Engineer Day - 2018

Dear Readers,

Engineer Diary convey the best wishes to you and your friends "Wish you a Happy Engineers Day". 

It may very odd to share a article which may demoralise the engineers, However it is very true and essential to understand the reality. It is very worth to share this article " Why are engineers in India paid a low salary?" by Mr. Alok Kumar. He is answered by Alok Kumar in Quora Forum. He works at Ministry of Home Affairs, India. Take some time to read. It is worth.

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Because they are oversupplied.

We have 2 lakhs CAs, 10 lakhs doctors. Engineers! They are in crore.

Take the case of doctors. US has 25 lakh doctors for just about 32 crore population. India has 10 lakh doctors for 130 crore population. Obviously, doctors are scarce in India. They get better salaries.

Compare this with engineers. US produces around 1 lakh engineers per year for a $ 16 Trillion economy. India produces 15 lakhs engineers for a $ 2 Trillion economy.

If there are so many engineers, there must be enough demand to pull them in. But it is not there. The earlier mass recruiting sector was manufacturing. It used to recruit from the core branches like civil, electrical and mechanical. But, manufacturing is stagnant at just 17% of the GDP. So the core branch placements have become difficult.

The new mass recruiter is the IT sector. It grew from scratch to almost 5% of the GDP in 25 years. Employed millions of engineers.

Now, IT is also saturating.

If you look at the sectoral composition of Indian economy, most of the sector do not need engineers. Tourism is 10% of the GDP, does not require engineers. Financial sector, trade, hotels and restaurants do not require engineers. Requirement in health, education, agriculture is almost negligible.

More than 50% of the GDP has no role for engineers. Still most of us are becoming engineers. The current situation is not sustainable.

So the demand is less while the supply is high. Over and above this, skill level of an average engineer is poor. I say its non-existent. Leave the top 100–200 colleges. And you will find that a fresh engineer has no idea of what s/he has studies. Ask a fresh mechanical engineer, can s/he design a simple frame?

Today the situation is that most engineers are working in a field that has no connection to what they have studied in the college. This is a waste of resources.

Engineering degree does not come cheap. It costs about 10 lakhs. For poor parents, its a huge burden. When their son is not able to secure a job, they are devastated.

For the nation, you can calculate the loss. Leave around 1 lakh engineers that NASSCOM says are employable. The rest 14 lakhs have each wasted 10 lakhs of fees. That totals to around $ 20 Billion. Almost equal to the Government’s spending on healthcare. Over this, there is loss of human capital.

We need to replan the whole engineering education system. Cut down on the number of colleges and improve the quality in the rest.

Engineer Day - 2017

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Engineer Diary bringing to you a very Happy and Memorable Engineer Day Wishes.

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Welding Symbol

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Wish You a Happy Engineer's Day-2016

During Construction at site, we are very often reading drawings and encountered the interpretation of welding symbol. Now let us discuss about welding symbols and special instructions.

Like other aspects of drafting, there’s a set of symbols for welding to simplify the communication between designer and builder (i.e. the site engineer / welder). This language may seem a little strange at first, so it's best to learn it one symbol at a time. These figures represent the core structure of every drafting specification for a weld to be performed. The welding symbol has an arrow, which points to the location on the drawing where a weld is required.

Welding Symbol having three lines. Out of three lines two is must and one is optional.
   1. Reference Line (Required Element)
   2. Arrow Line (Required Element)
   3. Tail (Optional Element)

Below mentioned sketch shows the lines, for better understanding purpose we indicated in different color.

Reference Line : It is always Horizontal Line, One end connected with Arrow line and another end connected with Tail.

Arrow Line : One end of arrow line connects to reference line and another end (Arrow side) points to a joint, which clearly identify the proposal of joint or Location or Weld area

Tail : It is a optional line and it is used to indicate the supplementary information to be used for welding or cutting or finishing process. Note that this tail may omitted when reference is not used.

Some of the drawing mentioned N/S or F/S or NS or FS. It means Near Side or Far Side. Near side means, Welding should be done where the arrow is shown. Far side means, Welding should be done another side or Opposite side of the arrow is shown.

Some of the special instruction, Drawing representation and welding symbols are as follows.

All in one like Welding symbol, drawing representation and special instruction, are mentioned in below sketch. Click on picture to enlarge.

 

For More Details about Welding Electrode Classification click Here
For More Details about Weld metal deposition click Here

Hope all readers are benefitted this article. Have a Nice Day

Engineers Day-2015

Engineer Diary Blog is bringing to you a very Happy and Memorable Engineers day Wishes.

Engineers day is the most prestigious day for every engineer. September 15th will be celebrated as the Engineers day in India. Reason behind this is the birthday of great civil engineer Mokshagundam visweswarayya who gave enormous services to the people as well as the government.

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Happy Engineers Day-2014

Dear Readers,

Wish You a Happy Engineers Day.

Engineer Diary blog is very happy to wishes the Engineer day as well as publish the 100th post of this blog. This is an important mile stone for us. Thanks to all readers for continuous support to this blog. This blog started in the year 2010 and published first post on 2nd March 2010. For 100th post this blog takes five years, of-course it has been consumed more time due to quality of articles and technical information's.

This time self decided to post some article other than the regular subject (Engineering) and useful to all readers. Let us see how the friendship breaks?

Everybody life span one person is more important other than your spouse and family members. You may agree that person is absolutely your friend. To keep the friendship alive, we should not allow to break the same. 

How Friendship Breaks?

Both friends are busy in their works or they feel that other is busy with their work

So both won't disturb to each other works

Time Passes...

Both will wait other will speak

Then both will think why should I speak first?

Here love convert in to angry

At last both will not contact each other that memories loses and weaken

Then forget each other

So Don't forget keep contact regularly

Keep in contact through e-mail, mobile, Telephone & letters

F-  Few

R-  Relations

I -  In

E - Earth

N - Never

D - Die

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Bearings

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Wish you a Happy Engineer Day-2013

Engineer dairy is very much proud to publish this article during the Engineer Day. Bearing is one of the wonderful engineering innovation in this world and it is biggest mile stone of engineering industry. Any rotation parts with out bearing is un-imaginable. From children's toys, household utilities to aeroplane and space equipment everywhere bearings are involved.

 

Bearing is a device that supports, guides, and reduces the friction of motion between fixed and moving machine parts. Bearing is primarily used in between rotation parts. The main function of rotation part is transmit power from one end to another end. For transmitting power, it needs a good support to ensure stability and frictionless rotation. The support is known as “bearing”.
 

The bearings are classified in to two main category. One is plain or Slider bearing, another one is Rolling or Anti friction bearing. Under this main category there are numerous different kind of bearings that are designed to handle radial load, thrust load or combination of the two loads.

 

Sliding Bearing. It is a simple plain bearing, it is classified in to Journal bearing, Footstep bearing and collar thrust bearing.

 

Ball and Roller Bearing. These are known as anti-friction bearings, widely used in industries. It is further classified as follows

 

Ball bearings (Self-aligning ball bearings, Double row angular contact ball bearings, Double row deep groove ball bearings, Single row deep groove ball bearings, Single row angular contact ball bearings & Four-point contact ball bearings)

Roller bearing (Spherical roller bearings, Tapered roller bearings, Cylindrical roller bearings, Needle roller bearings)

 

Thrust Bearing (Cylindrical roller thrust bearings, spherical roller thrust bearings, Thrust ball bearings)

Best Quote. Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Have a Nice Day

 

Engineer Day

Wish You a Happy Engineer Day

In India, Engineer's day is celebrated on September 15th of Every Year.

This day is celebrated in the honor of Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (1861-1962), who was a notable Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore during 1912 to 1919. Internationally recognized for his genius in harnessing water resources, he was responsible for successful design and construction of several river dams, bridges and implementing irrigation and drinking water schemes all over India.

He served as the chief engineer during construction of Krishna Raja Sagara Dam on the Kaveri River near Mysore. He also built many dams in the Bombay presidency (present day Maharashtra). The dams built by him are still functional even today, a testimony to his brilliance, skill, honesty and dedication. So 15 September, Engineer's Day is quite a remarkable tribute to the greatest Indian Engineer Bharat Ratna M. Visvesvarayya.

On the Event of Engineer Day celebration let us see the following engineering miracle River on River

The Incredible Magdeburg Water Bridge in Germany

The Magdeburg Water Bridge is a navigable aqueduct in Germany that connects the Elbe-Havel Canal to the Mittelland Canal , and allows ships to cross over the Elbe River . At 918 meters, it is the longest navigable aqueduct in the world.

  

Even after you see it, it is still hard to believe!
Water Bridge in Germany - - What a feat! - - Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long . . . now this is engineering! This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany .

As part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg , near Berlin . Construction of the water link was started as early as in the 1930s but due to the World War 2 and subsequent division of Germany the work remained suspended until 1997. The aqueduct was finally completed and opened to the public in 2003. The photo was taken on the day of inauguration . . .

When you stop and think about this, this is just amazing!