Resolution No.

16, Series of 1995

Syllabi for the Subjects in the Mechanical Engineering and Certified Plant Mechanic Licensure Examinations
2.2.5 Gas Compressors 2.2.6 Chimney or Smokestack and Draft Systems 2.2.7 Heat Transfer Equipment 2.2.8 Conveyors and other Material Handling Systems 2.2.9 Industrial Instrumentation and Control 2.2.10 Machinery Foundation 2.2.11 A.C. and D.C. Machinery: their performance and characteristics 2.2.12 Industrial Processes and Manufacturing Systems and Procedures and Corresponding Flow Sheets 2.3 Refrigeration Engineering & Its Application: 2.3.1 Principles and components of different refrigeration systems 2.3.2 Determination of cooling loads 2.3.3 Basic design of ice plants, cold storage, skating rinks 2.3.4 Design, selection and specification of refrigeration plants, and auxillary equipment 2.3.5 Instrumentation and controls 2.4 Air Conditioning: 2.4.1 Psychometric properties of air 2.4.2 Various air conditioning processes 2.4.3 Factors affecting human comfort 2.4.4 Air distribution and simple duct design 2.4.5 Drying, heating and ventilation 2.4.6 Cooling load calculations 2.4.7 Design, selection and specification of air Conditioning plants and/or systems, and components 2.4.8 Instrumentation and controls

II. Mathematics, engineering economics and basic engineering economics ............................................................... 40% 1. Mathematics 1.1 Algebra & Plane Trigonometry 1.1.1 Fundamental Algebraic Laws 1.1.2 Polynomials 1.1.3 Roots of Quadratic Equations 1.1.4 Rules for Exponents and Radicals 1.1.5 Logarithms and Logarithm Identities 1.1.6 Simultaneous Linear Equations 1.1.7 Degrees, Radians and Plane Angles 1.1.8 Triangles, Right triangles and Circular Transcendental Functions 1.1.9 Trigonometric Identities 1.2 Analytic Geometry 1.2.1 Mensuration of regular shapes 1.2.2 Straight lines 1.2.3 Planes and Conic sections 1.2.4 Distances and Angles between geometric figures 1.3 Differential and Integral Calculus 1.3.1 Derivative of a function 1.3.2 Elementary Derivative Operations 1.3.3 Derivative operations on functions and combinations of functions 1.3.4 Critical points 1.3.5 Integration 1.3.6 Elementary Operations 1.3.7 Definite Integrals 1.3.8 Areas and volumes of integration

1.4 Differential Equations 1.4.1 Types of Differential equation 1.4.2 Applications of Differential Equations I. Power and industrial plant engineering ......................... 40% 1. Power Plant Engineering 1.1 Power Plant Elements 1.1.1 Fuels and Combustion: Composition, properties, analysis, and classifications of solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels, calculation of heating values, air and fuel ratio determination; combustion chemistry 1.1.2 Variable Load Problems: Load curve and load duration curve; definition of terms as applied to base-load and peak-load power plants 1.1.3 Thermodynamics: Thermodynamic processes and cycles; essential elements and/ or components of different power plants 1.1.4 Internal Combustion Engines: Thermodynamic principles involved in internal combustion engines; properties of fuel, combustion and injection 1.1.5 Heat transfer: Modes and laws of heat transfer related and applied in the design of common heat exchangers such as condensers, heaters, cooling coils and evaporators 1.2 Power Plant Design: Fundamental concept in the design, selection, installation, and operation of typical power plants such as: 1.2.1 Diesel Engine Power Plant 1.2.2 Gas Turbine Power Plant 1.2.3 Combined Cycle Power Plant 1.2.4 Steam Power Plant 1.2.5 Hydra-electric Power Plant 1.2.6 Geothermal Power Plant 1.2.7 Nuclear Power Plant 1.2.8 Non-Conventional sources of energy 1.3 Piping Systems and Insulation 1.4 Instrumentation and Control 2. Industrial Plant Engineering 2.1 Industrial Plant Elements

2.1.1 Project feasibility study 2.1.1.1 Market and product consideration 2.1.1.2 Design & selection of equipment 2.1.1.3 Materials and processes 2.1.1.4 Plant location and layout 2.1.1.5 Capital requirement, structure and financing 2.1.2 Principles and practices of industrial safety and accident prevention 2.1.3 Modes and Laws governing heat transfer 2.1.4 Principles of operation of fluid machineries 2.1.5 Industrial Lubrication: 2.1.5.1 Lubricants and their properties 2.1.5.2 Lubricating systems and devices 2.1.5.3 Lubrication of industrial machinery and equipment: bearings, power transmissions, electrical machinery and prime movers. 2.1.6 Environmental Engineering and Pollution Control. 2.2 Industrial Plant Design: Design, selection, specification and selection and installation of conventional industrial processes, machine and auxiliary equipment such as: 2.2.1 Dryers 2.2.2 Fans and Blowers 2.2.3 Pumps 2.2.4 Cooling Towers and other Water Cooling Equipment 448 Professional Regulation Commission Board of Mechanical Engineering 1.5 Probability and Analysis of Statistical Data 1.5.1 Set Theory 1.5.2 Combinations of elements 1.5.3 Permutations 1.5.4 Probability theory

1.5.5 Joint Probability 1.5.6 Complementary Probabilities 2. Engineering Economics, ME Law & Code of Ethics 2.1 Basic Principles of Engineering Economics 2.1.1 Interest, Annuities, Depreciation 2.1.2 Principles of Engineering Accounting 2.1.3 Alternative Investments 2.1.4 Replacement Analysis 2.1.5 Break Even Analysis 2.2 Mechanical Engineering Law 2.3 Mechanical Engineering Code 2.4 Code of Ethics for Mechanical Engineers 2.5 Obligations and Contracts 3. Basic Engineering Sciences and Engineering Materials 3.1 Chemistry 3.1.1 Theory of atoms and molecules 3.1.2 Calculation of chemical changes & energy 3.1.3 Chemical bonding 3.1.4 Nuclear Chemistry 3.2 Physics 3.2.1 Waves 3.2.2 Sound 3.2.3 Heat 3.2.4 Light 3.2.5 Electricity and Magnetism 3.3 Modern Physics 3.3.1 Atomic 3.3.2 Nuclear 3.3.3 Theory of Relativity

3.3.4 Quantum Theory 3.3.5 Laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) 3.4 Strength of Materials 3.4.1 Stress and Strain 3.4.2 Torsion and Bending 3.4.3 Tensile and Compressive Stresses 3.4.4 Combined Stresses 3.5 Properties and characteristics of materials 3.6 Fluid Dynamics 3.7 Gas Dynamics 3.8 Energy, Work and Power 3.9 Thermodynamic properties of Substances 3.10 Changes in Thermodynamic Properties 3.11 Vapor Power Cycles 3.12 Combustion Power Cycles 3.13 Refrigeration Cycles 3.14 Heat Transfer 3.15 Fundamentals of Direct-current and Alternating-current Circuits 3.15.1 Elementary distribution system 3.15.2 Electrical wiring 3.15.3 Rotating Electrical Machines 3.15.4 Light, Illumination, and Optics 3.16 Electronics 3.16.1 Introduction to Electronics 3.16.2 Semiconductor Materials 3.16.3 Device Performance Characteristics 3.16.4 Electrical Measurements

III. Machine Design, materials and shop practice...20% 1. Kinematics 1.1 Displacement velocity and acceleration analysis of mechanism 1.2 Face analysis of mechanisms 1.3 Cam mechanisms and gear trains 2. Machine Design 2.1 Design of machine and/or machine components or parts 2.2 Selection and Uses of Machine Elements such as: 2.2.1 Bearings- journal bearings, ball bearings and roller bearings 2.2.2 Flexible transmission, flat belts, v-belts and chains 2.3 Engineering Drawing Practice 2.3.1 Normal views of Lines and Planes 2.3.2 Intersecting and Perpendicular Lines 2.3.3 Types of Orthographic views 2.3.4 Perspective view 2.3.5 Sections 2.3.6 Tolerances 2.3.7 Surface Finish 2.3.8 Threads 3. Engineering Materials 3.1 Selection of materials based on the quality characteristic and properties that would meet the service application requirement. 3.2 Metals that are to be used as machine, parts or component of the machine are to be given the qualifying tests to insure quality performance of the machine. Common tests performed are tensile strength, compressive, bending, shear and impact tests. 4. Shop Practice

4.1 Workshop Theory and Practice 4.1.1 Workshop safety and organization 4.1.2 Workshop measuring instruments, hand tools, fitting, bench drill and bench grinder; sheet metal 4.1.3 Working principles of welding processes, welding metallurgy 4.1.4 Testing and inspection of work 4.1.5 Foundry and metal testing 4.2 Machine Shop Theory and Practice 4.2.1 Classification, uses and operation of machines: lathes, shapers, planners, drilling and boring machine, milling machine 4.2.2 Measuring instruments, machine tools and accessories 4.2.3 Tolerance and allowances of machine parts Annex ACERTIFIED PLANT MECHANIC SUBJECT SYLLABI I. Elements of power plant machinery ......................... 30% Deals with the maintenance, repair and operation of types of prime movers, including steam, internal combustion engines hydroelectric-plants and such other motive powers as encountered in practice. II. Elements of industrial plant machinery .................... 40% Deals with the maintenance, repair and operation, and repair of all types of such industrial plant machinery and equipment as encountered in sugar mills, lumber mills, oil mills, ice plants, air conditioning plants, etc. III. Shop machinery and practice ................................... 30% Deals with the operation of milling machines, planers, shapers, lathes, drills, welding, heat treatment repairing of machine parts and overhauling jobs.