Jindal Steel Power Limited (JSPL) conduct Graduate Engineer Trainee (GET) exam for B.Tech graduates in Mechanical Engineering every year. Main areas included in the GET exam are Applied Mechanics Design, Fluid Mechanics & Thermal Sciences and Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering. Subjects included under Applied Mechanics Design are Engineering Mechanics, Strength of Materials etc. where as Fluid Mechanics & Thermal Sciences includes Fluid Mechanics, Heat-Transfer etc. Subjects like Engineering Materials, Machining and Machine Tool Operations, Computer Integrated Manufacturing etc. come under Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering.

Syllabus for Applied Mechanics and Design

Engineering Mechanics

• Free body diagrams and equilibrium
• Kinematics and dynamics of particles and of rigid bodies in plane motion
• Trusses and frames
• Virtual work

Theory of Machines

• Critical speeds of shafts
• Displacement
• Dynamic analysis of slider-crank mechanism
• Effect of damping
• Free and forced vibration of single degree of freedom systems
• Gear trains and flywheels
• Resonance
• Velocity and acceleration analysis of plane mechanisms
• Vibration isolation
• Vibrations

Strength of Materials

• Stress-strain relationship and elastic constants
• Euler’s theory of columns
• Shear force and bending moment diagrams
• Mohr’s circle for plane stress and plane strain
• Strain energy methods

Design

• Failure theories
• Design for static and dynamic loading
• Fatigue strength and the S-N diagram
• Principles of the design of machine elements

Syllabus for Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences

Fluid Mechanics

• Bernoulli’s equation
• Boundary layer
• Control-volume analysis of mass, momentum and energy
• Differential equations of continuity and momentum
• Elementary turbulent flow
• Fluid acceleration
• Fluid properties
• Viscous flow of incompressible fluids

Heat-Transfer

• Dimensionless parameters in free and forced convective heat transfer
• Effect of turbulence
• Heat exchanger performance
• LMTD and NTU methods
• Modes of heat transfer
• Radiative heat transfer, black and grey surfaces, shape factors and network analysis
• Thermal boundary layer
• Various correlations for heat transfer in flow over flat plates and through pipes

Thermodynamics

• Analysis of thermodynamic cycles related to energy conversion
• Behavior of ideal and real gases
• Calculation of work and heat in ideal processes
• Carnot cycle
• Irreversibility and availability
• Thermodynamic system and processes
• Zeroth, First and Second laws of thermodynamics

Applications

• I.C. Engines
• Power Engineering
• Refrigeration and air-conditioning
• Turbomachinery

Syllabus for Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering

Engineering Materials

• Heat treatment
• Stress-Strain diagrams for engineering materials
• Structure and properties of engineering materials

Metal Casting

• Riser and gating design
• Design considerations
• Design of patterns, moulds and cores
• Solidification and cooling

Joining

• Adhesive bonding
• Design considerations in welding
• Physics of welding, brazing and soldering

Forming

• Fundamentals of hot and cold working processes
• Load estimation for bulk and sheet metal forming processes
• Plastic deformation and yield criteria
• Principles of powder metallurgy

Machining and Machine Tool Operations

• Economics of machining
• Mechanics of machining
• Principles of design of jigs and fixtures
• Principles of non-traditional machining processes
• Principles of work holding
• Single and multi-point cutting tools
• Tool geometry and materials
• Tool life and wear

Metrology and Inspection

• Alignment and testing methods
• Comparators
• Form and finish measurement
• Gauge design
• Interferometry
• Limits, fits and tolerances
• Linear and angular measurements
• Tolerance analysis in manufacturing and assembly

Computer Integrated Manufacturing

• Basic concepts of CAD/CAM and their integration tools

Production Planning and Control

• Aggregate production planning
• Forecasting models
• Materials requirement planning
• Scheduling

Inventory Control

• Deterministic and probabilistic models
• Safety stock inventory control systems

Operations Research

• Assignment
• Linear programming
• Network flow models
• PERT and CPM
• Simple queuing models
• Simplex and Duplex method
• Transportation

Candidates can make use of GATE preparation books for covering the syllabus of JSPL GET exam. They can also refer the text books studied during their B.Tech course.