Bachelor of Technology (Aerospace Engineering)

MATH 114 Applied Mathematics – I

The knowledge of Mathematics is necessary for a better understanding of almost all the Engineering and Science subjects.  Here our intention is to make the students acquainted with the concept of basic topics from Mathematics, which they need to pursue their Engineering degree in different disciplines.

CHEM136 Engineering Chemistry

The objective of the course is to give the students a general view on the industrial applications of chemistry in field of water technology, fuel quality, effect of corrosion and measures for control and usage of lubricants. It also gives a basic knowledge of instrumental methods.

ES103 Basic Electrical Engineering

The aim of this course is to make students aware of basic concepts of Electrical Engineering like Fundamental laws & Theorems, Analysis of AC & DC Circuits and working principles of Electrical Machines.

EVS104 Environmental Studies

This course aims to provide students with the scientific background needed to understand how the Earth works and how we, as human beings, fit into that. At the end of the course, it is expected that students will be able to identify and analyze environmental problems as well as the risks associated with these problems and understand what it is to be a steward in the environment, studying how to live their lives in a more sustainable manner.

ES104 Engineering Graphics Lab

This course will provide students with concepts on the drawings of curves like a straight line, parabola, ellipse etc. After completion of this course, students will be able to draw different figures manually and will be capable of using various instruments involved in drawings.

BC105 Technical Communication – I

FBL Foreign Language – I

MATH122 Applied Mathematics – II

This course enables the students to analyze techniques to solve differential equations, complex analysis problems and Laplace transform, which can be further applied to solve practical engineering problems in fluid dynamics, mechanics and modelling of simple electrical circuits etc.

PHYS132 Engineering Physics

This course aims to introduce the students to graduate-level physics fundamentals, which form the basis of all Applied Science and Engineering disciplines. After completing this course, students will gain the basic knowledge of EM waves, Optics and relativistic mechanics. Further, they will be able to apply these basic ideas in Engineering applications.

ES202 Introduction to Computers and Programming in C

The course aims to familiarise students with various important features of procedure-oriented programming language, i.e. C. This course guides the students to develop and modify C programs and to implement basic projects.

ES102 Elements of Mechanical Engineering Lab

This course will provide students with concepts on the drawings of curves like a straight line, parabola, ellipse etc. After completion of this course, students will be able to draw different figures manually and will be capable of using various instruments involved in drawings.

ES101 Engineering Mechanics

The objective of this course is to provide fundamental knowledge of the force system and its effect on the behaviour of the bodies that may be in a dynamic or in a static state. It includes the equilibrium of different structures like beams, frames, trusses etc. and the force transfer mechanism in the different components of a body under given loading conditions.

BC105 Technical Communication – II

FBL Foreign Language – II

MATH211 Applied Mathematics - III

The objective of the course is to introduce Fourier series analysis which is central to many applications in engineering apart from its use in solving boundary value problems. This course will acquaint the student with Fourier transform techniques used in various situations. To introduce practical mathematical tools for the solutions of partial differential equations that model several physical processes and to develop transform methods for discrete-time systems.

MAE202 Mechanics of Solids

The objective of this course is to make the students understand the concept of stress and strain in different types of structure/machine under different loading conditions. The course also covers the simple and compound stresses due to forces, stresses and deflections in beams due to bending, torsion in circular section, strain energy, different theories of failure, stress in thin cylinder and spheres due to external and internal pressure. 

MAE212 Thermodynamics

Objective of this course is to impart a depth understanding of the principles of thermodynamics and heat transfer. This course also helps students understand the application of basic fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer principles and techniques, including the use of empirical data, the analysis of representative fluid and thermal energy components and systems encountered in the practice of electrical, electronic, industrial, and related disciplines of engineering. 

AERO206 Fluid Mechanics

The objective of Mechanics of Fluids is to make the students to understand the properties of fluids, pressure measurement devices, hydraulic forces on surfaces, bouncy and flotation in fluids, kinematics and static behaviour of fluids, dimension and model analysis, laminar and turbulent flow, flow through pipes and orifices, and boundary layer theory.

AERO201 Elements of Aerospace Engineering

Being a foundation course for aerospace students, its objective is to provide introductory knowledge about some of the topics of aerospace engineering, such as, flight vehicles, principles of flight mechanics, propulsion systems, aerospace structures and layout of airport.

ANT201 Elements of Aeronautics Lab

This course will briefly explain airfoils and wind tunnels. The subjects included are the study on geometric parameters, airfoils classification, and practical sessions on generating different airfoils profiles. In addition, a basic understanding of wind tunnels, the wind tunnel applications in aeronautics, and a demo class in wind tunnels with symmetric & asymmetric airfoils for flow visualization. The flow visualization will also be conducted with the help of simulation software.

ES201 Basic Electronics Engineering

The objective of this course is to introduce semiconductor devices like diodes, BJT transistor, FET MOSFET, operational amplifier and its application. This course also familiarizes students about the basics of Digital Electronics circuits like combinational & sequential circuits along with logic families.

ES203 Object Oriented Programming Using C++

The objective of the course is to identify the basic difference between the programming approaches like procedural and object oriented; and implement the various features of OOP such as inheritance, polymorphism, Exceptional handling etc. using programming language C++.

ETIN101 Internship I

FBL Foreign Language – III

BS207 Self-Reliance and Socialization

ES204 Basic Simulation Lab

The purpose of this course is to provide a thorough introduction to MATLAB with an in depth study of various arithmetic, logical and mathematical operations with plots. Application of MATLAB to basic engineering techniques.

MATH242 Applied Mathematics – IV

The course equips students with numerical analysis tools, which provide solutions to practical problems when more conventional analytical approaches fall short. Additionally, students become familiar with all of the fundamental statistics ideas that will aid them in a variety of fields in the upcoming semesters. Applications of this course include probability, probability distribution, and curve fitting issues in business and engineering difficulties.

AERO202 Aerodynamics – I

In this course, aerospace students are to learn the concepts of flow measurements, fluid motion, and the governing equations for incompressible/compressible flows. The students are, thus, in a position to analyze the behavior of various aerodynamic forces that act upon the bodies kept in the flow fields, the aerodynamic characteristics of incompressible flow over thin airfoils and finite wings, and derivation of linearized equation for the velocity potential for incompressible flow.

AERO203 Propulsion – I

This course is aimed at providing the students the basic knowledge and governing laws of various modes of heat transfer, aero and thermodynamic aspects of propulsive devices, such as propellers, piston type and turbine type aero engines, their performance parameters and the essential knowledge of fuel combustion, standard ratings of aviation field and propellants used in rocket engines. With this basic knowledge of fuel combustion. standard ratings of aviation fuels and propellants used in rocket engines. With this basic knowledge, the student can study advanced propulsion systems.

AERO204 Aircraft Structures - I

In this course, aerospace students will learn the concepts and basic structural analysis of 2-D members in Cartesian and Polar coordinates using various methods. Students will also understand the analysis of torsional loads on bars, shells and walled tubes as well as the analysis of statically indeterminate structures.

FBL Foreign Language – IV

AERO303 Aerodynamics – II

At the end of this course, the student will be able to differ compressible and incompressible aerodynamics. The student will also be able to understand the differences between subsonic and supersonic flow aerodynamics. Students will have exposure to recent advances made in transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flows and familiarize themselves with the numerical method of characteristics.

AERO304 Propulsion – II

This course aims to make the students understand the flow dynamics of supersonic and compressible flows through compressors, combustion chambers, nozzles, turbine passages, and flows involving heat transfer and frictional effects. The difference in the performance analysis of a turbine engine in ideal and real conditions is also discussed so that the students can appreciate the need to study both of these situations. 

AERO305 Aircraft Structures – II

This course aims to make the students understand the analytical study of the buckling behavior of columns and plates. The students will also study the post-buckling behavior of plates and the field beams under tension.

ANT202 Fundamental of Product Design and Development

The objective of the course is to impart knowledge on the strategies, processes, and methods used for new product development. The students will be able to get acquainted with techniques and tools for managing different stages of product development.

AERO422 Heat Transfer

This course aims to provide the students essential knowledge on various modes of heat transfer and its application in solving problems related to the aero-thermodynamics of rockets and launch vehicles. Specifically, this course would deal with aero-thermal design and analysis of various-rocket systems. 

AERO301 Aircraft Materials & Processes

This course builds up a strong knowledge base for aerospace students regarding various important materials used in aircraft manufacture, including certain salient manufacturing processes specific to aircraft manufacturing. The course also covers the design principles of jigs and fixtures, electron beam welding, etc., used for manufacturing various components and assemblies of aircraft to ensure symmetry of the geometric shapes and to obtain accuracy/repeatability n dimensions.

AERO315 Airplane Systems and Instruments

The objective of this course is to deliver the basic characteristics of aircraft systems and instruments. To make the students understand the principle and workings of various systems and explain the construction and working of instruments used in aircraft.

SKE301 Aptitude and Reasoning Ability

This course helps to enhance the employability skills of students. It aims to improve aptitude, problem solving skills, logical and verbal reasoning of the student. Students shall be able to apply the learning in different competitive exams/entrance exams for placement/higher studies.

ETIN102 Internship II

BS309 Cognitive Skills, Leadership and Decision Making

FBL Foreign Language – V

Semester 6

AERO313 Aircraft Design 

This course is to make the students understand various design requirements, including those laid down by the DGCA, both structural and aerodynamic design considerations, for different types of airplanes and how the design of an airplane is guided by its performance requirements as covered by the V-n diagram for both civil and military type airplanes.

AERO312 Aircraft Stability & Control

This course aims to make the students understand various aspects of an aircraft in flight, both stick fixed and stick free, and how geometric features of control surfaces and their proper angular movements achieve it. Students are also given an analytical understanding of longitudinal, lateral, and directional stability and measurements that can be taken to control the same.

AERO311 Airplane Performance

This course is designed to make the students understand the characteristics of a standard atmosphere, how the flying bodies perform in the available atmosphere conditions, the interplay of aerodynamic forces to maintain the flying object in steady accelerated flight, perform maneuvers and be subjected to control at different flying speeds.

AERO401 Aircraft Composite Materials

The objective of this course is to provide an understanding of the strength and stress behavior of composite materials as explained by certain recent theories on the subject. The students are to be equipped with the knowledge of the composite material performance under fatigue, impact, and other adverse conditions that an aircraft is subjected to.

AERO314 Basics of Machine Learning 

SPAC409 Unmanned Aircraft Systems

The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the ever-growing filed of commercial and military Unmanned Aerospace Vehicles, their guiding principles and design of components and support systems.

SPAC413 Elementary Soft Computing

This course aims to teach aerospace students to understand the elementary and advanced concepts of soft computing, including a revision on the artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, neuro-fuzzy modeling and genetic algorithms.

AERO416 Theory of Vibrations

This course is designed to provide adequate knowledge to analyse one-degree and multi-degree of freedom systems of vibrations using different methods to determine their natural frequencies and frequency/amplitude responses.

AERO302 Aircraft Quality Control, Quality Assurance and Certification

In aerospace and manufacturing quality control and quality assurance is a set of measures taken to ensure that defective airborne/ground aviation products or services are not produced and that the aviation design meets airplane performance requirements. Course includes the regulation of the quality of raw materials, assemblies, products and components, series related to production, and management, production and inspection processes as per international standards.

ANT203 Fundamentals of CAT (Aero)

The objective of this course is to make the students learn the application of computer software in various stages of product design, virtual verification, and Product Lifecycle Management. To impart knowledge on the tools and techniques of Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Multibody dynamic (MBD), and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)).

SPAC 323 Aerospace Embedded System

The basic objective of this course is to provide students with knowledge of how embedded systems are designed around a microcontroller for aerospace applications. 

AERO205 Aircraft Maintenance

This course is designed to provide knowledge to the students about all types of preventive maintenance: repairs, overhauls, calibrations, rigging and testing of aircraft and its instruments and components/systems etc. This course also provides the knowledge of layout of aircraft structure, corrosion of aircraft components and its prevention and use of FRP components and maintenance requirements associated with it.

SKE304 Aerospace Employability and Career Enhancement

This course deals with employability enhancement by training students on different aspects of Aerospace Engineering that will help them get adequately skilled and more readily employable.

FBL Foreign Language – VI

ECON132 Economics for Engineers

The objective of this course is to familiarize prospective engineers with the elementary principles of economics. It also deals with acquainting the students with standard concepts and tools that they are likely to find useful in their profession when employed in the firm/industry/corporation in the public or private sector. It also seeks to create awareness about the status of the current economic parameters /indicators/ policy debates.

HIST138 Aspects of Indian History for Engineers

The course is designed to provide an adequate understanding of the history and scientific achievements of Ancient India.

LAW132 Law for Engineers

The aim of the course is to provide general exposure to the students about the elementary knowledge of the law that would be of utility in their profession, to enable the students to appreciate the importance of law and its impact on business and society.

SOC104 Sociology for Engineers

The objective of the course is to familiarize the prospective engineers with elements of Indian history and sociological concepts and theories by which they could understand contemporary issues, to understand the problems in Indian society, and enable its student to analyze critically the social processes of globalization, modernization and social change.

AERO413 Flight Dynamics

This course is designed to make the students understand the complexities of airplane and rocket dynamics. Six degrees of freedom of flight vehicles, along with stability and control aspects. A comprehensive analysis of aircraft motion and stability will be stressed in this course.

AERO412 Boundary Layer Theory

This course will provide knowledge of basic concepts of momentum and thermal boundary layers, formulation of equations and solutions given by different investigators in case of flat surface and axi-symmetric bodies. The study involves the analysis and understanding of empirical results for laminar boundary layer, transition and turbulent boundary layer.

AERO414 Principles of Helicopter Engineering

This course is designed to provide knowledge about various terms connected with aerodynamics, flight performance, stability and control of a helicopter with particular emphasis to rotor blades. The students will also understand various parameters of propulsion systems used in helicopters and certain aspects of rotor performance and design.

AERO423 Computational Fluid Dynamics

This course will introduce the discretization techniques to solve the essential flow equation like the N-S equation and RANS, which are in complex partial differential forms, techniques to model the entire flow domain into regular and irregular grid systems, and adopting the suitable boundary condition to solve them. The course will also teach the common errors and solutions instabilities in the numerical analysis of any flow problem.

AERO424 Introduction to Finite Element Method

This course will introduce numerical analysis techniques to solve the various problems related to structural loading like bending, deflection, and buckling, etc. It will teach the students how to model the loading problems in structures like trusses and beam which cannot be easily solved by analytical approaches. 

AERO402 Experimental Aerodynamics

This course aims to make the student understand various types of wind tunnels, flow visualization techniques, measuring equipment and data acquisition systems.

SPAC405 Aerospace Power Electronics

This course aims to introduce the theory of operation, analytical and circuit models and to design Aerospace Electrical Power generation, conversion and control.

AERO403 Rockets & Missiles

This course is aimed to provide knowledge of rockets and missiles, their performance, stability and control, launch operation and re-entry. The course also covers methods of stabilization and mathematical treatment of stability and maneuverability.

AERO415 Introduction to Automatic Flight Control

This course is designed to provide adequate knowledge to analyze a system's single and multi-degrees of freedom. The stability parameters of a system are established using time-domain and frequency-domain analysis.

AERO 421 Aeroelasticity

This course is prepared with the objective that the students will gain knowledge of aero-elastic nature of the materials used on an aircraft, its effect on the aerodynamic forces, stability and performance of the aircraft; effects like flutter are studied analytically. 

SPAC 412 Aerospace Software Engineering

The objective of the course is to familiarize the students with the software engineering processes, testing, and verification. The methods employed to develop mission-critical aerospace systems.

SPAC 407 Basics of System Simulation & Modeling

The objective of the course is to acquaint students with the basics methods of simulation using Simulink, MATLAB, and object-oriented language.

STSI103 Summer Internship - III

ETMN100 Minor Project 

This course is non-teaching credit course (NTCC) where students will compete a 6-8 weeks internship in industry and prepare a report on it.

FBL Foreign Language – VII

ETMJ100 Major Project

Project gives students an opportunity to work intensively on a substantial problem to demonstrate their own creativity and originality. Additionally, they will apply knowledge, skills, and methodologies they have learned throughout the degree program when appropriate. Students learn about the research and development (R&D) cycle as well as technical methods for evaluating, designing, developing, synthesizing, and testing integrated systems. Software, Simulation tools, hardware, manufacturing machines, site visits, a hands-on and team-oriented approach, and faculty support are used complete the project.