Environmental Science and Engineering
Awareness of the impact of environment on quality of life– natural resources– biological systems– bio-geo chemical cycles– chemical processes; water treatment operations, water sampling, storage, quality measurement– oxygen demand– detection of pollutants– current environmental issues; pollutants, global warming, causes and consequences, air pollution, organic and inorganic air pollutants, smog-acid mine drainage, accumulation of salts in water– soil formation; micro and macro nutrients in soil, pollutants in soil– green chemistry- an alternative tool for reducing pollution– engineering int
Aerospace Structures Lab
Buckling of struts – Experiments on thin-walled pressure vessel – Unsymmetrical bending and shear center measurements – Measurement of strain using strain gauges – Shear force in a beam – Deflection of beams and cantilevers – Continuous and indeterminate beams.
Principles of Management Systems
Industrial Management: development of management thought – management functions – planning – organizing power and authority – organization structures – span of control – delegation, leadership, directing and controlling – management by objectives – forecasting models – functional areas of management – entrepreneurship.
Modeling and Analysis Lab
- Modeling and analysis using FEM: Geometric modeling and finite element meshing of beam, plate and solid structures – stress, free vibration and buckling analyses
- Modeling and simulation of multi-rigid body systems using Scilab/MATLAB/ADAMS
- Modeling of heat transfer and fluid flow
Theory of Elasticity
Introduction to tensors – introduction to theory of elasticity – strain and stress descriptions – stress-strain relations – thermal stresses – plane stress and plane strain – stress functions – torsion of solid sections – virtual work-energy methods – fracture mechanics – introduction of dynamics of structures.
Aerodynamics Lab
Theory: Types of wind tunnels – uncertainty analysis – measurement & flow visualization tech- niques– basics of data acquisition and signal processing.
Experiments: Measurement of lift and drag on airfoil and cylinder using various methods (pressure measurements, wake survey, and force balance) – flow visualization (smoke, oil, and optical) – free jet characteristics.
Automatic Control
Examples of controlled systems, open loop and feedback control, control system components – mod- eling of physical systems, block diagrams – review of Laplace transform, transfer function – time domain and frequency domain responses – stability, poles and zeros, Routh-Hurwitz criterion – root locus – Bode plot, Nyquist criterion – PID controller, lead and lag compensators – examples from aerospace and mechanical systems – introductions to state-space representation – stability criterion – concepts of controllability and observabilty.