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5th SEMESTER

10144GE005 PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND HUMAN VALUES L T P C 3 0 0 3 1. HUMAN VALUES 10 Morals, Values and Ethics – Integrity – Work Ethic – Service Learning – Civic Virtue – Respect for Others – Living Peacefully – caring – Sharing – Honesty – Courage – Valuing Time – Co-operation – Commitment – Empathy – Self-Confidence – Character – Spirituality 2. ENGINEERING ETHICS 9 Senses of 'Engineering Ethics' - variety of moral issued - types of inquiry - moral dilemmas - moral autonomy - Kohlberg's theory - Gilligan's theory - consensus and controversy – Models of Professional Roles - theories about right action - Self-interest - customs and religion - uses of ethical theories. 3. ENGINEERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION 9 Engineering as experimentation - engineers as responsible experimenters - codes of ethics - a balanced outlook on law - the challenger case study 4. SAFETY, RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS 9 Safety a...

4th SEMESTER

10177PR401 PROBABILITY AND RANDOM PROCESSES (Common to ECE & Bio Medical Engineering) AIM This course aims at providing the necessary basic concepts in random processes. Knowledge of fundamentals and applications of random phenomena will greatly help in the understanding of topics such as signals & systems, pattern recognition, voice and image processing and filtering theory OBJECTIVES At the end of the course, the students would Have a fundamental knowledge of the basic probability concepts. Have a well-founded knowledge of standard distributions which can describe real life phenomena. Acquire skills in handling situations involving more than one random variable and functions of random variables. Understand and characterize phenomena which evolve with respect to time  in probabilistic manner. Be able to analyze the response of random inputs to linear time invariant systems. UNIT I RANDOM VARIABLES Discrete and continuous random var...