Electrical Engineering — 7th Semester Syllabus

Module 1: Coal-based thermal power plants (8 lectures)

Coal based thermal power plants • Basic Rankine cycle and its modifications • Layout of modern coal power plant • Super critical boilers • FBC boilers • Turbines • Condensers • Steam and heating rates • Sub systems of thermal power plants • Fuel and ash handling • Draught system • Feed water treatment • Binary cycles and cogeneration systems

Module 2: Gas turbine and combined cycle power plants (4 lectures)

Gas turbine and combined cycle power plants • Brayton cycle analysis and optimization • Components of gas turbine power plants • Combined cycle power plants

Module 3: Nuclear power plants (8 lectures)

Basics of nuclear energy conversion • Layout and subsystems of nuclear power plants • Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) • Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) • CANDU Reactor • Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) • Fast Breeder Reactors (FBR) • Gas cooled and liquid metal cooled reactors • Safety measures for nuclear power plants

Module 4: Hydroelectric and renewable energy power plants (8 lectures)

Hydroelectric power plants • Hydrological cycle • Rainfall & run-off measurement & plotting of various curves for estimating stream flow • Site selection, classification • Comparison with other types of power plant • Typical layout and components • Principles of wind, tidal, solar PV and solar thermal, geothermal, biogas and fuel cell power systems

Module 5: Energy, economic and environmental issues (6 lectures)

Energy, economic and environmental issues • Power tariffs • Load distribution parameters, load curve • Capital and operating cost of different power plants • Pollution control technologies including waste disposal options for coal and nuclear plants • Geothermal power plants, Ocean thermal electric conversion, M.H.D power generation

MODULE 1 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING MATERIALS (6H)

Introduction to Electrical Engineering Materials • Classification of materials • Material of importance-carbonated beverages container • Advanced Materials • Modern Material need • Atomic Structure and Interatomic Bonding • Bonding forces and energies • Secondary bonding and van-der-waals bonding

MODULE II THE STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS (8H)

The structure of crystalline solids • Crystallographic points, directions and planes • X-Ray diffraction • Determination of crystalline structure • Imperfections and defects in solids • Diffusion mechanisms • Steady state diffusion • Diffusion in semiconducting materials • Material of importance- Aluminum for integrated circuit interconnects • Mechanical properties of material, stress strain behavior • Structure and properties of ceramics • Crystal ceramics • Silicate ceramics • Material of importance- carbon nanotubes • Imperfections in ceramics • Application and processing of ceramics • Glass ceramics, refractories, abrasives, cements • Materials of importance - piezoelectric ceramics

MODULE III INSULATING PROPERTIES OF MATERIAL (8H)

Insulating materials; General Properties • Electrical Properties: Volume resistivity, surface resistance, dielectric loss, dielectric strength (breakdown voltage) dielectric constant • Thermal conductivity • Electro-thermal breakdown in solid dielectrics • Insulating Materials and their applications: • Plastics, Definition and classification • Thermosetting materials: Phenol-formaldehyde resins (i.e. Bakelite) amino resins (urea formaldehyde and Malamine-formaldehyde), epoxy resins – their important properties and applications • Thermo-plastic materials: Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethelene, silicons, their important properties and applications • Bitumen - Mineral and insulating oil for transformers switchgear capacitors, high voltage insulated cables • Insulating varnishes for coating and impregnation - Enamels for winding wires • Glass fiber sleeves, SF6 their properties and applications

MODULE IV- ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS (6H)

Electrical conduction , electronic and ionic conduction • Energy band structures in solids • Conduction in terms of band and atomic bonding models • Electron mobility • Electrical resistivity of metals • Materials of importance—aluminum electrical wires • Semi conductivity, intrinsic semi conduction, extrinsic semi conduction • Carrier mobility, semiconductor devices • Electrical properties of polymers dielectric behavior • Capacitance, field vectors and polarization • Types of polarization, frequency dependence of the dielectric constant • Dielectric materials, ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity

MODULE V- OPTICAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS (10 H)

Optical properties, basic concepts • Electromagnetic radiation • Light interactions with solids atomic and electronic interactions • Optical properties of metals • Optical properties of nonmetals • Refraction, reflection, absorption, transmission • Applications of optical phenomena • Luminescence, Materials of importance—light-emitting diodes • Photoconductivity, lasers, optical fibers in communications • Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism • Ferromagnetism, Antiferromagnetism and Ferrimagnetism • The Influence of Temperature on Magnetic Behavior • Domains and Hysteresis • Magnetic Anisotropy • Soft Magnetic Materials • Materials of Importance—An Iron–Silicon Alloy That Is Used in Transformer Cores • Hard Magnetic Materials, Magnetic Storage • Superconductivity

MODULE VI SUPERCONDUCTIVITY (6H)

Properties of superconductors • London equations • Quantum explanation of superconductivity • Applications of superconductors • Nanomaterials: Introduction to nanotechnology • Nanowire and Nanotube • Carbon nanotubes, Single wall carbon nanotubes, Multiwall carbon nanotubes • Fabrications, Properties and applications • Economic, Environmental, and Societal Issues in Materials Science and Engineering • Introduction, economic considerations, component design, materials, manufacturing techniques • Environmental and societal considerations, recycling issues in materials science and engineering • Materials of importance—biodegradable and bio renewable polymers/ plastics

Module 1: Discrete-time signals and systems (6 hours)

Discrete time signals and systems: Sequences • Representation of signals on orthogonal basis • Representation of discrete systems using difference equations • Sampling and reconstruction of signals aliasing • Sampling theorem and Nyquist rate

Module 2: Z-transform (6 hours)

z-Transform, Region of Convergence • Analysis of Linear Shift Invariant systems using ztransform • Properties of z-transform for causal signals • Interpretation of stability in z-domain • Inverse z- transforms

Module 3: Discrete Fourier Transform (10 hours)

Frequency Domain Analysis • Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) • Properties of DFT • Convolution of signals • Fast Fourier Transform Algorithm • Parseval's Identity • Implementation of Discrete Time Systems

Module 4: Design of Digital filters (12 hours)

Design of FIR Digital filters: Window method, Park-McClellan's method • Design of IIR Digital Filters: Butterworth, Chebyshev and Elliptic Approximations • Low-pass, Band-pass, Band-stop and High-pass filters • Effect of finite register length in FIR filter design • Parametric and non-parametric spectral estimation • Introduction to multi-rate signal processing

Module 5: Applications of Digital Signal Processing (6 hours)

Correlation Functions and Power Spectra • Stationary Processes • Optimal filtering using ARMA Model • Linear Mean-Square Estimation • Wiener Filter

Module 1: Transmission Lines (6 hours)

Introduction, Concept of distributed elements • Equations of voltage and current • Standing waves and impedance transformation • Lossless and low-loss transmission lines • Power transfer on a transmission line • Analysis of transmission line in terms of admittances • Transmission line calculations with the help of Smith chart • Applications of transmission line • Impedance matching using transmission lines

Module 2: Maxwell's Equations (6 hours)

Basic quantities of Electromagnetics • Basic laws of Electromagnetics: Gauss's law, Ampere's Circuital law, Faraday's law of Electromagnetic induction • Maxwell's equations • Surface charge and surface current • Boundary conditions at media interface

Module 3: Uniform Plane Wave (7 hours)

Homogeneous unbound medium • Wave equation for time harmonic fields • Solution of the wave equation • Uniform plane wave • Wave polarization • Wave propagation in conducting medium • Phase velocity of a wave • Power flow and Poynting vector

Module 4: Plane Waves at Media Interface (7 hours)

Plane wave in arbitrary direction • Plane wave at dielectric interface • Reflection and refraction of waves at dielectric interface • Total internal reflection • Wave polarization at media interface • Brewster angle • Fields and power flow at media interface • Lossy media interface • Reflection from conducting boundary

Module 5: Waveguides (7 hours)

Parallel plane waveguide: Transverse Electric (TE) mode, transverse Magnetic(TM) mode • Cut-off frequency, Phase velocity and dispersion • Transverse Electromagnetic (TEM) mode • Analysis of waveguide-general approach • Rectangular waveguides

Module 6: Antennas (7 hours)

Radiation parameters of antenna • Potential functions • Solution for potential functions • Radiations from Hertz dipole • Near field, Far field • Total power radiated by dipole • Radiation resistance and radiation pattern of Hertz dipole • Hertz dipole in receiving mode

Module 1: Introduction (6 hours)

Conventional design methodology • Computer aided design aspects – Advantages • Review of basic fundamentals of Electrostatics and Electromagnetics • Development of Helmholtz equation • Energy transformer vectors- Poynting and Slepian • Magnetic Diffusion-transients and time-harmonic

Module 2: Analytical Methods (6 hours)

Analytical methods of solving field equations • Method of separation of variables • Roth's method • Integral methods- Green's function • Method of images

Module 3: Finite Difference Method (FDM) (7 hours)

Finite Difference schemes • Treatment of irregular boundaries • Accuracy and stability of FD solutions • Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method- Uniqueness and convergence

Module 4: Finite Element Method (FEM) (7 hours)

Overview of FEM • Variational and Galerkin Methods • Shape functions • Lower and higher order elements • Vector elements • 2D and 3D finite elements • Efficient finite element computations

Module 5: Special Topics (7 hours)

Background of experimental methods-electrolytic tank, R-C network solution, Field plotting (graphical method) • Hybrid methods • Coupled circuit - field computations • Electromagnetic - thermal and electromagnetic - structural coupled computations • Solution of equations • Method of moments • Poisson's fields

Module 6: Applications (7 hours)

Low frequency electrical devices • Static / time-harmonic / transient problems in transformers, rotating machines, actuators • CAD packages

Module 1: Coal-based thermal power plants (8 lectures)

Coal based thermal power plants • Basic Rankine cycle and its modifications • Layout of modern coal power plant • Super critical boilers • FBC boilers • Turbines • Condensers • Steam and heating rates • Sub systems of thermal power plants • Fuel and ash handling • Draught system • Feed water treatment • Binary cycles and cogeneration systems

Module 2: Gas turbine and combined cycle power plants (4 lectures)

Gas turbine and combined cycle power plants • Brayton cycle analysis and optimization • Components of gas turbine power plants • Combined cycle power plants

Module 3: Nuclear power plants (8 lectures)

Basics of nuclear energy conversion • Layout and subsystems of nuclear power plants • Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) • Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) • CANDU Reactor • Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) • Fast Breeder Reactors (FBR) • Gas cooled and liquid metal cooled reactors • Safety measures for nuclear power plants

Module 4: Hydroelectric and renewable energy power plants (8 lectures)

Hydroelectric power plants • Hydrological cycle • Rainfall & run-off measurement & plotting of various curves for estimating stream flow • Site selection, classification • Comparison with other types of power plant • Typical layout and components • Principles of wind, tidal, solar PV and solar thermal, geothermal, biogas and fuel cell power systems

Module 5: Energy, economic and environmental issues (6 lectures)

Energy, economic and environmental issues • Power tariffs • Load distribution parameters, load curve • Capital and operating cost of different power plants • Pollution control technologies including waste disposal options for coal and nuclear plants • Geothermal power plants, Ocean thermal electric conversion, M.H.D power generation

MODULE 1 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING MATERIALS (6H)

Introduction to Electrical Engineering Materials • Classification of materials • Material of importance-carbonated beverages container • Advanced Materials • Modern Material need • Atomic Structure and Interatomic Bonding • Bonding forces and energies • Secondary bonding and van-der-waals bonding

MODULE II THE STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS (8H)

The structure of crystalline solids • Crystallographic points, directions and planes • X-Ray diffraction • Determination of crystalline structure • Imperfections and defects in solids • Diffusion mechanisms • Steady state diffusion • Diffusion in semiconducting materials • Material of importance- Aluminum for integrated circuit interconnects • Mechanical properties of material, stress strain behavior • Structure and properties of ceramics • Crystal ceramics • Silicate ceramics • Material of importance- carbon nanotubes • Imperfections in ceramics • Application and processing of ceramics • Glass ceramics, refractories, abrasives, cements • Materials of importance - piezoelectric ceramics

MODULE III INSULATING PROPERTIES OF MATERIAL (8H)

Insulating materials; General Properties • Electrical Properties: Volume resistivity, surface resistance, dielectric loss, dielectric strength (breakdown voltage) dielectric constant • Thermal conductivity • Electro-thermal breakdown in solid dielectrics • Insulating Materials and their applications: • Plastics, Definition and classification • Thermosetting materials: Phenol-formaldehyde resins (i.e. Bakelite) amino resins (urea formaldehyde and Malamine-formaldehyde), epoxy resins – their important properties and applications • Thermo-plastic materials: Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethelene, silicons, their important properties and applications • Bitumen - Mineral and insulating oil for transformers switchgear capacitors, high voltage insulated cables • Insulating varnishes for coating and impregnation - Enamels for winding wires • Glass fiber sleeves, SF6 their properties and applications

MODULE IV- ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS (6H)

Electrical conduction , electronic and ionic conduction • Energy band structures in solids • Conduction in terms of band and atomic bonding models • Electron mobility • Electrical resistivity of metals • Materials of importance—aluminum electrical wires • Semi conductivity, intrinsic semi conduction, extrinsic semi conduction • Carrier mobility, semiconductor devices • Electrical properties of polymers dielectric behavior • Capacitance, field vectors and polarization • Types of polarization, frequency dependence of the dielectric constant • Dielectric materials, ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity

MODULE V- OPTICAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS (10 H)

Optical properties, basic concepts • Electromagnetic radiation • Light interactions with solids atomic and electronic interactions • Optical properties of metals • Optical properties of nonmetals • Refraction, reflection, absorption, transmission • Applications of optical phenomena • Luminescence, Materials of importance—light-emitting diodes • Photoconductivity, lasers, optical fibers in communications • Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism • Ferromagnetism, Antiferromagnetism and Ferrimagnetism • The Influence of Temperature on Magnetic Behavior • Domains and Hysteresis • Magnetic Anisotropy • Soft Magnetic Materials • Materials of Importance—An Iron–Silicon Alloy That Is Used in Transformer Cores • Hard Magnetic Materials, Magnetic Storage • Superconductivity

MODULE VI SUPERCONDUCTIVITY (6H)

Properties of superconductors • London equations • Quantum explanation of superconductivity • Applications of superconductors • Nanomaterials: Introduction to nanotechnology • Nanowire and Nanotube • Carbon nanotubes, Single wall carbon nanotubes, Multiwall carbon nanotubes • Fabrications, Properties and applications • Economic, Environmental, and Societal Issues in Materials Science and Engineering • Introduction, economic considerations, component design, materials, manufacturing techniques • Environmental and societal considerations, recycling issues in materials science and engineering • Materials of importance—biodegradable and bio renewable polymers/ plastics

Module 1: Discrete-time signals and systems (6 hours)

Discrete time signals and systems: Sequences • Representation of signals on orthogonal basis • Representation of discrete systems using difference equations • Sampling and reconstruction of signals aliasing • Sampling theorem and Nyquist rate

Module 2: Z-transform (6 hours)

z-Transform, Region of Convergence • Analysis of Linear Shift Invariant systems using ztransform • Properties of z-transform for causal signals • Interpretation of stability in z-domain • Inverse z- transforms

Module 3: Discrete Fourier Transform (10 hours)

Frequency Domain Analysis • Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) • Properties of DFT • Convolution of signals • Fast Fourier Transform Algorithm • Parseval's Identity • Implementation of Discrete Time Systems

Module 4: Design of Digital filters (12 hours)

Design of FIR Digital filters: Window method, Park-McClellan's method • Design of IIR Digital Filters: Butterworth, Chebyshev and Elliptic Approximations • Low-pass, Band-pass, Band-stop and High-pass filters • Effect of finite register length in FIR filter design • Parametric and non-parametric spectral estimation • Introduction to multi-rate signal processing

Module 5: Applications of Digital Signal Processing (6 hours)

Correlation Functions and Power Spectra • Stationary Processes • Optimal filtering using ARMA Model • Linear Mean-Square Estimation • Wiener Filter

Module 1: Transmission Lines (6 hours)

Introduction, Concept of distributed elements • Equations of voltage and current • Standing waves and impedance transformation • Lossless and low-loss transmission lines • Power transfer on a transmission line • Analysis of transmission line in terms of admittances • Transmission line calculations with the help of Smith chart • Applications of transmission line • Impedance matching using transmission lines

Module 2: Maxwell's Equations (6 hours)

Basic quantities of Electromagnetics • Basic laws of Electromagnetics: Gauss's law, Ampere's Circuital law, Faraday's law of Electromagnetic induction • Maxwell's equations • Surface charge and surface current • Boundary conditions at media interface

Module 3: Uniform Plane Wave (7 hours)

Homogeneous unbound medium • Wave equation for time harmonic fields • Solution of the wave equation • Uniform plane wave • Wave polarization • Wave propagation in conducting medium • Phase velocity of a wave • Power flow and Poynting vector

Module 4: Plane Waves at Media Interface (7 hours)

Plane wave in arbitrary direction • Plane wave at dielectric interface • Reflection and refraction of waves at dielectric interface • Total internal reflection • Wave polarization at media interface • Brewster angle • Fields and power flow at media interface • Lossy media interface • Reflection from conducting boundary

Module 5: Waveguides (7 hours)

Parallel plane waveguide: Transverse Electric (TE) mode, transverse Magnetic(TM) mode • Cut-off frequency, Phase velocity and dispersion • Transverse Electromagnetic (TEM) mode • Analysis of waveguide-general approach • Rectangular waveguides

Module 6: Antennas (7 hours)

Radiation parameters of antenna • Potential functions • Solution for potential functions • Radiations from Hertz dipole • Near field, Far field • Total power radiated by dipole • Radiation resistance and radiation pattern of Hertz dipole • Hertz dipole in receiving mode

Module 1: Introduction (6 hours)

Conventional design methodology • Computer aided design aspects – Advantages • Review of basic fundamentals of Electrostatics and Electromagnetics • Development of Helmholtz equation • Energy transformer vectors- Poynting and Slepian • Magnetic Diffusion-transients and time-harmonic

Module 2: Analytical Methods (6 hours)

Analytical methods of solving field equations • Method of separation of variables • Roth's method • Integral methods- Green's function • Method of images

Module 3: Finite Difference Method (FDM) (7 hours)

Finite Difference schemes • Treatment of irregular boundaries • Accuracy and stability of FD solutions • Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method- Uniqueness and convergence

Module 4: Finite Element Method (FEM) (7 hours)

Overview of FEM • Variational and Galerkin Methods • Shape functions • Lower and higher order elements • Vector elements • 2D and 3D finite elements • Efficient finite element computations

Module 5: Special Topics (7 hours)

Background of experimental methods-electrolytic tank, R-C network solution, Field plotting (graphical method) • Hybrid methods • Coupled circuit - field computations • Electromagnetic - thermal and electromagnetic - structural coupled computations • Solution of equations • Method of moments • Poisson's fields

Module 6: Applications (7 hours)

Low frequency electrical devices • Static / time-harmonic / transient problems in transformers, rotating machines, actuators • CAD packages

Module 1: Coal-based thermal power plants (8 lectures)

Coal based thermal power plants • Basic Rankine cycle and its modifications • Layout of modern coal power plant • Super critical boilers • FBC boilers • Turbines • Condensers • Steam and heating rates • Sub systems of thermal power plants • Fuel and ash handling • Draught system • Feed water treatment • Binary cycles and cogeneration systems

Module 2: Gas turbine and combined cycle power plants (4 lectures)

Gas turbine and combined cycle power plants • Brayton cycle analysis and optimization • Components of gas turbine power plants • Combined cycle power plants

Module 3: Nuclear power plants (8 lectures)

Basics of nuclear energy conversion • Layout and subsystems of nuclear power plants • Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) • Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) • CANDU Reactor • Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) • Fast Breeder Reactors (FBR) • Gas cooled and liquid metal cooled reactors • Safety measures for nuclear power plants

Module 4: Hydroelectric and renewable energy power plants (8 lectures)

Hydroelectric power plants • Hydrological cycle • Rainfall & run-off measurement & plotting of various curves for estimating stream flow • Site selection, classification • Comparison with other types of power plant • Typical layout and components • Principles of wind, tidal, solar PV and solar thermal, geothermal, biogas and fuel cell power systems

Module 5: Energy, economic and environmental issues (6 lectures)

Energy, economic and environmental issues • Power tariffs • Load distribution parameters, load curve • Capital and operating cost of different power plants • Pollution control technologies including waste disposal options for coal and nuclear plants • Geothermal power plants, Ocean thermal electric conversion, M.H.D power generation

MODULE 1 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING MATERIALS (6H)

Introduction to Electrical Engineering Materials • Classification of materials • Material of importance-carbonated beverages container • Advanced Materials • Modern Material need • Atomic Structure and Interatomic Bonding • Bonding forces and energies • Secondary bonding and van-der-waals bonding

MODULE II THE STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS (8H)

The structure of crystalline solids • Crystallographic points, directions and planes • X-Ray diffraction • Determination of crystalline structure • Imperfections and defects in solids • Diffusion mechanisms • Steady state diffusion • Diffusion in semiconducting materials • Material of importance- Aluminum for integrated circuit interconnects • Mechanical properties of material, stress strain behavior • Structure and properties of ceramics • Crystal ceramics • Silicate ceramics • Material of importance- carbon nanotubes • Imperfections in ceramics • Application and processing of ceramics • Glass ceramics, refractories, abrasives, cements • Materials of importance - piezoelectric ceramics

MODULE III INSULATING PROPERTIES OF MATERIAL (8H)

Insulating materials; General Properties • Electrical Properties: Volume resistivity, surface resistance, dielectric loss, dielectric strength (breakdown voltage) dielectric constant • Thermal conductivity • Electro-thermal breakdown in solid dielectrics • Insulating Materials and their applications: • Plastics, Definition and classification • Thermosetting materials: Phenol-formaldehyde resins (i.e. Bakelite) amino resins (urea formaldehyde and Malamine-formaldehyde), epoxy resins – their important properties and applications • Thermo-plastic materials: Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethelene, silicons, their important properties and applications • Bitumen - Mineral and insulating oil for transformers switchgear capacitors, high voltage insulated cables • Insulating varnishes for coating and impregnation - Enamels for winding wires • Glass fiber sleeves, SF6 their properties and applications

MODULE IV- ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS (6H)

Electrical conduction , electronic and ionic conduction • Energy band structures in solids • Conduction in terms of band and atomic bonding models • Electron mobility • Electrical resistivity of metals • Materials of importance—aluminum electrical wires • Semi conductivity, intrinsic semi conduction, extrinsic semi conduction • Carrier mobility, semiconductor devices • Electrical properties of polymers dielectric behavior • Capacitance, field vectors and polarization • Types of polarization, frequency dependence of the dielectric constant • Dielectric materials, ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity

MODULE V- OPTICAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS (10 H)

Optical properties, basic concepts • Electromagnetic radiation • Light interactions with solids atomic and electronic interactions • Optical properties of metals • Optical properties of nonmetals • Refraction, reflection, absorption, transmission • Applications of optical phenomena • Luminescence, Materials of importance—light-emitting diodes • Photoconductivity, lasers, optical fibers in communications • Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism • Ferromagnetism, Antiferromagnetism and Ferrimagnetism • The Influence of Temperature on Magnetic Behavior • Domains and Hysteresis • Magnetic Anisotropy • Soft Magnetic Materials • Materials of Importance—An Iron–Silicon Alloy That Is Used in Transformer Cores • Hard Magnetic Materials, Magnetic Storage • Superconductivity

MODULE VI SUPERCONDUCTIVITY (6H)

Properties of superconductors • London equations • Quantum explanation of superconductivity • Applications of superconductors • Nanomaterials: Introduction to nanotechnology • Nanowire and Nanotube • Carbon nanotubes, Single wall carbon nanotubes, Multiwall carbon nanotubes • Fabrications, Properties and applications • Economic, Environmental, and Societal Issues in Materials Science and Engineering • Introduction, economic considerations, component design, materials, manufacturing techniques • Environmental and societal considerations, recycling issues in materials science and engineering • Materials of importance—biodegradable and bio renewable polymers/ plastics

Module 1: Discrete-time signals and systems (6 hours)

Discrete time signals and systems: Sequences • Representation of signals on orthogonal basis • Representation of discrete systems using difference equations • Sampling and reconstruction of signals aliasing • Sampling theorem and Nyquist rate

Module 2: Z-transform (6 hours)

z-Transform, Region of Convergence • Analysis of Linear Shift Invariant systems using ztransform • Properties of z-transform for causal signals • Interpretation of stability in z-domain • Inverse z- transforms

Module 3: Discrete Fourier Transform (10 hours)

Frequency Domain Analysis • Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) • Properties of DFT • Convolution of signals • Fast Fourier Transform Algorithm • Parseval's Identity • Implementation of Discrete Time Systems

Module 4: Design of Digital filters (12 hours)

Design of FIR Digital filters: Window method, Park-McClellan's method • Design of IIR Digital Filters: Butterworth, Chebyshev and Elliptic Approximations • Low-pass, Band-pass, Band-stop and High-pass filters • Effect of finite register length in FIR filter design • Parametric and non-parametric spectral estimation • Introduction to multi-rate signal processing

Module 5: Applications of Digital Signal Processing (6 hours)

Correlation Functions and Power Spectra • Stationary Processes • Optimal filtering using ARMA Model • Linear Mean-Square Estimation • Wiener Filter

Module 1: Transmission Lines (6 hours)

Introduction, Concept of distributed elements • Equations of voltage and current • Standing waves and impedance transformation • Lossless and low-loss transmission lines • Power transfer on a transmission line • Analysis of transmission line in terms of admittances • Transmission line calculations with the help of Smith chart • Applications of transmission line • Impedance matching using transmission lines

Module 2: Maxwell's Equations (6 hours)

Basic quantities of Electromagnetics • Basic laws of Electromagnetics: Gauss's law, Ampere's Circuital law, Faraday's law of Electromagnetic induction • Maxwell's equations • Surface charge and surface current • Boundary conditions at media interface

Module 3: Uniform Plane Wave (7 hours)

Homogeneous unbound medium • Wave equation for time harmonic fields • Solution of the wave equation • Uniform plane wave • Wave polarization • Wave propagation in conducting medium • Phase velocity of a wave • Power flow and Poynting vector

Module 4: Plane Waves at Media Interface (7 hours)

Plane wave in arbitrary direction • Plane wave at dielectric interface • Reflection and refraction of waves at dielectric interface • Total internal reflection • Wave polarization at media interface • Brewster angle • Fields and power flow at media interface • Lossy media interface • Reflection from conducting boundary

Module 5: Waveguides (7 hours)

Parallel plane waveguide: Transverse Electric (TE) mode, transverse Magnetic(TM) mode • Cut-off frequency, Phase velocity and dispersion • Transverse Electromagnetic (TEM) mode • Analysis of waveguide-general approach • Rectangular waveguides

Module 6: Antennas (7 hours)

Radiation parameters of antenna • Potential functions • Solution for potential functions • Radiations from Hertz dipole • Near field, Far field • Total power radiated by dipole • Radiation resistance and radiation pattern of Hertz dipole • Hertz dipole in receiving mode

Module 1: Introduction (6 hours)

Conventional design methodology • Computer aided design aspects – Advantages • Review of basic fundamentals of Electrostatics and Electromagnetics • Development of Helmholtz equation • Energy transformer vectors- Poynting and Slepian • Magnetic Diffusion-transients and time-harmonic

Module 2: Analytical Methods (6 hours)

Analytical methods of solving field equations • Method of separation of variables • Roth's method • Integral methods- Green's function • Method of images

Module 3: Finite Difference Method (FDM) (7 hours)

Finite Difference schemes • Treatment of irregular boundaries • Accuracy and stability of FD solutions • Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method- Uniqueness and convergence

Module 4: Finite Element Method (FEM) (7 hours)

Overview of FEM • Variational and Galerkin Methods • Shape functions • Lower and higher order elements • Vector elements • 2D and 3D finite elements • Efficient finite element computations

Module 5: Special Topics (7 hours)

Background of experimental methods-electrolytic tank, R-C network solution, Field plotting (graphical method) • Hybrid methods • Coupled circuit - field computations • Electromagnetic - thermal and electromagnetic - structural coupled computations • Solution of equations • Method of moments • Poisson's fields

Module 6: Applications (7 hours)

Low frequency electrical devices • Static / time-harmonic / transient problems in transformers, rotating machines, actuators • CAD packages