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3. Linsley, R.K. and Franzini, J.B.

"Water Resources Engineering", McGraw Hill


International Book Company, 1995.
REFERENCES:
1. David Keith Todd. "Groundwater Hydrology", John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007
2. Ven Te Chow, Maidment, D.R. and Mays, L.W. "Applied Hydrology", McGraw Hill
International Book Company, 1998.
3. Raghunath .H.M., "Hydrology", Wiley Eastern Ltd., 1998.

GE8076 PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN ENGINEERING LT P C


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OBJECTIVE:
 To enable the students to create an awareness on Engineering Ethics and Human Values,
to instill Moral and Social Values and Loyalty and to appreciate the rights of others.
UNIT I HUMAN VALUES 10
Morals, values and Ethics – Integrity – Work ethic – Service learning – Civic virtue – Respect for
others – Living peacefully – Caring – Sharing – Honesty – Courage – Valuing time – Cooperation –
Commitment – Empathy – Self confidence – Character – Spirituality – Introduction to Yoga and
meditation for professional excellence and stress management.

UNIT II ENGINEERING ETHICS 9


Senses of ‘Engineering Ethics’ – Variety of moral issues – Types of inquiry – Moral dilemmas –
Moral Autonomy – Kohlberg’s theory – Gilligan’s theory – Consensus and Controversy – Models of
professional roles - Theories about right action – Self-interest – Customs and Religion – Uses of
Ethical Theories.

UNIT III ENGINEERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION 9


Engineering as Experimentation – Engineers as responsible Experimenters – Codes of Ethics –
A Balanced Outlook on Law.

UNIT IV SAFETY, RESPONSIBILITIES AND RIGHTS 9


Safety and Risk – Assessment of Safety and Risk – Risk Benefit Analysis and Reducing Risk -
Respect for Authority – Collective Bargaining – Confidentiality – Conflicts of Interest –
Occupational Crime – Professional Rights – Employee Rights – Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
– Discrimination.

UNIT V GLOBAL ISSUES 8


Multinational Corporations – Environmental Ethics – Computer Ethics – Weapons Development –
Engineers as Managers – Consulting Engineers – Engineers as Expert Witnesses and Advisors –
Moral Leadership –Code of Conduct – Corporate Social Responsibility.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOME:
 Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to apply ethics in society,
discuss the ethical issues related to engineering and realize the responsibilities and rights
in the society.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Mike W. Martin and Roland Schinzinger, “Ethics in Engineering”, Tata McGraw Hill, New
Delhi, 2003.
2. Govindarajan M, Natarajan S, Senthil Kumar V. S, “Engineering Ethics”, Prentice Hall of
India, New Delhi, 2004.
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REFERENCES:
1. Charles B. Fleddermann, “Engineering Ethics”, Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2004.
2. Charles E. Harris, Michael S. Pritchard and Michael J. Rabins, “Engineering Ethics –
Concepts and Cases”, Cengage Learning, 2009.
3. John R Boatright, “Ethics and the Conduct of Business”, Pearson Education, New Delhi,
2003
4. Edmund G Seebauer and Robert L Barry, “Fundamentals of Ethics for Scientists and
Engineers”, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001.
5. Laura P. Hartman and Joe Desjardins, “Business Ethics: Decision Making for Personal
Integrity and Social Responsibility” Mc Graw Hill education, India Pvt. Ltd.,New Delhi,
2013.
6. World Community Service Centre, ‘ Value Education’, Vethathiri publications, Erode, 2011.
Web sources:
1. www.onlineethics.org
2. www.nspe.org
3. www.globalethics.org
4. www.ethics.org

CE8019 COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF STRUCTURES LT P C


3 0 0 3

OBJECTIVES:
 To introduce the students about computer graphics, structural analysis, design and
optimization and expert systems, applications in analysis.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Fundamental reason for implementing CAD - Software requirements – Hardware components in
CAD system – Design process - Applications and benefits.

UNIT II COMPUTER GRAPHICS 9


Graphic Software – Graphic primitives - Transformations - 2 Dimensional and 3 Dimensional
transformations – Concatenation - Wire frame modeling - Solid modeling - Graphic standards -
Drafting packages .

UNIT III STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS 9


Principles of structural analysis - Fundamentals of finite element analysis - Concepts of finite
elements – Stiffness matrix formulation – Variational Method – Weighted residual method –
Problems – Convergence criteria – Analysis packages and applications.

UNIT IV DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION 9


Principles of design of steel and RC structures - Beams and Columns - Applications to simple
design problems - Optimization techniques - Algorithms - Linear programming – Simplex Method

UNIT V EXPERT SYSTEMS 9


Introduction to artificial intelligence - Knowledge based expert systems – Applications of
Knowledge Based Expert Systems - Rules and decision tables - Inference mechanisms - simple
applications
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
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