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

Prof. S. Raman Sankaranarayanan & team

Dept. MME NIT Tiruchirappalli Aug. 24, 2008

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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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Nano

coated textiles:

Durable Breathable Wrinkle 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

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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 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? of aircraft labelling the body and the engine Related comments
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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

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