Concepts of stress and strain, state of stress in two and three dimensions, Hydrostatic and deviatoric stress, flow curves, yielding criteria, octahedral shear stress and shear strain, stress invariants, Plastic stress - strain relations, Friction in metal forming, Fundamentals of metal working - Extrusion, rolling, wire drawing, Forging, Solutions to metal forming problems Advanced deformation processes- Single point incremental forming, ring rolling, Roll bending, High energy rate forming processes etc. Deformation processes for launch vehicle and space applications

Exercises in Traditional/Non-traditional machining and Abrasive processes - CNC /CAM Practice – Familiarization of FMS - Manufacturing Simulation practices / Virtual manufacturing

Basics of shop floor metrology practices and instruments – Surface metrology- Discussions on dimensional/geometric tolerances, fits and Design for manufacturing /assembly Demonstrations/ Practical sessions at ISRO centres

Introduction to manufacturing planning and control (MPC)- Types and characteristics of manufacturing systems – Operations planning and productivity–– Product development and design - Forecasting - Process planning - Capacity planning – Facility location and layout - Aggregate planning -Master production schedule - materials requirement planning (MRP) and MRP-II –Scheduling in manufacturing systems - Assembly line balancing - Inventory planning and control - Quality management and control – Enterprise resource planning - JIT and lean systems – Introduction to industry 4.0 –Role of Artificial

Material Removal Processes –Tool based and Non-traditional techniques- Mechanics and thermo-mechanical aspects of Machining- Modelling aspects to understand the role of process variables in subtractive manufacturing - Abrasive processing for surface finishing and surface integrity control- Machinability of Engineering Materials- Selection of subtractive manufacturing processes and strategies- Cutting Tools, Machine tools and their selection- Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining technology- Basics of CNC programming- Machining for Aerospace/ Space applications

Review of crystal structures and miller indices & planes, crystal defects, formation of grains and grain boundaries from melt. Light metals and its alloys – Aluminium and its alloys – Temper designation, strengthening mechanisms, precipitation hardening, Al-Li alloys, Applications, Magnesium and its alloys, Titanium and its alloys - α, β, α - β  alloys, processing & applications Certification of materials in relevance to aerospace and special processes.

Review of Ordinary Differential Equations: analytical methods, stability – Fourier series, orthogonal functions, Fourier integrals, Fourier transform – Partial Differential Equations: first-order PDEs, method of characteristics, linear advection equation, Burgers’ equation, shock formation, Rankine-Hogoniot jump condition; classification, canonical forms; Laplace equation, min- max principle, cylindrical coordinates; heat equation, method of separation of variables, similar- ity transformation method; wave equation, d’Alembert solution – Calculus of Variations: standard variational problems

Analysis of LTI system: Phase and Magnitude response of the system, Minimum phase, maximum phase, Allpass. MultiMate Signal Processing: Interpolation, Decimation, sampling rate conversion, Filter bank design, Poly phase structures. Time-frequency representation; frequency scale and resolution; uncertainty principle, short-time Fourier transform. Multi-resolution concept and analysis, Wavelet transform (CWT, DWT). Optimum Linear Filters: Innovations Representation of a Stationary Random Process, Forward and Backward linear prediction, Solution of the Normal Equations.

Wireless Communications and Diversity: Introduction to Wireless Channel and Fading - Rayleigh/Rician Fading, Broadband Wireless Channel Modeling: Introduction to LTV Systems, Channel Delay Spread, Coherence Bandwidth, BER Comparison of Wired and Wireless Communication Systems. Introduction to Diversity, Multi-antenna Maximal Ratio Combiner, BER with Diversity, Spatial Diversity and Diversity Order. ISI and Doppler in Wireless Communications, Doppler Spectrum and Jakes Model. Spread spectrum: PN Sequences, DSSS with BPSK, Signal space dimensionality and processing gain, Frequency-Hop SS.