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)


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

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. 


Warm regards

NPTEL Team

(for any queries: email us at nptel@iitm.ac.in)


Scores for the exams conducted on 10 and 17 May 2015 by NPTEL

Dear Student

Scores for the NPTEL Online certification exam and E-Certificate will be available on the portal by June 20.

Hard copy of the certificate will be dispatched to you by the end of June.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Online Certification Team


NPTEL exam: 10 and 17 May 2015 - Steps for downloading your hall ticket

Dear student


For the following 12 courses, please go to this link given below.
  1. Numerical methods and programming
  2. Design and Optimization of Energy systems
  3. Advanced Metallurgical Thermodynamics
  4. Indian Philosophy
  5. Computational Techniques
  6. History of Economic Theory
  7. Particle Characterization (PG)
  8. Quantum Physics
  9. Classical Physics
  10. Selected Topics in Mathematical Physics
  11. Dynamics of Ocean structures
  12. Health,Safety and Environmental Management in Offshore and Petroleum Engineering
Url for hall ticket: (Please note that this is different from the exam registration link)

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For candidates who have registered to the following three courses:

Database Design
VLSI Technology
Computational Fluid Dynamics

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Please use the same id and password that was created when you registered for the exam.

You should see the application submitted with a tab next to it - called "Hall ticket".

Click on that. If it says "You have not yet generated .... Please click here to generate it", please click on the word "here" to generate the hall ticket. (hall ticket step 1.jpg)

You will see a popup which says "Hall ticket generated successfully".

Again - go to "Hall Ticket" tab and click. If you see the message "To view/print your hall ticket for ... Click here" - please click on the link "here" again. (hall ticket step 2.jpg)

The hall ticket will now be generated for you. Please take a printout of this and bring it to the centre with you. Wishing you the very best for the exam.




Warm regards,
NPTEL Team.


May 10th/May 17th exam - Hallticket

Dear Students

Hall ticket will be available for download on may 5th 2015, 10 Am onwards.

Hope you are enjoying the course and good luck with the exams.

NPTEL team


Regarding Exam

Dear Student

Regarding the final examination, only comprehension type of questions will come from video lectures 41 to 47.  No derivations or quantitative questions or formulae or equations will be asked from these lectures.


Assignment 2

Dear student

Assignment 2 have been published. Please check it out.

NPTEL TEAM


Reminder Announcement

Dear students,

The registration for the certification exam will be closed on April 08, 2015 - 5pm.
Register now for the certification exam on May10th / 17th 2015 to earn your certificate from the IITs!


Those who are registered please ignore this mail.
Hope you are enjoying the course and good luck with the exams.

NPTEL team


Register for the certificate exam!

Dear Student:

This is a gentle reminder on registration for the certification exam. Registrations closes on April 8th 2015, 5 Pm, so hurry!

For students within India, the registration URL:https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2079/application.html
Currently the certification exam is only for students in India. 

Dates of exam: 10th May 2015 (or) 17th May 2015 (You can choose and write a maximum of 2 exams. If you are doing 3 or more courses, you will be able to appear only for 2 exams, at this point of time.)
Type of exam: Objective. It would be an online examination with MCqs, fill in the blanks type of questions for 3 hours. Answers will be computer graded.
Exam Session time: 1 PM - 4 PM
Examination Centers: The exam is to be conducted in 100 cities across India whose list is available on the registration form.
Registration fees: Rs 1000/-
Mode of payment: Only online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking
Hall ticket: will be available for download on May 4th 2015.

Certificate will be awarded to candidates who register and attend the certificate examination. The scores obtained by the student in the proctored exam will be printed on the certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL website, where on logging in, your score in the proctored certification exam will be displayed. There is no weightage of marks for assignment marks in the final score. Assignments in these courses are provided to you only for self-assessment and practice.

IMPORTANT NOTE :- (FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE ENROLLED IN MORE THAN 1 COURSE) -  Please note that once the 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, please choose suitably and make the payment. Its not possible to pay later for the second course. Once the payment is made, the registration form will be non-editable.

Thanks and Best wishes,
NPTEL team


Reminder Announcement

Dear Student:

Here is a gentle reminder on the certificate exam registrations for this course. The certification exam registration URL is :https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2079/login.html .
The exam fee is Rs 1000. Exam available in 100+ cities across India. The list of exam cities are in the registration form. Exam registrations close on March 31st 2015, so please do register before that. 

Everyone who registers and appears for the exam will receive a certificate, with the test score in it.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Online Certification Team


Registration for the certificate exam!

Dear Students,
The registration links were down for few hours yesterday due to maintenance.Now all the links were working fine.

Register now for the certification exam to earn your certificate from the IITs!


Regards,
NPTEL Team.


Register for the certificate exam!

Dear Student:

Here is the much-awaited announcement on registering for the 40-hour full -semester certification exam. The registration for the certification exam is open to all  (even if you have NOT enrolled in the course)

Registration will be open from 3rd March 2015 until 31st March 2015 5 pm (Tuesday).  


For students within India, the registration URL: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/2079/application.html


Registration process for students outside India will be announced shortly.

Dates of exam: 10th May 2015 (or) 17th May 2015 ( You can choose and write a maximum of 2 exams. If you are doing 3 or more courses, you will be able to appear only for 2 exams, at this point of time.)
Exam Session time: 1 PM - 4 PM
Examination Centers: The exam is to be conducted in 100 cities across India whose list is available on the registration form.
Registration fees: Rs 1000/-
Mode of payment: Only online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking

Hall ticket: will be available for download from last week of April 2015 onwards.

Certificate will be awarded to candidates who register and attend the certificate examination. The scores obtained by the student in the proctored exam will be printed on the certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL website, where on logging in, your score in the proctored certification exam will be displayed. There is no weightage of marks for assignment marks in the final score. Assignments in these courses are provided to you only for self-assessment and practice.

IMPORTANT NOTE :- (FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE ENROLLED IN MORE THAN 1 COURSE) -  Please note that once the 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, please choose suitably and make the payment. Its not possible to pay later for the second course. Once the payment is made, the registration form will be non-editable.

Thanks and Best wishes,
NPTEL team


Assignment 1

Dear students

"Assignment has been released. Please work out the questions and problems given. The solutions to the same will be released shortly. 

Computer assignments are for the students to work out for themselves and won't be asked in the exam.  These can be discussed in the forum. 

Additional problems for the interested student have also been given.  These won't come in the exam and will not be discussed in the forum."

- NPTEL TEAM


If you want to download the videos of the course

Dear student

This is regarding download of the videos in case you are not able to view them online.

1. You can download the videos in 3 different formats.
   mp4 videos are of larger size than flv while 3gp format files can be viewed on the mobile phone.
The link for downloading the videos is http://nptel.ac.in/courses/103106073/
2. If your internet connection is not good and it is difficult for you to download the videos
   you can purchase the same at a cost of Rs 200 per course (plus postage chages) from the following company.

 Address: Bodhbridge Educational Services Private Limited, 
               Door No. 35/12, Sivaji Street, 
               South Usman Road, T.Nagar, Chennai-17. 
               Email-id: nptel.bodhbridge@gmail.com
               Phone: 044-42106752, 044-24321077. 
               Mobile :91-9677117110, 91-9566131188

Warm regards
NPTEL team

PS - in case of questions, please feel free to email us at nptel@iitm.ac.in