GATE Exam 2014 Syllabus
Textile Engineering and Fibre Science
Energy Conservation, Finishing, Pollution, Preparatory Processes, Dyeing, Printing, Textile Fibres, Fabric manufacture and Fabric Structure, Textile Testing, Yarn manufacture and yarn structure & properties.
Production and Industrial Engineering
Production Planning and Inventory Control, Intellectual Property System, Management Information System, Reliability and Maintenance, Quality Management, Operations Research, Facility Design, Engineering Economy and Costing, Work System Design, Product Design and Development, Metal Casting, Machining and Machine Tool Operations, Metal Forming, Metal Joining Processes, Tool Engineering, Metrology and Inspection, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Manufacturing Analysis, Polymers and Composites and Powder Metallurgy.
Aerospace Engineering
Numerical methods, Calculus, Differential Calculus, Linear Algebra, Dynamic stability, Airplane performance, Static stability, Atmosphere, Space Dynamics, Aerodynamics and Structures.
Agricultural Engineering
Engineering Mathematics, Farm Machinery and Power, Soil and Water Conservation Engineering and Agricultural Processing and Food Engineering.
Physics
Nuclear and Particle Physics, Electronics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Solid State Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics, Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetic Theory and Mathematical Physics.
Metallurgical Engineering
Linear Algebra, Numerical Methods, Differential Equations, Calculus, Probability and Statistics, Manufacturing Processes, Mechanical Metallurgy, Physical Metallurgy, Extractive Metallurgy and Thermodynamics and Rate Processes.
Architecture and Planning
Development Administration and Management, Traffic and Transportation Planning, Infrastructure, Services and Amenities, Techniques of Planning, Planning Theory, Materials and Structural Systems, Building Construction and Management, Development of Contemporary Architecture, Building Services, Visual and Urban Design, History of Architecture, Environmental Studies in Building Science, Computer Aided Design, Landscape Design, Housing and City planning.
Biotechnology
Bioinformatics, Recombinant DNA Technology, Immunology, Characteristics of animal cells, Plant and Animal Biotechnology, Bioprocess Engineering, Process Biotechnology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Numerical Methods, Probability and Statistics, Differential Equations, Calculus and Linear Algebra.
Mining Engineering
Principles of planning, Surveying, Mine Planning and Systems Engineering, Air, water and soil pollution, Ventilation, Underground Hazards and Surface Environment, Mining Methods and Machinery, Mine Development, Geomechanics and Ground Control, Mechanics, Differential Equations, Probability and Statistics, Numerical Methods, Vector Calculus, Calculus and linear algebra.
Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Mathematics, Applied Mechanics and Design, Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences, Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering.
Civil Engineering
Surveying, Transportation Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering and Engineering Mathematics.
Chemical Engineering
Chemical Technology, Plant Design and Economics, Instrumentation and Process Control, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Mass Transfer, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Mechanical Operations and Process Calculations and Thermodynamics, Probability and Statistics, Differential equations and Linear Algebra.
Mathematics
Calculus of Variation and Integral Equations, Linear programming, Probability and Statistics, Topology, Mechanics, Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis, Functional Analysis, Algebra, Ordinary Differential Equations, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis and linear algebra.
Instrumentation Engineering
Analytical, Optical and Biomedical Instrumentation, Control Systems and Process Control, Electrical and Electronic Measurements, Signals, Systems and Communications, Digital Electronics, Analog Electronics, Transducers, Mechanical Measurement and Industrial Instrumentation, Basics of Circuits and Measurement Systems and Engineering mathematics.
Geology and Geophysics
Earth and Planetary system, size, shape, internal structure and composition of the earth, Weathering, Introduction to remote sensing, Igneous rocks, Crystal symmetry, Cosmic abundance, Engineering properties of rocks and soils, Ore mineralogy and optical properties of ore minerals, Geophysical inverse problems, Principles and techniques of geophysical well-logging, Seismic methods of prospecting, Earths magnetic field, Scalar and vector potential fields, The earth as a planet; different motions of the earth etc.
Electrical Engineering
Power Electronics and Drives, Analog and Digital Electronics, Electrical and Electronic Measurements, Control Systems, Power Systems, Electrical Machines, Signals and Systems, Electric Circuits and Fields and engineering mathematics.
Electrical and Communication Engineering
Electromagnetics, Communications, Control Systems, Signals and Systems, Digital circuits, Analog Circuits, Electronic Devices, Networks and engineering mathematics.
Chemistry
Physical Chemistry: structure, equilibrium, kinetics, structure; Organic Chemistry: Spectroscopy, Biomolecules, Heterocyclic compounds, Photochemistry, Pericyclic reactions, Reaction mechanism, Organic synthesis, Stereochemistry; and Inorganic chemistry: Instrumental methods of analysis, Solids, Transition Elements and Main group elements.
Computer Science and Information Technology
Web technologies, Computer Networks, Information Systems and Software Engineering, Databases, Operating System, Compiler Design, Theory of Computation, Algorithms, Programming and Data Structures, Computer Organization and Architecture, Digital Logic and engineering mathematics.
Food Technology (for XL and XE)
Food Engineering, Food Products Technology, Food Microbiology, Food Chemistry and Nutrition.
Zoology (XL)
Animal Behavior, Ecology, Development Biology, Parasitology and Immunology, Animal Anatomy and Physiology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Genetics, Evolution and animal world.
Microbiology (XL)
Microbial Ecology, Microbial Genetics, Chemotherapy/Antibiotics, Microbial Diseases and Host Pathogen Interaction, Microbial Metabolism, Control of Micro-organisms, Microbial Growth, Prokaryotic Cells, Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells, Microbial Taxonomy and Diversity, Methods in Microbiology and Historical Perspective.
Botany (XL)
Ecology and Environment, Plant Pathology, Economic Botany, Plant Breeding and Genetic Modification, Genetics, Physiology and Biochemistry, Morphogenesis & Development, Plant Anatomy and Plant Systematics.
Biochemistry (XL)
Immune system, DNA replication, transcription and translation, Biological membranes, Metabolism and bioenergetics and Organization of life.
Chemistry (XL)
Structure-Reactivity Correlations, Basis of Organic Reactions Mechanism, Thermodynamics, Reaction Kinetics, Electrochemistry, Chemical Equilibria, s.p. and d Block Elements, Structure and bonding and Atomic structure and periodicity.
Polymer Science and Engineering (XE)
Polymer testing, Polymer processing, Polymer rheology, Polymer Technology, Polymer blends and composites, Synthesis and properties, Polymer Characterization and Chemistry of high polymers.
Thermodynamics (XE)
Ideal Gas Mixtures, Thermodynamic cycles, Thermodynamic Relations, Properties of Pure Substances, Second Law of Thermodynamics, First Law of Thermodynamics and Basic Concepts.
Solid Mechanics (XE)
Free vibration of single degree of freedom systems, Stresses and strains and Equivalent force systems.
Materials Science (XE)
Environmental Degradation, Magnetic Properties, Optical Properties, Electronic Properties, Thermal Properties, Mechanical Properties, Advanced Materials and Tools, Composites, Polymers, Ceramics, Metals and Alloys, Diffusion and Structure.
Fluid Mechanics (XE)
Dimensional analysis, Hydrostatics and Fluid Properties.
Engineering Mathematics (XE)
Numerical Methods, Probability and Statistics, Partial Differential Equations, Ordinary Differential Equations, Vector Calculus, Complex variables, Calculus and Linear Algebra.
