Brick – Varieties and strength
Characteristics of good bricks
Cement – Varieties and grade of cement and its uses
Steel – Types of steel for reinforcement bars, steel structural sections
Aggregates – Types and requirements of good aggregates
Concrete – Grades of concrete as per IS code, water-cement ratio
Workability, mixing, batching, compaction, and curing
Surveying: Chain surveying – Applications of GPS in Resource Surveys, Mapping and Navigation, Introduction to GIS, principles, instruments, ranging and chaining survey lines, fieldwork and field book, selection of survey stations, units of land area, benchmark, Fundamental Concepts of GPS, Applications of GIS Modern survey – instruments – Total station, Electronics theodolite, Distomat.
Construction: Masonry – types rubble masonry, brick masonry, English bond and Flemish bond. (One brick wall). Parts of building – foundation – types of foundations – spread footing, isolated footing, combined footing, Raft, pile and well foundations.
Principles of management
Principles of a sound wage payment system
Quality planning and developments
Project management techniques
Qualitative techniques in management
Material and sales management
Production planning and control
Method study
Inspection and quality control
Project analysis
Thermodynamics
Energy conversion devices
IC engines
Turbomachines
Refrigeration and air conditioning
Power transmission devices in automobiles
Engineering materials and manufacturing processes
Machine tools
Emission standard
Resistors
Inductors
Capacitors – Types, working principles and uses
Diodes – PN junction diode, Zener diode, photodiode, solar cell
Working principle of analogue and digital multimeter, function generator, UPS, GPS, GSM, and GPRS, Bluetooth, and WIFI.
Electric circuits – Kirchhoff’s laws, field strength, Magnetic Circuits: MMF, flux density, reluctance comparison between electric and magnetic circuits.
Electrical machines: DC generator and motors, Construction and working principle of single-phase and three-phase transformers,and AC generators and motors
Alternating current fundamentals: Power and power factor in ac circuits-active, reactive, Generation of alternating voltages waveforms, frequency, period. Concept of impedance, , and apparent power
Electromagnetic induction: inductance and mutual inductance, coefficient of coupling, Faraday’s laws, Lenz’s laws: Statically induced and dynamically induced EMFs-self-Generation of power: Conventional and non-conventional
Three-phase systems: star and delta connection (balanced only),Generation of three-phase voltages, advantages of three-phase systems, the relation between line and phase voltages, line, and phase currents.
Introduction to digital computer- Details of functional units of a computer, primary storage, and secondary storage. A simple model of a computer with the acquisition of data, storage of data, processing of data, the output of processed data. Data representation – Conversion from one system to another -representation of BCD numbers,
Number systems – binary numbers – representation of integers-representation of fractions – octal and hexadecimal representations – simple arithmetic operations.
Introduction to programming languages: objectives of operating systems, compiler, assembler and interpreter (concepts), Types of programming languages-high level language, assembly language and machine language, system software-operating systems-Problem-solving strategies –
Problem analysis – breaking a problem into subproblems-overview of the solution to the subproblems by writing step by step procedure (algorithm)-a formal definition of problem – solution – representation of the procedure by a flowchart.
