The Department of Humanities offers courses in Communication Skill, English, Economics and Accountancy to engineering students in an effort to train them for the global economic environment of the 21st Century. Beside giving them in-depth understanding of the labour market in which they are expected to work as well as emerging employment trends among engineers, students are sensitized towards the specific technological need of urban slums and rural areas and socio-economic impact of engineering projects. A conscious effort is also made to develop very good communication and business skill among the budding engineers. To achieve this, technical report writing is also taught by the department in which class room teaching is supplemented by market survey and analysis, paper presentation, group discussion etc.

Academic environment of department is highly vibrant. Faculty members and students frequently participate and present their papers in the national and international seminars / conferences. The Department had organized two seminars for the students on 'Nanotechnology & Society' and 'Inclusive Engineering Education' during last academic year.

From academic year 2006-07, full-time and part-time Ph.D. programmes have been started in the department. Few fellowships are also available for full-time Ph.D. programme. The department has the necessary expertise available in the following research areas of current interest :

• Socio-economic studies and feasibility analysis of engineering projects

• Labour market analysis

• Education and skill up-gradation

The department is in the process of setting up Language Laboratory which will expose the students to TOFEL and GRE model of training and practice. By learning correct pronunciation, accent& intonation, students will improve their communication skills and learn different variations in English expressions. It is also proposed to start an M.Sc. in Economics and language course in German, French, Japanese, Chinese and Russian.