OPPORTUNITIES IN METALLURGICAL & MATERIALS ENGINEERING - A presentation for school students

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OPPORTUNITIES IN METALLURGICAL MATERIALS
ENGINEERING- A presentation for school students

• Prof. S. Raman Sankaranarayanan team
• Dept. MME
• NIT Tiruchirappalli
• Aug. 24, 2008
• Pictures provided here collated from multiple
  sources.
• Released in NITT website, for academic purpose.
• This source may pl be acknowledged, if propogated
  further.

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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 established with
  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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INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS

• Nano coated textiles
• Durable
• Breathable
• Wrinkle resistant
• Stain resistant
• Efforts at RM nano tech, Georgia Tech Univ.

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INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS

• Radomes
• Special enclosures
• for antennae
• Protect from atmosphere!
• without attenuating signals!!
• _at_ Many space / related research centres

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INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS

• 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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INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS

• 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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INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS

• Old is Gold! OR, is it Iron?
• Tech. Insight into Iron Pillar
• More than 1000 years old
• Withstood CORROSION
• Passive film at iron rust interface
• Prof. Balasubramaniam, IIT Kanpur

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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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ENGINEERING EDUCATION

• First year typically common for all branches
• - Maths, Physics, Chemistry
• - Basic Engineering
• - Engineering Drawing and / or Graphics
• - Programming
• - Workshop Practice
• - Energy Environment
• - English

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ENGINEERING EDUCATION

• 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
• Non MME core such as applied mechanics,
  instrumentation, management, mechanical design
• Non MME 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 any
  other branch of engineering
• Opportunities in IT / ITES definitely salable
  in todays market
• Opportunities in core sector good and improving
  by the day
• Opportunities for higher studies very good, as
  many Institutions are not getting sufficient MME
  graduates
• Opportunities in research FAR better than many
  other branches

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WHAT DO WE DO?

• Where have the MME graduates of NIT Trichy gone
  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 Texas
  Austin, University of New South Wales

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What is happening in the industry?

• Manufacturing in impressive growth mode
• Advantages of Globalization BRIC economy
• Interesting overseas acquisitions
• Entry of prominent MNCs into India
• Salaries in manufacturing entry level exceed
  those in the IT sector trends, recent
  placement, NIT Trichy
• Enormous challenges in materials

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What is happening in the industry?
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What is happening in the industry?

• Picture of aircraft labelling the body and the
  engine
• Related comments

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What is happening in the industry?
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What is happening in the industry?
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What is happening in the industry?
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What is happening in the industry?
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What is happening in research?

• Barriers between departments increasingly
  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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What is happening in research?

• Nano materials

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What is happening in research?

• Prosthesis

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What is happening in research?

• 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 multi faceted 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