INDIRA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, sarang
ଇନ୍ଦିରା ଗାନ୍ଧୀ ବୈଷୟିକ ଅନୁଷ୍ଠାନ, ସରାଙ୍ଗ
An Autonomous Institute of Govt. of Odisha

Vision of the Department

To contribute to the society through excellence in imparting technical education and research programmes at the cutting edge of technology to meet the current and future challenges of technological development.

Mission of the Department

• M1: To impart the highest quality education to the students to build their capacity and enhance their skills to make them successfully survive in this era of Industrialization in Mechanical Engineering.
• M2: To provide quality and value-based education in the field of engineering leads to employability, higher education, and entrepreneurship..
• M3: To develop alliances with educational institutions, industries, R&D organizations, and alumni for excellence in research and consultancy practices.

Programme Educational Objectives (PEOs)

Under the Mechanical Engineering undergraduate program, department has a goal to produce Mechanical Engineers who will:

• PEO1: Apply knowledge to provide the real-life solution for industry, government, society, and the scientific community by expanding the body of knowledge in the field.
• PEO2: Utilize their skills of effective communication, teamwork, and project management to improve work productivity within their profession and communities.
• PEO3: Inculcate an attitude for the lifelong learning process and conduct themselves in a responsive, professional, and ethical manner. This is, in addition, to focus on problem-solving, and decision-making skills, contributing to overall personality and career development.

Program Outcomes (POs):

 

1. Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems in Mechanical Engineering.
2. Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, research literature, and analyze complex Mechanical Engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.
3. Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex Mechanical Engineering problems and design system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
4. Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions in Mechanical Engineering.
5. Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modeling to complex Mechanical Engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
6. The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional Mechanical Engineering practice.
7. Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional Mechanical Engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.
8. Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the Mechanical Engineering practice.
9. Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings in Mechanical Engineering.
10. Communication: Communicate effectively on complex Mechanical Engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.
11. Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the Mechanical Engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
12. Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change in Mechanical Engineering.

PSO-Program Specific Outcomes

• PSO1: The graduate will be able to acquire core Mechanical Engineering knowledge and be able to solve industrial as well as societal problems with ethical and environmental consciousness.
• PSO2 : The graduate will be able to build the nation, by imparting technological concepts and tools to emerging fields through Managerial and entrepreneur skills.

Laboratory Facilities

The following well equipped laboratories are available.

• Applied Mechanics.
• Automobile Engineering.
• Bio-Medical Engineering.
• CAD / CAM.
• Composite Material.
• Finite Element Application.
• Hydraulic Machines.Fluid Mechanics.
• Instumentation
• Machine Dynamics and Rotor Dynamics.
• Mechanical Vibration.
• Material Testing.
• Production and Metrology.
• Refrigeration and Air Conditioning.
• Thermal Engineering.
• Tribology.

Workshop

The workshop is under administrative and financial control of Mechanical Engineering Department. It is well equipped with all types of machines, tools and equipments in order to give practical training to both degree and diploma students in different branches of Engineering of the Institute. It consists of the following sections.

• Fitting.
• Carpentry and pattern making.
• Carpentry and pattern making.
• Welding and Sheet Metal Section.
• Foundry.
• Blacksmith.

Students have to practice and fabricate different jobs during workshop sessional classes. Besides the workshop provides opportunities for the following purposes.

• Fabrication work of the students for Practical Project.
• Maintenance of equipments of other departments of the institute.
• Preparation of test specimens for various laboratories of the institute.

Project & Consultancy

With the financial assistance received from AICTE (Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India), the department has successfully completed the following projects in equipping the laboratories with modern and sophisticated equipments.

Consultancy and testing service are being extended to nearby industries such as CMPDI, GAMMON INDIA, MCL and NTPC etc.

R & D Projects

The following R & D projects have been carried out with the financial aid of AICTE.

Projects

The following projects have been carried out with the financial aid of SERB, Govt. of Odisha.

Research Activity

Research work are being carried out in the field of :

• Tribology.
• Bio Composites.
• Metal Cutting.
• Diamond Coated Tools.
• Ceramic Tools.
• Alternate fuels.
• Optimization of Renewable Energy Systems.
• Robotics.
• Vibration Analysis and Rotor Dynamics.
• Machine Dynamics.
• System Dynamics.
• Non-conventional maching, EDM,LBM.

The department also offers scope to its faculty members for undertaking research work for the award of Ph.D. degree in the field of Metal Forming, Robotics and Aerodynamics. Renewable energy systems, Alternative fuels for I.C. Engines (Gaseus fuel, vegetable oil & Biodiesel). Two have been awarded Ph.D. under Utkal University.

Every year, the faculty members publish a number of research papers in journals of International and National repute.

Scope of Mechanical Engineering

With the present pace of Industrialisation, the scope of Mechanical Engineering is ever expanding with advancement in the areas of Computer Aided Design (CAD), Robotics, Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) and Laser Technology etc.

Mechanical Engineering graduates have wide employment opportunities in manufacturing industries, power sectors, process plants and R & D organisations and software industries.

Interested graduates can persue higher studies in convenient discipline such as Machine Design and Analysis, Industrial Design, Thermal Engineering, Manufacturing Sciences, Industrial Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Energy studies and Information Technology etc. On successful completion of post graduate courses one can be absorbed in Research and Development organizations or Academic Institutions.

With the location of reputed industrial organisation nearby, as mentioned earlier, Mechanical Engineering students of this Institute get ample scope of acquiring the desired practical bias through regular industrial visits. The students are assigned practical problems in collaboration with nearby industries for their project work in the final year level. It is thus expected that the Mechanical Engineering Graduates passing out from this Institute will have self-confidence and right bent of mind to compete for the jobs in State/Central Govt. concerns. Incidentally, most of the passed out Mechanical Engineering Students have found employment in state/central Govt. undertakings, Public Sectors, Defence Services and reputed private sectors like Maruti Udyog, TISCO, Mahindra and Mahindra, L&T, OCL, Reliance Industries, TCS, Infosys, PCS, WIPRO etc.

The Department is offering M.Tech programme in the specialization of "Mechanical System Design". Two more fields of specialization namely "Production Engg." & "Thermal Engg." are likely to be entroduced shorty to the M.Tech Programme.