Departmental
Facilities 
Departmental
Facilities
The Department facilitates an air conditioned lecture hall with a seating of 90. This is used for all lectures and seminars. Full use of audio-visual aids is made during routine lectures.
This air-conditioned laboratory can accommodate 15 groups of students at any one time. M.Sc. final and previous classes are divided into groups who take turns to perform prescribed practical in the laboratory.
All students are required to undergo several computer related courses. These include Microprocessors and Assembly language, system hardware and interfacing, Numerical analysis and higher languages etc.
The Computer and Interfacing Laboratory is equipped with IBM compatible PCs linked by a Local Area Network (LAN) which are used to teach electronic circuit design and analysis using packages like ORCAD, EASY PCD etc. Students also study simulation of electronic circuits using PSPICE, ELECTRONICS WORKBENCH, ACIRAN etc.
In the final semester students are required to design and construct a 3 Cr.Hr. project which is usually built around a microprocessor/microcontroller or is interfaced with 8086 machine. Several students however, may at time opt for a project in the field of Solid State Electronics.
This laboratory is also fully air-conditioned. It can accommodate 15 groups of students at any one time. All students perform same experiment at the same time. In this way a complete course of electronic circuit evaluation can be built up. Each bench has a dual polarity trance 20 MHz Oscilloscope, Digital multimeter, Function generator and dual polarity Power Supply. The lab is also equipped with other specialized instruments such as Logic Analyzer, Storage Scope and Digital Frequency Counters.
Experimental electronics courses are designed to augment the courses taught in theory and inculcate design and implementation techniques of electronic systems. The experimental lab courses begin with the basic analog electronic circuits in the first semester. A comprehensive lab on digital electronics is conducted in the second semester. Communication and Industrial circuits are implements in the third semester with extensive process control training on the programmable logic controller (PLC).
a microcontroller system is built in the final semester which is used for controlling a process control model, traffic control model, serial communication between microcontroller and PC, motor control, temperature control systems and many more. The microcontroller system is built on a IBM protocard using wire wrapping technique. While all other circuits are built on bread boards.
The department has seminar library where students can study in their spare time. A large collection of latest books is available on the relevant subjects and other related fields. Books are only available for reference and must be returned the same day. The students however can borrow books from the University BOOK BANK and the MAIN LIBRARY. The book collection of the seminar library is updated every semester.
Presently the department has two Research Laboratories where sophisticated experimental facilities exist for research in Semiconductor, IR and Optical Detectors, Solar Cells, Conducting Polymers, and Specialized Glasses. These have been funded partly by the University and partly by the NSRDB grants to various faculty members of the Department. Several 6 credit hours M.Sc. projects are awarded every year. A number of software projects are also offered.