About engineering courses: MECH

MEC (Mechanical Engineer)

Rank of preference by many students #2

What is MEC?

Mechanical engineering is a course that existed in many colleges for quite some time but students were reluctant to take up the course in the beginning. This is because of the complexity around this course. What do you study here? You will study everything from how a wheel behaves to a how to design a robot probably. It involves understanding relative motion, dynamics etc. There is so much you will re-read from your 10^th to 12^th physics. This is not for you if you are not a physics fan. The course is fun and there is so much to learn. You gotta be conscious all the time and grasp the subject. Just read the syllabus book for mechanical course (available on JNTU  website) and you will know what you are going to study. Be prepared.

Complexity: Upper medium difficulty

Choosing a college: Just like ECE you need to pick a college with large infrastructure or you will never make an impact. These days’ mechanical students from AP are submitting papers to events outside the country and some of their projects even participated in competitions with international students. You must research on the college that is investing on research for this field. Also check the faculty (all college websites have the list).

Higher education: Highly recommended. Though many travel abroad for M.Sc and PhD. There are excellent universities in Germany and the education there is free too (Even for international students).

Job Opportunities: As far as I was told, there are too many jobs and very few people in this dept. Especially in India, there is good demand for this course students. Many companies that are dependent on mechanical engineering have started their plants in India. Don’t always imagine designing cars, you might as well be designing machinery; process chain plants or get into robotics. Oh, as always, the software industry also wants you!

Will you enjoy this course: If you live with the subjects you will enjoy the course better than anyone else. Just look around you, everything is mechanics.