Graduate Program

Course Credit: 3

This course covers the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to produce leather in an advanced environment-friendly manner. This course will cover contents related to cleaner processing techniques from curing, soaking, and unhairing to tanning and post-tanning. This course will also cover some modern concepts utilized in modern days leather manufacturing plants. Finally, this course will provide a well-designed guide to manufacturing specialized leathers.

Course Credit: 3

This course intends to teach students about the environmental performance of products, systems, and associated activities. This course will provide students with the concepts of circular economy, and a detailed technique of the LCA process. At the end of the course students will be able to conduct an inventory analysis, analyze potential environmental impacts, and finally, interpreting the life cycle are the stages involved.

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 is designed to provide the advance concepts of leather biotechnology. More specifically this course covers contents of bacterial genetics, recombinant DNA technology. It also covers the knowledge of different microbial fermentation methods and control of undesirable microorganisms are incorporated required for leather manufacture. Additionally, this course contains contents of larger scale production of industrially important enzymes. This course will also provide insights into the informatics and pollution remediation aspects of microbiology and biotechnology.

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 the leather industry.

Course Credit: 3

This course is designed to provide in-depth theoretical knowledge of nanotechnology and outlines its applications in leather and allied engineering fields. The course also deals with the design of nano systems, 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. After completion this course, students will familiar with fundamental knowledge of current industrial automation technologies and their application.

Course Credit: 3

This course is designed to provide students with the latest knowledge of recent trends in lather dyeing and finishing operations. This course will provide comprehensive understanding of dyeing kinetics, the dyeing extraction process, the chemistry of dye, testing of dye and dyeing, principles of finishing, sustainable leather finishing options, and various finishing methods and techniques. At the end of the course, students will be able to solve different finishing problems raised from tannery.

Course Credit: 3

This course comprises basic concepts of e-commerce, mobile commerce, website evaluation and usability testing, internet marketing, e-security, e-core values, and Commerce, which will help students establish online business channels. This course includes an introduction to international trade, modes of operations, export strategy, and marketing, which will deliver ideas to students on how the leather, footwear, and leather products export market can be enlarged.

Course Credit: 16

Students for the M.Sc. in Leather Engineering have to complete a thesis that demonstrates their ability to conduct in-depth research into a specific area and how it will relate to their own academic backgrounds and professionalism. After completing the thesis, students will be able to think independently about specific problems and develop a research methodology.

Course Credit: 4

M.Sc. in Leather Engineering candidates are expected to demonstrate their research prowess by conducting an in-depth study in a specific area of leather engineering, related to their professional and academic background. It is 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. The course builds students' confidence, analytical thinking, and communication skills. This course will assist by offering personalized one-on-one interactions, ensuring students are well-prepared for real world interactions, fostering academic success.