Personnel Management: Introduction – changing role of personnel manager – new people management – manpower planning – recruitment and selection – performance appraisal – workers participation in management – grievance handling.

Industrial Management: Management Functions – organization – principles of planning – management by objectives – organization structures – principles of organizing – span of control – delegation, leadership, directing, and controlling.

Signal space concepts: Geometric structure of the signal space, vector representation, distance, norm and inner product, orthogonality, Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization procedure.

Matched filter receiver, Inter symbol interference, Pulse Shaping, Nyquist criterion for zero ISI, Signaling with duobinary pulses, Eye diagram, Equalizer, Scrambling and descrambling.

Atmospheric Science:
General introduction – Structure of the Atmosphere, Composition of Atmosphere.

Radiative processes – Black body radiation – Scattering & Absorption – Greenhouse effect.

Hydrostatic equation – First Law of Thermodynamics – Adiabatic processes – Dry & Moist air – Virtual temperature – Convection.

Clouds – Growth of clouds droplets to rain.

Frames of references – Fundamental forces – Equations governing conservation of mass, momentum, energy – Coriolis force.

Structural components of aircraft, loads and material selection – introduction to Kirchhoff’s theory of thin plates: bending and buckling of thin plates – unsymmetric bending of beams – bending of open and closed thin walled beams: shear of and torsion of thin walled beams – combined open and closed section beams – structural idealization – introduction to composite materials.

Introduction to combustion and flames – introduction to air breathing propulsion systems – engine thrust and performance parameters – aircraft engine types – ideal and real gas turbine cycle analysis – performance measures – engine-aircraft matching – aerothermodynamics of inlets, nozzles, combustion chambers and after burners – basics of turbomachinery – compressor and turbine blade flow path analysis (axial and centrifugal types) – engine component matching and off-design analysis – ram jets – hypersonic air-breathing engines.

Exercises to study the fundamental aspects of machining operations applied in typical engineer- ing/aerospace applications.

Practices in traditional metal cutting operations – CNC simulation training – CNC machine tool exercises – grinding exercises and related analysis – exercises in non-traditional machining.

Metal forming practice: welding exercises and metallurgical analysis/ NDT of weld joints.Understanding the basics of cutting force/ cutting temperature measurement – flexible manufacturing system – machining centre and additive manufacturing.

Sky coordinates and motions: Earth Rotation – Sky coordinates – seasons – phases of the Moon – the Moon's orbit and eclipses – timekeeping (sidereal vs synodic period).

Planetary motions – Kepler's Laws – Gravity. Light & Energy – Telescopes – Optics – Detectors.

Planets: Formation of Solar System – planet types – planet atmospheres – extrasolar planets.

Stars: Measuring stellar characteristics (temperature, distance, luminosity, mass, size) – HR diagram – stellar structure (equilibrium, nuclear reactions, energy transport) – stellar evolution.

Bonding in Condensed matter Physics: Forces and energy of interatomic bonding, Primary bonds: Covalent bonds, Ionic bonds, Metallic bonds etc. Secondary bonds: Van der Waals bonds, Hydrogen bonds etc.

Crystal structure: Bravais lattice, primitive vectors, primitive unit cell, conventional unit cell, Wigner-Seitz cell; Symmetry operations and classification of 2- and 3-dimensional Bravais lattices; Common crystal structures; Reciprocal lattice and Brillouin zone; Bragg-Laue formulation of X-ray diffraction by a crystal.

Classical scaling in CMOS, Moore’s Law, Clean room concept, Material properties, crystal structure, lattice, characterization of material based on band diagram and bonding, conductivity, resistivity, sheet resistance, phase diagram and solid solubility.

Growth of single crystal Si, Wafer Cleaning and etching-Wet etch, Dry etch, Plasma etching, RIE etching, etch selectivity/selective etch, Lithography (Photolithography, EUV lithography, X-ray lithography, e-beam lithography etc.) Next generation technologies: Immersion lithography, Phase shift mask, ion lithography, SCALPEL.

Introduction to Computer Networks: Network Topology, Layered Protocol Stack, Point-to-point and broadcast communications, LAN, WAN, MAN, and the Internet.

Delay analysis in circuit switching, message switching, and packet switching. Queuing models.

Application Layer Protocols: Domain Name System, Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), SMTP/E-mail Applications, Voice over IP, and P2P protocols.