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GENERAL ABILITY TEST
Part A: General English: The question paper in
General English will be designed to test the candidates
understanding of English and workmanlike use of
words.
Part B: General Studies: The paper in General
Studies will include knowledge of current events and of
such matters as of everyday observation and
experience in their scientific aspects as may be
expected of an educated person. The paper will also
include questions on History of India and Geography of
a nature which candidates should be able to answer
without special study.
Electrical Materials( Material Science)
Band Theory, Conductors, Semi-conductors and
Insulators. Super-conductivity. Insulators for electrical
and electronic applications. Magnetic materials. Ferro
and ferri magnetism. Ceramics, Properties and
applications. Hall effect and its applications. Special
semi conductors.
APTITUDE PAPER ( Stage-I, Paper-I).
General Studies and Engineering Aptitude
1. Current issues of national and international
importance relating to social, economic and
industrial development
2. Engineering Aptitude covering Logical reasoning
and Analytical ability
3. Engineering Mathematics and Numerical
Analysis
4. General Principles of Design, Drawing,
Importance of Safety
5. Standards and Quality practices in production,
construction, maintenance and services
6. Basics of Energy and Environment :
Conservation, environmental pollution and
degradation, Climate Change, Environmental
impact assessment
7. Basics of Project Management
8. Basics of Material Science and Engineering
9. Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) based tools and their applications in
Engineering such as networking, e-governance
and technology based education.
10. Ethics and values in Engineering profession
Electrical Materials( Material Science)
IES Previous year GATE Previous Year
Question Papers Question Papers
Electrical Engineering Materials, crystal structures and
defects, ceramic materials, insulating materials,
magnetic materials basics, properties and
applications; ferrities, ferro-magnetic materials and
components; basics of solid state physics, conductors;
Photo-conductivity; Basics of Nano materials and
Superconductors.
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Electrical Circuits
Circuits elements. Kirchoffs Laws. Mesh and nodal
analysis. Network Theorems and applications. Natural
response and forced response. Transient response and
steady state response for arbitrary inputs. Properties of
networks in terms of poles and zeros. Transfer function.
Resonant circuits. Threephase circuits. Two-port
networks. Elements of two-element network
synthesis.EM Theory
Electric and magnetic fields. Gausss Law and Amperes
Law. Fields in dielectrics, conductors and magnetic
materials. Maxwells equations. Time varying fields.
Plane-Wave propagating in dielectric and conducting
media. Transmission lines.
Measurements and Instrumentation
Units and Standards. Error analysis, measurement of
current, Voltage, power, Power-factor and energy.
Indicating instruments. Measurement of resistance,
inductance, Capacitance and frequency. Bridge
measurements. Electronic measuring instruments.
Digital Voltmeter and frequency counter. Transducers
and their applications to the measurement of non-
electrical quantities like temperature, pressure, flow-
rate displacement, acceleration, noise level etc. Data
acquisition systems. A/D and D/A converters.
Control Systems.
Mathematical modelling of physical systems. Block
diagrams and signal flow graphs and their reduction.
Time domain and frequency domain analysis of linear
dynamical system. Errors for different type of inputs
and stability criteria for feedback systems. Stability
analysis using Routh-Hurwitz array, Nyquist plot and
Bode plot. Root locus and Nicols chart and the
estimation of gain and phase margin. Basic concepts of
compensator design. State variable matrix and its use
in system modelling and design. Sampled data system
and performance of such a system with the samples in
the error channel. Stability of sampled data system.
Elements of non-linear control analysis. Control system
components, electromechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic
components.
Electric Circuits and Fields
Circuit elements, network graph, KCL, KVL, Node and
Mesh analysis, ideal current and voltage sources,
Thevenins, Nortons, Superposition and Maximum
Power Transfer theorems, transient response of DC
and AC networks, Sinusoidal steady state analysis,
basic filter concepts, two-port networks, three phase
circuits, Magnetically coupled circuits,
Gauss Theorem, electric field and potential due to
point, line, plane and spherical charge distributions,
Amperes and Biot-Savarts laws; inductance,
dielectrics, capacitance; Maxwells equations
Electrical and Electronic Measurements:
Principles of measurement, accuracy, precision and
standards; Bridges and potentiometers; moving coil,
moving iron, dynamometer and induction type
instruments, measurement of voltage, current, power,
energy and power factor, instrument transformers,
digital voltmeters and multi-meters, phase, time and
frequency measurement, Q-meters, oscilloscopes,
potentiometric recorders, error analysis, Basics of
sensors, Transducers, basics of data acquisition
systems
Control Systems:
Principles of feedback, transfer function, block
diagrams and signal flow graphs, steady-state errors,
transforms and their applications; Routh-hurwitz
criterion, Nyquist techniques, Bode plots, root loci, lag,
lead and lead-lag compensation, stability analysis,
transient and frequency response analysis, state space
model, state transition matrix, controllability and
observability, linear state variable feedback, PID and
industrial controllers.
NOTE: Only some topic has
been removed and remaining topic is as it is.
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Electrical Machines and Power Transformers
Magnetic Circuits Analysis and Design of Power
transformers. Construction and testing. Equivalent
circuits. Losses and efficiency. Regulation. Auto-
transformer, 3-phase transformer. Parallel operation.
Basic concepts in rotating machines. EMF, torque,
basic machine types. Construction and operation,
leakage losses and efficiency.
D.C. Machines. Construction, Excitation methods.
Circuit models. Armature reaction and commutation.
Characteristics and performance analysis. Generators
and motors. Starting and speed control. Testing,
Losses and efficiency.
Synchronous Machines. Construction. Circuit model.
Operating characteristics and performance analysis.
Synchronous reactance. Efficiency. Voltage regulation.
Salient-pole machine, Parallel operation. Hunting. Short
circuit transients.
Induction Machines. Construction. Principle of
operation. Rotating fields. Characteristics and
performance analysis. Determination of circuit model.
Circle diagram. Starting and speed control.
Fractional KW motors. Single-phase synchronous and
induction motors.
Power systems
Types of Power Stations, Hydro, Thermal and Nuclear
Stations. Pumped storage plants. Economics and
operating factors. Power transmission lines. Modeling
and performance characteristics. Voltage control. Load
flow studies. Optimal power system operation. Load
frequency control. Symmetrical short circuit analysis.
ZBus formulation. Symmetrical Components. Per Unit
representation. Fault analysis. Transient and steady-
state stability of power systems. Equal area
criterion. Power system Transients. Power system
Protection Circuit breakers. Relays. HVDC
transmission.
Electrical Machines :
Single phase transformers, three phase transformers
connections, parallel operation, auto-transformer,
energy conversion principles, DC machines types,
windings, generator characteristics, armature reaction
and commutation, starting and speed control of motors,
Induction motors principles, types, performance
characteristics, starting and speed control,
Synchronous machines performance, regulation,
parallel operation of generators, motor starting,
characteristics and applications, servo and stepper
motors.
Power Systems :
Basic power generation concepts, steam, gas and
water turbines, transmission line models and
performance, cable performance, insulation, corona
and radio interference, power factor correction,
symmetrical components, fault analysis, principles of
protection systems, basics of solid state relays and
digital protection; Circuit breakers, Radial and ring-main
distribution systems, Matrix representation of power
systems, load flow analysis, voltage control and
economic operation, System stability concepts, Swing
curves and equal area criterion. HVDC transmission
and FACTS concepts, Concepts of power system
dynamics, distributed generation, solar and wind
power, smart grid concepts, environmental
implications, fundamentals of power economics.
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Analog And Digital Electronics And Circuitsa
Semiconductor device physics, PN junctions and
transistors, circuit models and parameters, FET, Zener,
tunnel, Schottky, photo diodes and their applications,
rectifier circuits, voltage regulators and multipliers,
switching behavior of diodes and transistors.
Small signal amplifiers, biasing circuits, frequency
response and improvement, multistage amplifiers and
feed-back amplifiers, D.C. amplifiers, Oscillators. Large
signal amplifiers, coupling methods, push pull
amplifiers, operational amplifiers, wave shaping
circuits. Multivibrators and flip-flops and their
applications. Digital logic gate families, universal gates-
combination circuits for arithmetic and logic operational,
sequential logic circuits. Counters, registers, RAM and
ROMs.
Microprocessors
Microprocessor architecture-Instruction set and simple
assembly language programming. Interfacing for
memory and I/O. Applications of Micro-processors in
power system.
Communication Systems
Types of modulation; AM, FM and PM. Demodulators.
Noise and bandwidth considerations. Digital
communication systems. Pulse code modulation and
demodulation. Elements of sound and vision
broadcasting. Carrier communication. Frequency
division and time division multiplexing, Telemetry
system in power engineering.
Power Electronics
Power Semiconductor devices. Thyristor. Power
transistor, GTOs and MOSFETS. Characteristics and
operation. AC to DC Converters; 1-phase and 3-phase
DC to DC Converters; AC regulators. Thyristor
controlled reactors; switched capacitor networks.
Inverters; single-phase and 3-phase. Pulse width
modulation. Sinusoidal modulation with uniform
sampling. Switched mode power supplies.
Basic Electronics Engineering:
Basics of Semiconductor diodes and transistors and
characteristics, Junction and field effect transistors
(BJT, FET and MOSFETS), different types of transistor
amplifiers, equivalent circuits and frequency response;
oscillators and other circuits, feedback amplifiers.
Analog and Digital Electronics:
Operational amplifiers characteristics and
applications, combinational and sequential logic
circuits, multiplexers, multi-vibrators, sample and hold
circuits, A/D and D/A converters, basics of filter circuits
and applications, simple active filters;
Microprocessor basics interfaces and applications,
basics of linear integrated circuits;
Communication Systems
Analog communication basics, Modulation and
demodulation, noise and bandwidth, transmitters and
receivers, signal to noise ratio,
digital communication basics, sampling, quantizing,
coding, frequency and time domain multiplexing, power
line carrier communication systems.
Power Electronics and Drives :Semiconductor
power diodes, transistors, thyristors, triacs, GTOs,
MOSFETs and IGBTs static characteristics and
principles of operation, triggering circuits, phase control
rectifiers, bridge converters fully controlled and half
controlled, principles of choppers and inverters, basis
concepts of adjustable speed dc and ac drives, DC-DC
switched mode converters, DC-AC switched mode
converters, resonant converters, high frequency
inductors and transformers, power supplies.
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Engineering Mathematics

Matrix theory, Eigen values & Eigen vectors, system of

linear equations, Numerical methods for solution of
non-linear algebraic equations and differential
equations, integral calculus, partial derivatives, maxima
and minima, Line, Surface and Volume Integrals.
Fourier series, linear, nonlinear and partial differential
equations, initial and boundary value problems,
complex variables, Taylors and Laurents series,
residue theorem, probability and statistics
fundamentals, Sampling theorem, random variables,
Normal and Poisson distributions, correlation and
regression analysis.

Computer Fundamentals:

Number systems, Boolean algebra, arithmetic

functions, Basic Architecture, Central Processing Unit,
I/O and Memory Organisation; peripheral devices, data
represenation and programming, basics of Operating
system and networking, virtual memory, file systems;
Elements of programming languages, typical examples.

Systems and Signal Processing :

Representation of continuous and discrete-time signals,

shifting and scaling operations, linear, time-invariant
and causal systems, Fourier series representation of
continuous periodic signals, sampling theorem, Fourier
and Laplace transforms, Z transforms, Discrete Fourier
transform, FFT, linear convolution, discrete cosine
transform, FIR filter, IIR filter, bilinear transformation.

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