JOBS/DOMAINS RELATED TO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

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FIELDS/DOMAINS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING


                       After completing engineering, it’s a common thing among the fresher who are not placed anywhere due to backlogs or other reasons. Once they come out of the college, they use to either find a job or move on for higher studies. We all know that mechanical engg. is having the maximum number of fields. But it takes a lot of time to find out the domains/fields which are of their interest. So, to minimize the time of finding the domains, here is a list of the domains in the mechanical engineering:-

1.  Applied Mechanics:-

Deals with shock and vibration, dynamics and motion, and fracture and failure in components.

2. Fluids Engineering:-

Deals with designing and building systems that control or utilize flow, such as pumps, turbines, compressors, valves, pipelines and fluid systems in vehicles.

3. Heat Transfer:-

Deals with combustion, power generation and transmission systems, process equipment, electronic devices, thermal controls in manufacturing, environmental controls, biotechnology, aerospace applications, transportation equipment and even cryogenics.


4. Bio-engineering:-

Deals with artificial organs, biomechanics, biomaterials, bio-instrumentation, biotransport process, human factors, medical devices, biomedical modeling and biological systems.


5. Tribology:-

Deals with interacting surfaces in motion, friction, lubrication and wear.


6. Energy Conversion:-

Deals with conversion of energies from one form to another.


7. Internal Combustion Engines:-

Deals with the IC engines used in automobiles, aircrafts, marine vessels and  even some stationary applications such as generators.


8. Fuels & Combustion Technologies:-

Deals with fuels, fuel processing, alternative fuels, fuel handling, transportation, storage and combustion systems


9. Power Engineering:-

Deals with the design and production of electricity-producing systems.


10. Energy Resources:-

Deals with developing new forms of energy.


11. Advanced Energy Systems:-

Deals with new energy systems such as power cycle devices, fuel cells, gas turbines and many others.


12. Solar Engineering:-

Deals with development of solar energy collectors and new and innovative ways to utilize solar energy.


13. Nuclear Engineering:-

Deals with the design and development of nuclear reactors and components, such as heat exchangers, radioactive waste systems.


14. Petroleum:-

Deals with the work on oil and gas drilling and production, offshore and arctic operations, hydrocarbon processing, synfuels and coal technology, materials, equipment design and manufacture, fuel transport, new fuel technologies and pollution control.


15. Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering:-

Deals with design and built of ocean structures, systems, hyperbaric chambers, life support equipment, marine vehicles, submersibles and ROV’s, propulsion systems, remote sensing systems, ship structures and ocean mining equipment.


16. Environment & Transportation:-

Deals with the domain of transportation of people or goods from one place to other and the effect of transportation on the environment.


17. Aerospace & Automotive:-

Deals with design of propulsion engines and structural component systems, crew and passenger accommodations and life support systems. Also deals with developing the equipment used to build automotive, aircraft, marine and space vehicles.


18. Environmental Engineering:-

Deals with the effects of the mechanical processes such as movement of heat, noise and pollutants through soil, water and air on environment. Also deals with the work to reduce their impact on the environment.


19. Noise Control & Acoustics:-

Deals with the movement of vibrations through solids, liquids and gases. Also helps in solving acoustic problems such as noise control, industrial acoustics and acoustic materials and structures.


20. Rail Transportation:-

Deals with designing, building and maintaining rail systems which help to move people and goods everyday.


21. Solid Waste Processing:-

Deals with development of solid waste processing facilities, areas related to recycling, resource recovery and waste to energy biomass conversion.


22. Manufacturing Engineering:-

Deals with the work for a company that makes some products, whether it may be consumer goods, transportation or industrial equipment.


23. Materials Handling Engineering:-

Deals with specialization in materials handling, handling equipment or hazard control technologies.


24. Plant Engineering & Maintenance:-

Deals with the updation and maintenance of manufacturing plants.


25. Process Industries:-

Deals with the processes involved in changing materials from one form to another so that they can be used in new and interesting ways.


26. Textile Engineering:-

Deals with the design and production of the machines and plants that handle fabrics, weave or knit fabrics, manufacture apparel and handle the finished products.


27. Materials Engineering:-

Deals with properties of materials and their effect on design, fabrication, quality and performance.


28. Non-Destructive Evaluation:-

Deals with determination of quality of devices without dismantling it using X-rays, Ultrasound, magnetic particle inspection and other techniques.


29. Pressure Vessels & Piping:-

Deals with developing materials that resist fatigue and fracture, plan the fabrication of equipment, perform inspections, tests and design components for pressure vessels and piping.


30. Dynamic Systems & Control:-

Deals with controlling of dynamic systems in novel transducer designs, biomechanics at the cellular and human scale, dynamics and control of power and vehicle systems.


31. Fluid Power Systems & Technology:-

Deals with designing and building of hydraulic and pneumatic systems that could be used in automotive, aerospace, manufacturing and power industries.


32. Information Storage & Processing Systems:-

Deals with design and manufacture of devices used to store the data in computer systems today . This field is involved in hard disk technologies, data storage and equipment, micro-sensors etc.


33. Microelectromechanical Systems:-

Deals with design and development of microelectromechanical systems which are used in combining computers with tiny mechanical devices such as sensors, valves, gears and actuators embedded in semiconductor chips.


CONCLUSION

                        Apart from the above domains, there are many other fields which are related to mechanical engineering. There is a big world out there for mechanical engineers. We cannot think of a world without mechanical engineering. Also for the above domains, there are many sub domains also such as design, production, sales, planning etc.

                              So, if someone from mechanical domain is sad about not getting a job can switch to any of the above fields. Just be confident, keep searching and there’s always a job out there for mechanical engineers. All the best! 

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