The subject of electronics science and technology was part of the Department of Physics.  A variety of instruments and systems were built and operated in the Department of Physics for science research in acoustics / ultrasonics, spectroscopy, solid-state physics, ionosphere and atmospheric physics.  As the technology is progressing at an unassuming speed, the science instrumentation has grown to such an extent that it acquired a status of its own in the form of a separate discipline.  The new Department can be considered as an off-shoot of the Department of Physics.  The Department of Systems Design was started in the year 2008.  It is presently offering three new three-year duration courses at PG level and offering research programs in the areas of signal processing and instrumentation.