systems and execution environments, Some examples of sensor nodes,
Conclusion.
Network Architecture: Sensor network scenarios, Optimization goals and figures of merit,
Design principles for WSNs, Service interfaces of WSNs, Gateway concepts, Conclusion.
Physical Layer: Introduction, Wireless channel and communication fundamentals,
Physical layer and transceiver design considerations in WSNs.
MAC Protocols: Fundamentals of (wireless) MAC protocols, Low duty cycle protocols
and wakeup concepts, Contention-based protocols, Schedule-based protocols, The IEEE
802.15.4 MAC protocol, How about IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth.
Link Layer Protocols: Fundamentals: Tasks and requirements, Error control, Framing,
Link management, Summary.
Topology Control: Motivation and basic ideas, Flat network topologies, Hierarchical
networks by dominating sets, Hierarchical networks by clustering, Combining hierarchical
topologies and power control, Adaptive node activity.
Routing Protocols: Geometric routing, Routing with virtual coordinates, Gossiping and
agent-based unicast forwarding, Energy-efficient unicast, Broadcast and multicast,
Geographic routing, Mobile nodes.
Data-Centric and Content-based Networking: Introduction, Data-centric routing, Data
aggregation, Data-centric storage.
Transport Layer and Quality of Service: The transport layer and QoS in wireless sensor
networks, Coverage and deployment, Reliable data transport, Block delivery, Congestion
control and rate control.
Advanced Application Support: Advanced in-network processing, Security, Application-
specific support.
Recommended Books:
1. Karl, Holger and Andreas, Willig, Protocols and Architectures for Wireless
Sensor Networks, John Wiley and sons (2005).
2. Xiaoyan, Cheng Maggie and Li, Deying, Advances in Wireless Ad Hoc and
Sensor Networks Series, Springer (2008).
3. Sohraby, Kazem, Minoli, Daniel and Taieb Znati, Wireless Sensor Networks:
Technology, Protocols, and Applications, John Wiley and Sons (2007).
4. Swami, Ananthram, Qing, Zhao, Hong, Yao-Win, and Lang Tong (editors),
Wireless Sensor Networks: Signal Processing and Communications, Wiley
(2007).
5. Rappaport, T.S., Wireless Communications, Prentice hall of India (2003).
6. Jun, Zheng and Jamalipour, Abbas, Wireless Sensor Networks: A Networking
Perspective, Wiley-IEEE Press (2009).
Title of Course ANTENNA THEORY AND DESIGN
Maximum Marks 100

ANTENNA BASICS:
Introduction, basic Antenna parameters, patterns, beam area, radiation intensity, beam efficiency,
directivity and gain, antenna apertures, effective height, bandwidth, radiation efficiency, antenna
temperature and antenna field zones.
ARRAYS:
Array factor for linear arrays, uniformly excited equally spaced linear arrays, Pattern
multiplication, Directivity of linear arrays, Non uniformly excited equally spaced linear arrays,
Mutual coupling, Multi-dimensional arrays, Phased arrays, Feeding techniques, Perspectives on
Arrays.
ANTENNA TYPES:
Yagi-Uda array, corner reflectors, parabolic reflectors, log periodic antenna, lens antenna, patch
or microstrip antennas, antennas for special applications – sleeve antennas, turnstile antennas,
antennas for satellite communication, antennas for ground penetrating radars, embedded
antennas, ultra-wide band antennas, plasma antenna.
APERTURE ANTENNAS:
Introduction, Field Equivalence Principle: Huygens’ Principle, Radiation Equations, Directivity,
Rectangular Apertures, Circular Apertures, Design Considerations, Babinet’s Principle, Fourier
Transforms in Aperture Antenna Theory, Ground Plane Edge Effects: The Geometrical Theory
of Diffraction.
SMART ANTENNAS:
Introduction, Smart-Antenna Analogy, Cellular Radio Systems Evolution, Signal Propagation,
Smart Antennas’ Benefits, Smart Antennas’ Drawbacks, Antenna, Antenna Beamforming,
Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs), Smart-Antenna System Design, Beamforming, Diversity
Combining, Rayleigh-Fading, and Trellis-Coded Modulation, Other Geometries.
REFERENCES:
1. J.D. Kraus, “Antennas”, McGraw Hill TMH, Fourth edition.
2. Stutzman and Thiele, “Antenna theory and design”, John Wiley, 2nd edition
3. Constantine A. Balanis, “Antenna Theory, Analysis and Design” John Wiley, 3rd Edition
Title of Course VLSI DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
Maximum Marks 100

REVIEW OF MICROELECTRONICS AND INTRODUCTION TO MOS TECHNOLOGIES:

(MOS, CMOS, Bi CMOS) Technology trends and projections.
BASIC ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF MOS, CMOS & BICOMS CIRCUITS: Ids-Vds
relationships, Threshold voltage Vt, Gm, Gds and Wo, Pass Transistor, MOS, CMOS & Bi CMOS
Inverters, Zpu/Zpd, MOS Transistor circuit model, Latch-up in CMOS circuits.
LAYOUT DESIGN AND TOOLS: Transistor structures, Wires and Vias , Scalable Design rules ,
Layout Design tools.
LOGIC GATES & LAYOUTS: Static complementary gates, switch logic, Alternative gate circuits, low
power gates, Resistive and Inductive interconnect delays
COMBINATIONAL LOGIC NETWORKS: Layouts, Simulation, Network delay,
interconnect design, power optimization, Switch logic networks, Gate and Network testing.
SEQUENTIAL SYSTEMS: Memory cells and Arrays, clocking disciplines, Design, power
optimization, Design validation and testing.
FLOOR PLANNING & ARCHITECTURE DESIGN: Floor planning methods, off-chip
connections, High-level synthesis, Architecture for low power, SOCs and Embedded CPUs,
Architecture testing.
INTRODUCTION TO CAD SYSTEMS (ALGORITHMS) AND CHIP DESIGN: Layout Synthesis

and Analysis, Scheduling and printing; Hardware/Software Co-design, chip design methodologies-
A simple Design example-
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Essentials of VLSI Circuits and Systems, K. Eshraghian et. al ( 3 authors) PHI of IndiaLtd.,2005
2. Modern VLSI Design, 3rd Edition, Wayne Wolf, Pearson Education, fifth Indian Reprint, 2005.
REFERENCES:
1. Principles of CMOS Design – N.H.E Weste, K.Eshraghian, Adison Wesley, 2nd Edition.
2. Introduction to VLSI Design – Fabricius, MGH International Edition, 1990.
3. CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation – Baker, Li Boyce, PHI, 2004.
Title of Course ADVANCED OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Maximum Marks 100

Rare earth doped fiber fabrication techniques and physical properties, Theory and operation of
LASER fiber devices, Neodymium and Erbium doped fiber LASERs, Broadband operation,
Narrow line width and tunable fiber LASERs, Q switched fiber LASERs, Mode locked fiber
LASERs, Rare earth doped fluoride glass fibers, Erbium doped fiber amplifiers, Semiconductor
Amplifiers, Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, types, Raman Amplifiers.
Light wave systems: System Architecture, Design guidelines, Long haul systems, computer
aided design. Dispersion Managements: Need for Dispersion Management, Pre-compensation
schemes, Post-compensation schemes, Dispersion compensating fibers, Optical filters, Long haul
light wave systems, High capacity systems.
Multichannel systems: WDM Light wave Systems, WDM components, System Performance
issues, Time-Division Multiplexing, Subcarrier Multiplexing, Solitons – concept, Soliton-Based
Communications, Los-Managed Solitons, Dispersion Managed Soliton, Impact of Amplifier
Noise.
Fiber grating filters – basics, FBG analysis and applications. Dielectric thin film filters, phased-
array based devices, diffraction gratings. Isolators and circulators. Active optical components –
MEMs, variable optical attenuators, tunable optical filters, dynamic gain equalizers, optical
add/drop multiplexers, polarization and dispersion controllers. Self-phase modulation, cross
phase modulation, four wave mixing, FWM mitigation, wave length convertors.
References
1. Govind P Agarwal, “Fiber Optic Communication Systems”, Wiley India, 2009.
2. Gerd Keiser, “Optical fibre communications”, TMH, 4th Edition, 2008.
3. Rajappa Pappannareddy, “Introduction to Light wave Communication System”, Arctech
House, 2009.
4. Rajiv Ramaswami, Kummar Sivaranjan, “Optical Networks”, Morgan Kaufman, 2009
5. B. E. A Saleh, M. C Teich, “Fundamentals of Photonics”, Wiley Inter science, 1991
Title of Course WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
Maximum Marks 100

Mobile Radio Propagation: Large-Scale Path Loss,Small-Scale Fading and Multipath. Diversity-
Time diversity, Frequency and Space diversity, Receive diversity, Concept of diversity branches
and signal paths, Performance gains, Combining methods- Selective combining, Maximal ratio
combining, Equal gain combining, Transmit Diversity - Alamouti Scheme.
Performance of digital modulation over wireless channels- AWGN Channels, Fading
channels, Doppler spread, Inter symbol interference. Capacity of Wireless Channels, Capacity in
AWGN, Capacity of flat fading and frequency selective fading channels
Cellular Communication: Cellular Networks, Multiple Access: FDM/TDM/FDMA/TDMA,

Spatial reuse, Co-channel interference analysis- Hand-off, Erlang Capacity Analysis- Spectral
efficiency and Grade of Service, Improving capacity - Cell splitting and sectorization. Spread
spectrum and CDMA systems: Direct sequence and frequency hopped systems, spreading
codes, code synchronization, Capacity of cellular CDMA networks.
GSM : GSM sevices and features, GSM system and Architecture, GSM radio subsystem, GSM
channel types, Frame structure for GSM, GSM Signal Processing. Overview of: IS-95 standards,
3G systems: UMTS & CDMA 2000 standards and specifications, OFDM system, MIMO, LTE
& 4G proposals.
References
1.T.S. Rappaport, “Wireless Communication, Principles & Practice”, Pearson Education,

2010.
2.Andrea Goldsmith, “Wireless Communications”, Cambridge University press, 2008.
3.A.M. Molisch, “ Wireless Communications”, Wiley India, 2010.
4.G.L Stuber, “Principles of Mobile Communications”, 2nd Edn, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2002.
5.R.L Peterson, R.E. Ziemer and David E. Borth, “Introduction to Spread Spectrum
Communication”, Pearson Education, 2009.
Title of Course VLSI TECHNOLOGY
Maximum Marks 100

REVIEW OF MICROELECTRONICS AND INTRODUCTION TO MOS TECHNOLOGIES:
(MOS, CMOS, Bi CMOS) Technology trends and projections.
BASIC ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF MOS, CMOS & BICOMS CIRCUITS: Ids-Vds
relationships, Threshold voltage Vt, Gm, Gds and Wo, Pass Transistor, MOS, CMOS & Bi CMOS
Inverters, Zpu/Zpd, MOS Transistor circuit model, Latch-up in CMOS circuits.
LAYOUT DESIGN AND TOOLS: Transistor structures, Wires and Vias , Scalable Design rules ,
Layout Design tools.
LOGIC GATES & LAYOUTS: Static complementary gates, switch logic, Alternative gate circuits, low
power gates, Resistive and Inductive interconnect delays
COMBINATIONAL LOGIC NETWORKS: Layouts, Simulation, Network delay,
interconnect design, power optimization, Switch logic networks, Gate and Network testing.
SEQUENTIAL SYSTEMS: Memory cells and Arrays, clocking disciplines, Design, power
optimization, Design validation and testing.
FLOOR PLANNING & ARCHITECTURE DESIGN: Floor planning methods, off-chip
connections, High-level synthesis, Architecture for low power, SOCs and Embedded CPUs,
Architecture testing.
INTRODUCTION TO CAD SYSTEMS (ALGORITHMS) AND CHIP DESIGN: Layout Synthesis

and Analysis, Scheduling and printing; Hardware/Software Co-design, chip design methodologies-
A simple Design example-
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Essentials of VLSI Circuits and Systems, K. Eshraghian et. al ( 3 authors) PHI of IndiaLtd.,2005
2. Modern VLSI Design, 3rd Edition, Wayne Wolf, Pearson Education, fifth Indian Reprint, 2005.
REFERENCES:
1. Principals of CMOS Design – N.H.E Weste, K.Eshraghian, Adison Wesley, 2nd Edition.
2. Introduction to VLSI Design – Fabricius, MGH International Edition, 1990.
3. CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation – Baker, Li Boyce, PHI, 2004.
Title of Course IMAGE PROCESSING
Maximum Marks 100
Introduction Steps in Digital Image Processing, Components of an Image Processing system,
Applications. Human Eye and Image Formation; Sampling and Quantization, Basic Relationship
among pixelsneighbour, connectivity, regions, boundaries, distance measures
Image Enhancement and Restoration Spatial Domain-Gray Level transformations, Histogram,
Arithmetic/Logical Operations, Spatial filtering, Smoothing & Sharpening Spatial Filters;
Frequency Domain- 2-D Fourier transform, Smoothing and Sharpening Frequency Domain
Filtering; Convolution and Correlation Theorems; Inverse filtering, Wiener filtering; Wavelets-
Discrete and Continuous Wavelet Transform, Wavelet Transform in 2-D;
Image Compression Redundancies- Coding, Interpixel, Psycho visual; Fidelity, Source and
Channel Encoding, Elements of Information Theory; Loss Less and Lossy Compression; Run
length coding, Differential encoding, DCT, Vector quantization, entropy coding, LZW coding;
Image Compression Standards-JPEG, JPEG 2000, MPEG; Video compression;
Image Segmentation Discontinuities, Edge Linking and boundary detection, Thresholding,
Region Based Segmentation, Watersheds; Introduction to morphological operations; binary
morphology- erosion, dilation, opening and closing operations, applications; basic gray-scale
morphology operations; Feature extraction; Classification; Object recognition;
Wavelets and its applications Introduction to time frequency analysis; the how, what and why
about wavelets. • Short-time Fourier transforms, Wigner-Ville transform.
Continuous time wavelet transform, discrete wavelet transform, tiling of the time frequency
plane and wave packet analysis. Orthogonal & orthonormal vectors suggested by SNS,
Construction of wavelets. Multiresolution analysis. Introduction to frames and biorthogonal
wavelets. Multirate signal processing and filter bank theory. Application of wavelet theory to
signal denoising, image and video compression, multi-tone digital communication, transient
detection
REFERENCES:
1. Fundamentals of Digital Image processing- A. K. Jain, Pearson Education
2. Digital Image Processing- R. C. Gonzalez and R. E. Woods, Pearson Education
3. Digital Image Processing using MATLAB- R. C. Gonzalez , R. E. Woods and S. L. Eddins,
Pearson Education
4. Digital Image Processing and Analysis- Chanda and Mazumdar, PHI
5. Digital Image Processing- Annadurai and Shanmugalakshmi, Pearson Education
6. Digital Image Processing- Castleman, Pearson Education Digital Image Processing- Pratt,
John Wiley
Title of Course ADVANCED INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction to Internet of Things
Introduction-Definition & Characteristics of IoT, Physical Design of IoT- Things in IoT, Logical
Design of IoT- IoT Functional Blocks, IoT Communication Models, IoT Communication APIs,
IoT Enabling Technologies- Wireless Sensor Networks, Embedded Systems, IoT Levels &
Deployment Templates.
Domain Specific IoTs-Home Automation: Smart Lighting, Smart Appliances, Intrusion
Detection, Smoke/Gas Detectors,
Cities-Smart Parking, Smart Lighting, Smart Roads, Structural Health Monitoring,
Surveillance, Emergency Response, Environment-Weather Monitoring, Air Pollution
Monitoring,
Energy- Smart Grids, Renewable Energy Systems,
Agriculture-Smart Irrigation, Green House Control
Industry -Machine Diagnosis & Prognosis Indoor Air Quality Monitoring
Health & Lifestyle -Health & Fitness Monitoring, Wearable Electronics
IoT and M2M- SPI, I2C communication, Introduction toM2, Difference between IoT and M2M,
SDN Network Function Virtualization
IoT Platforms Design Methodology

IoT Design Methodology-Purpose & Requirements Specification, Process Specification,
Domain Model Specification, Information Model Specification , Service Specifications , IoT
Level Specification, Functional View Specification , Operational View Specification , Device &
Component Integration , Application Development, IoT Physical Devices & Endpoints
Raspberry Pi & Raspberry Pi Interfaces – Features of Raspberry Pi, Serial, , Interfacing of
LED, Switch and Light Sensor (LDR) with Raspberry Pi
IoT & Beyond: Industry 4.0 Concepts. Overview of RFID, Low-power design (Bluetooth Low
Energy), range extension techniques, data- intensive IoT for continuous recognition
applications, Internet of Everything
REFERENCES:
1. Internet of Things, A Hands on Approach, by Arshdeep Bahga & Vijay audisetti, University Press
2. The Internet of Things, by Michael Millen, Pearson
Title of Course COMPUTER NETWORKS & MANAGEMENT
Maximum Marks 100

COMPUTER NETWORKS AND INTERNET-

Internet - The network edge- The network core- Delay , Loss and Throughput in packet switched
networks- protocol layers and their service models- TCP/IP protocol architecture- Frame relay
networks- ATM networks- protocol architecture- ATM logical connections- ATM cell
CONGESTION CONTROL IN DATA NETWORKS AND INTERNET-

Effects of congestion - Congestion control - Traffic management - Congestion control in packet
switching networks - Frame relay- Congestion control -TCP flow control and TCP congestion
control.
QUALITY OF SERVICE IN IP NETWORKS-

Integrated services architecture - Queuing discipline- Random early detection - Differentiated
service - Resource reservation -RSVP- multiprotocol label switching Real time transport
protocol.
NETWORK MANAGEMENT-
Network management - architecture and organization- network management perspectives-NMS
platform- SNMPv3 - architecture- applications- Management information base- Remote monitoring-
RMON1 - RMON2.
NETWORK MANAGEMENT TOOLS, SYSTEMS AND ENGINEERING-

System utilities for Management - Network statistics measurement systems- NMS design- Network
management systems- Configuration management – fault management- performance management.
REFERENCES:
1. William Stallings, "Computer Networking with Internet protocols and Technology", Pearson
Education, 6th printing 2011.
2. Mani Subramanian, “Network Management" Principles and Practice, Pearson education,
second edition, 2012.
3. William Stallings, “High speed networks and Internet ", Pearson Education, second edition
2012.
Title of Course BASIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Maximum Marks 100

Aromatic substitution reactions - electrophilic, nucleophilic and through benzynes – radical

substitution of arenes - orientation of nucleophilic substitution at a saturatéd, carbon, SN1, SN2,
SNi reactions -effect of structure, nucleophile, leaving group, solvent. Additions involving
electrophiles, nucleophiles and free radicals. Elimination reactions - El, - E1CB, E2 reactions –
elimination versus substitution reactions.
Mechanism of some name reactions: Aldol, Perkin, Benzoin, Schotten-baumann, Fries-

rearrangement, Cannizaro, Wittig, Grignard, Reformatsky - Meerwein, Hoffmann Claisen and
Favorsky rearrangements.
Hydroboration - opennauer oxidation, clemmensen reduction - Meerwein - Pondorf and verley and
Birch reductions. Stork enamine reactions, Michael addition, Mannich Reaction. Diels - Alder
reaction, Ene - reaction, Bayer - Villiger Reaction.
Use of the following in organic synthesis and functional group tansformations.

Aluminium iso-propoxide, NBS, LDA, DCC, DDQ, Corey-Chaykovsky reagent, Raney-Nickel,
diazomethane, TMS-chloride, 1,3-Dithiane (reactivity and umpolung), PPA, Yamaguchi reagent.
Woodward and Prevost hydroxylation.
Nomenclature of heterocyclic compounds. Structure, reactivity, synthesis and reactions of

pyrazole, imidazole, oxazole, isoxazole, thiazole, isothiazole, pyrimidine, purine, 1,3,4-
oxadiazole, 1,3,4-thiadiazole, 1,2,4-oxadiazole, 1,2,4-thiadiazole, quinoline and indole.
Drugs acting on infectious diseases: Antitubercular drugs - synthesis of isoniazide, p-amino

salicylic acid and thiacetazone. Antilepral drugs - Synthesis of dapsone, clofazimine
Antineoplastics: Classification. Synthesis: Chlorambucil, mercaptapurine
Anti-AIDS and Anti-viral agents (A brief study and medicinal importance)
Antimalarials - Classification Synthesis of Chloroquine
Antibiotics: Brief account on the chemistry and mode of action of penicillins, cephalosporins,
chloramphenicol, streptomycine and tetracyclines.
Title of Course BASIC CONCEPTS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Maximum Marks 100

Infrared spectroscopy: Units of frequency wave length and wave number, molecular vibrations,
factors influencing vibrational frequencies, the IR spectrometer and Instrumentation, sampling
techniques,
characteristic frequencies of organic molecules and interpretation of spectra.
Ultraviolet spectroscopy: Introduction. the absorptioÁ laws, measurement of the spectrum,

chromophores, standard works of reference, definitions, Instrumentation and applications of UV
spectroscopy to Conjugated dines, trienes, unsaturated carbonyl compounds and aromatic
compounds.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (Proton and Carbon -13 NMR)

The measurement of spectra: Instrumentation, the chemical shift: the intensity of NMR signals and
integration, factors affecting the chemical shifts: spin-spin coupling to 13C IH-IH first order
coupling: some simple IH-IH splitting spatterns: the magnitude of IH-IH coupling constants:
Mass spectroscopy: Basic Principles: instrumentation: the mass spectrometer, isotope abundances;
the molecular ion, metastable ions
HPLC: Basic Principles & instrumentation
Separation techniques; solvent extraction Chromatography – Paper – thin layer partition –Column
chromatography. Electrophoresis.
Title of Course MATERIALS AND CHARACTERIZATION
Maximum Marks 100

Acid-Base concept
Basis of HSAB concept, acid-base strength, hardness and softness, symbiosis, applications of
HSAB concept; Acid- base concept in non-aqueous media, reactions in BrF3, N2O4, anhydrous
H2SO4, CH3COOH.Isopoly and heteropoly acids of W, Mo and V, preparations, properties,
structure and applications
Nanomaterials
Introduction: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology-implication for physics, chemistry and biology
Classification of nanomaterials
Properties: Mechanical, electronic, magnetic and thermal properties
Synthesis; Sonichemical, Microwave irradiation, Co-precipitation, Hydrothermal, Sol-gel,
Thermolysis, Solution combustion, Chemical vapor Deposition and Ball milling
Electrochemistry and ElectroanalyticalTechniques
Electrode potential, Nernst’s equation, Construction ofGalvanic cell, Cellnotationand conventions,
Calomel electrode, Ag/AgCl electrode and Glass electrode. Battery technology
Polarography, Chronopotentiometry, Chronoamperometry, Chronocoulometry, Linear Potential
Sweep Voltametry, Differential Pulse Voltammetry, Cyclic Voltametry and Impedance
measurements
Thin film technology
Thin films, Thin film growth mechanism, Techniques: Chemical vapor deposition, Spin coating,
electrode position, Epitaxial growth, Lithography, Self assembly, Drop casting, Applications of
thin films
Instrumental techniques-1
Principle, Instrumentation, Applications, Analysis and Interpretation of the data for the following
techniques:Thermal analysis: TGA, DTA, DSCMicroscopy:ScanningElectronMicroscopy(SEM),
TransmissionElectronMicroscopy(TEM),andAtomicForcemicroscopy(AFM),Spectroscopic
technique: Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), XPS
REFERENCES:
1. Basic Inorganic Chemistry- F. A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson and P. L. Gaus; John Wiley and sons.
Inc, 6th edition (1999)
2. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 6th edition; F. A. Cotton and G. Wilkinson.
3. Instrumental Methods of Analysis by Willard, 2004 edition
4. Basics of Instrumental Analysis Basics of Instrumental Analysis by Preeti T. Mane,
B.S.Wakure, Dr. Neera M. Bhatia &S.G.Gattani, Volume I– 2017
5. Introduction to Thermal Analysis: Techniques and Applications by Michael Ewart Brown
6. Principles and Applications of Thermal Analysis by Paul Gabbott Wiley-Blackwell publisher
Title of Course BIOMATERIALS AND CHARACTERIZATION
Maximum Marks 100

Biomaterials :Introduction, classification of polymers, condensation and addition
polymerizations, molecular weights of polymers and polydispersity index, determination of
molecular weights. Glass Transition temperature, Protein structure – building blocks, peptide
bond, levels of structure, polymer composites and conducting polymers
Supramolecular chemistry :Synthesis, properties and applications of Addition compounds,
Crown ether complexes and Cryptands, Inclusion compounds, Cyclodextrins, Catenanes and
Rotaxenes and their applications
Separation techniques :Chromatography: Thin layer chromatography, Column chromatography,

Paper chromatography, Gas liquid chromatography, Ion exchange chromatography, High pressure
liquid chromatography (HPLC) Gel Permeation Chromatography: Size exclusion chromatography
(Gel filtration)
Water Technology:Sources of water pollution, pollutants, types of pollutants, Industrial and

human contribution, WHO recommendation about potable water,Chemistry of toxicants like
arsenic, fluoride, chromium, lead and mercury, Remediationtechniques: Adsorption, Coagulation-
filtration, Activated charcoal detoxification, Purification of water - Flash evaporation, Electro
dialysis, and Reverse Osmosis
Instrumental techniques-2 :Principle, Instrumentation, Applications, Analysis and Interpretation

of the data for thefollowing techniques:FTIR Spectroscopy, UV-visibleSpectroscopy, Raman
Spectroscopy, NMR, LCMS, GCMS, HPLC, CD, ORDand Gel Electrophoresis
REFERENCES:
1. Macromolecules: Structure and function, F. Wold, Prentice Hall, 1972
2. The Essence of Chromatography by Colin Poole, 1st Edition, 2002
3. Chromatography: Principles and Instrumentation by Mark F. Vitha, 2016
4. Water Technology (Third Edition)
5. Water technology by N.F. Gray, Third Edition, 2012
6. Organic Spectroscopy Through Solved Problems by Kali Shankar Mukherjee, Bodhisattwa
Mukhopadhyay, 2017
7. Introduction to spectroscopy by Donald L. Pavia, 2015
Title of Course NANOMATERIALS SYNTHESIS AND
CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES
Maximum Marks 100

Nanaomaterails
0D, 1D, 2D structures – Size Effects – Fraction of Surface Atoms – specific Surface Energy and
Surface Stress – Effect on the Lattice Parameter – Phonon Density of States – the General Methods
available for the Synthesis of Nanostrutures – precipitative – reactive – hydrothermal/solvothermal
methods – suitability of such methods for scaling – potential Uses
PHYSICO-CHEMICAL METHODS OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS

Solution growth techniques of 1D-2D nano structures:- Synthesis of metallic, semiconducting and
oxide nanoparticles – homo- and hetero-nucleation growth methods – template-based synthesis
(electrochemical, electrophoretic, Melt and solution, CVD, ALD) – Gas Phase Synthesis of
Nanopowders: – Vapor (or solution) – liquid – solid (VLS or SLS) growth – the Need for
Gas/vapor State Processing – Main Stages of Gas Phase Synthesis – Applicability of the methods.
SPECIFIC FEATURES OF NANOSCALE GROWTH
Thermodynamics of Phase Transitions – triggering the Phase Transition – fundamentals of
nucleation growth – Controlling Nucleation & Growth – Size Control of the Nanometric State –
Aggregation – Stability of Colloidal Dispersions – Spontaneous Condensation of Nanoparticles:
Homogeneous Nucleation – Spinodal decomposition – Other undesirable Post-Condensation
Effects – Nanoparticles’ morphology
NANOSCALE PROPERTIES
Magnetism:- Magnetic Moment in clusters/Nanoparticles – Magnetic Order – coercivity –
Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy – thermal activation and Superparamagnetic effects – Electronics
and Optoelectronics:- Quantum Confinement of Superlattices and Quantum Wells – Dielectric
Constant of Nanoscale Silicon – Doping of a Nanoparticle – Excitonic Binding and
Recombination Energies – Capacitance in a Nanoparticle – Diffusion.
Nanocrystalline Materials –Diffusion In Grain Boundaries Of Metals – Nanocrystalline Ceramics
– Correlation Between Diffusion and Crystallite Growth – Other properties: – brief overview of
optical properties – mechanical properties including superplasticity phenomena – reactivity of
nanoparticles
CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOPHASE MATERIALS
Fundamentals of the techniques – experimental approaches and data interpretation –
applications/limitations of Xray characterization: – X-ray sources – wide angle, extended x-ray
absorption technique – Electron microscopy: SEM/TEM – high resolution imaging – defects in
nanomaterials – Spectroscopy: – electron energy-loss mechanisms – electron filtered imaging –
prospects of scanning probe microscopes – optical spectroscopy of metal/semiconductor
nanoparticles
REFERENCES:
1) C. N. R. Rao, A. Mu¨ller, A. K. Cheetham, The Chemistry of Nanomaterials :Synthesis,
Properties andApplications, Volume 1, Wiley-VCH, Verlag GmbH, Germany (2004).
2) C. Bre´chignac P. Houdy M. Lahmani, Nanomaterials and Nanochemistry, Springer Berlin
Heidelberg,Germany (2006).
3) Guozhong Cao, Nanostructures & Nanomaterials Synthesis, Properties G;Z: Applications,
World ScientificPublishing Private, Ltd., Singapore (2004).
4) Zhong Lin Wang, Characterization Of Nanophase Materials, Wiley-VCH, Verlag GmbH,
Germany (2004).
5) Carl C. Koch, Nanostructured Materials: Processing, Properties and Potential Applications,
NoyesPublications, William Andrew Publishing Norwich, New York, U.S.A (2002).
Title of Course APPLICATIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY
Maximum Marks 100

NANOTECHNOLOGY IN ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Advantages of nano

electrical and electronic devices –Electronic circuit chips – Lasers - Micro and NanoElectromechanical
systems – Sensors, Actuators, Optical switches, Bio-MEMS –Diodes and Nano-wire Transistors - Data
memory –Lighting and Displays – Filters (IR blocking) – Quantum optical devices – Batteries - Fuel
cells and Photo-voltaic cells – Electric double layer capacitors – Lead-free solder – Nanoparticle coatings
for electrical products
NANOTECHNOLOGY IN BIOMEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY Nanoparticles in

bone substitutes and dentistry – Implants and Prosthesis - Reconstructive Intervention and Surgery –
Nanorobotics in Surgery – Photodynamic Therapy - Nanosensors in Diagnosis– Neuro-electronic
Interfaces – Protein Engineering – Drug delivery – Therapeutic applications -
NANOTECHNOLOGY IN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY Nanocatalyts – Smart materials – Heterogenous
nanostructures and composites – Nanostructures for Molecular recognition (Quantum dots, Nanorods,
Nanotubes) – Molecular Encapsulation and its applications – Nanoporous zeolites – Self-assembled
Nanoreactors - Organic electroluminescent displays
NANOTECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY Nanotechnology in
Agriculture -Precision farming, Smart delivery system – Insecticides using nanotechnology – Potential
of nano-fertilizers - Nanotechnology in Food industry - Packaging, Food processing - Food safety and
biosecurity – Contaminant detection – Smart packaging and the application of Nanotechnology to
environmental issues
NANOTECHNOLOGY IN TEXTILES AND COSMETICS Nanofibre production - Electrospinning –
Controlling morphologies of nanofibers – Tissue engineering application – Polymer nanofibers - Nylon-
6 nanocomposites from polymerization - Nano-filled polypropylene fibers - Bionics– Swim-suits with
shark-skin-effect,Soil repellence, Lotus effect - Nano finishing in textiles (UV resistant, antibacterial,
hydrophilic, self-cleaning, flame retardant finishes) – Modern textiles (Lightweight bulletproof vests and
shirts, Colour changing property, Waterproof and Germ proof, Cleaner kids clothes, Wired and Ready
to Wear) Cosmetics – Formulation of Gels, Shampoos, Hair-conditioners (Micellar self-assembly and its
manipulation) – Sun-screen dispersions for UV protection using Titanium oxide – Color cosmetics
REFERENCES:
1. Mark A. Ratner and Daniel Ratner,Nanotechnology: A Gentle Introduction to the Next Big
Idea, Pearson (2003). 10 NT – 12–13 – SRM – E&T
2. Bharat Bhushan,Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology, Barnes & Noble (2004).
3. Neelina H. Malsch (Ed.),Biomedical Nanotechnology, CRC Press (2005)
4. Udo H. Brinker, Jean-Luc Mieusset (Eds.), Molecular Encapsulation: Organic Reactions in
Constrained Systems,Wiley Publishers (2010).
Title of Course ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Maximum Marks 100

CHROMATOGRAPHY: A. Classification of chromatographic methods: Principle of differential

migration, description of the chromatographic process, distribution coefficients, modes of
chromatography, performing column chromatography.
Chromatography – theory and practice: Introduction, the chromatograph (elution time and volume),
capacity factor, column efficiency and resolution, sample preparation
Techniques of paper chromatography: experimental modifications, various modes of
development, nature of the paper, detection of spots, retardation factors, factors that affect the
reproducibility of Rf values ( due to paper, solvent system, sample, development procedure),
selection of solvent, quantitative analysis. Applications
Thin layer chromatography: stationary phase, adsorbents, liquid phase supports, plate
preparation, mobile phase, sample application, development, saturation of chamber, detection of
spot, Rf values ( effect of adsorbent, solvent, solute, development process), quantitative analysis,
applications II
SOLVENT EXTRACTION: Distribution law, Determination of distribution ratio Batch
extraction, continuous extraction, discontinuous extraction, counter current extraction
Spectroscopy - Basic principles and electromagnetic spectrum. Beer-Lambert’s Law. Principle
and biochemical applications of UV-Vis spectrophotometry, colorimetry, fluorimetry,
turbidometry, flame spectrophotometry, atomic absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy.
Theory and applications of CD, ORD, IR, NMR, ESR in the study of macromolecular structures.
Mass spectroscopy-Principle and applications, Ionization, fragmentation, m/e, Time of flight,

MALDI and ESI-MS/MS and Gas chromatography
REFERENCES:
F.W. Fifield and D. Kealy : Analytical Chemistry. 2. Daniel C Harris: Exploring chemical
analysis. 3. Daniel C Harris: Quantitative chemical analysis. 4. R.V. Dilts Analytical Chemistry-
Methods of Separation.
Title of Course PHYTOCHEMISTRY
Maximum Marks 100

Preparation of extracts of Organised crude drugs/Herbs by successive solvent extraction method
to record the percentage yield and physical status of the respective extracts and for subjecting
them to phytochemical screening.
Preliminary Phytochemical Screening:
a) Successive solvent extraction.
b) Qualitative chemical examination-(i) Detection of different classes of phyto constituents by
test tube and TLC methods. (ii) Detection of volatile oil by
Hydrodistillation Method.
Detection of Phytoconstituents such as i) Alkaloids, ii) Steroids, Triterpenoids and their
glylosides and Saponins iii) Flavonoids and their glycosides iv) Anthracene Glycosides v)
Coumarins vi) Tannins by Test Tube and TLC methods.
a) Identification of alkaloids in a mixture by TLC b) Colour reactions of different groups of
Alkaloids. Sources, chemical structures with description of structural features, tests for
identification, uses, mechanism of action/SAR of following phytopharmaceuticals. Reserpine, b)
Quinine and Quinidine, c) Atropine, Hyoscyamine and Scopolamine, Structure and use of
Homatropine.
A brief account of the basic principles involved & instrumentation, and a detailed study of applications
of the following spectroscopic techniques in the determination of structure of the following classes of
compounds with the help of simple examples: i) Alkanes ii) Cycloalkanes iii) Alkenes iv) Aldehydes
and ketones v) Alcohols vi) Carboxylic acids vii) Phenols viii) Amines ix) Simple Heterocyclic
Compounds.
1. UV & IR Spectroscopy 2. 1 HNMR (Proton NMR) 3. 13 C NMR 4. Mass spectrometry
5. A brief account of the two dimensional NMR techniques like DEPT, COSY, HMQC/HSQC,
HETCOR, HMBC, TOCSY. 6. Problems and their solution – simple problems dealing with structure
determination to be worked out.
Detection, extraction and estimation of volatile oils by Clevenger’s method (Hydrodistillation method)
TLC of Volatile oils and their pure constituents. V) Analysis of recorded spectra of some simple
phytochemicals
REFERENCES:
Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry, Medicinal Plants by Jean – Noel Bruneton , 199
Title of Course ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
Maximum Marks 100
Chromatography - Introduction, principle, procedure and applications of – Adsorption
chromatography, Paper, Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC), Gas Liquid Chromatography (GLC),
Ion-exchange Chromatography, Molecular Sieve Chromatography, Affinity Chromatography,
Reverse phase chromatography, High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Fast
Performance Liquid Chromatography (FPLC).
Spectroscopy - Basic principles and electromagnetic spectrum. Beer-Lambert’s Law. Principle
and biochemical applications of UV-Vis spectrophotometry, colorimetry, fluorimetry,
turbidometry, flame spectrophotometry, atomic absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. Theory
and applications of CD, ORD, IR, NMR, ESR in the study of macromolecular structures.
Mass spectroscopy- Principle and applications, Ionization, fragmentation, m/e, Time of flight,
MALDI and ESI-MS/MS.
Electrophoresis - Theory of electrophoresis, factors affecting electrophoresis. Principle and
applications of paper, starch, agarose, polyacrylamide, SDS-PAGE, Isoelectrofocussing,
isotachophoresis, pulsed field electrophoresis, 2D-electrophoresis. Principles and applications of
Southern, Northern and Western blotting techniques.
Amino acids: Structure and physicochemical properties of amino acids, non-protein and
nonstandard amino acids, classification, stereochemistry, reactions and titration curves of amino
acids, pKa values.
Peptides: Peptide bond - structure and conformation. Peptide synthesis - reactive ester method
and modified Merrifield solid phase synthesis. Naturally occurring peptides - structure and
biological importance of oxytocin, vasopressin, somtostatin and glutathione.
Proteins: Introduction, classification based on source, composition, solubility, and functions.
REFERENCES:
1. Biochemical techniques- theory and practice, John F. Roybt and Bernard J. White, Waveland
Press 1990.
2. Experimental biochemistry, Robert Switzer and Liam Garrity, 3rd edn. Freeman and Company.
3. Modern Experimental Biochemistry, Rodney Boyer, 3rd edition, Pearsons Education.
4. Experimental Biochemistry; J. Stenesh, Allyn and Bacon publishers
5. Biophysical chemistry-principles and techniques; Upadyaya and Upadyayanath,
6. Introduction to Biophysical Chemistry, Bruce Martin.
Title of Course PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF POLYMERS
Maximum Marks 100
Kinetics and mechanism of Chain polymerization processes: 1. Chain reaction (Addition)
polymerization Free radical addition polymerization mechanism of vinyl polymerization, generation
of free radicals, initiation, propagation, termination, chain transfer inhibition of retardation,
configuration of monomer units in vinyl polymer chains. a) Kinetics of free radical addition
polymerization – experimental determination of rate constants, derivations for rate expressions and
expressions for kinetic chain length and hence degree of polymerization. Control of molecular weight
by transfer, molecular weight and its distribution. Thermodynamics of free radical polymerization,
effect of temp and pressure, enthalpies, entropies, free energies, activation energies o polymerization.
(10) b) Ionic and coordination chain (addition) polymerization common features of two types of ionic
polymerization, Mechanism of cationic polymerization, expressions for overall rate of polymerization
and the number average degree of polymerization. Mechanism of anionic, polymerization, expressions
for overall rate of polymerization and the average degree of polymerization, living polymers.
Mechanism of coordination polymerization – Ziegler-Natta catalysts, expressions for overall rate of
polymerization. Ring opening polymerization-mechanism of polymer
Morphology and order in crystalline polymers: Configurations of polymer chains, crystal structures of
polymers, Morphology of polymer single crystals, structure of polymers crystallized from melt and
solution, crystallization processes and kinetics, orientation and drawing.
Polymer structure and physical properties: The crystalline melting point, the glass transition, Factors
affecting Tm and Tg. Determination of Tg by a. Dilatometer, b. TMA and c. DSC, Properties involving
large deformations, properties involving small deformations, property requirements and polymer
utilization.
Polymer chains and their characterization. Polymer solutions – Criteria of polymer solubility,
conformations of dissolved polymer chain, stages and thermodynamics of polymer solutions nature (size
and shape) of polymer in solutions, theta temperature, viscosity of dilute solution, phase separation in
polymer solutions, moderately highly concentrated solutions. Radiation chemistry of polymers: Effect
of radiation on polymer, structure And properties. Application in curing, coating purification, polymer
composites etc. radiation induced polymerization.
REFERENCES:
1. Principles of polymer chemistry by P.J. Flory
2. Molecular weight distribution in polymer by L.H. Peebles, Wiley- Interscience, N.Y. (1971).
3. Macromolecules in solution by H.Morawetz, Wiley Interscience, N.Y. (1975).
4. Polymer science by Govarikar V.R. and others, Wiley Eastern (1986)
Title of Course MATERIALS SCIENCE
Maximum Marks 100

Crystal structure
Introduction and structure of materials, why study properties of materials? Structure of atoms,
Quantum states, Atomic bonding in solids, binding energy, interatomic spacing, variation in bonding
characteristics, Single crystals, polycrystalline, Non crystalline solids, Imperfection in solids,
Vacancies, Interstitials, Geometry of dislocation, Schmid´s law, Surface imperfection, Importance of
defects, Microscopic techniques, grain size distribution
Mechanical properties: Stress, Strain, Elastic properties, Deformation, elasticity, hardness, Optical
properties
Band theory:Bloch function , kronig-pennymodel, formation of energy band gaps at Brillouin zone
boundaries, density of states. Effective mass, the concept of hole. Classification – insulators, conductors
and semiconductors.
Nanomaterials
Introduction: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology-implication for physics, chemistry and biology
Classification of nanomaterials
Properties: Mechanical, electronic, magnetic and thermal properties
Synthesis; Sonichemical, Microwave irradiation, Co-precipitation, Hydrothermal, Sol-gel,
Thermolysis, Solution combustion, Chemical vapor deposition and Ball milling

Thin films, Thin film growth mechanism, Techniques: Chemical vapour deposition, Spin coating,
electrodeposition, Epitaxial growth, Lithography, Self assembly, Drop casting, Applications of thin
films
REFERENCES:
1. W. D. Callister, "Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction", John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
2. K. Vijayamohanan Pillai and Meera Parthasarathi Functional Materials: A Chemist’s Perspective
by, Orient Blackswan (21 November 2013)
3. C. Kittel, "Introduction to Solid State Physics" Wiley Eastern Ltd, 2005.
4. V. Raghavan, “Materials Science and Engineering: A First Course", Prentice Hall, 2006
Title of Course BATTERY TECHNOLOGY AND ANALYTICAL
TECHNIQUES
Maximum Marks 100
Introduction to Electrochemistry: Single electrode potential - definition, origin, sign conventions.
Derivation of Nernst’s equation. Standard electrode potential- definition. Construction of Galvanic
cell.–classification - primary, secondary and concentration cells, EMF of a cell–definition, notation and
conventions. Reference electrodes–calomel electrode, Ag/AgCl electrode. Measurement of standard
electrode potential. Numerical problems on electrode potentials and EMF. Ion-selective electrode- glass
electrode, determination of pH using glass electrode.
Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage: Battery technology and fuel cells: Basic concepts,
battery characteristics. Classification of batteries–primary, secondary and reserve batteries. State of the
art Batteries–Construction working and applications of Zn– MnO2, Lithium-MnO2,Zn-airlead -acid,
Nickel-Metal hydride and Lithium ion batteries
Electroanalytical Techniques: Polarography, Chronopotentiometry, Chronoamperometry,
Chronocoulometry, Linear Potential Sweep Voltametry, Differential Pulse Voltammetry, Cyclic
Voltametry and Impedance measurements
Microscopy: Principle, Theory, Working and Application; X-Ray Diffraction, Scanning Electron
Microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy, High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy,
Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Scanning Tunnelling
Microscopy
Spectroscopy: Principle, Theory, Working and Application; Photoluminescence Spectroscopy, x-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy, FTIR- spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy,
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Differential thermal and Gravimetric Analysis, Brunauer-
Emmett Teller surface areas, Zeta sizer
REFERENCES:
1. Basic Inorganic Chemistry- F. A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson and P. L. Gaus; John Wiley and sons. Inc, 6th
edition (1999)
2. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 6th edition; F. A. Cotton and G. Wilkinson.
3. Instrumental Methods of Analysis by Willard, 2004 edition
4. Basics of Instrumental Analysis Basics of Instrumental Analysis by Preeti T. Mane, B.S.Wakure, Dr.
Neera M. Bhatia & S.G.Gattani, Volume I– 2017
5. Introduction to Thermal Analysis: Techniques and Applications by Michael Ewart Brown
6. Principles and Applications of Thermal Analysis by Paul Gabbott Wiley-Blackwell publisher
Title of Course RADIATION PHYSICS
Maximum Marks 100

Interaction of radiation with matter

Interaction of heavy charged particles, Interaction of fast electrons, Interaction of Gamma rays,
Physics of Photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, Pair production.
General properties of Radiation detectors
Simplified detector model, Modes of detector operation, Pulse height spectra, Counting curves and
Plateaus, Energy resolution, Detection efficiency, dead time.
Radiation Detection techniques
Ionization chambers-Ionization process in a gas, charge migration and collection, operation of a DC ion
chamber. Proportional counters: Gas multiplication, design features of proportional counters,Gieger
Muller counter: The Gieger discharge, fill gases, quenching, Gieger counting plateau, G-M survey meters
Radiation detectors:
Semiconductor detectors- action of Ionizing radiation on semiconductors, Semiconductor as a radiation
detector, Semiconductor detector configuration, Operational characteristics, Scintillation detectors-
Organic and inorganic scintillators, Principle of operation of a scintillation detector, photomultiplier
tubes ,Micropattern Gas filled detectors- Microstrip detector, Gas electron multipliers, Micromega
Radiation safety
Basic Principles of Radiation protection, materials suitable for shielding, advanced materials in radiation
safety, Radiation units for measuring Ionization radiation, Transportation of radioactive material
REFERENCES:
1. Radiation detection and Measurement, G.F. Knoll, Wiley Publications
2. Gaseous Radiation Detectors: Fundamentals and Applications, Fabio Sauli, Cambridge
Monographs.
3. Physics and Engineering of Radiation Detection, Syed Ahmed, Academic Press.
4. Nanoscale Radiation Engineering of Advanced Materials for Potential Biomedical
Application, International Atomic energy agency.
Title of Course MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Maximum Marks 100

Material Characterization
X-ray Diffraction techniques: Crystal structure, 2-D crystals, 3-D crystal, position and orientation of
crystal pane: miller indices, X-ray Diffraction and Bragg's law, Laue techniques, Determination of
crystal structure of powder sample by Debye-Scherrer techniques, Raman Spectroscopy, UV and
visible spectroscopy, FTIR
Nanomaterials and their applications:
Bulk vs Nano material: elementary mechanical, electrical and magnetic properties of nano materials,
Metal Nano-Clusters, Semi conducting Nano-Particles, Introduction to nanocomposites: Bulk metal
and nano-ceramic composites, optical, electrical and magnetic applications of nano composites, Nano-
porous structures and membranes.
Microscopes in Material Characatrization
Electron microscopy (SEM and TEM): Electron diffraction, Principles and operation of scanning
electron microscope. Geometry of electron microscopes, Secondary electron image, Backscattered
electron image, Example of scanning electron micro-graphs, Principles and operation of Scanning
Tunneling Microscope and Atomic Force Microscope.
Basic Microfabrication Techniques
Lithography, Thin-Film Deposition, Doping, Etching and Substrate Removal, Substrate Bonding, Lift
off, metallization. Bulk Micromachining, Surface Micromachining, High-Aspect-Ratio
Micromachining, Non-lithographical micromachining such as LIGA and laser-assisted processing.
Nanomaterial fabrication processes: top down approach and bottom up approach-Ball milling, self
Assembly

Thin films properties and applications, Thin film deposition process: Physical Vapour deposition
techniques, Resistive evaporation, electron beam evaporation, arc evaporation, Sputtering Thin film
growth mechanism, Techniques: Chemical vapour deposition, Spin coating, electrodeposition, Epitaxial
growth.
REFERENCES:
1. Goldstein J.I , Romig A.D. Newbury D.E, Lyman C.E., Echlin P., Fiori C. Joy D.C. and Lifshin
E.., Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis: A Textbook for Biologists,
Materials Scientists and Geologists Williams David B and Barry Carter C.., Transmission
Electron Microscopy – A Textbook for Materials Science.
2. "Advanced Semiconductors and Organic Nano-Techniques", edited by Morkoc H., Academic
Press, 2003 Rainer Waser, Editor., Nanoelectronics and Information Technology, Wiley-VCH
Verlag GmbH, Weinheim (2003)
3. Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis Goldstein, J., Newbury,
D.E., Echlin, P., Joy, D.C., Romig Jr., A.D., Lyman, C.E., Fiori, C., Lifshin, E.
4. Handbook of Microscopy for Nanotechnology edited by Nan Yao, Zhong Lin Wang
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHER
Thin Film Phenomenon by K.L. Chopra
Title of Course ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES
Maximum Marks 100

Separation Techniques: Need for learning separation techniques, separation techniques in natural
product research and drug discovery, extraction techniques, Chromatography: General principles,
classification of chromatographic techniques, normal and reverse phase, bonded phase
chromatography, stationary phases, activity of stationary phases, elutropic series, and separation
mechanisms.
Column Chromatography and Short Column Chromatography: Column packing, sample loading,
column development, detection, Flash Chromatography and Vacuum Liquid Chromatography:
Objectives, optimization studies, selecting column and stationary phases, selecting suitable
mobile phases, automated flash chromatography, and reverse phase flash chromatography.
High Performance Liquid Chromatography: Principles, instrumentation, peak shapes, capacity factor,
selectivity, plate number, plate height, resolution, band broadening, pumps, injector, detectors,
columns, column problems, gradient HPLC, HPLC solvents, trouble shooting, sample preparation,
method development, Planar Chromatography - TLC/HPTLC/OPLC: Basic principles, sample
application, development of plates, visualization of plates, 2D TLC, densitometry, Over pressure
layer chromatography.
Counter Current Chromatography: Basic principles, droplet counter current chromatography,

centrifugal partition chromatography, choice of solvents for SP and MP. Gas Chromatography:
Principles, instrumentation, split-splitless injector, head space sampling, columns for GC, detectors,
quantification
Biochromatography: Size exclusion chromatography, ion exchange chromatography, ion pair
chromatography, affinity chromatography general principles, stationary phases and mobile phases ,
Hyphenated Techniques: Introduction to GC-MS and LC-MS techniques and their applications in
natural products. Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Basic Foundations and Methods, Mid and Near Infrared
Spectroscopy Raman Spectroscopy , Pharmaceutical Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging , An
Overview of Powder X-ray Diffraction and Its Relevance to Pharmaceutical Crystal Structures,
Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction, Thermal Analysis of Pharmaceuticals, Application of Cell Culture
and Tissue Models for Assessing Drug Transport
REFERENCES:
1. Methods in Biotechnology, Natural Product Isolation by Sarker, Latif, Gray
2. Methods in Biotechnology, Natural Product Isolation by Richard Canell
Title of Course CRYSTAL ENGINEERING
Maximum Marks 100

Levels of solid state properties: Molecular / particle / bulk level properties, interdependence of
various levels on each other, role of different levels during pharmaceutical development and
process development
Molecular level: Crystalline form, definition, concept of long range order, supramolecular
arrangements, building blocks of crystals, unit cell, basic types of unit cells, demonstration of unit
cells using crystal visualization softwares.
Polymorphism: Definition, significance of polymorphism in drug product performance, packing /
conformational polymorphism, thermodynamics of polymorphs, enatiotropy / monotropy, concept
of transition temperature, Burger and Ramberger rule, Crystallization process: Molecular
aggregation events in crystallization, energetic of crystallization, enthalpy entropy balance, types
of nucleation, Ostwald's step rule, experimental protocols for polymorph screening
Implications of polymorphism in pharmaceutical development: Regulatory concerns related to
polymorphism, introduction to latest regulatory position on polymorphism
Amorphous state: Definition, long range order versus short range order, disorder in the amorphous
state, concept of glass transition temperature (Tg), thermodynamic necessity for Tg, entropy crisis.
Role of amorphous state in drug delivery: Solubility advantage, spring parachute effect during
solubility studies, physical instability of the amorphous form, techniques for stabilization of
amorphous form, amorphous solid dispersions. Co-crystals: Introduction, synthons used for
formation of co-crystals and applications in drug delivery.
Role of pharmacology in drug discovery: Correlation between in-vitro and in-vivo screens , Cell-
based assay, CaCo-2 cell permeability assay, Single cell gel electrophoresis assay (COMET) assay
, Zebrafish model to screen pharmaceutical molecules , Pharmacogenomics and Personal medicine
Intellectual property: Concepts and fundamentals; Concepts regarding intellectual property (IP),
intellectual property protection (IPP) and intellectual property rights (IPR); Economic importance,
mechanisms for protection of intellectual property-patents, copyrights, trademark; Factors
effecting choice of IP protection; Penalities for violation; Role of IP in pharmaceutical industry;
Global ramifications and financial implications.
Gene patenting; Biotechnology / drug related IPR issues; Status in India and other developing
countries; Case studies and examples; TRIPS issues on herbal drugs.
3. Funding sources for commercialization of technology: Preparation of a project report, financial
appraisal, business models; GOI schemes and incentives; NRDC, TePP, HGT, TDB schemes.
PATSER; Venture capitalists, banks. Incubator concept-Case studies with respect to IIT, CCMB,
IMTECH, and NIPER.
Recommended Books:
1. Polymorphism in Pharmaceutical Solids Edited by Harry Brittain
2. Solid State Characterization of Pharmaceuticals Edited by Angeline and Mark Zarkrzewski
3. Crystal Engineering: A textbook, Edited by G. R. Desiraju, J. J.Vittal and A.
Ramana
4. Law Relating to Intellectual Property by B.L.Wadhera
5. IPR Handbook for Pharma Students and Researchers by P.Bansal
6. The Patents Act, 1970 (Bare Act with Short Notes) (New Delhi: Universal Law Publishing
Company Pvt. Ltd. 2012)
7. Patent Agent Examination by Sheetal Chopra and Akash Taneja
8. Making Innovation Happen- A simple and Effective Guide to Turning Ideas into Reality by
Michael Morgan
9. Making Breakthrough Innovation Happen by Porus Munshi
10. Biomedical Research- From Ideation to Publication by G.Jagadeesh and others
Recommended Books/ Journals:
1. Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Pharmacological Assays by Vogel & Vogel
2. CPCSEA guidelines (http://cpcsea.nic.in)
3. Scientific journals in the area of pharmacology
Title of Course INTRODUCTION TO MOLECULAR BIOLOGY,
DATABASE AND BIOINFORMATIC
Maximum Marks 100

Modelling in Bioinformatics Theory: Introduction to sequence analysis Substitution matrix,

dot matrix method Sequence alignment (global and local), Dynamic programming,
Needleman-Wunsch Algorithm Evolutionary computation (genetic algorithm) Hidden
Markov Model (HMM) and sequence analysis Examples of hidden Markov process
information content, relative entropy, mutual information
An overview of Biology Life as a Cellular and Molecular process and a continuum Biological
information and bioinformatics Cell Structure General Structure of the cell Introduction to
Structure and Function of Bio-molecules Basic chemistry of biological molecules; structure and
function of nucleic acids, proteins, carbohydrates and lipids Central Dogma of Molecular
Biology Replication Transcription
Gene Regulation and Differentiation DNA-Protein interactions Inter-cellular connections

Cell interactions in Development Genetic analysis and techniques Population genetics in the
context of bioinformatics Immunology Basics Antigen antibody interaction, use of
bioinformatics in designing of Advanced talks Neurobiology How neurons transmit signals –
action potentials Structure of synapses Receptors and ion channels Examples of neuronal
signaling
Inntroduction to Pubmed Biological databases: - Nucleotide sequence databases - Protein

sequence databases - Protein structure database - Protein secondary databases of (domains) -
Structural Classification of proteins ,composition Data bases and data mining Design of
biological databases - relational data models , sequence databases - pattern databases Database
design principles pathway modeling - network queries Practical and deployed database
designs
Data mining - general paradigms: clustering, classification, biclustering - structure discovery in
biosequences - rule finding - probabilistic graphical models - techniques for particular datasets -
gene expression assays - transcription factor data - protein-protein interactions - regulatory
networks - signaling pathways - biomedical natural language processing - cross-genomic
modeling Gene Prediction Introduction to gene prediction.
Books References:
1. Bioinformatics: databases and systems – Stanley Letovsky (editor)
2. Fundamental concepts in bioinformatics – Dan E Krane, Michael L Raymer
3. Bioinformatics: From genomes to drugs – Thomas Lengauer
4. Statistical models in bioinformatics: An introduction – Gregory R Grant and Warren J

Ewens
5. Biological database modeling – Jake Chen, Amandeep S Sidhu

Title of Course INTRODUCTION TO BIOSTATISTICS
Maximum Marks 100

Data representation and plotting, Arithmetic mean, Geometric mean, Measure of Variability,
standard deviation, SME, Z-Score, Box plot, R programming, Correlation and Regression I,
Correlation and Regression Part-II, Interpolation and extrapolation Nonlinear data fitting
Concept of Probability: introduction and basics
Permutations, and Combinations, Conditional probability, Random variables, Probability mass
function, and Probability density function, Expectation, Variance and Covariance, Expectation,
Variance and Covariance Part-II, Binomial random variables and Moment generating function,
Probability distribution: Poisson distribution and Uniform distribution Part-I, Uniform
distribution Part-II and Normal distribution Part-I, Normal distribution Part-II and Exponential
distribution
Sampling distributions and Central limit theorem Part-I, Sampling distributions and Central limit
theorem Part-II, Central limit theorem Part-III and Sampling distributions of sample mean,
Central limit theorem - IV and Confidence intervals, Confidence intervals Part- II.
Test of Hypothesis – 1, Test of Hypothesis - 2 (1 tailed and 2 tailed Test of Hypothesis, p-value),
Chi-square test, ANOVA – 1, ANOVA – 2, ANOVA – 3, ANOVA for linear regression, Block
Design
Hypothesis testing, how to enter data in to statistical software and how to use easy R interface.,
Introduction to basic epidemiological concepts, such as study designs as well as the difference
between observational studies and randomized clinical trials, T-Test, Man-Whitney U Test,
Paired T-test, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, introduction to basic concepts in computing
sample sizes and estimation power for clinical studies.
Book references:
1. Basic Biostatistics - B. Burt Gerstman, Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
2. Biostatistics in clinical trials - Carol K. Redmond, John Wiley & Sons
3. Introduction to Probability & Statistics - Medenhall, Beaver
4. Introduction to Probability and statistics for engineers and scientists, S M Ross
Title of Course THEORY OF I C ENGINES
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction to IC Engines
Basic engine components and nomenclature ,Applications of IC Engines , Engine characteristics,
geometrical properties of reciprocating engines, specific emissions and emission index,
relationships between performance parameters, Engine design and performance data. Energy
flow through IC engines ,Various Auxiliary systems.
Air standard cycles

Fuel –Air and Actual Engines: Modeling of Fuel-Air cycle Effect of operating variables on the
performance of Fuel –air Cycles, Detailed analysis of difference between Fuel-Air and Real
Cycle, Combustion charts and Gas Tables.
Carburetion
Introduction, Factors affecting carburetion ,mixture requirements at different load and speed
,principles of carburetion ,essential parts and functions of a carburetor ,compensating devices
,Modern Carburetors, Altitude compensation devices,Injection in SI engine
Injection Systems: Introduction to Mechanical Injection System,Functional Requirements
andclassification, Fuel feed pump and Fuel Injector Electronic injection systems: Types , Merits
and Demerits ,Multi point fuel injection system (MPFI) , Electronic control system ,Injection
timings,Common –Rail Fuel Injection System ..
SI and CI Engines
SI Engine:
Combustion in spark ignition engines, stages of combustion, flame propagation, rate of pressure
rise, abnormal combustion, phenomenon of detonation in spark ignition engines, effect of engine
variables on detonation. Combustion chambers, rating of fuels in spark ignition engines, additives.
CI Engine:
Fuel supply system, types of fuel pump, injector and distribution system, combustion in compression
ignition engines, stages of combustion, factors affecting combustion, phenomenon of knocking in
compression ignition engine. Effect of knocking, methods of knock control, types of combustion
chambers, rating of fuels in compression ignition engines. Dopes &additives, comparison of knocking
in spark ignition & compression ignition engines
Internal Combustion Engine-System, Emission and Control
Internal combustion, Engine Systems: Cooling system, lubrication system, ignition system,
governing system, starting system.
Internal combustion engine emissions and control air pollution due to internal combustion engine and its
effect, emissions from petrol/gas and diesel engines, sources of emissions, euro norms, Bharat stage
norms, emission control methods for spark ignition and compression ignition engines.
REFERENCES:
1. Heywood, Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2011
2. V. Ganesan, Internal Combustion Engines, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2012
3. M. L. Mathur and R. P. Sharma , A course in I.C. Engines, , Dhanpat Rai Pub, 2001
4. 2. Colin R. Ferguson C,Internal Combustion Engines, John Wiley & sons, 1986
Title of Course ALTERNATE FUELS FOR I C ENGINE
APPLICATION
Maximum Marks 100

Need for Alternative Fuels

Effects of constituents of Exhaust gas emission on environmental condition of earth (N2 , CO2, CO,
NOx, SO2, O2) Pollution created by Exhaust gas emission in atmosphere. Green house effect, Factors
affecting green house effect. Study of Global Carbon Budget, Carbon foot print and Carbon credit
calculations. Emission norms as per Bharat Standard up to BS – IV and procedures for confirmation
on production.
Alcohols
Alcohol:
Sources of Methanol and Ethanol, methods of it’s production. Properties of methanol & ethanol
as engine fuels, Use of alcohols in S.I. and C.I. engines, performance of blending methanol with
gasoline. Emulsification of alcohol and diesel. Dual fuel systems. Improvement / Change in
emission characteristics with respect to % blending of Alcohol.
Biodiesel
Biodiesel: Raw materials used for production of Bio Diesel (Karanji oil, Neemoil, Sunflower oil,
Soyabeen oil, Musturd oil, Palm oil, Jatropha seeds). Process of separation of Bio Diesel. Properties
Diesel blended with vegetable oil, Performance and emission characteristics of using biodiesel blend.
Gaseous alternative fuels
Hydrogen:
Hydrogen as a substitute fuel. Study Properties, Sources and methods of Production of Hydrogen,
Storage and Transportation of hydrogen. Also, the economics of Application and Advantages of
hydrogen (Liquid hydrogen) as fuel for IC engine/ hydrogen car.
Introduction to Biogas system, Process during gas formation, Factors affecting biogas formation.
Usage of Biogas in SI engine & CI engine.
LPG & CNG:
Properties of LPG & CNG as engine fuels, fuel metering systems, combustion characteristics,
effect on performance, emission, cost and safety.
Fuel cell and solar powered vehicles
Fuel cell: Fuel Cells: Concept of fuel cells based on usage of Hydrogen and Methanol. Power
rating, and performance. Heat dissipation, Layout of fuel cell vehicle. Working principle, Different
types of fuel cells used for IC engine application, Advantages and limitations.Solar cells for
energy collection. Storage batteries, layout of solar powered automobiles. Advantages and
limitations
REFERENCES:
1. Gerhard Knothe, Jon Van Gerpen, Jargon Krahl, The Biodiesel Handbook, AOCS Press
Champaign, Illinois 2005.
2. Richard L Bechtold P.E., Alternative Fuels Guide book, Society of Automotive
Engineers, 1997 ISBN 0-76-80-0052-1.
3. Transactions of SAE on Biofuels (Alcohols, vegetable oils, CNG, LPG, Hydrogen, Biogas
etc
4. Automotive Emission Control” by Crouse, AND Anglin – McGraw Hill
5. Kordesch, K and G.Simader, Fuel Cell and Their Applications, Wiley-Vch, Germany
Title of Course COMPOSITE MATERIALS
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction to Composite Materials

Definition, classification and characteristics of composite materials – fibrous composites,
laminated. Matrix materials, Automobile, Aircrafts, missiles, Space hardware, Electrical and
electronics, marine, recreational and Sports equipment, future potential of composites.
Processing of composites
Layup and curing, fabricating process - open and closed mould process – hand layup techniques
structural laminate bag molding, production procedures for bag molding,Filament winding,
pultrusion, pulforming, thermo - forming, injection, injection molding, liquid molding, blow
molding.
Macro-Mechanical Behavior of a Lamina and laminate:

Stress-strain relation for an orthotropic lamina- Restriction on elastic constants Strengths of an
orthotropic lamina and Failure theories for an orthotropic lamina.Classical plate theory- Stress and
strain variation in a laminate- Resultant forces and moments- A B & D matrix- Strength analysis
of a laminate
Micro-Mechanical Behavior of a Lamina

Determination of elastic Constants-Rule of mixtures, transformation of coordinates, micro-
mechanics based analysis and experimental determination of material constants.
Composite and Interfaces

Polymer Matrix Composites, Metal Matrix Composites, Ceramic Matrix Composites, Composite
Strengths, Composite Interfaces, Bonding Mechanisms and Interfacial properties.
Text Books:
1. K.K Chawla,Composites Science and Engineering, SpringerVerlag, 1998
2. R M Jones, “Mechanics of Composite Materials”, McGraw-Hill, NewYork, 1975
Reference:
1. M.M. Schwartz, “Composite materials hand book”, McGraw Hill Book Company. 1984
2. Hull and Clyne, Introduction to Composite materials, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition,
1990.
3. Autar Kaw,Mechanics of composites, CRC Press. 2002.
Title of Course POLYMER AND BIOMATERIALS
Maximum Marks 100
Introduction to Polymers
Historical developments in polymeric materials, Basic concepts & definitions: monomer &
functionality, oligomer, polymer, repeating unites, degree of polymerization, molecular weight &
molecular weight distribution.
Natural Polymers and their Properties
Natural Polymers: Chemical & Physical structure, properties, source, important chemical
modifications, applications of polymers such as cellulose, lignin, starch, rosin, shellac, latexes,
vegetable oils and gums, proteins etc. Molecular weight and its distribution determination,
carothers equation, states of polymers, transition temperatures such as Tg, Tc, Tm, solubility
parameter, solution properties, temperature, good/ bad solvent.
Introduction to Biomaterials
Introduction to biomaterials for biomedical applications, Chemical structure and property of
biomaterials, Degradation of biomaterials, Polymeric biomaterials: Introduction, preparation,
hydrogel biomaterials, Bioconjugation techniques, Biomaterials for drug delivery application
(small molecules, gene and protein)
Biocompatibility and their Interaction
Biocompatibility, Biomaterials implantation, Evaluation of biomaterials, Nano-biomaterials,
Biomaterials for imaging and diagnosis, Cell-Biomaterials interaction, Biomaterial and tissue
engineering.
Hydrogels and Biological materials
Hydrogels- structure and synthesis - examples of biomedical hydrogels: acrylic, PVA, PEG,
degradable, smart hydrogels; Biological materials - structure and properties - hard tissues: tooth
and bone - soft tissues: skin, blood vessel, tendon.
Text Books:
1. P. Painter and M.Colman, Fundamentals of Polymer Science-An Introductory Text,
Second Edition, CRC Press, 1998.
2. J.B. Park and J.D. Bronzino. Biomaterials: Principles and Applications, CRC Press, 2002.
References:
1. Billmeyer F, Textbook of Polymer Science, Wiley Interscience, 1994.
2. Bahadur and Sastry, Principles of Polymer Science, Narosa Publishing House, 2002.
3. Anilkumar and Gupta, Textbook of Polymer Science and Engg, Tata McGraw-Hill
Publishing Co, Ltd., 1978.
4. J B Park & RS Lakes, Biomaterials: An Introduction, Plenum Press, New York, 1979.
Course Code 17BAS001
Title of Course RECENT ADVANCES IN BIOLOGICAL
TECHNIQUES
Maximum Marks 100

Cell culture and Microbial techniques
Cell culture: Counting viable cells and subculture into multiwell plates. Cell counting using
hemocytometers. Cell attachment (adhesion) and growth, Adult and embryonic stem cells,
applications of stem cells to tissue engineering.
Animal Culture: Media requirements and sterilization techniques, primary and established cell
lines. Culture methods: hanging drop, monolayer and suspension. Advantages and disadvantages.
Scale up methods. Roux tubes roller bottles, Basic knowledge of cancer and neuronal cell lines.
Plant tissue culture: Cell and callus culture, anther culture. Micropropagation, somatic cell
hybridization, protoplast fusion, cybrids, artificial seeds, Agrobacterium mediated gene transfer
and use of Ti plasmid. Applications of plant tissue culture engineering, production of secondary
metabolites and transgenic plants.
Microbial Techniques: Introduction to various types of media for growth of microbes; Plating
techniques, Basic techniques for isolation, cultivation and enumeration of microorganisms from
different sources; Staining of microorganisms, Assessing microbial growth.
Molecular Biology and Immunological Techniques
Molecular Biology Techniques: PCR and its types, primer design, applications of PCR, Real
Time PCR, RT-PCR. Gel electrophoresis: Agarose and PAGE, formaldehyde-agarose for RNA,
Denaturing gels, native PAGE, SDS-PAGE, Southern Blotting, Northern and Western blotting.
Library preparation: Genomic DNA, cDNA, DNA microarray, DNA sequencing techniques.
Immunological Techniques: Immunoprecipitation; Agglutination; Immunoelectrophoresis; RIA;
Immunofluorescence; Cytotoxicity assay; ELISPOT; ELISA; Immunohistochemistry,
Hybridomas and their production; Immunization protocol.
Microscopy and Biophysical techniques
Microscopy: General principles, preparation of specimen, Fluorescence microscopy, Confocal

microscopy, Atomic force microscopy and live cell imaging FACS analysis.
Biophysical techniques: Chromatography and its types (Gel filtration, Ion exchange &
hydrophobic interaction chromatography, GC, HPLC, FPLC), Isoelectric-focussing (IEF), 2-D
gels, Centrifugation and its types, Cell disintegration and extraction techniques,
Spectrophotometry, GC-MS, LCMS, NMR, MALDITOF, X-ray crystallography, Circular
Dichroism.
Enzymology, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Molecular Modeling Techniques
Enzymology: Enzyme Kinetics, enzyme activity and specific activity determination.

Bioinformatics: Biological databases Genomes, DNA sequences. Sequence databases:
GeneBank, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Nucleotide sequence databank,
DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), Protein databases; primary databases and secondary databases,
database formats. Structural databases; Protein Data bank (PDB), Nucleic Acid Data Bank (NDB),
Molecular modeling Data Bank (MMDB).
Biostatistics: Measures of Central tendency and Dispersion. Probability distribution, Parametric
and Nonparametric statistics, Confidence Interval, Errors. Quantitative Techniques: Levels of
significance, Regression and Correlation, Use of Statistics in Biosciences, Use of Computers in
Quantitative analysis- SPSS, Sigmaplot and Graphpad prism.
Molecular modeling Introduction, force field, quantum chemistry, Schrödinger equation,
potential energy functions, energy minimization, local and global minima, saddle point, grid
search, various approximations; LCAO, HF, semi-empirical calculations; single point calculations,
full-geometry optimization methods, ZDO, MNDO, CNDO, NDDO, AM1, PM3, RM1,
conformational search, Z-matrix, docking, molecular modeling packages.
Title of Course NANO-PHYTOTHERAPEUTICS AND BACTERIAL
SIGNALING
Maximum Marks 100

The Laboratory/ Research Bench: Good lab practice, quality control, Standard operating procedure,
Ethics in laboratory, Animal handling, Biosafety etc. Classification chemicals, lab codes, Toxicity, first
aid, Calibration, SI Units, Stochiometric calculations, Reagent preparations. Database management:
Physical data base, Biological data base, Data retrieval system, e-library, e-books, Storage media,
Security system, Interfaces, Online journals ethics in publishing, thesis preparation, computer aided
documentation systems, photography & videography required for documentation system, Microsoft
office, internet browsers hardware components, Principles of data transfer mechanism between the
machine and computer, different versions and types of OS available in commercial market. Different file
formats and digital image editing.
Basics in Phytochemistry: Definition, history, scope and development of phytochemistry.

Historical perspectives of herbal medicine: local, national and global level. Phytochemical
extraction techniques: Introduction, definition, factors influencing the choice of extraction,
principles of extraction methods, types of extraction (Cold and hot extraction methods, liquid-
liquid extraction techniques, liquid-carbon dioxide extraction, concentration and evaporation
techniques, lyophilisation.
Plant secondary metabolites: Introduction, Classification and functions in plant defence

(Steroids, terpenoids, alkaloids, flavonoids, polyphenols, anthocyanidin, saponins). An overview
of primary metabolism contribution to secondary metabolite biosynthesis; important routes
(pathways) of biosynthesis- phenyl propanoid pathway; Mevalonate pathway; Acetate-mevalonate
pathway.
Bacterial Pathogenesis with special reference to Listeria – morphology, habit and habitat, etiology,
epidemiology, prognosis, prevention and treatment of the disease. Physico-chemical and
biochemical parameters facilitating Listeria infection and listeriosis in humans. Different variants
and strains. Non-pathogenic strains of Listeria and their genomic level differentiation, Host-
pathogen interactions. Media formulation for Listeria, Isolation and preservation techniques used
for Listeria. Identification of Listeria – microbial, biochemical and molecular characterization.
Assessment of growth of Listeria in liquid and solid media, Planktonic and biofilms forms of
Listeria. Measurement of cell density and exopolymeric production in biofilms. Management of
Listeria using synthetic and herbal derivatives and their probable mode of action.
Nanotechnology and Green Chemistry:

Basic concepts of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology–Quantum wire, Quantum well, Quantum dot,
fullerenes, Graphene, Carbon nanotubes Introduction, Scientific revolutions,Time and length scale
in structures,Definition of a nanosystem, Dimensionality and size dependent phenomena, Surface
to volume ratio, Fraction of surface atoms, Surface energy and surface stress, surface defects,
Properties at nanoscale (optical, mechanical, electronic and magnetic). Material processing by
chemical vapor deposition and physical vapor deposition. Principle of SEM, TEM, AFM,
Scanning near field optical microscopy (SNOM) Scanning ion conducting microscopy (SCIM)
Potential uses of nanomaterials in sensors and Medical applications of nanomaterials and
nanoencapsulation.
Drosophila - from genes to genome:

Features for considering fly as a model organism. Comparison of fly model with other models like
mealy bug, C. elegans, earthworm and other invertebrates. Polytene chromosome-Salivary gland
chromosome in Drosophila, Sex-linkage in Drosophila. Sigma factor in Drosophila, Cytological
basis of crossing over-Sterns experiments in Drosophila. Use of fly as model organisms for various
human related diseases.
REFERENCES:
 Anderson, J.W. and Beardall, J. 1991. Molecular Activities of Plant Cells, Blackwell
Scientific Publication, Oxford.
 Bannerman, R.H., Burton, J. and Wen Chen, C. (eds). 1983. Traditional medicine and
health care coverage. WHO, Geneva.
 Principles of Lehninger Biochemistry, by Nelson and Cox (2008). McGraw-Hill Higher
Education.
 Dennis, D.T and Turpin D.H. (ed). 1990. Plant physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular
biology, Longman Scientific and Technical Esses.
 Lea, P.J. and Leegood, R.C. 1993. Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. John Wiley
& Sons, West Susses.
 Taiz, I. and Zeiger, E. 1999. Plant Physiology. The Benjamin/comings publishing Co.,
Redwood City, USA.
 Willey, J. M., Sherwood, L., Woolverton, C. J., & Prescott, L. M. (2008). Prescott, Harley,
and Klein's microbiology (8th edn). New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Title of Course NEURO-INFLAMMATION AND
NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction to neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative disease and to understand the

pathophysiology. Introduction to neuronal cells (glial cells and astrocytes). To study the present
pharmacological treatment available and also to understand the limitation.
To study the immune system of central nervous system (CNS). To study the genes, cytokines, cell
lineages playing major role in neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases. To study the
effect of different immunological stimulus on neuronal cell lines (primary and continuous cell
lines)
To understand the mechanism of stimulus. Isolation of primary neuronal cells from animals,
methods and principles of assaying neuroinflammation and the impact of stimulus.
Isolation and purification of DNA and RNA from cell lines and animal tissues, cDNA synthesis
using PCR, gene modulation study using real time PCR. To study the protein modulation using
western blot. To study the cell lineages modulation using flow cytometry.
References:
Redwood City, USA.
Title of Course STRUCTURAL STUDY OF CYCLIN DEPENDENT
KINASES
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction of Cyclin dependent kinases
History of Cyclin dependent kinases - Classification and analysis of CDKs - Role in cell cycle -
regulation of activity - medical significance.
Cloning – Purification- Crystallization
PCR amplification - plasmid preparation – ligation – transformation - colony PCR – transfection

– Alfa complementation (Blue white screening) - bacmid preparation, Viral plaque titer -
Purification techniques – Electrophoresis (Agarose gel electrophoresis, SDS-PAGE) -
Chromatography (Affinity, Ion exchange, Size exclusion) – Crystallization by vapour diffusion
method (Hanging drop method and sitting drop method).
Molecular Modeling- Protein Modeling- Protein Structure predictions
History of molecular modeling - Modeling Tools - Modeling Strategies – Applications - Docking

(Molecular Interactions) - Determination of Drug Excipient Interactions - Lead Generation -
Determination of Properties of Pharmacophoric Pattern - Concepts of Force Field - Quantum and
Molecular mechanical force fields - Generation of potential energy surfaces - Basic principles of
secondary structure prediction methods - concepts in measuring the accuracy of protein structure
predictions.
X- ray crystallographic data collection and Crystal structure- structure determination
Crystal mounting – data collection – data processing - Symmetry elements, operations -

translational symmetries - point groups - space groups - equivalent positions –close packed
structures, Generation of X-rays - laboratory sources – X-ray absorption – X-ray monochromators
- X-ray detectors (principles only) - diffraction by X-rays – Crystal -B-factors, R- factors Bragg’s
law - reciprocal lattice concept - structure refinement - structure analysis including Ramachandran
plot - structure comparison – processing - structure determination
Reference Books:
 Crystallization, J. W. Mullin; Butterworth- Heinemann- 2001.
 Cyclins and Cyclin-Dependent Kinases by N.H. Lents and J.J. Baldassare, 7 August 2015
 Cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases: Jonathan Pines Author Vitae , The City University
of New York, New York, NY, USA. Volume 18, Issue 6, June 1993, Pages 195-197.
 Role of Cyclin-Dependent Kinases and Their Inhibitors in Cellular Differentiation and
Development, S.P. CHELLAPPAN', A. GIORDAN03, and P.B. FISHER
 Mammalian cyclin-dependent kinases , Marcos Malumbres Mariano Barbacid Volume 30,
Issue 11, November 2005, Pages 630-641, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St.
Louis, MO, USA
 Molecular modeling basic principles and applications-Hans-Dieter Holtje and Folkers,
Wiley 2003.
 Molecular modeling of Proteins-edited by Andreas Kukol, Humana Press, Apr 2008
 Introduction to Protein Architecture, Arthur M. Lesk, Oxford University Press, 2001
 Molecular Modeling Principles and Applications- AR Leach, Longman, 1996.
 2. Structural Bioinformatics, Edited by Philip E. Bourne and Helge Weissig, Wiley-Liss,
2003.
 Freifelder D., Physical Biochemistry, Application to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
2nd Edition, W.H.
 Freeman & Company, San Fransisco, 1982.
 Keith Wilson and John Walker, Principles and Techniques of Practical Biochemistry, 5th
Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2000
 Molecular Biology of the gene” by Waston et al 4th ed.
 Genes VI” by Benjamin Lewis.
 Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, J. Sambrook, E.F. Fritsch and T. Maniatis, Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York, 2000.
 Crystallization, J. W. Mullin; Butterworth- Heinemann- 2001.
Title of Course BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC STRESS IN PLANTS
Maximum Marks 100

Abiotic and biotic stresses affecting plant productivity. Basic principles of a crop improvement
programme under stress, Interactions between biotic and abiotic stresses. Osmotic adjustment,
osmoprotectants, stress proteins. Expression of regulatory and functional genes and significance
of gene products. Stress and hormones- ABA as a signaling molecule- Cytokinin as a negative
signal. Oxidative stress: Salinity: Species variation in salt tolerance. Salinity effects at –cellular
and whole plant level, tolerance mechanisms. Salt tolerance in – Glycophytes and halophytes,
Breeding for salt resistance. Classification of biotic stresses – major diseases of cereals. Host
defence responses to pathogen invasions- Biochemical and molecular mechanisms Host-pathogen
interaction, gene-for-gene hypothesis.
Historical background of molecular genetics; Genetic material in organisms; Structure and

properties of nucleic acid, DNA transcription and its regulation – Transcription factors and their
role; enhancers, suppressors, transcriptomes, transcription factors and their role; Genetic code,
regulation of protein synthesis in prokaryotes and eukaryotes – ribosomes, t-RNAs and
translational factors. Stress-induced gene expression Proteomics techniques in proteomics.
Isozymes, Isolation and purification of enzymes, antioxidant enzymes and their mechanism of
action. Methods and principles of assaying antioxidant enzymes.
Isolation and purification of DNA and RNA from different sources, check of purity of isolated
DNA and RNA, restriction fragmentation and separation of oligos by agarose electrophoresis,
RAPD analysis of DNA, cDNA synthesis using PCR, Southern and Northern blotting experiments.
Electrophoretic methods of separation-PAGE- Native, SDS-PAGE, 2 D PAGE.
REFERENCES:
 Principles of Lehninger Biochemistry, by Nelson and Cox (2008). McGraw-Hill Higher
Education.
Redwood City, USA.
Title of Course OXIDATIVE STRESS AND MITOCHONDRIAL
BIOLOGY
Maximum Marks 100

Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defense Systems

Basic concepts of oxidative stress, pro-oxidant and antioxidant, Chemistry of biologically
important free radicals (Hydroxyl, superoxide, sulphur radicals, nitric oxide) and non-
radicals (Hydrogen peroxide, Singlet oxygen, peroxynitrite); Consequences of oxidative
stress - cell death; Fenton’s reaction; mechanisms of damage to protein, lipid and DNA;
biomarkers of damage to protein, lipid and DNA; measurement of reactive species- ESR,
Spin trapping; Antioxidant defense enzymes - SOD, catalase, glutathione peroxidase,
cytochrome c peroxidase, NADH peroxidase and other peroxidases, protein-disulfide
isomerase, thioredoxin and peroxiredoxins.
Mitochondrial structure, Compartmentalization and Transport systems

Gross morphology of mitochondria, Subfractionation of mitochondria, Distribution of
mitochondrial enzymes; composition of membranes; current views on structure of inner
and outer membranes; mitochondrial transport systems - substrate transport and
coordination of mitochondrial and cytoplasmic metabolism.
Oxidative pathways of mitochondria, Electron Transfer Chain and Mitochondrial Genetics

Conversion of pyruvate to Acetyl Co A; beta-oxidation of fatty acids;TCA Cycle; Electron
transfer chain - carriers of ETC; redox potentials; properties of respitatory complexes;
Chemiosmotic model; inhibitors of electron transfer; concept of coupling; Ionophores.
Mitochondrial genetics- basic concept on mt DNA; genetic criteria for distinguishing
Nuclear and mt mutations; mt genes and mutants; genetic methods for mapping mt
mutations; transcription of mtDNA & processing of RNA.
Mitochondrial Diseases and Techniques for Detection of Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Mitochondrial disorders of the nervous system: Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease,
Multiple Sclerosis, brain ischemia, Prion diseases, Huntington’s diseases; Rheumatoid
Arthritis; Mitochondrial disorders of the Gastrointestinal tract - Inflammation in GIT,
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Chron’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis) etc.
Techniques for detection of mitochondrial dysfunction: Assessment of impact of oxidative
stress on mitochondrial proteins (protein carbonylation, thiol group loss), lipids (Lipid
peroxidation - MDA and HNE) and DNA (8-hydroxyguanine); Assessment of
mitochondrial respiratory enzyme complexes by spectrophotometric methods,
Immunohistochemistry of mitochondrial respiratory enzyme complexes, Detection of
mitochondrial ATP generation and mitochondria membrane potential; Mitochondrial
imaging using common fluorescent probes/dyes (mitochondrial tracker green, red; JC-1 &
JC-9; Annexin V; TMRE, Rhodamine B etc.).
REFERENCES:
1. Molecular Biology of Cell-Bruce Albert’s et.al, Garland publications (2005).
2. Lehninger’s Principles of Biochemistry- W H Freeman (2008)
3. Biochemistry-Lubert Stryer Freeman International Edition (2002).
4. Biochemistry by Voet and Voet, Wiley Publishing (2010).
5. Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine - Barry Halliwell and John Gutteridge (2007)
Course Code 15HSC001
Title of Course MODERN ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES
Maximum Marks 100

UV-Visible spectroscopy: Introduction of Electromagnetic spectrum, Theory,

Laws, Instrumentation and terminology associated with UV-Visible spectroscopy,
Choice of solvents and Applications of UV-Visible spectroscopy.
Chromatography: Principle, Apparatus, Instrumentation, Chromatographic

parameters, Endpoint determination and Applications of the
following:
a) Paper chromatography
b) Thin Layer chromatography
c) Column chromatography
d) Gas chromatography
e) High Performance Liquid chromatography
f) High Performance Thin Layer chromatography
Calibration, validation and cleaning validation for the following instruments used in
pharmaceutical industry:
a) HPLC b) HPTLC c) GC d) IR e) UV
Analytical method and bio analytical method development and its validation according to ICH and
USP guidelines.
Statistical Analysis – Introduction, Significance of statistical methods, normal

distribution, probability, degree of freedom, standard deviation, correlation,
variance, accuracy, precision, classification of errors, reliability of results,
confidence interval, test for statistical significance – Students T test, F test, Chi
square test, Correlation and regression
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Spectrometric Identification of Organic compounds - Robert M Silverstein, Sixth edition,

John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
2. Fundamentals of Statistics – Elhance, Kitab Mahal.
3. Principles of Instrumental Analysis - Doglas A Skoog, F. James Holler, Timothy A. Nieman,
5th edition, Eastern press, Bangalore, 1998.
4. Vogel’s Text book of quantitative chemical analysis - Jeffery, Basset, Mendham, Denney,
5th edition, ELDS, 1991.
5. Instrumental methods of analysis – Willards, 7th edition, CBS publishers.
6. Practical Pharmaceutical Chemistry – Beckett and Stenlake, Vol II, 4th edition, CBS
Publishers, New Delhi, 1997.
7. Organic Spectroscopy - William Kemp, 3rd edition, ELBS, 1991.
8. Quantitative analysis of Pharmaceutical formulations by HPTLC - P D Sethi, CBS
Publishers, New Delhi.
9.Pharmacutical Analysis - Higuchi, Brochmman and Hassen, 2nd Edition, Wiley – Interscience
Publications, 1961.
10. Quantitative Analysis of Drugs in Pharmaceutical formulation - P D Sethi, 3rd Edition, CBS
Publishers, New Delhi, 1997.
11. Pharmaceutical Analysis- Modern methods – Part B - J W Munson, Volume 11, Marcel
Dekker Series
12. Analytical Profiles of Drug substances – Klaus Florey, Volume 1 – 20, Elsevier, 2005
13. Analytical Profiles of Drug substances and Excipients – Harry G. Brittain, Volume 21 – 30,
Elsevier, 2005.
Title of Course PHARMACOLOGY
Maximum Marks 100
Molecular Mechanisms in Cell regulation, Signaling molecules and their receptors:

Nitric oxide, carbon monoxide, neurotransmitters, cytokines, peptide hormones, growth
factors and eicosanoids.
Receptors:
Cell surface Receptors: Ion channels, G-protein coupled receptors, tyrosine kinase
receptors, cytokine receptors and Nuclear receptors.
Signal transduction:
Intracellular signal transduction: cAMP, cGMP, IP3-DAG, calcium pathway, PI3K/Akt,
m-TOR, MAPK, JAK/STAT, TGFβ/Smad, NFB signaling, Hedgehog-Wnt, Notch
pathways including Adrenergic and cholinergic transmissions.
Pharmacotherapy:
Introduction to Pharmacotherapeutics,
Pharmacotherapy of the following diseases:
Ischemic heart disease, CCF, Dysrhythmias and Dyslipidaemia, Atherosclerosis,
Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Schizophrenia, Stroke, Arteriosclerosis, Asthma
and COPD, Affective disorders, Epilepsy, Insomnia, pain Management, Rheumatoid &
Osteoarthritis, Hyperuricaemia, Myasthenia, Musculoskeletal dystrophy, Peptic ulcer,
GERD, Inflammatory bowel diseases, Constipation, Diarrhea.
Toxicity tests: OECD guidelines. Determination of LD50, acute, sub-acute and chronic
toxicity studies.
Organization of screening for the Pharmacological activity of new substances with
emphasis on the evaluation of cardiac, psychopharmacological, anti-inflammatory,
analgesic, anti diabetic, antiepileptic, anti- parkinsonism and anti-cancer agents
Fundamentals of clinical trials: Protocols, volunteers, informed consent and ethical

Committee designs (Single blind, double blind, cross over, randomization Placebos and
controlled studies).
Clinical trials of drugs design and testing of drugs in humans (Phase I –Phase IV) according
to GCP and ICH guidelines.
Protocol writing in Clinical trials, Role of investigators and sponsors.
Gene manipulation and its applications
Role of genes within cells, DNA- the primary genetic material, Elucidation of genetic code,
Gene expression, Genetic elements that control gene expression, microarrey.
Recombinant DNA Technology: Principles, process and applications. Gene cloning:
Isolation, cloning vectors, enzymes used in molecular cloning, PCR (Polymerase chain
reaction), LCR (Ligation chain reaction) and their applications. The formation and uses of
RFLP's (Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism).
Recombinant DNA / Human Genetics: DNA sequencing, Mapping and cloning of Human
disease genes, DNA-Based diagnosis of genetic diseases. Human genome project.
Gene therapy and Antisense technology.
Biotechnology related techniques: Protein engineering, Peptide chemistry and
peptidomimetics, Nucleic acid technologies, catalytic antibodies, glycobiology.
Principles of cell based assays and their application:
MTT assay, COMET assay, DNA ladder, Radio-ligand binding assay, RT-PCR, Western
blotting, Immunoblotting, Immunofluorescence and Flow cytometry.
References
1. Braunwald, Fauci, Kasper, Hauser. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. Longo
Jameson, McGraw Hill, New York, 15th Edition (2 Volumes 2001).
2. Joseph T. Dipiro et.al .Pharmacotherapy; A pathopysiologic approach- McGraw-Hill
Medical, 8th edition (2011).
3. Screening methods in Pharmacology, Vol.-1&2 by Robert .A. Turner and Peter Hebborn.
4. Drug discovery and evaluation by H.G.Vogel and W.H.Vogel, Springerverlag, Berlin
Heideleberg.
5. Handbook of experimental pharmacology by S.K. Kulkarni, Vallabh Prakashan, Delhi.
6. Textbook of clinical trials edited by David Machin, Simon Day and Sylvan green.
7. Principles of clinical research edited by Giovanna di ignazio, Di Giovanna and Haynes.
8. Molecular biology of the CELL. Alberts B. et.al (Eds). Garlound Publishing Inc. New
York and London.
9. Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. Crommelin DJA and Sindelar RD. (Eds). Harward
Academic Publishers, Australia, UK.
10. Biopharmaceuticals: Biochemistry & Biotechnology. Gary Walsh. (Eds). John Wiley and
Sons.
11. Recombinant DNA. James D. Watson, Michael Gilman, Jan Witowski, Mark Zollet
(Eds). Scientific American Books, New York
12. The Cell: A Molecular Approach. Geoffrey M Cooper and Robert E Hausman (Eds).
5th ed
Title of Course PHARMACEUTICS
Maximum Marks 100

Preformulation concepts
Preformulation goals, consideration of physico-chemical properties of new drug molecules for
different dosage forms. Drug Excipient interactions - different methods, kinetics of stability,
Stability testing. Crystal morphology and polymorphism. Techniques to study crystal properties -
DSC, TGA, optical microscopy. Selection criteria for various excipients and compatibility studies.
Dissolution
Noyes- Whitney’s dissolutions rate law, Study of various approaches to improve dissolution of
poorly soluble drug, In –vitro dissolution testing models, In-vitro- In –vivo correlation.
Protein Binding
Plasma protein binding: factors affecting, significance and kinetics of protein binding.
Bioavailability
Objectives and consideration in bio-availability studies, Concept of equivalents, Measurements of
bio-availability, Determination of the rate of absorption.
Clearance
Concept of clearance- Organ clearance, Total clearance, Hepatic clearance and Renal clearance.
Oral controlled release drug delivery systems

Introduction, development of oral controlled release drug delivery systems - dissolution, diffusion,
combination of dissolution and diffusion controlled, osmotic pressure controlled,
hydrodynamically balanced systems, pH controlled, and ion exchange controlled systems.
Polymer Science
Introduction, polymer classification, application of polymers in the development of controlled drug
delivery systems. Importance of natural and synthetic biodegradable polymers in drug delivery.
Drug targeting
Concept, types of drug targeting. Preparation and evaluation of nanoparticles, solid lipid
nanoparticles and liposomes.
REFERENCES:
1. Lachman L, Lieberman HA, Kanig JL. The Theory and Practice of Industrial Pharmacy.
Mumbai: Varghese Publishing Home.
2. Aulton ME. Pharmaceutics - The Science of Dosage form Design. London/New York:
Churnchill Livingstone.
3. Carstensen JT. Drug Stability - Principles and Practice. New York: Marcel Dekker.
4. Brahmankar DM and Sunil B. Jaiswal, Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, A. Treatise,

Vallab Prakashan, Pitampura, Delhi.
5. Chien YM. Novel Drug Delivery Systems. New York/Basel/Hong Kong: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
7. Jain NK. Controlled and Novel Drug Delivery, First edition. New Delhi: CBS Publishers and
Distributors; 1997 (reprint in 2001).
8. Vyas SP and Khar RK. Controlled Drug Delivery - Concepts and Advances, First edition. New
Delhi: Vallabh Prakashan ; 2002.
Course Code 17CMS001
Title of Course HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Maximum Marks 100

Module 1: Introduction to HRM

Challenges of HRM – HR Department – Employer branding, Employee value proposition – HR
Roles – HR Competencies – HR Philosophy and Policy – Evolution of HRM in India – Meeting
Employee Expectations – Human Resource Management and Organizational performance –
Accountability in HRM.
Module 2: Human Resource Planning

Job Analysis: Job description and job Specification. Human Resource Planning – Demand and
Supply.Recruitment and Selection: Purposes, types and methods of recruitment and selection –
Relative merits and demerits of the different methods; Personnel Search – Selection Instruments –
Reduction of recruitment costs. Functions of Human Resources Management from Procurement
to Separation: Placement, Induction, Transfers, Promotions. Disciplinary actions. Termination of
Services: Resignation, Dismissal, Retrenchment and Voluntary Retirement Schemes and other
separation processes – Exit Interviews, Prevention of employee turnover – Downsizing and
Retention.
Module 3: Personnel Development and Retirement

Training and Development process and methods – Design & Evaluation of T & D Programmes
– Career Development – Personnel Empowerment including Delegation.
Performance and Potential Appraisal; Coaching and Mentoring; HRM issues and practices in
the context of Outsourcing as a strategy and MNCs.
Module 4: Compensation, Productivity and Morale

Compensation and Reward Management: Job Evaluation, methods and types of
compensation. Employee Morale and Motivation – Stress Management and Quality of Work Life
– International Dimensions of HRM – Employee Empowerment.
Module 5: Building relationships & facilitating Legislative Framework

Employee Relations and Trade Unions – Grievance Redressal – Dispute Resolution and Conflict
Management – Disciplinary Process – Collective Bargaining – Workers and Managerial Decision-
making – Concept, Mechanics and Experience.
REFERENCES:
1. Gary Dessler, Human Resource Management, Pearson Education Limited.
2. Decenzo and Robbins, Human Resource Management, Wiley, 8th Edition.
3. Pramod Verma, Personnel Management in Indian Organisations, Oxford & IBM Publishing Co.
Ltd.
4. Venkata Ratnam C. S. & Srivatsava B K, Personnel Management and Human Resources Tata
Mc-Graw Hill.
5. Bohlander, Snell & Sherman, Managing Human Resources, Thomson - South Western.
Title of Course HR METRICS AND ANALYTICS
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction to HCM and HR research

Importance of HCM – Role and Perspective of HCM – HCM Model: Employee Value
Proposition – Compensation – Attracting, Motivating and retaining employees now and in the
future. Defining HR research and Quantitative HRM – significance and relevance Types of HR
research. Advantages of measuring HRM. Consequences of not measuring HRM, Common
problems with metrics – Using statistical tests in HR Research, Sampling.
Tools and techniques in HR research
Types of quantitative research, types of data and preparation for analysis – hypotheses
formulation – data collection methods – parametric and non-parametric tests for related and
independent samples. Multivariate data analysis and Meta-analysis with special emphasis on
quantitative aspects.
HR metrics
Meaning of Metrics – four Human Capital Performance Metrics – Second Generation and Third
Generation Metrics – Connecting the Metrics – Predictive Analytics for Human Capital
Management - Measuring the costs of hiring. Attrition metrics – techniques used to calculate
attrition – manpower planning metrics – push model (markov) and pull model (renewal models)
– quantitative tools for forecasting manpower requirements with special emphasis on quantitative
aspects.
Development and Compensation metrics

Training ROI – measuring employee satisfaction – attitude measurement and survey – Training
evaluation models – tracking the value of career management – measurement Performance
metrics – performance matrix – Shingo prize model – EFQM and Baldridge criteria – HR
Scorecard – performance measurement using ranking and rating systems – scales for evaluation
of performance – HR Accounting with special emphasis on quantitative aspects – Variable pay
systems, types of executive compensation – quantitative application in Compensation –
percentiles, cost benefit analysis, and comparators. Employee benefits – calculation of
incentives, measuring the impact of weak incentives with special emphasis on quantitative
aspects.
Challenges in quantitative HCM
Development of HR dashboard, HR index, internal improvement Monitors and smoke detectors
– Using factor analysis in HR research – problems – HR Audit research – Organization Health
survey.
Books:
1. JAC Fitzeng: The New HR Analytics – Predicting the economic value of your company’s
Human Capital Investments, American Management Association.
2. Bhattacharyya, K D (2012). HR research methods. Oxford University Press. 7th Impression.
3. Becker,B E ., Huafelid,M.A. &Ulrich.D (2001).The HR Scorecard: Linking people, strategy,
and performance. Harvard Business Review Press.
Title of Course COST ACCOUNTING
Maximum Marks 100

Activity-Based Management [ABM]: Concept and Uses; Relationship between Activity – Based
Costing and ABM; Operational ABM and Strategic ABM; Techniques of ABM; Implementation
Steps in ABM.
Activity-Based- Budgeting (ABB): ABB and Traditional Budgeting; ABB Process; Capacity
Utilization; Role of ABB in Cost Management.
Kaizen Costing- Meaning; Implementation Steps in Kaizen Costing; Target Costing and Kaizen
Costing; General Kaizen Costing and Item Specific Kaizen Costing; Bench Marking.
Total Quality Management(TQM): Meaning and Characteristics; Types of Quality Costs;

Traditional and Modern View of Quality, Measuring Quality Costs; Reporting Quality Costs;
Success Factors for TQM; Implementing TQM; Quality Cost Information and Managerial
Decision Making.
Inventory Management, EOQ, Minimum level and safety stock, Reordering level, Maximum
level, Cross Docking and Collaborative Planning, Bull Whip Effect.
References-
1. Edward J. Blocher, Kung H. Chen, Gary Cokins and Thomas W. Lin, Cost Management: A
Strategic Emphasis, McGraw Hill Education (India) Ltd.
2. Don R – Hansen and Maryanne M. Mowen, Cost Management, Accounting and Control,
Cengage
Learning (India) Ltd.
3. Ronald W. Hilton, Michael W. Maher and Frank A. Selto, Cost Management: Strategies for
Business Decisions, McGraw Hill Irwin.
4. Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper, Cost and Effect, Harvard Business School Press.
5. John K. Shank and Vijay Govindarajan, Strategic Cost Management, The Free Press.
6. Leslie G. Eldenburg and Susan K. Wolcott, Cost Management, John Wiley and Sons.
Title of Course RETAIL MANAGEMENT
Maximum Marks 100

RetailingConcept, Functions of retailing, Terms & Definition, Retail formats and types, Retailing
Channels, Retail Industry in India, Importance of retailing, changing trends in retailing.Retail
Formats: Corporate chains, Retailer Cooperatives and Voluntary system, Departmental Stores,
Discount Stores, Super Markets, and Warehouse Clubs.
Market Segmentation and its benefits, Kinds of markets, Definition of Retail strategy, Strategy
for effective market segmentation, Strategies for penetration of new markets, Growth strategies,
Retail value chain
Importance of Retail locations, Types of retail locations, Factors determining the location
decision, Steps involved in choosing a retail locations, Measurement of success of location
Meaning of Merchandising, Factors influencing Merchandising, Functions of Merchandising

Manager, Merchandise planning, Merchandise buying, Analysing Merchandise performance
Store administration, Premises management, Inventory Management, Store Management,

Receipt Management, Customer service, Retail Pricing, Factors influencing retail prices
References-
Dravid Gilbert- Retail Marketing
SwapanaPradhan- Retailing Management
Barry Berman, Joel R Evans- Retail Management; A Strategic Approach
A. J. Lamba- The Art of Retailing
Title of Course FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction to Financial Management
Introduction – Meaning of Finance – Business Finance – Finance Function – Aims of Finance
Function – Organization structure of finance - Financial Management – Goals of Financial
Management – Financial Decisions – Role of a Financial Manager – Financial Planning – Steps
in Financial Planning – Principles of a Sound Financial Planning.
Time Value Of Money
Introduction – Meaning & Definition – Need – Future Value , Present Value ,Concept of
Valuation – Valuation of Bonds & Debentures – Preference Shares – Equity Shares – Problems.
Financing Decision and Investment Decision
Introduction – Meaning of Capital Structure – Factors influencing Capital Structure – Optimum
Capital Structure – EBIT – EBT – EPS – Analysis – Leverages – Types of Leverages – Simple
Problems. Investment Decisions: Introduction – Meaning and Definition of Capital Budgeting –
Features – Significance – Process – Techniques – Payback Period – Accounting Rate of Return –
Net Present Value – Internal Rate of Return – Profitability Index - Simple Problems.
Dividend Decision
Introduction – Meaning and Definition – Determinants of Dividend Policy – Types of Dividends
– Provisions under Companies Act in relation to dividends.
Working Capital Management

Introduction – Concept of Working Capital – Significance of Adequate Working Capital – Evils
of Excess or Inadequate Working Capital – Determinants of Working Capital – Sources of
Working Capital –Cash Management – Receivables Management – Inventory Management.
REFERENCES:
1. Khan and Jain, Financial Management, Tata McGraw Hill.
2. Prasanna Chandra, Financial Management, Tata McGraw Hill.
3. S N Maheshwari, Financial Management., Sultan Chand.
4. Shashi K Gupta, Kalyani Publishers.
Title of Course FINANCIAL MARKETS & INTERMEDIARIES
Maximum Marks 100

The Nature And Role Of Financial System

Indian financial system — Introduction – Meaning – Classification of Financial System. Structure
of a Financial System, Functions of Financial System.
Financial Markets
Financial Markets – Functions and Significance of Primary Market, Secondary Market, Capital
Market, & Money Market. OTC markets – Regulations – underwriting – Call Money Market –
Treasury Bills Market – Commercial Bills Market – Markets for Commercial Paper and Certificate
of Deposits – The Discount Market – Government (Gilt-edge) Securities Market. Financial System
and Economic Development SEBI – Financial sector reforms – Reserve Bank of India –
Organization and Management – Role and Functions – Monetary Policy of the RHI – Recent
Policy Developments.
Banks & Institutions
Banks – Operations & Special Role of Banks – Specialized Financial Institutions – EXIM,
NABARD, HUDCO, SIDBI, IFCI – Universal Banking & Innovations – Securitization – RTGS
& ECS. Co-operative Banks – Features, Types, Structure and Growth, Small Savings and
Provident Funds – Provident Funds – Pension Funds – Life insurance Companies – General
Insurance Corporation.
Non-Banking Finance Companies
NBFCs – An Overview – Loan Companies – Investment Companies – Leasing & Hire Purchase –
Housing Finance – Chit Funds – Mutual Benefit Financial Companies – Venture Capital Funds –
Factors & Forfeiting – Credit Rating Services.
Mutual Funds
Organization – Types of Funds – Valuation of Units – Structure and Size Investment Pattern –
Return on Investment in Units – Regulations.
Financial Services: Meaning & Definition – Features – Importance. Types of Financial Services –
Depository System: Objectives, activities, interacting systems, role of depositories and their
services, Advantages of depository system – NSDL and CDSL. The process of clearing and
settlement through Depositories, Depository Participants.
REFERENCES:
1. Miles Livingston, Financial Intermediaries, Blackwell Publishing.
2. SudhindraBhat, Financial Institutes and Markets, Excel Books.
3. Avadhani, Marketing of Financial Services, HPH.
4. NitiBhasin, Banking and Financial Markets in India 1947 To 2007, New Century.
5. Sahadeven&Thiripalraju, Mutual Funds: Data, Interpretation & Analysis, PHI.
Title of Course EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AND ENGAGEMENT
Maximum Marks 100

Basic motivation concepts

Meaning & Definition – Types of motivation – 3 Cs of work motivation framework: content,
context, and change – Process of motivation – Measurement and analysis of motivation– Employee
motivation theories (content and process) – Contemporary issues.
Designing motivating jobs

Job Design Principles – Job simplification – Industrial Engineering – Scientific Management –
Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) Exercise on the use of the Job Diagnostic Survey – Multi-Method
Job Design Questionnaire – Job enrichment and the Job Characteristics Model – Interdisciplinary
Model approach to job design.
Leadership processes and work motivation

Leadership: Meaning & definition – styles (traditional and modern) – traits of a leader – leadership
theories – behavioural and situational –Leadership in organizations – Change Processes in
organizations – Leadership Role in Change Processes – Multicultural leadership, Emerging
approaches to leadership – Cross-cultural leadership issues – Indian perspective on leadership –
Diversity issues in leadership.
Work motivation: Approaches to work motivation – Working conditions (a) Physical
(illumination, noise, colour, temperature, humidity and pollution). (b) Temporal (work schedule,
shift work and rest period). (c) Psychological (boredom, fatigue and monotony) condition at work.
Accident prevention.
Work engagement & Job crafting

Work engagement: Meaning & definition, drivers and model – Work Engagement, Job
Engagement and Organisational
Engagement – Gender Issues in Engagement – Creating and Executing an Engagement
Campaign – Burnout and Disengagement - Engagement and Attrition. Principles of participation
– Critical work design decisions – Principles of reengineering – TQM or Self-Directed Work
Teams.
Job crafting: Meaning – types – methods – intervention strategies – link to productivity.
Workplace Transformations and Work Teams
Information technology and new forms of work – Realigning HR systems – Designing jobs for
groups – Self-managed work teams and virtual teams –Determinants of team effectiveness –
Conditions for effective teams. Designing space for teams – Impact of telecommunications –
Managing the virtual Workplace.
REFERENCES:
1. K.Ashwathappa, Organizational behavior, HPH.
2. Bennis W, On becoming a leader: The leadership classic. Philadelphia: Basic Book.
3. Reeve J, Understanding Motivation and Emotion, Wiley.
4. Aamodt M G, Industrial and organizational psychology: An applied approach. US: Thomson
& Wadsworth.
5. Ilgen D R Hollenbeck J R, The structure of work: Job design and roles.
Title of Course CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
Maximum Marks 100

Introduction
MeaningandDefinition,Scope,FactorsInfluencingConsumerBehavior,TheoriesofConsumerBehavi
orPsychologyofConsumer.OnlineConsumerBehavior,OrganizationalBuyingBehavior. Consumer
research.
Determinants of consumer behavior

Individualdeterminantsofconsumerbehavior–
consumerneeds,perception,learning,Motivationasapsychologicalforce,TypesofNeeds,beliefs,valu
es.ConsumerAttitudes,PersonalityandLifestyle–VALS–FunctionsofAttitudes.
Environmental influences
Environmentalinfluencesonconsumerbehavior-
family,culture,subculture,group,andreferencegroups-socialclass.
Consumer decision making process

Problemrecognition;Search&Evaluation;Purchaseprocess;Post-
purchasebehavior.Consumerbehaviormodels–
consumerresearch.ConsumerSatisfaction&dissatisfaction. Consumer gifting behavior. E-
commerce& its impact on global consumer behaviour.
Legal aspects
Consumer protection Act 1986, Consumerism-Reasons for growth of consumerism in
India.Understanding Indian Consumer- Factors that have influenced Indian consumer buying
behavior. Legal and ethical issues in consumer behaviour. Current trends in consumer behaviour
- research articles.
REFERENCES:
LeonGSchiffman&LeslieLazerKanuk,Consumerbehavior,PHI,NewDelhi.
Suja.R.Nair,ConsumerbehaviourinIndianperspective,HimalayaPublishingHouse,Mumbai.
David.L.Loudon&AlbertJ.Bitta,ConsumerBehaviour,McgrawHillInc.NewDelhi.
AssaelHenry,Consumerbehaviourandmarketingaction;AsianBooks(P)Ltd,ThomsonLearni
ng.
Title of Course BRAND MANAGEMENT
Maximum Marks 100

An Overview - Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning , Introduction to branding and Concept

of the brand, Strategic brand management process, Brand Elements.
Identifying and establishing brand positioning; Brand building, Branding strategies; Brand
extension.
Brand equity, David AAker’s Concept of Brand Equity , Customer-Based Brand Equity
(CBBE), Brand Identity, Brand personality, Brand image, Integrating advertising and brand
management
The Young and Rubicam (Y&R) Power Grid, Measuring Brand Equity, Repositioning the Brand
Brand Architecture, Designing and Implementing Branding Architecture Strategies
References-
1. Aaker, Myers &Batra : Advertising Management , Prentice Hall.
2. Wells,Moriarity&Burnett : Advertising Principles & practices , Prentice Hall.
3. Kleppner‘sAdvertising Procedure:W.Ronald Lane, kaneWhitehill king and J. Thomas Russell,
Pearson Education.
4. George E.Belch& Michael A. Balch : Advertising and Promotion, TMH
5. S.H.H Kazmi and SatishK.Batra : Advertising and sales promotion, Excel books
6. Cowley. D: Understanding Brands, , Kogan Page Ltd
7. Jean Noel Kampferer: Strategic Brand Management, Kapferer Free Press
Title of Course PHYTOCHEMISTRY AND TOXINOLOGY
Maximum Marks 100

Definition, history, scope and development of phytochemistry. Historical perspectives of herbal

medicine: local, national and global level.
Phytochemical extraction techniques: Introduction, definition, factors influencing the choice of

extraction, principles of extraction methods, types of extraction (Cold and hot extraction methods,
liquid-liquid extraction techniques, liquid-carbon dioxide extraction, concentration and
evaporation techniques, lyophilisation; TLC, preparative TLC, PC, column chromatography, gel-
chromatography, affinity chromatography, ion-exchange chromatography, GLC, HPLC, HPTLC)
and their demerits.
Plant secondary metabolites: Introduction, Classification and functions in plant defence
(Steroids, terpenoids, alkaloids, flavonoids, polyphenols, anthocyanidin, saponins). An overview
of primary metabolism contribution to secondary metabolite biosynthesis; important routes
(pathways) of biosynthesis- phenyl propanoid pathway; Mevalonate pathway; Acetate-mevalonate
pathway.
Techniques for quantitative and structural analysis of secondary metabolites: UV/Visible,

IR, 1H and 13 C NMR, 2D NMR and MS. Mass spectroscopy in structural elucidation of natural
products. Colorimetric analysis of extracts; finger printing of extracts and estimation of bioactive
molecules
Toxins: History, Types (microbial, myotoxins, algal, plant and animal toxins). Adsorption and
distribution of toxicants (Mechanisms of Transport, Physicochemical Properties Relevant to
Diffusion, Routes of Absorption, Toxicant Distribution and Toxicokinetics). Dose response
curves, IC50, LD50, ED50. Metabolism of Toxicants: Phase I Reactions, Phase II Reactions.
Botulinum toxin (BTX), tetanus and Diphtheria toxin – mechanism of action, Snake venom toxin
– composition, mechanism of action of important venom enzymes - protease, phospholipase A2,
hyaluronidase, acetylcholine esterase, nucleotidase, L- aminooxidase and phosphodiesterase.
Classification of snake venom based on mechanism of action - neurotoxic, hemotoxic, cardiotoxic,
cytotoxicity and mytoxic with an example. Antisnake venom – synthesis/ production, storage,
mode of administration. Disadvantages of ASV.
REFERENCE:
 Braithwaite, A. and Smith, F.J. 1996. Chromatographic Methods (5th ed) Blackie
Academic & Professional London.
Redwood City, USA.
 Casarett & Doull’s. Toxicology, The Basic Science of Poisons. 8th edition. UK.
 Ernest Hodgson. 2004. A textbook of Modern Toxicology. Third edition. A John Wiley &
sons, Inc., Publication, New Jersey.
 Krishna Gopla and Arjun Agarwal. 2010. Principles of Toxicology. India.

Title of Course MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
Maximum Marks 100

UNIT – I: Introduction
Objectives of Organizations, Business Decision Making, Production Possibility Curve,
Opportunity Cost, Marginal Analysis, Economy and Diseconomy of scale.
Stake holder’s welfare maximization
UNIT – II: Demand and Supply

Demand Function, Law of Demand, Demand Shift, Elasticity of Demand, Demand Forecasting,
Supply Function, Law of Supply, Supply Shift, Equilibrium price determination.
Barometric Indicators
UNIT – III: Market Structure

Market Structure, Perfect Competition, Monopoly, Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly,
Non-price competition
UNIT – IV: National Income

Circular flow of Income and Expenditure, Measurement of National Income, GNP, GDP, Gross
Value Added, Per-Capita Income, Alternate approaches to Measurement of Well-being, Fiscal and
Monetary policy.
Gini co-efficient
UNIT – V: Economic Indicators

Price Indices, Inflation, Employment Rate, Prices and Wages, Deflation, Business Cycle and
Stabilization Policies, Limitations and Effectiveness of monetary and Fiscal policies, Budget.
Balance of Payments, Introduction to International trade.
Economical aspects of Taxation
References:
1. Geetika, Piyali Ghosh and Purba Roy Choudhary “Mangerial Economics”, New Delhi,
Tata McGraw Hill.
2. Samuelson and Nordhaus, “Economics”, New Delhi, Tata McGraw Hill.
3. U.N.Dwivedi, “Macro Economics Theory and Policy”, New Delhi, Tata McGraw Hill.
4. Richard G Lipsey and K.Alex Chrystal, “Economics”, New Delhi, Oxford.
5. Mankiw, “Principles of Economics”, New Delhi, Thomson Learning.
Title of Course BANKING PRACTICES & REGULATION
Maximum Marks 100

Unit 1: Introduction to Banking

Types & Functions of banks. Role of Commercial Banks & Functions of Commercial Banks.
Investment Policy of Commercial Banks, Profitability of Commercial Banks. Regulation and
Control of Commercial Banks by RBI. Indian Banking: RBI, NPA, Credit Control methods.
Nationalization of Banks, Banking industry after 1991. Banks in India.
Unit 2: Banks & customer
Types of Customers and Account holders: Procedure and Practice in opening and conducting the
accounts of customers particularly individuals including minors – Joint Account Holders.
Proprietorship, Partnership Firms & Limited companies. Personal Banking and Financial
prudence.
Unit 3: Paying Banker
Meaning – Precautions – Statutory Protection to the Paying Banker – Dishonor of Cheques –
Grounds of Dishonor – Consequences of wrongful dishonor of Cheques.Collecting Banker –
Meaning – Duties & Responsibilities of Collecting Banker – Statutory Protection to Collecting
Banker.
Unit 4: Negotiable Instruments
Kinds of Negotiable Instruments (Meanings only) – Cheques – Meaning & Definition – Features
- Parties – Crossing of Cheques – types of crossing. Endorsements – Meaning – Essentials – Kinds
of Endorsement.
Unit 5: Principles of bank lending
Types of borrowing facilities given by banks - Loans, Cash Credit, Overdraft, Bills Purchased,
Bills Discounted, Letters of Credit - Types of Securities – NPA (Meaning only). Bank Lending
principles.
Reference Books:
1. Gordon & Natrajan: Banking Theory Law and Practice, HPH.
2. Maheshwari. S.N.: Banking Law and Practice, Kalyani Publishers.
3. Gagendra Naidu, S. K. Poddar, Law and Practice of Banking, VBH.
4. M. Prakash – Banking Regulation & Operations, VBH.
5. Tannan M.L: Banking Law and Practice in India, Wadhwa and company
6. P.SubbaRao: Bank Management, HPH.
7. Herbert Percival Sheldon, Peter J. Fidler, Herbert B. Sheldon, Sheldon’s Practice and Law
of Banking.
8. Mac Donald and Evans, V. Iyengar; Introduction to Banking, Excel Books.
9. Kothari N. M: Law and Practice of Banking.
10. Shekar. K.C: Banking Theory Law and Practice, VBH.
11. Banking Theory - Law & Practice by S Gurusamy.
Title of Course PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT & SECURITY ANALYSIS
Maximum Marks 100

Unit 1 Investment Setting

Financial and economic meaning of Investment – Characteristics and objectives of
Investment – Types of Investment – Investment alternatives – Choice and Evaluation –
Risk and return concepts.
Unit 2 Securities Markets
Financial Market – Segments – Types of participants in financial Market– Regulatory
Environment, Primary Market – Methods of floating new issues, Book building – Role of
primary market – Regulation of primary market, Stock exchanges in India – BSE, OTCEI ,
NSE, ISE, and Regulations of stock exchanges – Trading system in stock exchanges –SEBI.
Unit 3 Fundamental Analysis
Economic Analysis – Economic forecasting and stock Investment Decisions – Forecasting
techniques. Industry Analysis: Industry classification, Industry life cycle – Company
Analysis Measuring Earnings – Forecasting Earnings – Applied Valuation Techniques –
Graham and Dodds investor ratios.
Unit 4 Technical Analysis
Fundamental Analysis Vs Technical Analysis – Charting methods – Market Indicators.
Trend – Trend reversals – Patterns – Moving Average – Exponential moving Average –
Oscillators – Market Indicators – Efficient Market theory.
Unit 5 Portfolio Management
Portfolio analysis –Portfolio Selection –Capital Asset Pricing model– Portfolio Revision
Portfolio Evaluation – Mutual Funds.
References:
1. Donald E Fischer & Ronald J Jordan, Security Analysis & Portfolio Management, PHI
Learning, New Delhi.
2. Prasanna Chandra, Investment analysis and Portfolio Management, Tata McGraw Hill.
3. Reilly & Brown, Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, CengageLearning.
4. S Kevin, Securities Analysis and Portfolio Management, PHI Learning.
5. Bodi, Kane, Markus, Mohanty, Investments, Tata McGraw Hill.
6. V AAvadhani, Securities Analysis and Portfolio Management, Himalaya Publishing
House.
7. V.K Bhalla, Investment Management, S.Chand& Company Ltd.
8. PunithavathyPandian, Security Analysis & Portfolio Management.
Title of Course INDIRECT TAXES
Maximum Marks 100

Module 1:
Meaning of Indirect Taxes, Types of Indirect Taxes , Earlier Taxes and Existing Taxes
Module 2:
GST- Overview of GST, Need and Benefits of GST, Taxes to be subsumed in GST, Dual GST
Model, Goods and Services Network, Important Definitions under GST, GST rates,
IGST/CGST/SGST, Negative List, Charge of Tax, Composition Scheme under GST, Input Tax
Credit, Reverse Charge
Module 3:
Practical application of GST on Inter State and Intra State sales, Composite and Mixed Supplies,
Input tax credit for Closing stock as on 30.06.2017, Impact of GST on various Sectors, E-way
Bills
Module 4:
Electronic Commerce, Assessment, Audit, Demands & Recovery, Offences and Penalties, Appeals
and Revision, GST returns, Accounting Entries in GST, Impact of GST on Financials
Module 5:
GST and Customs Duty, Customs Act, 1962 and the related Rules, Circulars and Notifications;
Customs Tariff Act, 1975 and the related Rules.
Text & Reference Books:
1. VS Datey, Indirect Taxes, Taxmann, recent edition.

Title of Course COST ACCOUNTING
Maximum Marks 100

Unit 1: Introduction
Cost accounting- meaning and scope- objective- advantage of cost accounting- cost concept - cost
center- cost unit- classification and element of cost- costing method and technique- activity based
costing- target costing [Theory]. Preparation of cost sheet.
Unit 2: Material Control
Meaning of material control- steps in material control-need-objective of material control- issue of
material- methods of pricing material issues [FIFO- LIFO- Simple and weighted average methods
only]. Minimum level - maximum level- re-order level – EOQ - ABC analysis, VED analysis.
Unit 3: Labour Control
Meaning of Labour cost, Types, Direct Labour, Indirect Labour, Idle Time, Overtime, Labour Turn
Over. Methods of remunerating labour, Time rate and Piece rate systems - Halsey & Rowan
premium plans.
Unit 4: Overheads Control
Meaning and classification of overhead costs- allocation of overhead expenses- appointment of
overhead expenses- basis of appointment- primary and secondary distributions [Repeated &
simultaneous equation method only] Absorption of Overheads – Machine Hour rate only.
Unit 5: Reconciliation of Cost and Financial Accounts
Meaning, reasons for differences, practical problems.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Jain and Narang; Cost Accounting, Kalyani Publishers.
2. Maheshwari, S. N. and S. N. Mittal: Cost Accounting – Theory and Problems, Shri
Mahavir Book Depot, New Delhi.
3. M. N. Arora: Cost Accounting, HPH.
Title of Course MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Maximum Marks 100

Unit – I: Introduction
Marketing – Marketing Management - Core Concepts – Marketing of Services – Philosophies
of Marketing Management – The Marketing Environment.
Unit–II: Segmentation & Customer Behavior
Market Segmentation Levels – Importance – Procedures – Bases for Segmentation – Targeting
Strategies – Positioning: Differentiation Strategies – Positioning Strategies – Individual Buyer
Behaviour : Model – Buying Decision Process – Buying Roles – Buying Influences –
Organizational Buyer Behaviour : Process – Major Influences, Methods to understand
customers and identify problems, designing research methodology, analysis and interpreting
results.
Unit –III: Marketing Mix-Product & Promotion
Product Classification – Product Levels – Product Hierarchy – New Product Development :
Process – Adoption Process – Product Life Cycle – Branding Brand Name Decision – Brand
Strategy Decision, Marketing Communication, Process – Developing Effective
Communication : Process – Developing Effective Communications – Advertising –
Developing effective advertising programs – Forms of Advertising – Appeals – Sales
Promotion.
Unit–IV: Marketing Mix-Price & Place
Pricing methods – Initiating Price Changes – Responding to Price Changes, Marketing
Channels, Channel Functions – Channel Levels – Channel Design Decisions – Channel
Management,
Unit –V: Marketing Mix-–People, Process & Physical Evidence
Importance of people and role of people in marketing – concept and types of processes – role
of processes in marketing – concept of physical evidence – importance – types of physical
evidence.
References :
1. Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Kellar, Abraham Koshy and Mithileswar Jha, “Marketing
Management – A South Asian Perspective”, Noida, Pearson, 2009
2. Zikmund D Amico, “Marketing” New Delhi, Thomson South Western, 2009.
3. V.S.Ramaswamy and S.Namakumari, “Marketing Management Planning Implementation
and Control – The Indian context”, Noida, Macmillan India, 2010.
4. O’Guinn, Allen and Semenik, “Advertising and Brand Promotion”, New Delhi, Thomson
South Western, 2011.

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PH.D COURSE WORK SYLLABUS

Note : (i) Eight (8) questions to be set covering entire Syllabus

Note : (i) Eight (8) questions to be set covering entire Syllabus

High-Performance Computing - Parallel Computing - Distributed Computing - Cluster

CLOUD SERVICE MODELS

Infrastructure as a Service, Characteristics of IaaS.Suitability of IaaS, Pros and Cons of IaaS,

Note : (i) Eight (8) questions to be set covering entire Syllabus

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Necessity of Artificial Intelligence in the field of Education,

Note : (i) Eight (8) questions to be set covering entire Syllabus

Note : (i) Eight (8) questions to be set covering entire Syllabus

Introduction to Robotic Process Automation, Automation of Automation, From Transactional to

Note : (i) Eight (8) questions to be set covering entire Syllabus

INTRODUCTION AND NUMBER THEORY: Classic Cipher Techniques – Substitution Ciphers,

Theorem and Euler’s Theorem- Exponentiation.

MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION, DIGITAL SIGNATURES AND CERTIFICATES :

TRUSTED IDENTITY AND WIRELESS SECURITY :Security Concerns – Password System:

Note : (i) Eight (8) questions to be set covering entire Syllabus

Introduction, Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Computing: Application Paradigms.

Cloud Resource Virtualization.

Cloud Resource Management and Scheduling.

Cloud Security, Cloud Application Development.

Note : (i) Eight (8) questions to be set covering entire Syllabus

Data warehouse: Introduction to Data warehouse, Difference between operational

Introduction to Data Mining: Introduction, What is Data Mining, Definition, KDD,

Classification: Problem Definition, General Approaches to solving classification

Clustering: Problem Definition, Clustering Overview, Evaluation of Clustering

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Artificial Neural Network: Historic evolution – Perceptron, characteristics of neural networks

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Digital image fundamentals: Image digitization, sampling and quantization, neighbour of

Image enhancement fundamentals: Spatial domain method, frequency domain method,

Image restoration fundamentals: Degradation model, discrete formulation, algebraic approach

Image compression and segmentation fundamentals: Fidelity criteria, image compression

Algorithms used in medical image processing: Brief of reconstruction techniques – algebraic,

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INTRODUCTION : System Concepts – Software Engineering Concepts - Software Life Cycle–

Classification-Alternative techniques: Rule-Based Classifier, Nearest-Neighbor Classifiers,

Cluster Analysis- Basic Concepts and Algorithms: Overview, k-means, Agglomerative

Cluster Analysis-Additional Issues and Algorithms: Characteristics of Data, Clusters, and

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Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Image enhancement in spatial domain

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PARTITIONING AND SCHEDULING

PIPELINING AND SUPERSCALAR TECHNOLOGIES

SOFTWARE AND PARALLEL PROGRAMMING

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FUNDAMENTALS OF IMAGE PROCESSING

Detection of Discontinuities – Edge Operators – Edge Linking and Boundary Detection –

MULTI RESOLUTION ANALYSIS AND COMPRESSIONS

Multi Resolution Analysis : Image Pyramids – Multi resolution expansion – Wavelet

APPLICATIONS OF IMAGE PROCESSING

Image Classification – Image Recognition – Image Understanding – Video Motion Analysis –

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Introduction: The vision of Ambient Intelligence., Application examples, Types of

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