GATE 2012 INDUSTRIAL AND PRODUCTION
ENGINEERING SYLLABUS
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
Linear Algebra:
Matrix algebra, Systems of linear equations, Eigen values and eigen
vectors.
Calculus:
Functions of single variable, Limit, continuity and differentiability, Mean value
theorems, Evaluation of definite and improper integrals, Partial derivatives, Total derivative,
Maxima and minima, Gradient, Divergence and Curl, Vector identities, Directional
derivatives, Line, Surface and Volume integrals, Stokes, Gauss and Green?s theorems.
Differential equations:
First order equations (linear and nonlinear), Higher order linear
differential equations with constant coefficients, Cauchy?s and Euler?s equations, Initial and
boundary value problems, Laplace transforms, Solutions of one dimensional heat and wave
equations and Laplace equation.
Complex variables:
Analytic functions, Cauchy?s integral theorem, Taylor and Laurent
series.
Probability and Statistics:
Definitions of probability and sampling theorems, Conditional
probability, Mean, median, mode and standard deviation, Random variables, Poisson, Normal
and Binomial distributions.
Numerical Methods:
Numerical solutions of linear and non-linear algebraic equations
Integration by trapezoidal and Simpson?s rule, single and multi-step methods for differential
equations.
GENERAL ENGINEERING
Engineering Materials:
Structure and properties of engineering materials and their
applications; effect of strain, strain rate and temperature on mechanical properties of metals
and alloys; heat treatment of metals and alloys, its influence on mechanical properties.
Applied Mechanics:
Engineering mechanics - equivalent force systems, free body concepts,
equations of equilibrium; strength of materials - stress, strain and their relationship, Mohr?s
circle, deflection of beams, bending and shear stress, Euler?s theory of columns.
Theory of Machines and Design:
Analysis of planar mechanisms, cams and followers;
governers and fly wheels; design of elements - failure theories; design of bolted, riveted and
welded joints; design of shafts, keys, spur gears, belt drives, brakes and clutches.
Thermal Engineering:
Fluid mechanics - fluid statics, Bernoulli?s equation, flow through
pipes, equations of continuity and momentum; thermodynamics - zeroth, first and second law
of thermodynamics, thermodynamic system and processes, calculation of work and heat for
systems and control volumes; air standard cycles; basics of internal combustion engines and
steam turbines; heat transfer - fundamentals of conduction, convection and r adiation, heat
exchangers.
PRODUCTION ENGINEERING
Metal Casting:
Casting processes - types and applications; patterns - types and materials;
allowances; moulds and cores - materials, making, and testing; casting techniques of cast
iron, steels and nonferrous metals and alloys; solidification; design of casting, gating and
risering; casting inspection, defects and remedies.
Metal Forming:
Stress-strain relations in elastic and plastic deformation; concept of flow
stress, deformation mechanisms; hot and cold working - forging, rolling, extrusion, wire and
tube drawing; sheet metal working processes such as blanking, piercing, bending, deep
drawing, coining and embossing; analysis of rolling, forging, extrusion and wire /rod
drawing; metal working defects.
Metal Joining Processes:
Welding processes - manual metal arc, MIG, TIG, plasma arc,
submerged arc, electroslag, thermit, resistance, forge, friction, and explosive welding;other
joining processes - soldering, brazing, braze welding; inspection of welded joints, defects and
remedies; introduction to advanced welding processes - ultrasonic, electron beam, laser
beam; thermal cutting.
Machining and Machine Tool Operations:
Basic machine tools; machining processes-
turning, drilling, boring, milling, shaping, planing, gear cutting, thread production, broaching,
grinding, lapping, honing, super finishing; mechanics of machining - geometry of cutting
tools, chip formation, cutting forces and power requirements, Merchant?s analysis; selection
of machining parameters; tool materials, tool wear and tool life, economics of machining,
thermal aspects of machining, cutting fluids, machinability; principles and applications of
nontraditional machining processes - USM, AJM, WJM, EDM and Wire cut EDM, LBM,
EBM, PAM, CHM, ECM.
Tool Engineering:
Jigs and fixtures - principles, applications, and design; press tools -
configuration, design of die and punch; principles of forging die design.
Metrology and Inspection:
Limits, fits, and tolerances, interchangeability, selective
assembly; linear and angular measurements by mechanical and optical methods, comparators;
design of limit gauges; interferometry; measurement of straightness, flatness, roundness,
squareness and symmetry; surface finish measurement; inspection of screw threads and gears;
alignment testing of machine tools.
Powder Metallurgy:
Production of metal powders, compaction and sinter ing.
Polymers and Composites:
Introduction to polymers and composites; plastic processing -
injection, compression and blow molding, extrusion, calendaring and thermoforming;
molding of composites.
Manufacturing Analysis:
Sources of errors in manufacturing; process capability; tolerance
analysis in manufacturing and assembly; process planning; parameter selection and
comparison of production alternatives; time and cost analysis; manufacturing technologies -
strategies and selection.
Computer Integrated Manufacturing:
Basic concepts of CAD, CAM, CAPP, cellular
manufacturing, NC, CNC, DNC, Robotics, FMS, and CIM.
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Product Design and Development :
Principles of good product design, tolerance design;
quality and cost considerations; product life cycle; standardization, simplification,
diversification, value engineering and analysis, concurrent engineering.
Engineering Economy and Costing:
Elementary cost accounting and methods of
depreciation; break-even analysis, techniques for evaluation of capital investments, financialstatements.
Work System Design:
Taylor?s scientific management, Gilbreths?s contributions;
productivity - concepts and measurements; method study, micro-motion study, principles of
motion economy; work measurement - stop watch time study, work sampling, standard data,
PMTS; ergonomics; job evaluation, merit rating, incentive schemes, and wage
administration; business process reengineering.
Facility Design:
Facility location factors and evaluation of alternate locations; types of plant
layout and their evaluation; computer aided layout design techniques; assembly line
balancing; materials handling systems.
Production Planning and Inventory Control:
Forecasting techniques - causal and time
series models, moving average, exponential smoothing, trend and seasonality; aggr egate
production planning; master production scheduling; MRP and MRP-II; order control and
flow control; routing, scheduling and priority dispatching; push and pull pr oduction systems,
concept of JIT manufacturing system; logistics, distribution, and supply chain management;
Inventory - functions, costs, classifications, deterministic and probabilistic inventory models,
quantity discount; perpetual and periodic inventory control systems.
Operation Research:
Linear programming - problem formulation, simplex method, duality
and sensitivity analysis; transportation and assignment models; network flow models,
constrained optimization and Lagrange multipliers; simple queuing models; dynamic
programming; simulation - manufacturing applications; PERT and CPM, time-cost trade-off,
resource leveling.
Quality Management:
Quality - concept and costs, quality circles, quality assurance;
statistical quality control, acceptance sampling, zero defects, six sigma; total quality
management; ISO 9000; design of experiments - Taguchi method.
Reliability and Maintenance:
Reliability, availability and maintainability; distribution of
failure and repair times; determination of MTBF and MTTR, reliability models; system
reliability determination; preventive maintenance and replacement, total productive
maintenance - concept and applications.
Management Information System:
Value of information; information storage and retrieval
system - database and data structures; knowledge based systems.
Intellectual Property System:
Definition of intellectual property, importance of IPR; TRIPS
and its implications, patent, copyright, industrial design and trademark.
ENGINEERING SYLLABUS
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
Linear Algebra:
Matrix algebra, Systems of linear equations, Eigen values and eigen
vectors.
Calculus:
Functions of single variable, Limit, continuity and differentiability, Mean value
theorems, Evaluation of definite and improper integrals, Partial derivatives, Total derivative,
Maxima and minima, Gradient, Divergence and Curl, Vector identities, Directional
derivatives, Line, Surface and Volume integrals, Stokes, Gauss and Green?s theorems.
Differential equations:
First order equations (linear and nonlinear), Higher order linear
differential equations with constant coefficients, Cauchy?s and Euler?s equations, Initial and
boundary value problems, Laplace transforms, Solutions of one dimensional heat and wave
equations and Laplace equation.
Complex variables:
Analytic functions, Cauchy?s integral theorem, Taylor and Laurent
series.
Probability and Statistics:
Definitions of probability and sampling theorems, Conditional
probability, Mean, median, mode and standard deviation, Random variables, Poisson, Normal
and Binomial distributions.
Numerical Methods:
Numerical solutions of linear and non-linear algebraic equations
Integration by trapezoidal and Simpson?s rule, single and multi-step methods for differential
equations.
GENERAL ENGINEERING
Engineering Materials:
Structure and properties of engineering materials and their
applications; effect of strain, strain rate and temperature on mechanical properties of metals
and alloys; heat treatment of metals and alloys, its influence on mechanical properties.
Applied Mechanics:
Engineering mechanics - equivalent force systems, free body concepts,
equations of equilibrium; strength of materials - stress, strain and their relationship, Mohr?s
circle, deflection of beams, bending and shear stress, Euler?s theory of columns.
Theory of Machines and Design:
Analysis of planar mechanisms, cams and followers;
governers and fly wheels; design of elements - failure theories; design of bolted, riveted and
welded joints; design of shafts, keys, spur gears, belt drives, brakes and clutches.
Thermal Engineering:
Fluid mechanics - fluid statics, Bernoulli?s equation, flow through
pipes, equations of continuity and momentum; thermodynamics - zeroth, first and second law
of thermodynamics, thermodynamic system and processes, calculation of work and heat for
systems and control volumes; air standard cycles; basics of internal combustion engines and
steam turbines; heat transfer - fundamentals of conduction, convection and r adiation, heat
exchangers.
PRODUCTION ENGINEERING
Metal Casting:
Casting processes - types and applications; patterns - types and materials;
allowances; moulds and cores - materials, making, and testing; casting techniques of cast
iron, steels and nonferrous metals and alloys; solidification; design of casting, gating and
risering; casting inspection, defects and remedies.
Metal Forming:
Stress-strain relations in elastic and plastic deformation; concept of flow
stress, deformation mechanisms; hot and cold working - forging, rolling, extrusion, wire and
tube drawing; sheet metal working processes such as blanking, piercing, bending, deep
drawing, coining and embossing; analysis of rolling, forging, extrusion and wire /rod
drawing; metal working defects.
Metal Joining Processes:
Welding processes - manual metal arc, MIG, TIG, plasma arc,
submerged arc, electroslag, thermit, resistance, forge, friction, and explosive welding;other
joining processes - soldering, brazing, braze welding; inspection of welded joints, defects and
remedies; introduction to advanced welding processes - ultrasonic, electron beam, laser
beam; thermal cutting.
Machining and Machine Tool Operations:
Basic machine tools; machining processes-
turning, drilling, boring, milling, shaping, planing, gear cutting, thread production, broaching,
grinding, lapping, honing, super finishing; mechanics of machining - geometry of cutting
tools, chip formation, cutting forces and power requirements, Merchant?s analysis; selection
of machining parameters; tool materials, tool wear and tool life, economics of machining,
thermal aspects of machining, cutting fluids, machinability; principles and applications of
nontraditional machining processes - USM, AJM, WJM, EDM and Wire cut EDM, LBM,
EBM, PAM, CHM, ECM.
Tool Engineering:
Jigs and fixtures - principles, applications, and design; press tools -
configuration, design of die and punch; principles of forging die design.
Metrology and Inspection:
Limits, fits, and tolerances, interchangeability, selective
assembly; linear and angular measurements by mechanical and optical methods, comparators;
design of limit gauges; interferometry; measurement of straightness, flatness, roundness,
squareness and symmetry; surface finish measurement; inspection of screw threads and gears;
alignment testing of machine tools.
Powder Metallurgy:
Production of metal powders, compaction and sinter ing.
Polymers and Composites:
Introduction to polymers and composites; plastic processing -
injection, compression and blow molding, extrusion, calendaring and thermoforming;
molding of composites.
Manufacturing Analysis:
Sources of errors in manufacturing; process capability; tolerance
analysis in manufacturing and assembly; process planning; parameter selection and
comparison of production alternatives; time and cost analysis; manufacturing technologies -
strategies and selection.
Computer Integrated Manufacturing:
Basic concepts of CAD, CAM, CAPP, cellular
manufacturing, NC, CNC, DNC, Robotics, FMS, and CIM.
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Product Design and Development :
Principles of good product design, tolerance design;
quality and cost considerations; product life cycle; standardization, simplification,
diversification, value engineering and analysis, concurrent engineering.
Engineering Economy and Costing:
Elementary cost accounting and methods of
depreciation; break-even analysis, techniques for evaluation of capital investments, financialstatements.
Work System Design:
Taylor?s scientific management, Gilbreths?s contributions;
productivity - concepts and measurements; method study, micro-motion study, principles of
motion economy; work measurement - stop watch time study, work sampling, standard data,
PMTS; ergonomics; job evaluation, merit rating, incentive schemes, and wage
administration; business process reengineering.
Facility Design:
Facility location factors and evaluation of alternate locations; types of plant
layout and their evaluation; computer aided layout design techniques; assembly line
balancing; materials handling systems.
Production Planning and Inventory Control:
Forecasting techniques - causal and time
series models, moving average, exponential smoothing, trend and seasonality; aggr egate
production planning; master production scheduling; MRP and MRP-II; order control and
flow control; routing, scheduling and priority dispatching; push and pull pr oduction systems,
concept of JIT manufacturing system; logistics, distribution, and supply chain management;
Inventory - functions, costs, classifications, deterministic and probabilistic inventory models,
quantity discount; perpetual and periodic inventory control systems.
Operation Research:
Linear programming - problem formulation, simplex method, duality
and sensitivity analysis; transportation and assignment models; network flow models,
constrained optimization and Lagrange multipliers; simple queuing models; dynamic
programming; simulation - manufacturing applications; PERT and CPM, time-cost trade-off,
resource leveling.
Quality Management:
Quality - concept and costs, quality circles, quality assurance;
statistical quality control, acceptance sampling, zero defects, six sigma; total quality
management; ISO 9000; design of experiments - Taguchi method.
Reliability and Maintenance:
Reliability, availability and maintainability; distribution of
failure and repair times; determination of MTBF and MTTR, reliability models; system
reliability determination; preventive maintenance and replacement, total productive
maintenance - concept and applications.
Management Information System:
Value of information; information storage and retrieval
system - database and data structures; knowledge based systems.
Intellectual Property System:
Definition of intellectual property, importance of IPR; TRIPS
and its implications, patent, copyright, industrial design and trademark.
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