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A candidate for the M.Sc; degree will be required to present a seminar on a topic selected from within the study area before the Departmental Postgraduate Committee; The performance of a candidate shall be evaluated for the award of marks by a panel selected by the Departmental Postgraduate Committee; Apart from the oral presentation; the seminar shall be typewritten; soft-bound and submitted to earn credit

This involves a critical review of current literature in specific areas of specialization; Each student is expected to write and make an oral presentation on a topic in his/her area of specialization and must participate in all departmental seminars

Designed to give practice in critical reading of research articles in journals and in the oral and visual presentation of scientific information

Software engineering and its place as an engineering discipline; Life cycle of software system: Requirements analysis; development; operation and maintenance; Software metrics: Portability; Re-usability; Correctness; Reliability; Efficiency; Usability; Integrity; Maintainability and Flexibility; Software quality and testing; Software architecture: architecture description languages; pattern-oriented software architecture; component-based development; distributed software architecture using middleware; enterprise application integration; architecture for mobile and pervasive systems and model driven architecture; Advanced modelling: UML extension mechanisms; object constraint language and model checking; Software project management: Study of interpersonal process decision making styles; problem solving concepts and procedures; creative effort; conflict resolution; leadership and assessment; Concepts of motivation; team work and group dynamics; Software engineering and law: intellectual property law; professional ethics and code of conduct; Patents; trademarks; copyright; trade secrets; privacy and confidentiality; contracts and licensing; government regulations; global legal issues including Internet law and cyber crime; Overview of Open Source Software

Engineering classification of rock and soils; Weathering and weathering factors; Weatherability of minerals; Soil types; Structures and textures in rocks and soils; Clay minerals types; structures; identification and influence on soil properties; Stress and strain in 2 and 3 dimensions; Representation of stress and strain; Theories of elasticity and plasticity; Stress fields and their measurements; criteria of failure and yield; Classification of soils; Flow of water in soil - steady state and transient conditions; Shear strength and its measurement; Limiting conditions in a semi-infinite space; Soil properties and their measurement; Earth pressures; Bearing capacity; Physical Properties of rock; Measurement of Stress/Strain in the laboratory and in the field; Planes of weaknesses

Sources of starch; Chemical composition and structure; Physico-chemical modification and degradation of starch; Enzymic degradation of starch; Fermentation products from starch; The technology of corn wet milling; Other products that can potentially be prepared from starch e.g; glucose syrups and flakes; fuels; alcohols; organic acids; penicillins; enzymes; amino acids and microbial polysaccharides

The design and use of existing statistical software; methods of simulation of random processes; numerical methods of fitting linear models; multivariate analysis; methods for nonlinear modeling; Introduction of key aspects of statistical consulting and data analysis activities; report writing and presentation