2-year MTech Course Curriculum, Department of Climate Change


Philosophy behind the course curriculum
As per our course curriculum, half of the course credits, i.e., 12 credits, are core climate, and the other half are elective courses. Core climate course talks and discusses atmosphere, weather, climate, climate change, modeling and climate sciences etc. Students learn about the basics of climate in the first semester, and in the second semester little advanced topics. Whereas elective courses belong to the following four disciplines, i.e., Applied Mathematics/Statistics/Machine Learning/Modeling, Climate Change Mitigation and Energy Conservation, High Performance Computing and Policy (or non-engineering). Ideally, courses in the first semester should give an opportunity for students to know about these disciplines and courses in the second semester allowing them to take the advanced courses from one or two of the four elective baskets. With this in mind the following is proposed.

Elective baskets
Basket 1: Climate Monitoring, Climate Change Impact and Adaptation
Basket 2: Climate Change Mitigation and Policy
Basket 3: Climate Modelling, Data Analysis and Computing

Links to different Semesters

Semester-1 Semester-2 Summer Semester-3 Semester-4

UG Minor in Climate Change
Courses of study - Masters & PhD Handbook
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Academic calendar 2025 Jan-Apr


Course Curriculum



Semester 1

Class Room Time-Table for Session 2025 Aug-Dec


Semester 2

Class Room Time-Table for Session 2026 Jan-Apr
Will be updated in upcoming semester.

Summer

Course Code Course Name Credits Type

CC6005

MTech Thesis Stage-I

2

Thesis


Semester 3

Course Code Course Name Credits Type

CC6005

MTech Thesis Stage-II

10

Thesis


Semester 4

Course Code Course Name Credits Type

CC6025

MTech Thesis Stage-III

12

Thesis


Minor in Climate Change for BTech (Minimum Credits 12)

Basket 1 - Mandatory Core Courses (Take minimum 5–7 credits)

Course Number Course Title Credits Remarks Semester (Odd/Even)
CC 5283 Climate Data Analysis and Methods 2 Odd
CC 5320 Introduction to Climate Science and Climate Monitoring 3 Odd
CC 6210 Climate Modeling 2 Prior permission from instructor required
Pre-req: 50120 or 50110		 Even
CC 5220 Climate Mitigation and Adaptation 2 Even
CC 1010 Introduction to Climate Change 1 Odd
CC 5140 Climate Governance 2 Odd
CC 5001 Climate Instrumentation Lab 1 Even


Basket 2 - Optional Elective Courses (Take minimum 5–7 credits)

Course Number Course Title Credits Remarks Semester (Odd/Even)
CC 5060 Entrepreneurship Opportunities in Climate Change 1 Odd
ME 5480 Sustainable Energy Technology 3 Odd
CC 5513 Human Dimensions of Climate Change 2 Even
CC 5200 RS, GIS and Climate Change 3 Even
CC 5250 Optical Instrumentation in Climate Science 2 Even
CC 5260 Parallel Programming for High Performance Computing 2 Even
CC 6080 High Performance Computing in Weather Research & Forecast/GCM 1 Even
CC 5400 Chemistry for Alternate Energy Sources 2 Even
CC 5283 Climate Data Analysis and Methods 2 Even
CC 5300 Critical Reading of IPCC Report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability 1 Even
CC 5310 Hydrometeorological Forecasting 2 Even
SE 5170 Sustainable Mobility 3 Even