Graduate Program

Course Credit: 3

This course is intended to introduce students to various types of advanced manufacturing concepts of footwear. It will render the students about cutting-edge technology used in footwear industries. Moreover, it will help the students to understand the various aspects of footwear manufacturing paving the way for sustainability.

Course Credit: 3

The focus of this course is on theoretical concepts, data-driven models, and numerical techniques for optimization using actual variables. The course provides a thorough understanding in mathematical optimization theory, methods, and algorithms. The course will begin with linear optimization, and will go into detail about how to formulate problems and find solutions as well as to develop a methodology for footwear engineering design.

Course Credit: 3

This course provides an opportunity for students to establish or advance their understanding of research through critical exploration of research language, ethics, and approaches. Students will be able to examine and be practically exposed to the main components of a research framework i.e., problem definition, research design, data collection, ethical issues in research, report writing, and presentation.

Course Credit: 3

This course is designed to provide in depth knowledge of the exploitation of valuable products from tannery wastes by utilizing modern technology. This course will facilitate students with deeper understanding of different types and characteristics of industrial hazardous wastes and a comprehensive overview of hazardous waste management approaches.

Course Credit: 3

This course is intended to instruct knowledge by different approaches to improve better workspace design and efficient work environment designs and management. After completion of this course, the students will be able to design better factory environment and thereby will be able to ensure effective safety management practices in the leather industry.

Course Credit: 3

This course has been designed to deliver state-of-the-art knowledge to the students on pedorthic (medical-graded) footwear. This course includes foot problems of pedorthic patients, their remedies, and biomechanics of diabetic, orthopedic, and geriatric footwear. At the end of the course, students will be able to prepare guidelines for pedorthic footwear and also individual patients.

Course Credit: 3

This course is designed to train the graduates in analysis and assessment methods applicable to environmental contamination problems, particularly national and international legislative frameworks. This course is contemplated for LWG and other environmental certification processes for leather industry.

Course Credit: 3

This course is designed to provide in-depth theoretical knowledge of nanotechnology and outlines its applicationsin leather and allied engineering fields. The course also deals with the design of nanosystems, nanomaterials together with their processing, properties and characterization.

Course Credit: 3

This course provides an overview of the technologies of industrial automation and control as it is commonly encountered in factories of all types including leather and footwear items. Automation of the production process increases the efficiency of labor and the overall rate of growth. By ending this course, students will able to have a fundamental knowledge of current industrial automation technologies and their application.

Course Credit: 3

Product design and development is a very important stage for any kind of product. This program is designed to deliver the latest knowledge about the product development stages and its further stages for successful product launching. This program comprises product development processes, product concept development, product planning, product architecture, industrial design, design for manufacturing, prototyping and robust design, patents and intellectual property, product development economies, managing projects, design for environment.

Course Credit: 3

This course comprises basic concept of e-commerce, mobile commerce, website evaluation and usability testing, internet marketing, e-security, e-core values, osCommerce, which will help students to establish online business channel. Also, this course includes introduction to international trade, modes of operations, export strategy and marketing, which will deliver ideas to students how the leather, footwear, and leather products export market can be enlarged. Therefore, this course is crucial in this program for professional life of the students.

Course Credit: 16

Students for the M.Sc. in Footwear Engineering must complete a thesis demonstrating their ability to conduct in-depth research into a specific area and how it will relate to their academic backgrounds and professionalism. After completing the thesis, students can think independently about specific problems and develop a research methodology.

Course Credit: 4

Master's project is the concluding requirement for the M.Sc. in Footwear Engineering. It is mostly designed to develop research aptitude among the students. Candidates are expected to complete a project that demonstrates their ability to conduct in-depth investigation of a specific problem to find feasible solution.

Course Credit: 2

The course is designed to expose students to the working environment in the industry. The intensive training will enable students to understand the theories studied with more detailed and hands on practice within a real job situation. Furthermore, students will learn how to do a work following the specified instructions coupled with their own technical knowledge, creativity and artistry.

Course Credit: 1

This course shall ensure that the students are able to present the knowledge, skills and practical experience they earned throughout the program to the panel of experts‟/ Examination committee in the most effective way.