NPTEL Open Online Certification Courses - 47 new courses open for enrollment!

Dear Students

Here is your chance to enroll and learn for free today from the faculty at the IITs!
NPTEL offers 47 new open online courses (10 hr course, 20hr course and 40hr courses) in various disciplines of Engineering&Science, Management and Humanities.

•    Duration of courses: 4 weeks, 8 weeks or 12 weeks
•    Online course start date: Jan 18, 2016
•    Last date for enrollment: Jan 25, 2016
•    Certification exam dates: Mar 20, 27 (for 10 and 20hr courses) and Apr 24, May 1(for 40 hr courses)

Anyone who is above 13 years of age can enroll for this course and learn for free at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in.

This site uses your Google account for authentication. You can select the course and click the join button to enroll.

After enrollment you will be able to see the course contents as and when they are made available by the course instructors.

List of 10 hr courses:

1.Probability and Stochastics for finance - Mathamatics/management
2.Introduction to Reciprocal Space - Materials Science
3.Introduction to Research - Multidisciplinary

List of 20 hr courses:

1.Microwave Integrated Circuits - Electronics&Communication
2.Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory - Management
3.Estimation for Wireless Communications –MIMO/ OFDM Cellular and Sensor Networks - Electronics&Communication
4.Airplane Performance- Aerospace
5.Basics of NVH and Its Measurement - Mechanical
6.Marketing I - Management
7.Manufacturing Process Technology -Part I - Mechanical
8.MATLAB Programming for Numerical Computation - Chemical
9.Technical English for Engineers - Humanities
10.Introduction to boundary layers - Mechanical
11.Language and Mind - Humanities
12.Chemistry - II - Chemistry
13.Fundamentals of electronic materials and devices - Materials Science
14.Application of Spectroscopic Methods in Molecular Structure Determination - Chemistry
15.Analysis and Modeling of Welding - Materials Science
16.Fundamentals of optical and scanning electron microscopy - Materials Science
17.Information Security- II - Computer science
18.Project Planning & Control - Civil
19.Biostatistics and Design of experiments - Biotech
20.Principles of Human Resource Management - Management
21.Health research fundamentals - Humanities
22.Engineering Graphics - Civil
23.2016: Design and Analysis of Algorithms - Computer science
24.2016: An introduction to Haskell Programming    - Computer science
25.2016: Programming, Data structures and Algorithm - Computer science

List of 40 hr courses:

1.Stability and control of aircraft - Aerospace
2.Basics of Finite Element Analysis - Mechanical
3.Electromagnetic theory - Electrical
4.Geology and Soil Mechanics - Civil
5.Phase Diagrams in Materials Science and Engineering - Materials Science
6.Risk and Reliability of offshore structures - Ocean
7.HSE for offshore and petroleum engineers - Ocean
8.Discrete Mathematics - Mathematics
9.Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics - Mechanical
10.Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Computer science
11.Introduction to Machine Learning - Computer science
12.Computational Fluid Dynamics - Chemical
13.Conduction and Convection Heat Transfer - Mechanical
14.Biochemistry - Chemistry
15.Probability and Statistics - Mathematics
16.Industrial Automation and Control - Electrical
17.Probability Methods in Civil Engineering - Civil
18.Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling - Mathematics
19.Vibration of structures - Mechanical

Happy Learning!!!!

Warm regards
NPTEL Team
(For any clarifications, please contact nptel@iitm.ac.in)

Reg:Feedback for Sustainable River Basin Management

Dear student

We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course "Sustainable River Basin Management" which was conducted by Dr. Franziska Steinbruch of IIT Madras between July 1 2015 - Aug 31 2015.

We hope you found the NPTEL Online course useful and have started using NPTEL extensively.

In this regard, we would like to have a feedback from you regarding our course and whether there are any improvements, you would like to suggest. 

It would be great to have a video feedback from you too - where you can talk about your experience with our course , the portal and how the course helped you (maybe for GATE preparation, campus interviews or in your job, etc) . We request you to give your name, if you are a student or a working professional and other details (such as college name or work place, if you would want to), the course you took and your feedback about the same. You can record this using your mobile phone or your laptop/desktop using a webcam or with the help of a friend and upload the same on YouTube and put the link below. We would go through them and select the best videos for upload on our portal as testimonials and in other videos we create about NPTEL for publicity.

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :


We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

Quiz 8 Results

Dear Students,

attached you will find the results of the last Quiz 8.

Quiz 8: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01dHN6WHBlUFJWSHc/view?usp=sharing

 Best regards,

 NPTEL-Team

NPTEL Open Online Certification Courses - 11 new courses open for enrollment!

Dear Students,

2,70,000 registered users on the portal! 

3,83,000 enrollments!
7500+ certificates awarded! 
57 open online courses completed! 
Exams for 18 courses to be conducted in September!

Here is your chance to enroll and learn for free today from the faculty at the IITs!

NPTEL offers 11 new open online courses (1 20hr course and 10 10hr courses) in various disciplines of Engineering, Biotechnology and Humanities.


Anyone who is above 13 years of age can enroll for this course and learn for free at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in .

Requirement: A google enabled email account


List of courses is:


10 hr courses: (Sep 14 - October 23 2015)

1. Principles of Downstream techniques in Bioprocess (Biotechnology)

2. Mass spectrometry based proteomics (Biotechnology)

3. Proteins and Gel-Based Proteomics (Biotechnology)

4. Basic Calculus for Engineers, Scientists and Economists (Mathematics)

5. Introduction to nonlinear dynamics (Electrical Engineering)

6. Probability and Random Variables/ Processes for Wireless Communications (Electrical Engineering)

7. Manufacturing Systems Technology part II

8. Language and society (Humanities and Social Sciences)

9. Brief introduction to Psychology (Humanities and Social Sciences)

10. Issues in Bioethics (Humanities and Social Sciences)


20 hr course (Sep 7 - Oct 31 2015)

Elements of Visual Representation (Humanities and Social Sciences)


Exam dates: 1 and 8 November 2015 (1-4 pm)

Enroll today at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in and learn from the course you are interested in.

Results Quiz 6 & Quiz 7

Dear Students,

attached the links for the Results of Quiz 6 and 7.

 Quiz 6: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01NEFLZ21LaHk5QUU/view?usp=sharing

 Unit 7: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01WHpKajRLc0k0WEk/view?usp=sharing

 Best regards,

 NPTEL

Info Final Exam

Dear Students,

Scientific calculators can be carried by the candidates into the exam hall.

They will be given rough paper and pencil for working out the problems (which will have to be returned after the exam.)

Best regards,

NPTEL

Unit 7 & Unit 8 Course Material

Dear Student,

attached you will find the missed pdf. for Unit 7 and Unit 8.

Unit 7:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01T1o1WjhCVTJCdGs/view?usp=sharing

Unit 8:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01TG9HNm93cHJmc1E/view?usp=sharing

Sorry for the delay, but Professor was ill the last week.

Best regards,

NPTEL-TEam


Hall Ticket for Sep 6th/ 13th NPTEL Online Certification exam for registered candidates

Dear Candidate:

If you have successfully registered for the September 6th/ 13th NPTEL Online Certification exam, your hall ticket is available at: 
https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2538/login.html

Please login with your application number and password that has been sent to you as part of the successful registration email. In the tab - "Hall Ticket" / "Hall ticket for offline exam" you will get your hall ticket. If you are writing 2 course exams, there would be 2 hall tickets available for you to carry for your respective exams. Under the "Hall ticket" tab - there would be a link as click "here", on clicking which your hall ticket will get displayed / downloaded into your system.The hall ticket will have the details of your exam venue. 

Please download, print your hall ticket and carry it with you to the exam center. NPTEL wishes you the very best for the exam.


Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL Team

nptel@iitm.ac.in
Contact: 91-44-22575905 / 08


Week 8 - Contents

Dear students,


    Video lectures for week 08 has been uploaded. Please go through it. 5 lectures are available for this week.

-NPTEL Team

Week 6 and Week 7 - Contents

Dear students,

        Video lectures for week 6 and week 7 has been uploaded. Please go through it.


Best Regards,
-NPTEL Team

Additional Info FINAL EXAM !

Dear Students,

we received now the final information accourding your exam.

The final grading will be as follows: 40% for all assignments + 60% for the final exam. The completion of all assignments is not! a requirement to take part in the final exam or you can go to the final exam even when you have not completed all assignments.

 Best regards,
 NPTEL-Team

Quiz 5

Dear Students,

attached you find results of Quiz 5.


https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01Ukd0TFVlSFNZams/view?usp=sharing


Best regards,

NPTEL-Team

Registration deadline extended till August 19th Midnight!

Dear candidate:

Hope you have registered for the NPTEL Online Certification exams on Sep 6th/ 13th 2015! 
If not, here is your last opportunity to register for the same. The deadline for registration has been extended till August 19th 2015 Midnight!

Registration link: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2538/application.html 

Best wishes for your NPTEL Online certification exam.

Warm regards,
NPTEL Team

Quiz 3

Dear Students,

 some of you have some problems in quiz 3 with there amount of recieved points.


Till know we do not know why the programm do not give you the right amount of points. We sended this to the technical support team and wait for there reply.

We will inform you as soon we have news.

Best regards,

NPTEL-Team

Unit 5 & 6 pdf Format

Dear Students,

we received the pdf documents for Unit 5 & 6.
Please follow the link:

Unit5:
Part 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01MGY4eE4wUmNpdnc/view?usp=sharing

Part 2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01WGxmTW04Q3J1bVE/view?usp=sharing


Unit 6:
Part 1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01OVdIRUZ4RmZ6VDg/view?usp=sharing

Part 2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01M3VSb3g3NXNVVUE/view?usp=sharing

Best regards,

NPTEL-Team





REMINDER: LAST 5 DAYS LEFT FOR REGISTERING FOR THE CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION - REGISTER TODAY!

Dear student

The registration form for the NPTEL Certification exam for 18 courses on Sept 6th / 13th 2015 - 1 PM to 4 PM is still open! You can register for a maximum of 2 courses. Please note that - Once this registration form is submitted after payment, no changes like adding or removing the chosen course, exam date, city is possible. 

To register, please fill your complete details and make payment online at:https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2538/application.html 

So, if you are choosing to write 2 course exams,either use the same form and pay together for both exams or you can pay for one exam by filling the form, and then login and use another new form and pay again for the second course. NOTE: Please ensure you do not choose the same date for both the exams! 

The last date for registration is August 17 2015, Monday.

If your college is a study centre (http://nptel.ac.in.studycentre) and registration is through them, please contact your college SPOC for any clarifications you may have.

QUESTION PAPER FORMAT: It will be an online computer based exam of objective type - with questions being either multiple choice or fill in the blanks or short answer type. The questions will be similar to the questions posed in the assignments.

Earn your certificate from the IITs today!
- NPTEL team

Results Quiz 4

Dear Students,

attached you will find the results of Quiz 4:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01dkcyeHZQaEZjQmc/view?usp=sharing

Best regards,

NPTEL-Team

!! Important Notice- Final Exam !!

Dear Student,

in the following you will find some important notice about the final exam:

The final exam will be composed of:

1. Multiple choice questions - that have one single answer
2. Multiple select questions - that have 2 or more answers

3. Short answer type (numeric) - a blank is given where the student enters a number - that can be matched exactly or against a range of values
4. Short answer type (alphanumeric) - a blank is given where the student can enter characters A-Z a-z 0-9 and some punctuation characters - that can be matched against the answer

5. Comprehension type question - a passage/problem can be defined that can have multiple sub questions (either mcq/msq/short answer) based on it

The final exam will have three sections as follows:
1. general knowledge, terminology and definitions
2. comprehensive knowledge of subjects brought up during the classes
3.Case specific applications, including simple calculations

You are allowed to bring a calculator. The exam is scheduled for 3 hrs.

Best regards,

NPTEL-Team

Results Quiz 2 and 3

Dear Student,

we apoligize for the delay due to a case of illness.

In the following you will find the results of Quiz 2 and Quiz 3.

Quiz 2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01YjRxdUxNOGtkS28/view?usp=sharing

Quiz 3:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01UlVfTGFnRXMtZnM/view?usp=sharing

Best regards,

NPTEL-Team


Course Material Unit 4

Dear Studends,
in the following you will find the pdf of Unit 4

Part 1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01YTZFeG9xZUtlbVk/view?usp=sharing

Part 2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01RVVrQW1QRUVjMFk/view?usp=sharing

Best regards,
Nptel Team

Mentor

Dear Students,

 in the following you will find a explanation about the new mentor function:

 What is this new Mentor option that has been added recently?

Actually some faculty of the colleges want to monitor the status of their students who have enrolled for the course, so that we have added the mail id's of the faculty in the mentor tab. The students of the colleges will select their mentors from the list. For this the faculty should be enrolled to the particular course and then request his students to add him as the mentor. He can't access the students' progress or be a mentor if he havn't enrolled for the online course . When the students select their mentor, the faculty of that college will able to see only the progress of the student who have selected him as a mentor. The faculty can see the tab mentee list, there he can view the status of the students.

 Best regards,

 NPTEL-Team

Week 4 - Contents

Dear students,

    Video lectures for week 04 has been uploaded. Please go through it. 5 lectures are available for this week.

-NPTEL Team

Gentle Reminder: Regarding Registration form for Sep 6th /13th certification exam

Dear Candidate

The registration form for the NPTEL Certification exam(s) on Sept 6th / 13th 2015 - 1 PM to 4 PM is now open!

You can enroll for a maximum of 2 courses. 

Please note that - Once this registration form is submitted after payment, no changes like adding or removing the chosen course, exam date, city is possible. 

So, if you are choosing to write 2 course exams,either use the same form and pay together for both exams or you can pay for one exam by filling the form, and then login and use another new form and pay again for the second course. 
 
NOTE: Please ensure you do not choose the same date for both the exams! 

To register, please fill your complete details and make payment online at:https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2538/application.html 

The last date for registration is August 15th 2015! 

Only for the 18 courses listed below, this registration form can be used (For the courses with exams in November, the form will open in September 2015):-

Chemistry - I
Principles of Modern CDMA/ MIMO/ OFDM Wireless Communications
Analog Circuits
Basic Electrical Circuits
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Sustainable River Basin Management
Foundation of Computational Fluid Dynamics
Introduction to Data Analytics
Infrastructure Economics
Computer Architecture
Fundamentals of database systems
Introduction to Airplane performance
Manufacturing Systems Technology
Introduction to Programming in C
Managing Services
Quantitative Finance
Practical English: Learning and Teaching
Appreciating Carnatic Music

Certificate Formats:

We have made a small modification in the certificates.

1. The certificate for a student scoring lesser than 60% - no changes

2. A student who scores above 60% gets the tag "Elite" printed at the top of the certificate. 

3. A student who scores above 90% will have "Elite" tag and the gold medalprinted on it.

The new formats are attached here for your reference







Happy Learning! Happy Certification!

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

Course Material Week 2 & 3

Dear Students,

 pls follow the links to receive your course material.

2.1 Water cycle:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01VG5hV1ZsTmZYWWc/view?usp=sharing

2.2 River basin concepts:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01clVRMjNoWVF5U1E/view?usp=sharing

2.3 Water balane
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01OVdfZ0RHSUd5UWc/view?usp=sharing

2.4 Water avaibility
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01WjdKaFJuZUhYbWc/view?usp=sharing

2.5 River basin managment
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01QkY0UkFUdnVrOXc/view?usp=sharing


Week 3:

Part 1:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01SEZYUmM5VGVQQ3c/view?usp=sharing

Part 2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01VWR2UGoxNWp3bFE/view?usp=sharing

Best regards,

NPTEL-Team



Final Exam Degree

Dear Students,

please notic this important announcement about your final exam degree and certification.

1) What is the cut-off marks to be eligible for a certificate if the candidate takes the certification exam?
Currently the cut off marks criteria is not there. All students who register and write the exam get a certificate.
The type of certificate though varies - above 90% , the certificate is tagged "Elite" with a gold medal on it.
60-90%, the certificate has the tag "Elite" 
Below 60% is just a normal certificate with the score printed on it.
A fourth category that says "Participation certificate" is possible for students who score very less (maybe say <30 or so) in the certification exam.
But to get a certificate, we expect him to register for the exam and give the certification exam as only then is his identity verified.

2) What is the weightage given for assignment and exam to compute the final score to award the certificate?
Normally we use 50% of the average of the best of 3 assignment scores + 50% of exam score = consolidated score - which is printed on the certificate.
The actual scores obtained for all assignments and his actual certification exam score will be published on the portal inside his profile page.
The split of assignment and exam scores can be decided by the faculty, if he chooses not to use the 50-50 split.

Week 3 contents

Dear students,
    Video lectures for week 03 has been uploaded. Please go through it. 5 lectures are available for this week.

-NPTEL Team

Course Enrolment and Final Course Grade

Dear Students,

we are happy to inform you today, that students who has missed the Quiz 1 due to late enrolment are stil able to participate on the course.

For the final grade of this course, each student is able to cancel his worst Quiz Assignment result. Due to this option, students with a late enrolment are still able to participate on the course.

Best regards,

 NPTEL-Team

Results Quiz 1

Dear Students,

attached you will find a link for the correct answers for Quiz 1. 
As you can see, each correct questions gives you 1 point. The maximum avaible points is 10 points.

Results Quiz 1:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01WjE4elFORVN3QWs/view?usp=sharing

Best regards,

NPTEL-Team

New Course Material Online 13/07 /15 (additional recommended material)

Dear Students,

new course material is online for download.

Please folllow the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01dk9yMkpDR1dOd1k/view?usp=sharing

Best regards, NPTEL

Course Material Unit 1-Week 1

Dear Students,

the course material for unit 1- Week 1 is now avaible for download as pdf.

Please follow the link: 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cyRhMcYb01c2V3ZVkyTHRJS2c/view?usp=sharing

 Best regards,
 NPTEL-Team

Registration form for Sep 6th /13th certification exam

Dear Candidate

Congratulations on enrolling to NPTEL Online Certification course -Sustainable River basin management.
 
The registration form for the NPTEL Certification exam(s) on Sept 6th / 13th 2015 - 1 PM to 4 PM is now open!

You can enroll for a maximum of 2 courses. 

Please note that - Once this registration form is submitted after payment, no changes like adding or removing the chosen course, exam date, city is possible. 

So, if you are choosing to write 2 course exams,either use the same form and pay together for both exams or you can pay for one exam by filling the form, and then login and use another new form and pay again for the second course. 
 
NOTE: Please ensure you do not choose the same date for both the exams! 

To register, please fill your complete details and make payment online at:https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2538/application.html 

The last date for registration is August 15th 2015! 

Only for the 18 courses listed below, this registration form can be used (For the courses with exams in November, the form will open in September 2015):-

Chemistry - I
Principles of Modern CDMA/ MIMO/ OFDM Wireless Communications
Analog Circuits
Basic Electrical Circuits
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Sustainable River Basin Management
Foundation of Computational Fluid Dynamics
Introduction to Data Analytics
Infrastructure Economics
Computer Architecture
Fundamentals of database systems
Introduction to Airplane performance
Manufacturing Systems Technology
Introduction to Programming in C
Managing Services
Quantitative Finance
Practical English: Learning and Teaching
Appreciating Carnatic Music

Happy Learning! Happy Certification!

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

Submission Quiz 1

Dear Students,

 we would like to inform you, that the deadline for submission of Quiz Assignment 1 is on 13/07/2015.

You are only apply to send this quiz one single time. So be sure about your answers.
Submissions after the 13/07/2015 will be rejected.

 Best regards,
 NPTEL Team

Course has started

Dear Students, we would sincerly remind you that the course "Sustanable River Basin Management" has started since yesterday 01.June 2015. We hope that this course will broaden your knowledge. For any questions, feel free to ask us at the forum. Best regards, NPTEL-Team

Week 1 contents

Dear students,
    Video lectures for week 01 has been uploaded. Please go through it. 5 lectures are available for this week.

-NPTEL Team

Welcome to Sustainable river basin management

Dear student

Welcome to NPTEL Online Courses and Certification!

Thank you for signing up for our online course "Sustainable river basin management". We wish you an enjoyable and informative learning experience.

The course will begin on July 1 2015. When content is released on the portal, you will get an email alerting you. Please watch the lectures, follow the course regularly and submit all assessments and assignments before the due date. Your regular participation is vital for learning.

We will open registration for the exam soon. A form has to be filled and the certification exam has a fee, which needs to be paid at the time of registration. Everyone who has signed-up for the course, including those who do not register for the exam, will continue to have access to the course contents.


There are two sections on the portal apart from the course content and assignment sections: 

  • The announcement list which will only have messages from course instructors and teaching assistants - regarding the lessons, assignments, exam registration, hall tickets etc.       
  • The discussion forum which is for everyone to ask questions and interact - If you have any questions regarding the technical content in the lectures, any doubts in the assignments or any question related to the exam, registration, hall tickets, results, etc, kindly write about this in the forum and the course instructor/TA will respond to it. Please use this well and participate to benefit from the course.

Details regarding the course: 
Name of the course: Sustainable river basin management (Short term - 20 hrs)
Course duration : July 1 2015 - Aug 31 2015
Dates of exams : 6 Sep 2015 and 13 September 2015 
Time of exam: 1pm - 4pm
Tentative list of exam cities:https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc15_ce03/assets/img/Exam%20City-list.pdf
Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form
Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly 


Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.


- NPTEL team