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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!!!!

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Feedback for Modern construction materials

Dear student

We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course "Modern construction materials" which was conducted by Prof. Ravindra Gettu  &  Prof. Radhakrishna G. Pillai of IIT Madras between July 1 2015 - Oct 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 :
https://docs.google.com/a/nptel.iitm.ac.in/forms/d/1arrQlinGcbd1wMwjCdNiXTfpD-zlOt2_yx8FKeZZf0Q/viewform

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Thank you for taking the course on Modern Construction Materials Online in 2015

Dear Student:

I hope the course has been of use to you. As promised initially, the emphasis is to cover the fundamentals and then go on to talk about different materials. I hope you could appreciate the need to progress in this manner. I know that the latter part of the course did not have any reading matter but that is typical of classes taught live in the classroom also - you have to be used to listening and taking down notes, and referring to material other than what is given by the instructor.

It is heartening to note that 3612 people followed the course at some time or the other, out of which 36 were from countries other than India. About 300 students completed most of the assignments demonstrating considerable commitment. The assignments will be given 40% weightage for the final grade. Since many missed some of the assignments, we intend to take only the best 8 out of the 14 assignments for the grade.

Here are some more statistics: 338 students registered for the final exams but only 276 wrote the exam on either 1st or 8th of November 2015. Those who wrote the exam will be given certificates for the course. I suppose the 60+ students who missed writing were not fully prepared or affected by the rain or other commitments. Out of the people who registered, there were large groups from National Engineering College, Kailasalingam University and Thiagarajar Polytechnic - very impressive.

The TAs and I had a chance to talk to a few students who took the exam in Chennai and the feedback was encouraging. The grades should be declared by the middle of December 2015.

I request all students who have taken the course (it does not matter if you completed it or took the exam) to give us feedback by filling the survey given by the link in the previous announcement. How can we improve the course? What difficulties did you face?

It was pleasure to be able to reach out to all of you, and thank you once again, on behalf of the entire team.

I hope to meet you sometime in person.

With best regards,

Prof. Ravindra Gettu

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FEEDBACK

Dear candidates,

Congratulations to all for successful completion of this course and we hope your final written exam went well. This announcement is regarding the collection of feedback for improvement the course structure in future.
So please spend some time in doing this and give your valuable feedback on any issue like, course contents, course organisation etc,.

Goto http://goo.gl/forms/4RUd8a0Aqh  and submit your feedback as soon as possible

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Final keysheet

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1. Click on "Keysheet" in outline
2. Click on "Final key"
3. Click on "Text version" 

Kindly, use the resources and let us know if any other doubts you have.

Regards,
MCM-Team.

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Hall Ticket for Nov 1st / 8th - NPTEL Certification Exam

Dear Candidate:

Your hall ticket for the Nov 1st / 8th NPTEL Certification Exam is available in the link: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2759/login.html Please login with your gmail id and password to download your hall ticket(s) - No other user id / password will be provided.

Kindly take a print out and be at the exam venue.  Important things to note:

1. Please read the instruction in the hall ticket and follow.
2. Please note that the exam time is 2 PM to 5 PM.
3. Please carry along with your valid photo identity card.

IMPORTANT:- If you did not give us your photo and signature on time, then your hall ticket would have come with dummy photo, signatures and default DOB. But do not worry. Please be at the venue with a valid photo identity card, which will be checked and then you can appear for the exam. If you are a college student, please carry your college Id card also. Please do not mail us your photo/signature/ DOB, as we will not be able to change it in the hall ticket, however please update the information in the given for the same and it will be used while printing the certificate.

NPTEL team wishes you the very best in the certification examination!

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Question paper pattern (NOC Model Questions) for Modern construction materials

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REMINDER: Registration closes on oct 16, 2015 - Register today!!!

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Get certified today! register for the exam!

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GENTLE REMINDER: Certification exam registration form is open - Register today and get a certificate from the IITs!

Dear Candidate

The registration form for the NPTEL Certification exam(s) on Nov 1st and Nov 8th 2015 - 1 PM to 4 PM is now open! 

You can register for a maximum of 2 courses at http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

The exam form will allow only candidates who are enrolled to the course on https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in portal to login and fill the form - Please use the same email id with which you have enrolled to the course to login.

The form can be filled only once and hence if you are registering for 2 exams, kindly do it at the same time. The form will not be editable once a successful payment has gone through.

To register, please fill your complete details and make payment online (using debit card/credit card/net banking)  at http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

The last date for registration is October 16th 2015, Friday and the form will close at 5pm! 

Exam registration fee:
Rs 500 for regular candidates 
Rs 250 for candidates falling under the SC/ST category (appropriate certificate will have to be uploaded by SC/ST candidates for availing reduced fee).

The company Aricent Technologies has helped subsidise the exam registration fee to benefit the students and enable more students take up the exam.

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

If your payment is successful, you will get an email stating the same with the details you have provided and you can check for payment confirmation on our website http://nptel.ac.in/noc, after 5 business days from when you registered.

For any clarifications, please contact nptel@iitm.ac.in. 

Best of luck
NPTEL team

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Assignments for week 14

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Final Lectures - Week 14!!

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Assignment for week 13

Dear Students,

Assignment for week 13 is now open.
Link: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in
Due on: 2015-09-30 23:59 PM (IST)

Regards,
MCM team

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Lectures for week 13

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Certification exam registration form is now open - Register today and get a certificate from the IITs!

Dear Candidate

The registration form for the NPTEL Certification exam(s) on Nov 1st and Nov 8th 2015 - 1 PM to 4 PM is now open!

You can register for a maximum of 2 courses at http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

The exam form will allow only candidates who are enrolled to the course on https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in portal to login and fill the form - Please use the same email id with which you have enrolled to the course to login.

The form can be filled only once and hence if you are registering for 2 exams, kindly do it at the same time. The form will not be editable once a successful payment has gone through.

To register, please fill your complete details and make payment online (using debit card/credit card/net banking)  at http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

The last date for registration is October 16th 2015, Friday and the form will close at 5pm!

Exam registration fee:
Rs 500 for regular candidates
Rs 250 for candidates falling under the SC/ST category (appropriate certificate will have to be uploaded by SC/ST candidates for availing reduced fee).

The company Aricent Technologies has helped subsidise the exam registration fee to benefit the students and enable more students take up the exam.

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

If your payment is successful, you will get an email stating the same with the details you have provided and you can check for payment confirmation on our website http://nptel.ac.in/noc, after 5 business days from when you registered.

For any clarifications, please contact nptel@iitm.ac.in.

Best of luck
NPTEL team

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Lectures for week 12

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Assignment for week 11 is uploaded!

Assignnent 11 is uploaded and available online. The due date is Friday, 18th September.

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Lectures for week 11

Dear student,

Lectures for week 11, are open now! 

Regards, 
MCM Team

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

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Assignment 10

Dear students

Assignment 10 is open now 
Link: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in 
Due on: 2015-09-09 23:59 PM (IST) 

Regards,
MCM team

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Lectures for week 10

Dear student,

Lectures for week 10, are open now!

Regards,
MCM Team

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Assignment 9

Dear students

Assignment 9 is open now
Link: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in
Due on: 2015-09-04 23:59 PM (IST)

Regards,
MCM team

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Lectures for week 9

Dear student,

Lectures for week 9, are open now!

Regards,
MCM Team

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Answer key for Assignment 1 and 2

Dear Students,

The answer key for assignment 1 and 2 has been put up. You can find it in the course outline.

Regards,
MCM Team

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Assignment 8

Dear students

Assignment 8 is open now

Link: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in    Due on: 2015-08-27 23:59 PM (IST)

Thanks

Regards
MCM Team

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Lectures for week 8

Dear Student,

Lectures for week 8, are open now!

Regards,
MCM Team

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Study Material!!

Dear Student,

Study material for lectures up to Surface properties has been uploaded under UNIT 6-Study Material.
Frequently Asked Questions are answered and uploaded as FAQs in the same section. This will be updated time to time.

Kindly, use the resources and let us know if any other doubts you have.

Regards,
MCM-Team.

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Lectures for week 7

Dear Student,

Lectures for week 7, are open now!


Regards, MCM Team

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Updated link for live session

Dear Student,

Kindly join in the below updated link,

https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/hoaevent/AP36tYfvzsN_Ye0qy0naizLK4uFNbXZ8J8blbRG0rd_7R_kdStsGhA?hl=en&authuser=0

Regards,
MCM Team

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Live session

Dear Student,

Due to technical issues, the live session was not successful.
Soon will come up with better version.

We will upload the answers as a PDF shortly.

Regards,
MCM Team

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Live session!

Dear Student,

There will be a live session on 10th August 2015 (Monday) from 3 pm to 5 pm. You can come up with your doubts and questions on the portions covered so far.

Join us to participate in the session in the below link,
https://plus.google.com/events/c2o86k4nbm6tspgag5b4muf7sb8

You can view the session live at,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FtUmrcu4y4

Regards,
MCM Team

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Assignment 6

Dear Students,

Assignment 6 is open now!
Link : https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in Due on 2015-08-12, 23:59 IST.
Thanks!

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Lectures for week 6

Dear student,

Lectures for week 6 are available now!!

All the best!

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Assignment 5

Dear Student,

Assignment 5 is open now!
Link : https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in
Due on 2015-08-05, 23:59 IST

Thanks!

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Lecture for Week 5

Dear student,

Lectures for week 5 are released! 

All the best.

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Assignment 4

Dear Student, Assignment 4 is open now! Link : https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc15_ce05/assessment?name=41 Due on 2015-07-29, 23:59 IST Thanks!

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Extension of submission dates for Assignments 2 and 3

Dear Students,

Due to the confusion caused for viewing the images in assignments 2 and 3, the submission dates for the same have been extended up to July 25th. Apologies for the inconvenience caused!

Regards,
Sneha, TA 

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Image for Assignment 3, Question 3

Dear Students,

The image for Assignment 3, Question 3 is as shown. Regret the delay caused!

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Lecture for Week 4

Dear Student, Lectures for Week 4 are released. Check out the website. Thank you!

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Images for Assignments 2 and 3

Dear Students,

Kindly visit the announcement page to view the images for Assignments 2 and 3. Regret the delay caused!

Regards,
Sneha, TA

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Image for Assignment 2, Question 3

Dear Students,
The image for assignment 2, question 3 is as follows. Regret any inconvenience caused.
 

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Image for Assignment 3, Question 5

Dear Students,

The image for Assignment 3, Question 5 is as shown. Regret the delay caused!

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Modern Construction Materials - Survey

Please visit the link given below and take 5 minutes to fill up the form given on the page. 

http://goo.gl/forms/jRVBD2tEm0

Thank you!

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Attention: FOR FACULTY MEMBERS ONLY - COURSE SPECIFIC WORKSHOP AT IIT MADRAS

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Lecture video link

Dear Student

The link to download the lecture videos in 3 formats is http://nptel.ac.in/courses/105106053/

This is mainly for students with limited internet access so that you can download and watch the video offline.

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Welcome to Modern construction materials

• 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.