Undergraduate Program

Course Credit: 3

This course aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the fundamental concepts of leather technology. The course covers topics such as the structure and composition of hides and skins, preservation and curing of hides and skins, molecular structure and properties of collagen, leather biotechnology, and natural and synthetic polymers.

Course Credit: 3

This course covers formulas, algebraic expressions, first-degree equations, inequalities, the rectangular coordinate system, the area, perimeter, and volume of geometric shapes, as well as the properties of triangles and circles which are essential for engineers as a fundamental course.

Course Credit: 3

Engineering physics will provide a more thorough ground in applied physics for a selected specialty such as wave and oscillations, forces and motion, heat, elasticity, properties of matter, electricity and magnetism, nuclear physics, modern physics, and optics. The course will also bridge the gap between theoretical science and practical engineering.

Course Credit: 3

The course is designed to provide applied knowledge on inorganic chemistry related to leather, footwear, and allied engineering education. The different concepts from this course will help students understand the mechanism involved in different leather processing and footwear manufacturing.

Course Credit: 3

The course is designed to give the students an understanding of different topics on physical chemistry like introductory concepts on surface chemistry, reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, photochemistry, colloidal science, colligative properties as well as corrosion and reaction. After completion of the course, students will be able to gather theoretical knowledge of physical chemistry and apply it in related engineering fields.

Course Credit: 1.5

The course is designed to provide knowledge related to safety during working in the Chemistry laboratory, and the development of skills for the use of lab apparatus and equipment using mainly quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Course Credit: 1.5

This course is assigned for first-year students to know and practice the types of drawing instruments, types of projection, projection of points, straight lines, and solids; development of surface, etc. At the end of the course, the students will be able to develop skills in basic engineering drawings related to footwear and allied engineering.

Course Credit: 1.5

This course is designed to enable students in employability-related communication to enhance their performance in different types of communicative English. After completing the course, students will be competent in speaking, listening, writing, reading, and developing communicative skills in technical and business English.

Course Credit: 1

Industrial visits serve as an excellent platform to learn for students pursuing B.Sc. in Footwear Engineering degree and they help in bridging the gap between classroom learning and the actual work conditions. The Field Tour-I course is designed to help inculcate a practical workplace environment to the students and to render a holistic engineering education to them.

Course Credit: 3

This course explores the essential pre-tanning processes in leather manufacturing including sorting, grading, beam house operations, soaking, unhairing, liming, deliming, bating, pickling, and degreasing. Students will develop the knowledge and skills needed to analyze, evaluate, and apply these processes for the production of high-quality leather products.

Course Credit: 1.5

Leather Processing-Ⅰ Lab is a practical course that is designed to develop graduate’s essential knowledge of leather manufacturing. The main aim of this course is to introduce the students to skills necessary for manufacturing of wet-blue leather. The course will deal with the different stages of pre-tanning process, the importance of pre-tanning, and its methods resulting in enhancing interest in the chemistry and mechanism of leather.

Course Credit: 3

This is one of the fundamental courses in Footwear Engineering. This course will provide the students with the basic concepts of foot, last, footwear, shoe sizing and fitting system, and materials, components, and accessories used in footwear.

Course Credit: 1.5

This practical course is based on fundamental knowledge of footwear. The course will provide knowledge of human foot anatomy and footwear. Students will get an overview of the shoe last, different types of materials used in footwear manufacturing. At the end of the course, students will be able to learn about cutting, closing, and stitching operations in detail.

Course Credit: 3

This course will help students develop a deeper grasp of functions, differentiation, and integration. Calculus concepts explored include limits and continuity, derivatives, definite integrals, exponential and logarithmic functions, trigonometric functions, and techniques of integration. Examining how calculus is used in the actual world is a major focus of this course.

Course Credit: 3

This course is intended to introduce the fundamentals of computing devices and reinforce computer vocabulary, particularly with respect to personal use of computer hardware and software, the internet, networking, and mobile computing. It focuses on such computer literacy that prepares students for lifelong learning of computer concepts and skills.

Course Credit: 1.5

A hands-on introduction to personal computers and application software. Students will learn basic computer terminology, the role of computers in society, and the use of word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, database, and Internet software.

Course Credit: 3

The course is designed to provide fundamental knowledge related to basic organic chemistry. The students will learn about different organic functional groups, their synthesis, reaction mechanisms as well as structural orientations. This course also provides basic knowledge about fat, oil, wax, pigment, paints, varnish, and lacquers.

Course Credit: 1.5

The course is designed to provide practical knowledge related to safety during working in an organic chemistry laboratory, and the development of skills for the use of lab apparatus and equipment using mainly qualitative and quantitative analysis of organic compounds and leather chemicals.

Course Credit: 3

This course provides an introduction to the tanning and post-tanning processes in leather manufacturing. By the end of the course, students will gain knowledge of the theory behind tanning processes and their practical applications in the leather manufacturing industry.

Course Credit: 1.5

The course is designed to enhance the skills of students in the field of leather manufacturing. This course aims to equip students effectively applying practical methodologies, tools, and techniques in developing different types of shoe upper leather.

Course Credit: 3

This course teaches about footwear design and development procedures and other associated issues with footwear fashion. This course includes an introduction to fashion and design, fashion marketing, fashion forecasting, color, product development, design for the environment, and footwear pattern making, preparing students for careers in footwear design and development.

Course Credit: 1.5

Footwear design and pattern making is a prerequisite step for footwear manufacturing. This course covers the design and pattern-making of some basic styles of footwear. Students will be able to acquire fundamental knowledge of footwear design and pattern making.

Course Credit: 2

This course will provide knowledge about cutting to backpart molding operations sequentially. Students will be able to apply this knowledge during footwear manufacturing.

Course Credit: 1.5

The course is outlined to disseminate thorough knowledge to the students regarding different types of footwear manufacturing. It covers all manufacturing aspects of shoemaking from cutting to finishing. The course provides in-depth cutting, closing, lasting, shoe construction, and finishing knowledge. Moreover, the course is designed to provide essential knowledge related to safety during working in an advanced manufacturing lab and to develop additional skills for the use of sophisticated machinery and equipment in different shoe construction.

Course Credit: 3

This course offers a thorough review of electric circuit analysis which is the most fundamental area in electrical and electronics engineering. The course is designed at a very basic level and included in the Leather and allied engineering program as an allied engineering course.

Course Credit: 1.5

This course will cover the basic principles of fundamental physics and Electronics through experiments that will help the students getting practical knowledge on how a theory can be applied to practical aspects. It also provides an elementary training to the students on carefulness in handling scientific instruments in a laboratory for accomplishing an experiment successfully.

Course Credit: 3

This course is a study of mathematical techniques used to model engineering systems. Differential equations and numerical methods are covered in this course as an introduction. This course deals with the different differential equations, numerical problems, and their real-life applications.

Course Credit: 3

This core course covers the pre-lasting, lasting, and post-lasting operations of footwear manufacturing. After completing the course, the students will be able to learn different shoe construction techniques. Moreover, they will be able to acquire knowledge of the related machinery of lasting operations.

Course Credit: 1.5

This course is a core course for footwear manufacturing. The course fulfills the manufacturing of derby, casual, moccasin shoe and boot, selection and collection of last, preparatory operations, lasting, upper and sole preparation, shoe finishing and packaging. After completion of the course, students will be able to manufacture shoe and boot practically.

Course Credit: 3

This course is designed to impart the fundamentals of polymers and their derivatives, bonds, structures, and properties. The course also introduces the knowledge of various polymerization techniques along with associated technologies and emphasizes various environmental aspects.

Course Credit: 1.5

This course is based on the theoretical knowledge of polymer science and engineering. The course is designed to provide practical knowledge while working in a polymer chemistry laboratory, developing skills in the use of lab apparatus and equipment mostly used in both qualitative and quantitative analysis of polymeric substances.

Course Credit: 3

The aim of the course is to introduce a broad range of modern and classic techniques that are useful in analytical chemistry. The interdisciplinary nature of chemical analysis makes analytical chemistry a vital tool in science, industrial, government, and academic laboratories throughout the world. This course is also helping students to develop an in-depth theoretical understanding to carry out research.

Course Credit: 1.5

The course is designed to provide practical knowledge related to safety during working in an analytical laboratory, development of skills for the use of lab apparatus and equipment’s using mainly advanced titration methods, and quantitate analysis by spectrophotometric method.

Course Credit: 3

This course is designed with different basic mechanical theories of rigid bodies, solids, thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, welding, and their mechanisms. After completing the course, students will be able to possess an understanding of different mechanical operations along with their potential application in the footwear industry.

Course Credit: 1.5

This course is based on 0715-ME-2208 to make students competent to know and practice different types of machinery, gas and arc welding, different types of fitting works, study and practice on pumps, power generators, engines and turbines.

Course Credit: 1

This course is designed to offer first-hand exposure to the business operations and processes that are usually performed in the workplace. Industrial visits will provide the students with a practical perspective of the concepts and theories that are taught to them. It will also help to keep the brilliant students up-to-date with knowing about the prevalent technologies and significant changes happening in the market. 

Course Credit: 3

This course is a core course in footwear engineering. By following the standard operating procedure (SOP), a student will be able to manufacture footwear as per the required quality. This course will prove an opportunity to enhance knowledge about the preparation of upper and soling materials, sole cementing and bonding, footwear inspection, packaging, and shipment.

Course Credit: 1.5

This practical course is outlined to disseminate thorough knowledge to the students regarding sports and monk shoe manufacturing. It covers all manufacturing aspects of shoemaking from cutting to finishing. Moreover, the course is designed to provide essential skills related to safety during working in an advanced manufacturing lab.

Course Credit: 3

This course covers in-depth knowledge of design, operational techniques, principles, and practical applications of modern instrumental methods used in chemical analysis. Using a combination of chromatographic and spectroscopic problem-based learning approaches, the critical thinking and analytical skills of the student will be improved and will assist them in developing their theoretical knowledge to do advanced research.

Course Credit: 1.5

This practical course is based on theoretical knowledge of analytical chemistry and instrumental methods of analysis. The course is designed to provide essential knowledge related to safety during working in an advanced analytical laboratory, and the development of skills for the use of sophisticated instruments and equipment in different chemical analysis. The course is also designed to develop instrumental and analytical skills to conduct research work.

Course Credit: 2

Environmental Science and Engineering is a fundamental course for undergraduate engineering students which gives stresses real-time knowledge and skills on the environment. The course will help to deal with various environmental pollutions and their mitigations.

Course Credit: 3

This course intends to introduce students to the behavior of materials directly linked to their fundamental structures, and how structures and properties may be altered through processing. It will help the students understand the structure of solids, the mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of materials, and the characterization technique.

Course Credit: 2

This course provides the students with a basic understanding of the role of social processes, social institutions, and social interactions in their lives and integrates the knowledge drawn from their own degree backgrounds. Industrial sociology concerns the production of goods and services in society and the nature of the social relations involved in this production process.

Course Credit: 3

This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental ideas and logic behind statistical reasoning. In addition, students will be guided through the process of developing an understanding of the subject's significance to the sectors in which they choose to further their education.

Course Credit: 1.5

This core course provides the current trends of footwear design in the existing market. It covers the technical know-how for designing and pattern making of casual, moccasin, and sports shoe, and boot.

Course Credit: 2

The primary objective of this course is to provide vast knowledge about various types of natural and synthetic fibers and their compatibility as a footwear upper material. The students will be able to understand why usage of synthetic upper material is booming instead of leather upper.

Course Credit: 1.5

Footwear design and pattern making is a very important step for footwear manufacturing. This core course covers design and pattern making of several types of footwear such as monk shoe, army boot, safety shoe, orthopedic shoe and baby shoe.

Course Credit: 3

This course emphasizes on the quality assessment of different physical characteristics of leather, footwear, and allied materials. It imparts a comprehensive knowledge on different physical testing methods related to footwear manufacturing. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to attain thorough knowledge of quality control in footwear production.

Course Credit: 1.5

This course focuses on the various practical aspects of physical testing of different shoe upper leather, lining leather, sole, insole and allied materials. It also provides quality testing of complete shoe, safety shoe and shoe accessories. At the end of the course, learners will be able to recognize the quality of materials and complete footwear.

Course Credit: 3

This course is designed to impart fundamental knowledge on leather products design and manufacturing. The course equips students with the familiarization of the production technology of leather products. At the end of the course, students will be able to design and manufacture of basic leather products.

Course Credit: 1.5

This course contains details about the leather products manufacture through cutting, Pre assembling, assembling, bench operations, sewing and finishing operations. The course will also equip the students with knowledge and understanding of production technology of leather goods and garments manufacturing which includes knowledge in pattern construction, designing and styling development and production.

Course Credit: 3

This course is designed as a core course to deliver SCM related knowledge to the students. It comprises understanding the basic structure of the footwear industry’s supply chain, supply chain performance drivers, designing an agile supply chain network, demand forecasting, outsourcing decisions and lead time management.

Course Credit: 1.5

This course is designed to help students identify the knowledge and skills required for obtaining and keeping employment. Upon successful completion of the course, students are expected to have employability skills that will allow them to do effective presentations, write properly, be career-oriented, and have the ability to work independently.

Course Credit: 2

This course will deliver the most important knowledge about the key roles of merchandisers and merchandising process involved in the footwear industry through which the students will be able to prepare themselves for being a good merchandiser. This course will disseminate knowledge about merchandise planning, prototype preparation, costing and negotiation with buyers, order confirmation process, shipment management and visual merchandising.

Course Credit: 1

This course will provide the students with a practical perspective of the concepts and theories that are taught to them. It will also introduce students with knowledge about modern technology, and machinery used in the footwear industry.

Course Credit: 3

This course is designed as a core course to impart education about safety footwear, army boot manufacturing, smart footwear production, manufacturing of minimal footwear, high-performance outdoor footwear, washable footwear, and development of children’s footwear.

Course Credit: 1.5

This core course fulfills the manufacturing of special types of footwear like safety footwear, army boot, orthopedic footwear, and children’s footwear. After completion of the course, students will be able to learn the detailed manufacturing process practically.

Course Credit: 1.5

The course will provide an overview of how computer-aided design and CAD software like Shoe master and Crispin can be applied to the traditional skills of pattern cutting, grading, fashion design and manufacturing. Student will learn to use various CAD/CAM software packages which include Shoe master and Crispin. The course also will help student how to use CAD software for designing and pattern making skills for footwear.

Course Credit: 3

The course is designed to teach students the fundamentals of industrial utilities and issues with functionality caused by deposition, corrosion, and biofouling. This course will provide students with knowledge of the maintenance of various machinery of leather and footwear industries, total productive maintenance, and also laboratory safety and maintenance.

Course Credit: 3

This course provides knowledge of cost behavior and terminology, cost elements, accounting system, and costing techniques. The course emphasizes on analysis of cost behavior, evaluation performance and business economics. At the end of the course, students will have a thorough understanding of the areas of cost ascertainment, cost control and cost management in a complicated manufacturing environment of footwear industry.

Course Credit: 3

This course emphasizes the TQM framework, barriers, and benefits resulting in beneficial effects on organizational development in the competitive business. After completion of the course, students will learn about strategic lead time management and quality systems and be able to lead a team, production line, and a business organization.

Course Credit: 2

This core course includes different types of non-leather materials for footwear. Students will be able to learn and recognize the appropriate synthetic materials for footwear and modify their characteristics accordingly.

Course Credit: 1.5

This course is a core course for footwear manufacturing. The course fulfills the general concept, necessity and selection of non- leather footwear materials at the different stage of shoe manufacturing. After completion of the course, students will be able to assess the quality of synthetic polymeric materials or textile fabrics completely practically.

Course Credit: 1.5

This course is designed to provide students with practical knowledge of industrial utilities and maintenance of machinery used in leather and footwear industries. Students will become competent in comfortable working condition, material handling, understanding operating procedures of various machinery and their upkeep as well.

Course Credit: 3

Wastewater and Solid Waste management is intended to disseminate knowledge on different methods of existing and advanced effluent treatments and footwear industry solid waste management. The course provides up-to-date knowledge on the integrated waste management of footwear industries.

Course Credit: 1.5

The course is designed to develop the skills to measure the basic environmental parameters related to wastewater and solid waste management. It provides the comprehensive practical knowledge to design and develop modern waste management approaches.

Course Credit: 3

The course emphasizes production systems, facility location, and efficient production layout. This course will pronounce how to conduct an analysis of demand forecasting for production, and inventory management. Moreover, students will learn in detail knowledge of work and method study and its application in footwear production.

Course Credit: 3

Sports Footwear Manufacturing The course will provide an opportunity for students to gather knowledge on different types of sports shoes, sports footwear manufacturing process, biomechanics behind sports shoes, fitting and testing of sports shoes.

Course Credit: 3

The course is designed to encourage students to think critically, solve challenging problems, and develop skills such as oral communication, research skills, teamwork, and goal setting. It teaches them to successfully complete the projects within financial and ethical boundaries and to be able to gain an insight of the latest trends and applications ongoing in the respective fields and to communicate with society and professionals both in verbal and written form in a successful manner.

Course Credit: 2.5

Comprehensive viva is designed to judge the student's overall academic performance in the studied courses.

Course Credit: 3

The internship course is designed to involve students to the real work environment in the industry. Students will be able to familiarize themselves with the state-of-the-art production technologies, innovation, diversified materials and products.