The Institute has very special undergraduate programmes in CSE and ECE. It allows the young minds to realize their dreams. A flexible curriculum, research-driven Honours programme, learning by doing with a broad based education, are the key features which make this possible.

The objectives of the BTech curriculum are manifold– to prepare the student for jobs in the industry, to continue for higher studies or research or to become a successful entrepreneur. A student undergoing BTech programme needs to earn 160 credits with 50% of credits coming from CSE/ECE related courses and the rest from Foundation Courses, Humanities courses, Open Electives and Projects.

The following programmes are offered at the undergraduate level :

Dual Degree BTech- MS Five year programme:

5-year Dual Degree Program in Computer Science and Engg and in Electronics and Communication Engineering

The 5-year Dual Degree Programs cater to growing need for exceptionally trained people in India and abroad. The student in this program may pursue a stream area, such as, language technologies, visual information systems, data engineering, wireless communications, embedded systems and VLSI, and algorithms and complexity theory. These students take advanced courses in a stream area along with projects during the first four years. In the last year they work on the Master's Thesis.

This is a challenging program for exceptional students who are highly motivated, hard working and have a desire to work on cutting edge problems. These students have excellent placement opportunities and are sought by industrial R&D centres and by Ph.D. programs in leading universities around the world. As many more international companies set up their R&D facilities in India, the demand for such highly trained people are expected to grow even further. Students after completion also stand a good chance of gaining entry in the prestigious Research Exchange Programme of IIIT by which they join PhD and spend even amount of time with leading research groups in the world.

In addition to UG Honours curriculum, the 5-year dual degree students are expected to complete 24 credits of thesis. These students are given special attention with individual faculty mentor who guide the academic program of the student. The students take seminar courses in the second year to learn about different stream areas and challenging research problems. The students are expected to start working on research projects from the summer of second year. It is expected that they will be able to participate and contribute to cutting edge research projects undertaken in various research centres of the institute. There is a possibility for these students to be provided assistantship when working on these projects. It is expected that their final year (5th year) will be fully supported by funded projects (subject to satisfactory academic performance).

B.Tech in CSE: The CSE curriculum of the Institute is designed to meet the requirements of industry and research. Students are given a breadth of knowledge in CSE including electronics and hardware. Computer Science courses are introduced in the early semesters and non-IT breadth courses are offered at a later stage. This allows student to master the topic and to do project work starting from the second year itself. Specially designed IT Workshop courses empower the students with the latest software technologies by third semester.

B.Tech in ECE: An integral part of the Information Technology is Electronics and Communications. Keeping this in mind, our undergraduate programme in ECE is closely related to CSE. They share a large number of core and elective courses. Today’s hardware engineers have to understand not just circuits but also programming. Electronic systems of today combine circuits with programming. The integrated training given at the Institute prepares the students for the emerging challenges of tomorrow. Emphasis is on doing real hardware projects starting early in the programme. Students build hardware units and systems, along with learning the theoretical basis behind it. Emphasis is given on digital and wireless communication, VLSI and embedded systems.

The Curriculum consists of:

• Foundation Courses:

  These courses aim to build the foundation of the education at the Institute and provide students with the skills and experience necessary for the profession, thus, paving the way for more challenging courses offered in the elective slots.

• Compulsory and Flexible Courses in CSE/ECE:

  These courses, covering specific areas of CSE/ECE, are a must for students in order to receive their degree. A student can reschedule them according to his priorities with the advice of his academic adviser. A course can be taken early for a rapid entry into a particular field or be postponed till a later semester to allow taking other elective/flexible course in that slot.

• Elective Courses:

  Elective slots are provided each semester starting from second year. Elective courses are domain specific and provide the students with in-depth knowledge of the domain. It is advisable to choose elective courses according to the field of interest in order to master it.

• Open Elective Courses:

  Open Elective are non-IT and non-humanities courses. A required minimum number of open electives has to be completed by all students. Physics of the Universe, Drug Discovery and IT, Biology and Genetic, Biochemistry, Number Theory, Electrical Power Systems, Material Science, Lasers and Fiber Optics, Fluid Mechanics, Applied Mechanics and Thermodynamics are some of the courses offered in the open elective slot.

• Humanities and Management Courses:

  A complementary set of courses focuses on the overall development of the students. A basic course in English, with emphasis on good communication skills, is offered in the first semester. Courses like Organizational Behaviour and Conventional Management ensure that every student passing out of the institute is capable of facing all the challenges of the industry. Other courses in this category are Psychology, Technology and Society, Philosophy, Economics, Vedanta, Entrepreneurship and Technical Writing.

• Projects:

  The bachelors degree program lays stress on exposure to research and development projects as a means of learning. Project work, therefore, can be a significant part of a course, or even a substitute for a conventional course. While it may be construed as extra burden on students, it actually bolsters the required training. In certain areas, students are permitted to take up projects in place of courses. To ensure that the eventual program of study provides sufficient breadth, project work in lieu of courses is only allowed for eight credits. In the final year, every student is expected to earn credit for a research or development-oriented project. Out of projects undertaken, many have social relevance. Real life problems are identified and student are encouraged to engineer innovative solutions to them, so as to contribute to society in a direct and effective manner.

• Industrial Interaction:

  In the course of their study, students have the opportunity to take up internships at various firms. This system aims at giving them a feel of working on projects in a real industrial environment. Industrial projects are undertaken by the Research Centres and Technology and Consultancy Centre of the Institute. Thus, the UG as well as PG students get an opportunity to work on real life industrial problems, which not only sharpen their software skills but also provide them with invaluable experience of working on a live project in the industry.

• Honours Program:

  The B.Tech. (Honours) programme is designed to allow bright and motivated students to aim higher than the average, put in extra – high level and focused academic work – pertaining, for example, to research and software development. A student who satisfies the minimum academic requirements can decide to opt for the Honours Programme if interested in excelling in a particular field.

  The programme requires choosing a stream and taking three prescribed courses in the area, an in-stream summer training in a research centre or the industry; taking an additional eight credits including projects in the third year of BTech, and attending a specially designed summer camp conducted by the leaders in the field. It is also mandatory that Honours students conduct their final year project in the same stream. Students may opt for the honours programme at the end of their second year.

  Presently, the following streams are available for the Honours students: AI and NLP, Visual Information Processing, Data Engineering, Communication Engineering, VLSI and Embedded Systems Some of the courses offered in these streams are:

  • AI and NLP: Artificial Intelligence, Introduction to NLP, Semantics, NLP Applications, Computational Linguistics, Speech Technology.

  • Visual Information Processing: Computer Graphics, Digital Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications, Computer Vision, Multimedia Systems, Advanced Signal and Image Processing.

  • Data Engineering: Introduction to Database Systems, Data Warehousing and Data Mining, Applied Data Mining, Advanced Database Systems, Distributed Database Systems, Multi Agent Systems, Web Data and Knowledge Management, Spatial Data Management.

  • Communication Engineering: Introduction to Telecommunications, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Communication, Secure Communications, Wireless Communications.

  • VLSI and Embedded Systems: Computer Architecture, Introduction to VLSI-I, VLSI-II, VHDL, Embedded Systems.

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