Since
its inception, the Department of Mechanical
Engineering of R. V. S. College of Engineering
and Technology, Jamshedpur, is having excellent
Laboratory facilities for the Students from
First Semester to Final Semester. These Laboratories
are Engineering Mechanics, Strength of Materials,
Fluid Mechanics and Machinery, Thermal Engineering,
Materials Science, Heat and Mass Transfer,
Internal Combustion Engine, and Refrigeration
and Air Conditioning. Besides these Laboratories
Core Engineering Laboratories such as Engineering
Graphics and Workshop common to all Branches
of Engineering are being conducted by dedicated
Faculty Members of the Department. Recently
Equipments such as Francis Turbine, Air Compressor
and Reciprocating Pump in Fluid Machinery
Laboratory, Heat Exchanger and Composite Wall
Equipment in Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory
have been added.
The
department has gained wide reputation for
its quality teaching, systematically designed
curriculum and dedicated Faculty Members make
this Department dynamic place to study. All
Academic Programmes offered by the Department
are modular and structured which help students
to gradually enhance their knowledge and skills.
During the First two Semesters of B.Tech.
Programme Students follow a Syllabus of Core
Engineering common to all Branches of the
Engineering and next Semesters some modules
are especially designed for the Students of
other Departments for the allied knowledge
to the Mechanics of Solid, Testing of Materials
and Fluid Machinery. Besides these some modules
are especially designed to the Departments
own Degree scheme. The Curriculums also have
a wide practical element based on the Lectures,
Laboratory Work, Team Project, Industrial
Tours and Seminars. Additionally every Student
carries out a Professional Project Work in
his/her Final Year. The Department also has
a well equipped CAD Laboratory with advanced
Design and Drafting Software.
To
enhance and upgrade knowledge, teaching standard
and methodology, Seminars are being conducted
regularly in the Department by the Faculty
Members of the Department. In Workshop attractable
Banners, Posters, Show Cases and Sample Mounted
Models are displayed for attraction of Students,
to make Subject matter easy to grasp to the
beginners and an attempt to organize the workshop
activity like a year long Exhibition. The
Digi-Flex print of Iron Carbon Equilibrium
diagram at Workshop has been technically suitable
by its fire color paintings, which helps any
personnel to have an idea about temperature
of fire work with Steel, e.g. Forging. The
primary knowledge has been displayed as a
Wall Magazine about Workshop Activity, Safety,
Accidents, Accident Prevention and House Keeping.
The Students are allowed in the Workshop under
strict guidance and training about workshop
activity. Boiler Suits and Shoes are academically
fundamental and accepted steps for good house
keeping. These Rules are mandatory for each
personnel in the Shop Floor.
Materials
Science Laboratory is equipped with attractable
displays of Technical Photographs to learn
and understand the Microstructure, Fracture
Structure and Macrostructure of Materials
under Engineering importance, or before actual
practice of Metallography. The Laboratory
displays are also available about idea of
Phase Transformation relations to the changes
in Microstructural appearance. The Laboratory
keeps Project based Metallographic display
boards of Railway Steel Wheel under different
heat treated and thermo-mechanically treated
conditions. The Grain Refinement has been
from cold forged state that recrystallised
at above recrystallisation temperature. This
also produces reference information about
Grain Refining rate at the nano-thickness
level at Tyre Surface (in touch of track)
those produced by In-Situ transformation during
service exposure of a running Train with Strokes.
This Experiment has referred as a standard
for learning any heat treated specimen to
the Students. The Materials Science Laboratory
is also equipped with many models of Solid
State/ Crystalline Materials for easy and
early adaptation of knowledge under course.
The Fracture Surfaces are modeled and mounted
in suitable displayable way for learning difference
between natural fracture with weather effects
and intentional fractures after tests in Machines
of Strength of Materials Laboratory. Well
calibrated Equipments of Strength of Materials
Laboratory are used for forming the Fractures
on both brittle and ductile Materials. The
Strength of Materials Laboratory concerns
tests of all possible Materials stated to
be Steels, Woods, Cast Irons, Composites and
Polymer Sheet Laminates. The facilities of
this Laboratory are versatile enough even
to test the Civil Construction Materials.
The hardness variations in as heat treated
specimens are possible to measure in this
Laboratory by sensitive Hardness Test Machines.
The Microsoft Excel software is used for proper
plot and interpretation of different heat
treated Materials by Hardness Measurement
data available from the tests.
