GE6162
ENGINEERING PRACTICES LABORATORY Syllabus
OBJECTIVES:
To provide exposure to the students with hands on experience on various basic engineering practices in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
GROUP A (CIVIL & MECHANICAL)
I CIVIL ENGINEERING PRACTICE
Buildings:
(a) Study of plumbing and carpentry components of residential and industrial buildings.Safety aspects.
Plumbing Works:
(a) Study of pipeline joints, its location and functions: valves, taps, couplings, unions,
reducers, elbows in household fittings.
(b) Study of pipe connections requirements for pumps and turbines.
(c) Preparation of plumbing line sketches for water supply and sewage works.
(d) Hands-on-exercise:
Basic pipe connections – Mixed pipe material connection – Pipe connections with different joining components.
(e) Demonstration of plumbing requirements of high-rise buildings.
Carpentry using Power Tools only:
(a)
Study of the joints in roofs, doors, windows and furniture.
(b)
Hands-on-exercise:
Wood work, joints by sawing, planing and cutting.
II MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE
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Welding:
(a)
Preparation of arc welding of butt joints, lap joints and tee joints.
(b)
Gas welding practice
Basic Machining:
(a)
Simple Turning and Taper turning
(b)
Drilling Practice
Sheet Metal Work:
(a)
Forming & Bending:
(b)
Model making – Trays, funnels, etc.
(c)
Different type of joints.
Machine assembly practice:
(a)
Study of centrifugal pump
(b)
Study of air conditioner
Demonstration on:
(a)
Smithy operations, upsetting, swaging, setting down and bending. Example – Exercise – Production of hexagonal headed bolt.
(b)
Foundry operations like mould preparation for gear and step cone pulley.
(c)
Fitting – Exercises – Preparation of square fitting and vee – fitting models.
GROUP B (ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS)
III
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE
1.
Residential house wiring using switches, fuse, indicator, lamp and energy meter.
2.
Fluorescent lamp wiring.
3.
Stair case wiring
4. Measurement of electrical quantities – voltage, current, power & power factor in RLC circuit.
5.
Measurement of energy using single phase energy meter.
6.
Measurement of resistance to earth of an electrical equipment.
IV ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING PRACTICE
1.
Study of Electronic components and equipments – Resistor, colour coding measurement
of AC signal parameter (peak-peak, rms period, frequency)
using CR.
2. Study of logic gates AND, OR, EOR and NOT.
3. Generation of Clock Signal.
4. Soldering practice – Components Devices and Circuits – Using general
purpose PCB.
5. Measurement of ripple factor of HWR and FWR.
REFERENCES:
1. Jeyachandran K., Natarajan S. & Balasubramanian S., “A
Primer on
Engineering Practices Laboratory”, Anuradha Publications, (2007).
2. Jeyapoovan T., Saravanapandian M. & Pranitha S., “Engineering Practices
Lab Manual”, Vikas
Puplishing House Pvt.Ltd, (2006)
3. Bawa H.S., “Workshop Practice”, Tata McGraw – Hill Publishing Company
Limited, (2007).
4. Rajendra Prasad A. & Sarma P.M.M.S., “Workshop Practice”, Sree Sai Publication, (2002).
5. Kannaiah P. & Narayana K.L., “Manual on Workshop Practice”, Scitech Publications, (1999).