Faculty of Engineering and Interdisciplinary Sciences

New Courses:

Faculty of Engineering and Interdisciplinary Studies 

Interface between engineering, physical sciences, biology, medicine, agriculture and forestry is the need of hour. Keeping this in view, Jamia Hamdard has taken initiative to start new courses in the Faculty of Engineering and Interdisciplinary sciences from this session. The Faculty of Engineering and Interdisciplinary Sciences is successfully running PhD program and promoting research in interdisciplinary sciences. The newly launched courses have been designed keeping in view the present day national and global scenario and industry needs. The proposed programs are industry oriented, involving linkages with the industry, and are job oriented.  

 

M.Sc. in Bioelectronics and Instrumentation 

This course is approved and funded by the UGC 

Measurement science deals with the correlation of parametric changes taking place in any physical, chemical or biological system to the variation of some specific parameter of a transducer that results into invariably in the form of an electronic signal, which is corrected for the environmental influences and processed and displayed in a system, the instrument. Therefore, an understanding of the system is necessary for high precision, accuracy, sensitivity, reproducibility, data handling, analysis, and the success of industrial process controls. 

The postgraduate program in Bioelectronics and Instrumentation specifically consider in detail the basic requirements of measurements in biological systems along with the fundamentals of electronics. The program is aimed at integrating the domain knowledge from engineering, life science and information technology to address the measuring instruments for biological applications.                       

Considering this, UGC specifically approved and funded this program for Jamia Hamdard. This M.Sc. program intends to provide trained manpower to the industry dealing with equipments used in biological and medical sciences, and facilitate teaching of advanced techniques in the frontline research. The course also intends to provide an understanding of latest trends and achievements in the field of biological sciences and engineering in context with bioinstrumentation. Specific aims of the program are as follows:

 

i.     To give students a broad understanding of key issues of electronics instrumentation involved in medical diagnostics in human health care and related sectors

ii.    To familiarize the students with the problems of instrumentation and control in biotechnological industries

iii.  To give students the ability to use information technology and management skills for monitoring the performance of equipments and related issues. 

There has always been a dearth of trained manpower in multi billion dollar industry dealing in advance instruments and computer-aided measurements (CAM). The course will primarily aim at graduates in biological sciences, mechanical/electrical engineering or graduates with suitable degree in technology/basic and applied scientific disciplines who intend to pursue a carrier in industry or academic institutes dealing with advanced instrumentation. The intake will include working personnel released from their employment to complete the course. The course will open the doors of opportunity in industry (service engineers, marketing, and R&D), research organizations, academic institutes, and will provide the self-employment opportunity.

M.Tech. in Bioinformatics 

DBT (Government of India) is providing the Basic Infrastructural Facility 

Bioinformatics is a multidisciplinary area leading also to an enabling technology that holds great promise in managing the huge amount of data for its meaningful application in the field of R&D and industry. Strong R&D component of Indian and global biotech and pharmaceutical companies need to strengthen their expertise in the area of bioinformatics. The purpose of the course is to encourage interested graduates from information technology, computer sciences, and all streams of basic and applied sciences and engineering to use the predictive features of information technology in their problem solving.

 

Job prospects are bright, and the course will open the employment opportunities in areas as diverse as:

·     Institute, companies and agencies involved in design and implementation of programs and systems for the storage, management and analysis of biological data

·     Bioinformatics R&D establishments, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies involved in drug designing, designing potential targets and mimetics for disease control, designing Cyborg lectins, and FIXER for disorders, and nurtigenomics.

·     IT companies for making bioinformatics software

·     Educational institutes and universities

·     Government Science Policy/Planning and Private Consultancies

·     Hospital and Medical Research, for example, for epidemiological studies such as developing kits for predicting diseases

·     Design of pest and disease control strategies in agriculture

 

M.Tech. in Food Technology 

This course is likely to get support from the Ministry