Date: 27-09-2021

To,
The Head,
Department of Engineering Physics
IIT Bombay

Dear Prof. S.Umashankar,

I would like to apply for the Student Exchange program under the MoU between IIT
Bombay and École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), for the duration of 1
semester, starting from Feburary.

I am currently in 7th semester, of the 4th year of my study at IIT Bombay for the
Engineering Physics B.tech. degree. My CPI is 8.42 . A copy of my transcripts, as
available on ASC is attached.

I am appending a list of courses that I have selected at (the partner) university to match
the courses that I would have chosen from the list of IITB courses during these semesters.

Courses at IIT Bombay Courses identified at (partner university) *

(Use additional pages if needed) (Use additional pages if needed)
PH 536 - Physics of Quantum Devices Physics of photonic semiconductor devices
PHYS-434
ES 200 - Environmental Studies: Science Air pollution and climate change
and Engineering ENV-400
HS 200 - Environmental Studies Environmental economics
ENV-471
SOM 653 - Security Analysis and Portfolio Investments
Management FIN-405
SOM 605 - Statistical Methods Econometrics
FIN-403
SOM 607 - Macroeconomics Economics of ideas
MGT-303
SOM 606 - Corporate Finance I Practical business law
MGT-455
IE 714 - Quantitative Models for Supply Supply Chain Management
Chain Management MGT-526
IE 899 - Communication Skills Leading and managing in a global context
MGT-468
* [If going for project work (also) – Attach Project Plan (also)]

I request you to kindly approve the above course matching/project plan and allow me to
apply for an Exchange semester(s) at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
EPFL(partner) university. I also request you to kindly forward your approval to the Dean,
International Relations, for further processing.
Thanking you,
Sincerely,

_____________________
(Signature of student)
Name of student: Hriday Mittal
Roll Number: 18D170012
Email contact: 18D170012@iitb.ac.in
Phone contact: 9462746440

P.T.O.....
Through: The Faculty Advisor,

I recommend the application of Hriday Mittal for the student exchange program. I approve
of the list of courses listed above that the student has chosen to credit during this period.

Prof. Gopal Dixit : ______________________(Signature of Faculty Advisor)

Through: HOD, ____________________________(of the student’s department),

The DPGC / DUGC approves the courses proposed by the student and further approves
the equivalence of the courses proposed in the above list with the corresponding courses
in the IIT Bombay curriculum.

Prof. ________________ : _______________________(Signature of Head)

Stamp of HOD:

(For use of UG Students only)

Approval for Minor courses if necessary through (HOD) of the concerned
Department:
The DUGC of the Department of ____________________________(department in which
the minor course is taken) approves the inclusion of the courses listed above towards a
Minor. The DUGC further approves the equivalence of the Minor courses with the
corresponding minor courses offered as part of the IIT Bombay curriculum.

Prof. _____________________: _____________________(Signature of the Head)

Forwarded to Dean IR: (Comments, if any)
________________________________________________________________________
________
Course Details:

IIT Bombay Course Description EPFL Course Course Details

Courses Mapped

ES 200 - Air Pollution and Climate ENV-400 Air ● Atmospheric

Environmental Change: An introduction to pollution and pollutants and
Studies: Science understanding air quality climate change their effects
and Engineering on the
management, fundamental
environment
processes of meteorology, ● Emissions
Gaussian plume model. Air related to air
Pollutants – Gaseous and pollution and
particulate, Criteria climate
pollutants, ambient and change
source standards, Aerosols: ● Measurement
s of air
Characterisation of aerosols,
pollutants,
size distributions, greenhouse
measurement methods; gases and
Transport behaviour: meteorologica
diffusion, sedimentation, l conditions
inertia; Visibility; principles ● Air quality
of particulate control models
● Environmenta
systems. Second part would
l regulations
focus on the climate change and
and greenhouse gas abatement
emissions, and how different strategies
technologies would reduce related to air
the greenhouse gas pollution and
emissions. climate
change

HS 200 - Environmental Ethics & ENV 471 - ● Introduction

Environmental Sustainability, What is Environmental to economic
Studies Ethics?, Relation between Economics analysis:
religion and environment, Actors,
supply,
Scripture references & demand /
environment, Current Markets and
events, How you can make a prices / Price
difference? Traditional and quantity
economic system and its regulation
limitations for ● Introduction
to
environmental concerns,
environmenta
relationships between the l policy:
economic and environmental Cost-benefit
analysis,
 system, the laws of objectives /
thermodynamics and how Instruments
they relate to the for
environmenta
economy-environment
l policy /
system, and various Comparison
approaches for incorporating of
environmental concerns into instruments
economic models and their ● Applications:
limitations. Socio-political, Swiss climate
cultural, and governance policy (CO2
Act) / Waste
issues related to
management
environment / Mobility
pricing
● Introduction
to financial
calculation:
Arbitrage,
discounting /
Net present
value / Risk,
diversification
● Project
evaluation:
Investment,
costs (Capex,
Opex) /
Amortization
and
depreciation /
Financial
comparison of
projects
● Applications:
Energy
retrofitting of
buildings /
Reparation vs
replacement /
Student
personal
projects

PH 574 - Physics of Basics of Semiconductors: PHYS-434 1. Semiconductor

Semiconductor Brief review of Band Physics of materials for
Devices or PH 536- structure. Band diagram of photonic optoelectronics
Physics of few important semiconductor
Quantum Devices semiconductors: Si, Ge, devices 2. Semiconducting
GaAs, GaN, constant energy nanostructures,
surface, density of states, dielectric
effective mass, different microcavities and
directions in the Brillouin photonic crystals
zone and their common Growth techniques:
names. Direct and indirect ● Quantum
gaps. Doping: Hydrogenic wells,
impurity model in detail superlattices,
(show how to construct quantum dots
impurity wave function using and single
the band wave functions as photon
the basis.) shallow and deep emitters
donors, Probability of ● Basic features
Ionisation of a dopant (Saha of
ionization equation) Fermi microcavities
level, Intrinsic, extrinsic and and photonic
compensated crystals,
semiconductors, carrier Purcell effect
statistics, carrier density
product [How does one 4.
experimentally measure Electroluminescence
donor level positions?] ● Light-emittin
Boltzmann transport g diodes,
equation, Mobility, drift, quasi-Fermi
diffusion, electrochemical levels,
potential and its difference emission
with electrostatic potential. spectra,
Discuss clearly the questions efficiency,
like what does a voltmeter radiative and
actually measure. nonradiative
Band-bending and band lifetimes
discontinuity at the ● Applications:
interface: displays and
Poisson-Boltzmann solid-state
formulation: lighting
Metal-semiconductor 5. Laser diodes
junctions, Schottky and ● Stimulated
Ohmic contacts, p-n emission,
junction, derivation of material and
forward and reverse bias I-V modal gain,
equation, tunnel diodes transparency
(NDR region and its use in and threshold
oscillator circuits), Gunn currents,
effect, p-i-n structures. BJTs spectral
(with band diagrams under characteristics
bias), Triac/SCR, , far-field and
Metal-insulator-semiconduct near-field
or (MIS) structures. Field emission
effect devices: JFET, patterns,
MOSFET Band diagram, efficiency,
operation regimes, principle waveguides
 of operation of MOSFETs, ● Fabry-Perot
Basic derivation of the laser diodes,
inversion voltage (use distributed
PoissonBoltzmann). feedback and
current-voltage and vertical cavity
capacitance-voltage surface
characteristics of MOSFET, emitting laser
Source-Drain/Transfer structures
characteristics of MOSFET, ● Bandgap
comparison with BJT’s engineering,
curves. Band engineering: quantum well
Poisson Schrodinger laser diodes,
equation, the envelope separate
function approximation, confinement
alloying, strain and heterostructur
polarization charges at es
interfaces, Modulation ● Relaxation
doping, Single oscillation
heterojunction, Quantum frequency
wells. Explain why ● Beyond
modulation doping gives conventional
higher mobility. HEMT laser diodes:
devices (GaAs-AlGaAs, physics of
GaN-AlGaN) Formation of high-ß
the 2DEG at the interface, nanolasers
compare with MOSFETs. ● Quantum
Optoelectronic devices: cascade lasers
Carrier statistics under
illumination condition,
Generation and
Recombination of Carriers,
Quasi-Fermi levels,
photovoltaic Effect, working
of Solar Cells,
Current-Voltage
characteristics.
Shockley-Quessar limit.
Light emitting diodes (LED),
Internal Quantum Efficiency,
External Quantum
Efficiency, How to improve
quantum efficiency of LEDs,
Laser-diodes.

SOM 653 - Security Financial system, Securities FIN-405 Topics include

Analysis and markets, valuation of equity
Portfolio and debt securities, efficient
Management market hypothesis,
(Institute Elective) fundamental analysis,
technical analysis, portfolio
Investments portfolio selection,
equilibrium asset
pricing, arbitrage
pricing, market
efficiency, behavioral
 theory, asset pricing models, finance, tests of asset
trading strategies, portfolio pricing models,
performance evaluation, trading strategies in
issues in regulation of equity, fixed income,
securities markets. foreign exchange, and
commodity markets,
as well as dynamic
asset allocation.

SOM 605 - Probability, Random FIN-403 - Linear regression

Statistical Methods Variables, Probability
(Institute Elective) Distributions, Sampling
Distributions, Estimation,
Testing of Hypotheses, Chi
Square Tests, Regression,
Analysis of Variance.
Econometrics models
- Ordinary least
squares estimation
- Hypothesis testing
and confidence
intervals in linear
regression models
- Nonlinear
regression models
- Generalised least
squares
- Instrumental
variables estimation
- Generalized method
of moments
- Maximum
likelihood estimation
- Introduction to time
series models

SOM 607 - Measuring economic activity, MGT-303 The class is organized

Macroeconomics National income, money and Economics of in three chapters,
(Institute Elective) inflation, saving and ideas covering the
investment, exchange rate, following themes:
unemployment, business ● A
cycles, IS-LM model, macroeconom
Mundell-Fleming model, ic perspective:
policy debates – innovation
stabilization, government and economic
debt. growth
● A
microeconomi
c perspective:
market
failures and
policy tools to
encourage
innovation
● Intellectual
property
SOM 606 - Introduction to Financial MGT-455 This course will cover
Corporate Finance Management & Financial Practical the legal foundation
I (Institute System,-Financial business law of business
Elective) Performance Analysis-Funds transactions with
Flow and Cash Flow focus on practical
Statements-Leverages: handling of legal
financial, operating and issues frequently
total-Financial Planning and arising in a business
Forecasting- Working context. This course
Capital Management: includes:
working capital policy-cash
management-credit ● an
management-inventory introduction
management-working capital to contracts
financing policy (formation,
completion
and
termination)
● a study of
common
business
agreements
(purchase and
sale,
manufacturin
g, services,
employment,
cooperation,
non-disclosur
e,
non-compete)
,
● an overview of
intellectual
property
(patents,
designs,
copyrights &
trademarks),
with special
emphasis on
how to
register a
trademark,
● an overview of
competition
law and data
protection
law,
 ● technology
development
and transfer
agreements
(licenses,
franchises,
R&D, joint
ventures),
● an overview of
company law,
with special
emphasis on
the most
common form
of companies,
● an overview of
the issues that
are specific to
start-up
companies,
including
relationships
amongst
shareholders
and financing
by investors,
● a role game
(participation
optional)
enabling
students to
negotiate a
business
transaction
and handle a
litigation case.
Specific skills will be
taught, such as
understanding
contractual
documents, drafting
typical contractual
clauses and some
negotiation
techniques and
pitfalls.

Finally, this course

draws the students'
attention to certain
 issues relating to
regulatory matters
and dispute
resolution

IE 714 - Supply chain management MGT-526 1. Designing the

Quantitative involves a number of Supply Chain Supply Chain to
Models for Supply decisions that benefit by Management Match Value (Ocado
Chain Management quantitative techniques of Case)
analysis and design. The 2. Supply Chain
course will take up a few of Simulation Exercise
these to explore modeling, (The Beer Game)
computation and IT-enabled 3. Supply Chain
implementation of solutions Challenges (Philips
in some areas of Supply Case)
Chain Management. The 4. Leveraging
application areas include Information Flows
material flow management (7-11 Japan Case)
across the supply chain, 5. Introduction to
value management and Inventory Control
analysis of total supply chain Models
costs, robust design of 6. Designing for
supply chains, co-ordination Supply-Chain-Respo
of supply chain decisions and nsiveness
handling of uncertainties in (Obermeyer Case)
supply chain management. 7. Global Supply
The emphasis will be on Chain Management
modeling, analysis and Simulation
implementation issues, 8. Supply Chain
including a few case studies, Portfolio
but the relevant techniques Management (Hilti
will be covered as required. Case)
9. Rebuilding the
Logistics Platform
(Lego Case)
10. Managing a
Supply Chain
Turnaround (Sky
Deutschland)
11. Mass
Customization
Challenges
(mi-adidas Case)
12. SmarterChains
Technology Road
Mapping Exercise
13. Digitally-Enabled
Supply Chains (Tetra
Pak Case)
IE 899 - Context of communication: MGT-468 Leadership in a
Communication Recognizing our capability Leading and Global context:
Skills androles as managing in a Identify key concepts
professionalsScientific global context and leadership styles
Method: Question and and how they adapt
answer aspects oftechnical to the global context.
communication; Scientific Explore own
Methodology and leadership
itsrelationship to technical experiences and style
communication;Surveying with areas for growth
literature: Categories; and development
reading and Essential
organizingscientific Management
literature; search engines Components:
and tools.Listening and Note Integrate
taking: 5-R method and management
mind-mapping.Technical components
writing: Report organization; necessary when
Journal managing and
selection;Introduction, working with people
conclusion, and abstract in a global context
writing.Speaking & and learn to apply
Presentation skills: them to real life
Organization ofpresentation examples and
slides (number, content, and situations. Topics
formatting); covered are
Oralpresentations; recruitment and
Audience/context dependent motivation, reward
practices; Nonverbal aspects: and development,
body language, eye-contact, feedback and conflict
personalappearance, facing resolution.
large audience.Elevator Identify and develop
pitch: Pitches for technical personal profile:
audience and Analyze own style
policymakersWorkplace and perception of
communication: Sensitivity others through
towards genderand diversity; psychometric
Email communication and questionnaires and
netiquettes.Ethics in feedback from other
academic communication: participants. Explore
Intellectual cultural differences in
Property,copyrights and class and
plagiarism; Authorship; Data development of
ethics; Biasesand balanced cross-cultural
criticism of understanding and
literature;Suggested communication skills
additional topics relevant to which are an
disciplines: essential part of
Datarepresentation, Group working in a global
discussion and interviews; context.
accessiblescientific writing,
report writing using LaTeX,
Proofreading, etc.
Participants will work
in teams to put in
practice and present
course learnings and
teamwork. They will
learn to consider the
global context in
which they operate
and the importance
for organizations to
build on cultural
differences.