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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

Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
The Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) of B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering
PEO Description
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.
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
PO Description
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.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
PSO Description
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.
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:
Sl. No. Course Category Number of Courses Minimum Credits
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
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
c) Professional Communication and Professional Ethics
Sl. No. Course Code Course Title L T P O Credits
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
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
Sl. No. Course Code Course Title L T P O Credits
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
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
Sl. No. Course Code Course Title L T P O Credits Categories PE EI DA HM
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
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
Sl. No. Course Code Course Title L T P O Credits Categories OE EI DA HM
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
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
Sl. No. Course Code Course Title L T P O Credits Categories OE EI DA HM
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
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut
B.Tech. Curriculum 2023
Sl. No. Course Code Course Title L T P O Credits Categories OE EI DA HM
78 ME3430E Vibration with Control 3 0 0 6 3
79 ME3431E Mechanics of Composite 3 0 0 6 3