JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

KUKATPALLY, HYDERABAD, TELANGANA.

Academic Regulations for B. Tech. with Honors program

1. Objectives

The key objectives of offering B. Tech. with Honors program are:

• To expand the domain knowledge of the students laterally and vertically.

• To increase the employability of undergraduate students with expanded knowledge in one
of the core Engineering disciplines.
• To provide an opportunity to students to pursue their higher studies in wider range of
specialisations.

2. Academic Regulations for B. Tech. Honours degree

1) The weekly instruction hours, internal & external evaluation and award of grades are on
par with regular 4-Years B. Tech. program.
2) For B. Tech with Honors program, a student needs to earn additional 20 credits (over and
above the required 160 credits for B. Tech degree). The broad guidelines for the courses
of Honours program, their respective credits weightage and semester-wise break-up of the
course are enclosed as Annexure. All these 20 credits need to be completed in III year and
IV year only.
3) After registering for the Honours programme, if a student is unable to pass all courses in
first attempt and earn the required 20 credits, he/she shall not be awarded Honours degree.
However, if the student earns all the required 160 credits of B. Tech., he/she will be
awarded only B. Tech degree in the concerned branch.
4) There is no transfer of credits from courses of Honours program to regular B. Tech. degree
course & vice versa.
5) These 20 credits are to be earned from the additional courses offered by the host
department in the college or from a closely related departments in the college as well as
from the MOOCS platform.
6) For the courses selected under MOOCS platform following guidelines may be followed:
 a) Prior to registration of MOOCS courses, formal approval of the courses, by the
University is essential. University before the issue of approval considers the
parameters like the institute / agency which is offering the course, syllabus, credits,
duration of the programme and mode of evaluation etc.
b) Minimum credits for a MOOCS course must be equal to or more than the credits
specified in the Honours course structure provided by the University.
c) Only Pass-grade/marks or above shall be considered for inclusion of grades in the
Honours grade memo.
d) Any expenses incurred for the MOOCS courses are to be met by the students only.
7) The choice to opt/take the Honours program is purely on the choice of the students.
8) The student shall be given a choice of withdrawing all the courses registered and/or the
credits earned for Honours program at any time; and in that case the student will be awarded
only B. Tech. degree in the concerned branch on earning the required credits of 160.
9) The students of every branch can choose Honours program in their respective branches if
they are eligible for the Honours program. A student who chooses an Honours program is
not eligible to choose a Minor program and vice-versa.
10) The B. Tech. with Honours program shall be offered from the AY 2021-22 onwards. The
students who are pursuing their III year I semester in the current academic year can register
for the Honours program if they fulfil the eligibility criteria.
11) A student can graduate with Honours if he/she fulfils the requirements for his/her regular
B. Tech. program as well as fulfils the requirements for Honours program.
12) The institute shall maintain a record of students registered and pursuing their Honours
programs branch-wise. The same report needs to be sent to the University once the
enrolment process is complete.
13) The department shall prepare the time-tables for each Honours program offered at their
respective departments without any overlap/clash with other courses of study in the
respective semesters.
3. Eligibility conditions of the students for the Honours degree

a) A student can opt for B.Tech. degree with Honours, if she/he passed all subjects in
first attempt in all the semesters till the results announced and maintaining 7.5 or more
CGPA.
 b) If a student fails in any registered course of either B. Tech. or Honours in any semester
of four years program, he/she will not be eligible for obtaining Honors degree. He will
be eligible for only B. Tech. degree
c) Prior approval of mentor and Head of the Department for the enrolment into Honours
program, before commencement of III year I Semester (V Semester), is mandatory.
d) If more than 30% of the students in a branch fulfil the eligibility criteria (as stated
above), the number of students given eligibility should be limited to 30%. The criteria
to be followed for choosing 30% candidates in a branch may be the CGPA secured by
the students till II year I semester.
e) The department concerned should be preferably NBA accredited and shall offer at least
one M. Tech. Program.
f) Successful completion of 20 credits earmarked for honours program with atleast 7.5
CGPA along with successful completion of 160 credits earmarked for regular B. Tech.
Program with at least 7.5 CGPA and passing all subjects in first attempt gives the
eligibility for the award of B. Tech. (Honors) degree.
g) For CGPA calculation of B. Tech. course, the 20 credits of Honours program will not
be considered.

4. Registration for the course in Honors program

a) At the beginning of each semester, just before the commencement of classes, students
shall register for the courses which they wish to take in that semester.
b) The students should choose a course from the list against each semester (from Honours
course structure) other than the courses they have studied/registered for regular B.Tech.
programme. No course should be identical to that of the regular B. Tech. course.
The students should take the advice of faculty mentors while registering for a course at
the beginning of semester.
c) The maximum No. of courses for the Honours is limited to two (three in case of
inclusion of lab) in a semester along with regular semester courses.
d) The registration fee to be collected from the students by the College is Rs. 1000/- per
one credit.
e) A fee for late registration may be imposed as per the norms.
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 ANNEXURE
Academic Regulations for Honors degree in B. Tech. programs

S. No. Year / Course to be chosen from/ Mode of Learning No. of

Semester studied Credits
1 III-1 PE-1 or PE-2 Blended/Conventional 3
2 III-2 Research Methodologies Conventional 3
3 III-2 PE-3 Conventional 3
4 IV-1 PE-4 Conventional 3
5 IV-1 PE-5 conventional 3
6 IV-2 Technical Paper writing Under the mentorship of 2
a supervisor
7 IV-2 PE-6 or an Interdisciplinary MOOCS 3
subject as suggested by
University
Total Credits 20

Note:
i. Professional Elective (PE) course should be selected (which is not studied) from each
Professional Electives list provided in regular B. Tech. course.
ii. Courses can be chosen as in above table.

1. Technical paper writing:

a) The student shall take up a problem/topic of engineering branches (inter-disciplinary
nature) and apply the knowledge which they acquired while pursuing their engineering
branch. It is expected to analyse, design and develop an application for the identified
problem and write a technical paper/document.
Alternatively, the student i) shall identify a research topic, analyse the problem,
carryout the experiments, write a technical paper and publish in /communicate for a
Scopus indexed journal/any journal with decent reputation or ii) Demonstrate a
talent/an idea/development of an innovative product.
b) The evaluation shall be done by the same committee which is constituted for project
evaluation, along with the final semester project work.
c) The students should start exploration for the Technical Paper Writing immediately after
the semester exams of III-II semester. Only the evaluation part shall be carried in IV-
II semester.
2. The institute shall offer a course on Research Methodologies by combining the students of
all branches (if the number of students is more, multiple parallel sessions may be
conducted). The time slots in the time-tables of respective branches should be aligned. The
external evaluation of Research Methodologies course shall be done by the University.
3. If the blended course option is chosen, for the subject in III-I semester, the learning should
be partially in online mode and partially in offline mode. The external evaluation shall be
done by the University; however, for the internal evaluation component, online assessment
should also be taken into account while finalising the internal marks by the course teacher.
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 R18 B.TECH. HONORS

RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES

Prerequisite: None

Course Objectives:
• To understand the research problem
• To know the literature studies, plagiarism and ethics
• To get the knowledge about technical writing and induce paper publication skills

Course Outcomes: Gain the sound knowledge of the following important elements:
• Distinguish research methods
• Carryout literature review thoroughly to identify contemporary research problems
• Data collection and analysis
• Write and publish a technical research paper
• Review papers effectively

UNIT - I
INTRODUCTION:
Objective of Research; Definition and Motivation; Types of Research; Research Approaches;
Steps in Research Process; Criteria of Good Research.

UNIT - II
RESEARCH FORMULATION AND LITERATURE REVIEW:
Problem Definition and Formulation; Literature Review; Characteristics of Good Research
Problem; Literature Review Process; Plagiarism, Ethics in Research.

UNIT - III
DATA COLLECTION:
Primary and Secondary Data; Primary and Secondary Data Sources; Data Collection Methods;
Data Processing; Classification of Data.
DATA ANALYSIS:
Statistical Analysis; Multivariate Analysis; Correlation Analysis; Regression Analysis; Principle
Component Analysis; Samplings

UNIT - IV
RESEARCH DESIGN:
Need for Research Design; Features of a Good Design; Types of Research Designs; Induction and
Deduction.
HYPOTHESIS FORMULATION AND TESTING:
Hypothesis; Important Terms; Types of Research Hypothesis; Hypothesis Testing; Z-Test; t-Test; f-
Test; Making a Decision; Types of Errors; ROC Graphics.

UNIT - V
PRESENTATION OF THE RESEARCH WORK:
Business Report; Technical Report; Research Report; General Tips for Writing Report;
Presentation of Data; Oral Presentation; Bibliography and References; Intellectual Property Rights;
Open-Access Initiatives; Plagiarism.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Research Methodology. Methods & Technique: Kothari. C.R.
2. Stuart Melville and Wayne Goddard, “Research methodology: an introduction for science &
engineering students’”

REFERENCES:
1. Practical Research: planning and Design (8th Edition) – Paul D. Leedy and Jeanne E.
Ormrod.
2. A Hand Book of Education Research – NCTE
3. Methodology of Education Research – K.S. Sidhu.
4. Tests, Measurements and Research methods in Behavioural Sciences- A.K. Singh.
5. Statistical Methods- Y.P. Agarwal.
6. Methods of Statistical Ananlysis- P.S Grewal.
7. Fundamentals of Statistics – S.C. Gupta, V.K. Kapoor.
8. Intellectual Property Rights by Deborah E. Bouchoux, Cengage Learning.
9. Managing Intellectual Property – The Strategic Imperative, Vinod V.Sople, 2nd Edition, PHI
Learning Private Limited.
10. Research methodology – S.S. Vinod Chandra, S. Anand Hareendran