AMIE

The attraction of AMIE is its flexibility in completion time. Apart from convent
ional
courses, the AMIE doesn t have a fixed completion time . Normally 6 years are availab
le for
clearing Section A subjects and another 6 years for completing Section B.
EXAMINATION
AMIE examinations are conducted in the first week of June and December every yea
r.
There are a lot of examination centers in India and Abroad. A student can appear
for maximum 4
subjects at a time. Thus, a diploma holder can write all the 4 subjects of Secti
on A in single
appearance. Examination fee is Rs 1200/- per appearance (not per subject). The e
xamination centre
need be selected only at the time of submitting application form for examination
.
HOW TO JOIN
For appearing AMIE examinations, one should get membership with Institution of
Engineers. In order to get membership you should apply in the prescribed applica
tion form.
Application form for membership registration can be had directly from any of the
local centers of
Institution of Engineers at a cost of 100/-.
Diploma holders should apply for senior Technician Membership, and +2 (or equiva
lent)
holders should apply for Technician membership.
If you haven t applied for registration so far, do it before August 2008, so that
you may be
eligible to appear for next examination in December 2008. Once you submitted the
application
form for registration, you must wait for at least 3 months for getting your regi
stration confirmation
3
letter. But if you have properly filled up the form and have remitted the correc
t amount of
registration fee (Rs 3565/-), then definitely you will get the registration.
Documents Required
Along with the application form, you should attach the following.
1. Two passport size photographs to be affixed on the application form.
2. Attested copy of Matriculation/School leaving certificate to prove your age.
3. Attested copy of +2/HSC certificate (if applicable) to prove your educational
qualification
4. Attested copy of you Diploma certificate and marks sheet (if applicable) to p
rove your
educational qualification.
5. Demand draft of Rs 3565/- drawn in favour of Institution of Engineers (India) ,
Payable at
Kolkota.
6. Write your name and address on the reverse of the Demand Draft.
7. Keep a Xerox copy of all that you send.
8. Get your qualification and identity verified by any AMIE/MIE/FIE holder. In o
rder to do
this you have to conduct any AMIE/MIE/FIE holder and he will attest your photogr
aph on
the application form, and on production of your certificate he will verify your
qualification
on the space provided on the application form. Regarding this attestation you ca
n contact
any local/State centre nearest to you.
9. Send this application form to IEI, Kolkota at the earliest. If the applicatio
n form reaches
there before August, you will be eligible to appear for December examination.
Once you send the application form to Kolkota, you may not get any correspondenc
e
from there for 2 to 3 months. This doesn t mean that your application was not cons
idered. Normally
it takes 2 to 3 months to process your application form. During processing your
application form,
first your will get an acknowledgement letter mentioning your RS number . You can n
ote this
number for further enquiry regarding your membership (only if it gets delayed to
o much).
HOW TO STUDY
When joining for correspondence course, you will get study materials of the 4 co
mmon
subject of Section A.. The course fee for these four subjects in
correspondence course will get study materials, Question bank etc of the followi
ng subjects.
1. Fundamentals of Design and Manufacturing
2. Material Science and Engineering
3. Computing and Informatics
4. Society and Environment
Those who need Previous questions bank should remit Rs 250/- extra. The prices m
entioned
above include postage.
Rs 3000/- all those who join the
STUDY MATERIALS
The printed study materials were prepared by a team of teachers who had long per
iods of
teaching experience exclusively in AMIE. The materials are available in neatly p
rinted and bound
form .Each topic in the materials is presented in a self-explanatory style, with
a number of
necessary figures, tables etc.
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"""Electronics & Communication Engg."""

Section A

"FUNDAMENTALS OF DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING"

Group A
Engineering design process and its structure. Identification and analysis of nee
d, product design specifications, standards of performance and constraints.
Searching for design concepts; morphological analysis, brainstorming. Evaluation
of design concepts for physical reliability, economic feasibility and utility.
Detailed design; design for manufacture, assembly, shipping, maintenance, use, a
nd recyclability.
Design checks for clarity, simplicity, modularity and safety. Standardization an
d size ranges. Reliability and robust design. Design organisation and communicat
ion, . technical reports, drawings, presentations and models.
Concept of manufacturing; classification of manufacturing processes. Fundamental
s of casting. Basic understanding of commonly used casting processes (sand casti
ng, investment casting and permanent mould casting processes).
Fundamentals of metal forming; hot and cold working; basic understanding of prim
ary metal forming processes (rolling, forging, extrusion and drawing processes,
punching and blanking).
Group B

Fundamentals of metal cutting; tool-work interaction for production of machined

surfaces. Classification of machining processes. Basic machining operations (tur
ning, shaping, planning, drilling and milling processes).
Fundamentals of grinding and finishing; overview of unconventional machining pro
cesses; fundamentals of welding processes; introduction to primary welding and a
llied processes; selection of manufacturing processes. Design for manufacturabil
ity.
Need for integration-commercial, economic and technological perspective; basic t
ools of integration; concept of a system. introduction to information technology
and its elements.
Introduction to group technology; introduction to simulation and database manage
ment systems.
Elements of integration:-eontrol1ers, sensors, robots, automated machines; AGVs,
AS, RS, etc.
Product and process design- for integration; design for economic manufacturing;
design for manufacturing integration.
Introduction to computer aided process planning; selection of machine tools.

"MATERIAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING"

Group A
Introduction to materials . Metal and alloys, ceramics, polymers and semi conduc
ting materials-introduction and application as engineering materials.
Defects in solids . Point, line and surface defects. Diffusion in solids.
Phase diagrams . Mono-component and binary systems, non-equilibrium system, phas
e diagram and. application in crystalline and non-crystalline solids.
Mechanical properties . Tensile strength, yield strength, elastic and viscoelast
ic properties, creep, stress relaxation and impact. Fracture behaviour. Ductile
fracture, Griffith theory, effect of heat treatment and temperature on propertie
s of metals.
Deformation of metals. Elastic and plastic deformation, slip, twin, dislocation
theory, critical resolved shear stress, deformation in polycrystalline materials
; season cracking, Bachinger's effect, strengthening mechanics; work hardening r
ecovery, crystallization and grain growth, cold and hot working. .
Heat treatment . Iron-carbon system. Annealing, normalising, hardening,. critica
l cooling rate, hardenability, age hardening, surface hardening, tempering.

Thermal properties . High temperature materials; materials for cryogenic applica

tion, thermally insulating materials. (Specific heat, thermal conductivity, ther
mal expansion).

Ceramic materials and polymers . Silicon structures, polymerism . in glass, elec

trical properties of ceramic phases, rocks, building stones, refractories.

Polymerisation mechanism , structural properties of polymer, thermoplastics, the

rmosets, elastomer, resins, composites, particles and fibre reinforced composite
. Composite material including nano material.
Electronic properties . Magnetism, diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism,
magnetic energy, zone theory of solids, zones in conductors and insulators.

"Computer and informatics"

Group A
Programming languages . C including C++; Languages-declarations, expressions, c
ontrol statements, arrays, functions, pointers and structures; Algorithms and fl
ow charts. Introduction to Pascal. 

Informatics . Information systems for decision making; Data management and datab
ase management technology; Office automation system-LAN, WAN, electronic mail, e
lectronic .data interchange; client server technology; overview of TCP/IP; Infor
mation systems for business; Strategic information systems; Information resource
s management.
Group B

Computer basics . History, generations and classification of computers; Number s

ystems; Boolean algebra.

Hardware . Introduction to logic gates an flip flops; components of a computer i

nput/output devices, CPU unit and memory unit, secondary storage.

Software . System software; application software; compilers and translators

Operating systems . Introduction to operating systems;' types of operating syste

ms and their functions; popular operating systems-MS-DOS, UNIX and Windows; file
. management.

"SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT"

Group A
Societal Structures and Dynamics : An analysis of basic sociological concepts an
d the applications to contemporary society; social Stratification caste, class,
cultural heritage, occupation, mobility and income distribution. Social tensions
and their cause societal responsibilities and social institutions.

Development Processes : Parameters for development. Interrelationship between so

cial, economic and scientific factors. Role of science and technology in develop
ment. Planning-its objective and assessment.

Technology Assessment : Historical development of science and technology Criteri

a for assessment of appropriate technology and technology adaptation.
Group B

Ecosystems : Natural ecosystems. Principles of eco-balance, Biosphere cycle, car

bon dioxide. Causes for eco-imbalance - its effects and remedies.

Environmental Degradation : Causes for degradation - its effect. Control of air,

water, soil and noise pollutions. Protection of ozone layer.

Waste Management : Agricultural, urban and industrial waste.

Sustainable Development : Definition and concept. Technology for sustainable ene
rgy and materials.

"section B"

Compulsory Subjects

IC 402 Engineering Management

EC 403 Communication Engineering
EC 404 Circuit Theory and Control
EC 405 Micro-processors and Micro-controllers
EC 406 Electronic Circuits
EC 407 Design of Electronic Devices and Circuits
Optional Subjects (Any three from any one Group)
Group I Telecommunication Engineering
EC 411 Broadcast and Television Engineering
EC 412 Radar and Antenna Engineering
EC 413 Microwave Engineering
EC 414 Optical and Satellite Communication
EC 415 Computer Networks and Communication
Group II Integrated Circuits & Systems Engineering
EC 421 Digital Hardware Design
EC 422 Pulse and Digital Circuits
EC 423 IC Design Techniques
EC 424 Solid State Physics and Semiconductor Devices
EC 425 Software Engineering
Group III Control and Instrumentation
EC 431 Sensors and Transducers
EC 432 Industrial Instrumentation and Computer Control
EC 433 Biomedical Electronics
EC 434 Signal Processing
EC 435 Control Systems

"Engineering Management"

Group A

Management and Organisations

Management process: Definition, planning organizing, directing, controlling, coo
rdinating, types of management.
Organisation Definition, planning, design and development, types of organization
s.
Management planning and control: Classical, new classical and modern principles.
General Management, scientific management, engineering, management, systems man
agement.
Planning: Procedures, resources and constraints, objectives, goals, policies and
procedures.
Control: Setting of reference or standards, appraisal or evaluation, monitoring
and controlling, types of control.
Human resource planning and management, selection, recruitment, training, retrai
ning, skill development, competence development, promotion and career developmen
t, participative management, trade unions, and collective bargaining,
Management of Physical Resources
Plant: site selection procedures, factors affecting selection. Layout-types and
relative merits and demerits, Maintenance-Objectives, different types of associa
ted decisions, strategies for effective maintenance, computer applications.
Material : Functions, objectives, planning and control including inventory model
s with or without storage costs, price break ( excluding dynamic and probabilist
ic considerations). Different classes of inventory. Material Requirement Plannin
g (MRP).
project, project implementation, project planning, scheduling and monitoring, pr
oject control
(PERT, CPM techniques including crashing). Project evaluation.
Information technology and management. Role of information, management informati
on
system and decision support system, Information technology-introduction to e-bus
iness, ecommerce

Group B

Financial management: Introduction to standard forms of financial statements, ie

., balance-sheet, profit and loss, and income statement. Fixed and current asset
items. Fixed and current liability items. Linkage of two successive balance-she
ets through income or profit and loss statement. Funds flow statement. Financial
ratios and their implications.
Managerial economics: Concepts, theory of production, marginal productivity and
cost. Introduction to theory of firm.
Quality management: Quality definition, quality planning, quality control and qu
ality management, Total quality management, ISO 9000 systems, simple quality con
trol techniques like control charts and acceptance sampling.
Marketing management consumer behavior, market research, product design and deve
lopment pricing and promotion.
Project management: Introduction. Concept of a project, project management conce
pts, project simulation, cost or project and means of financing, economic evalua
tion criteria of the project, project implementation, project planning, scheduli
ng and monitoring, project control (PERT, CPM techniques including crashing). Pr
oject evaluation.
Information technology and management. Role of information, management informati
on system and decision support system, Information technology-introduction to e-
business, e-commerce and integration tools like enterprise resource planning (ER
P).
Recommended Books
G Dieter, Engineering Design, McGraw-Hill International.
E S Buffa. Modern Production/Operations Management. New Age International (P) Lt
d., New Delhi.
A K Gupta and J K Sharma. Management of Systems.Macmillan India Ltd., New Delhi

"COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING"
Group A

Field theory: Fields, vector calculus, gradient, Divergence, curl, Gauss's laws.
Stoke'
theorem, Helmholtz Theorem. Electric field intensity and potential, conducting B
oundaries,
coaxial cylinders, Poisson's equations and Laplace equation. Ampere's circuital
law,
differential equation for vector potential. Magnetic polarization and field inte
nsity, boundary
conditions for Band H. Faraday's law. Time varying fields, displacement current.
Maxwell's
equations in differential and integral forms.
Communication preliminaries. Signal representation in frequency and time domain.
Fourier
transforms, power Spectrum, energy density spectrum. ,Direct delta function. Ort
hogonal
representatives of signals (Gram Schmidt Procedure), autocorrelation, sampling t
heressare
(Nyquist criterion). Random signal theory. Discrete probability theory, continuo
us random
variables, probability density functions, ergodic processes, correlation functio
n, spectral
density, white noise.
Noise: Atmospheric, thermal, shot and partition noise, noise figure and experime
ntal
determination of noise figure, minimum noise figures in networks. Analog communi
cation.
Modulation theory and circuits. Amplitude modulation, AM-DSB, AM-DSB/SC, AM-SSB
and their comparison. Modulating and detector circuits for AM, FM and phase modu
lation~
Automatic frequency control. Pulse modulation. PAM, PDM, PPM, PCM, delta modulat
ion
and circuits. Principle multiplexing FDM and TDM.

Group B

Transmission through network: Networks with random input, auto-correlations, spe

cial
density and probability density input-output relationships, envelope of sine wav
e plus
Gaussian noise, optimum systems and nonlinear systems. Maximum signal to noise r
atio'
criterion. Minimum mean square error criteria, equivalent noise bandwidth. SNR i
n envelope
detectors and PCM systems. Comparison of modulation systems.
Digital communication: Basic information theory: Definition of information, entr
opy,
uncertainty and information, rate of communication, redundancy, relation between
systems
capacity and information content of messages, discrete systems, discrete noisy c
hannel,
channel coding.
Introduction to digital communication, quantization, PCM, log-PCM, DM, DPCM, AD,
PCM
and LPC for speech signals, TOM. Baseband transmission, optimum detection, match
edfilter, optimum terminal filters. LSI pulse shapes for controlled ISI, line co
des; digital RF
modulation. Modems, performance of digital modulation systems. Synchronization.
Timing

Recommended Books
J D Krans and D Fleisch. Electromagnetic with Applications. McGraw-Hill Interna
tional, Tokyo.
DBA Carlson. An Introduction to Signals and Noise in Electrical Communication.
McGraw-Hill International, Tokyo.
G Kennedy. Electronic Communication Systems. Prentice- Hall of India (P) Ltd.,
New Delhi.
M Schwartz. Information Transmission, Modulation and Noise. McGraw-Hill Interna
tional, New York.

"CIRCUIT THEORY AND CONTROL"

Group A

Graph of a network. Concept of tree, concepts of loop current and node pair volt
age, circuits
cut-set and cut-set matrices, formulation of equilibrium equations of the loop a
nd node basis.
Mesh and nodal analysis.
Laplace transform. Transient response using Laplace transform. Initial and final
value
theorems. Unit step, impulse, ramp functions. Laplace transform for shifted and'
singular
functions.
The convolution integral, Fourier series, complex exponential form of the Fourie
r series. The
frequency spectra of periodic waveforms and their relationship to Laplace transf
orm.
The concept of complex frequency, transform impedance and admittance; series .an
d parallel
combinations. Frequency response, coupled circuits.
Terminals and terminal pairs, driving point impedance, transfer functions, poles
and zeros,
restrictions on pole and zero locations in s-plane. Analysis of 1-port and 2-por
t networks.
Time domain behavior from pole and zero plot, sinusoidal network functions in te
rms of
poles and zeros. Resonance, Q and bandwidth of a circuit.
Introduction to synthesis of passive networks: Butterworths, Chebyshev and Besse
l type low
pass, high pass, band pass and band rejection filters.

Group B
Introduction: Basic concepts and symbols, open loop and closed loop systems, eff
ects of
feedback. Concepts of linear and nonlinear systems. Definition of transfer funct
ion. Block
diagram representation. Signal flow graphs.
Servo components: Mathematical modelling and simulation of dynamic systems. Sync
hros,
potentiometers, gyros. d.c. and a.c. servomotors. d.c.. and a.c. tachogenerators
. Power and
preamplifiers. Modulators and demodulators. Position and speed control systems.
Time response: Typical test input' signals. Time domain performance of first and
second
order systems to impulse, step, ramp and sinusoidal inputs. Definition of error
coefficients
and steady state error.
Stability: Routh-Hurwitz criteria.
Frequency response: Frequency domain specifications. Bode plots. Polar plots.
Regulators and controllers. Proportional, PI and PID controllers.

Recommended Books
M E Van Valkenburg. Network Analysis. Wiley
International, New York.
F F Kuo. Network Analysis and Synthesis. John Wiley and
Sons, New York.
K Ogata. Modern Control Engineering. Prentice-Hall of
India (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
B C Kuo. Automatic Control Systems. Prentice-Hall of
India (P) Ltd., New Delhi.

"MICROPROCESSOR AND MICRO CONTROLLERS"

Group A

Microprocessor architecture and microcomputer systems, memory systems, input and

output devices. Number systems-binary, hexadecimal and BCD numbers, 2s complemen
t and
arithmetic operations.
8085 microprocessor architecture. Memory interfacing address decoding techniques
,
memory read and write operations. Memory map. Interfacing I/O devices- Memory-ma
pped
I/O and I/O mapped I/O. Polled and interrupt modes of data transfer. 8085 interr
upts, direct
memory access. Introduction to 16-bit microprocessor using 8086 as an example. C
oncept of
debugger and MASM/T ASM for PC assembly language programming.
Peripheral devices. 8255 programmable peripheral interface, 8253 programmable co
unter
timer, serial communication with SID and SOD, 8251 programmable communication
interface, 8259 programmable interrupt controller, keyboard and display devices.
8085 assembly language programming: 8085 instructions-addressing modes. Stack an
d
subroutines. 8085 programmer's model-CPU registers. Addition, subtraction and
multiplication routines. Software delay and counting routines. Logical operation
s. Analog
and digital I/O interface routines-ADC and DAC.
Software development systems: Assemblers and cross assemblers.
Microprocessor applications. Microprocessor based system design aids and trouble
shooting
techniques.

ntroduction to microcontroller: Comparison of various microcontrollers. 8051

microcontroller architecture. Bi-directional data ports, internal ROM and RAM,
counters/timers. Oscillator and clock.
8051 registers. Memory organisations-program memory and data memory, internal RA
M
and bit addressable memory, special functions, registers, memory map.
External memory systems and I/O interface. Accessing external program memory,
accessing external data memory, available I/O ports during external memory acces
s.
Alternate ports functions. Serial interface. 8051 interrupts. Power down modes.
8051 assembly language programming. 8051instruction sets, addressing modes, bit
level
operations. Arithmetic routines, counting and timing under interrupt control, ke
yboard and
display interface routines, accessing lookup tables.
Software development systems. Assemblers and simulators. Microcontroller based s
ystem
design and applications.

Recommended Books
R S Gaonkar. Microprocessor Architecture: Programming
and Applications with 8085. Penram International
Publishing (India), Mumbai.
K J Ayala. The 8051 Microcontroller, Architecture,
Programming and Applications. Pen ram Intern,nior1.1!
Publishing (India), Mumbai.
Tu-Cheng Liu and G A Gibson. Microcomputer Systems:
The 8086/8088 Family, Architecture, Programming and
Design. Prentice-Hall of India (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
S Ahson. Microprocessor with Applications in Process
Control. Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., New
Delhi.

"ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS"
Group A

Blasting techniques of BJT and FETs; Bias stability; Self-bias, hybrid II model
of BJT and
'high frequency response.
Single stage amplifiers-bipolar amplifiers, CE, CB, CC configurations, character
istics, gain,
h-parameters, analysis using h-parameters. FET amplifiers.
Multistage amplifiers-classification, distortion, frequency response, step respo
nse, RCcoupled
amplifiers, transformer coupled amplifiers.
Feedback amplifiers-concept, gain with feedback, negative feedback-example of Bo
ot
strapped CE amplifier, advantages and limitations, input and output impedance; v
oltageseries,
voltage-shunt, current -series, current-shunt feedback amplifiers.
Stability and oscillators-condition of oscillation, sinusoidal oscillator, phase
shift oscillator,
resonant circuit oscillator, Wein bridge oscillator, crystal oscillator, stabili
ty of frequency.
Operational amplifiers-differential amplifiers, transfer characteristics, IC op-
amp functions,
frequency response, step response; introduction to analog computer.
Power amplifiers-class A, B, AB, C amplifiers. Distortion, efficiency, push-pull
principle,
power supply half wave, full wave, ripple factors, filters, regulation.

Group B

Introduction, binary numbers, binary codes.

Boolean algebra-functions and expressions, gates- OR, AND, NOT, NOR, NAND, De
Morgan's theorem, laws and theorems.
Minimization of logical functions-Karnaugh map.
Arithmetic circuits-Ex-OR gate, half adder, full adder, subtraction, code conver
sion, etc.
Basic gate structures-RTL, DTL, Tll.., ECL, MOS, CMOS.
Flip-flops-RS, T, RST, D, JK, Schmidt trigger, astable, monostable:
Counter techniques-Ripple counter, parallel counter.
BCD counter, synchronous counter, ring counter.
Shift registers, memory.
D/ A and A/D converters..
Recommended Books
J Millman and C C Halkias. Integrated Electronics. Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing
Co. Ltd., New Delhi.
J Millman and C C Halkias. Electronic Devices and Circuits. Tata McGraw-Hill Pu
blishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi.
A P Malvino and D Leach. Digital Principles and Applications. Tata McGraw-Hill
Publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi.
John D Ryder. Electronic Fundamentals and Applications. Prentice-Hall of India (
P) Ltd., New Delhi.

"DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS"

Group A

Introduction to linear ICs. Operational amplifiers and their basic applications;

audio/radio/video ICs and their specifications.
Power supplies. Rectifiers, filters and electronic stabilization circuits, consi
derations
regarding ripple, regulation and efficiency, short circuit protection; polyphase
rectifiers,
electronic converters, applications in industry. Introduction to UPS.
IC voltage regulators. Positive and negative voltage regulators, adjustable volt
age
regulators, high current short circuit protected regulators, dual tracking regul
ations,
programmable supply, current regulators, witching regulators, fold back current
limited and
shutdown Circuits.
Amplifiers: Inverting amplifiers, non-inverting amplifiers, differential amplifi
ers, integrator
and differentiator, logarithmic amplifiers and multipliers, filters, voltage to
frequency
converters, sample and hold circuit, high input impedance amplifiers, instrument
ation
amplifiers, sensing amplifiers and comparators, zero crossing detector.

Group B
Oscillators. Expression for oscillation frequency and conditions for maintenance
of
oscillations, sine wave oscillators, multivibrators, function generators, voltag
e controlled
oscillators, crystal oscillators.
Communication circuits. RF and IF amplifiers, video amplifiers, AM detectors, ba
lanced
modulators and demodulators, phase locked loop, FM demodulation, frequency shift
keying,
frequency multiplication.
Digital systems. Frequency counters, A/D and D/A converters, digital voltmeters,
programmable digital generators, frequency synthesizer. Design of ALU.
Recommended Books
B S Sonde. Introduction to System Design using Integrated
Circuits. New Age International (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
F C Fitchen. Electronic Integrated Circuits and Systems.
Van Nostrand, New York.
"OPTIONAL SUBJECT"

INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL

SENSORS AND TRANSDUCERS

Group A
Functional description of instrumentation systems. Performance characteristics-s
tatic and dynamic, time and frequency responses.
Electrical passive transducers. Hot wire anemometers and associated circuit, LVD
T and phase-sensitive detection, variable reluctance type transducers and associ
ated circuits. Capacitive microphone and associated circuits.
Magnetostrictive transducers: Magnetostrictive materials and their application t
o measurement of force. Hall transducers: principles and applications.
Thermocouple, semiconductor-type temperature sensors.
Piezoelectric transducers: Piezoelectric crystal and its properties, sensitive c
oefficie~1tS, ferroelectric materials. bimorph, charge amplifiers, measurement o
f force.
Group B
Signal conditioning: Push-pull arrangement and reduction of non-linearity. Linea
rizing circuits and their applications. Differential amplifiers, instrumentation
amplifiers, logarithmic amplifiers. Sources of noise and
their reduction, grounding and shielding techniques.
Special transducers: Digital shaft encoders. DC and AC tachogenerators, synchros
.
Actuators and servos: DC and AC servomotors, step motors. Elastic transducers: S
prings bellows, diaphragms, Bourdon tubes-their characteristics and applications
, combination of elastic and electrical transducers.
Pneumatic sensors.

RecommendedBooks

E O Doebelin. Measurement SysIems:Application and

Design. McGraw-Hili International.
D Patranabis. Sensors and Transducers. S. Chand & Co.
Ltd., New Delhi.
D VSMurthy. Transducersand Instrumentation. Prentice-
Hall of India (P) Ltd., New Delhi.

"INDUSTRIAL INSTRUMENTATION AND COMPUTER CONTROL

Group A"
Ultrasonic devices and their applications for sensing and non-destructive testin
g.
Radio isotopes and their applications. Radio isotope sources, nucleonic detector
s, ionization chambers, proportional-Geiger Mueller-and. scintillation-counters.
Ionization gauges and nucleonic gauges for measurement of thickness, density, p
ressure, flow, etc.
Optical transducers: LDR, LEDs, lasers, photodiodes, photo multiplier Tubes, IR
and UV detectors. Applications to industrial and pollution measurement. Introduc
tion to optical fibre based sensors.
Microwave sensors: Doppler shift technique for velocity measurement.
Sampling techniques for liquids and gases for analysis purposes. Gas analysis, g
as chromatography, thermal conductivity method, heat of reaction method. Paramag
netic oxygen meters.

Group B
Humidity and moisture measurement, measurement of viscosity, pH measurement, ele
ctrical conductivity measurement.
Spectrochemical analysis: Mass spectrometry, emission spectrometry, absorption s
pectrometry.
Different types of digital control. Single loop and multiloop, direct digital co
ntrol, software implementation of multiloop controllers. Sequence control: Progr
ammable logic controllers, relay ladder logic programming.
Supervisory control: Functionality, process optimization, process monitoring. Ma
n-machine interfaces. On-line computer control of processes.

Recommended Books

1. D Patranabis.Principlesof IndustrialInstrumentation.Tata
McGraw-HiliPublishingCo. Ltd., New Delhi.
2. E B Jones. Instrument Technology-Vol n. Analysis
Instruments.ButterworthsScientificPublication,London.
3. J G Bollinger and N A Duffil. Computer Control of
Machinesand Processes.Addison-WesleyPublishingCo.,
New York.

"CONTROL SYSTEMS"

Group A
Frequency response techniques: Nyquist criteria-the principle of argument, the N
yquist path; Nyquist criteria for stability, effect of addition of poles and zer
os on the shape of Nyquist locus.
Relative stability_ Determination of gain margin and phase margin from Nyquist a
nd Bode plots. Constant M and N loci in the G-plane; Nichol's charts. Applicatio
n of Nichol's charts.
State space techniques: State variable analysis of dynamical systems, canonical
forms, controllability and observability, stability. Introduction to optimal con
trol, quadratic performance index and regulator problems.

Group B
Compensation techniques: Specifications of control systems in time and frequency
domains. Series compensations-lag, lead and lag-lead design using Bode plots. L
inear system design by state variable feedback.
Discrete data systems: Z-transforms and inverse Z-transforms, stability-unit cir
cle, bilinear transform, Jury's stability criterion. Difference equations. Types
of digital control of plants.
Nonlinear elements and systems: Phase-plane and describing function methods. Sta
bility analysis and Liapunov's method.

Recommended Books

I J Nagrath and M Gopal. Control System Engineering.

New Age International (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
M Gopal. Modern Control Theory. Prentice-Hall of India
(P) Ltd., New Delhi.
K Ogata. Modern Control Engineering. Prentice-Hall of
India (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
4. J W Webb. Programmable Controllers: Principles and
Applications.Merril PublishingCo., Columbus,USA.