Courses and Dual Degree Programs

Dual Degree (MBA / MS)

Offered jointly by Amrita University and SUNY, Buffalo (USA)

In Bangalore, Amrita offers a unique collaborative twinning program, the MBA-MS. Candidates have the opportunity to earn an MBA from Amrita University and an MS (Master of Sciences) in Management of IT Services from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. Designed primarily for those who aspire to management positions in high-tech industries, this is also a two-year full-time program.

An Executive MBA-MS is also offered at the Bangalore campus for working professionals. This two-year program has weekend classes. Students earn an Executive MBA degree from Amrita University upon the completion of the program as well as an MS degree in Management of IT Services from the State University of New York at Buffalo. The first batch of students from this program graduated in February 2009.

MS in Embedded Systems

Collaborative Twinning Master's Programme in Embedded Systems by AMRITA University and The State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo

AMRITA University along with SUNY, Buffalo's School of Engineering, has uniquely developed a Collabrative Twinning Masters program to help working professionals learn all aspects of embedded systems. From hardware to software, from algorithm development to practical implementation, the program focuses on all aspects. An MS in Embedded Systems degree will be given by SUNY, Buffalo and a M.Sc. in Embedded Systems degree by AMRITA.

Certificate Program in Embedded Systems

AMRITA University in alliance with TATA ELXSI and University of Maryland, College Park introduces an innovative Certificate Programme in Embedded Systems.

The Certificate Program in Embedded Systems provides training to students with highend tools, techniques and an overall understanding of embedded systems. Targeting the entry level engineers graduating as well as the recent graduated professionals, we designed the course focused in the domain applications such as multimedia, networking, and DSP.

Courses

Name	Topic	Date
Dr. Manu Santhanam Associate Professor Dept of Civil Engg IIT Madras	Advances in Construction Materials Technology	8th Jan 2010
Dr. Raju Ananth Senior Consultant Structural Integrity Associates Inc., San Jose, CA, USA	Some practical problems in Nuclear Power Generation	6th Jan 2010
Microsoft	Faculty Development by Microsoft	29th Dec 2009
Dr. Ross J. Anderson FRS Professor University of Cambridge, UK	What is Engineering?	17th Dec 2009
Dr. R. M. V. Gopala Krishna Rao Ph.D. (IISc), FNAE Scientist G & Head, Fibre Reinforced Plastics Division & Technical and Business Development Consultant, National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR), Bangalore	(L1) Composite Materials- Understanding & Application Potentials Definition,Classification,Applications) (L2) Polymer Matrix Composites(PMCs)- Concept of Structure-Property Relationships in PMCs & Functional Roles of Constituents and Uniqueness (L3) Applications -Aerospace,Non-Aerospace and Spin-offs (L4) High Performance PMCs - Meaning & Design Considerations (L5) High-End Applications -Recent Advances and Some Case Studies (L6) Futuristic Trends -Natural Fibre Composites (NFCs),Biocomposites,Nanocomposites	12th, 13th and 14th Oct 2009
Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu Developer Evangelist Microsoft India	Faculty Development Program by Microsoft	22nd September 2009
Dr. Sriram Devanathan Professor Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences Amrita School of Engineering	Full Semester Course on Chemical Technology	15th July 2009
Dr. Anantha Sethurama Chief Executive Officer, DFMSim, is offering a seminar series on VLSI design	Seminar Series on VLSI Design	Sept 2009
Dr. Sakthi Subramanian Senior Software Manager at McAfee, Santa Clara, California	Course over skype on Network Security	Sept 2009
Dr. Ashok Agrawala Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics (MIND) Lab	Course over skype on Advanced Computer Networks	15th July 2009
Dr. Nikhil K. Kothurkar Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Full Semester Course on Solar Photovoltaics	15th July 2009
Dr. Nikhil K. Kothurkar Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Full Smester Course on Biomedical Polymers	15th July 2009
Radhika Chigurupati, DMD Associate Clinical Professor Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery University of California, San Francisco	Live interactive videoconference between AIMS Head and Neck Surgery and UCSF Oral and Maxillofacial surgery.	22nd May 2009
K. Gopal Gopalan Professor of Electrical Engineering Department of Engineering Purdue University Calumet	Information Hiding in Audio Signals for Watermarking, Steganography and Covert Communication Applications	17th April 2009
Dr. Ravindra Gettu Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras	Introduction to Civil Engineering Materials and Structures	13th March 2009
Dr. T. P. Sasikumar Scientist Space Department	Career Management	7th March 2009
Dr. P. Somasundaran Director, NSF/IUCR Center for Surfactants and La Von Duddleson Krumb Professor, Columbia University	Surface and Colloid Chemistry	8th -16th Feb 2009
Dr. Nikhil K. Kothurkar Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Biomaterials	28th Jan 2009
Dr. Nikhil K. Kothurkar Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Environmental Science and Engineering	28th Jan 2009
Dr. Ashok K. Agrawala Professor of Computer Science Director of the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics (MIND) Lab University of Maryland	Course on "Information-Centric Design of Systems Using Information Technology to Improve the Quality of Life"	Jan 27 -April 21 09
Dr. Ramesh Subrahmanyam Manager, Tradelink LLC, Chicago	Course on "Quantitative Equity Modelling"	27th Jan 2009
Dr. H. Raghav Rao Professor Department of Management Science and Systems University at Buffalo New York	Social and Behavioral Aspects of Information Assurance - Caselets on Decision Making and Information Systems	8th Jan 2009
Dr. Florence Rodhain (Visiting Professor) Associate Professor University Montpellier2 France	Communications through self awareness(Dr. Rodhain is currently spending her sebbatical at Amrita School of Business)	Dec 2008
Dr. Raju Ananth Senior Consultant Structural Integrity Associates, Inc., San Jose, CA	Mechanical and Material Problems in Nuclear Industry	23rd Dec 2008
Dr. Siddheswar Ray Clayton School of Information Technology Monash University Australia	Content Based Image Retrieval- Some Recent Results	24th Sept 2008
Prof. C. E. Veni Madhavan Dept of Computer Science and Automation Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Large Sparse Matrices and applications	4th Sept 2008
Dr. Ashok K. Agrawala Professor from University of Maryland is giving a Full Semester Course on Computer Networking	Full Semester Course on Computer Networking to the Students of Amrita of the following branches: 1. B.Tech 2. MCA 3. M.Sc. (CS)	2nd September 2008
Dr. Easwar Subramanian Postdoctoral researcher at Theoretical Neuroscience Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.	On spatiotemporal 3D Gabor filters for motion processing	26th Aug 2008
Dr. Dittmar and Dr. Burkhard Fechner Coherent GmbH, Goettingen, Germany	Optical Systems for Laser based Micromachining	25th Aug 2008
Dr. N. Narayana Rao, Edward C. Jordan Professor Emiritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA	Workshop on "Fundamentals of Electromagnetics"	11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 21 of Aug 2008
Dr. Radha Guha (formerly from University of California, Irvine) Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Full Semester Course on "Problem Solving and Paradigms"	27th Aug 2008
Prof. S. C. Lenny Koh Chair in Operations Management Director Logistics & Supply Chain Management Research Group The University of Sheffield, UK	Talk on "Green Manufacturing"	13th Aug 2008
Dr. Siddheswar Ray Visiting Faculty from Monash University, Australia	Course on "Image Processing"	13th Aug 2008
Dr. N. Narayana Rao, Edward C. Jordan Professor Emiritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Faculty Development Program on "Fundamentals of Electromagnetics"	August 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 21, 2008
Dr. Nikhil K. Kothurkar Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Full Semester Course on "Biomaterials"	1st August 2008
Dr. K. A. Narayanankutty Senior Professor Dept of Electrical Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Full Semester Course on "Industrial Electronics "	5th August 2008
Dr. Murali Rangarajan Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Full Semester Course on "Principles of Chemical Sensors"	17th July 2008
Dr. Nikhil K. Kothurkar Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Full Semester Course on "Environmental Science and Engineering "	16th July 2008
Mr. Sudarshan Keshava, Senior Director, Qualcomm, US	Talk on "Embedded Systems for Mobile Communications "	15th July 2008
Dr. R. Krishnan(PhD, IISc), Dean(Academic), Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram	1. Remote sensing:An Image Processing perspective2. High resolution image analysis	14th July 2008
Prof. R.K. Shyamasundar, Senior Professor, Faculty of Technology & Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai	Securing Operating Systems	12 th July 2008
Mr Shekar Viswanathan, Head of the Technical Marketing division of Qualcomm, San Diego, USA	"Wireless Technology and its Applications "	26th June 2008
Prof. SANKAR SITARAMAN, Math Dept, Howard University, Washington, DC	"Riemann Hypothesis,Random Numbers and a Million Dollars"	2nd April 2008
Dr. M.P.Chandrasekharan, Dean Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore	Indo-US Faculty Development lecture on "TEACHING ENGINEERING"	29th February 2008
Dr. P.K.A.Menon, President and Chief scientist, Optimal Synthesis Inc., Palo Alto, California	“Flight Control- Next Generation”	27th February 2008 at 12.30-1.30pm
Dr. K. S. Balaraman, Executive Director, Centre for High Technology (CHT), Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas	"Maximizing Hydrocarbon Value Chain by Refinery Performance Improvement"	27th February 2008 at 3.00-4.30pm
Mr. Shailesh Rao, Managing Director, Sales and Operations, Google India	"The Internet, Google and India"	9th February 2008
Dr. Seshu B. Desu, Dean, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York	"Organic Ferroelectric Random Access Memories"	6th February 2008
Dr. S. Venkadesan, Librarian, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	1. Measuring Science - A talk on various metrics for measuring scientific research output. 2. E-Books now - A status report on the world of E-book	31st Jan & 1st Feb 2008 at 3.00pm - 4.00pm
Dr. D. Bommi Bommannan, President & CEO of MaxVal Group, Inc., USA	"Patent Laws and IP Protection"	28th January 2008
Dr. Sethu Madhavan, Associate Professor & Coordinator of TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security	Full-Term Course on Cryptography	24th January 2008
Dr. Ranjith Kunnath, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D from Harvard University More>>	Full-Term course on "Mechanical Behaviour of Engineering Materials"	Tuesdays: 2.10 pm to 3.00 pm, Wednesday: 11.35 am to 12.25 pm, Friday: 8.50 am to 9.45 am from 21st January 2008
Ms. Jane Weeks, Vice President and Senior Instructor, William George Associates Ltd.	"Formal Methodology in Project Management"	10th January 2008
Mr. Sandeep Unnikrishnan, MEMS Nano Technology Expert, University of Twente, Netherlands	"Micro System Technology and MEMS-based Nanotechnology"	10th January 2008
Dr. Rajeev Thottappillil, Professor of Division for Electricity and Lightning Research, Uppsala University, Sweden	"Research at Division for Electricity at Uppsala University"	9th January 2008
Dr. Mohan Krishnan, Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engg., University of Detroit Mercy, MI	"Intelligent Ground Vehicle Research at the University of Detroit Mercy"	8th January 2008
Dr. Ashok Srinivasan, Professor of Computer Science, Florida State University	"Long-Time Molecular Dynamics Simulations through Parallelization "	3rd January 2008
Dr. R. V. Ramamoorthi, Professor of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University	Course on Pattern Recognition	2nd January 2008
Dr. R. V. Ramamoorthi, Professor of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University	Course on Statistics	24th, 25th, 26th, 31st of October and 1st of November 2007
Dr. R. V. Ramamoorthi, Professor of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University	"Introduction to Probability and Statistics"	September 20th, 21st, 22nd, 24th and October 1st, 3rd, 4th & 5th
Dr. Anantha Sethuraman, Vice President of Design for Manufacturing in the Silicon Engineering Group at Synopsys, US	"Introduction to Semiconductor Processing"	24th September 2007
Dr. Jayant Murthy, Professor, The Indian Institute of Astrophysics	Space Astronomy	18th September 2007
Mr. Paul Simons, Principal, ClearPath Associates, California	Device drivers	18th September 2007
Mr. Francois Gautier, Editor in Chief La Revue de l'Inde	Jornalism & Spirituality	17th September 2007
Dr. Rajeev Thottappillil, Professor in Electricity and Lightning Research, Uppsala University	Electromagnetic compatibility aspects of Lightning	18th August 2007
Dr. Hans Blomkvist, Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala University	Sustainable Global Energy Systems, Institutions and the Rationality of Decision Making	18th August 2007
Dr. Ernst L Leiss, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston	Protecting Digital Content & Parallel Computing: The Software Problem	10th & 11th August 2007
Shaker Viswanathan, Senior Director, Qualcomm Internet Services	Advanced Network Technologies	4th August 2007
Dr. Sriram Devanathan, Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Iowa State University)	"Introduction to Statistical Methods"
Dr. Ravi Sankar, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida	Energy Efficient Routing for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks	18th July 2007
Dr. Ponisseril Somasundaran, Director, NSF/IUCR Center for Surfactants and La Von Duddleson Krumb Professor, Columbia University	Challenges and opportunities for Nano technology	10th July 2007
Department of Healing Across Cultures, Cleveland State University, USA and Centre for Environmental Studies, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University	International Symposium on "Healing Across Cultures", more>>	9th July 2007
Dr. Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Professor of Computer Science, New York University	Workshop on "Wireless Networks Technologies and Approaches"	5th & 6th July 2007
Dr.Subbu Venakat Krishnan Sun Microsystems, USA	Recent Advances in Semiconductor Technologies	24th April 2007
Dr. Sasikumar Punnekkat Dept of Computer Science and Electronics Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden	Dependability Challenges in Bulding Software intensive System	17 th April 2007
Dr. Jake Aggarwal, Director, Computer Vision and Research Center(CVRC)	Workshop on "Pattern Recognition"	22 & 23rd March 2007
Dr. T. Keshavadas Associate Professor , Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo	Medical applications of Virtual Reality -the Amrita-UB Initiative	19th February 2007
Dr. Eric A Brewer Professor at UC Berkely, Founder of Inktomi Corporation, Also founded the Federal Search Foundation,	Technologies for Emerging Regions in Societal Transformation	31st January 2007
Dr. Girijesh K Mehta Emeritus Scientist ,Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi, and Distinguished Hon. Professor, I.I.T. Kanpur,Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC) ( Formerly Nuclear Science Centre ) ,Aruna Asaf Ali Marg , New Delhi.	Nano Technology : A new frontier	25th January 2007
Dr. Prasad Venkatesh, Group and Technical Leader, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan	Infotronics : Foundations and Applications	29th December 2006
Dr. Ponisseril Somasundaran, Director, NSF/IUCR Center for Surfactants and La Von Duddleson Krumb Professor,Columbia University	Challenges and opportunities for Nano technology	13th December 2006
Dr. H. M. Iyer, Formerly of U.S. Geological Survey Dr. K. N. Khattri, Formerly of Roorkee University Dr. C. P. Rajendran, Centre for Earth Science Studies, Thiruvananthapuram Dr. Malay Mukul, Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation, Bangalore	Workshop on "Earthquakes: Mechanics, Geological and Structural Engineering Aspects"	28 October, 2006
Dr.Ramalingam Sridhar, Associate Professor , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	Advanced Network Systems	25th July 2006
Dr.Jose Schutt-Aine, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois	Solid State Devices	17th July 2006
Dr. N.Narayana Rao. Professor , Edward C. Jordan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Engineering Electromagnetism	10 July 2006
Prof. Srini Narayanan UC Berkeley	Amrita-Berkeley Workshop on Research Frointers in Machine Translation in Indian Languages, More>>	4th January 2006
Dr. Shanti Nair, University of Massachussettes	Nanostructured materials: The polymer clay nano-composite system.	18 Aug 2005
Mr. Ravi Iyer President, SHRIE QUALITY, Houston, Texas.	Bio-inofrmatics and Biomedical Engg	11 Jan 2005
Dr. Venu Govindaraju University at Buffalo, Founding Director, Centre for Unified Biometrics & sensors	Future trends in Biometrics	03 Jan 2005
Dr. Srinivasan Chandrasekhar Director, Centre for Materials Processing & Tribology, Purdue University.	Low cost Nano-structured material for structural components	23 Dec 2004
Dr. T Kesavadas, Professor, University of Buffalo	Sympethetic Haptics : Towards adding sensations of Touch in Virtual Environments	01 Sept 2004
Dr. Bharath Jayaraman University at Buffalo	Future Directions of Programming Language	19 Aug 2004