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B.Tech. IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUM AND SYLLABI (Applicable from 2023 Admission onwards) Department of Mechanical Engineering NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CALICUT Kozhikode - 673601, KERALA, INDIA

PEO	Description
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
The Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) of B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering
PEO1	Excel in industry, technical profession and/or higher education by acquiring a strong foundation in mathematics, science and engineering fundamentals.
PEO2	Acquire scientific and engineering competencies to comprehend, analyze, design and create novel products and solutions to mechanical and industrial problems that are technically sound, economically feasible and socially acceptable.
PEO3	Exhibit professionalism, ethical attitude, communication and team working skills, multidisciplinary approach and an ability to relate engineering issues to the broader social context.

PO	Description
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
Programme Outcomes (POs) and Programme Specific Outcomes (PSOs) of B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering
PO1	Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.
PO2	Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, research literature, and analyze complex engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.
PO3	Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems and design system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
PO4	Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.
PO5	Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modelling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
PO6	The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.
PO7	Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.
PO8	Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice.
PO9	Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.
PO10	Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.
PO11	Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
PO12	Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.

PSO	Description
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
PSO1	Design and develop mechanical systems for structural, thermal and manufacturing applications.
PSO2	Ability to effectively utilize resources for improving the performance of mechanical systems.
PSO3	Demonstrate the ability to develop methods, procedures and solutions for cost-effective decisions in mechanical engineering.

Sl. No.	Course Category	Number of Courses	Minimum Credits
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
CURRICULUM
Total credits for completing B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering is 150.
COURSE CATEGORIES AND CREDIT REQUIREMENTS: The structure of B.Tech. programmes shall have the following Course Categories:
1.	Institute Core (IC)	8	22
2.	Program Core (PC) and Program Electives (PE)	31/32	82
3.	Open Electives (OE)	8	24
4.	Institute Electives (IE) (Entrepreneurship Innovation (EI) + Digital / Automation Technologies (DA) + Humanities, Social Science, Management (HM))	6	18
5.	Activity Credits (AC)	--	4
COURSE REQUIREMENTS The effort to be put in by the student is indicated in the tables below as follows: L: Lecture (One unit is of 50 minute duration) T: Tutorial (One unit is of 50 minute duration) P: Practical (One unit is of one hour duration) O: Outside the class effort / self-study (One unit is of one hour duration)
1. INSTITUTE CORE (IC) a) Mathematics
Sl. No.	Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	O	Credits
1.	MA1003E	Mathematics I	3	1*	0	5	3
2.	MA1013E	Mathematics II	3	1*	0	5	3
3.	MA2003E	Mathematics III	3	1*	0	5	3
4.	MA2013E	Mathematics IV	3	1*	0	5	3
Total			12	4*	0	20	12
*Optional for Students (can be replaced by self-study)
b) Basic Sciences and Drawing
Sl. No.	Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	O	Credits
1.	PH1002E	Mechanics and Waves	3	0	0	6	3
2.	ME1011E	Engineering Graphics	2	0	2	5	3
Total			5	0	2	11	6

Sl. No.	Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	O	Credits
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
c) Professional Communication and Professional Ethics
1.	MS1001E	Professional Communication	3	0	0	6	3
2.	ME2001E	Professional Ethics	1	0	0	2	1
Total			4	0	0	8	4
2A. PROGRAMME CORE (PC)
Sl. No.	Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	O	Credits
1.	ME1201E	Thermodynamics	3	0	0	6	3
2.	ME1401E	Engineering Mechanics	3	0	0	6	3
3.	ME1001E	Computer Programming and Numerical Methods	2	0	2	5	3
4.	ME1391E	Mechanical Workshop	0	0	2	1	1
5.	ME1311E	Materials Science	3	0	0	6	3
6.	ME1411E	Solid Mechanics	3	0	0	6	3
7.	ME1211E	Fluid Mechanics and Machinery	3	1	0	8	4
8.	EE1013E	Electrical Engineering	3	0	0	6	3
9.	EE1093E	Electrical Engineering Lab	0	0	2	1	1
10.	ME2201E	Principles of Heat Transfer	3	0	0	6	3
11.	ME2401E	Mechanics of Machines	3	1	0	5	3
12.	ME2291E	Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Machinery Lab	0	0	3	3	2
13.	ME2091E	Machine Drawing	0	0	3	3	2
14.	ME2111E	Essentials of Management	3	0	0	6	3
15.	ME2311E	Manufacturing Science	3	0	0	6	3
16.	ME2211E	Thermal Engineering	3	0	0	6	3
17.	CE2095E	Strength of Materials Lab	0	0	2	1	1
18.	ME2292E	Thermal Engineering Lab	0	0	3	3	2
19.	ME3101E	Operations Research	3	0	0	6	3
20.	ME3301E	Metrology and Instrumentation	3	0	0	6	3
21.	ME3302E	Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing Technologies	2	0	0	4	2
22.	ME3391E	Production Engineering Lab	0	0	3	3	2
23.	ME3392E	CAD / CAM Lab	0	0	2	1	1
24.	ME3411E	Machine Design	3	0	0	6	3
25.	ME3393E	Metrology and Instrumentation Lab	0	0	3	3	2

Sl. No.	Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	O	Credits
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
26.	ME3099E	Project-Part-I	0	0	0	9	3
27.	ME4097E	Summer Internship	0	0	0	*	2
28.	ME4098E	Project-Part-II	0	0	0	9	3
Total			46	2	25	131	70
2B. LIST OF ELECTIVES Following courses may be credited under the categories mentioned in the table below:
Sl. No.	Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	O	Credits	Categories	PE	EI	DA	HM
Industrial Engineering and Management
1	ME2121E	Operations and Process Management	3	0	0	6	3
2	ME3121E	Fundamentals of Marketing	3	0	0	6	3
3	ME3122E	Design and Analysis of Management Information Systems	3	0	0	6	3
4	ME3123E	Work Design and Measurement	3	0	0	6	3
5	ME3124E	Cost Analysis and Control	3	0	0	6	3
6	ME3125E	Supply Chain Management	3	0	0	6	3
7	ME3126E	Management of Organisational Behaviour	3	0	0	6	3
8	ME3127E	Management of Human Resources	3	0	0	6	3
9	ME3128E	Quality Planning and Analysis	3	0	0	6	3
10	ME4121E	Technology Management	3	0	0	6	3
11	ME4122E	Management of Lean Production Systems	3	0	0	6	3
12	ME4123E	Optimization Methods in Engineering	3	0	0	6	3
13	ME4124E	Accounting and Finance for Engineers	3	0	0	6	3
14	ME4125E	Simulation Modelling and Analysis	3	0	0	6	3
15	ME4126E	Human Factors in Engineering and Design	3	0	0	6	3
16	ME4127E	Machine Learning for Data Science and Analytics	3	0	0	6	3

Sl. No.	Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	O	Credits
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
17	ME4128E	Product and Process Development	3	0	0	6	3
18	ME4129E	New Product Development	3	0	0	6	3
19	ME4130E	Business Analysis and Decision Making	3	0	0	6	3
20	ME4131E	Industrial Internet of Things	3	0	0	6	3
Thermo-fluids and Energy Engineering
21	ME2221E	Fundamentals of Combustion	3	0	0	6	3
22	ME2222E	Gas Dynamics	3	0	0	6	3
23	ME2223E	Computational Methods in Engineering	3	0	0	6	3
24	ME2224E	Computational Fluid Dynamics	3	0	0	6	3
25	ME2225E	Bio-fluid Mechanics	3	0	0	6	3
26	ME2226E	Waves on Fluid Interfaces	3	0	0	6	3
27	ME2227E	Introduction to Unmanned Aerial Systems	3	0	0	6	3
28	ME3221E	Automobile Engineering	3	0	0	6	3
29	ME3222E	Aerodynamics	3	0	0	6	3
30	ME3223E	Aerospace Propulsion	3	0	0	6	3
31	ME3224E	Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning	3	0	0	6	3
32	ME3225E	Hydrogen Energy Technologies	3	0	0	6	3
33	ME3226E	Renewable Energy Systems	3	0	0	6	3
34	ME3227E	Introduction to Rheology	3	0	0	6	3
35	ME3228E	Transport Phenomena in Porous Media	3	0	0	6	3
36	ME3229E	Introduction to Cavitation	3	0	0	6	3
37	ME3230E	Battery Technologies for Electric Vehicles	3	0	0	6	3
38	ME3231E	Aeromechanics of Unmanned Aerial Systems	3	0	0	6	3

Sl. No.	Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	O	Credits
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
39	ME3232E	Design of Unmanned Aerial Systems	3	0	0	6	3
40	ME4221E	Experimental Methods in Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer	3	0	0	6	3
41	ME4222E	Neural Networks for CFD	3	0	0	6	3
42	ME4223E	Cyber Physical Thermal and Energy Systems	3	0	0	6	3
43	ME4224E	Thermal Management in Electric Vehicles	3	0	0	6	3
44	ME4225E	Modeling, Simulation, and Prototyping of Unmanned Aerial Systems	3	0	0	6	3
Manufacturing and Materials Science
45	ME2324E	Mechatronics	3	0	0	6	3
46	ME2334E	Techniques of Material Characterisation	3	0	0	6	3
47	ME2339E	Computer Graphics and Product Modelling	3	0	0	6	3
48	ME3321E	Powder Metallurgy	3	0	0	6	3
49	ME3322E	Introduction to Modern Machining Processes	3	0	0	6	3
50	ME3323E	Design for Manufacturability	3	0	0	6	3
51	ME3325E	Machining Science and Machine Tools	3	0	0	6	3
52	ME3326E	Machine Tools and CNC Systems	3	0	0	6	3
53	ME3327E	Quality, Reliability and Maintenance	3	0	0	6	3
54	ME3328E	Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing	3	0	0	6	3
55	ME3330E	Fluid Power Controls	3	0	0	6	3
56	ME3331E	Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation	3	0	0	6	3
57	ME3332E	Mechatronics and Automation	3	0	0	6	3
58	ME3333E	Additive Manufacturing: Fundamentals and Applications	3	0	0	6	3

Sl. No.	Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	O	Credits
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
59	ME3335E	Welding Science and Technology	3	0	0	6	3
60	ME3336E	Forming Technology	3	0	0	6	3
61	ME3340E	Industry 4.0 and Smart Enterprises	3	0	0	6	3
62	ME4329E	Surface Engineering and Coating Technology	3	0	0	6	3
63	ME4337E	Functional Materials: Theory and Applications	3	0	0	6	3
64	ME4338E	Design of Jigs, Fixtures and Press Tools	3	0	0	6	3
Mechanics and Machine Design
65	ME2421E	Theory of Elasticity	3	0	0	6	3
66	ME2422E	Newtonian and Analytical Mechanics	3	0	0	6	3
67	ME2423E	Elements of Mechanical Vibration	3	0	0	6	3
68	ME2424E	Life Cycle Assessment	3	0	0	6	3
69	ME3421E	Introduction to Finite Element Methods	3	0	0	6	3
70	ME3422E	Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos	3	0	0	6	3
71	ME3423E	Engineering Fracture Mechanics	3	0	0	6	3
72	ME3424E	Theory of Plasticity	3	0	0	6	3
73	ME3425E	Vehicle Dynamics	3	0	0	6	3
74	ME3426E	Introduction to Robotics	3	0	0	6	3
75	ME3427E	Introduction to Tribology	3	0	0	6	3
76	ME3428E	Practical Finite Element Analysis	3	0	0	6	3
77	ME3429E	Control Systems Engineering	3	0	0	6	3

Sl. No.	Course Code	Course Title	L	T	P	O	Credits
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
78	ME3430E	Vibration with Control	3	0	0	6	3
79	ME3431E	Mechanics of Composite	3	0	0	6	3

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