Semester I

AIT 111 FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTERS 3(2+1)

UNIT I

Introduction, Digital and Analog computer, Characteristics of computer, History of Computer, Generation of Computer, Classification of Computer, Application of Computers, Types of Programming Languages : Machine Languages, Assembly Languages, High Level Languages

UNIT II

Input/ Output Units

Computer Keyboard, Pointing Devices: Mouse, Trackball, Touch Panel, and Joystick, Light Pen, Scanners, Various types of Monitors, Touch-sensitive screens, Optical Recognition System, Pen based systems, Digitizers, MICR, OCR, OMR, Bar-code Reader, digital camera. Impact and Non- Impact Printers- Daisy Wheel, Dot Matrix, Line Printer, Non Impact Printers- DeskJet, Laser Printer, Barcode Printers and plotters.

UNIT III

The Computer System Hardware

Introduction, Central Processing Unit, Memory Unit : Memory Introduction, Classifications- Volatile Memory and Non- Volatile , Flash Memory, ROM, RAM, EPROM, PROM, EEPROM other types of memory, Microprocessor, Interconnecting the Units of a Computer, Performance of a Computer, Inside a Computer Cabinet, Introduction to Emerging Technologies

Storage Unit

characteristics of magnetic disks, characteristics of a hard disk, types of miniature, external, and removable hard disks, characteristics of optical disks, Differentiate among various CD and DVD formats, Identify the uses of tape, PC Cards and the various types of miniature mobile storage media

UNIT IV

Number Systems, Number Conversions, Logic Gates

Decimal and Binary Number Systems, Octal and Hexadecimal Number System, Decimal (Integer) to Binary Conversion, Decimal to Octal Conversion, Logical Operators, Truth Tables, Boolean Expressions and Logic Gates

Networking Fundamentals

Types of Network, Device and Peripherals, Wire and Wireless Networking, Network topology, Network Protocol, Intranet and Internet Specifications, WWW, Making a Cat5 or Cat6 cable

UNIT V

User-Computer Interface, Applications and Security Interaction of User and Computer

Introduction, Types of Software, System Software, Application Software

Operating System

Introduction, Objectives of Operating System, Types of OS, Functions of OS

User Interface, Examples of Operating Systems, Introduction to Mobile operating systems MS-DOS

File naming rules, Wild card characters, Internal & External commands, dir, mkdir, chdir, type, copy, xcopy, delete, rename, format, sys, label, scandisk, attrib, path, prompt, date, time, tree, deltree, defrag, edit, etc. File Allocation Table (FAT), autoexec.bat & Config.sys

Window XP/ 7

Introduction, Features of Windows XP/7, The Desktop, Structure of Windows, Windows XP/7 Explorer, The Search, The Recycle Bin, Configuring the Screen, Configuring the Mouse, Adding or Removing Programs, Adding New Hardware, System Tools, The Scandisk, Windows XP Media Player, Windows XP/7 Help,

Introduction to Multimedia

Introduction, Multimedia: Definition, Characteristics of Multimedia System Elements of Multimedia, Multimedia System, Multimedia Applications

Introduction to Computer Security

Introduction, Security Threat and Security Attack, Malicious Software, Hacking Users Identifications and

Authentication

Practical

Computer Innards

Input and Output Device
PC and Laptop Demonstration
Computer assembling (using different peripherals )
Exploring the Basics of Windows XP/7

Dos Commands
Introduction to Internet, e-mail, browser, search engines
Introduction to Network Component (Different Switch, Router, Cable, RJ 45, I/O socket, Fibber etc)
Draw a network diagram for different places.
Cable (Cat5 or Cat6) crimping

Installation/Un-installation of System Software in computer
Installation/Un-installation of Application Software in windows

Reference Books

Fundamentals of Computers, By V. Rajaraman Publisher: Prentice-Hall of India.
COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS, Author: Dr. LARRY LONG, Publisher: WILEY INDIA PVT LTD

Computer Fundamentals by Anita Goel
FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTERS by E Balagurusamy

AIT 112 PROGRAMMING IN C 4(2+2)

UNIT I

Introduction to Flowcharts and Algorithms, need of Computer languages and types of computer languages.

UNIT II

C character set, Identifiers and keywords, Data types, Declarations, Expressions, statements and symbolic constants, Operators.

UNIT III

Basic input/output library functions, control statements, storage types, Defining and accessing, passing arguments, Function prototypes, Recursion, Library functions.

UNIT IV

Defining and processing Arrays, Passing arrays to a function, Multi dimensional arrays, Define String, Using the String, Printing a String, String inbuilt Functions (string.h).

UNIT V

Define Pointer, Pointer Arithmetic, passing pointer to function, Function data return with a Pointer, Define structure, passing structure to a function, Unions, typedef, array of structure and pointer to structure.

Practical

Explain & Practice for structure of C program and its basic constructs

Explain & Practice for basic input/output library functions
Explain & Practice for conditional statement
Explain & Practice for Loop statements.
Practice for series programs.
Explain & Practice for functions.

Explain & Practice for Arrays.
Explain & Practice for Multidimensional array.
Explain & Practice for String manipulation.
Explain & Practice for Pointers.
Explain & Practice for structures.

Explain & Practice for union.

Reference Books

Let US C –By Yashwant Karnetkar
C – programming E.Balagurusamy Tata McGray Hill

Schaum’s outline of Theory and Problems of programming with C : Gottfried
Complete reference with C Tata McGraw Hill
The C programming language : Kerninghan and Ritchie
Programming in ANSI C : Ramkumar Agarwal
Mastering C by Venugopal, Prasad – TMH

Sprit of C

AIT 113 INTORDUCTION TO WEB SCRIPTING 3(2+1)

UNIT I

Introduction to Internet

Define: Internet & Intranet, Internet Applications & Services, ISP, Internet Connection Types, IP Address, Domain Name, URL, WWW, Web page, Web Site, Web browser, Web Server, Web Searching.

UNIT II

HTML

Introduction to HTML, Html Document Structure, HTML tags: Document Tags, Text Formatting Tags, Linking tags, Line Breaking Tags, Image and Image Mapping Tags, List creation tags, Table tags, Frame tags, and Form elements tag.

UNIT III

CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)

Introduction of Style sheet, Types of Style sheet, Class & ID, CSS Font Property, CSS Text Property, CSS Background Property, CSS Border Property, CSS Margin Property

UNIT IV

Java Script part -1

Introduction to JavaScript, Operators, Conditional Structure & Looping Structures, Dialog Boxes, Arrays User Define Function, Built-in Functions of String, Date, Math, Array

UNIT V

Java Script part -2

Document Object, History Object, Window Object, Navigator Object, Form Object & Elements Events: onclick, ondblclick, onblur, onfocus, onchange, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup, onMousemove, onmouseout, onsubmit, onreset, onselect, onload, onunload, timer event

Practical

Web page design using Document Tags, Text Formatting Tags, Image tags , Line Breaking Tags
Web page design using HTML List creation tags, Table tags, Frame tags
Web form design using HTML Form elements tag.

Web page design using CSS Font Property, CSS Text Property
Web page design using CSS Background Property, CSS Border Property, CSS Margin Property
Write simple JavaScript using variable, conditional and looping statements.
Write a JavaScript using Form Element such as Textbox, button,
Write a JavaScript using Form Element such as radio, checkbox and select.

Write a JavaScript to check all compulsory fields are fill or not before form submission.
Write a JavaScript using Document Object, History Object, Window Object, Navigator Object

Reference Books

HTML DHTML JavaScript and Perl CGI By Ivan Bayross

Pure JavaScript By Jason Gilliam, Charlton Ting, R. Allen Wyke
Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS By Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn

AGRI 111 INTRODUCTION TO AGRICULTURE

3(2+1)

UNIT I

History of Agriculture; Branches of agriculture; Terminology – Agriculture – Agronomy – Crop; Classification of crops; Important events in the history of Agriculture; balance sheet, liabilities and contrasting trends (DATA), Agricultural Growth.

UNIT II

Meaning and scope of agronomy; National and International research organization related to agricultural in India; Agro-climatic zones of Gujarat

UNIT III

Principles of Agronomy-Agro meteorology-Soil and Tillage-Soil and water conservation-Dryland agriculture-Soil fertility (manure and fertilizer)-Irrigation water management-Weed management-Cropping and farming systems- Sustainable Agriculture.

UNIT IV

Weed management – Common weeds-losses and benefits-Weed ecology and classification; Crop-weed association-competition; Methods of weed control in major crops; Agrochemical for weed control.

UNIT V

Dry farming; precision farming; LEISA concept; organic farming; IFS concept.

Practical

Role of computer technology in generating balance sheet and growth rate calculation
Identify Agro-climatic zones of Gujarat
Identification of tools and it’s used in field crops.

To indentify tillage implements and seeding equipments
Practice of ploughing and seeding
Practicing different methods of seed treatment
Method of sowing of various crops
Identification and collection of common weeds

Weed control arithmetic
Weed management practices of important crops
Computer technology in precision farming
Chronological sequence of crop production
Participation in ongoing field operation

Visit of progressive farmers’ fields and practical exposures
Preparation of cropping scheme according to regions of Gujarat.

Reference books

Principles of Agronomy – by S. R. Reddy, Kalyani publishers

Principles of Agronomy - by Reddy and Reddy

AGRI 112 ECONOMIC BOTANY

3(2+1)

UNIT I

Botany as a Science, Living Systems, Plants parts and their functions, Introduction to plant kingdom, Classification of plant.

UNIT II

Plant vegetative organs: Plant body, the leaf, the stem, the root Plant reproductive organs: flower-pollination, Meiosis & fertilization; fruit & its development, seed & its germination

UNIT III

Vegetative Reproduction-Type, Vegetative structure, Natural and Artificial vegetative reproduction, example of cultivated crops; Sexual Reproduction- the Flower, the Seed and germination, the Fruit

UNIT IV

Economic and Agriculturally important of crop plants: Cereals, pulses and oilseeds, vegetables, spices and condiments, fruits and nuts; fiber yielding plants, forage crop plants;

UNIT V

Industrially important plants: Sugar, starch and cellulose plants; fumitory and masticatory plants; beverages, dyes ad tannins, gums and resins, rubber; drug plants – medicinal plants, plant insecticides, wood and timber plants.

Practical

Taxonomic status of food plants, Industrial plants and drug plants and its uses.
Study Floral Morphology of important plants.
Agricultural and Industrial uses of plants.
Preparation of micro slides and identification of various stages of meiosis

Preparation of micro slides and identification of various stages of mitosis
Propagation of Plants
Study of families –Dicots: Fabaceae, Apiaceae, Malvaceae, Solanaceae, Asteraceae, Euphorbiaceae, Cucubitaceae;

Study of families –Monocots: Poaceae, Liliaceae

Reference Books

Harris, N. and K. J. Oparka. 1994. Plant Cell Biology: A Practical Approach. IRL
Press at University Press, Oxford. UK.
Verma, P. S. and V. K. Agrawal. 2004. Cell Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology,

Evolution and Ecology. S. Chand & Company Ltd., New Delhi.
Vimlesh Pillai, 2007, An Introduction to Botany, ABD Publisher
Gupta, P.K. 1999. Genetics. Rastogi Publications, Shivaji Road, Meerut-250002 India

MATH 111 BIO-MATHEMATICS

3(2+1)

UNIT I

Continuity, Differentiation and Applications

Review of limit, continuity and Differentiation, Applications: maxima and minima, making gain silo and water tank, to use minimum fencing material, to decide number of plants to get maximum yields etc., Taylor and Maclorian’s Expansion of function

UNIT II

Integration and Applications

Quick review of Integration, Length of the arc of a Cartesian and parametric co-ordinate curve, Area under the curve, Computation of Volume of solid of revolution, Computation of moment of inertia of a circle and a cylinder by means of definite integral, reduction formulae

UNIT III

Differential Equations and Applications

Separable variable method, Linear equation method to Solve Differential equations, Applications in pest control using specific growth and decay rate equations, Method to solve higher order differential equations Applications

UNIT IV

Matrix

Types of Matrix, row operation, row echelon form of matrix, rank and nullity, Gauss elimination, Gauss jordan method, Eigen value, Caley-Hamiltonian Theorem.

UNIT V

Functions of several variable, Partial Differentiation and Vector Calculus

Functions of Several Variable with physical examples, Partial differentiation, Euler Theorem, error and approximation, maxima and minima.

Introduction to Vector, geometric representation, Gradient, Divergent and curl, Integral Calculus, applications of velocity and acceleration of a moving particle, Irrotational, Solenoidal, flow rate etc.

Practical

Practice of Continuity, differentiation
Application of differentiation
Practice and Exercise of integration
Application of Integration
Application of differential equation to field

Physical application of partial differentiation
Exercise on vector calculus

Reference Books

M. D. Weir et al: Thomas’ Calculus, 11th Ed., Pearson Eduaction, 2008.

Stewart James: Calculus Early Transcendental, 5th Ed., Thomson India, 2007
Greenberg M D: Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 2nd ed., Pearson
Erwin Kreyszig: Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 8th Ed., Jhon Wiley & Sons, India, 1999.
B. S. Grewal: Higher Engineering Mathematics, Khnna Publishing House
N. P. Bali: Higher Engineering Mathematics, Lakshmi Publication

H. K. Das: Advanced Engineering Mathematics, S. Chand Publi.

PHY 111 FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS 2(2+0)

UNIT I

Wave Motion, Sound and Radiation

Basic Definitions, Types of waves, Ultrasonics, Electromagnetic radiation, Wave & Particle Theory

UNIT II Modern Physics Quantum Theory

Failure of classical mechanics, Plank’s hypothesis and radiation law, Plank’s quantum theory

UNIT III Classification of Solids

Energy levels in solids, band theory, Conductors, semiconductors and insulators; bonds in semi-conductors; types of semiconductors and its conductivity, Junction diode; junction transistors, Superconductivity and its types, properties, theories etc., Lasers and its properties: Spontaneous and stimulated emission of radiation; Absorption, Radiation population inversion, pumping and active system, Optical Feedback, Threshold condition, Laser Modes, Classes of Lasers, Mode Locking, Einstein coefficients. Types of lasers. Uses of laser.

UNIT IV Fibre Optics

Introduction, Principle, Structure and classification, Numerical aperture, types of optical fibre, Fibre optics communication system, Multi mode and single mode fibre, Scalar wave equation and the modes of a fibre, Pulse dispersion, Multimode fibers with optimum profiles, First and second generation fibre optic communication systems, Advantages of optical fibre communication, Applications and uses

Reference Books

Ghatak, Optics, Tata McGraw Hill, 3rd Edition

R K Gaur and S L Gupta, Engineering Physics, Dhanpat Rai Publications, New Delhi
Neamen, Donald A., Semiconductor Physics and Devices, 3rd Ed. McGraw Hill, 2007, ISBN 0-07-232107-5—ISBN 0-07-119862-8(ISE).

Lasers and Non linear optics – B B Laud, New Age International
Modern Physics by B S Agarwal (Pragati Prakashan)

Web Materials

http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/Webcoursecontents/IIT%20Guwahati/engg_physics/index_cont.htm
http://ncert.nic.in/html/learning_basket.htm
http://science.howstuffworks.com/laser1.htm

http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/optics.htm
http://physics-animations.com/Physics/English/waves.htm
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk
http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/physics.html#light
http://de.physnet.net/PhysNet/optics.html

ENG 111 ENGLISH FOR SPEAKING AND WRITING SKILLS 2(1+1)

UNIT I

Listening

Principles – Active and Passive Listening – Process of Active Listening- Interactive Listening, Listening cloze

– Barriers to Listening-Listening to the audio and video CD's of TOEFL and IELTS and audio video CD’s of B.B.C and audio CD’s of BEC.

UNIT II

Speaking

Influence of L1 on L2 – Conversation practice – Dialogue – Principles and Practice.

UNIT III

Reading

Reading with fluency and accuracy – Critical reading (analysis, evaluation and synthesis) – SQ3R - Skimming and Scanning – Reading Cloze.

UNIT IV

Writing

Personal writing (Personal letters and E-mail) – Public writing (Complaints) – Social writing (Conveying congratulations, Condolence, Notice, Circulars) – Creative writing (Popular articles) and Institutional writing (Assignments and Scientific article writing) - Essay Writing.

Practical

Listening – Principles, Kinds and Process - Barriers to Listening – Study
Interactive listening – Listening to IELTS and TOEFL CD's – Discussion and Exercises
Listening cloze – Task from Cambridge BEC
Speaking – Influence of L1 on L2 – Problems and Analysis

Dialogue – Study of Principles and Practice
Critical Reading and SQ3R – Discussion
Reading cloze – Tasks from Cambridge IELTS
Skimming and Scanning – Tasks from Barron's TOEFL
Personal Writing and Public Writing – Personal letters, E-mail, Complaints and Fan mail

Social and Creative writing – Conveying congratulations, Condolence, Notices, Circulars and assignments

Institutional writing – Report writing, Note taking, Rejoinders and Scientific Article Writing
Essay Writing – Study of definition and kinds

PE 111 NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME 1*(0+1)

Introduction to National Service Scheme – objectives and motto of NSS – programme planning and development – kinds of activities in regular and special camping programmes – aspects of NSS programmes – institutional, rural and urban projects – village/slum adoption – organisational and administrative arrangements of NSS at national, state, university and college levels – each student has to undergo a minimum of 240 hours of regular service in two consecutive and attend one special camp of ten days duration in the following activities to complete the course – environmental enrichment and conservation – plantation of trees, their preservation and upkeep.

Construction of rural roads, cleaning of village ponds, popularisation of bio-gas plants, prevention of soil erosion, health, family welfare and nutrition programmes, mass immunisation, blood donation, integrated child development, population education – programme, aimed at creating awareness for improvement of the status of woman – production oriented programmes – teaching improved agricultural technologies, rodent control and pest management, weed control, soil testing, guidance in animal husbandry and poultry farming and small savings. Programmes of work during emergencies and natural calamities like cyclones, floods and earthquake – assisting the authorities in distributions of rations, medicines and clothes – assisting health authorities in inoculation, supply of medicines etc. – reconstruction of huts, relief and rescue work – adult education, programmes of continuing education of school dropouts, coaching of students from economically weaker sections, organisation of youth clubs, discussions on eradications of social evils like castism, regionalism, corruption, untouchability etc. non-formal education of rural youth – awareness programmes on drug abuse and AIDS – voter awareness campaign.

PE 111 NATIONAL CADET CORPS 1*(0+1)

Organisation – NCC – Director General, Directorate, group – army – infantry – section – company – battalion, military history various wars – post and after independence of India, introduction to defense services – system of NCC training, foot drill – attention, stand at ease and stand easy – sizing – forming up in three ranks, open and close order march – dressing – getting on parade, dismissing and falling out – saluting – marching, arms drill – shoulder arm – order arm – present arm – guard of honour – ceremonial drill.

Weapon training – rifle – buoyant – light machine gun – sten machine carbine – introduction and characteristics

– stripling – assembling and cleaning – loading and unloading – firing, field – craft – visual training – targets – judging distance – fire discipline and fire control orders – battle craft – field signals – description of ground – section formatic – section battle drill – scouts and patrols – ambush – field engineering – map reading – conventional signs – grid systems – use of service protractor – prismatic compass and its use, self-defense – general principles – precautions and training – attacks and counter attacks – marching and searching – first aid

– hygiene and sanitation – civil defense – leadership – NCC song.

PE 111 PHYSICAL EDUCATION 1*(0+1)

Definition, rules and regulations of anyone of the games and Athletic events. Warming up and conditioning exercise are compulsory for each student – conditioning and calisthenics for various Athletic activities. Exercise for strength, agility, co-ordination, flexibility, co-operation, vital capacity endurance, speed and for various systems of our body and team spirit.

Compulsory skill development in anyone of the following games

Basket Ball, Volley Ball, Ball Badminton, Foot Ball, Kho-Kho, Chess, Kabaddi, Cricket, Table Tennis, Shuttle Badminton, Gymnastics, Athletics viz. Jumps, Throws, Hurdles

Aims and Objectives of Yoga – Asanas: i.e. Padmasana, Pujankasana, Sarvangasana, Chakrasana, Dhanurasana, Halasana, Mayurasana and Savasana. Asanas for Ailments, Back pain, Arthritis, Abdominal problems, Stress, Fatigue, Insomnia, Obesity, Circulation, Hypertension, Varicose veins, Respiration, Heart, Digestion, head Aches, Depression, Addiction and eye problems.

Mental Balance and Importance – Development of concentration Suriyanamaskar – Advance skills of any one of the games which were taught in the I Semester.

SEMESTER II

AIT 121 DATA STRUCTURE THROUGH C 3(2+1)

UNIT I

Concepts of Data Structure & Algorithms Analysis

Need and importance of data structure, types of Data structure, operations on data structure, complexity analysis of algorithms, recursion. Dynamic Memory Allocation.

UNIT II

Linear Data structures

Arrays– row and columnar representation of Array– Sparse Array–Dynamic memory allocation–Stack and its applications, PUSH POP, PEEP and CHANGE operations–Queues and its applications– Types of Queue– creation, insertion, deletion and search operations in queue.

UNIT III Linked lists

Introduction to linked lists- Singly, doubly and circularly linked lists–sorted linked list, algorithms for creation, insertion, deletion and search

UNIT IV

Searching

Concepts, programming and operations of simple search & binary search– Concepts, programming and applications of hashing technique.

Sorting

Analysis of simple sorting techniques such as linear sort, bubble sort, insertion sort, selection sort, quick sort, heap sort and merge sort.

UNIT V

Trees and graphs (Non-Linear Data structures)

Introduction to graphs representation – Traversal-Depth first search, Breadth first search - Adjacency matrix and list representation – Tree-Shortest path, minimum spanning tree –Tree- all pairs Shortest Path, Transitive Closer, Splay Trees – Binary Trees - Representation – operations: insert, delete – Traversal – preorder, inorder, postorder. N-ary trees: Definitions, balanced tree, definitions of B-tree.

Practical

Explain & Practice of Recursive Functions.

Explain & Practice of Array, row and columnar representation of Array.
Explain & Practice of Sparse Array.
Explain & Practice of pointers and Dynamic memory allocation.
Explain & Practice of Stack and its operations.
Explain & Practice of Queue and its operations.

Explain & Practice of Linked list and its operations.
Explain & Practice of Doubly Linked list and its operations.
Explain & Practice of Linear search and Binary Search.
Explain & Practice of Linear, bubble, Selection, Insertion, Quick, Shell, Merge and Heap sort.
Explain & Practice of Trees and traversal methods.

Reference Books

Data Structure – By Tanenbaum, Tata McGraw Hill.

Data structure Using C –By Yashwant Karnetkar.
DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS: CONCEPTS, TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS - G. A. V. PAI.

AIT 122 DISCRETE MATHEMATICS 3(3+0)

UNIT I

Predicate Calculus

Introduction, Objectives, Predicates, Statement Functions, Variable and Quantifiers, Free and Bound Variables, Special Valid Formulas Involving Quantifiers - Theory of Inference for The Predicate Calculus.

UNIT II

Fuzzy Sets

Some Useful Definitions, Basic Operations On Fuzzy Sets Image And Inverse I Mages, I-V Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Relations.

UNIT III

Lattices

Relation, POset, Lattice as a POset, Properties of Lattices, Lattices as Algebraic Systems, Sublattices, Complete Lattices, Bounds of Lattices, Distributive Lattices, Complemented Lattice

UNIT IV Boolean Algebra

Introduction, Definition and Properties, Sub-Boolean Algebra Direct Product, Atoms, Stone's Representation Theorem. Boolean Expressions and their Equivalences. Min term And Max Terms. Boolean Algebra, Values Of Boolean Expressions, Canonical Forms, Boolean Functions, Symmetric Boolean Functions, Switch problems, Gates.

UNIT V Graph Theory

Basic Concept of Graph Theory, Basic Definitions, Path, Reachability and Connectedness, Matrix Representation of Graphs, Trees, Types of Graph.

Reference Books

Discrete Mathematical Structures With Application To Computer Science; (Mcgraw Hill - New Delhi) By Tremblay, J.P. & Manohar

Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (Mcgraw Hill - New Delhi) By Kenneth Rosen.

Applied Discrete Structures For Computer Science (Gulgotia Publications Pvt.Ltd. New Delhi) By Alan Doerr & Kenneth L.

Discrete Mathematical Structures For Computer Science (Prasntice Hall Of India Pvt Ltd., New Delhi) By Kolman, B& Busby R.C.

Fuzzy Sets And Fuzzy Logic. Theory And Applications (Printice Hall Of India) By Georgr. Klir/Bo Yuan

AIT 123 INTRODUCTION TO MULTIMEDIA 3(1+2)

UNIT I

Introduction to Photoshop CS4

About Photoshop, Navigating Photoshop, Menus and panels, Opening new files, Opening existing files

Getting Started with Photoshop

Exploring the Toolbox, The New CS4 Applications Bar & the Options Bar, Exploring Panels & Menus, Creating & Viewing a New Document, Customizing the Interface, Setting Preferences

Working with Images

Zooming & Panning an Image, Working with Multiple Images, Rulers, Guides & Grids, Undoing Steps with History, Adjusting Color with the New Adjustments Panel, The New Masks Panel & Vibrance Color Correction Command, The Save for Web & Devices Interface, The Auto-Align Layers Commands, The New 3D Commands

UNIT II

Resizing & Cropping Images

Understanding Pixels & Resolution, The Image Size Command, Resizing for Print & Web, Cropping & Straightening an Image, Adjusting Canvas Size & Canvas Rotation

Working with basic Selection

Selecting with the Elliptical Marquee Tool, Using the Magic Wand & Free Transform Tool, Selecting with the Regular & Polygonal Lasso Tools, Combining Selections, Using the Magnetic Lasso Tool, Using the Quick Selection Tool & Refine Edge, Modifying Selections

Getting Started with layers

Understanding the Background Layer, Creating, Selecting, Linking & Deleting Layers, Locking & Merging Layers, Copying Layers, Using Perspective & Layer Styles, Filling & Grouping Layers, Introduction to Blending Modes, Blending Modes, Opacity & Fill, Creating & Modifying Text

Painting in Photoshop

Using the Brush Tool, Working with Colors & Swatches, Creating & Using Gradients, Creating & Working with Brushes, Using the Pencil & Eraser Tools, Painting with Selections

Photo Retouching

The Red Eye Tool, The Clone Stamp Tool, The Patch Tool & the Healing Brush Tool, The Spot Healing Brush Tool, The Color Replacement Tool

UNIT III

Introduction to color correction

Color Spaces & Color Modes, The Variations Command, The Auto Commands, Adjusting Levels, Adjust Curves, Non-Destructively, with Adjustment Layers, Quick Mask Options, Painting a Selection, Saving & Removing a Selection from the Background

Working with the Pen Tool

Understanding Paths & the Pen Tool, Creating Straight & Curved Paths, Creating Combo Paths, Creating a Clipping Path

Creating Special Effects

Getting Started with Photoshop Filters, Smart Filters, Creating Text Effects, Applying Gradients to Text , creating Timeline and Frame base animation

Exporting your work

Saving with Different File Formats, Saving for Web & Devices, Printing Options

UNIT IV

Introduction to Flash CS4

Flash Basics

Creating a Flash Document, Reviewing the Interface, Managing the Workspace

Getting Started

Creating Shapes, Using the Primitive Tools, Drawing with Pen, Pencil and Line Tools, Editing Shapes, Using the Selection Tools, Managing Color and Gradients , Importing Files

Working with Graphics

Creating Rectangles, Using a Gradient Fill , Making Selections , Drawing Ovals , Creating a Simple Animation, Working with Lines, Manipulating Objects , Masking Objects , Testing a Movie

Creating and Editing Symbols

Importing Illustrator Files , About Symbols , Converting Objects to Symbols , Importing Bitmap Images , Adding Bitmaps to a Movie Clip Symbol , Working with Buttons , Adding Transparency

Creating and Managing content

New Document Settings & Navigation , Drawing & Selecting Simple Vector Shapes , Drawing Curves with the Pen & Pencil Tools , Exploring Other Drawing Tools, Interaction between Shapes, Grouping Objects, Working in Object Drawing Mode

UNIT V

Managing Website Content

Working with Layers, Using Bitmaps , Adding Text , Use the Regular & Primitive Shape Tools to Build a Graphic , Creating & Adjusting a Symbol, Transforming Objects with the Free Transform Tool, Exploring Color Types & Gradients

The Timeline

Timeline Basics, Create a Span of Frames & Control the Playhead, Creating Keyframes, Insert Blank Keyframes & Clear Keyframes , Frame-by-Frame Animation & Onion Skin

Motion Presets

Getting Started with Motion Presets, Modifying a Motion Tween , Stretching Tween Spans , Save Custom Presets & Create Layer Folders , Moving Tween Spans , Setting Static Frames , Building a Test Movie

Creating a Motion Tween

Adding a Motion Tween , Setting Property Keyframes for Scale & Rotation , Creating a Motion Tween from a Shape , Easing Keyframes , Creating a Fade-in by Adjusting the Alpha , Making a Motion Preset

Animation Techniques

Importing Slideshow Content , Working in a Movie Clip Timeline , Animating the First Image in the Slideshow , Non-linear Animation , Swapping Objects , Using the Distribute to Layers Command , Adjust Timeline View Options & Animation Timing

Actionscript & Behaviors

Introducing ActionScript , Adding a Stop Action , Creating Buttons & Setting Button States , Creating Interactive Text Buttons , Adding Site Content , Setting up for ActionScript 2 , Adding Behaviors with ActionScript 2 , Writing ActionScript 3

Using Sound and Video

Adding a Sound File to the Timeline , Adding Sound to a Button , Encoding Video for Import into Flash , Set Import Options & Choose a Player Skin , The FLVPlayback Component & Component Inspector , Flash Video for ActionScript 2 & Older Players

Publish your site

Overview of Flash Publish Settings , Compression in Bitmaps & Sounds, Other Flash Publish Settings , HTML Settings , Publishing Your Flash Movie , Dreamweaver(R) Integration

Practical

Looks at work area and keyboard shortcut

Practice with Toolbox
Looks at saving for the web, making selections, blending options and the pen tool.
Looks at using adjustment layers, masking and making selections of images.
Looks at creating various text effects, including typing along a path etc.

Looks at adjustment layers and dodging and burning.
Looks at using filters and blending options to create graphics
Making a Pattern, Brush, Texture etc.
Designing Entire Websites
Designing Website Elements

Designing different LOGO
Creating Headers and Navigation in Website
Creating a animation in Photoshop
Using Slice tool to create a website.

Flash

Looks at work area and keyboard shortcut

Get the practical skills in creating shapes and converting them to other elements, using and understanding the library, get hands-on experience in modification symbols.

Get familiar with Animation basics, using the Timeline, and get the hands-on experience in creating frame-by-frame animations.

Get the practical skills in utilizing Motion Tweening, Guide Layers in animation, using Shape Tweening, and Mask Layers in animations.

Get the practical skills in creating movie clips, using multiple Timelines, understanding Parent and Child objects, and using movie clips on the Stage.

Get the practical skills in creating buttons with Flash tools, get familiar with the Button Timeline and States.

Get the practical skills in using Frame and Button Actions as well as using Labels on the Timeline.
Get the practical skills in importing sound files into Flash and setting compression.

Reference Books

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Bible, by Stacy Cates, Simon Abrams, Wiley publishing, Inc.
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Bible (Book/CD) By Robert Reinhardt, Snow Dowd (Paperback) Publisher : Wiley India Pvt. Ltd

Learning Flash CS4 Professional, by Rich Shupe. O'REILLY media.

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book , Adobe Creative Team.

AIT 124 COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE 3(3+0)

UNIT I Introduction

Introduction to COA, Basic Computer Model and different units of Computer, Basic Working Principle of a Computer Number System Representation: Representation of Decimal, Binary, Octal and Hexadecimal Number; Conversation of Numbers, Representation of Unsigned & Sign integer, Representation of real number, Representation of character.

UNIT II

Arithmetic and Logic Unit

Logic Gates: AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR, Exclusive, NOR gates Boolean algebra: Introduction, Explanation of Boolean function, Describe truth table, Simplified Boolean function using postulates and draw logical diagram of simplified function, Simplified Boolean function using karnaugh map method. Sequential And Combinational Circuits: Introduction to combinational circuit and sequential circuit, half adder, full adder, multiplexer, demultiplexer, encoder, decoder

UNIT III

Memory

Concept of Main Memory, Introduction to Flip Flop and explain SR, Clocked SR, D, JK, T flip flops, Cache Memory, Operations of cache memory, Mapping functions, Replacement algorithms/policy, Memory Management, Virtual Memory, Paging, Allocation of frames, logical and physical address, address translation, address translation process

UNIT IV

Central Processing Unit

Introduction of CPU, Major component of CPU, CPU categories RISC and CISC, Instruction Pipeline, execution of complete instructions, design of control unit, hardwired control, control signals, Run signals, PLA, concept of Multi-Processor / Parallel Processing

UNITV

Input-Output Organization

Concept of input output interface, Programmed Control I/O, Interrupt Control I/O, Direct Memory Access Control I/O, I/O buses, Synchronous bus, Asynchronous bus

Reference Books

Computer System Architecture – By Morris Mano (PHI)
Digital Logic And Computer Design – By Morris Mano

Digital Computer Electronics – By Malvino And Leach

AGRI 121 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, ECOLOGY AND FORESTRY

3(2+1)

UNIT I

Concept of Environment Science, Living world and population; Introduction to weather, Climate and Ecosystem; Air pollution; water pollution; soil pollution; its causes, effects and remedies, Major categories of world climate, Indian climatology-different seasons; Climate changes and its impact on lives

UNIT II

Bioremidiation; Green technologies and environmental protection; Environmental protection Act; Air, water, wild life protection and forest conservation acts

UNIT III

Natural disasters-case studies, its management; Floods, earthquake, cyclone and landslides; Environmental information systems (ENVIS) and its role in environment science; Applications of information technology in environment science, Environment Auditing and Accounting

UNIT IV

Historical development of ecology as a science, Concept of levels of biological organization; Ecosystem classification and distribution; Biodiversity and conservation-definition, levels of studies, distribution of diversity in life forms, hotspots of biodiversity, measurement of diversity and diversity indices; Priciples of conservation biology, Ex situ, in situ methods of conservation Biosphere concept; Conservation-efforts in india and worldwide.

UNIT V

Land use definition, classification and planning; Agroforestry-definition, aims,objectives and need; Tradional agroforestry systems, Taungya system, shifting cultivation, wind break, shelter belts, homestead gardens; Classification of agroforestry system-structural, functional, socio-economic and ecological basis; Multipurpose tree species and their characteristrics, Tree architecture, canopy management-lopping, pruning, pollarding and hedging; Choice of species on ecological aspects-afforrestation of dry land, wet land, other adverse site; Forest environment-major abiotic and biotic components and their interaction

Practical

Environmental monitoring stations and its application
Study the prediction of weather forecast
Application of IT in environmental impact

Study the characteristrics of tree/shrubs/grasses for agroforestry
Study of tools, materials and operations for establishment of plantation
Site selection and site preparation for plantation
Exercise on plantation and tending
Study special techniques for difficult sites.

Measurement of diversity of plants and insects in a nearby forest

Reference Books

A text book of environmental science by Thakur, V

A text book of environmental science as per UGC Unified Syllabus by purohit, S.S., Shammi, Q.J. and Agrawal, A. K.

Encyclopedia of environmental science vol. 22
Water pollution by P.R. Trivedia and Gurudeepraj
An introduction to air pollution by R.K. Trivedi and P.K.Goel B.S. Publication.
Fundamentals of ecology by Eugene Pleasants Odum, Gary W. Barrett

Ecology And Environment by Sharma P.D.

AGRI 122 FIELD CROPS (KHARIF & RABI) 3(2+1)

UNIT I

Kharif Cereals – rice, maize, sorghum, pearl millet and list out millets group;

Rabi Cereals: wheat, barley, Origin, geographic distribution, economic importance, soil and climatic requirement, varieties, cultural practices and yield of kharif crops,

UNIT II

Kharif Pulses: pigeonpea, mungbean and urdbean;

Rabi Pulses: chickpea, peas

UNIT III

Kharif Oilseeds: groundnut, sesame and soybean

Rabi Oilseeds: rapeseed and mustard, sunflower, safflower and Castor

UNIT IV

Fibre crops: cotton, sun hemp

Sugar crops: sugarcane and sugarbeet

Medicinal and aromatic crops such as citronella, palma rosa and isabgol

UNIT V

Commercial crops: potato and tobacco

Kharif Forage crops: sorghum, maize, cowpea, cluster bean and Napier.

Rabi Forage crops: lucerne and oat.

Practical

Identification of different crops, their varieties
Practicing different methods of seed bed preparation

Calculation of seed rate for different crops
Raising paddy nursery and transplanting
Generate progamme for cost of cultivation for major crops
Biometric observation recording in major crops
Study yield and yield contributing characters

Harvesting and yield estimation of major crops
Visit to crop cafeteria for identification of crop and varieties
Study and visit ongoing agronomical experiments
Visit to different AAU research stations
Study crop distribution in the state and the region

Reference Books

Agronomy: Basic and Applied – by Gajendra Singh Tomar, Satish Serial Publishing House, Delhi

Agromony of field crops – by S. R. Reddy, Kalyani Publisher, Ludhiana, New Delhi

AGRI 123 COMMERCIAL HORTICULTURE

3(2+1)

UNIT I

Basic principles of Horticulture and propagation techniques

Horticultural zones of India - classification - Soil and climatic factors - methods of propagation - sexual and vegetative propagation - cutting, layering, grafting and budding – Micro propagation techniques - Principles, planning and layout of orchards.

UNIT II

Production methods and cropping systems

Study of planting systems - Bearing habits of fruit crops- Principles and methods of training and pruning - Cropping systems, inter cropping, multi tier cropping - Irrigation and fertigation systems - After cultural practices for annual and perennial horticultural crops.

UNIT III

Cultural hints for fruits crops

Cultural hints for mango, banana, guava, and citrus crops

UNIT IV

Protected Cultivation for vegetables and flowers

Basic concepts -Protected cultivation techniques for tomato, capsicum, coriander - rose, gerbera, carnation - Potential of Protected cultivation

UNIT V

Floral art, landscape gardening and turf management

Flower arrangements, floral products, bonsai making - Dry flower techniques Principles and elements of landscape gardening - Turfing and turf management.

Practical

Identification of different horticultural crops
Sexual and Asexual methods of propagation
Practices in planning and layout of an orchard and different systems of planting
Preparation of potting mixture and field application techniques of fertilizer
Preparation and application of growth regulators
Practices in training and pruning
Hybrid seed production for vegetable crops
Special horticultural management practices in protected cultivated crops
Harvesting handling and packaging techniques
Practices in micro propagation (tissue culture) techniques
Study of garden components and lawn making
Visit to commercial tissue culture laboratory
Visit to green house and poly house units
Visit to commercial orchards / plantations

Visit to fruit, flower and vegetable markets.

Reference Books

Propagation of Horticulture Crops – Principles and Practices by R. R. Sharma

Hi-tech Horticulture by D. K. Singh Agrotech publishing Academy, Udaipur
Introduction to Horticulture – by Kumar N. (1990)

Advances in Horticulture (Vol 1 to 12) – by Singh Ranjit (1997)
Landscape Gardening and Designing with Plants – by Bhartacharjee S. K. (2004)
Floriculture in India – by Randhawa G. S. and Mukhopadhyay A.
Plant propagation- Principles and Practices by Hartmann and Kester

PHY 121 SOLID STATE PHYSICS AND BASIC ELECTRONICS 3(2+1)

UNIT I

Diode Characteristics

Diode as circuit element, Load Line concept, Clippers – clampers, Comparators, Sampling Gate, A/D and D/A converter, Numericals

UNIT II

Transistor Characteristics

Applications of a transistor, Different configurations, Phototransistor, Power circuits and systems

UNIT III Nano Science

Introduction, Structure of Nano materials, nanoparticles, metal nanoclusters, carbon clusters, carbon nanotubes, quantum, nanostructures; Synthesis (Qualitative Idea only), Properties and applications nanostructured materials.

UNIT IV Optoelectronic Devices

Introduction, Photo Luminescence, Cathode Luminescence, Electro Luminescence, Injection Luminescence, Injection Luminescence, LED, Plasma Display, Liquid Crystal Displays, Numeric Displays; Photo detector, Thermal detector, Photo Devices, Photo Conductors, Photo diodes, Detector Performance.

Practical

Study of Electronic Instruments
Multimeter measurements on DC resistive circuits
Fibre Optics (Part I, II, III)
Study of different Logic Gates (Part I, II, III, IV, V)

Introduction to Sensor systems

Reference Books

Principle of Electronics by V K Mehta
J. Wilson and J Haukes, “Opto Electronics – An Introduction”, PHI, New Delhi, 1995.
Modern Digital Electronics – R P Jain (Tata McGraw Hill 3rd Ed.)
Digital Principles and Applications – Malvino & Leach (Tata McGraw Hill)

Bhattacharya “Semiconductor – Opto Electronic Devices”, PHI, New Delhi, 1995.

Practical Books

Advanced Practical Physics by Wornsop & Flint
Advanced Practical Physics Vol I by S p Singh (Pragati Prakashan)
Linear Integrated Circuits by Shail B Jain & B Roy Choudhury (New Age Int. Pub.) 2nd Ed.
Linear Integrated Circuits by Shalivahanan & V S Bhaaskaran (TMH, 2008)

PE 121 NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME 1*(0+1)

PE 121 NATIONAL CADET CORPS 1*(0+1)

Weapon training – rifle – buoyant – light machine gun – sten machine carbine – introduction and characteristics

– hygiene and sanitation – civil defense – leadership – NCC song.

PE 121 PHYSICAL EDUCATION 1*(0+1)

Compulsory skill development in anyone of the following games

Basket Ball, Volley Ball, Ball Badminton, Foot Ball, Kho-Kho, Chess, Kabaddi, Cricket, Table Tennis, Shuttle Badminton, Gymnastics, Athletics viz. Jumps, Throws, Hurdles

Mental Balance and Importance – Development of concentration Suriyanamaskar – Advance skills of any one of the games which were taught in the I Semester.

Semester III

AIT 211 OOP USING C++ 3(2+1)

UNIT I

Introduction to OOP & C++

Basic concepts of object oriented Programming, Benefits of object oriented programming, C++ overview, Structure of C++ program, C++ data types, tokens, operators, conditional and looping control structure, array, user define function, Functions overloading

UNIT II

Classes and Objects

Specifying a class, Defining member, private and public member, Memory allocation for objects, Static data member, Static member functions, Arrays of objects, Objects as function arguments, Friend functions

UNIT III

Constructor and Destructor

Characteristics of constructor, Parameterized constructor, Multiple constructor in a class, Constructor with default argument, Copy constructor, Destructors

Operator overloading and Type conversation

Introduction, unary and binary operator overloading using member function and friend function, type conversation from basic to user define, user define to basic and user define to other user define.

UNIT IV

Inheritance

Defining derived classes, Types of inheritance, Constructors & destructor in derived class

Pointer, Virtual functions and Polymorphism

Pointer to Object, Pointer to derived class, this pointer, Rules for virtual function, Virtual function and pure virtual function.

UNIT V

Working with Files

File stream classes, Opening and closing a file, file modes, File pointers, Sequential I/O operations, updating a file, Command line arguments

Practical

C++ programs for variables, operators, conditional and looping structure
C++ programs for different type of user define functions.
C++ programs for function overloading
C++ programs for Class and Objects
C++ programs for constructor and destructor
C++ programs for unary operator overloading
C++ programs for binary operator overloading
C++ programs for type conversion
C++ programs for different types of inheritances
C++ programs for file handling.

Reference Books

Object Oriented Programming in C++ By E.Balagurusamy, BPB
Mastering C++ - By Venugopal
Object Oriented Programmin in C++ By Robaret Laphore
Let us C++ By Yashvant Kanitkar, BPB

C++ and Object Oriented Programming – Bharat & Co. [ISBN No. : 978-93-81786-37-6]

AIT 212 RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 3(2+1)

UNIT I

Introduction to DBMS, Introduction to RDBMS, E.F.Codd’s 12 Rules , Importance of E.R. Diagram in Relational DBMS, Normalization, Introduction to SQL, SQL Commands and Data types , Introduction to SQL*Plus, SQL*Plus formatting commands, Operator and Expression, SQL v/s SQL*Plus

UNIT II

Data Type , Creating Databases, Creating , Altering & Dropping tables ,Data Manipulation Commands, Different type of constraints, SELECT statement with WHERE, GROUP BY and HAVING, ORDER BY, DISTINCT, Special operator like IN, ANY, ALL, BETWEEN, EXISTS, LIKE ,Join, subquery, minus, intersect, union , Built in functions, Numeric Function, Character Function ,Date Function, Aggregate function

UNIT III

Data Control and Transaction Control Command : Creating user & role, Grant, Revoke command, What is transaction? ,Starting and Ending of Transaction Commit, Rollback, Savepoint, Concurrency control using lock : What Are Locks?, Locking Issues, Lost Updates, Pessimistic Locking, Optimistic Locking, Blocking, Deadlocks, Lock Escalation, Lock Types, DML Locks, DDL Locks, Latches, Manual Locking and User-Defined Locks

UNIT IV

Introduction to PL/SQL : SQL v/s PL/SQL, PL/SQL Block Structure, Language construct of PL/SQL (Variables, Basic and Composite Data type, Conditions looping etc.), %TYPE and %ROWTYPE, Using Cursor(Implicit, Explicit) ,Exception Handling , Advanced PL/SQL : Creating and Using Procedure, Functions, Package, Triggers, Creating Objects, Object in Database-Table ,PL/SQL Tables, Nested Tables, Varrays

UNIT V

Backup & Recovery: Backup & Recovery, Types of Backups, Control File Backups, Redo Log File Backups, Cold Backups, Hot Backups, Net 8 : What is Net 8 ?, Why use Net 8 ? , Net 8 Features , Listener Dispatcher

Practical

Installation of RDBMS Server
Administration of a Relational Database
Create, Backup and Restore Database.
Create Database objects.
Advance Query.

System Stored Procedures
Database and Index Maintenance.
Securing an RDBMS server.
Database Availability, Data Mirroring.
How to use Replication.

Reference Books

Database System Concepts, Silberschatz, Korth and Sudarshan.
Date, Christopher J., An Introduction to Database Systems (8th ed.). Addison Wesley.

RDBMS Using Oracle – Bharat & Co. [ISBN No. : 978-93-81786-38-3]
SQL,PL/SQL The programming - Lang.Of Oracle Ivan Bayross - BPB
Using Oracle 8i - Page, Hughes - QUE & PHI Publications
Oracle 8I The Complete Reference - George Koch, Kevin Loney - Oracle Press and Tata MacGraw-Hill

AIT 213 SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN 3(2+1)

UNIT I

Introduction:

Categories of Information Systems (OAS, TPS, MIS, DSS), Role of a System Analyst, Software Process Models (Linear v/s. Prototyping v/s. RAD models), Introduction to Modern Information Systems

UNIT II System Analysis

Preliminary Investigation, Feasibility Study (Technical, Economical, Operational), Fact-finding Techniques (Interview, Questionnaire, Record Scanning, Observation), Specification Tools (Decision Tree, Decision Table, Data Flow Diagram of various levels, Data Dictionary, Structured English), Project Scheduling, CPM, PERT and Gannt.

UNIT III System Design

Design Objectives, Input Design, Output Design, UI Design, Architecture and Component Level Design, File Organization, Database Design, Input Validation, CASE tools, Backup and Recovery Design.

UNIT IV

Post Design

OOP v/s. POP, Software versioning, Software Testing, Documentation, Training (In-House, Outsourced, CBT), Software Licensing (Proprietary v/s. Free and Open Source Software), Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning, Zero Day Attacks

Software Development Life Cycle Models: Waterfall Model, Iterative Model , V-Model , Spiral Model, Big Bang Model,Prototyping Model

UNIT V Case Study

Complete Case Study of a Standalone, Client - Server or Web Based Information System e.g. Shopping Cart, e-Governance., Online Reservation, Accounts and Inventory Maintenance, Rental Library etc. with appropriate documentation and modeling of Questionnaires, Interviews, DFD, E-R, Data Dictionary by using tools such as x-Dia, MS Visio, MS Project.

Practical

Designing a questionnaire.
Preparing SRS and presenting.
Designing multilevel DFDs.
Designing E-R Diagrams and Data Dictionaries.
Writing Sample Help Documents.

Reference Books

Analysis and Design of Information Systems, James A. Senn, McGraw-Hill.
Modern Systems Analysis and Design 5^th Edition, Hoffer, Pearson.

AIT 214 WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT USING PHP 3(2+1)

UNIT I Fundamentals of PHP

PHP Installation, Basics of PHP, Variables, Operators, Control structure, Creating arrays, Multi dimensional arrays, Navigating arrays, Manipulating keys, User defined function, Function scope, Function arguments and return values

UNIT II

Working with forms, Built-in Functions

Global and environmental variable, Accessing input from various elements of form, Get and Post method Built-in Functions: Introduction to string and String functions, Variable related Functions, Array Related Functions, Math Functions, Date & Time Functions, Miscellaneous Functions.

UNIT III

Saving State and File handling

Saving state in PHP: Setting a cookie, Deleting a cookie, Creating session cookie, Session function, Session variables etc… File manipulation: Testing files, Opening files, closing files, Reading a file, writing to a file, File Uploading, GD Library functions.

UNIT IV

PHP Database Connectivity

Introduction to MySQL , DML and DDL operation of MySQL using phpMyAdmin, Principles of database programming from PHP, Creating tables, Adding and changing information, Retrieving information from a table and reporting it to a web page, Deleting information and tables, Avoiding potential problems by managing quotes and backslashes in data, server side validation using database.

UNIT V Advance PHP

Introduction of AJAX, AJAX with PHP, JQuery Introduction, JQuery with PHP, Introduction to CMS, Wordpress [Introduction & Installation]

Practical

Write a PHP code to read form submitted data using GET and POST method.
Write a PHP code using Form Element such as Textbox, button, radio, checkbox and select.
Write a PHP code to read & write file content.
Write a PHP code to store user selected font, color and style in cookie variable. When user revisit the web page than content display in selected font, color and style.
Write a PHP code to read and write Session Variable.
Write a PHP code to read and write text file.
Write a PHP code to file uploading.
Write a PHP code to create captcha code using GD library function.
Write a PHP code to display, add, update and delete operation for MySQL table.
Write a PHP code for User Authentication. If user is Authenticated user then display welcome page else display same page with “Invalid User name and Password” message. Username and Password available in USERLIST table.
Write a AJAX code with PHP to display information in SPAN area.
Write a AJAX code with PHP to fill combo box.
Simple form design using JQuery.
Program with JQuery and PHP.
Develop a website using CMS.

Reference Books

Beginning PHP and MySQL By W. Jason Gilmore
Beginning AJAX with PHP By Lee Babin
PHP Manual

AGRI 211 ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT

3(2+1)

UNIT I

Entrepreneur behaviour, Entrepreneur development, Entrepreneur management – Meaning, Concepts, Need for enterprise emergence and characteristics of an entrepreneur.

UNIT II

External Environmental factors – Economic, Social, Cultural, Technological, Situational and Legal requirements for establishment of a new unit Establishment of a small business – Identification of a sound enterprise, Feasibility report and Project proposal, Availability of raw materials, technology, skills and Record keeping.

UNIT III

Knowledge, Skill, Infrastructure and Policy support for entrepreneurship development. Marketing plan, market survey, methods of data collection, forecasting market demand, sustainability of enterprise. Technical Appraisal – Factors to be considered for technical appraisal and Personnel training.

UNIT IV

Financial Appraisal – Estimation of financial requirements, financial viability, cost benefit analysis, preparation of balance sheet

UNIT V

Project formulation- Project description, physical infrastructure, plant layout, pollution control, communication system, transportation, requirement of machinery and equipment, licensing procedures, tax assessment. Special issues relating to potentials and failure of enterprise in production, finance, marketing and SWOT analysis

Practical

1, 2 & 3 Exercise on Project – identification, preparation, management, implementation and evaluation 4 & 5 Identification of emerging enterprises in agricultural sector

6 Exercise on preparation of balance sheet

7 Exercise on cost benefit analysis

8, 9 & 10 Visit to two public sector enterprises to analyze and draw lessons 11 & 12 Visit to two private sector enterprises to analyze and draw lessons 13 & 14 Preparation of individual business plan

15 & 16 Presentation of enterprise and business plans

Reference Books

Entrepreneurship Development in India – by C. B. Gupta and N. P. Srinivasan
Entrepreneurial Development – by S. S. Khanka. S. Chand Company Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi
Text book of Project Management – by P. Gopalkrishnan and V. E. Ramamoorthy. McMillin Publishers India Ltd. New Delhi

AGRI 212 PRINCIPLES OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

2(2+0)

UNIT I

Economics: Meaning, Definition, Subject matter, Divisions of Economics, Importance of Economics; Agricultural Economics: Meaning, Definition; Basic Concepts: Goods, Service, Utility, Value, Price, Wealth, Welfare.

UNIT II

Wants: Meaning, Characteristics, Classifications of Wants, Importance. Theory of consumption: Law of Diminishing Marginal utility, Meaning, Definition, Assumption, Limitations, Importance.

UNIT III

Consumer’s surplus: Meaning, Definition, Importance. Demand: Meaning, Definition, Kinds of Demand, Demand schedule, Demand Curve, Law of Demand, Extension and Contraction Vs Increase and Decrease in Demand.

UNIT IV

Elasticity of Demand: Types of Elasticity of Demand, Degrees of price elasticity of Demand, Methods of Measuring Elasticity, Factors influencing elasticity of Demand, Importance of Elasticity of Demand.

UNIT V

Welfare Economics: Meaning. National Income: Concepts, Measurement. Public Resource: Meaning, Services Tax, Meaning, Classification of Taxes: Cannons of Taxation, Inflation: Meaning, Definition, Kinds of inflation.

Reference Books

Modern Economic Theory – by K. K. Dewett and M. H. Navalur. S. Chand & Company Ltd., New Delhi – 110055
Advance Economic Theory – by H. L. Ahuja. S. Chand & Company Ltd., New Delhi – 110055
Agricultural Economics – by S. Subbareddy et al. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

AGRI 213 SOIL, PLANT NUTRIENT AND WATER MANAGEMENT

3(2+1)

UNIT I

Soil - Definition, types of soil, soil physico-chemical characteristics, soil fertility and productivity, agronomical measures to maintain soil fertility and productivity, Soil problems and amelioration methods/techniques

UNIT II

Essential nutrients, Criteria for essential elements, Function of nutrients in plants

UNIT III

Fertilizer- Broad classification of fertilizers- properties of major fertilizer – time and methods of fertilizer application and factor influencing fertilizer application; Deficiency symptoms and toxicity symptoms on plants, Manure – Classification (Bulky and concentrated organic manure), Integrated Plant Nutrient Management (IPNM), Bio-fertilizers.

UNIT IV

Irrigation in Indian agriculture; biological and physical classification of water, water requirement of major crops, Measurement of irrigation water, various methods of irrigation, concept of advanced irrigation methods – water management devices – fertigation.

UNIT V

Water management in different crops – Irrigation efficiency and water use efficiency, Irrigation practices of major crops; Quality of irrigation water and its management

Practical

Collection and processing of soil samples for chemical analysis
Identification of manures and fertilizers
Working out fertilizer requirement/unit cost
Observation of different methods of irrigation and visit to irrigation cafeteria
Determination of soil moisture by thermo-gravimetric methods and other equipments
Demonstration of irrigation methods
Micro irrigation techniques and computer application
Visit to farmer field and cost estimation of drip irrigation system

Reference Books

Introductory of Soil Science – by D. K. Das, Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi
Manure and Fertilizers – by Yavalkar
Efficient use of irrigation water – by Reddy and Reddy

STAT 211 AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS - I

3(2+1)

UNIT I Introduction

Introduction to Statistics, its meaning and definitions, Methods of data collection, Frequency distribution, Methods of frequency distribution – Inclusive and exclusive methods.

UNIT II

Measures of Central Tendency

Measures of central tendency; meaning, Arithmetic mean- Harmonic mean- weighted mean.

UNIT III

Dispersion

Measures of dispersion: meaning, standard deviation, standard error of mean, variance and coefficient of variation.

UNIT IV

Probability Distributions

Theoretical distributions – Binomial, Poisson and Normal distributions (without proof) – properties and applications of the above distributions

UNIT V Sampling theory

Definition and concept of Sampling: Different sampling schemes/plans simple random sampling, stratified random sampling cluster sampling, multi-stage sampling.

Practical

Overview of SPSS.
Preparation of frequency distribution (Inclusive and exclusive methods of classification).
Problems on measures of central tendency - I.
Problems on measures of central tendency - II.
Problems on measures of dispersion - I.
Problems on measures of dispersion - II.

Reference Books

Basic Statistics – by B L Agarwal (Wiley Eastern Ltd., New Delhi).
Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics – by Gupta and Kapoor (Sultanchand Pub., New Delhi).

PE 211 NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME 1*(0+1)

	OR
PE 211	NATIONAL CADET CORPS	1*(0+1)

Weapon training – rifle – buoyant – light machine gun – sten machine carbine – introduction and characteristics

– hygiene and sanitation – civil defense – leadership – NCC song.

		OR
PE 211	PHYSICAL EDUCATION	1*(0+1)

Compulsory skill development in anyone of the following games

Basket Ball, Volley Ball, Ball Badminton, Foot Ball, Kho-Kho, Chess, Kabaddi, Cricket, Table Tennis, Shuttle Badminton, Gymnastics, Athletics viz. Jumps, Throws, Hurdles

Mental Balance and Importance – Development of concentration, Suriyanamaskar – Advance skills of any one of the games which were taught in the I Semester.

SMNR 211 SEMINAR-I

1*(0+1)

SEMESTER IV

AIT 221 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 3(2+1)

UNIT I Introduction

Introduction to Software Engineering, Software Components, Software Characteristics, Software Engineering Processes, Similarity and Differences from Conventional Engineering Processes, Software Quality Attributes. Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Models: Water Fall Model, Prototype Model, Spiral Model, Evolutionary Development Models, Iterative Enhancement Models.

UNIT II

Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) and Software Project Management

Analysis, Documentation, Review and Management of User Needs, Feasibility Study, Information Modelling, SRS Document, IEEE Standards for SRS. Cost Estimation, Project Scheduling, Quality Assurance Plan, Project Monitoring Plans, Gantt Charts (Timeline chart for the entire project) , PERT (Program evaluation and review technique) , CPM (Critical path method )

UNIT III Software Design

Basic Concept of Software Design, Architectural Design, Low Level Design: Modularization, Design Structure Charts, Pseudo Codes, Flow Charts, Coupling and Cohesion Measures, Design Strategies: Function Oriented Design, Object Oriented Design, Top-Down and Bottom-Up Design. Data Flow Diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams, Decision Tables, Software Measurement and Metrics: Various Size Oriented Measures: Function Point (FP) Based Measures, Cyclomatic Complexity Measures: Control Flow Graphs.

UNIT IV

Structured Programming Coding and Software Testing

Programming practices, Verification, Monitoring and Control, Formal Technical Reviews (Peer Reviews), Walk Through, Code Inspection, Compliance with Design and Coding Standards. Testing Objectives, UNIT Testing, Integration Testing: Testing Fundamentals, Functional Testing, Structural Testing, Test Plan activities, UNIT testing, Integration Testing.

UNIT V

Software Reliability and Maintenance

Reliability: Concept of Software Reliability, Reliability Models, Limitations of Reliability Models Software as an Evolutionary Entity, Need for Maintenance, Categories of Maintenance: Preventive, Corrective and Perfective Maintenance, Cost of Maintenance, Software Re-Engineering, Reverse Engineering. Software Configuration Management Activities, Change Control Process, Software Version Control, An Overview of CASE Tools.

Practical

Using any development tool like Rational Rose Perform SA/SD for the following types of problems.

Hotel Automation System

Book Shop Automation Software

Word processing Software

Software Component Cataloguing Software.

Payroll System

Banking System

Purchase Order System

Library Management System

Railway Reservation System

Bill Tracking System

College Admission System
Illustration of various activities of Software Project Management using MS Project .

Reference Books

R. S. Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioners Approach, McGraw Hill.
Rajib Mall, Fundamentals of Software Engineering, PHI Publication.
K. K. Aggarwal and Yogesh Singh, Software Engineering, New Age International Publishers.
Carlo Ghezzi, M. Jarayeri, D. Manodrioli, Fundamentals of Software Engineering, PHI Publication.

Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, Addison Wesley.

AIT 222 INTRODUCTION TO .NET FRAMEWORK AND ASP.NET 4(2+2)

UNIT I

Overview to .Net Framework– Web Architecture (Overview of ASP.NET Architecture) – Client Server Architecture – Application Web Servers – Installation of IIS server – Introduction to Visual Studio – Types of Files in Asp.NET – Types of controls in Asp.NET – Page Architecture, Adding Controls to a Webpage – The Page Class – WebForm – Using standard controls (Buttons, Textbox, Checkbox, Label, Panel, Listbox, Dropdownlist etc.) and Rich web Controls (calendar, fileupload etc.).

UNIT II

What is Validation? – Client Side Validation – Server Side Validation – Validation Controls (RequiredField Validator, Range Validator, CompareField Validator, RegularExpression Validator, Custom Validator, ValidationSummary Control) – Master Page – Designing Website with Master Page, Theme and CSS – Navigation Controls – Introduction of Exceptions and Errors, try/catch blocks, finally block.

UNIT III

What is State? – Why is it required in Asp.Net? – Client Side State Management – Server Side State Management – State management (viewstate, session, application, cache, Query String, Cookie) –

Introduction to Web.Config (using various sections like connectionstrings, appsettings, customerrors, Authentication and Authorization) & global.asax file.

UNIT IV

Overview of ADO.NET– Architecture of ADO.NET – Connected Architecture – Disconnected Architecture – Database Programming with ADO.NET(Connection, Command, DataReader, DataAdapter, Dataset, DataColumn, DataRow, DataConstraints, DataView etc.) – Using Data Access Control (Gridview Control, Repeater Control etc.) – Binding Data to DataBound Controls – Displaying Data in a webpage using SQLDataSource Control – Data Binding Expressions – Caching

Application Pages And Data – Introduction to LINQ – Introduction to ASP.NET with AJAX or jQuery and its tool kit.

UNIT V

Introduction to XML – Reading Datasets From XML – Writing Datasets With XML – WebServices (Introduction, HTTP, SOAP, UDDI, XML, Creating a Web Service, Consuming a Web Service) –

Introduction to MVC.

Practical

Installing Visual Studio and IIS.
Practice of Standard Controls.
Practice of Standard Controls.
Practice of Validation Controls.
Practice of Master Page.
Using Theme and CSS in website.
Practice of Navigation Controls.
Using try/catch block.
Understanding & Practice of Query String ,Viewstate
Understanding & Practice of Session, Application
Importance and use of web.config file.
Use of global.asax file.
Database programming with ADO.NET (Connection, Command, DataReader).
Database programming with ADO.NET (DataAdapter, Dataset, DataColumn, DataRow, DataConstraints, DataView etc.).
Practice of Data Access Controls (Gridview Control, Repeater Control etc.).
Practice of Data Binding Expressions
Practice of Displaying Data in a webpage using SQLDataSource Control

Practice of Caching Application Pages And Data
Practice of using LINQ instead of SQL commands.
Practice of AJAX or jQuery controls.
Practice of sending emails.
Practice of Writing Datasets to XML file and Reading Datasets From XML.
Practice of creating and using web services.
Overview of MVC

Reference Books

ASP.NET UNLEASHED – BY Stephen Walther, Kevin Hoffman , Nate Dudek SAMS

Beginning_ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB – By Imar Spaanjaars Wrox
Beginning ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010 – By Matthew MacDonald Apress
C# 4.0 The Complete Reference – By Herbert Schildt – McGraw-Hill Prof Med/Tech
C# in a Nutshell – By Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward – O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Professional C# 4.0 and .NET 4 – By Christian Nagel, Bill Evjen, Jay Glynn, Karli Watson, Morgan Skinner – WORX

AIT 223 INFORMATION SECURITY 3(2+1)

Unit I Introduction

Security Trends, OSI security architecture, Security attacks, security services, security mechanisms, Security System Development Life cycle – Legal, Ethical and Professional issues.

Unit II

Security Analysis and Logical Design

Risk Management - Identifying and Assessing Risk - Assessing and Controlling Risk. Blueprint for Security - Information Security Policy - Standards and Practices – ISO 17799/BS 7799 – NIST Models - VISA International Security Model - Design of Security Architecture

Unit III Physical Design

Security Technology – Intruders, Malicious software, Firewalls, Scanning and Analysis tools, Content filters.

Unit IV Cryptography

Advanced Encryption standard, Principles of public-key cryptosystem, Key management, Message authentication and Hash functions, Digital signatures

Unit V

Biometric Security

Biometrics: Definition-Types of Biometrics- Multi biometrics-Fusion methods-applications

Practical

Malware and their removal, Types of attacks and their detection, Cryptography algorithms, Web security, E-mail security, Firewall, Port blocking, VPN.
Write program for Mono alphabetic cipher
Implementation of Vigenere cipher (Polyalphabetic substitution)
Implementation of Hill cipher
Implementation of Rail Fence cipher
Implementation of S-DES algorithm for data encryption

7. Implement RSA asymmetric (public key and private key)-Encryption. Encryption key (e, n) & (d, n)

Generate digital signature using Hash code
Generate digital signature using MAC code

Reference Books

Cryptography and Network Principles and Practice by Wiliam Stallings, Pearson Edu. 2003
Web Commerce Technology Handbook by Daniel Minoli and Emma Minoli, TMH (1999)
E-commerce: Business, Technology, Society by Pearson Edu. Asia
E-Commerce : A managerial Perspective by Samantha Shurety P
Michael E Whitman and Herbert J Mattord, Principles of Information Security, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 2003.
William Stallings, Cryptography and Network security, Principles and Practices, Fourth Edition, Pearson Education, 2006
John D. Wood Ward, Jr. Nicholas M. Orlans and Peter T. Higgm, Biometrics, Dream tech press, 2003.

AIT 224 Management Information Systems (MIS) 3(3+0)

UNIT I

Introduction to MIS: concept, Definition, role, Impact and effectiveness of MIS. E-business enterprise: Introduction, E-business, E-commerce, E-communication, E-collaboration. Information Security Challenges: Security Threats controlling and management.

UNIT II

Basic of Management Information System: Decision Making, Information and knowledge, OO-Technology and MIS, Business process Re-engineering.

UNIT III

Application of Management Information system: Application in manufacturing sector using for personal management, financial management, Production Management, Material Management, Marketing Management Application in Service Sector.

UNIT IV

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): EMS, ERP, Benefits implementation, EMS & MIS. Case Studies: Application of SAP technologies in manufacturing sector

UNIT V

Database and client server architecture, Data Warehouse: architecture to implementation, E-business Technology: Electronic payment systems, Web enabled business management, MIS in web environment.

Reference Books:

V. Rajaraman, “Analysis and Design of Information Systems”, PHI Publication, 2nd Edition (2006)
Waman S. Jawadekar, “Management Information Systems – Text & Cases”, Tata McGrawHill Publication, 4th Edition (2009)
Ken Laudon, Jane Laudon, Rajanish Dass, “Management Information Systems – Managing the Digital Firm”, Pearson Education, 11th Edition (2010)
Robert G. Murdick, Joel E. Ross, James R. Claggett, “Information Systems for Modern Management”, PHI Publication, 3rd Edition (2005)
Stephen Haag, Maeve Cummings, Amy Philips, “Management Information Systems – For the Information Age”, McGraw-Hill Publication, 6th Edition (2010)
Leonard Jessup, Joseph Valacich, “Information Systems Today – Managing in the Digital World”, PHI Publication, 3rd Edition (2008)
Sanjay Mohapatra, “Cases in Management Information Systems”, PHI Publication, (2009)
Lisa Miller, “MIS Cases – Decision Making with Application Software”, Pearson Education, 3rd Edition (2007)
Steven Alter, “Information Systems – The Foundation of E-business”, Pearson Education, 4^th Edition (2002)

AGRI 221 INTRODUCTION TO BIOTECHNOLOGY

3(2+1)

UNIT I

Biotechnology – definitions – History- Importance-Scope- Achievement –organization; History of plant tissue culture and plant genetic engineering – terminology used in plant tissue culture

UNIT II

Plant cell and tissue culture – steps in general tissue culture techniques – merits and limitations – applications of plant tissue culture in crop improvement; Sterilization technique, Growth room - Nutritional requirement of in-vitro culture (Media); Totipotency and morphogenesis – growth and differentiation in cultures; Micropropagation, Anther culture, Embryo culture, Endosperm culture – procedure –– applications – problems

– advantages and limitations; Somaclonal variation – types – origin – applications – advantages – limitations – achievements; Somatic embryogenesis and synthetic seed production technology; In vitro pollination and fertilization; Protoplast culture somatic hybridization-Application in crop improvement

UNIT III

Genetic engineering – Method of cloning DNA -Restriction enzymes -Vectors for gene transfer – PCR and Gene cloning- Methods of gene transfer- Transgenic plants – applications in crop improvement – limitations

UNIT IV

DNA based markers – RFLP, AFLP, RAPD, SSR—importance and applications; DNA fingerprinting – applications; Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) mapping – Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) and its applications in crop improvement; Elementary knowledge- Application of Biotechnology in Medicine, Environmental and Industrial sector; Prospectus and public perception of Biotechnology; DNA sequencing, importance current next generation sequencing techniques.

UNIT V

Fine structure genes – definitions of genomics, structural genomics and functional genomics – Genomic approaches in agriculture – Human Genome Project – Genome size – brief outline – Computer application in genetics, advantage and limitation.

Practical

Requirements of plant tissue culture laboratory

Sterilization Techniques and inoculation of explants
Preparation of plant tissue culture media
Anther culture techniques in crop improvement.
Hardening requirements of tissue culture raised plants.
Requirements of plant biotechnological laboratory

DNA isolation techniques.
Use of markers in characterization or tagging genes
Bt. Technology in agriculture & its impact
Outline for Preparation of plant tissue culture project
Outline for project for erection of hardening unit

Visit to plant tissue culture and biotechnology laboratories.

Reference Books

Bilgrami, K.S. and Pandey, A.K. 1992. Introduction to Biotechnology. CBS Pub., New Delhi.

Chahal, G.S. and Gosal, S.S. 2002. Principles and Procedures of Plant Breeding – Biotechnological and Conventional Approaches. Narosa Publishing House, NewDelhi.

Chawla, H.S. 2005. Introduction to Plant Biotechnology. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi.
Gupta, P.K. 1994 Elements of Biotechnology. Rastogi and Co., Educational Publishers,Meerut.
Jha, T.B. and Ghosh, B. 2005. Plant Tissue Culture. University Press, Hyderabad.
Razdan, M. K. 2002. Introduction to Plant Tissue Culture. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi.

Singh, B.D. 2006. Plant Biotechnology. Kalyani Publishers, Ludhiana.

AGRI 222 AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGY

3(2+1)

UNIT I

Earth’s atmosphere – Composition – division of atmosphere; Sun-earth relationship – season, weather and climate; Pressure and global wind systems – cyclone and anticyclone; Condensation –precipitation, clouds, Frost and Indian monsoon.

UNIT II

Meaning and scope of Agricultural meteorology. Importance of weather and climatic parameters in agricultural production; Microclimate – yield-pest disease-weather relationship.

UNIT III

Climatic hazards in crop production – droughts, flood, dry spell, heat and cold wave and frost; Heat unit concept and its application in agriculture

UNIT IV

Evapotranspiration and its estimation; Weather forecasting, Types of weather forecasting, methods of weather forecasting, Satellite meteorology – Satellite systems: IRS and INSAT

UNIT V

Conventional techniques for measurement of meteorological parameters; Self-recording instruments – Automatic weather stations, Net work in Gujarat and data monitoring system; Agro-climatic zones of India in general and Gujarat in particular.

Practical

Study of meteorological observatories, its site selection and layout.
Study of different types of thermometers and psychrometers.
Study of rainfall and evaporation measurement instruments.
Study of radiation measurement instruments.
Study of wind measurement instruments.
Calculation of RH, VP and dew point temperature.
Estimation of heat indices.
Analysis of rainfall data for climatological studies.
Estimation of PET by Thornthwaite and Penman methods.
Estimation of net radiation using weather parameters.

Reference Books

Agrometeorology – J. H. Chang
Crops and Weather – by Venkatraman &
Climate, Weather, and Crop in India – by D. Lenka
Principles of Agricultural Meteorology – by Bisnoi O. P. (2007). Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

AGRI 223 FUNDAMENTAL OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION

3(2+1)

UNIT I

Education – Meaning, Definition, Types – Difference between Formal education and Informal education and their Characteristics. Extension Education and Agricultural Extension – Meaning, Definition, Concepts, Objectives and Principles. Rural development – Meaning, Definition, Objectives, Importance and Problems in rural development.

UNIT II

Developmental programmes of pre-independence era (Only Name of the programme, Year of starting and Name of Initiators) – Sriniketan, Marthandam, Gurgaon experiment and Gandhian constructive proprogramme. Community Development Programme and Development programmes of Post independence era- (Only Name of the programme, Year of starting and Name of Initiators) Firka Development, Etawah – Pilot project and Nilokheri Experiment, Community Development and Extension Education and National Extension service.

UNIT III

Agricultural Development Programmes – (Only Name of the programme and Year of starting) Intensive Agricultural District Programme (IADP), High Yielding Varieties Programme (HYVP), Institution Village Linkage Programme (IVLP), Watershed Development Programme (WDP), National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP). Panchayat Raj system – Meaning of Democratic – Decentralization and Panchayat Raj, Meaning of Three tiers of Panchayat Raj system.

UNIT IV

Social Justice and Poverty alleviation programmes (Only Name of the programme, Year of starting and Beneficiaries of programmes) – Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP), Swarna Jayanthi Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY), Chief Minsiter Employment Yojana (CMEY). Women Development programmes – (Only Name of the programme, Year of starting and Beneficiaries of programmes)- Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA), Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK), Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and Mahila Samriddi Yojana (MSY).

UNIT V

Reorganized extension system (T&V System) – objectives, Key features, Organizational structure and limitations, Meaning, objectives, needs and principles of Broad Based Extension ( BBE ), ATIC - Year of starting , Objectives and Major Activities, ATMA- Year of starting , Objectives, Organizational Structure and role, Extension Programme Planning – Meaning, Definitions of Planning, Programme, Project, Importance and Steps in Programme planning Process. – This topic is included in this course and deleted from course “Extension methodologies for transfer of agricultural technology”

Practicals

Visits and study of a village Panchayat
Participation in bi-monthly workshops of Training and Visit (T & V) System
Visit to a village to study the Self Help Groups (SHGs)
Visit to a voluntary organization to study the developmental activities.
Visit to Sardar Smruti Kendra – As a Farmers’ Training, Information cum Communication centre.
Visit to ATIC run by university.
Preparation of Interview Schedule to collect information from farmers
1. Personal Information
2. Social Information
3. Extension Contacts

Economic
Crop Grown
Problems of Agriculture

Information of Milch animals
Problems in Animal husbandry

References

Chauhan, N.B, Patel, B.S and Patel R.C(2007) Fundamentals of Extension Education, Department of Extension Education, B.A.College of Agriculture, AAU, Anand.
Adivi Reddy A. 2001 Extension Education, Sree Laxmi Press, Bapatla, A.P.
Ray GL. 1999 Extension Communication and Management, Noya prakash, Calcutta, West Bengal.
Dahama OP and Bhatnagar, OP 1998 Education and Communication for Development, Oxford and IBH Co, New Delhi.
Singh A.K. 2000 Agricultural Extension.- Impact and Assessment, Agri-bios (India), New Delhi.
Benor, Harrison and Baxter 1984 Agricultural Extension – The Training and visit system, A World Bank Publication, Washington DC, USA.

STAT 221 AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS–II USING SAS

3(2+1)

UNIT I

Correlation and Regression

Correlation – meaning, types of correlations, methods of studying correlation, Computation of correlation coefficient,

Regression- fitting of simple linear regression equation – properties of regression coefficient.

UNIT II

Estimation and testing of hypothesis

Test of significance – null and alternate hypothesis – level of significance– degrees of freedom - large sample test (one and two sample tests), Small sample test (one and two sample tests and paired test), F test.

UNIT III Chi-square test

Conditions for application of chi-square.

Uses of Chi -square (i) test for goodness of fit and (ii) test for independence of attributes. Contingency table (2 x 2), (2x3), (3x2), (rxc).

UNIT IV

Introduction and Analysis of variance

Meaning of experiments, treatments, experimental units. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) – meaning – assumptions

UNIT V Basic Designs

Experimental designs - Basic principles of experimental designs – different designs – Completely Randomized Design, Randomized Block Design and Latin square design.

Practical

Overview of SAS.
Exercise on correlation.
Exercise on regression.
Problems on large sample test (Z test) - one sample and two sample Z test.

5.	Problems on small sample test (t test) - one sample and two sample t test	(Independent t test
	and paired t test).
6.	Problems on Chi-square test (Goodness of fit and test of independence).
7.	Exercise on Completely Randomized Design (CRD).
8.	Exercise on Randomized Complete Block Design (RBD).
9.	Exercise on Latin square Design (RBD).

Reference Books

Basic Statistics – by B L Agarwal (Wiley Eastern Ltd., New Delhi)
Statistical Methods – by Snedecor and Cochran (Oxford & IBH, New Delhi)
Statistical Methods in Animal Sciences – by V N Amle (ISAS, New Delhi)

PE 221 NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME 1*(0+1)

	OR
PE 221	NATIONAL CADET CORPS	1*(0+1)

Weapon training – rifle – buoyant – light machine gun – sten machine carbine – introduction and characteristics – stripling – assembling and cleaning – loading and unloading – firing, field – craft – visual training – targets – judging distance – fire discipline and fire control orders – battle craft – field signals – description of ground – section formatic – section battle drill – scouts and patrols – ambush – field engineering – map reading – conventional signs – grid systems – use of service protractor – prismatic compass and its use, self-defense – general principles – precautions and training – attacks and counter attacks – marching and searching – first aid – hygiene and sanitation – civil defense – leadership – NCC song.

PE 221 PHYSICAL EDUCATION 1*(0+1)

Compulsory skill development in anyone of the following games

Basket Ball, Volley Ball, Ball Badminton, Foot Ball, Kho-Kho, Chess, Kabaddi, Cricket, Table Tennis, Shuttle Badminton, Gymnastics, Athletics viz. Jumps, Throws, Hurdles

Mental Balance and Importance – Development of concentration Suriyanamaskar – Advance skills of any one of the games which were taught in the I Semester.

SEMESTER V

AIT 311 ADVANCE ASP.NET 3 (2+1)

Objective(s)

At the end of this course, the student will get acquainted about latest trend in ASP.NET website development using MVC and data retrieval using LINQ; to target local market, development of multilingual application/site using custom controls and report generations; Optimize site performance by enabling asynchronous loading of page and usage of web services.

Unit I

Creating custom controls, Asynchronous execution & Localization

Custom Controls - Types of Custom Controls - Building User Controls, Composite Controls - Asynchronous Page Processing - Approaches of Asynchronous processing in ADO.NET – Asynchronous Methods for SQL command class – AsyncCallBack – WaitHandle Class – Asynchronous Connections – Building Culture-Neutral Pages – Creating Local Resources – Creating Global Resources.

Unit II

Web services

Building XML web service – Consuming simple XML web service – Protocols for web service – Overloading web methods – Caching web service response – SOAP Headers – Consuming Web Services Asynchronously – Introduction Windows communication Foundation– Building WCF Services – Building AJAX-Enabled Web Services

Unit III

Reports

Accessing reports in ASP.NET - Overview to Sql Server Reports - Creating Sql Server Reports with wizards - Integrating with Web Applications - Customizing the Report Viewer - Adding a Database or Table to a Report – Introduction to Crystal Reports – Report building using iTextSharp PDF library.

Unit IV

MVC

Introduction to Controllers, views & Models – Forms and HTML Helpers – Data Annotations & Validations – Routing – Customizing Application URLs – Using MVC and AJAX and JQuery

Unit V

LINQ

LINQ expressions - Using via extension methods - Filtering - Sorting - Aggregation - Joins - Extension methods - Object initialization syntax - Anonymous types - Lambda expressions - Deferred Execution - Data Projection - Single result value - Existing types - Anonymous types - Grouping - LINQ to XML - New XML classes - Generating XML - Querying XML - Using data projection - Combining with XPath - LINQ to SQL - Attributes and mapping - Inserts and deletes - Transactions

Reference Book(s):

ASP.NET 4 UNLEASED - by Stephen Walther, Kevin Scott Hoffman, Nate Scott Dudek - Publisher : SAMS Publishing
Beginning ASP.NET 4.5: in C# and VB – by Imar Spaanjaars - Publisher - WROX
Professional ASP.NET MVC 5 – by Jon Galloway, Brad Wilson, K. Scott Allen, David Matson; ISBN: 978-1-118-79475-3 – Publisher WROX
Professional LINQ – by Scott Klein ISBN: 978-0-470-04181-9 – Publisher WROX

Practical(s):

Practice of Creating custom controls
Practice of Creating composite custom controls
Practice of Asynchronous Methods for SQL command class.
Practice of Wait approach.
Practice of Callback approach and asynchronous connection.
Practice of global and local resource file for localization.
Practice of creating and using XML web service.
Practice of consuming Web Services Asynchronously.
Practice of creating WCF services.
Practice of creating AJAX-Enabled Web Services.
Practice of creating and using RDLC, SSRS and crystal reports.
Practice of creating MVC controllers, views and models.
Practice of using Forms & HTML Helpers.
Practice of using Data Annotations & Validations
Practice of customizing application URLs
Practice of using AJAX and JQuery with MVC
Practice of using LINQ in place of SQL queries
Practice of using LINQ with XML files

AIT 312 JAVA TECHNOLOGY 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

After completing the course the student shall be able to comprehend the art of programming and, in particular, the structure and meaning of basic Java programs, modify, compile, debug, and execute Java programs, design and build programs using java technology APIs

Unit I

Introduction to Java

Basics of Java programming, Data types, Variables, Operators, Control structures including selection, Looping, Java methods, Overloading, Math class, Arrays in java.

Unit II

Objects and Classes

Basics of objects and classes in java, Constructors, Finalizer, Visibility modifiers, Methods and objects, Inbuilt classes like String, Character, StringBuffer, File, this reference.

Unit III

Inheritance and Polymorphism

Inheritance in java, Super and sub class, Overriding, Object class, Polymorphism, Dynamic binding, Casting objects, Instance of operator, Abstract class, Interface in java, packages in java, util package.

Multithreading and Exception Handling

Multithreading in java, Thread life cycle and methods, Runnable interface, Thread synchronization, Exception handling with try-catch-finally

Unit IV

Event and GUI programming

Event handling in java, Event types, Mouse and key events, GUI Basics, Panels, Frames, Layout Managers: Flow Layout, Border Layout, Grid Layout, GUI components like Buttons, Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, Labels, Text Fields, Text Areas, Combo Boxes, Lists, Scroll Bars, Sliders, Windows, Menus, Dialog Box, Applet and its life cycle, Introduction to swing.

Unit V

I/O Programming and JDBC

Text and Binary I/O, Classes for File Reading and Writing, Random Access Files, JDBC Introduction, Types of drivers, Callable Statement, Connection, Prepared Statement, Resultset, DatabaseMetaData, ResultSetMetaData

Reference Book(s):

Java Programming Language by Ken Arnold, James Gosling, David Holmes
The Complete Reference Java, Herbert Schildt: TMH, New Delhi
Black Book: Java Programming, DreamTech Publication, New Delhi
Head First Java by Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
Thinking in Java By Bruce Eckel

Practical(s):

Writing, Compiling and Executing first java program.
Java program exercises for data types, operators.
Java program exercises for loop and decision structures.
Java program exercises for class, object, method, method and constructor overloading.
Java program exercises for build in classes and methods.
Java program exercises for Inheritance, Method overriding.
Java program exercises for Abstract class and Interface.
Java program exercises for Thread creation, Thread Methods.
Java program exercises for Thread synchronization.
Java program exercises for Exception Handling.
Java programming exercises for GUI and Layout Managers.
Java programming exercises for Event Delegation Model.
Java programming exercises for GUI controls like button, textbox, list, combobox etc.
Java programming exercises for File Handling.
Java programming exercises for JDBC.

AIT 313 _(ELECTIVE-I) INFORMATION RETRIEVAL 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

To provide the basis knowledge in information retrieval. To prepare students with sound skills to solve computational search problems. To escalate how to evaluate search engines. To appreciate the different applications of information retrieval techniques in the Internet or Web environment. To provide experience in building search engines and evaluating search engines.

UNIT I

Basic Concepts, Retrieval Process, Classic Information Retrieval, Set Theoretic, Algebraic and Probabilistic Models – Structured Text Retrieval Models

UNIT II

Query Languages, Key Word based Querying, Pattern Matching, Structural Queries, Query Operations, Text and Multimedia languages, Markup Languages

UNIT III

User Interface and Visualization, Human Computer Interaction, Access Process, Interface for Search

UNIT IV

Searching the Web, Challenges, Characterizing the Web, Search Engines, Browsing, Meta searchers, Web crawlers, robot exclusion, Web data mining,

UNIT IV

Meta crawler, Collaborative filtering, Web agents (web shopping, bargain finder,..), Economic, ethical, legal and political issues.

Reference Book(s):

G.G. Chowdhury, “Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval”, Neal-Schuman Publishers
Ricardo Baeza-Yate, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, “Modern Information Retrieval”, Pearson Education Asia
An Introduction to Information Retrieval, By Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, “Speech and Language Processing”, Pearson Education
David A. Grossman, Ophir Frieder, “ Information Retrieval: Algorithms, and Heuristics”, Academic Press
Charles T. Meadow, Bert R. Boyce, Donald H. Kraft, “Text Information Retrieval Systems”, Academic Press

Practical(s):

Searching the Web (crawling, indexing etc..) , web data mining , Practical exposure to tools like Zettair, mg, smart, trec_eval etc.

AIT 313 _(ELECTIVE-I) DATA WAREHOUSE AND DATA MINING IN AGRICULTURE 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

This course benefits the students to comprehend the overall architecture of a data warehouse and techniques and methods for data congregation and data preprocessing using OLAP tools. The dissimilar data mining models and techniques will be deliberated in this course. Data mining and data warehousing applications in bioinformatics will also be explored.

UNIT I

Introduction

What is data warehousing and data mining, A Multi-dimensional data model, Multi-dimensional Data Cubes, Star, Star Flakes, & Fact Constellation Schema, Concept Hierarchies, OLAP

UNIT II

Data Warehouse Architecture

Steps for design and construction of data warehouse, 3-tier data warehouse architecture, ROLAP, MOLAP, HOLAP, Data Pre-Processing, Overview, Need for pre-processing Issues related to efficient data handling (Extraction, Transformation, and updating of large databases Data Cleaning Data Integration & Transformation Data Reduction Discretization & Concept Hierarchy Generation

UNIT III

Data mining Primitives, Language, & System Architecture

What defines a data mining task? A data mining Query Language, Architecture of a Data mining System

UNIT IV

Mining frequent patterns and associations, efficient and scalable frequent item set mining methods. Multi-level association rules, association mining and correlation analysis, constraint-based association rules.

UNIT V

Classification and prediction - basic concepts, decision tree, Bayesian classification, rule-based classification. Prediction. Cluster analysis - basic concepts, types of data in cluster analysis. Case Studies related to Data Mining in Agriculture.

Reference Book(s):

Han, J., Kamber, M.: Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques. Second Edition. Elsevier Inc.
Dunham, M.H.: Data Mining. Introductory and Advanced Topics. Pearson Education

Practical(s):

To perform various commands given in PL/SQL in Oracle 8.0(For brushing up.)
To perform multi-dimensional data model using SQL queries. With Cube
JAVA FILE HANDLUING Programmed
Java database
Java program for data extraction
Java program for data cleaning
Java program for data transformation
To perform data mining using Weka mining tool.
Various Data Mining Experiments like Apriori etc.
To perform data mining using XLMiner mining tool.

AIT 314 COMPUTER NETWORKS 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

This course addresses the principles, architectures and protocols that have gone into the development of the Internet and modern networked applications. The course examines network design principles, underlying protocols, technologies and architectures such as naming, data transport, routing and algorithms for networked applications including messaging, encryption and authentication.

UNIT I

The importance of Networking, Types of Networking, Network Topology, Transmission Media, Data communication: Concepts of data, signal, channel, bandwidth, bit-rate and baud-rate; Maximum data-rate of channel; Analog and digital communications, asynchronous and synchronous transmission.

UNIT II

Network adapters card, Multiplexer (FDM, TDM, STDM), Hub, Repeater. Network References Models: Layered architecture, protocol hierarchies, interface and services.

UNIT III

ISO-OSI references model, TCP/IP reference model; Datalink layer function and protocols: Framing, error-control, flow control; sliding window protocol; HDLC, SLIP and PPP protocol.

UNIT IV

Network layer - routing algorithms, congestion control algorithms; Internetworking: bridges and gateway; Transport layer - connection management, addressing; Flow control and buffering, multiplexing, Session layer – RPC; Presentation layer - abstract syntax notation.

UNIT V

Application layer - File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Telnet, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol(SMTP); World Wide Web(WWW) - Wide Area Indexed Servers (WAIS), WAP; Network Security; Data compression and cryptography.

Reference Book(s):

W. Stallings, “Data and Computer Communications”, Prentice Hall of India.
B. A. Forouzan, “Data Communications and Networking”, McGraw Hill.
Arick, M.R. The TCP/IP Companion - A Guide for Common User. Shroff Publishers and Distributors Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai.
Freer, J. Computer Communication and Networks. Affiliated East West Press, New Delhi.
Hayes, J. Modelling and Analysis of Computer Communication Networks. Khanna Publishers, New Delhi.
Tanenbaum, A.S. Computer Networks, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi.

Practical(s):

An Overview of Campus Networks Design
1. Router
2. Workgroup Switch
3. High-End Switch
4. Multilayer Switch with Route Processor
Introduction to LAN with its cables, connectors and topologies
To connect two personal computer with straight and cross over twisted pair
Introduction to Motherboard & Installation of LAN Card
Case Study of Ethernet(10 base 5,10 base 2,10 base T)
Create a simple network with two PCs using a hub
1. identify the proper cable to connect the PCs to the hub
2. Configure workstation IP address information
3. Test connectivity using the ping command
Installation & working of Remote desktop
Installation and working of Telnet (Terminal Network)
Switch configuration and management (Telnet, SNMP, HTTP)
Installation of Windows server
Installation of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
To study DNS Server Case Study and to install DNS Server and its Configuration
Optical Fiber Splicing Machine experiment
To understand end-user network performance using “One touch at network assistant”
UTM Basic Firewall Configuration
Router configuration and management

AGRI 311 GIS AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

The basic Objective(s) of this course is to teach concepts of GIS and remote sensing with specific applications in agriculture related statistics.

UNIT I

Introduction to Geographical Information System; Components of a GIS; Data Models in GIS-Raster and Vector

UNIT II

Spatial Data Analysis- Raster and Vector, Data input, verification, storage and output

UNIT III

Introduction- maps and spatial information; manual and automatic digitizing process; Spatial and non-spatial data linking; preparation of thematic maps, Data errors in GIS; Spatial modeling; Spatial interpolation; Current and potential uses of GIS in agricultural planning;

UNIT IV

Physics of remote sensing, Satellites and their characteristics; Satellite Remote Sensing and Sensors; Spectral signatures of earth surface features, spectral characteristics of vegetation, soil and water

UNIT V

Data acquisition Data Reception, Transmission, Processing and data storage; Visual and digital image interpretation; Digital image processing, Applications of Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Basics of GPS; Observables and Biases; Errors and Limitations; Type and applications of GPS.

Reference Book(s):

Annadurai, S. and Shanmugalakshmi, R. Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing. Pearson

Education.

Burrough, P.A. Principles of Geographic Information System for Land Resources Assessment. Oxford University Press.
Curran, P.J. Principles of Remote Sensing. Longman Inc., New York.
Heywood, D. Ian, Murray, M. E. G. and Heywood, Ian.. An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems. Prentice Hall.
Jensen, J.R. Introductory Digital Image Processing. Prentice Hall
Lillesand, T.M. and Kiefer, R.W. Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation. John Wiley.
Peuquet, D. J. and Marble, D. F. 1990. Introductory Readings in Geographic Information System. Taylor and Francis, London.

Practical(s):

Digitization of a map with the help of a digitizer; Map editing;
Geo-referencing and map projections;
Creation of attribute database and linking with spatial data;
General analysis of the data with the help software;
Applications of digital elevation models using GIS;
Spatial interpolations using GIS;
Visual interpretations of remote sensing data;
Geometric corrections of remote sensing digital data;
Methods for improving quality of digital data and Techniques of image classifications.

AGRI 312 EXTENSION METHODOLOGIES FOR TRANSFER OF AGRIL. TECHNOLOGY 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

To impart the knowledge for the students regarding the different methods used for transfer of agricultural technology. To enhance the skills in using different methods in transfer of agricultural technology

Unit I

Communication – Meaning, Definition, Models, Elements and their Characteristics, Types and Barriers in communication. Extension Programme Planning – Meaning, Definitions of Planning, Programme, Project, Importance, Principles and Steps in Programme Development Process, Monitoring and Evaluation of Extension Programmes.

Unit II

Extension teaching methods – Meaning, Definition, Functions and Classification. Individual contact methods – Farm and Home visit, Result Demonstration, Field trials – Meaning, Objectives, Steps, Merits and Demerits. Group contact methods – Group discussion, Method demonstration, Field Trips – Meaning, Objectives, Steps, Merits and Demerits. Small group discussion techniques – Lecture, Symposium, Panel, Debate, Forum, Buzz group, Workshop, Brain Storming, Seminar and Conference.

Unit III

Mass contact Methods – Campaign, Exhibition, Kisan Mela, Radio & Television – Meaning, Importance, Steps, Merits & Demerits. Factors influencing in selection of Extension Teaching Methods and Combination (Media Mix) of teaching methods.

Unit IV

Agricultural Journalism – Meaning, Scope and Importance, Sources of news, Types, Merits and Limitations.

Unit V

ATIC, KVK, DVK, Innovative Information sources – Internet, Cyber Cafes, Motion picture or movies, chart, Kisan call centers; Mobile Technology in TOT- I-khedut, e-krishikiran, SMS, KKMS Video chatting, Video conferencing, Mobile Apps, Cloud computing etc and Consultancy clinics.

Reference Book(s):

Teaching Extension Education by S. K. Waghmare published by Prashant Publishers, VVNagar
Extension and Communication for Agricultural Development by G. R. Ray
Integrated Extension Education by S. V. Supe published by Agrotech publishing Academy, Udaipur.
Agricultural by S. V. Supe published by Agrotech publishing Academy, Udaipur
Information Technology for Agricultural Production, Education and management by N. B. Chauhan, M. K. Zhala, and J. G. Sarvaiya ISBN: 81-89304-08-9

Practical(s):

Simulated exercises on communication.
Identifying the Problems, Fixing the Priorities and selecting a most important problem for preparation of a project.
Developing a project based on identified problems in a selected village.
Organization of Group discussion and Method demonstration.
Visit to KVK.
Planning and Writing of scripts for Radio and Television.
Audio Visual aids – Meaning, Importance and Classification. S
Election, Planning, Preparation, Evaluation and Presentation of visual aids.
Planning & Preparation of visual aids – Charts, Posters, Over Head Projector, (OHP) Transparencies, Power Point Slides.
Planning and Preparation of Agricultural Information materials – Leaflet, Folder, Pamphlet, News Stories, Success Stories.
Handling of Public Address Equipment (PAE) System, Still camera, Video Camera and Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Projector.

AGRI 313_{(ELECTIVE-II)}FUNDAMENTALS OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

To understand basic principles of plant physiological form and functions as well as processes and its importance in crop production.

UNIT I

Introduction, Definition of Plant Physiology, ecology, environments, plant hormones; Plant cells and cell metabolism; Impotence of Water, Diffusion and Osmosis process in plant; Transpiration, Solute Transport; Importance in Agriculture & its applications.

UNIT II

Definition of Growth and Development, Growth analysis, Importance parameters in growth and development; Plant nutrients, deficiency and toxicity symptoms of plant nutrients, Seed Physiology, seed viability and vigour, seed germination, Seed dormancy, causes and remedial measures for breaking seed dormancy.

UNIT III

Respiration and its significance, importance of glycolysis, TCA cycle, Pentose Phosphate Pathway; Detailed process of Photosynthesis: Light and dark Reactions; Differences between C₃, C₄ and CAM plants and their Reactions (Calvin Cycle, C4, CAM), Factors affecting photosynthesis and crop productivity, Phytochromes and chlorophyll and other pigment systems.

UNIT IV

Plant growth regulators and their effect on plant growth and developments, Type of PGRs; Effects of PGRs on photomorphogenesis, Germination, Flowering, Fruit development and ripening as well as seed physiology.

UNIT V

Stress physiology and its significance. Plant physiology in relation to crop improvement.

Reference Book(s):

Plant physiology: Fundamentals and Applications: Arvindkumar and S.S. Purohit, Published by Agrobios (India)
Methods of plant growth analysis: R. Hunt
Crop Physiology: U.S. Gupta Published by Oxford & IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
Plant Physiology by Salisbury, F. B. and Rose, C. W published by Cengage learning,
Plant physiology by Pandey, S. N., Sinha, B. K. published by Vikas publishing house Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi

Practical(s):

To demonstrate that the light is necessary for photosynthesis.
To demonstrate that the CO2 is essential for photosynthesis
Measurement of water potential,
Measurement of leaf area by various methods,
Preparation of solutions for physiological studies in plants.
Methods of measuring water status in roots, stems and leaves.
Imbibitions and seed germination.
Breaking seed dormancy
Seed viability
Plant growth analysis
Laboratory visit and to understand use of IT in plant science.
Application of IT in plant physiological studies.

AGRI 313_{(ELECTIVE-II)} PRINCIPLES OF GENETICS 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

To impart knowledge to the student on the ultra structure of cell and its organelles, principles of genetics and their application in plant breeding for improving agriculture productivity.

UNIT I

Cell: Differences between plant cell and animal cell – differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell; Ultrastructure of cell and cell organelles; Nucleus: Ultra structure; Study of chromosome structure, morphology, number and types, Karyotype and Idiogram; Cell division: Cell cycle and its regulation; (mitosis, meiosis). Introduction and definitions of cytology, genetics and cytogenetic – interrelationships among cytology, genetics, plant breeding and also with other branches of science – history – historical developments – cell theory and protoplasm theory.

UNIT II

Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid (DNA) and RNA (Ribo Nucleic Acid) as genetic material- its structure and DNA replication; Genetic code– outline of protein-Transcription-Translation -Operon concept

UNIT III

Mendelian genetics – terminology – Mendel’s work, Mendel’s Laws - Modification of Mendelian ratio, different type of epistasis; Gene action – types of gene action– multiple alleles; Qualitative and quantitative characters- Mulitple factor hypothesis

UNIT IV

Linkage– coupling phase and repulsion phase – types of linkage - pleiotropism; Crossing over – mechanism of crossing over – types of crossing over– coincidence – interference; Cytoplasmic inheritance-Polyploidy in plants

UNIT V

Mutation- Types of mutation, methods of inducing mutations- physical and chemical mutagen.

Reference Book(s):

Gupta, P.K. 1985. Cytology, Genetics and Cytogenetics. Rastogi Publications, Meerut.
Gupta, P.K. 2007. Genetics. Rastogi Publications, Meerut.
Pundhan Singh, 2000. Elements of Genetics. Kalyani Publishers, Ludhiana.
Singh, B.D. 2007. Fundamentals of Genetics. Kalyani Publishers, Ludhiana.
Strickberger, M.W. 2004. Genetics. Prentice – Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.

Practical(s):

Study of monohybrid ratio and its modifications
Study of dihybrid ration and its modification
Study of chi-square analysis and goodness of fit
Example related to chi-square for monohybrid ratio, dihybrid ratio and dihybrid testcross
Study of gene interactions (dominance epistasis, recessive epistasis and duplicate recessive epistasis)
Study of gene interactions (duplicate with additive, duplicate dominance and dominance recessive epistasis)
Estimation of Linkages using various methods.
Evolution of different crop species like Cotton, Wheat, Tobacco, Triticale and Brassicas
Instruments/equipments related to cytogenetic studies- Cell sorter, Flow Cytometer, Micro manipulator, FISH, GISH,
Computer application in genetics

AGRI 314_{(ELECTIVE-III)}FUNDAMENTALS OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

Making student conversant with the different aspects of Agricultural Engineering and application of information technology in addressing issues related to it.

UNIT I

Farm mechanization, sources of farm power, renewable energy sources, IC engines- principle and working, tractor types, systems and selection, different agricultural operation viz., tillage, sowing, plant protection, intercultural operations, harvesting, threshing, and different implements used for these operation. biomass management techniques.

UNIT II

Watershed concept and theory, soil erosion, measures to control soil erosion, hydrological cycle and its components, soil-plant-water relationship, irrigation methods-surface irrigation, drip & sprinkler irrigation, devices to measure irrigation water viz, weirs, flumes and orifices, Water conveyance systems, Water harvesting, Occurrence and movement of ground water, aquifer and its types, interaction of water resources with the changing environment.

UNIT III

Engineering properties of biological materials, concept of heat and mass transfer, devices for cleaning, grading, milling and storage of farm produce. Drying and dehydration of perishable and non-perishable products, importance, function and features of green house.

UNIT IV

Resource conservation management, precision farming-application of RS and GIS, automated irrigation scheduling, variable rate seed and chemical applicators, different types of sensors and robotics-concept and working principle.

UNIT V

Rainfall-runoff prediction models, watershed modeling, climate change impact analysis on bio-resources, drying characteristics, storage or process kinetics, simulation and modeling in tillage implements.

Reference Book(s):

Elements of Agricultural Engineering, Jagdshwar Sahay, Standard Publishers Distributors.
Principles of Agricultural Engineering, Vol I & II. A. M. Michael & T. P. Ojha, Jain Brothers.
Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, R. Suresh, Standard Publishers.
Elementary Hydrology, Vijay P. Singh, Prentice Hall
Unit operations of Agricultural Processing, K M Sahay, K. K. Singh, Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd
Robotics & Automation in the food Industries (Current & Future Technologies), Da-Wen Sun, Wood Head Publishing Ltd, Oxford.
Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, A. M. Chandra, S. K. Ghosh, Alpha Science.

Practical(s):

Visit to meteorological observatory.
Exercises on empirical and hydrograph based methods to calculate runoff.
Problems on Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE).
GIS supported case studies in water resources management.
Estimation of specific yield and specific retention.
Measurement of irrigation water.
Measurement of uniformity coefficient of sprinkler & drip irrigation.
Principles, working and components of 2 & 4 stroke IC engines.
Study on different systems of tractor.
Constructional details, adjustment and working of different agricultural implements.
Field operation and adjustments of agricultural implements.
Measurement of field capacity and field efficiency of agricultural implements.
Study on conventional and non-conventional sources of energy.
Study of cleaning and grading equipment.
Familiarization with grain storage structures.
Measurement of moisture content during drying and aeration.
To find out different engineering properties of grains and fruits and vegetables.

AGRI 314_{(ELECTIVE-III)}BASIC INSTRUMENTATION AND THEIR APPLICATION IN

AUTOMATION 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

To make students aware of instrumentation used in agricultural sector and as per current trend of agricultural automation sector

Unit I

Basic Controller Design:

Study of transducers: Description of various types of transduction principles, classification, Guidelines for selection, Requirements, Types and Application of Transducers, Transducers based on variable resistance, variable inductance, variable capacitance and piezo-electric effects, Displacement transducers - wire wound potentiometers, strain gage designation system LVDT, RVDT, Piezo Electric transducers, Resistance Thermometers, Thermocouples, Thermistors, Photosensitive Device, Hall effect transducers.

Unit II

Measurement of Electrical and Non Electrical Quantities:

Classification, Selection Criteria, Characteristics, Sensors & Actuators Construction, Working Principles, Application of following Transducers- Potentiometers RTD, Thermocouples, Thermistors, LVDT, Strain Gauges, Capacitive and Inductive transducers Piezoelectric Transducers, Photoelectric Transducers.

Force and Torque Measurement: Drawbar dynamometers, octagonal ring transducers, torque transducers.

Flow Measurement: Pitot static tube, hot wire anemometer, orifice meter, rotameter, turbine flow meter.

Temperature Measurement: Bimetallic thermometers, pressure thermometers, thermocouples, thermopiles, resistance thermometers, thermistors, radiation thermometers. Liquid Level Measurement: Humidity Measurement; Concept of Biosensors.

Unit III

Mechanical Sensors & Actuators:

Stress and Strain, Hooke's Law. Stress and Strain of Beam Structures, Cantilever, Pressure sensors, Piezo-resistance Effect, Piezoelectricity, Piezo-resistive Sensor, capacitive sensors, Inductive sensors, MEMS inertial sensors, micro machined micro accelerometer for MEMS, Parallel-plate Actuator, piezo-actuators.

Unit IV

Virtual Instrumentation:

Introduction to Lab VIEW: Virtual Instruments, Parts of VI, Project explorer, Front panel and block diagram window, Creating simple VI

Data Acquisition and Processing:

Circuits for Noise Filtering and Signal Amplification, Sample and Hold Circuits, Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog Conversion, Data Transmission and telemetry, Introduction to Digital Signal Processing.

Unit V

Advanced Technologies and Automation in Agriculture:

Introduction, Examples of Advanced Precision Agriculture Components, Objectives, Mass Flow Sensor, Site specific spraying, Fertilizer spreader, Sensors and actuators, Controllers, Networks in Agriculture. Real time irrigation control system.

Reference Book(s):

Electronic Instrumentation& Measurement by William D Cooper & Albert C. Helfric, PHI Pub.
Electrical and Electronic Measurements and Instrumentation by A. K Sawhney.
Analysis and Design Principles of MEMS Devices by Minhang Bao, ELSEVIER.
M. J. Usher, “Sensors and Transducers”, McMillian Hampshire.
N. P. Mahalik, “MEMS” Tata McGraw Hill
Analysis and Design Principles of MEMS Devices by Minhang Bao, ELSEVIER
M. J. Usher, “Sensors and Transducers”, McMillian Hampshire.
N. P. Mahalik, “MEMS” Tata McGraq Hill

Practical(s):

Study of various transducers.
Young’s Modulus by Bending.
Modulus of rigidity.
Study of piezoelectricity.
Hall Effect.
Diode Characteristics.
Thermocouple.
Study of various control system.

SEMESTER VI

AIT 321 E-CONTENT DEVELOPMENT USING MULTIMEDIA 3 (2+2)

UNIT I

Flash Action Script

Using the Actions panel, Using Script Assist for easy Action Script, Proper Action Script syntax, Creating and data typing variables, Manipulating variables through statements, Using functions to group repetitive code, Further organizing and modularizing your code via classes.

UNIT II

Premiere Pro

Touring the workspace, Importing Media , Organizing Media, Essentials of Video Editing, Working with Clips and Markers, Adding Transitions, Putting Clips in Motion, Multi-camera Editing, Editing and Mixing Audio , Adding Video Effects , Exploring Compositing Techniques, Creating Titles , Managing Your Projects

UNIT III

Audition

Introduction : Audio interfacing and Audition environment, Wave form View : Basic Editing, Signal processing, Mastering, Sound design, Creating and recording files , Multi track View : Basic multi track orientation, Track parameters, Clips, Creating music with sound libraries, Creating music by overdubbing and multi track recording, Mixing strategies, Working with Video

UNIT IV

After Effects

About Workspace, Creating a Basic Animation Using Effects and Presets, Animating Text, Working with Shape Layers, Animating a Multimedia Presentation, Animating Layers, Working with Masks, Distorting Objects with the Puppet Tools, Keying , Building 3D Objects, Using 3D Features

UNIT V

3Ds MAX

The 3ds Max Interface: Navigate the Workspace, User Interface Elements, Graphite Modeling Tools Set, Command Panel, 3ds Max Project : Project Workflow , Reference Material, Building a Simple Model, Modeling in 3ds Max: Architectural Model , Character Modeling , Introduction to Materials, Character Studio: Rigging and Animation , Introduction to Lighting: Interior Lighting , 3ds Max Rendering

Reference Book(s):

1.Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Classroom in a Book (English) 1st Edition, Author: Adobe Creative Team Publisher: Pearson

2.Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Digital Classroom [With DVD] (English), Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

3.Adobe Audition CS6 Classroom in a Book, by Adobe Creative Team (Author)

4.Adobe After Effects CS6 Classroom in a Book (English) 1st Edition Author: Adobe Creative Team Publisher: Pearson

Autodesk 3ds Max 2015 Essentials: Autodesk Official Press
Autodesk 3ds Max 2014 Essentials: Autodesk Official Press by Randi L. Derakhshani, Dariush Derakhshani May 2013, Paperback
AUTODESK 3DS MAX 2013 BIBLE, Kelly L. Mudroc, publication :Wiley

Practical(s):

Flash ActionScript

Creating Animation using ActionScript

2.Controlling the Timeline with ActionScript

Creating preloaders in ActionScript
Controlling Sound with ActionScript

5.Create a Dynamic Slideshow with ActionScript

Premiere Pro

Create custom workspaces to speed up your workflow
Import, organize, and log your footage and other assets
Sync separate video and audio tracks quickly
Create, use, and manage effect presets
Export video in a variety of formats, from Blu-ray to mobile devices

Audition

Importing audio, applying effects, waveform editing and multitrack mixing.
Import, edit, mix, and export the dialogue, sound effects, and music for a short film and provide the best audio impact for the video's story.

After Effects

Combine text and video in After Effects in order to create visually stunning scenes.
Compositing and creating popular effects like film flash and depth of field
Optimize Photoshop images for animation in After Effects
Composite 3D and 2D elements and creating 3D animated text.

3Ds MAX

Create 3D places and characters, objects and subjects of any type.
Arrange them in settings and environments to build the scenes for your movie or visualization.
Animate the characters, set them in motion, make them speak, sing and dance, or kick and fight.
Shoot movies of the whole virtual entities.

AIT 322 OPERATING SYSTEM WITH UNIX/LINUX 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

After completing the course the student shall be able to understand core operating system concepts, Different techniques for process scheduling, memory management , Commands and Programming in linux environment

Unit I

Introduction, Role of an OS computer system, types of operating system. Operating system structures, System documents, OS services, system calls, system structure, concept of virtual machines.

Unit II

Process management

Process concept, process scheduling, cooperating processes, Inter process communication.

CPU scheduling

Basic concept, scheduling criteria, scheduling algorithms

Unit III

Process synchronization

Critical section problem, synchronization hardware, semaphores, classical problems of synchronization, critical regions, monitors.

Deadlocks

Deadlock characteristics, methods for handling deadlocks, deadlock prevention, deadlock avoidance, deadlock detection, recovery from deadlocks, combined approach for deadlock handling.

Unit IV

Memory Management

Logical versus Physical Address space, Swapping, Contiguous Allocation, Paging, Segmentation, Segmentation with Paging

Virtual Memory

Demand Paging, Performance of Demand Paging, Page Replacement, Page-replacement algorithms, Allocation of frames, Thrashing, Other Considerations, Demand segmentation

File-System Interface

File concept, Access methods, Directory Structure, Protection, Consistency

File-System Implementation

File-System Structure, allocation methods, Free-space Management, Directory Implementation, Efficiency and performance

Unit V

I/O subsystems

I/O Hardware, Application I/O interface

Protection

Goals of protection, domain of protection, access matrix, implementation of access matrix, revocation of access rights, capability based systems, languages based protection.

Security

The problem, authentication, one-time password program threats, system threats, threat monitoring, encryption, computer security classification

Case studies (UNIX, LINUX, WinNT)

Reference book(s):

Operating System Concept: Silbertschatz, Galvin, 5ed.Addison Wesley.
Operating system Concepts: Milan Malinkovic, TMH, 2nd ed.
Operating System: William Stallings, PHI, 2nd ed.

Practical(s):

Installation of Linux operating system
File and Directory related commands
File permissions and related commands
File text manipulation, compression and comparison
Process related commands
I/O redirection and piping
Using gcc and java compiler in linux
Editors(Vim, Emacs)
Bash shell scripting - I
Bash shell scripting - II
Understanding of signals and traps
Study system calls related to process & process control
Inter process communication (POSIX-IPC) using pipe
Inter process communication (POSIX-IPC) using shared memory
Study system calls related to semaphore

AIT 323 APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT IN MOBILE TECHNOLOGY 3(2 + 1)

Objective(s)

The course is an overview to the essentials of mobile computing. The ubiquity of wireless communication technologies and the spread of portable computing devices have made possible a mobile computing time in which users, on the move, can seamlessly access network services and resources, from any-where, at any-time. We shall effort to contemporary the challenges faced to professionally enable such access along with state of the art solutions.

UNIT- I

Introduction

Wireless Communication, Mobile Computing Functions & Devices, Ad-hoc Networks, Architecture for Mobile Computing, 3-Tier Architecture, Multiple Access Procedures – FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, SDMA, Blue-Tooth Protocol Stack, Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID), Mobile IP

UNIT- II

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)

GSM Architecture, GSM Entities, Call Routing in GSM, PLMN Interfaces, GSM Addresses and Identifiers, GSM Frequency Allocation

Short Message Service (SMS)

Short Message Service, Strength of SMS, SMS Architecture, Value Added Services through SMS

GPRS

Packet Data Network, GPRS Network Architecture, Network Operations, Applications for GPRS

UNIT- III

J2ME

Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), Programming for CLDC, GUI in MIDP, Multimedia, Record Management System, Jar management

Introduction to Android

The Android Platform, Android SDK, Building a sample Android application, Anatomy of an Android applications, Application Context, Activities, Services, Intents, Receiving and Broadcasting Intents, Android Manifest File and its common settings, Using Intent Filter, Permissions, Managing Application resources in a hierarchy Working with different types of resources

UNIT- IV

Android User Interface Design Essentials

User Interface Screen elements, Designing User Interfaces with Layouts, Drawing and Working with Animation

Unit V

Using Common Android APIs

Using Android Data and Storage APIs, Managing data using SQLite, Sharing Data Between Applications with Content Providers, Using Android Networking APIs, Using Android Web APIs, Using Android Telephony APIs

Deploying Android Application to the World

Selling your Android application

Reference Book(s):

Mobile Computing , Asoke Telukder, Roopa Yavagal, TMH
Lauren Darcey and Shane Conder, “Android Wireless Application Development”, Pearson Education, 2nd ed. (2011)
The complete reference J2ME, TMH
Principles of Mobile Computing, - Hansmann, Merk, Nicklous and Stober, Springer
Reto Meier, “Professional Android 2 Application Development”, Wiley India Pvt Ltd (2011)
Mark L Murphy, “Beginning Android”, Wiley India Pvt Ltd(2009)

Practical(s):

Various WML tags, WML Script.
Design a web page using WML.
Study of J2ME, Write various programs with J2ME.
Hello ANDROID.
Creating Applications and Activities.
Creating User Interfaces, Intents.
Broadcast Receivers, Adapters, and the Internet.
Data Storage, Retrieval, and Sharing.
Working in the Background.
Peer-to-Peer Communication.

AIT 324 DATA ANALYSIS WITH MATLAB 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

After completing the course the student shall be able to use an advanced mathematical, Statistics, Simulink and Curve Fitting Toolbox. The student shall be able to adapt an applied problem and use it with Matlab

UNIT I

Basics of MATLAB: The basic features, MATLAB windows , A Few Elementary Calculations, Finding Help in Matlab, File types , Platform dependence , General commands; Matrices and Vectors: Input, Indexing, Matrix manipulation, Creating vectors; Matrix and Array Operations: Arithmetic operations, Relational operations, Logical operations, Elementary math functions, Matrix Functions; Character Strings: Manipulating character strings, eval Function; Command- Line Functions: Inline functions, Anonymous functions; Built-in Functions, Plotting Simple Graphs

UNIT II

Programming in MATLAB: Script Files, Function Files, Language-specific Features: Global variables, Loops, branches, control-flow, Interactive input, Recursion; Advanced Data Objects: Multidimensional matrices, Structures, Cells; Handle graphics and user interface: Pre-defined dialogs, Handle graphics, Menu-driven programs

UNIT III

Applications: Linear Algebra, Curve Fitting and Interpolation, Data Analysis and Statistics, Ordinary Differential Equations, Numerical Integration, Nonlinear Algebraic Equations; Graphics: Basic 2-D Plots, Using subplot for Multiple Graphs, 3-D Plots, Saving and Printing Graphs

UNIT IV

Introduction to Simulink and Curve Fitting , Getting Started using Simulink : Block Libraries, Wiring techniques, Help window, Configuration, Building a Simple Model; Getting Started with the Curve Fitting Toolbox : Curve Fitting Tools ,Interactive Curve Fitting , Programmatic Curve Fitting, Model Types for Curves

UNIT V

Statistics Toolbox : Data organization and management, Descriptive Statistics , Statistical plotting and data visualization, Probability Distributions, Linear and Nonlinear Models, Hypothesis Tests , Design of Experiments

Reference Book(s):

Hanselman, Duane. Little_eld, Bruce. Mastering Matlab (international edition). Pearson/Prentice Hall.
Rudra Pratap, Getting Started with Matlab (Indian edition) Oxford University Press

Practical(s):

An overview of MATLAB software
Creating and Working with Arrays of Numbers
Creating and Printing Simple Plots
Creating, Saving, and Executing a Script File
Creating and Executing a Function File
Manipulate matrices and use them as matrices or arrays
Using Built- in Functions
Create and work with anonymous functions
Work with symbolic mathematics toolbox
Saving, loading, importing, and exporting data
Learn about file and directory navigation
Generate report from your MATLAB programs using publisher
Finding the determinant of a matrix , eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Linear Algebra : Solving a linear system, Gaussian elimination, Matrix factorizations
Curve Fitting and Interpolation
Data Analysis and Statistics
Ordinary Differential Equations
Nonlinear Algebraic Equations
SIMULINK

AGRI 321_{(ELECTIVE-IV)} OPERATION RESEARCH 3(2+1)

UNIT I

Introduction to OR and LPP

Introduction, formulation of LPP, Graphical solution, The standard form of linear programming problems, Basic feasible solutions, unrestricted variables, Simplex Method, Big-M method, II-Phase method, Degeneracy, alternative optima, unbounded solutions, infeasible solutions, Dual

UNIT II

Transportation and Assignment Problems

North-West corner method, Least-Cost entry method, Vogel’s method, Optimality of Transportation Problem, Hungarian method

UNIT III

Network Analysis

Minimal Spanning tree method, Shortest Route Problems, Maximum flow problems, CPM, PERT, Branch and Bound Algorithms cutting plan algorithm.

Smoothing and Allocation

Development of software for the techniques, Exposure to Project Management Packages

UNIT IV

Queuing Theory

Types of queuing system, Elements of Queuing model, Role of Poisson and exponential distribution in queuing, pure birth and death model, MM1 models

UNIT V

Modeling and Simulation

Use of Computer in modeling real life situations, Distribution functions, Random number generation, Selection of input probability distribution, Design of simulation models Experimental design, Introduction to simulation languages Programming tools for developing simulation models.

Reference Book(s):

Quantitative Techniques in management, N. D. Vohra , Tata McGraw Hill
Operations Research – An Introduction, Hamdy A Taha, Prentice Hall of India , New Delhi.
Introduction to Operations Research by HILLIER/LIEBERMAN, Tata McGraw Hill
Operations Research by R Panneerselvan, Prentice Hall of India.
Operations Research: Theory and Application, J. K. Sharma, Macmillan publication

Practical(s):

Simplex method using Ms Excel
N-W corner method
LCM
MODI method
Exponential distribution
Poisson distribution
Random number generation
Floyed’s algorithm
Dijkstra’s algorithm
Simulation model using MATLAB.

AGRI 321_{(ELECTIVE-IV)}CROP SIMULATION MODELS 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

To imparting knowledge of growth, development and yield analysis, To develop crop growth model for yield prediction.

UNIT I

Photosynthesis, Respiration and photorespiration, Nitrogen metabolism, Solute transport and photoassimilate translocation: uptake, transport and translocation of water, ions, solutes and macromolecules from soil, through cells, across membranes, through xylem and phloem; transpiration; mechanisms of loading and unloading of photoassimilates

UNIT II

Principles of crop production; Evaluation of crop responses to weather element; impacts of natural and induced variability of climate on crop production

UNIT III

Empirical and statistical crop weather models, their application with examples, regression model –incorporating weather, soil, plant and other environmental related parameters and remote sensing inputs; growth and yield production models

UNIT IV

Crop Simulation models, e.g., CERES, WOFOST, InfoCrop, SPAW

UNIT V

Verification, Calibration and Validation of models

Reference Book(s):

Principles of Agricultural Meteorology – by Bisnoi O. P. (2007). Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
Simulation of Water Use, Nitrogen Nutrition and Growth of a Spring Wheat Crop. Simulation

Monographs, PUDOC, Wageningen

Agro-meteorological Crop Monitoring and Forecasting – by Frere, M. and Popav, G. (1979) FAO.

Practical(s):

Working with statistical and simulation model, DSSAT model, WOFOST, SPAW, InfoCrop

AGRI 322_(ELECTIVE-V)ADVANCED AUTOMATION AND SENSOR TECHNOLOGY 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

To make applicability of knowledge of students in terms of sensor based automation technology and make them aware of interfacing of automated sensors.

Unit I

Basic Measuring System:

Functional elements of a basic measuring system; different types of measurands, Input-output configuration of a measuring system interfering and modifying inputs; Interfacing Sensors in Mechatronic System as – Temperature Switch Circuit, Float Systems, Applications in agricultural automation

Unit II

Digital Electronics:

Number Systems and Codes, Logic gates and Boolean Algebra, Binary / BCD adders and subtractors, Carry look ahead adder, Magnitude comparator, ALU. Combinational & Sequential Circuits A/D & D/A convertor circuit and its principles.

Unit III

Instruments:

Objective of studying the characteristics of the instruments, Static characteristics (accuracy precision, error, sensitivity, hysteresis, threshold, drift, span, static stiffness etc.), Dynamic characteristics (time domain and frequency domain characteristics terms input-output impedance's and meaning of impedance mismatching), Description of mathematical model for the generalized configuration of a measurement system, Order of the systems, response of zero, first and second order systems of step, ramp and sinusoidal inputs, Method to study the response of the system

Unit IV

Electrical Actuation Systems:

Switching Devices (Mechanical Switches – SPST, SPDT, DPDT), Relays, Solid State Switches, Diodes, Thyristors, Transistors, Solenoid, Various Motors and their Control (DC Motors, Permanent Magnet DC Motors, Control of DC Motors, Bush less Permanent Magnet DC Motors, AC Motors, Stepper Motors, Stepper Motor Controls, Servo Motors). Applications in agricultural automation

Unit V

Power Electronics

Thyristor:

Characteristics, turn-on methods, protection, Series and parallel operation, commutation; Characteristics of Diac and Triac; Power diode; Power transistor etc.

Phase controlled converters:

Principle of phase control, Single-phase half-wave circuit with different types of load, Single phase full-wave mid-point converter, Single-phase full-wave bridge converters, Single-phase semi converter, Three-phase thyristor converters, Single-phase and three-phase dual converters

DC transformers:

Principle of transformers operation and control strategies, Step-up and step-down transformers, Types of transformers circuits, Voltage-commutated transformers, Current-commutated transformers, Load-commutated transformers

Inverters:

Single-phase voltage source inverters, Modified McMurray half-bridge and full-bridge inverter, McMurray-Bedford half-bridge and full-bridge inverter, Pulse-width modulated inverters, Current source inverters, Series inverters, Parallel inverter.

Applications of industrial electronics:

Switched mode power supply (SMPS), Uninterruptible power supplies, Solid state relays.

Reference Book(s):

Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices and Applications by Muhammad H. Rashid; Pearson / PHI
Power Electronics by Dr. P. S. Bimbhra; Khanna Publishers.
Measurement systems, Application and Design By Doeblin, McGraw Hill
Mechanical Measurement By Beckwith and Buck, Wesley
Instrumentation Devices and Systems By Rangan, Sharma, Tata McGraw Hill
Instrumentation Measurement and Analysis By Nekra & Chaudhry, Tata McGraw Hill

Practical(s):

Study of basic instruments used for measurement.
Step, ramp and sinusoidal input methods.
Study of Power semiconductor devices (Thyristor, Phase controlled converters, DC transformers, Inverters)
Study of Solid State Switches.
Various Motors and their Control.
Study of programmable control systems.
Study of motion detector sensor system.
Study of proximity sensor technology.
Farm security system.
Study of automated farm requirements.

AGRI 322_(ELECTIVE-V)AGRICULTURAL MARKETING, TRADE AND PRICES 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

To imparting knowledge of agriculture marketing, different systems, price analysis and trades, finance policy in Agriculture

UNIT I

Agricultural Marketing: Concepts and Definition, Scope and subject matter, Market and Marketing: Meaning, Definitions, Components of a market, Classification, Market structure, Conduct, performance. Marketing structure, Market functionaries or agencies

UNIT II

Producer’s surplus: Meaning, Types of producers surplus, marketable surplus. Marketed surplus, importance, Factors affecting Marketable surplus. Marketing channels: Meaning, Definition, Channels for different products.

UNIT III

Market integration, Meaning, Definition, Types of Market Integration, Marketing efficiency: Meaning, Definition, Marketing costs, Margins and price spread, Factors affecting the cost of marketing, Reasons for higher marketing costs of farm commodities, Ways of reducing marketing costs.

UNIT IV

Theories of International Trade: Domestic Trade, Free trade, GATT, WTO. Cooperative Marketing. State Trading, Ware Housing Corporation; Central and State, Objective(s)s, Functions, Advantages.

UNIT V

Food Corporation of India: Objective(s)s and Functions. Quality Control, Agricultural Products, AGMARK. Price Characteristics of agricultural product process, Meaning, Need for Agricultural Price Policy, Risk in Marketing: Meaning and importance, Types of Risk in Marketing. Speculations and Hedging, Futures trading, Contract farming.

Reference Book(s):

Agricultural Marketing in India – by S. S. Acharya and N. L. Agarwal. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
Agricultural Price Analysis - by S. S. Acharya and N. L. Agarwal. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

Practical(s):

Identification of marketing channels
Study of Rythu Bazars, Regulated markets
Study of unregulated markets
Study of livestock markets
Price spread analysis
Visit to market institutions
NAFED; Analysis of information of daily prices;
Marketed and marketable surplus of different commodities.

AGRI 323_{(ELECTIVE-VI)}GREENHOUSE TECHNOLOGY 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

To impart knowledge about green house engineering and maintenance of environmental parameter and its effect in protected cultivation; Use of micro irrigation technology in protected cultivation.

UNIT I

World scenario, Indian situation: present and future, Different agro-climatic zones in India, Basics of greenhouse design, different types of structures – study of greenhouse based on covering material, Design of greenhouse.

UNIT II

Environmental Interaction of light, temperature, humidity, CO2, water on crop regulation – Greenhouse heating, cooling, ventilation and shading, fogging

UNIT III

Natural ventilation- Heating, Cooling, Fan and pad system, Greenhouse Irrigation system, Micro irrigation and Fertigation system

UNIT IV

Automated greenhouses, micro controllers, waste water recycling, Management of pest and diseases – IPM. Media –Types, uses and characteristics. Instruments used to measure the various parameters in G.H.

UNIT V

Micro irrigation system used in green house; Drip, Sprinkler system- Definition, components, Use, Efficiency, Automation and its application

Reference Book(s):

Green House Technology - by G. N. Tiwari and R. K. Goyal
Green House – by K. Radha Manohar and C. Igadinathane. B.S. Publications, Hyderabad
Principles of Agricultural Engineering – by Michel and Ojha. Vol. I. Jain Brothers, New Delhi
Post Harvest Technology of Cereal, Pulse and Oil seeds – by Chakarvarthy A. (1988)
Processing Equipment for Agricultural Products – by Hall C. W. and Davis C. V. (1979). AVI

Publishing Inc. West Port, Connecticut

Practical(s):

Different type/ structure of green houses
Design and classification of Greenhouse
Orientation of green house
Components of green house and covering materials
Low cost poly tunnels, net house for agricultural production
Regulation of light, temperature, humidity in greenhouses
Media preparation and fumigation
Micro irrigation systems in green house
Environmental factor influencing green house material
Automation and monitoring systems in green house
Demonstration of automation system in Green house
Visit to commercial green house and poly house unit
Visit to industries involved in manufacturing green house
Project preparation for commercial green house.
Selection of various artificial sources in the G.H.

AGRI323_{(ELECTIVE-VI)}BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

To acquire knowledge about role of information technology in reading biological data, computer programming use in analysis and interpretation of biological data.

UNIT I

Introduction to bimolecules and central dogma of molecular biology; Carbohydrates, lipid, protein, nucleic acid-concept, Brief introduction of DNA and RNA, Gene expression, Protein Synthesis, Genomic rearrangement and DNA repair.

UNIT II

Organization of biological data, (Databases raw and processed) querying in the databases

UNT III

Primers in biology, Exploration of databases (Design and primers and different kinds of primers used in analysis), combinatorial problems in biology, Gene finding, motif finding and multiple sequence alignment

UNIT IV

Mechanism and flow of information in biology, Management and analysis of biological data Protein sequence analysis (Theory and algorithms), Protein structure analysis and applications.

UNIT V

Genome analysis, Protein folding, Protein Engineering and Drug design; Blast etc; Data mining on large data bases of biological data; Tools for NGS data analysis.

Reference Book(s):

Introduction to Bioinformatics – by T. K. Attwood and David J. Perry-Smith. Prentice Hall.
Bioinformatics for dummies – by Jean-Michel Claverie and Cedric Notredame. Wiley Publications
Bioinformatics: Methods and Protocols – by Stephen Misener and Stephen A. Krawetz (Eds.). Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

Practical(s):

Biological Databases and records and file format
Data retrieval using entiez search
Homology search-BLAST/FASTA
Multiple sequence Alignment
Primer Designing
Identification of Gene/EST using different tools/software

AGRI 324 PLANT PROTECTION 3(2+1)

Objective(s)

At the end of this course, the student will know insect and pest, its behavior, mode of action, symptoms etc. and proper control method for pest and disease management.

UNIT I

Overview and an introduction to Insect and Pest – Terminology, Insect morphology, categories andclassification, Insect Ecology – Environment and its components, Biotic and abiotic factors of insect pest outbreaks in agro-eco systems

UNIT II

Insect biodiversity, Beneficial insects – parasites and predators, Pests of field crops, Nature and symptoms of insect and pest damages in important crops – leaf area damage

UNIT III

Introductory plant pathology – definitions and objectives of plant pathology, Plant disease epidemiology, Disease triangle and disease cycle, General principles of plant diseases management – avoidance, exclusion, protection, Important diseases of field crops

UNIT IV

Insect pest and plant disease control measures – Legal, cultural, physical, biological and chemical methods, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Integrated Disease Management (IDM) – Scope and recent practices

UNIT V

Insect and pest surveillance and forecasting Plant disease forecasting – remote sensing applicationsPlant quarantine – quarantine rules and regulations Remote sensing for weed-crop discriminations and mapping of weed infestations

Reference Book(s):

A Text book of Entomology – by R. Mathur, Campus books, 2002
Agrochemical and Pest Management – by T. V. Sathe, Daya, 2003
Basics of Entomology – by Gyan Deep Singh, Anmol, 2008
Applied Agricultural Entomology – by L. K. Jha, New Central Book Agency, Calcutta, 1987
Agricultural Pest of South Asia and Their Management – by A. S. Atwal and G. S. Dhaliwal, Kalyani

Publ., 2002

Insect Migration: Tracking Resources through Space and Time – by V. A. Drake, A. G. Gatehouse,

Cambridge University Press, 1995

A Textbook of Applied Entomology (Vol I: Concept in Pest Management) – K. P. Srivastava and G.S. Dhaliwal, Kalyani Publ., 2010

Practical(s):

Study of parts of important insect pest – types of wing, antennae, mouth parts, legs, etc.
Study of distribution patterns of insect
Study of behavior of insect and orientation (repellency, stimulation, deterancy)
Sampling techniques for the estimation of insect pest population and damage
Identification of pests, etiology, host-parasite relationship of important crop disease
Study of importance disease of field crops – field visit
Survey and collection of disease samples – disease album
Study of various agro-chemicals used for insect pest control
Study of various agro-chemicals used for plant disease control

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