MSc in Information and Communication Engineering

Credit System

The curriculum is organized in the framework of the credit system. Each course has a certain number of credits, which indicates the weightage. The number of credits depends on the contact hours for the course. Normally a course is designed for 4 hours of lecture per week. The tutorial on each course may include laboratory, simulation works and assignment works as determined by the department.

Instructional Methods

The courses comprise of Lecturer, Tutorials, Laboratory works, seminars, short projects as applicable. The concerned faculty would give the assignments. Reference materials including international publications, journals, handbooks, websites, related software, etc will be used extensively. The course contents are designed in such a way that the students should use considerable self-learning efforts. Innovative approaches and ideas would be encouraged.

Registration

Every student must register and seriously attempt to complete all the courses including thesis work within two years. The program comprises 20 credits of core courses, 12 credits of elective courses, 4 credits of open elective, 4 credits for project work, and 20 credits of thesis. The topics of the thesis to be offered by the different faculty members will be floated at the beginning of the second semester. The students will be asked to give their preferences for the topics offered. Alternatively, the students will be asked to give their own topics of interest. The MSICE program committee, considering the preference given by the students and the availability of faculty supervisors, will then assign the students the topics. This will be completed by the end of the second semester at the latest.

Qualifying Criteria

To qualify for the Master of Science in Information and Communications Engineering, a student must satisfactorily complete a program of course work of at least 60 credits including an individual thesis of 20 credits.

In order to be eligible for admission to the MSICE program, a candidate must:

• Have a Bachelor’s Degree from normally a four-year program in Computer, Electronics, Electrical Engineering from T U and other well-recognized Universities as well as Degree equivalent to nay of the aforesaid branches of engineering.
• Have undergraduate grades not less than that prescribed by the faculty Board of the Institute of Engineering.
• Secure a minimum score, as prescribed by the Faculty Board, in the admission test.

The candidate willing to appear in the entrance examination to get enrollment into the M.Sc. program should fill and submit the Application Form online within the deadline prescribed by the Entrance Exam Board. Application forms will be available on the websites: www.ioe.edu.np/entrance or http://entrance.ioe.edu.np. The application procedures are as follows:

1. The candidate should deposit the required amount as an application fee for the entrance examination in Account No mentioned in the notice by submitting a specially prepared voucher often by filling the applicant's name and date of birth in it. The voucher No. indicated in the voucher needs to be specified in the online application form.

2. The candidate must select the appropriate entrance stream.

3. The candidate should fill up the other required fields in the form without skipping any steps.

4. The candidate also needs to upload his/her color photograph of the prescribed specification and one of the following identification documents.

• Citizenship certificate
• Passport
• The last exam admit card

If any change has to be done on the submitted information in the application form, a candidate has to pay an extra fee to edit six or fewer numbers of normal text fields. For name, photo, or ID document correction, he/she has to pay more amounts at ICTC and submit a letter of request for correction with the payment voucher

Selection:

Candidates fulfilling the admission requirements shall be selected for admission on the basis of merit, which will be assessed in terms of total marks considering the marks secured in the entrance exam.

Seat/Quota distribution for M.Sc Program

Total Intake	Regular Merit	IOE Reserved	Full Fee	Sponsored
20	5	1	6	8

1. One seat in a regular category and One seat in the full fee category are reserved for female candidates in each program
2. One seat is reserved for IOE faculty. For IOE Reserved Quota, priority will be given to permanent IOE faculty. If there are no applicants from permanent IOE faculty, then priority will be given to faculties who have completed 5 years as contract faculty. If there is no applicant in the IOE reserve quota, it is added to the Full Fee Seat. 1/4th of the sponsored quota is reserved for Foreign students.
3. Priority for the sponsored quota will be as follows:
   1. 1st Priority: Candidates from government offices & Government Owned Organizations or Companies
   2. 2nd Priority: Other Organizations
4. If applications are not received in sponsored/foreign category, then the seat will be fulfilled as full fee category.

Graduates from the Master of Science in Information and Communications Engineering (MSICE) program will be leaders in the planning, design development, implementation, and management of Information and Communication technologies to accelerate IT-led development.

 

Course Contents

The course consists primarily of two types of courses; the core courses deal with the fundamentals and application in different course areas whereas the elective courses deal with very specific details of the course. A student is allowed to select any relevant four courses from among the elective courses besides five core courses. The consistency of elective selection will be ensured with assistance from the faculty advisor.

The course is thesis-based and the student has to take a project work of 4 credits and a thesis of 20 credits. The student works under the guidance of the faculty advisor.

First Semester

S.N.	Course Code	Course Title	Credit	Internal	External	Total
1	EG801IC	Information Theory & Coding	4	40	60	100
2	EG803IC	Information System Analysis & Design	4	40	60	100
3	EG802IC	Digital System Design	4	40	60	100
4	EG901IC	Telecommunication & Computer Networks	4	40	60	100
		Total	16

Second Semester

S.N.	Course Code	Course Title	Credit	Internal	External	Total
1		Research & Optimization Methods	4	40	60	100
2	EG851IC	Communication Theory	4	40	60	100
3		Elective 1	4	40	60	100
4		Elective 2	4	40	60	100
		Total	16

Third Semester

S.N.	Course Code	Course Title	Credit	Internal	External	Total
1		Project work	4	40	60	100
2		Elective 3	4	40	60	100
3		Elective 4	4	40	60	100
		Total	12

Fourth Semester

S.N.	Course Code	Course Title	Credit	Internal	External	Total
1		Thesis	16	40	60	100

Elective Courses

Elective courses will be offered as per the availability of resource persons. Each elective course offered will of 4 credits. Here is the list of elective courses that were offered in earlier batches.

Course Code	Subject Name
EG904IC	Neural Network
EG855IC	Satellite Communication
EG905IC	Digital Image Processing
EG906IC	Radar and Remote Sensing
EG907IC	Advanced Computer Architecture
EG866IC	Multimedia Communication and Application
EG918IC	Cellular Network and Planning
EG913IC	Tele-Medicine
EG902IC	Internet Technology
EG903IC	Knowledge-Based System Design
EG908IC	Computer Simulation
EG909IC	Aviation Communication
	Bio Informatics
	E-Government System
	Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
	Color Image Technology
	Nanotechnology
	Big Data Applications and Analytics
	Advance Data Mining
	Next Generation Internet and Network Technologies
	Speech & Language Processing
	Natural Language Processing
	RF & Microwave Circuit System and Design
	Semantic Web Technology & Applications
EG910IC	Operating System
EG911IC	Client-Server Distributed System
EG912IC	Wireless/ Mobile Communication
EG914IC	Modern Power Supply for Communication Equipment
EG852IC	Management of Information technology
EG861IC	Data Structure and Algorithm
EG862IC	Theory of Automata and Formal Language
EG863IC	Software Engineering
EG853IC	Optical Communication
EG854IC	Automatic Control System
EG856IC	Computer Graphics
EG857IC	Object-Oriented Paradigm
EG858IC	Digital Signal Processing
EG859IC	DataBase and File Structure
EG865IC	CAD of Digital System
EG919IC	Adaptive Signal Processing

Course Codes

The course codes are designated by two alphabets, followed by three numbers and terminating on another set of two alphabets. The first two alphabets i.e EG signify Engineering Faculty. The first digits of three number codes signify the level at which it is offered. For instance, digits 8 and 9 signify lower and upper levels of courses offered at the Master's level. The second digit is used to designate the semester, 0 to 4 for the first semester and 5 to 9 for the second. The third digit indicates the subject. The two-letter codes following the three digits indicate the department or the autonomous center that offers the course. EG 801 IC means course offered in the Institute of Engineering in the first Semester of the year of Masters level and is offered by the department of Electronics and Computer Engineering.