MI is the entrance stream for the following programs:
- Renewable Energy Engineering
- Technology and Innovation Management
- Disaster Risk Management
- Energy Systems Planning and Management
- Climate Change and Development
- Material Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering Design and Manufacturing
- Mechanical Systems Design and Engineering
- Applied Mathematics
- Energy for Sustainable Social Development
The M.Sc. Entrance examination will be “Computer Based Examination” of two hours duration, consisting of two sections. Section- A consists of 45 questions for 50 marks. While Section-B consists of stream specialized course with 50 questions of 1 mark each. Each question will be of objective type with multiple choice answers and negative marking for each wrong answer is 10%.
Section-A (view details here)
Section-B
1. Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer [12]
• Equality of Temperature and Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer and Work
• Transfer
• Control Mass and Control Volume Formulation of First Law, Steady State Applications
• Entropy, Second Law of Thermodynamics for an Isolated System, Control Mass and
• Control Volume Formulation of second law
• Second Law, Entropy Relations and Isentropic Process, Heat Engine, Heat Pump and Refrigerator
• Carnot Cycle, Brayton Cycle, Rankin Cycle, Otto Cycle, Diesel Cycle, Vapour
• Compression Cycle
• One dimensional steady state heat Conduction through a plane wall, Radial steady state heat conduction through a hollow cylinder, Heat flow through composite structures, Electrical Analogy for thermal resistance, Convection Fundamentals and Radiation Heat
• Transfer Fundamentals
• IC Engines
2. Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Machine [10]
• Basic concepts and Fluid and flow
• Flow measurement
• Continuity equation, Momentum equation, Bernoulli's equation and their applications
• Viscous flow, flow inside closed conduits and head losses
• Water turbines
• Turbo machines
• Water Pumps
3. Mechanics and Strength of Materials [12]
• Concept of particles and rigid bodies
• Effect of forces on particles and rigid body
• Applications of equilibrium equations for solving problems of particles and rigid bodies (in 2- Dimensions and 3-Dimensions.)
• Types of structures, statically determinate and indeterminate
• Moments and couples
• Distributed forces, C.G., Centroid, area and Mass moment of inertia,
• Kinematics of particles and rigid bodies
• Equations of motion
• Dynamic equilibrium
• Kinetics of particles and rigid bodies
• Applications of Newton's Second Law
• Application of Principle of Work and Energy
• Principle of Impulse and Momentum
• Conservation of Energy
• Concept of Stress and Strain
• Types of loads and Beams
• Materials Properties and Material Testing
• Shear Force, Bending Moment diagram
• Mechanical Design
4. Energy [8]
• Sources of conventional energy, fossil fuels, calorific values
• Renewable energy sources and their nature
• Basic concepts of: Solar thermal energy, Solar photo-voltaic energy, wind energy, Biomass, Geothermal energy and Hydraulic energy
• Consumption and environmental aspects of energy
5. Industrial Engineering and Management [8]
• Classification of manufacturing processes.
• Materials selection criteria
• Elements of cost
• Role of production, operation management and system concepts
• Production planning and control
• Plant location and plant layout design
• Forecasting techniques
• Inventory Control
• Decision making process
• Quality Assurance and Quality Control
