Free Online Swayam Courses by NPTEL (Study Webs of Active- Learning for Young Aspiring Minds)
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- An introduction to Materials: Nature and Properties (Part 1: Structure of Materials)
It is the first part of the course on introduction to Nature of materials and would be suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of every branch of science and engineering.
Course type: Core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Metallurgy and Material Science & Mining Engineering
Level: Postgraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Architectural Acoustics
The course deals in fundamentals of acoustics are essential components while designing specific spaces small and big like recording studios, classroom, lecture halls etc
Course type: core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Architecture and planning
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Basic course in Biomedical Research
The course will explain the fundamental concepts in research methodology.
Category: Multidisciplinary
Level: Postgraduate
Certification: yes, if eligible participant scores at least 50% in total assignment score and proctored examination score independently.
- Bioinorganic Chemistry
The course deals with the various applications of inorganic molecules on the life-related processes.
Course Type: Elective
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Chemistry
Level: undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Biomedical nanotechnology
The main aim of this course is to impart knowledge on biomedical nanotechnology
Course Type: Elective
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Biological Sciences & Bioengineering
Level: undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Biomicrofluidics
This course is to give engineers an overview of the biology of the cell and at the same time, biologists, a lucid understanding of fluidic transport processes at the micro scale.
Course Type: Elective
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Biological Sciences & Bioengineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Calculus of several real variables
This course deals in Calculus of several variables which has important applications in science and engineering.
Course type: Core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Mathematics
Level: undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Cloud Computing
This course will introduce various aspects of cloud computing, including fundamentals, management issues, security challenges and future research trends. This will help students and researchers to use and explore the cloud computing platforms.
Course Type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Computer Science and Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Computer numerical control CNC of Machine tools and processes
The course will cover classification of such machine tools, technology and devices employed in CNC machines, 2D and 3D programming and interpolation. With every part, there will be MCQ, tutorial problem solving and discussions.
Course type: Core
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Mechanical Engineering
Level: undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Contemporary Architecture and Design
The course will impart knowledge on the historical backdrop and trends of contemporary architecture.
Course Type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Architecture and Planning
Level: Undergraduate (AICTE approved FDP course)
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Corrosion II
The course will begin with a recap of electrochemical polarization and mixed potential theory. Corrosion events will be discussed to the basis of mixed potential theory.
Course Type: Core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Metallurgy and Material Science & Mining Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Culturally Responsive Built Environments
The objective of this course is to introduce Cultural Discourse in built Environment Theory, Research, Practice and Education.
Course Type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Architecture and Planning
Level: Postgraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Decision Making Under Uncertainty
The course deals with the making of decisions during the situation of uncertainty in the business sector.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Management Studies
Level: postgraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Design and analysis of algorithms
The course will cover basic concepts in the design and analysis of algorithms.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Computer Science and Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Design of fixed wing unmanned Aerial vehicles
The course introduces the process of wing UAV technology
Course Type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Aerospace Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Developing Soft Skills and Personality
The course aims to make students aware about the Importance of soft skills in professional and interpersonal communication.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Humanities and Social Sciences
Level: undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Digital Switching 1
The course will teach the basics of telephony.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Electronics and communication Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Ecology and Environment
The course will sensitize all B.Tech students to the issue of ecology, environment and sustainability.
Course type: Core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Multidisciplinary
Level: undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Energy Economics and Policy
This course covers the economic principles that guide energy related behaviour of both the producers and consumers of energy and the policy regime that has emerged to govern it.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Humanities and Social Sciences
Level: Postgraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Ethics in Engineering Practice
This course deals with the teaching of ethical standards for engineering practice
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Humanities and Social Sciences
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Fluid Machines
This is an introductory course on fluid machines.
Course Type: Core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Mechanical Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Fluid Mechanics
It is an interdisciplinary course which covers the basic principles and its applications in civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering.
Course Type: core
Category: Civil Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Functional Genomics
The course deals with the concept of functional genomics and contemporary approaches used to understand the genome functions.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Biological Sciences & Bioengineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Fundamentals and Applications of Dielectric Ceramics
This is a course on dielectric ceramics which focuses on fundamentals and applications of such materials.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Metallurgy and Material Science & Mining Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Geomorphic Processes: Landforms and Landscapes
The course introduces the student to basic principles of geomorphology and related geological environment.
Course type: core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Earth sciences
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Hardware modeling using verilog
The course will introduce students with the Verilog hardware description language.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Computer Science and Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Human Computer interactions
This course is an introduction to designing, prototyping and evaluating user interface.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Computer Science and Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
- Inclusion and Technology Design
The aim of the course is to think the alternative design principles that will make our ICTs more inclusive.
Course Type: Elective
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Humanities and Social Sciences
Level: Postgraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Innovation, Business Models and Entrepreneurship
The course will enable the student to understand innovation and its applications indifferent spheres of development and growth.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Management studies
Level: Postgraduate
- Introduction to Haskell Programming
The course teaches the breaking up of programming tasks into logical units that can be easily translated into provably correct code.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Computer Science and Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Introduction to Proteomics
This course deals with the basic biology of proteins and the new advanced science called proteomics.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Biological Sciences & Bio engineering
Level: Postgraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Introduction to Statistical Mechanics
This is an introductory course in classical and quantum statistical mechanics.
Course type: core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Physics
Level: Postgraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Introduction to Abstract Group Theory
This course deals with the introduction of abstract groups.
Course type: Core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Mathematics
Level: Postgraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Introduction to Abstract and Linear Algebra
The course deals in abstract and linear algebra
Course type: core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Mathematics
Level: Postgraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Introduction to R Software
The course teaches about R software that is capable of handling mathematical and statistical manipulations.
Course type: Core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Mathematics
Level: undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Introduction to Research
This course aims to introduce students to the important aspects of research.
Course Type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Multidisciplinary
Level: Postgraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Introduction to parallel Programming in Open MP
This course focuses on the shared memory programming paradigm.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Computer Science and Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Introductory Non- Linear Dynamics
This course is designed to introduce students to the basic ideas of dynamical systems.
Course Type: Elective
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Chemistry
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Introductory Organic Chemistry 1
The course focuses on topics such as organic chemistry, chemistry of carbon. Carbon based compounds etc.
Course Type: Core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Chemistry
Level: undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Manufacturing of Composites
This course covers the important aspects of composites manufacturing.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Mechanical Engineering
Level: undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Marketing research and analysis
The course helps in identifying the recent trends in habits and behaviors of consumers through a research process.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Management studies
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Modern Algebra
The course teaches us the use of algebra in abstracting out the geometric objects and numbers.
Course Type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Computer Science and Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Nanotechnology in Agriculture
The course deals with basic agriculture and modern day Nanoparticle based agriculture practices.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Biological Sciences and Bioengineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Numerical Methods and Stimulation Techniques for Scientists and Engineers
The course introduces basic numerical methods and the key simulation techniques that are going to be useful to academia and industry alike.
Course type: core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: physics
Level: Postgraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Numerical Methods
This course is a basic course is offered to UG student of Engineering/Science background.
Course type: core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Mathematics
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Photo geology in Terrain Evaluation (Part1 and 2)
The course introduces the student to a globally applied tool known as Photo geology or geo photography.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Civil Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Plant Cell bioprocessing
This course will enable students to identify the industrial applications of Plant cell/Tissue Culture Technology.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Biological Sciences and Bio engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Plant Development Biology
The course will help students to enhance their knowledge and develop their research interest in the field of development biology.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Biological Sciences & Bio engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Practical Machine learning with Tensorflow
This is an applied Machine learning course jointly offered by Google and IIT Madras.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Computer science and engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Principles of Modern CDMA MIMO OFDM Wireless Communications
This course will present an elaborate introduction to the principles and performance of the fundamental 3G/4G wireless technologies
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Electronics and communications Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing of Satellite Data
The course will provide basic understanding about satellite based remote sensing and digital image processing technologies.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Civil Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Remote Sensing and GIS
The course teaches students the state of the art concepts and practices of remote sensing and GIS.
Course type: core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Civil Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Spatial informatics
Spatial informatics is a research area with widespread applications in various decision support systems, natural resource management and other sector.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Computer Science and Engineering
Level: Postgraduate
- Steam Power Engineering
This course deals with the electricity generation or transportation applications with steam power.
Course type: Core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Mechanical Engineering
Level: undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Structural Dynamics for Civil Engineering- SDOF systems
The course talks about characteristics of single degree of freedom systems and also about multi DOF systems
Course type: Elective
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Civil Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Toyota Production System
The course deals with a case study of Toyota Car Company of Japan. and about its product development and process excellence.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Management studies
Level: undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Understanding Design
This course is for those who want to understand about design and its importance
Course type: Elective
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Design Engineering
Level: undergraduate
- Vibration and Structural Dynamics
The course deals with fundamentals of vibration and structural dynamics.
Course type: Core
Duration: 8 weeks
Category: Aerospace Engineering
Level: Undergraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Water, Society and Sustainability
The course talks about water resources, technology, science and society towards a sustainable future.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Humanities and Social Sciences
Level: Postgraduate
Certificate: Yes, you will be eligible for a certificate only if average assignment score>= 10/25 and exam score >=30/75
- Visual Perception and Art: A Survey across the cultures
The course deals in the exploring of the complex and dynamic relationships between our visual perceptions and is in the context of specific visual cultures.
Course type: Elective
Duration: 4 weeks
Category: Humanities and social sciencesLevel: Undergraduate