c) Basics of Computers and Applications:
• Architecture of Computers;
• Input and Output devices;
• Storage devices,
• Networking,
• Operating System like Windows, Unix,
Linux;
• MS Office;
• Various data representation;
• Internet and Email;
• Websites & Web Browsers;
• Computer Virus.
d) Basics of Environment and Pollution Control:
• Basics of Environment;
• Adverse effect of environmental pollution and
control strategies;
• Air, water and Noise pollution, their effect and
control;
• Waste Management,
• Global warming;
• Acid rain;
• Ozone depletion.
Engineering Mechanics:
• Resolution of forces,
• Equilibrium and Equilibrant,
• Parallelogram law of forces,
• Triangle law of forces,
• Polygon law of forces and
• Lami’s theorem,
• Couple and Moment of a couple,
• Condition for equilibrium of rigid body
subjected to number of coplanar non-
concurrent forces,
• Definition of static friction, dynamic friction,
• Derivation of limiting angle of friction and
• Angle of repose,
• Resolution of forces considering friction when
a body moves on horizontal plane and inclined
plane,
• Calculation of moment of inertia and radius of
gyration of : (a) I-Section (b)channel section (c)
T-Section (d) L-Section (Equal & unequal
lengths) (e) Z-Section (f) Built up sections
(simple cases only),
• Newton’s laws of motion (without derivation),
• Motion of projectile,
• D’Alembert’s principle,
• Definition law of conservation of energy,
• Law of conservation of momentum.
Material Science:
• Mechanical properties of engineering materials
– tensile, strength, compressive strength,
ductility, malleability, hardness, toughness,
brittleness, impact strength, fatigue, creep
resistance.
• Classification of steels, mild steel and alloy
steels.
• Heat treatment processes – annealing,
normalizing, hardening, tempering,
carburizing, nitriding and cyaniding.
Strength of Materials:
• Stress,
• Strain,
• Stress strain diagram,
• Factor of safety,
• Thermal stresses,
• Strain energy,
• Proof resilience and Modules of resilience.
• Shear force and bending moment diagram –
cantilever beam, simply supported beam,
continuous beam, fixed beam.
• Torsion in shafts and springs,
• Thin cylinder shells.
Machining:
• Working principle of lathe. Types of lathes –
Engine lathe – construction details and
specifications.
• Nomenclature of single point cutting tool,
geometry, tool signature, functions of tool
angles.
• General and special operations – (Turning,
facing, taper turning thread cutting, knurling,
forming, drilling, boring, reaming, key way
cutting),
• Cutting fluids, coolants and lubricants.
• Introduction to shaper,
• Slotter,
• Planer,
• Broaching,
• Milling and
• Manufacture of gears, heat treatment process
applied to gears
Welding –
• Introduction, classification of welding
processes, advantages and limitations of
welding,
• Principles of arc welding, arc welding
equipment,
• Choice of electrodes for different metals,
• Principle of gas (oxy-acetylene) welding,
equipment of gas welding,
• Welding procedures (arc & gas),
• Soldering and brazing techniques, types and
applications of solders and fluxes,
• Various flame cutting processes, advantages
and limitations of flame cutting,
• Defects in welding,
• Testing and inspection
• Modern welding methods, (submerged, CO2,
atomic – hydrogen, ultrasonic welding),
• Brief description of MIG & TIG welding.
Grinding & Finishing Process:
• Principles of metal removal by grinding,
• Abrasives, natural and artificial,
• Bonds and binding processes, vitrified, silicate,
shellac rubber,
• Grinding machines, classification: cylindrical,
surface, tool & cutter grinding machine,
construction details, relative merits,
• Principles of centreless grinding, advantages &
limitations of centreless grinding work,
Holding devices, wheel maintenance,
balancing of wheels, coolants used,
• Finishing by grinding, honing, lapping, super
finishing, Electroplating, basic principles –
plating metals, applications,
• Hot dipping, Galvanizing tin coating,
parkerising, anodizing, metal spraying, wire
process, powder process and applications,
organic coatings, oil base paint, lacquer base
enamels, bituminous paints, rubber base
coating.
Metrology:
• Linear measurement – Slip gauges and dial
indicators, Angle measurements, bevel
protractor, sine bar, angle slip gauges,
comparators (a) mechanical (b) electrical (c)
optical (d) pneumatic.
• Measurement of surface roughness;
• Methods of measurements by comparison, by
tracer instruments and by interferometry,
collimators, measuring microscope,
interferometer,
• Inspection of machine parts using the concepts
of shadow projection and profile projection.
Fluid Mechanics & Hydraulic Machinery:
• Properties of fluid, density, specific weight,
specific gravity, viscosity, surface tension,
compressibility capillarity,
• Pascal’s law,
• Measurement of pressures,
• Concept of buoyancy.
• Concept of Reynold’s number,
• Pressure, potential and kinetic energy of
liquids, total energy,
• Laws of conservation, mass, energy and
momentum,
• Velocity of liquids and discharge,
• Bernoulli’s equation and assumptions, venturi
meters, pitot-tube, current meters.
• Working principle & constructional details of
centrifugal pump, efficiencies – manometric
efficiency, volumetric efficiency, mechanical
efficiency and overall efficiency,
• Cavitation and its effect,
• Working principle of jet & submersible pumps
with line diagrams.
Industrial Management:
• Job analysis, motivation, different theories,
satisfaction, performance reward systems,
• Production, planning and control, relation with
other departments, routing, scheduling,
dispatching,
• PERT and CPM, simple problems.
• Materials in industry, inventory control model,
ABC Analysis, Safety stock, re-order, level,
economic ordering quantity,
• Break even analysis,
• Stores layout, stores equipment, stores records,
purchasing procedures, purchase records, Bin
card, Cardex,
• Material handling, Manual lifting, hoist,
cranes, conveyors, trucks, fork trucks.
Thermal Engineering:
• Laws of thermodynamics,
• Conversion of heat into work vice versa ,
• Laws of perfect gases,
• Thermo dynamic processes – isochoric,
isobaric, isothermal hyperbolic, isentropic,
polytrophic and throttling,
• Modes of heat transfer,
• Thermal conductivity,
• Convective heat transfer coefficient,
• Stefan Boltzman law by radiation and
• Overall heat transfer coefficient.
• Air standards cycles – Carnot cycle, Otto cycle,
Diesel cycle,
• Construction and working of internal
combustion engines,
• Comparison of diesel engine and petrol engine.
• Systems of internal combustion engine,
performance
• of internal combustion engines.
• Air compressors their cycles
• Refrigeration cycles, principle of a
refrigeration plant.
