Mech

METALLURGY & MATERIALS SCIENCE

Course Objective:

To understand the basic fundamentals of Material science and Physical metallurgy. The basic concepts to be taught will help for the improvement, proper selection and effective utilization of materials which is essential to satisfy the ever increasing demands of the society.

 

MECHANICS OF SOLIDS

Objective: The students completing this course are expected to understand the basic terms like stress, strain, poissons ratio…etc and different stresses induced in beams, thin cylinders, thick cylinders, columns. Further, the student shall be able to understand the shear stresses in circular shafts.

 

THERMODYNAMICS

Course Objectives: To impart the knowledge of the thermodynamic laws and principles so as to enable the student to prepare an energy audit of any mechanical system that exchange heat and work with the surroundings.

 

MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS & FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

Course Objectives:

•  The Learning objectives of this paper is to understand the concept and nature of Managerial Economics and its relationship with other disciplines         and also to understand the Concept of Demand and Demand forecasting, Production function, Input Output relationship, Cost-Output                             relationship  and Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis.
•  To understand the nature of markets, Methods of Pricing in the different market structures and to know the different forms of Business organization and the concept of Business Cycles.
• To learn different Accounting Systems, preparation of Financial Statement and uses of different tools for performance evaluation. Finally, it is also to understand the concept of Capital, Capital Budgeting and the techniques used to evaluate Capital Budgeting proposals.

 

Course Outcome: *The Learner is equipped with the knowledge of estimating the Demand and demand elasticities for a product and the knowledge of understanding of the Input-Output-Cost relationships and estimation of the least cost combination of inputs.

* One is also ready to understand the nature of different markets and Price Output determination under various market conditions and also to have the knowledge of different Business Units.

*The Learner is able to prepare Financial Statements and the usage of various Accounting tools for Analysis and to evaluate various investment project proposals with the help of capital budgeting techniques for decision making.

FLUID MECHANICS & HYDRAULIC MACHINES

Objective: The students completing this course are expected to understand the properties of fluids, its kinematic and dynamic behavior through various laws of fluids like continuity, Euler’s, Bernoulli’s equations, energy and momentum equations. Further, the student shall be able to understand the theory of boundary layer, working and performance characteristics of various hydraulic machines like pumps and turbines.

 

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING DRAWING PRACTICE

Course Objective: To enhance the student’s knowledge and skills in engineering drawing and to introduce drafting packages and commands for computer aided drawing and modelling.

 

KINEMATICS OF MACHINERY

Objective: The students completing this course are expected to understand the nature and role of the kinematics of machinery, the mechanisms and machines. The course includes velocity and acceleration diagrams, analysis of mechanisms joints, Cams and their applications. It exposes the students to various kinds of power transmission devices like belt, rope , chain and gear drives and their working principles and their merits and demerits.

THERMAL ENGINEERING – I

Objectives: To make the student learn and understand the reasons and affects of various losses that occur in the actual engine operation.

PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY

Course Objective: To impart basic knowledge and understanding about the primary manufacturing processes such as casting, joining, bulk forming, sheet metal forming and powder metallurgy and their relevance in current manufacturing industry; To introduce processing methods of plastics.

Course out comes: At the end of the course the student shall be able to:

1. Design patterns, Gating, runner and riser systems

2. Select a suitable casting process based on the component
3. Learn various arc and solid state welding processes and select a suitable process based on the application and requirements
4. Understand various bulk deformation processes 5. Understand various sheet metal forming and processing of plastics

 

DESIGN OF MACHINE MEMBERS – I

Course Objectives:

1. The student shall gain appreciation and understanding of the design function in mechanical engineering, the steps involved in designing and the                       relation of design activity with manufacturing activity

2. Selection of proper materials to different machine elements based on their physical and mechanical properties.
3. Learn and understanding of the different types of failure modes and criteria.
4. Procedure for the different machine elements such as fasteners, shafts, couplings, keys, axially loaded joints etc.

Course outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course student should be able to:

1. Apply the design procedure to engineering problems, including the consideration of technical and manufacturing constraints.
2.  Select suitable materials and significance of tolerances and fits in critical design applications.
3. Utilize design data hand book and design the elements for strength, stiffness and fatigue.
4. Identify the loads, the machine members subjected and calculate static and dynamic stresses to ensure safe design.

MACHINE DRAWING

Course Objective:

The student will acquire knowledge of fastening arrangements such as welding, riveting the different styles of attachment for shaft. The student also is enabled to prepare the assembly of various machine or engine components and miscellaneous machine components.

 

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

Course Objectives:

1. To impart fundamental knowledge and skill sets required in the Industrial Management and Engineering profession, which include the ability to                      apply basic knowledge of mathematics, probability and statistics, and the domain knowledge of Industrial Management and Engineering

2.  To produce graduates with the ability to adopt a system approach to design, develop, implement and innovate integrated systems that include people,   materials, information, equipment and energy.
3.  To enable students to understand the interactions between engineering, business, technological and environmental spheres in the modern society.
4. To enable students to understand their role as engineers and their impact to society at the national and global context.

Course outcome: Upon successful completion of this course you should be able to:

1. Design and conduct experiments, analyse, interpret data and synthesize valid conclusions
2. Design a system, component, or process, and synthesize solutions to achieve desired needs
3. Use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice with appropriate considerations for public health and safety, cultural, societal, and environmental constraints
4. Function effectively within multi-disciplinary teams and understand the fundamental precepts of effective project management

DYNAMICS OF MACHINERY

Course Objectives:

1. To equip the student with fundamental knowledge of dynamics of machines so that student can appreciate problems of dynamic force balance, transmissibility of forces, isolation of systems, vibrations.
2. Develop knowledge of analytical and graphical methods for calculating balancing of rotary and reciprocating masses.
3. Develop understanding of vibrations and its significance on engineering design
4. Develop understanding of dynamic balancing, flywheel analysis, gyroscopic forces and moments

Course outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course the student should be able to:

1. Analyze stabilization of sea vehicles, aircrafts and automobile vehicles
2. Compute frictional losses, torque transmission of mechanical systems.
3. Analyze dynamic force analysis of slider crank mechanism and design of flywheel.
4. Understand how to determine the natural frequencies of continuous systems starting from the general equation of displacement. 5. Understand balancing of reciprocating and rotary masses.

METAL CUTTING & MACHINE TOOLS

Course objectives:

1. The course provides students with fundamental knowledge and principles in material removal processes.

2.In this course, the students apply the fundamentals and principles of metal cutting to practical applications through multiple labs using lathes,                        milling    machines, grinding machines, and drill presses, Computer Numerical Control etc

3. To demonstrate the fundamentals of machining processes and machine tools.
4. To develop knowledge and importance of metal cutting parameters.
5. To develop fundamental knowledge on tool materials, cutting fluids and tool wear mechanisms. 6. To apply knowledge of basic mathematics to calculate the machining parameters for different machining processes.

Course Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, the students will be able to:

1) Apply cutting mechanics to metal machining based on cutting force and power consumption.

2) Operate lathe, milling machines, drill press, grinding machines, etc.

3) Select cutting tool materials and tool geometries for different metals.

4) Select appropriate machining processes and conditions for different metals.

5) Learn machining economics.

6) Design jigs and Fixtures for simple parts.

7) Learn principles of CNC Machines

DESIGN OF MACHINE MEMBERS– II

Course Objectives:

• This course gives the insight of slider and roller bearings and the life prediction.
• Learn to design I.C engine parts
• Design the mechanical systems for power transmission elements such as gears,belts,ropes,chains, keys and levers

Course outcomes: At the end of the course

1. The student will able to select the suitable bearing based on the application of the loads and predict the life of the bearing
2. Design power transmission elements such as gears, belts, chains, pulleys, ropes, levers and power screws.
3. Design of IC Engines parts.

 

OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Course Objectives:

To learn the importance of Operations Research in the design, planning, scheduling, manufacturing and business applications and to use the various techniques of Operations Research in solving such problems

Course Outcomes:

After completion of the course, the student will be able to: To solve the LP and DP problems To solve the Transportation, assignment, game, inventory, replacement, sequencing, queuing problems.

THERMAL ENGINEERING – II

Course objectives:

This course is intended to provide basic knowledge of components being used in steam and gas power plant cycles and to analyse the energy transfers and transformations in these components including individual performance evaluation.

Course outcomes:

After undergoing this course the student is expected to understand the working of steam and gas power plant cycles and also should be able to analyze and evaluate the performance of individual components. The student also should be in a position to understand basic principles of Jet propulsion and rocket engineering.

 

METROLOGY

Course objectives: The students will learn

1. Inspection of engineering parts with various precision instruments
2. Design of part, tolerances and fits
3. Principles of measuring instruments and gauges and their uses
4. Evaluation and inspection of surface roughness
5. Inspection of spur gear and thread elements 6. Machine tool testing to evaluate machine tool quality

 

Course outcomes: Students will be able to design tolerances and fits for selected product quality.

They can choose appropriate method and instruments for inspection of various gear elements and thread elements. They can understand the standards of length, angles, they can understand the evaluation of surface finish and measure the parts with various comparators. The quality of the machine tool with alignment test can also be evaluated by them.

INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS

Course Objectives:

The course focuses on imparting the principles of measurement which includes the working mechanism of various sensors and devices, that are in use to measure the important physical variables of various mechatronic systems.

Course outcomes:

After undergoing the course the student can select appropriate device for the measurement of parameters like temperature, pressure, speed, stress, humidity, flow velocity etc., and justify its use through characteristics and performance.

 

REFRIGERATION & AIR CONDITIONING

Course objectives:

The course is to understand the basic cycles of various refrigerating systems, their performance evaluation along with details of system components and refrigerant properties. The course is also aimed at imparting knowledge of psychrometric properties, processes which are used in air-conditioning systems for comfort and industrial applications.

Course outcomes:

At the end of the course the students should be able to: After undergoing the course the student should be in a position to analyze various refrigerating cycles and evaluate their performance. The student also should be able to perform cooling load calculations and select the appropriate process and equipment for the required comfort and industrial air-conditioning

 

HEAT TRANSFER

Course Objectives:

This course is intended to impart knowledge of principles of heat transfer and analyze the heat exchange process in various modes for the evaluation of rate of heat transfer and the temperature distribution in different configurations.

Course outcomes:

The student after undergoing this course is expected to know the principles of heat transfer and be able to apply to practical situations where in heat exchange takes place through various modes of heat transfer including phase change.

 

MECHATRONICS

Course Objective:

The main objective of this course is to introduce the integrative nature of Mechatronics. To describe the different components and devices of mechatronics systems.

Course outcomes:

After completion of this course, the student shall be able to use the various mechatronics systems devices and components in the design of electro mechanical systems.

 

CAD/CAM

Course Objectives:

The general objectives of the course are to enable the students to

1. Understand the basic fundamentals of computer aided design and manufacturing.
2. To learn 2D & 3D transformations of the basic entities like line, circle, ellipse etc
3. To understand the different geometric modeling techniques like solid modeling, surface modeling, feature based modeling etc. and to visualize how the components look like before its manufacturing or fabrication
4. To learn the part programming, importance of group technology, computer aided process planning, computer aided quality control
5. To learn the overall configuration and elements of computer integrated manufacturing systems.

 

Course Outcome: At the end of the course the students shall be able to:

1. Describe the mathematical basis in the technique of representation of geometric entities including points, lines, and parametric curves, surfaces and solid, and the technique of transformation of geometric entities using transformation matrix
2. Describe the use of GT and CAPP for the product development
3. Identify the various elements and their activities in the Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems.

 

FINITE ELEMENT METHODS

Course Objectives:

1. To learn basic principles of finite element analysis procedure

2. To learn the theory and characteristics of finite elements that represent engineering structures
3. To learn and apply finite element solutions to structural, thermal, dynamic problem to develop the knowledge and skills needed to effectively evaluate finite element analyses performed by others 4. Learn to model complex geometry problems and solution techniques.

 

Course outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course you should be able to:

1. Understand the concepts behind variational methods and weighted residual methods in FEM
2. Identify the application and characteristics of FEA elements such as bars, beams, plane and isoparametric elements, and 3-D element .
3. Develop element characteristic equation procedure and generation of global stiffness equation will be applied.
4. Able to apply Suitable boundary conditions to a global structural equation, and reduce it to a solvable form.
5. Able to identify how the finite element method expands beyond the structural domain, for problems involving dynamics, heat transfer, and fluid flow.

 

POWER PLANT ENGINEERING

Course Objectives:

The course is aimed at providing knowledge of power generation through different prime movers viz steam, ICGT, Hydro, nuclear and hybrid systems along with their economics and environmental considerations.

Course outcomes:

After undergoing this course the student can understand various conventional methods of power generation and principle of operation and performance of respective prime movers along with their economics and their impact on environment.

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

Course Objectives:

The course aims at providing required numerical and software techniques for solving various engineering problems involving fluid flow.

Course Outcomes:

After undergoing the course the student shall be able to apply various numerical tools like finite volume, finite difference etc for solving the different fluid flow heat transfer problems.

 

PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL

Course objectives: This subject provides students with

1. An understanding of the concepts of production and service systems;
2. The ability to apply principles and techniques in the design, planning and control of these systems to optimise/make best use of resources in achieving their objectives.
3. Identify different strategies employed in manufacturing and service industries to plan production and control inventory.
4. Measure the effectiveness, identify likely areas for improvement,develop and implement improved planning and control methods for production systems.

 

UNCONVENTIONAL MACHINING PROCESSES

Course Objectives:

• The course aims in identifying the classification of unconventional machining processes.
• To understand the principle, mechanism of metal removal of various unconventional machining processes.
• To study the various process parameters and their effect on the component machined on various unconventional machining processes.
• To understand the applications of different processes.

 

Course outcomes:

After completion of course, the student shall understand the principle of working, mechanism of metal removal in the various unconventional machining process. The student is able to identify the process parameters, their effect and applications of different processes.

 

AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING

 

Course Objectives:

The course imparts the principles of automobile systems and provides the salient features of safety, emission and service of automobiles.

Course Outcomes:

The student after undergoing the course, shall visualize the layout of an automobile and its systems like transmission, steering, suspension, braking, safety etc and should know the vehicle troubleshooting

 

NON – DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION

Course Objectives

• The students are to be exposed to the concepts of various NDE techniques using radiography, ultrasonics, liquid penetrates, magnetic patches and Eddy currents
• They will learn basic principles of these methods and will be able to select a testing process
• They will understand the advantages and disadvantages of these techniques.