2K6 AEI/ECE/EEE/IT/CSE 302 : HUMANITIES
Module I (20 hours)
Functional English Grammar: Sentence Analysis -Basic Patterns -Noun Group, Verbal Group, and Adverbial Group- Tenses – Conditionals – Active and Passive Voice – Reported Speech
Module II (14 hours)
Technical Communication
1. Nature, Growing need, and importance of technical communication – technical communication skills – listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
2. Barriers to effective communication – improper encoding, bypassing inter- cultural differences etc.
3. Organization in technical communication – spatial, chronological etc.
4. Style in technical communication – objectivity, accuracy, brevity, clarity etc.
5. Technical reports – types and format
Professional Ethics: 1. Ethics in Engineering, copyright – IPR- patents
Module III (10 hours)
Humanities, Science and Technology
1. Importance of humanities to technology, Education and Society
2. Relevance of a scientific temper
3. Relation between science, society and culture – the views of modern thinkers
4. The development of science and technology in society – science and technology in ancient Greece and India – the contribution of the Arabs to science and technology – recent advances in Indian science.
Reference books
1. Huddleston R, English Grammar – An outline, Cambridge University Press
2. Pennyor, Grammar Practice Activities, Cambridge University Press
3. Murphy, Intermediate English Grammar, Cambridge University Press
4. Hashemi, Intermediate English Grammar, Supplementary Exercises with answers, Cambridge University Press
5. Vesilind; Engineering, Ethics and the Environment, Cambridge University Press
6. Larson E; History of Inventions, Thompson Press India Ltd.
7. Bernal J. D., Science in History, Penguin Books Ltd.
8. Dampier W. C., History of Science, Cambridge University Press
9. Encyclopedia Britannica, History of Science, History of Technology
10. Subrayappa; History of Science in India, National Academy of Science, India
11. Brownoski J, Science and Human Values, Harper and Row
12. Schrödinger, Nature and Greeks and Science and Humanism, Cambridge University Press
13. Bossel. H., Earth at a Crossroads – paths to a sustainable future, Cambridge University Press
14. McCarthy, English Vocabulary in Use, Cambridge University Press
15. M. Ashraf Rizvi, Effective Technical Communication, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2005