srs lecture slides for high school students on mme august 2008

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NITT TEQIP MME SRS 2008 2

OUTLINE

Aperitif: Path breaking research in MME

Appetizer: Engineering Education

Starter: MME Education

Main Course: What do we do?

Dessert: What is happening in the industry?

Caffe latte: What is happening in research?

Sayonara: Concluding Remarks (32)


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Opening Question

Name the branch of engineering, in which Govt. of India

has sanctioned four attractive scholarships, per batch,

per Institute(selected Institutes)where the student

could walk away with a (money wise) free degree.

Rupees Four Thousand per month per selected student,

for the entire four year period!

PLUS: Professorial Chair/s being establishedwith

improved emoluments (wrt conventional pay scales)!!

Letter from Min. Steel: No.11(23)/2005-TW, dt 2.7.2008


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INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS

MICRO BATTERIES:

with size of few microns!

layers made with self assembling viruses!!

Faculty from Chem. Engg. & MSE, MIT


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Nano coated textiles:

Durable

BreathableWrinkle resistant

Stain resistant

Efforts at RM nano tech, Georgia Tech Univ.


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Radomes:

Special enclosures

for antennae;Protect from atmosphere!

without attenuating signals!!

@ Many space / related research centres
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Navy-Radome.jpg


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FSV1 Future Steel Vehicle 1

ULSAB project

Consortium of companies

Very High Strength Steel

Reduce weight of vehicle

Sources such as worldautosteel


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Electric Arc Furnace

Utilization of steel scrap

12% reduction in energy

consumption by

novel oxy-fuel burners

Centre for Metals Production & steel

companies


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Old is Gold! OR, is it Iron? Tech. Insight into Iron Pillar

More than 1000 years old

Withstood CORROSION

Passive film at ironrust interface

Prof. Balasubramaniam, IIT Kanpur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:QtubIronPillar.JPG


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ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Very appealing, indeed

Trends in engineering education

All said and done, 50% of curriculum is common for all

engineering students MME student also studies a few courses (subjects) on

other branches of engineering

Students of other departments also study a couple of

courses related to MME


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First yeartypically common for all branches

- Maths, Physics, Chemistry

- Basic Engineering

- Engineering Drawing and / or Graphics- Programming

- Workshop Practice

- Energy & Environment

- English


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Next three years:

Mathematics, Statistics, Programming

Information Technology

Engineering Sciences Humanities

Departmental Core Courses

Core Courses from other departments

Electives from various departments


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MME EDUCATION

Basics of MME: Physical Metallurgy, Mechanical

Behaviour of Materials, Metallurgical Thermodynamics,

Transport Phenomena / Kinetics

Courses such as / in alloy design, metal forming,

foundry, joining of materials, process metallurgy, special

experimental techniques, corrosion

Electives such as NDT, modeling, emerging materials

NonMME core such as applied mechanics,

instrumentation, management, mechanical design

NonMME electives such as automobile engineering,

financial management, electronic materials


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MME EDUCATION

Do we need any special skills to study MME?

None at all; an interest in engineering education will be

sufficient

Helpful: Interest in physics and chemistry

(say, XRD; thermodynamics)

Interest in mathematics (say, process modeling)

Interest in research career (say, nano-materials) Interest in manufacturing (any hard core industry)


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WHAT DO WE DO?

A few points to be emphasized: As good as any other branch of engineering

Employment avenues as wide a canvas as for anyother branch of engineering

Opportunities in IT / ITESdefinitely salable intodays market

Opportunities in core sectorgood and improving bythe day

Opportunities for higher studiesvery good, as many

Institutions are not getting sufficient MME graduates Opportunities in researchFAR better than many

other branches


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WHAT DO WE DO?

Where have the MME graduates of NIT Trichygone in recent years? Top notch engineering companies: Tata Motors,

Larsen & Toubro, Sundaram Fasteners, Essar Steel,

Carborundum Universal Defence Research and Development

IT sector: Infosys, TCS, CTS

Higher studies in India: IITs, IISc, IIMs

Higher Studies overseas: Ohio State University,University of Florida, University of TexasAustin,University of New South Wales


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What is happening in the industry?

Manufacturing in impressive growth mode

Advantages of Globalization; BRICeconomy

Interesting overseas acquisitions

Entry of prominent MNCs into India Salaries in manufacturingentry levelexceed those in

the IT sectortrends, recent placement, NIT Trichy

Enormous challenges in materials


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What is happening in research?

Barriers between departmentsincreasingly broken

Physicist working on atomistic modeling of materials

Metallurgist working on fuel cells

Metallurgist working on nuclear fuels Materials scientist working on biomaterials

Materials Scientist working on electronic materials

A graduate of MME has sufficient background to learn

about any kind of materials


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Special Needs


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Nano materials


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Prosthesis


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Interaction with biology

Picture of Cancer cell or malarial parasite; related info

from Prof Sureshs group at MIT, USA


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MME in NIT Trichy

B.Tech. (MME), M.Tech. (Materials Science), M.Tech.

(Welding Engg.), M.S., Ph.D.

Accreditation Status: UG & PG programmes

Benefitted by extensive interaction with BHEL & WRI

Academic, Research and Consulting activities

Research projects sponsored by MHRD, DRDO, DST,

NRB, Tata Steel, Vizag Steel

Advanced materials, welding, process metallurgy Recently started providing stipendiary research

opportunities for BTech student/s also


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CONCLUDING REMARKS

MME and other fields of engineering

MME: curriculum, as well as opportunities

MME: Growth in manufacturing

MME: Exciting challenges in research; need to

become inter-disciplinary

MME: Entrepreneurial Opportunities

We have it all!Ambrosia?


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CONCLUDING REMARKS

MME: multifaceted and challenging

MME: relatively small class and the associated

opportunity for close interaction

MME: excellent funding from the Government

MME of NIT Trichy is happy to welcome you all into the

world of materials

THANK YOU ONE AND ALL

Thanks to NITT, TEQIP, IIM T & BHEL

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