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About
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical
Engineering deals with power and the design of machines and processes
used to generate power and to apply it to useful purposes. These
machines and system/process designs may be simple or complex,
inexpensive or expensive, luxuries or essentials. Items such as kitchen
food mixer, the auto-mobile, heating/air-conditioning systems, nuclear
power plants, practical autonomous and tele-operated robotics, and
interplanetary space vehicles would not be available today were it not
for the mechanical engineer. Important areas in which mechanical
engineers work at this time also have to do with the use of solar,
wind, and tidal energy and of cogeneration from wastes for domestic and
industrial uses.
In
general the mechanical engineer works with systems, subsystems and
components that have motion. The range of work that may be classed as
Mechanical Engineering is wider than that of any of the other branches
of engineering. However, it may be grouped generally into two
categories:
a. Work that is concerned with
power generating machines, and
b. Work that deals
with machines that transform this power in accomplishing their
particular tasks.
The
major specialty areas of Mechanical Engineering are applied mechanics,
dynamic systems and control, design, engines and power plants, energy,
fluids, lubrication, heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning,
materials, pressure vessels, and piping, transportation and
aerospace/hydrospace. Click Here to read more about these areas of
specialization
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