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Review of electromagnetic laws in integral form, Gauss’s Law, Ampere’s and Faraday’s Laws; Electrostatic fields due to distribution of charge, magnetic fields in and around current carrying conductors, time-varying magnetic and electric fields; conduction and displacement current; Maxwell’s equation (in rectangular co-ordinates and vector-calculus notation): derivation of Maxwell’s equations; electromagnetic potential and waves; Poynting vector; boundary conditions; wave propagation in good conductors, skin effect; plane waves in unbounded dielectric media.

Review of electromagnetic laws in integral form, Gauss’s Law, Ampere’s and Faraday’s Laws. Electrostatic fields due to distribution of charge. Magnetic fields in and around current carrying conductors. Time-varying magnetic and electric fields. Conduction and displacement current. Maxwell’s equations (in rectangular co-ordinates and vector-calculus notation). Derivation of Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic potential and waves. Poynting vector, boundary conditions. Wave propagation in good conductors, skin effect; plane waves in unbounded dielectric media.

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Maxwell's Equations; Electromagnetic Potentials: Tensor Calculus; Stress and Energy; Electro Static and Magnetostatics; plane Waves; cylindrical and Spherical waves; Boundary Value Problems; Relativistic Kinematics and Lorentz Transformation: Electrodynamics

Electrostatic potential problems; Poisson and Laplace's equation method of images; Green's theorem; multiple expansions; Magnetic fields; Stokes theorem; vector potential; Electromagnetic Maxwell's equation; Propagation of electromagnetic waves in different ionized and non-ionized media; phase velocity; group velocity and pulse propagation; attenuation; refraction; energy propagation and transfer; polarization and dispersion; Green function methods; diffraction theory; simple radiating systems; Lagrangian derivation of Maxwell's equations and the covariant structure of electromagnetism

Electromagnetics – Motion and Vector algebra, Integral calculus, Curvilinear coordinates, Divergence and Stokes’s theorem, Coulomb’s law, Electric field; Electrostatics – Gauss’s Law, Electric potential, Conductors, Dielectrics, Capacitance, Capacitors, Electrostatics Energy and Forces, Poisson’s Equation, Method of Images, Boundary Value Problems, Current Density, Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s and Joule’s Laws; Magnetostatics – Vector Magnetic Potential, The Biot-Savart Law, the Magnetic Dipole, Magnetic Materials, Boundary Conditions, Inductors, Energy, Forces; Electrodynamics – Electromagnetic Induction, Maxwell’s equations, Potential Functions, Boundary Conditions, Wave Equations; Review of EM laws in integral form; Gauss law. Ampere’s law and Faraday’s laws; uniform em plane waves: Magnetic fields in and around current carrying conductors. Conduction and displacement currents; Derivation of Maxwell’s equations in curl form from Faraday’s and Ampere’s laws; Time varying electric and magnetic fields in free space the wave equation; Plane waves in vacuum, dielectric conducting and lossy media; Skin effect; Polarisation of waves; Poynting vector and energy propagation in free space; Boundary conditions; Plane waves in unbounded dielectric media. Reflection and transmission of plane waves. Em radiating systems: Antennae - isotropic antenna, elementary dipole near the far fields. Antenna parametres. Half-wave antenna. Practical antenna e.g. loop, horn and parabolic 400 Level GET 402 Engineering Project I (2 Units: C; PH 90) Learning Outcomes At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. Complete the design phase of a complex engineering problem sourced from industry or community during the SIWES III programme. 2. Demonstrate the connection between engineering product-making and the theoretical courses they have learned following the applicable industry best practices. Course Contents In the second semester of the 400-level students, preferably in groups, work from the university on the identified industry or organization to tackle industry complex engineering problems. Theoretical issues may be provided by the department faculty or industry experts. During the vacation, students will now work full time with the organisation/industry on the project as part of the SIWES III. The students can also go beyond the department and engage in multidisciplinary undertakings. Literature survey, review of existing systems etc. must be achieved to a satisfactory extent. GET 404 Engineering Valuation and Appraisal (2 Units: C; LH 30) Learning Outcomes At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. Identify at least three (3) objectives of engineering valuation work, valuer's primary duty and responsibility and valuation terminologies. 2. Describe at least four (4) Valuer's obligation to his or her client, to other valuers, and to the society. 3. Demonstrate with example the engineering valuation methods, valuation standards, and practices. 4. Prepare engineering valuation and appraisal reports and review 5. Discuss expert witnessing and ethics in valuation. 6. Determine price, cost, value, depreciation and obsolescence in real property, personal property, personal property, machinery and equipment, oil, gas, mines, and quarries valuation.

Specimen preparation methods: tissue sample acquisition techniques, tissue processing and examination, physical and technical principles of different electron microscopes, localization of molecules by immunoelectron microscopy, special techniques for localization of molecules in electron microscopy, occupational safety in electron microscopy laboratory work, localization of elements by electron microscopy, electron tomography, correlative light and electron microscopy, image processing and interpretation, Cryo electron microscopy, techniques for material characterization by electron microscopy, demonstrations on transmission and scanning electron microscopy of biological samples, examples of application of electron microscopy in biomedical research. The practical aspects shall be demonstrated.

Introduction; the sociology and psychology of electronic commerce: building; recognising; managing and making use of online communities in web-based environments; theories of online presence and cooperation; a guide to e-commerce in general: how to differentiate e-commerce today from e-commerce yesterday; current problems of e-commerce and interesting solutions and approaches to those problems; a guide to knowledge commerce: understanding knowledge as a commodity and as a process; and representing it in web-based environments; web architecture: structural design of e-commerce systems; client-server architecture; 2-; 3-; n-tier design; server farms; scalability; integration of legacy systems; Java beans; Enterprise Java beans and java server pages; particular problems posed by 24/7 operation and an open user community; data interchange: exchanging data over the internet; XML; style sheets; document type definition; metadata and document discovery; interchange of processes using WSDL and SOAP as examples; usability: user-interfaces design for websites; use of human computer interaction methodologies in evaluating user interfaces; electronic payments: technologies that support the processing of electronic payments; characteristics and properties of electronic payment systems; mass personalisation and the virtual customer: automation of the customer relationship; use of data to customise the web experience; cookies and their risks; rule-based filtering; implicit profiling; collaborative filtering

History of Electronic Health Record and its development for the past 40 years. Why and how EHR should replace paper-based health record. Technical components to design and build EHR. Management and social aspects of HER. 300 Level

Free electron motion in static electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields. Atomic theory: Bohr's model, quantum theory. Electron emission Energy-band theory of conductors, insulators and semiconductors. Semi-conductor theory Bipolar junction transistors: types, operation, characteristics, modes of connection, application. Field effect transistors: types, operation, characteristics, modes of connection, application. Thyristors; operation, characteristics, application. Introduction to semiconductor technology. Elementary discrete devices fabrication techniques and IC technology. Single stage transistor amplifiers using BJTs and FETs. Equivalent circuit and calculation of current gain, voltage gain, power gain, input and output impedance. Operational Amplifiers: Parameters and applications, Feedback, Broadband and narrow band amplifiers. Power amplifiers, voltage and current stabilizing circuits, voltage amplifiers, multi-stage amplifiers using BJT and FETs. 300 Level