Curriculum Framework

The structure of UG programme in Engineering shall have essentially the following types of courses with the breakup of credits as shown against them:

Sl. No.	Courses	Credits	% of Total Credits
1	Humanities and Social Sciences including Management, courses, including AE	16	10.00
2	Basic Sciences Courses	22	13.75
3	Engineering Science courses including workshop, drawing, basics of electrical/mechanical/computer/PL/etc.	24	15.00
4	Professional Core courses relevant to chosen specialization/branch	59	36.88
5	Professional Elective courses relevant to chosen specialization/branch	12	7.50
6	Open subjects - Electives from other technical and/or emerging subjects	12	7.50
7	Project work and internship in industry or elsewhere	15	9.37
8	Mandatory Courses (Environmental Sciences, Induction Program, Indian Constitution, Essence of Indian Knowledge Tradition)	(non-credit)
	Total	160	100.00

Total Credits Required

The total number of credits to be earned for the award of B.E./ B.Tech. degree by students admitted to the first semester of the four-year B.E./B.Tech. programme shall be 160.
The total number of credits to be earned for the award of B.E./ B.Tech. degree by students admitted under lateral entry scheme to the third semester of the four - year B.E./B.Tech. programme shall be 120.
A student shall be awarded B.E./ B.Tech. degree with Honours or Minor, if he/she earns a minimum of additional 18 credits, satisfying the conditions specified in "VTU (Award of B.E./B.Tech. Honors/ Minors Degree) Regulations, 2022.

The scheme of teaching and evaluation shall be framed by distributing the total credits over eight semesters as follows: