Mechanical Engineering

Overview  

• One of the broadest of all engineering disciplines  
• Wide choice of career options in many specialties
•  High employment potential Challenging and fulfilling work  
• Involves application of science and maths to create solutions for practical problems  
• Concerned with research, design, development, manufacturing, construction, installation, operation and maintenance of engineering systems, machinery, equipment, tools, devices, components, ranging from rocket engines to medical instruments.

Required Skills and Aptitudes 

•  Strong Ability to solve complex problems analytically
•  Creativity and innovation Visualization and conceptualization 
• Ability to translate ideas into reality 
• Ability to apply science and maths to solve practical problems 
• Team work, communication skills and inter-personal skills

Mechy Subjects

• Statics: how are forces transmitted in a structure? 
• Dynamics: velocities, accelerations, and forces for a system in motion? 
• Kinematics: how a mechanism behaves as it moves through its range of motion? 
• Strength of materials: is it strong enough? is it stiff enough? 
• Material Science: which material has the optimum properties? 
• Thermodynamics: how does energy get converted to useful power? what are the losses? 
• Fluid Mechanics: what is the pressure drop due to the fluid flow? what are the drag forces? 
• Heat Transfer: how to calculate heat transfer rates from temperature data? 
• Manufacturing: what manufacturing processes do you select? 
• Machine Design: how do you synthesize all of the above?      
• Vibrations: how do you predict and control vibrations?  
• Engineering Economics: how do you estimate manufacturing costs? 

Roles ahead 

• Government departments, Railways 
• Technical wings of Armed Forces 
• Research organizations (ISRO, DRDO, DAE, CSIR) 
• Academic institutions (universities, engineering colleges) 
• Public and private sector industries: aeronautical, automobile, chemical, nuclear, steel & metals, oil exploration & refining, power plants, manufacturing of all kinds of machinery and equipment. 
• Other opportunities: technical consultation, marketing and sales of engineering products, engineering management, software development.