IMO STATE POLYTECHNIC UMUAGWO

P.M.B 1472 OWERRI, IMO STATE

ASSIGNMENT

ON

ROLES OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING IN OIL COMPANY

IMPORTANCE OF COMPUTER IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

PRESENTED BY

OBINNA CHIMA SAMUEL

2013/ND/MEC/65463COURSE CODE: ICT 101COURSE TITLE: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYLECTURER: DATE: FEB, 2015INTRODUCTION

Mechanical engineering is the discipline that applies the principles of engineering, physics, and materials science for the design, analysis, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the design, production, and operation of machinery. It is one of the oldest and broadest of the engineering disciplines.

The engineering field requires an understanding of core concepts including mechanics, kinematics, thermodynamics, materials science, structural analysis, and electricity. Mechanical engineers use these core principles along with tools like computer-aided design, and product lifecycle management to design and analyze manufacturing plants, industrial equipment and machinery, heating and cooling systems, transport systems, aircraft, watercraft, robotics, medical devices, weapons, and others.Mechanical engineering is one of the broadest engineering disciplines. It touches just about every industry, including oil and gas. Mechanical Engineers work in exploration, extraction, production and transportation of petroleum products. They explore new technologies to improve equipment, tools and processes essential to the industry. You could be designing equipment for process control systems or creating a new compressor system to improve pipeline efficiency. Perhaps you will come up with an improvement to a tool thus making the jobs of maintenance employees easier.ROLES OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS IN OIL COMPANY

Mechanical Engineers apply modern and applied physics to the design, manufacturing, maintenance and troubleshooting of mechanical systems. They design and analyze the machinery and tools required to start and complete processes. They also trouble-shoot and improve the performance of equipment and machinery. Mechanical Engineers play a key role in the following three areas:

Facility Equipment and Operating Unit Maintenance: Mechanical Engineers design, install, maintain and repair equipment such as piping, furnaces, turbines, pumps, tanks, boilers, compressors, heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. In oils and mining operations, they engineer draglines, bucket-wheels, conveyer belts and crushers. Capital Projects/Large Projects: Mechanical Engineers oversee the design, implementation and shut down phases of capital projects. They design specific mechanical equipment and processes for these projects. Product Manufacturing: Mechanical Engineers provide technical advice to custom equipment design for manufactured products used in the oil and gas industry. They provide research, development and technical support for new tools and equipment that improve operations.IMPORTANCE OF COMPUTER APPLICATION IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Mechanical Engineering is a discipline of engineering that applied the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is branch of engineering that involve the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the design production and operation of machine and tools. Computer Applications is designed to test students' abilities to use word processing, spreadsheet, and database application software, including integration of applications. It is not same as the computer science contest, which tests programming abilities. In Mechanical Engineering also computer is applied/useful in many different ways. This ways include the following:-

AUTOMATION: Automation is any system that does not require human intervention. These include the uses of computer to control a particular process in order to increase reliability and efficiency, often through the replacement of employees.

IN AUTOCAD IN DESGNING: In the case of design we use computer aided design (CAD) technology to assist in the creation, modification, analysis or optimization of a design. CAD used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve communication through documentation, and to create a database for manufacturing. This also is the uses of computer application in mechanical engineering; this is software application for computer aided design and drafting. Before the development of technology many Engineer used drawing board to draw the Engineering diagram. Nowadays, they use AutoCAD.