Established in 2006, as one of the cornerstone departments among the other departments under the School of Engineering and Technology (SET), the Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities inducts itself in B. Tech and M. Tech. programs offered by the SET. The Applied Sciences & Humanities (ASH) Department equips first-year students with fundamentals in the applied sciences, basic engineering courses and subjects in the domain of humanities. It is an allied department which serves as a bedrock for the engineering departments of the Institute. The department takes care of core subjects like Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Soft Skills.

The Department teaches the subjects of Engineering Mathematics, Engineering Physics, Engineering Chemistry, Soft Skills, Environment and Ecology, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Fundamentals of Electronic Engineering, Programming for Problem Solving, Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering and associated labs in the B. Tech. first year. There are 13 well qualified and experienced faculty members whose services are available to the department. Among them there are two Professors, one Associate Professor and ten Assistant Professors besides two staff members. The faculty members have actively contributed to current research.

Faculty members of the department have numerous research papers and chapters in books to their credit. They regularly communicate their research outputs to the known journals in the field and get them published.

The Department boasts of state of the art laboratories in Physics, Chemistry and Professional Communication.