Courses Offered By IIT Gandhinagar

Will you give me list of Courses Offered By IIT Gandhinagar as I am looking for the same ?

[Quick Sam]

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar is an institute of national importance by offers undergraduate engineering education in India with innovative curriculum.

As you want I am here giving the list of courses offered by the IIT Gandhinagar.
List of courses offered:
Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering

Science
Chemistry
Mathematics
Physics
Cognitive Science
Earth Sciences
Humanities and Social Sciences
Course of Study
HS 103 : French Studies (3 – 0 – 0 – 4)
This course is meant for beginner level students. At the end of the course the students will be capable to communicate effectively. The course will combine elements of language, cross cultural competences and French literature and culture. Through a theme (“telling who you are and where you are form”), a topic is defined for each lessons (“Places names, counting, asking questions, pointing things out”). The objectives for each lesson will combine four domains: expressions, new vocabulary, structures (grammar, syntax) and cultural elements. Several supports are going to be used to reach the lessons objectives: multimedia (audio, video, pictures) and texts, all extract from French culture in order to develop cross cultural competences and to expose the student to meaningful input from the French language.
HS 111 : Urdu script and poetry (3 – 1 – 0 – 8 – 4)
Alphabets and Nuqtas; Alif, AlifMudd, and baigharana; JeemGharana and short vowels; Dal gharana and non conectors; Sen toGhain; Fe to Du chashmi he; Letters and words with du chashmi he; Long vowels; Long vowels and Introduction to Poetry; Markers; Hamzah; How to make plural; Reading & writing Prose and Poetry.
HS 112 : Urdu poetry interpretation (3 – 1 – 0 – 8 – 5)
Structure of various poetic genres such as ghazal, nazm, qasida, marsia, rubaiyat, etc. Examples of each poetic form written by masters such as Meer, Ghalib, UstadZauq , Jigar, Faiz, saHir and others in the context of their background and lives.
HS 113 : French studies : Level 2 (3 – 1 – 0 – 8 – 4)
Contents: At the end of the course the students will be capable to communicate effectively on the following subjects: Talking about personal effects, one’s job, daily routines, telling time and talking about the weather. The course will combine elements of language (vocabulary, structure, listening, pronouncing, speaking, reading, and writing) and cross cultural competences. The students will be exposed to authentic language in spoken and written form.
Methodology: Through activities students will be inspired to use their skills in French language and will improve them by working on several small projects during the class.
FP-101: Introduction to Engineering (0-0-2-1)
Course Contents:
This course will provide a bird’s eye view of all the engineering disciplines to the first year students. In addition to providing information, this course will also open avenues to appreciate and develop engineering aptitude by looking at various real world problems. This course will have invited lectures from eminent academic and industrial personalities, interaction sessions with IITGN faculty members, panel discussions, hands-on activities in laboratories, tours to certain industrial and research facilities, group discussions, etc.
PH 101: Physics (3-1-0-4-8)
Course contents:
Introduction of vector analysis and calculus. Grad, div and curl. Line, surface and volume integrals. Gauss and Stokes’ theorem. Curvilinear co-ordinate system, Dirac delta function. Concept of electric and magnetic fields. Electrostatic potential, Poisson and Laplace’s equation. Multipole expansion. Biot-Savart Law, Ampere and Faraday’s law. Electromagnetic induction. Conservation equation, introduction to Maxwell’s equations. Electromagnetic waves, Waveguides. Stern Gerlach experiment. Limitations of classical concepts. Kets, bras, and operators, Hilbert space, postulates of quantum mechanics, measurements and observables, expectation value, Ehrenfest theorems. Schrodinger equation, position and momentum representation. Wave-function, particle in a box, potential well, tunneling and it’s applications, periodic potential. Electron band structure in solids.
HS 104: Introduction to Sanskrit Language and Literature (3-0-0-4-6)
Course Contents:
This course will take a bird's eye view of Sanskrit literature starting from the Vedas and covering different literary genres, such as kavya, nataka, epic, Purana,niti, etc.It will also give some basic information about scientific and technical literature in Sanskrit;
The Course will commence with explaining the elementary basics of Sanskrit grammar with the help of subhashitas, a repository of knowledge based in experience. Next will follow an analysis of some original Sanskrit passages from various poetic compositions of repute,like Hitopadesha,Panchatantra, and works of Bhasa, Kalidasa,Bhavabhuti,Banabhatta, etc.
ES 102: Introduction to Computing (2-0-2-3-5)
Course Contents:
Basics of Computers, Operating System, Languages, Compilers, Interpreter. A quick introduction to Linux operating system: Terminal, useful commands; Programming Environments: Interactive interpreter, Scripts, IDE; Syntax, identifier, variables, operators. Control flow: conditional, loops. Data types: Numbers, strings, lists/arrays etc. Functions: Scope of variables. Recursions; Modular and Object oriented programming for solving computational problems; Scientific computation: data visualization, curve fitting.
ES 112: Computing (2-0-2-3-5)
Course Contents:
Introduction to computing: architecture, operating systems, compilers. A quick introduction to Linux operating system: Terminal, useful commands; Machine representation of numbers and characters. Basic programming in C: Variable types, operators and expressions, Control flow: conditional statements, iterations, Preprocessor directives, Functions: scope rules, recursions;
Arrays, Pointers, Dynamic Memory allocation and Strings. Input/Output, Detour: data visualization and curve-fitting using Gnuplot. Structures: basics, nested, self-referential. Data structures: stacks, Linked List etc; Using external libraries.
EE 211 : Network Theory (2 – 1 – 0 – 6 – 3)
Introduction – transition from field model to circuit model, assumptions; electrical circuit described in terms of devices and topology, their mutually exclusive nature.
Classification of elements and circuits – lumped/distributed, linear/nonlinear, passive/active, bilateral/non-bilateral; independent voltage and current sources, dependent sources, ideal transformer, gyrator.
Elements of graph theory – graph, sub-graphs, paths, connected graphs, trees, co-trees, twigs, links, loops, cut-sets; incidence matrix A, loop matrix B, cut-set matrix Q, orthogonality and interrelations; independent sets of KCL and KVL equations, Tellegen’s theorem and applications.
Circuit analysis – basis sets of voltage and current variables, sparse tableau analysis, mesh and loop currents, node and cut-set voltages, state variable analysis.
Two-port networks – Description in terms of different sets of parameters and interrelations, interconnection of two-port networks and their applications, introduction to filter design.
EE 221 : Electronic Devices (2 – 1 – 0 – 6 – 3)
Introduction to semiconductors; Energy bands and charge carriers in semiconductors; Introduction to semiconductor equations and carrier statistics, Poisson's and Continuity equations, Fermi-Dirac statistics and Boltzmann approximation to the Fermi-Dirac statistics; Semiconductor diodes; Zener diode; Optoelectronic devices like photodiodes, light emitting diodes and lasers; MOS capacitor; MOS Transistor; Bipolar junction transistors; High frequency and high power devices like Tunnel diode, IMPATT diode, Gunn diode, PNPN diode and the semiconductor controlled rectifier.
ES-212: Momentum, heat and mass transfer (3-1-0-4-8*)
Introduction to fluids, Fluid statics, Description of flows, Reynolds’ transport theorem, Conservation of mass, stream function, Linear Momentum balance, Navier-Stokes’ (NS) equation, Bernoulli equation and applications including flow measurement, Pipe flows and losses in fittings, Similitude and modeling, High Re flow: Prandtl’s approximation, basic inviscid flow, need for boundary layer, Magnus effect, Boundary layers- elementaryresultsfor flat plates, Separation, flow past immersed bodies; Introduction to heat transfer, rate law and conservation law, Conduction equation, Steady state conduction- concept of resistances in series and of critical thickness of insulation, Unsteady conduction: Biot and Fourier numbers, Heissler charts, penetration depth, Convection, energy equation without dissipation and pressure terms, non-dimensionalization, Nusselt number and correlations; Simple ideas of mass transfer, similarity with heat transfer, Use of steady ‘conduction’ concepts to solve simple steady cases in dilute solutions as well as in stationary solids.
ES 232 : Digital Systems and Microprocessors (3 – 1 – 3 – 11 – 5)
Brief review of combinational and sequential circuits; Analysis and design of synchronous sequential machines; Computer aided design and programming of digital circuits using Verilog hardware description language; FPGA; Microprocessor or Microcontroller: architecture, instruction set, programming, input-output interfacing, interrupts.
PH 201 : Modern Physics and Quantum Mechanics (3 – 1 – 0 – 8 – 4)
Particle-wave duality, both concerning optics and matter: A revolution; Wave description of particle’s motion: Towards Schrödinger’s equation; Simple applications of wave-mechanics; From wave to quantum mechanics; Postulates of quantum mechanics; Harmonic oscillator; Hydrogen atom, and beyond;Approximate methods for describing complex stationary state problems: the key to innovation; Theory and applications of angular momentum;Symmetry and conservation laws in classical and quantum mechanics. Identical particles; Applications.
HS 201 : World Civilizations and Cultures (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Comprehensive overview of several important civilizational developments in the history of the world. The course will focus on how multiple cultures from around the globe have developed varying scientific, artistic and philosophical modes of knowledge in their pursuit to understand the human condition, society and the world at large. Civilizations to be covered in class include, but are not limited to, the Indus, Vedic, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Han, Mayan, Aztec, Greek and Roman. Emphasis will be placed on the advancement and transmission of scientific knowledge, the implications for cross-cultural interactions, and the plurality of global thought.
ES 211 : Thermodynamics (3 – 1 – 0 – 8 – 4)
Concept of System and Surrounding, Closed/Open Systems, Processes and Cycles; Property of Pure Substances; Property Diagrams, Property Table; Ideal gas law; First Law of Thermodynamics, Work and Heat. Reversible and Irreversible Processes;Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics; Heat Engine, Efficiencies, Carnot Cycle; Entropy change of pure substances, T-s diagram and Relations, Entropy balance for systems; Rankine, Otto, Brayton Cycle; Thermodynamic properties of fluids; Application of thermodynamics to flow processes (turbines, ducts, compressors); Production of power from heat (Steam power plant; Internal Combustion Engines);Refrigeration and Liquefaction.
ES 221 : Mechanics of Solids (3 – 2 – 0 – 5)
Free body diagram, Modeling of supports, Conditions for Equilibrium, Friction Force-deformation relationship and geometric compatibility (for small deformations) with illustrations through simple problems on axially loaded members and thin walled pressure vessels, Axial force, shear force, bending moment, and twisting moment diagrams of slender members, Concept of stress and strain at a point, Transformation of stresses and strain at a point, Principal stresses and strains, Mohr’s circle (only for plane stress and strain case), Displacement field, Strain Rosette, Modeling of problem as a plane stress or plane strain problem, Discussion of experimental results on 1-D material behavior. Concepts of elasticity, plasticity, strain-hardening, failure (fracture/yielding), idealization of 1-D stress-strain curve, Concepts of isotropy, orthotropy, anisotropy, Generalized Hooke’s law, (without and with thermal strains), Notions of elasticity, Torsion of circular shafts and thin-walled tubes, Bending of beams with symmetric cross-section (normaland shear stresses),Combined stresses, Yield criteria, Deflection due to bending, Integration of themoment-curvature relationship for simple boundary conditions, Superpositionprinciple, Concepts of strain energy andcomplementary strain energy for simple structural elements (those under axialload, shear force, bending moment, and torsion), Castigliano’s theorems fordeflection analysis and indeterminate problems, Concept of elastic instability and a brief introduction to column buckling and Euler’s formula.
ES 241 : Data Structures (2 – 1 – 3 – 4)
Arrays, Pointers and Structures, Multidimensional Arrays, Dynamic memory allocation, Quicksort, Mergesort; Stacks, Simulation of Recursive algorithms using stacks; Queues, Priority queues; Linked lists: Singly linked, doubly linked list; Trees. Binary trees, Heaps, Node representation, Tree traversals. Heapsort; Binary search, Binary search trees; Graphs; Adjacency matrix, adjacency list representation, Depth first search, Breadth first search; Projects on Advanced Data Structures; Hash Tables, Red-Black trees, B-trees, Binomial heaps, Fibonacci Heap, Data Structures for Disjoint sets.
ES 231 : Signals and Systems (3 – 1 – 0 – 4)
Motivation and Basic Preliminaries of Signals & Systems – Their manifestations, Prospects of modeling a wide variety of situations in terms of Signals & Systems; Classifications of Signals in Continuous and Discrete cases, Basic Signals-Unit Impulse, Unit Ramp, Exponential (real and complex)functions, Significance of Basic Signals; Basic Operations on signals. Vector-space interpretations in terms of Basic Signals useful for evolving various transforms; Classifications of Systems – Concepts of Linearity, Causality, Stability, Time-invariance, Convolution for CT & DT signals and systems; Necessity of representations of Signals & Systems in Time- and Transformed-domains; Time-domain Analysis of CT & DT dynamic systems represented by Differential & Difference equations; Fourier-domain analysis of CT & DT for Periodic and aperiodic signals & systems- FS, FT, DFS and DTFT and inter-relations amongst them; Sampling and the associated concepts; Laplace- and Z-Transforms; Brief introduction to- DFT/FFT and Wavelet Transforms: A few typical applications.
CL 201 : Chemical Process Calculations (1 – 2 – 0 – 2)
Basic problem solving skills in Chemical Engineering; Unit conversions, Stoichiometry; material and energy balances; material and energy balances with chemical reactions; purge and recycle; thermophysics and thermochemistry; first law of thermodynamics and its applications.
CL 221 : Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (3 – 1 – 0 – 4)
Maxwell Relations and Fluid Properties Estimation; Pure Component Phase Equilibria, thermodynamic properties; ideal gas mixtures, imperfect gases; liquid state and solution theories. Single Phase Mixtures and Solutions; Ideal Solutions; Partial molar quantities; Gibbs-Duhem Equation; Phase-Rule; Phase equilibrium criteria, non-ideal solutions, residual and Excess properties; Fugacity and Activity Coefficient models; vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) at low to moderate pressures; Raoult’s Law, Henry’s law High-Pressure VLE, Triangular phase diagrams. Chemical Reaction Equilibrium: Homogeneous and Heterogeneous reactions; Multi-reaction Equilibria; Combined Phase and Reactions Equilibria.
CL 222 : Transport Phenomena (3 – 1 – 0 – 4)
Vectors/Tensors, Viscosity, Shell balance: Falling film, Circular tube; Equations of Change for isothermal systems: Continuity, Motion, Energy, Substantial derivatives; Unidirectional flows: Pipe flow, Variable viscosity falling film, Couette viscometer, Rotating Sphere; Unsteady flows: Startup Plate flow, Parallel plates, Oscillating plate; Thermal conductivity and mechanism of energy transport; Shell energy balances and temperature distributions in solids and laminar flow; The equations of change for non-isothermal systems; Diffusivity and the mechanisms of mass transport; Concentration distributions in solids and laminar flow; Equations of change for multi-component systems; Introduction to the concept of heat and mass transfer coefficients.
CL 251 : Chemical Engineering Lab –I (0 – 0 – 4 – 4 – 2)
Measurement of viscosity by efflux time; Type of flows (Reynolds Number apparatus), Verification of Bernoulli Theorem; friction in circular pipes; Flow measuring devices: orifice meter, venturimeter, rotameter; Equivalent length of pipe fittings; characteristics of centrifugal pump; Vapor pressure of liquid; infinite dilution activity coefficient; Vapor-liquid equilibrium; Calorimeter; calibration of thermocouple.
CH 703 : Modern Physical Organic Chemistry (3 – 0 – 0 – 6)
Introduction to Structure and Models of Bonding; Strain and Stability; Solutions and Non-covalent Binding Forces; Molecular Recognition and Supramolecular Chemistry; Acid-Base Chemistry; Stereochemistry; Energy Surfaces and Kinetic Analyses; Experiments Related to Thermodynamics and Kinetics; Catalysis; Organic Reaction Mechanisms Part I- Reactions Involving Additions and/or Eliminations; Part II- Substitutions at Aliphatic Centers and Thermal Isomerizations /Rearrangements; Organotransition Metal Reaction Mechanisms and Catalysis, Organic Polymer and Materials Chemistry, Advanced Concepts in Electronic Structure Theory, Thermal Pericyclic Reactions, Photochemistry, Electronic Organic Materials.
CH 704 : Supramolecular Chemistry I (3 – 0 – 0 – 6)
Definition & development in supramolecular chemistry; Concepts: classification of receptors, binding constant, conformational and macrocyclic effects, pre-organization and complementarities, thermodynamic and kinetic selectivity; Nature of supramolecular interactions; Supramolecular chemistry of life, alkali metal ions in biochemical systems, porphyrins&tetrapyrrolemacrocycles, transport of oxygen by haemoglobin, neurotransmitter and hormones; Ionic recognition (cation& anion binding host, effect of pH), crown ethers, cryptands, spherands, calixarenes, siderophores, biological anionic receptors, organometallic receptors; Neutral host molecules, host-guest chemistry, fullerenes, cyclodextrins, cyclophanes, cacerands.
ME 431 : Design of Turbomachinery (2 – 1 – 0 – 6)
Turbomachine& Positive Displacement device: Energy Exchange, efficiency. Euler’s Eq; utilization factor; Flow through nozzles/blades, Frictional effects, efficiency, Steam & Gas Turbines, Impulse & Reaction Stages, Converging diverging passages, choking, supercritical flow. Reheat Factors; Gas turbines_ components; Characteristics of steam & Gas turbines; Single, multiple stages; Design principles; Effect of Specific-Speed on blade shape; Blade profile & efficiency; Aero-thermal design of gas turbines. Computer aided design; Fans, Blowers, Compressors; Blade shape, work input. Centrifugal & Axial compressor design, Pumps, Centrifugal & Axial - Design Principles, Hydraulic Couplings & Torque Converters.
ES 401 : Earth, Environment and Energy (3 – 0 – 0 – 6)
Earth and planetary systems; Origin of earth – atmosphere & water; Earth system – geological time scale, origin of life, glaciation on earth and causes; Dynamic Earth – interior of earth, plate tectonics and rock cycles; Earth processes & hazard- Internal processes: earthquakes/tsunamis, External or surface processes: river, coastal, slope etc., Atmospheric processes & hazards; Earth and its environment – fundamental laws of environment, concept of climate – present and past, global climate change, ozone layer depletion, global warming/ green house effect; Ecology & bio-diversity – hydrological and biogeochemical cycle, ecosystem – biotic and abiotic component, products and consumption, trophic level, food webs, energy flow and productivity; Environmental pollution – air pollution, waste disposal; Earth’s global energy balance – energy budget past and present, Energy sources; fossil fuel (coal, oil & gas), alternative sources – nuclear energy, geothermal energy, solar energy, water power, wind power etc.
EE 408 : Fundamentals of Circuit Simulation (3 – 0 – 0 – 4)
Introduction. Graph theoretic based formulation of Circuit Analysis, useful for Computer Aided implementation: Sparse Tableau Analysis, Nodal Analysis, Modified Nodal Analysis; Branch Constitutive Equations; Input files used in the standard Circuit Simulator – PSPICE.
Algorithms suitable for solutions of the circuit analysis equations: Linear Equations, Non – linear Equations. Numerical Integration – Construction of Integration Formulas, Truncation Error of Integration Formulas, Numerical Stability of Integration Methods, Automatic Time-step Control. Adjoint Networks and Sensitivity.
Application and hands on exercises on PSPICE
CS 422 : Data Mining (3 – 0 – 0 – 4)
The ubiquitous usage of computing and communication technology is resulting in an unprecedented generation of data. The increased storage and computational capacity makes it possible to shift through this mountain of data and identify knowledge ruggets that can be used for improvements in productivity and customer service. This course introduces five important aspects of data mining: clustering, classification, association, predictions, and sequential mining. We will study the theoretical foundations of these techniques, and apply them in practical situations. Relevent introduction to database management and data preparation will be also provided. There is a considerable emphasis on the applications through assignments and projects. The datasets that will be used can be categorized as: private retail dataset, government published demographical statistical datasets, and web datasets.
EE 354 : Project (0 – 0 – 0 – 6)
Students are required to carry out projects under the supervision IIT Gandhinagar’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty members.
CH 614 : Biological Spectroscopy (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Introduction to biological spectroscopy techniques viz Electronic Spectra, Circular Dichroism, with emphasis on techniques of Fluorescence: Introduction to Fluorescence, Instrumentation, Fluorophores, Lifetime measurements, Dynamics of solvent and spectral relaxation, Quenching of Fluorescence, Fluorescence anisotropy, Energy transfer, Protein Fluorescence, Fluorescence Sensing, Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging, Single molecule detection, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy.
CH 613 : Applied Chemical Biology (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Inspiring properties of biological systems, Bio-inspired analogs and mimics, Classes of synthetic modifications and artificial self-assembling systems: nucleic acids (PNA, LNA), beta-peptides, artificial lipids and carbohydrates, Bio-inspired materials as sensors, Conjugation of biological molecules with micro- and nanomaterials, diagnostics & therapeutics inspired by biomacromolecules, bio-inspired molecules in imaging, Case studies of commercially viable bio-inspired entities.
CL 618 : Supramolecular Chemistry II (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Self-Assembly in Synthetic Systems: Kinetic and Thermodynamic Considerations, Self-Assembling Coordination Compounds, Catenanes and Rotaxanes, Helicates and Helical Assemblies, Molecular Knots; Molecular Devices: Supramolecular Photochemistry, Molecule-Based Electronics (switches, wires, rectifiers); Nonlinear Optical Materials; Biological Mimics; Supramolecular Reactivity and Catalysis.
HS 304 : Imagining India (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Myths about India and India in mythology; making of the nation (imaginations of Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar); a divided house (Partition and its trauma); the Nehruvian era (Socialism and the secular dream); the License Raj; Emergency; India and its Others ( a discussion on identity politics and marginal sections such as religious minorities, Dalits, tribals); new economic reforms and India’s new self-definitions; the new Indian middle class.
HS 404 : Indian History Through Cinema (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
How cinema plays an important role in Indian society, shaping its identity and also reflecting it. Some of the ‘moments’ in Indian history: Nation-making (Mother India), Partition (Mammo/Train to Pakistan), the farmer in cinematic landscape (Do BighaZameen/ Upkaar), caste practices (AchhotKanya) anxieties about the “West” (PurabaurPaschim), the Hindi question (ChupkeChupke), questioning the state and democracy ( andhakanoon/ankur), alternative movements(manthan), liberalization and consumption (Hum AapkeHainKaun), diasporic identity (Pardes), mixing languages (Jab We Met), caste today (Aarakshan), young India ( Rang De Basantietc), sexuality and identity-politics (Fire; I AM).
HS 610 : Reading English in English (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Instruction in English in the nineteenth century; English language and nationalism; language policies and debates in India after 1947; dynamics between ‘regional languages and English’; English and English media and creative arts, the role of English in advertising and in recent times, information and technology, digital English, globalization and many English(es).
CE 604 : Soil Investigation & Improvement (2 – 0 – 3 – 4)
Designing an Investigation, Investigation Methodologies, Drilling Methodologies, Geophysical Methods, Ground Contamination, Ground Water Table, Sampling and Sample Disturbance, Undisturbed Sampling Technique, Laboratory Testing, In-situ Testing, Soil Data & Design Parameters, Basic Field Instrumentation for Site Investigation, Dynamic Compaction &Vibro Techniques, Drainage Methods, Mechanical Cementing and Chemical Stabilization, Grouting & Injection, Geosynthetics.
ES 622 : Finite Element Methods (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Introduction; Basic Steps, Preliminaries and Definitions; One-dimensional Stress-Deformation: Axial column; Computer Implementation; 1-D code for 3 above; Two-dimensional Stress Deformation; Computer Implementation; 2-D code for 5 above (continuing); One-dimensional (Steady) and Transient Flow: Uncoupled Analysis, Heat Flow, and Consolidation; Computer Implementation; 1-D code for 7 above; Beam Bending and Beam-Column; Two-dimensional Field Problems: Heat Flow, Fluid Flow, Torsion; Multicomponent (e.g., structure and foundation) Systems (depending on time and interest).
MA 402 : Introduction to Optimization (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Concepts of Geometry:hyperplanes, linear hulls, affine hulls; closure, interior, relative interior; convex set, convex hull, Caratheodory theorem; separating and supporting hyperplane theorems; cones and polar sets.
Unconstrained Optimization (smooth scenario): first and second order conditions for local minimizers; one dimension search: golden section, Fibonacci, Newton method; steepest descent method; conjugate gradient method.
Linear Programming: convex polyhedra and linear programming; basic solution; simplex method; two-phase method; Duality; revised simplex method; Karmarker method.
Convex Optimization: convex functions and their variants; subgradients; tangent and normal cones; Fritz John and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions; penalty and barrier functions; nonconvex optimization.
ME 438 : Advanced Heat Transfer (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Conduction: Review of conduction, introduction to Bessel functions and their applications. Effect if temperature dependent thermal conductivity. Two-dimensional temperature distribution: separation of variables – orthogonal functions, Sturm-Liouville equation, cylindrical geometry. Numerical methods - Steady two-dimensional temperature distribution employing Gauss-Siedel iteration and tri-diagonal matrix algorithm. Transient one-dimensional temperature distribution, Laplace transforms, Transient one-dimensional temperature distribution: Numerical methods Transient one-dimensional temperature distribution: integral methods


Convection: Principles of convective heat transfer, Convection from a flat plate with unheated starting length. Arbitrarily specified surface temperature High speed flows: effect of viscous dissipation Boundary layer equations - Reynolds analogy

Advanced Heat Transfer: Heat transfer with jets, Heat transfer with phase change: Nucleate and film boiling, film condensation, Integral methods: applications to flows over flat plates, naturalconvection, and film condensation.

Radiation , Surface radiation - introduction to spectral radiation - wavelength dependent , emissivity and absorptivity, solar absorptivity , View factors: proofs of view factor relations , Heat transfer with in a n-surface enclosure - thermal circuits and radiosity methods , Introduction to gaseous radiation

Multimode heat transfer Several problems involving more than one mode of heat transfer will be discussed and their solution presented. A detailed discussion of heat transfer in solar collectors involving conduction, convection and radiation will be presented.
ME 446 : Simulation-driven Engineering (Mechanics and Controls) (3 – 0 – 0 – 4)
Basic concepts in rigid body dynamics and vibrations; Introduction to linear feedback control; Modeling of multi-body systems with joints, constraints, actuators and controllers; Numerical methods and challenges in computational dynamics; Case studies of simulation-driven engineering based on mechanics, dynamics and controls; Course projects derived from industry and research.
ME 452 : Introduction to Turbulence (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Classical experiments/observations, scales and energy cascade, closure problem; Navier-Stokes equations; Vorticity dynamics; Basic concepts of non-linearity and chaos; Freely evolving turbulence; Kolmogorov’s theory; Reynolds averaging and closure problem; Eddy viscosity hypothesis; Turbulence modeling; Wall bounded shear flows; Free shear flows; Homogeneous shear flow; Large eddy simulations; Vortex stretching and eddy dynamics; Turbulent diffusion.
ME 448 : Design, Modelling Simulation of Production Systems (2 – 0 – 2 – 3)
Concepts of discrete event modeling and simulation
Discrete event modeling and programming (ARENA)
Principles of statistical analysis
Projects (case studies taken from industrial research projects)
ME 436 : Fuel Cell Systems : Fundamentals and Simulation (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Introduction to fuel cells, fuel cell types, characterization Fuel cell thermodynamics: thermodynamics review Fuel cell thermodynamics: Heat & Work Potential of a fuel: Gibbs Free Energy Fuel cell thermodynamics: Predicting OCV: Nernst Equation Fuel cell reaction kinetics Fuel cell charge transport Fuel cell mass transport Fuel cell modeling Fuel cell materials and characterization (self study) Overview of fuel cell systems Introduction to fuel processing Thermal management sub-system design Fuel cell system design Project presentations
MSE 301 : Materials science of thin films (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
A review of Materials science, vacuum science and Technology, Thin-film evaporation processes, Discharges, Plasmas, and Ion-Surface Interactions, Plasma and Ion Beam processing of Thin Films, Chemical Vapor Deposition, Substrate Surfaces and Thin-film Nucleation, Epitaxy, Film structure, Characterization of thin films and surfaces, Interdiffusion, Reactions and transformations in thin films, Mechanical properties of thin films.
MSE 401 : Introduction to Polymer Physics and Processing (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Polymer Physics: Conformation of polymer chains in solutions, melts, blends; thermodynamics of polymers solutions, blends; structure of glassy, crystalline & rubbery elastic states of polymers; entanglement effects, swelling & viscoelasticity.


Polymer Processing: Manufacturing processes e.g. injection molding, extrusion etc.; mechanical & rheological properties related to particular processing techniques; flow models for processing techniques.
HS 611 : City as Region : The Case of Ahmedabad (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
With the impacts of globalization, urban spaces in India are constantly in transition, being reinvented and re-inscribed by changing political and social meanings. This course emerges out of the necessity to study such forms of inscription and, as such, cuts across several disciplines within Humanities and Social Sciences, especially sociology and anthropology. The course contents are as follows:


The city in the Indian nationalist imagination; the urban turn- the renewed focus on city as society; ‘city-scapes’- recent studies of urban space in India; uses of urban culture- methodologies and praxis; ‘making’ the region (Gujarat) - paradigms and debates; narratives of Ahmedabad’s urban history; city branding and city imagineering-the culture industry in Ahmedabad; city as region- politics and issues.
HS 307 : Music Traditions of India (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Comprehensive overview of several important traditions within the Indian musical heritage, including but not limited to Vedic chant, dhrupad, khyal, thumri, Carnatic music, Hindustani music, regional folk genres, qawwali, bhajan and film music; Overview of important musical treatises with a focus on Bharata’sNatyaShastra; Fundamentals of rasa theory and Indian aesthetic principles; Introduction to theoretical and aesthetic aspects of raga and tala; Lives and contributions of twentieth century music practitioners; Socio-economic and political aspects of music production, circulation and access.
HS 301 : Introduction to Sociology (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Sociological perspectives: what is sociology?; answering and asking sociological questions; “sociological imagination” (C.W Mills); Sociological theories: Emile Durkheim; Karl Marx; Max Weber; Pierre Bourdieu; McDonaldization of society (George Ritzer); Inequality: social stratification, class and caste; gender (education, employment and health inequalities with special focus on India); sexual inequality (social construction of heterosexuality/ heteronormativity); Sociology of Education: Pierre Bourdieu and cultural capital; sociology of science and technology (SCOT); sociology of professions- the making of the Indian engineers; women and science/technology education; Culture; Media and Representation: popular culture; mass media; media representation; cultural imperialism debates; role of social media
Social Movements: Theories of social movements; Social movements in India; ICTs, social media and social movements; Sociology of Globalization:-what is globalization?; globalization debates; consequences of globalization; globalization and development (Stiglitz); in defense of globalization or making globalization work.
ME 450 : Product Design and Innovation (2 – 0 – 3 – 3 – 2)
Introducing product development process, element of innovation and implementation, design research, conducting field studies, interaction design with the product; User-centered design, material & manufacturing process, product case-study based learning, product detailing, designing prototype, human-computer interaction; Human-machine interaction, awareness about product attributes and design aesthetics.
IN 331 : Building Biotechnology : Science, Ethics, Law & Business (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Science: Inspiring properties of biological systems, Biotechnology vs. Pharmaceutical Drug Development, Tools and Techniques (Bioinformatics, Proteomics, Microarrays, Functional Genomics, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology), Green (agricultural), White (industrial) and Red (medical) biotechnology applications.
Law: Intellectual property, licensing and regulation.
Business: Business models, Company characteristics, R&D Stages, Project Selection, and Outsourcing.
Ethics: Research involving animals and human subjects, Animal cloning, Privacy issues.
EE 611 : Restructured Power Systems: Operation and Management (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Fundamentals of electricity markets: Privatization and deregulation; Types of electricity markets -Pool, Bilateral and Multilateral; Components of deregulated power systems; Independent system operator (ISO) and Power exchange (PX): Functions and responsibilities; Pricing mechanisms, and energy trading arrangements; Transmission pricing paradigm and congestion management; Ancillary services and system security management in deregulation; Distributed generation in deregulated markets; Electricity market developments in India; IT applications in electricity markets.
EE 621 : Physics of Semiconductor Devices (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Introduction to the world of semiconductors; Geometry of periodic crystals; Quantum mechanics; Solution of Schrödinger equation; Energy bands; Density of states; Fermi-Dirac statistics; Equilibrium statistics; Recombination-Generation in semiconductors; Carrier Transport: Drift, Diffusion; P-N Junction diodes: IV Characteristics, Non-ideal effects, AC response, Large signal response; MOS Transistor: 1-D MOS electrostatics, MOS capacitors, Poly Silicon gates and QM effects, MOS transistor equations, Ballistic MOS transistor, Scattering theory, Effective mobility, 2-D electrostatics, VT engineering, Series resistance and effective channel length, MOS transistor leakage; CMOS process flow; Reliability of MOS devices; CMOS circuit essentials; SOI MOS devices; RF CMOS; Introduction to process and device simulation.
ES 623 : Fundamentals of Artificial Neural Networks (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Introduction: History of neural networks; Structure and function of a single neuron – biological neurons, artificial neurons;artificial neural network (ANN) models; limitations. Overview of applications.
Supervised Learning: Single layer networks – Perceptrons, linear separability; Multilayer networks – Backpropagationalgorithm, applications; Adaptive multilayer networks; Prediction networks; Radial basis function networks; Support vector machines.
Unsupervised Learning: Winner-Take-All Networks; Competitive learning self-organizing maps; PCA analysis aetworks.
Associative Learning: Hopfield networks, traveling salesman problem, solving simultaneous equations, optimization.
EE 633 : Fiber Optics and Photonics (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Brief history of the optical fiber,Ray analysis of step- and graded-index fibersandpropagationcharacteristics;Planar optical wave guides, modes and the eigenvalue equation, single-mode and multimode fiber; Group velocity and material dispersion, inter-modal and intra-modal dispersion,attenuation, pulse dispersion,fiber bandwidth, dispersion management; Special fibers and fiber Bragg gratings; optical fiber communications and sensor components; Light sources, semiconductor lasers and their properties, distributed feedback and distributed Bragg structures; Photo-detectors, quantum efficiency, responsivity, spectral and temporal response; Design, fabrication and characterization of telecommunications fiber, birefringent fiber, photonic crystal fiber, hollow-core fiber and components; Overview of fiber-optic sensors.
EE 639 : Lasers (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Fundamental wave and quantum properties of light, light-matter interaction;, discrete energy levels; Radiative transitions and emission linewidth, energy levels and radiative properties of matter, radiation and thermal equilibrium;Absorption and stimulated emission, population inversion, gain and gain saturation, laser oscillation above threshold, population inversion requirements in 2-, 3-and 4-level systems, laser pumping; Laser resonators, stable resonators, Gaussian beams, special cavities; Specific laser systems, solid-state lasers, pulsed lasers; Semiconductor lasers, edge-emitting and surface emitting lasers, quantum cascade lasers; Modulation of lasers; electro-optic, acousto-optic and direct current modulation; Frequency multiplication of laser beams, introduction to nonlinear optical effects.
EE 420 : Optical Networks (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)
Basics of fiber optic networks, Advantages of optical network, telecom network overview and
architecture, WDM optical networks, WDM network evolution, WDM network construction, broadcast and select optical WDM network, wavelength routed optical WDM network, Challenges of optical WDM network. Overview of fiber optic communication, propagation in optical waveguides and optical fibers, laser diodes and photodiodes. Optical directional couplers, splitters and combiners, isolators, circulators, fiber Bragg gratings, arrayed waveguide gratings, Fabry-Perot and thin film filters. Electro-optic and acousto-optic modulators, Mach-Zender interferometers, semiconductor optical amplifiers, Erbium doped fiber amplifiers, Raman amplifiers, wavelength converters, WDM multiplexers and demultiplexers, nonlinear optical loop mirrors for clock extraction, dispersion compensators. Various optical switches: electro-optic, SOA-based, MEMS, optical cross-connects, Clos architecture, OADMs, optical packet switching basics, slotted and unslotted networks, header and packet format, contention resolution in OPS networks, self routing, examples on OPS node architecture, optical burst switching, signaling and routing protocols for
OBS networks, multicasting. Single and multi-hop networks, access networks, PON, EPON and WDM EPON, dynamic wavelength allocation, optical layer, node designs, optical layer cost tradeoff, routing and wavelength assignment, gigabit Ethernet, radio over fiber network, SONET/SDH systems, metropolitan-area networks.
EE 643 : Solar Photovoltaics: Physics, Technologies and Applications (3 – 0 – 0 – 6 – 4)


Contact detail:
indian Institute Of Technology Gandhinagar
Vishwakarma Government Engineering College Complex, New CG Road, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 382424 ‎
093 28 474222 ‎


Map;
[MAP]https://maps.google.co.in/maps?q=IIT+Gandhinagar&hl=en&ll=23.10549,72.595639 &spn=0.00975,0.019569&sll=23.233578,77.429302&sspn =0.00974,0.019569&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A[/MAP]

I am selected in IIT JEE and want to take admission in IIT Gandhinagar (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar) so please give me the list of B.Tech Courses offered at this Institute with last years cut off of admissions for an idea?