MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

DURATION ½ HOUR
PANEL: 5 BOARD MEMBERS & A CHAIRMAN

Chairman:
1. When you have completed your graduation?
2. Where you are working now?
3. What are your favorite subjects?
1) Machine design
2) Thermodynamics

Board member 1:
1. You have to design a spring. What types of stresses are induced in spring?
2. Can you show the distribution of stresses?
3. What is elastic constant?
4. On what thermodynamic cycle nuclear power plant works?
5. Name fuels used in nuclear power plant?
6. What is enrichment of fuel in nuclear power plant?
7. What is breeder reactor?
8. If I want to set a power plant in desert of ‘Rajasthan’ and I have option of steam
and gas power plant. Which plant I should set up?

Board member 2:
1. What is mean by failure in design?
2. You have to design a machine component. For what type of failure (ductile or
brittle) you will design?
3. On what property u can distinguish material as brittle or ductile?
4. What is strength based and deformation based design?
5. What is mean twist of shaft?
6. Whether ductile material can fail in brittle manner? When?
7. What is the behavior of metal at low temperature?

Board member 3:
1. What do you mean by tolerances?
2. What do you mean by fits?
Board member 4:
1. What is entropy?
2. Can u give example of increase of entropy?
3. What is zero entropy?
Board member 1:
1. If a mother kisses her baby whether entropy in process increases?
Chairman:

1. What is absolute entropy?

2. On which thermodynamics cycle cooling towers works?
 3. Where throttling process is used?
4. Throttling is which thermodynamic process/
5. Whether temperature increases or decreases after throttling?
6. Why there is change in temperature though mass is constant?

Board member 5:
1. What is ideal fluid?

Chairman:
A metal rod is heated in furnace. It is now allowed to cool in ambient environment. One
time it is hanged vertically and in second case horizontally. In which case it will cool
faster?
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My Comment:
This was not a stress interview. They listen me patiently. Whenever I said I don’t know
the answer they have provide me clue for answer.

My Mistake:
I had carried a project report with me but specifically I have not asked them to look at it,
which I should have done. This was comment by one board member.