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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 Physics of Materials

Dear student

We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course "Physics of Materials" which was conducted by Prof. Prathap Haridoss 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/1Y7Tb3FgqsQu3BNuFtmoaMKRdJssQwH_6eRS_HcJGCzw/viewform

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Book and videos are available

Dear All, The book on the course with the vidoes is now available. It just became available on online sites such as amazon. If you have found the course content useful, it will serve as a reference for you. prathap

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Exam

Dear All, Hope the exam went well and hope you found it to be of the right level of difficulty. prathap

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Final Examination details

Dear Student,
The final examination pattern is as follows

50 True or false questions- 1/2 marks each
5 fill in the blank problems- 5 marks each
Total marks= 50
Remaining 50marks from the assignment.

NOTE: Candidates can carry a SCIENTIFIC CALCULATOR. You should not bring any other electronic device inside the examination hall. 

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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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Book based on course

Dear All, In response to your queries, as mentioned recently, a book based on the course is being published by Wiley. Please see link below for more details.The book will become available in a few days from now (so some of those links will become active at that time). I will alert you when that happens. The book includes a DVD containing the 40 lectures, plus several animations. The book also includes 400 questions with answers/solutions. http://www.wileyindia.com/physics-of-materials-essential-concepts-of-solid-state-physics.html prathap

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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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Additional activities

Dear Students,
We have uploaded the first set practice problems under ' Additional activities' .   It is not a true or false assignment.You can expect such problems in the final exam. This will not be considered as an assignment. So you do not have to submit it
Dr. Prathap Haridoss will be available in the discussion forum. You can write us if you have any issues.
Course TA

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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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Regarding final exam, assignment scores, and activities in the coming month

Dear All, The course is open for registration for the final exam. Your final score will consist of 50% coming from the assignments (based on 7 best assignments of the 13). And 50% from the final exam itself. I plan to have an objective type question paper for the final exam consisting of multiple choice, true or false and a few fill in the blanks type questions During the upcoming month I will upload a few more assignments for you to practice. I will also be monitoring the discussion forum for specific queries you may have. Please feel free to ask questions and repost a question in case I missed answering it earlier. Good luck! Hope you are ready for a certificate on this course! prathap

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Assignment due date

Dear student,
Please submit thirteenth week assignment by today (29-09.2015) 10.00 pm 

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Assignment 13 Issues

Dear Students,
I have received a complaint from a student regarding assignment 13. When he open the assignment it is showing as " submitted assignment" . May i know anyone else have a similar problem? Please respond soon.

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Thirteenth week assignment

Dear student,
In the last mail i mentioned the last date as 25.09.15. Please read it as 29.09.15. I apologize for the mistake.

Course TA

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Week 13

Dear Student,
Thirteenth week videos and assignments are uploaded. These are the last videos of the course. So we have included 4 videos this time . You can submit the assignments by 25-09-2015.
Last date for submission of 12th assignment is tomorrow (22.9.15) 10.00pm.

Hope you all have read about the registration details. Please register for the final examination before October 16th. 

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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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12th week materials

Dear Student,
videos and assignment for 12th week are uploaded. Due date for assignment is 22-09-2015.
Submit your 11th week assignment by tomorrow tomorrow (15-09-2015) 10.00pm 

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Book based on course

Dear All, Several of you had asked about a book for this course. I have been working on this. Happy to let you know that the book is almost ready and is likely to be available in October. Publisher is Wiley, India. The book has all of the material covered in the course spread across 17 chapters. There are 200 multiple choice questions and 200 problems+ short answer type questions - with answers to all of these 400 questions also provided. DVD with videos of the 40 lectures plus animations related to specific figures will also be provided as part of the book. The videos will continue to be available for free at NPTEL website / youtube. A few specific additional topics are alse covered in the book - especially linking the reciprocal space approach and notation used in Solid state physics books to the approach used in materials science. I feel this will make reading solid state physics books more effective for a broader audience. regards, prathap

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Week 11

Dear Student,
11th week assignment and videos are out. Submit the answers by 15.09.2015.

Last date for 10th assignment is tomorrow (08.09.2015) 10.00pm

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

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Week 10 videos and assignment

Dear Student,
Check your course outline for 10th week videos and assignment. Last date for assignment is 09-09-2015.

Due date of 9th assignment is today (01.08.15) 10.00 pm. 

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Assignment 9

Dear Student,
Assignment 9 is out. Last date for submission is 01.09.2015.

Course TA

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Announcement

Dear Student,
Ninth week videos are uploaded. Assignment will be out by tomorrow. 
Last date for submission of 8th assignment is tomorrow (25-08-2015) 10.00 pm.

Note: We have been getting questions from students regarding the percentage contribution of assignment in the final exam. We will be considering best 8 assignments from a total of 13. This would be 50% of your final marks. So please consider assignments seriously and try to make up if you have missed some assignments. 

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Assignment 8

Dear Student,
8th week videos and assignments are uploaded. Please check it.

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Reminder

Dear Student,
Please submit assignment 6 and 7 by tomorrow 10.00 pm. 

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Assignment 7

Dear Student,
 Assignment 7 has been uploaded.
Please submit both assignmnets( 6 & 7 ) on or before 19-08-2015 10.00 pm

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Issues with 6th week materials

Dear Student,
Extremely sorry for the delay in response. There were some technical issues with videos and assignment. I apologize for the inconvenience caused. 
Since there was a delay in uploading the videos and assignment, you can submit the assignment 6 along with assignment 7 (which will be uploaded soon) on 17-08-2015. 

Course TA.

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Week 7 videos

Dear Student,
Week 7 videos are uploaded. Assignment will be uploaded soon. 
Course TA

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Assignment 6

Assignment 6 is out !!
You have to submit by 12/8/15, 10 pm. 

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Answer key

Dear student,
Answer keys of assignment 3 and 4 are out. You can cross check your answers now. 

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Assignment

Dear Student,
5th week assignment is released. Submit the answers by 04-08-2015

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Reminder

Dear Student,

• Reminder: You have to submit your assignments 3 & 4 by tomorrow 10.00 pm. 
  
•  5th week videos are out. Assignment will be uploaded by tomorrow. 
  

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Assignment

Dear Student,
We have received many requests  for extending the deadline of third assignment. We have extended it till 28-07-2015. Those who haven't submitted the third assignment have to submit assignment 3 and 4 together.
Since it is 40 hour course, we can not give you more than one week for submission. You don't have to worry if you couldn't  submit first two assignments. There is a total of 13 assignments so you have more chances to compensate it.
Note: Extension of deadline will not be entertained often.

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To those who have missed first and second assignmnet

Dear student,
This is aimed to people who have enrolled late/ missed the first 2 assignments.
We are extremely sorry.Since the Answer key is out, we can not allow you to submit first two assignments. Please be regular and submit the next assignments.  

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Assignment 4

Dear Student, Assignment 4 has been uploaded. Last date is 28.07.2015, 10.00 pm

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Reminder

Dear Student,
Last date of submission of third assignment is 21-7-2015, 10pm.
Next set of videos are released. Assignment will be out tomorrow morning.

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Good work! keep trying.

Dear All, Hope you are enjoying the course. Stay on it and keep trying the assignments. I feel you will get an insight into various topics as the course goes by. Like with all courses not every detail will be relevant to you nor are you likely to use or remeber every detail. However if you are a scientist or an engineer or a teacher in this area, these topics will enable you to make inroads into various technical discussions and research papers in the literature. Sure, you will have to read more, but this will give you a framework and some key points to get you going. So keep trying and ask questions. I will respond as much as possible. prathap

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Second assignment: Issue with question no 8

1.  Dear Student,
There was some issue with assignment 2: question no. 8. one mark will be awarded to all those who attempted it. Marks will be added in the back end and in the progress tab it will not be shown. Added marks will be reflected in the final exam score. 

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Scores and solution keys of assignment 1 & 2

Dear Student,
You can view your assignment scores in the progress bar. Solutions for the assignments are uploaded in the receptive units for your further reference. 
Please do not worry about the overall score shown there. Since we have released the third assignment, it takes the average of 3.

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Third Assignment

Dear student, Third assignment has been uploaded. Please submit it on/before 21-07-2015, 10.00pm.

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Third week videos

Dear Student, Third week videos are out. Assignment will be uploaded later. Note: First and second assignment submission will be closed by tomorrow (14.07.2015) 10.00pm. Please submit it before that.

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Second Assignment and Videos

Dear Student,
Second set of videos and assignments are out. You have to submit both the assignments by 10.00 pm of 14-07-2015.

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

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First Assignment

Dear Student,
First assignment has been uploaded. It is true or false type assignment. Last date for submission is 14-07-2015 10.00 pm. You can view the score in the progress bar after the assignment is closed. 

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The journey begins

Dear students,
As you all know physics of materials course started today. You all can view the first set of videos in your 'course outline' tab. Please go through it. First assignment will be uploaded soon.
Course enrollment ends on 15th July. So you can tell your friends who are planning to join to enroll soon. 
Wish you all the best . Enjoy this course.

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Welcome to Physics of 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.