IES Syllabus for EEE – Candidates who are in search of IES Electrical Engineering Syllabus can refer to this article. In this article, we will provide you with IES Syllabus & Exam pattern for EEE. Candidates can check IES EEE Syllabus for both Prelims and Mains examination here.
IES Syllabus For EEE
Before getting into the details of IES Syllabus for Electrical Engineering, let’s have an over of list of Cadres under which IES Electrical Engineers will be appointed:
- Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers
- Indian Railway Stores Service (Electrical Engineering Posts)
- Central Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Service (Electrical Engineering Posts)
- Indian Defence Service of Engineers
- Indian Naval Armament Service (Electrical Engineering Posts)
- Naval Store Officer Grade-I (Electrical Engineering Posts) in Indian Navy
IES Syllabus For EEE – Exam Pattern (Prelims & Mains)
Going through IES Syllabus for EEE will help candidates to get familiar with the question paper pattern and section-wise distribution of marks:
IES Electrical Engineering Exam Pattern For Prelims
IES Exam Pattern For Prelims Exam (Electrical Engineering)
| subject | Duration | Maximum Marks |
| Paper-I (General Studies and Engineering Aptitude) | 2 Hours | 200 |
| Paper-II (Electrical Engineering) | 3 Hours | 300 |
| Total | 5 Hours | 500 |
IES Exam Pattern For Electrical Engineering Paper 2/Mains Exam
| Subject | Duration | Maximum Marks |
| Paper-I ( Electrical Engineering) | 3 Hours | 300 |
| Paper-II (Electrical Engineering) | 3 Hours | 300 |
| Total | 6 Hours | 600 Marks |
IES Syllabus for General Studies & Engineering Aptitude
General Studies and Engineering Aptitude Syllabus will test candidates’ knowledge of relevant topics as may be expected from an engineering graduate, without special study. The paper will have questions from all the 10 topics mentioned below. Each topic will have a weightage of 5% to 15% of the total marks in the paper.
- Current issues of national and international importance relating to social, economic and industrial development
- Engineering Aptitude covering Logical reasoning and Analytical ability
- Engineering Mathematics and Numerical Analysis
- General Principles of Design, Drawing, Importance of Safety
- Standards and Quality practices in production, construction, maintenance, and services
- Basics of Energy and Environment: Conservation, environmental pollution, and degradation, Climate Change, Environmental impact assessment
- Basics of Project Management 8. Basics of Material Science and Engineering
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based tools and their applications in Engineering such as networking, e-governance and technology-based education.
- Ethics and values in the Engineering profession.
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IES Syllabus for EEE For Paper 1
IES EEE Syllabus For Engineering Mathematics – Matrix theory, Eigen values & Eigen vectors, the system of linear equations, Numerical methods for the solution of non-linear algebraic equations and differential equations, integral calculus, partial derivatives, maxima and minima, Line, Surface and Volume Integrals. Fourier series, linear, non-linear and partial differential equations, initial and boundary value problems, complex variables, Taylor’s and Laurent’s series, residue theorem, probability and statistics fundamentals, Sampling theorem, random variables, Normal and Poisson distributions, correlation and regression analysis.
IES EEE Syllabus For Electrical Materials – Electrical Engineering Materials, crystal structures and defects, ceramic materials, insulating materials, magnetic materials – basics, properties and applications; ferrites, ferromagnetic materials and components; basics of solid-state physics, conductors; Photo- conductivity; Basics of Nanomaterials and Superconductors.
IES EEE Syllabus For Electric Circuits and Fields – Circuit elements, network graph, KCL, KVL, Node and Mesh analysis, ideal current and voltage sources, Thevenin’s, Norton’s, Superposition and Maximum Power Transfer theorems, transient response of DC and AC networks, Sinusoidal steady-state analysis, basic filter concepts, two-port networks, three phase circuits, Magnetically coupled circuits, Gauss Theorem, electric field and potential due to point, line, plane and spherical charge distributions, Ampere’s and Biot-Savart’s laws; inductance, dielectrics, capacitance; Maxwell’s equations.
IES EEE Syllabus For Electrical and Electronic Measurements – Principles of measurement, accuracy, precision and standards; Bridges and potentiometers; moving coil, moving iron, dynamometer and induction type instruments, measurement of voltage, current, power, energy and power factor, instrument transformers, digital voltmeters and multimeters, phase, time and frequency measurement, Q-meters, oscilloscopes, potentiometric recorders, error analysis, Basics of sensors, Transducers, basics of data acquisition systems
IES EEE Syllabus For Computer Fundamentals – Number systems, Boolean algebra, arithmetic functions, Basic Architecture, Central Processing Unit, I/O and Memory Organisation; peripheral devices, data representation and programming, basics of Operating system and networking, virtual memory, file systems; Elements of programming languages, typical examples.
IES EEE Syllabus For Basic Electronics Engineering – Basics of Semiconductor diodes and transistors and characteristics, Junction and field-effect transistors (BJT, FET and MOSFETS), different types of transistor amplifiers, equivalent circuits and frequency response; oscillators and other circuits, feedback amplifiers.
IES Syllabus for EEE For Paper 2
The IES Syllabus for EEE Paper 2 is listed below:
IES EEE Syllabus For Analog and Digital Electronics:
Operational amplifiers – characteristics and applications, combinational and sequential logic circuits, multiplexers, multi-vibrators, sample and hold circuits, A/D and D/A converters, basics of filter circuits and applications, simple active filters; Microprocessor basics- interfaces and applications, basics of linear integrated circuits; Analog communication basics, Modulation and de-modulation, noise and bandwidth, transmitters and receivers, signal to noise ratio, digital communication basics, sampling, quantizing, coding, frequency and time domain multiplexing, power line carrier communication systems.
IES EEE Syllabus For Systems and Signal Processing :
Representation of continuous and discrete-time signals, Shifting and scaling operations, linear, time-invariant and causal systems, Fourier series representation of continuous periodic signals, sampling theorem, Fourier and Laplace transform, Z transforms, Discrete Fourier transform, FFT, linear convolution, discrete cosine transform, FIR filter, IIR filter, bilinear transformation.
IES EEE Syllabus For Control Systems:
Principles of feedback, transfer function, block diagrams and signal flow graphs, steady-state errors, transforms and their applications; Routh-hurwitz criterion, Nyquist techniques, Bode plots, root loci, lag, lead and lead-lag compensation, stability analysis, transient and frequency response analysis, state-space model, state transition matrix, controllability and observability, linear state variable feedback, PID and industrial controllers.
IES EEE Syllabus For Electrical Machines :
Single-phase transformers, three-phase transformers – connections, parallel operation, auto-transformer, energy conversion principles, DC machines – types, windings, generator characteristics, armature reaction and commutation, starting and speed control of motors,
Induction motors – principles, types, performance characteristics, starting and speed control, Synchronous machines – performance, regulation, parallel operation of generators, motor starting, characteristics and applications, servo and stepper motors.
IES EEE Syllabus For Power Systems :
Basic power generation concepts, steam, gas and water turbines, transmission line models and performance, cable performance, insulation, corona and radio interference, power factor correction, symmetrical components, fault analysis, principles of protection systems, basics of solid state relays and digital protection; Circuit breakers, Radial and ring-main distribution systems, Matrix representation of power systems, load flow analysis, voltage control and economic operation, System stability concepts, Swing curves and equal area criterion. HVDC transmission and FACTS concepts, Concepts of power system dynamics, distributed generation, solar and wind power, smart grid concepts, environmental implications, fundamentals of power economics.
IES EEE Syllabus For Power Electronics and Drives :
Semiconductor power diodes, transistors, thyristors, triacs, GTOs, MOSFETs and IGBTs – static characteristics and principles of operation, triggering circuits, phase control rectifiers, bridge converters – fully controlled and half controlled, principles of choppers and inverters, basis concepts of adjustable speed DC and AC drives, DC-DC switched mode converters, DC-AC switched mode converters, resonant converters, high frequency inductors and transformers, power supplies.
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