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A combined competitive examination for recruitment to the Services/posts mentioned in below will be held by the Union Public Service Commission
2(A).
me=on the results of this examination will be made to the
Services/posts under the following categories:- Category I—Civil Engineering.
Category II—Mechanical
Engineering.
Category III—Electrical
Engineering.
Category IV—Electronics &
Telecommunication Engineering
Category |
Section |
Subject |
Duration |
Maximum Marks |
I-CIVIL
ENGINEERING |
I—Objective
Papers |
General
Ability Test
(Part A: General English)
(Part B: General Studies) |
2 hrs |
200 |
Civil Engineering Paper I |
2 hrs |
200 |
Civil
Engineering Paper II |
2 hrs |
200 |
II–Conventional
Papers |
Civil Engineering Paper I |
3 hrs |
200 |
Civil
Engineering Paper II |
3 hrs |
200 |
TOTAL |
1000 |
II-MECHANICAL ENGINEERING |
I–Objective Papers |
General Ability Test
(Part A: General English)
(Part B: General Studies) |
2
hrs |
200 |
Mechanical Engineering Paper
I |
2
hrs |
200 |
Mechanical Engineering Paper
II |
2
hrs |
200 |
II—Conventional Papers |
Mechanical Engineering Paper
I |
3
hrs |
200 |
Mechanical Engineering Paper
II |
3
hrs |
200 |
TOTAL
|
1000 |
III-ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING |
I–Objective
Papers |
General
Ability Test
(Part A: General English)
(Part B: General Studies) |
2 hrs |
200 |
Electrical
Engineering Paper I |
2 hrs |
200 |
Electrical
Engineering Paper II |
2 hrs |
200 |
II—Conventional
Papers |
Electrical
Engineering Paper I |
3 hrs |
200 |
Electrical
Engineering Paper II |
3 hrs |
200 |
TOTAL |
1000 |
IV - ELECTRONICS
AND TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING |
I–Objective
Papers |
General
Ability Test
(Part A: General English)
(Part B: General Studies) |
2 hrs |
200 |
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Paper I
|
2 hrs |
200 |
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Paper II |
2 hrs |
200 |
II—Conventional
Papers |
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Paper I |
3 hrs |
200 |
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Paper II |
3 hrs |
200 |
TOTAL |
1000 |
Candidates should
note that there will be penalty (Negative Marking) for wrong answers
marked by a candidate in the Objective Type Question Papers.Deduction up to 5 per cent of the maximum
marks for the written papers will be made for illegible
handwriting.
(I) me=: A candidate must be either:
(a) a citizen of India, or
(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to Indian
before the 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently
settling in India, or
(e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated
from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka or East African countries of
Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi,
Zaire and Ethiopia or from Vietnam with the intention of
permanently settling in India.
Provided that a candidate belonging to
categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) above shall be a person in whose
favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the
Government of India.
A candidate in whose case a certificate of
eligibility is necessary, may be admitted to the examination but
the offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issued by the Government of
India. (II) Age Limits:
(a) A candidate for this examination must have
attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age
of 30 years on the 1st August, 2010 i.e. he must have been born
not earlier than 2nd August, 1980 and not later than
1st August, 1989.
(b) The upper age-limit of 30 years will be
relaxable upto 35 years in the case of Government servants of the
following categories, if they are employed in a Department/Office
under the control of any of the authorities mentioned in column 1
below and apply for admission to the examination for all or any
of the Service(s)/Posts mentioned in column 2, for which they
are otherwise eligible.
(i) A candidate who holds substantively a
permanent post in the particular Department/Office concerned.
This relaxation will not be admissible to a probationer appointed
against a permanent post in the Department/Office during the
period of his probation.
(ii) A candidate who has been continuously in a
temporary service on a regular basis in the particular
Department/Office for at least 3 years on the 1st August,
2010.
Column 1 |
Column 2 |
Railway Department |
I.R.S.E.
I.R.S.M.E.
I.R.S.E.E.
I.R.S.S.E.
I.R.S.S. |
Central Public Works
Department |
C.E.S.—Group ‘A’ |
Military Engineers
Service |
C.E. &
M.E.S., Group ‘A’ |
The
corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Ministry of Defence |
Indian Defence Service of Engineers (IDSE)
AEE, Group 'A' (Mech. Engg. Posts) in the Corps
of EME, Min. of Defence.
AEE, Group 'A' (Electrical Engg. Posts) in the Corps of EME, Min. of
Defence.
AEE, Group 'A' (E&T Engg. Posts) in the Corps of EME, Min. of
Defence. |
Directorate General
Ordnance Factories |
I.O.F.S. Group A |
Central Water Commission |
C.W.E. Service (Group A) |
Central
Electricity Authority |
CPE Service
(Group A) |
Wireless Planning and
Coordination Wing/Monitoring Organisation |
Engineer (Group 'A') |
Indian Navy |
Indian Naval Armament Service,Assistant Naval Store Officer Grade I |
Geological Survey of
India |
Assistant
Executive Engineer Gr. 'A' |
Directorate
Central of Supply and Disposal |
ISS Group A,
IIS Group A |
Department
of Telecom |
P&T
Building Works, ITS Group A. |
NOTE—The period of apprenticeship if
followed by appointment against a working posts on the Railways
may be treated as Railway Service for the purpose of age
concession.
(c) The upper age-limit prescribed above will
be further relaxable—
(i) Upto a maximum of five years if a candidate
belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe;
(ii) Upto a maximum of three years in the case
of candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes who are
eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates.
(iii) Upto a maximum of five years if a
candidate had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu
& Kashmir during the period from the 1st January, 1980 to the
31st day of December, 1989.
(iv) Upto a maximum of three years in the case
of Defence Service personnel disabled in operations during
hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area, and
released as a consequence thereof;
(v) Upto a maximum of five years in the case of
ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs who
have rendered at least five years Military Service as on 1st
August, 2010 and have been released (i) on completion of
assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be
completed within one year from 1st August, 2010) otherwise than
by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or
inefficiency, or (ii) on account of physical disability
attributable to Military Service or (iii) on invalidment;
(vi) Upto a maximum of five years in the case
of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment
of five years of Military Services as on 1st August, 2010
and
whose assignment has been extended beyond five years and in whose
case the Ministry of Defence issues a certificate that they can
apply for civil employment and they will be released on three
months notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of
appointment.
(vii) Upto a maximum of 10 years in the case of
blind, deaf-mute and Orthopaedically handicapped persons.
Note (I)—Candidates belonging to the
Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward
Classes who are also covered under any other clauses of Para 3 (II)(c) above, viz.
me=
1. BUILDING MATERIALS Timber : Different types and species of
structural timber, density-moisture relationship, strength in
different directions, defects, influence of defects on
permissible stress, preservation, dry and wet rots, codal
provisions for design, Plywood.
Bricks : Types, Indian Standard classification,
absorption, saturation factor, strength in masonry, influence of
morter strength on masonry strength.
Cement : Compounds of, different types, setting
times, strength.
Cement Mortar : Ingredients, proportions, water
demand, mortars for plastering and masonry.
Concrete : Importance of W/C Ratio, Strength,
ingredients including admixtures, workability, testing for
strength, elasticity, non-destructive testing, mix design
methods.
2. SOLID MECHANICS Elastic constants, stress, plane stress,
Mohr’s circle of stress, strains, plane strain, Mohr’s
circle of strain, combined stress; Elastic theories of failure;
Simple bending, shear; Torsion of circular and rectangular
sections and simple members.
3. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS Analysis of determinate structures - different
methods including graphical methods.
Analysis of indeterminate skeletal frames -
moment distribution, slope-deflection, stiffness and force
methods, energy methods, Muller-Breslau principle and
application.
Plastic analysis of indeterminate beams and
simple frames - shape factors.
4. DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES Principles of working stress method. Design of
connections, simple members, Built-up sections and frames, Design
of Industrial roofs. Principles of ultimate load design. Design
of simple members and frames.
5. DESIGN OF CONCRETE AND MASONRY STRUCTURES Limit state design for bending, shear, axial
compression and combined forces. Codal provisions for slabs,
beams, walls and footings. Working stress method of design of R.C. members.
Principles of prestressed concrete design,
materials, methods of prestressing, losses. Design of simple
members and determinate structures. Introductions to prestressing
of indeterminate structures.
Design of brick masonry as per
I.S. Codes.
6. CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE, PLANNING AND
MANAGEMENT Concreting Equipment:
Weight Batcher, Mixer, vibrator, batching
plant, concrete pump.
Cranes, hoists, lifting equipment.
Earthwork Equipment :
Power shovel, hoe, dozer, dumper, trailers and
tractor, rollers, sheep foot rollers, pumps.
Construction, Planning and Management :
Bar chart, linked bar chart, work-break down
structures, Activity - on - arrow diagrams. Critical path,
probabilistic activity durations; Event-based networks.
PERT network: Time-cost study, crashing;
Resource allocation. PAPER-II 1. (a) FLUID MECHANICS, OPEN CHANNEL FLOW, PIPE
FLOW: Fluid Properties, Pressure, Thrust, Buoyancy;
Flow Kinematics; Integration of flow equations; Flow measurement;
Relative motion; Moment of momentum; Viscosity, Boundary layer
and Control, Drag, Lift; dimensional Analysis, Modelling;
Cavitation; Flow oscillations; Momentum and Energy principles in
Open channel flow, Flow controls, Hydraulic jump, Flow sections
and properties; Normal flow, Gradually varied flow; Surges; Flow
development and losses in pipe flows, Measurements; Siphons;
Surges and Water hammer; Delivery of Power Pipe networks.
(b) HYDRAULIC MACHINES AND HYDROPOWER: Centrifugal pumps, types, performance
parameters, scaling, pumps in parallel; Reciprocating pumps, air
vessels, performance parameters; Hydraulic ram; Hydraulic
turbines, types, performance parameters, controls, choice; Power
house, classification and layout, storage, pondage, control of
supply.
2. (a) HYDROLOGY : Hydrological cycle, precipitation and related
data analyses, PMP, unit and synthetic hydrographs; Evaporation
and transpiration; Floods and their management, PMF; Streams and
their gauging; River morphology; Routing of floods; Capacity of
Reservoirs.
(b) WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING : Water resources of the globe: Multipurpose uses
of Water: Soil-Plant-Water relationships, irrigation systems,
water demand assessment; Storages and their yields, ground water
yield and well hydraulics; Waterlogging, drainage design;
Irrigation revenue; Design of rigid boundary canals, Lacey’s
and Tractive force concepts in canal design, lining of canals;
Sediment transport in canals; Non-Overflow and overflow sections
of gravity dams and their design, Energy dissipators and
tailwater rating; Design of headworks, distribution works, falls,
cross-drainage works, outlets; River training.
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
3. (a) WATER SUPPLY ENGINEERING : Sources of supply, yields, design of intakes
and conductors; Estimation of demand; Water quality standards;
Control of Water-borne diseases; Primary and secondary treatment,
detailing and maintenance of treatment units; Conveyance and
distribution systems of treated water, leakages and control;
Rural water supply; Institutional and industrial water supply.
(b) WASTE WATER ENGINEERING: Urban rain water disposal; Systems of sewage
collection and disposal; Design of sewers and sewerage systems;
pumping; Characteristics of sewage and its treatment, Disposal of
products of sewage treatment, streamflow rejuvenation
Institutional and industrial sewage management; Plumbing Systems;
Rural and semi-urban sanitation.
(c) SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT Sources, classification, collection and
disposal; Design and Management of landfills.
(d) AIR AND NOISE POLLUTION AND ECOLOGY: Sources and effects of air pollution,
monitoring of air pollution; Noise pollution and standards;
Ecological chain and balance, Environmental assessment.
4 (a) SOIL MECHANICS: Properties of soils, classification and
interrelationship; Compaction behaviour, methods of compaction
and their choice; Permeability and seepage, flow nets, Inverted
filters; Compressibility and consolidation; Shearing resistance,
stresses and failure; soil testing in laboratory and in-situ;
Stress path and applications; Earth pressure theories, stress
distribution in soil; soil exploration, samplers, load tests,
penetration tests.
(b) FOUNDATION ENGINEERING : Types of foundations, Selection criteria,
bearing capacity, settlement, laboratory and field tests; Types
of piles and their design and layout, F
me= 1. Thermodynamics, Cycles and IC Engines, Basic
concepts, Open and Closed systems. Heat and work. Zeroth, First
and Second Law, Application to non-Flow and Flow processes.
Entropy, Availability, Irreversibility and Tds relations.
Claperyron and real gas equations, Properties of ideal gases and
vapours. Standard vapour, Gas power and Refrigeration cycles. Two
stage compressor. C-I and S.I. Engines. Pre-ignition, Detonation
and Diesel-knock, Fuel injection and Carburation, Supercharging.
Turbo-prop and Rocket engines, Engine Cooling, Emission &
Control, Flue gas analysis, Measurement of Calorific values.
Conventional and Nuclear fuels, Elements of Nuclear power
production.
2. Heat Transfer and Refrigeration and
Airconditioning. Modes of heat transfer. One dimensional steady
and unsteady conduction. Composite slab and Equivalent
Resistance. Heat dissipation from extended surfaces, Heat
exchangers, Overall heat transfer coefficient, Empirical
correlations for heat transfer in laminar and turbulent flows and
for free and forced Convection, Thermal boundary layer over a
flat plate. Fundamentals of diffusive and connective mass
transfer, Black body and basic concepts in Radiation, Enclosure
theory, Shape factor, Net work analysis. Heat pump and
Refrigeration cycles and systems, Refrigerants. Condensers,
Evaporates and Expansion devices, Psychrometry, Charts and
application to air conditioning, Sensible heating and cooling,
Effective temperature, comfort indices, Load calculations, Solar
refrigeration, controls, Duct design.
3. Fluid Mechanics. Properties and classification of fluids,
Manometry, forces on immersed surfaces, Center of pressure,
Buoyancy, Elements of stability of floating bodies. Kinematics
and Dynamics.
Irrotational and incompressible. Inviscid flow.
Velocity potential, Pressure field and Forces on immersed bodies.
Bernoulli’s equation, Fully developed flow through pipes,
Pressure drop calculations, Measurement of flow rate and Pressure
drop. Elements of boundary layer theory, Integral approach,
Laminar and tubulent flows, Separations. Flow over weirs and
notches. Open channel flow, Hydraulic jump. Dimensionless
numbers, Dimensional analysis, Similitude and modelling.
One-dimensional isentropic flow, Normal shock wave, Flow through
convergent - divergent ducts, Oblique shock-wave, Rayleigh and
Fanno lines.
4. Fluid Machinery and Steam Generators. Performance, Operation and control of hydraulic
Pump and impulse and reaction Turbines, Specific speed,
Classification. Energy transfer, Coupling, Power transmission,
Steam generators Fire-tube and water-tube boilers. Flow of steam
through Nozzles and Diffusers, Wetness and condensation. Various
types of steam and gas Turbines, Velocity diagrams. Partial
admission. Reciprocating, Centrifugal and axial flow Compressors,
Multistage compression, role of Mach Number, Reheat,
Regeneration, Efficiency, Governance. PAPER - II 5. THEORY OF MACHINES: Kinematic and dynamic analysis of planer
mechanisms. Cams. Gears and gear trains. Flywheels. Governors.
Balancing of rigid rotors and field balancing. Balancing of
single and multicylinder engines, Linear vibration analysis of
mechanical systems. Critical speeds and whirling of shafts
Automatic controls.
6. MACHINE DESIGN : Design of Joints : cotters, keys, splines,
welded joints, threaded fasteners, joints formed by interference
fits. Design of friction drives : couplings and clutches, belt
and chain drives, power screws.
Design of Power transmission systems : gears
and gear drives shaft and axle, wire ropes.
Design of bearings : hydrodynamics bearings and
rolling element bearings.
7. STRENGTH OF MATERIALS Stress and strain in two dimensions, Principal
stresses and strains, Mohr’s construction, linear elastic
materials, isotropy and anisotropy, stress-strain relations,
uniaxial loading, thermal stresses. Beams : Bending moment and
shear force diagram, bending stresses and deflection of beams.
Shear stress distribution. Torsion of shafts, helical springs.
Combined stresses, thick-and thin-walled pressure vessels. Struts
and columns. Strain energy concepts and theories of failure.
8. ENGINEERING MATERIALS : Basic concepts on structure of solids.
Crystalline maferials. Detects in crystalline materials. Alloys
and binary phase diagrams. Structure and properties of common
engineering materials. Heat treatment of steels. Plastics,
Ceramics and composite materials. Common applications of various
materials.
9. PRODUCTION ENGINEERING : Metal Forming : Basic Principles of forging,
drawing and extrusion; High energy rate forming; Powder
metallurgy.
Metal Casting : Die casting, investment
casting, Shall Moulding, Centrifugal Casting, Gating & Riser
design; melting furnaces.
Fabrication Processes : Principles of Gas, Arc,
Shielded arc Welding; Advanced Welding Processes, Weldability:
Metallurgy of Welding.
Metal Cutting : Turning, Methods of Screw
Production, Drilling, Boring, Milling, Gear Manufacturing,
Production of flat surfaces, Grinding & Finishing Processes.
Computer Controlled Manufacturing Systems-CNC, DNC, FMS,
Automation and Robotics.
Cutting Tools Materials, Tool Geometry,
Mechanism of Tool Wear, Tool Life & Machinability;
Measurement of cutting forces. Economics of Machining.
Unconventional Machining Processes. Jigs and Fixtures. Fits and
tolerances, Measurement of surface texture, Comparators Alignment
tests and reconditioning of Machine Tools.
10. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING : Production Planning and Control : Forecasting -
Moving average, exponential smoothing, Operations, scheduling;
assembly line balancing, Product development, Break-even
analysis, Capacity planning, PERT and CPM.
Control Operations : Inventory control ABC
analysis, EOQ model, Materials requirement planning. Job design,
Job standards, Work measurement, Quality Management - Quality
analysis and control. Operations Research : Linear Programming -
Graphical and Simplex methods, Transportation and assignment
models. Single server queueing model.
Value Engineering : Value analysis for
cost/value.
11. ELEMENTS OF COMPUTATION : Computer Organisation, Flow charting, Features
of Common computer Languages - FORTRAN, d Base III, Lotus 1-2-3,
C and elementary Programming.
me= 1. EM Theory Electric and magnetic fields. Gauss’s Law
and Amperes Law. Fields in dielectrics, conductors and magnetic
materials. Maxwell’s equations. Time varying fields.
Plane-Wave propagating in dielectric and conducting media.
Transmission lines.
2. Electrical Materials Band Theory, Conductors, Semi-conductors and
Insulators. Super-conductivity. Insulators for electrical and
electronic applications. Magnetic materials. Ferro and ferri
magnetism. Ceramics, Properties and applications. Hall effect and
its applications. Special semi conductors.
3. Electrical Circuits Circuits elements. Kirchoff’s Laws. Mesh
and nodal analysis. Network Theorems and applications. Natural
response and forced response. Transient response and steady state
response for arbitrary inputs. Properties of networks in terms of
poles and zeros. Transfer function. Resonant circuits. Threephase
circuits. Two-port networks. Elements of two-element network
synthesis.
4. Measurements and Instrumentation Units and Standards. Error analysis,
measurement of current, Voltage, power, Power-factor and energy.
Indicating instruments. Measurement of resistance, inductance,
Capacitance and frequency. Bridge measurements. Electronic
measuring instruments. Digital Voltmeter and frequency counter.
Transducers and their applications to the measurement of
non-electrical quantities like temperature, pressure, flow-rate
displacement, acceleration, noise level etc. Data acquisition
systems. A/D and D/A converters.
5. CONTROL SYSTEMS. Mathematical modelling of physical systems.
Block diagrams and signal flow graphs and their reduction. Time
domain and frequency domain analysis of linear dynamical system.
Errors for different type of inputs and stability criteria for
feedback systems. Stability analysis using Routh-Hurwitz array,
Nyquist plot and Bode plot. Root locus and Nicols chart and the
estimation of gain and phase margin. Basic concepts of
compensator design. State variable matrix and its use in system
modelling and design. Sampled data system and performance of such
a system with the samples in the error channel. Stability of
sampled data system. Elements of non-linear control analysis.
Control system components, electromechanical, hydraulic,
pneumatic components. PAPER - II 1. Electrical Machines and Power Transformers Magnetic Circuits - Analysis and Design of
Power transformers. Construction and testing. Equivalent
circuits. Losses and efficiency. Regulation. Auto-transformer,
3-phase transformer. Parallel operation.
Basic concepts in rotating machines. EMF,
torque, basic machine types. Construction and operation, leakage
losses and efficiency.
B.C. Machines. Construction, Excitation
methods. Circuit models. Armature reaction and commutation.
Characteristics and performance analysis. Generators and motors.
Starting and speed control. Testing, Losses and efficiency.
Synchronous Machines. Construction. Circuit
model. Operating characteristics and performance analysis.
Synchronous reactance. Efficiency. Voltage regulation.
Salient-pole machine, Parallel operation. Hunting. Short circuit
transients.
Induction Machines. Construction. Principle of
operation. Rotating fields. Characteristics and performance
analysis. Determination of circuit model. Circle diagram.
Starting and speed control.
Fractional KW motors. Single-phase synchronous
and induction motors.
2. Power systems Types of Power Stations, Hydro, Thermal and
Nuclear Stations. Pumped storage plants. Economics and operating
factors.
Power transmission lines. Modeling and
performance characteristics. Voltage control. Load flow studies.
Optimal power system operation. Load frequency control.
Symmetrical short circuit analysis. ZBus formulation. Symmetrical
Components. Per Unit representation. Fault analysis. Transient
and steady-state stability of power systems. Equal area
criterion.
Power system Transients. Power system
Protection Circuit breakers. Relays. HVDC transmission.
3. ANALOG AND DIGITAL ELECTRONICS AND CIRCUITS Semiconductor device physics, PN junctions and
transistors, circuit models and parameters, FET, Zener, tunnel,
Schottky, photo diodes and their applications, rectifier
circuits, voltage regulators and multipliers, switching behavior
of diodes and transistors.
Small signal amplifiers, biasing circuits,
frequency response and improvement, multistage amplifiers and
feed-back amplifiers, D.C. amplifiers, Oscillators. Large signal
amplifiers, coupling methods, push pull amplifiers, operational
amplifiers, wave shaping circuits. Multivibrators and flip-flops
and their applications. Digital logic gate families, universal
gates-combination circuits for arithmetic and logic operational,
sequential logic circuits. Counters, registers, RAM and ROMs.
4. MICROPROCESSORS Microprocessor architecture-Instruction set and
simple assembly language programming. Interfacing for memory and
I/O. Applications of Micro-processors in power system.
5. COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Types of modulation; AM, FM and PM.
Demodulators. Noise and bandwidth considerations. Digital
communication systems. Pulse code modulation and demodulation.
Elements of sound and vision broadcasting. Carrier communication.
Frequency division and time division multiplexing, Telemetry
system in power engineering.
6. POWER ELECTRONICS Power Semiconductor devices. Thyristor. Power
transistor, GTOs and MOSFETS. Characteristics and operation. AC
to DC Converters; 1-phase and 3-phase DC to DC Converters; AC
regulators. Thyristor controlled reactors; switched capacitor
networks.
Inverters; single-phase and 3-phase. Pulse
width modulation. Sinusoidal modulation with uniform sampling.
Switched mode power supplies.
me= 1. Materials and Components : Structure and properties of Electrical
Engineering materials; Conductors, Semiconductors and Insulators,
magnetic, Ferroelectric, Piezoelectric, Ceramic, Optical and
Super-conducting materials. Passive components and
characteristics Resistors, Capacitors and Inductors; Ferrites,
Quartz crystal Ceramic resonators, Electromagnetic and
Electromechanical components.
2. Physical Electronics, Electron Devices and
ICs: Electrons and holes in semiconductors, Carrier
Statistics, Mechanism of current flow in a semiconductor, Hall
effect; Junction theory; Different types of diodes and their
characteristics; Bipolar Junction transistor; Field effect
transistors; Power switching devices like SCRs, GTOs, power
MOSFETS; Basics of ICs - bipolar, MOS and CMOS types; basic of
Opto Electronics.
3. Signals and Systems Classification of signals and systems: System
modelling in terms of differential and difference equations;
State variable representation; Fourier series; Fourier transforms
and their application to system analysis; Laplace transforms and
their application to system analysis; Convolution and
superposition integrals and their applications; Z-transforms and
their applications to the analysis and characterisation of
discrete time systems; Random signals and probability,
Correlation functions; Spectral density; Response of linear
system to random inputs.
4. Network theory Network analysis techniques; Network theorems,
transient response, steady state sinusoidal response; Network
graphs and their applications in network analysis;
Tellegen’s theorem. Two port networks; Z, Y, h and
transmission parameters. Combination of two ports, analysis of
common two ports. Network functions : parts of network functions,
obtaining a network function from a given part. Transmission
criteria : delay and rise time, Elmore’s and other
definitions effect of cascading. Elements of network synthesis.
5. Electromagnetic Theory Analysis of electrostatic and magnetostatic
fields; Laplace’s and Poisson’s equations; Boundary
value problems and their solutions; Maxwell’s equations;
application to wave propagation in bounded and unbounded media;
Transmission lines : basic theory, standing waves, matching
applications, microstrip lines; Basics of wave guides and
resonators; Elements of antenna theory.
6. Electronic Measurements and instrumentation Basic concepts, standards and error analysis;
Measurements of basic electrical quantities and parameters;
Electronic measuring instruments and their principles of working
: analog and digital, comparison, characteristics, application.
Transducers; Electronic measurements of non electrical quantities
like temperature, pressure, humidity etc; basics of telemetry for
industrial use. PAPER - II 1. Analog Electronic Circuits : Transistor biasing and stabilization. Small
signal analysis. Power amplifiers. Frequency response. Wide
banding techniques. Feedback amplifiers. Tuned amplifiers.
Oscillators. Rectifiers and power supplies. Op Amp, PLL, other
linear integrated circuits and applications. Pulse shaping
circuits and waveform generators.
2. Digital Electronic Circuits : Transistor as a switching element; Boolean
algebra, simplification of Boolean functions, Karnaguh map and
applications; IC Logic gates and their characteristics; IC logic
families : DTL, TTL, ECL, NMOS, PMOS and CMOS gates and their
comparison; Combinational logic Circuits; Half adder, Full adder;
Digital comparator; Multiplexer Demulti-plexer; ROM an their
applications. Flip flops. R-S, J-K, D and T flip-flops; Different
types of counters and registers Waveform generators. A/D and D/A
converters. Semiconductor memories.
3. Control Systems : Transient and steady state response of control
systems; Effect of feedback on stability and sensitivity; Root
locus techniques; Frequency response analysis. Concepts of gain
and phase margins: Constant-M and Constant-N Nichol’s Chart;
Approximation of transient response from Constant-N Nichol’s
Chart; Approximation of transient response from closed loop
frequency response; Design of Control Systems, Compensators;
Industrial controllers.
4. Communication Systems : Basic information theory; Modulation and
detection in analogue and digital systems; Sampling and data
reconstructions; Quantization & coding; Time division and
frequency division multiplexing; Equalization; Optical
Communication : in free space & fiber optic; Propagation of
signals at HF, VHF, UHF and microwave frequency; Satellite
Communication.
5. Microwave Engineering : Microwave Tubes and solid state devices,
Microwave generation and amplifiers, Waveguides and other
Microwave Components and Circuits, Microstrip circuits, Microwave
Antennas, Microwave Measurements, Masers, lasers; Microwave
propagation.
Microwave Communication Systems terrestrial and
Satellite based.
6. Computer Engineering : Number Systems. Data representation;
Programming; Elements of a high level programming language
PASCAL/C; Use of basic data structures; Fundamentals of computer
architecture; Processor design; Control unit design; Memory
organisation, I/o System Organisation. Microprocessors :
Architecture and instruction set of Microprocessors 8085 and
8086, Assembly language Programming. Microprocessor Based system
design : typical examples. Personal computers and their typical
uses.
CIVIL
ENGINEERING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING ELECTRONICS
AND TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
AGARTLA,
AHMEDABAD, AIZWAL, ALIGARH, ALLAHABAD, BANGALORE, BAREILLY,
BHOPAL,KOLKATA (CALCUTTA), CHANDIGARH, CHENNAI, CUTTACK, DEHRADUN,
DELHI, DHARWAR, DISPUR (GUWAHATI), GANGTOK, HYDERABAD, IMPHAL,
ITANAGAR, JAIPUR, JAMMU, JORHAT, KOCHI , KOHIMA, KOLKATA , LUCKNOW,
MADURAI, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PANAJI (GOA), PATNA, PORTBLAIR, RAIPUR,
RANCHI, SAMBALPUR, SHILLONG, SHIMLA, SRINAGAR, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM,
TIRUPATI, UDAIPUR AND VISHAKHAPATNAM
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