Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT) offers admission to M.Tech degree either on the basis of GATE score or on the basis of entrance exam conducted at institute level. Topics like Metal Casting, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Quality Control, Heat Transfer, Mechanical Measurements, and Strength of Materials are covered under the syllabus of institute level entrance exam.

Syllabus for M.Tech (Mechanical) Entrance Test in MIT, Aurangabad

Engineering Materials

• Alloys and binary phase diagrams
• Ceramics
• Composite materials
• Crystalline materials
• Defects in crystalline materials
• Heat treatment of steels
• Plastics
• Properties of common engineering materials
• Structure of solids

Metal Casting

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

Metal 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

Joining and Welding

• Adhesive bonding
• Brazing and soldering
• Electric arc welding
• Gas welding and Thermit welding
• Solid State welding

Machining and Machine Tool Operations

• Economics of machining
• Mechanics of machining
• Principles of nontraditional machining processes
• Single and multi-point cutting tools
• Tool geometry and materials
• Tool life and wear

Metrology and Inspection

• Alignment and testing methods
• Comparators
• Fits and tolerances
• Form and finish measurement
• Interferometery
• Limits
• Linear and angular measurements
• Tolerance analysis

Computer Integrated Manufacturing

• Basic concepts of manufacturing cell
• CAD/CAM and their integration tools
• FMS and CIM

Methods Study and Work Measurements

• Flow process chart
• Left-hand-right-hand chart
• Man-machine chart
• Method time measurement systems
• Micro and memo motion studies
• Motion study
• Principles of motion economy
• String diagram
• Therbligs
• Time study
• Work sampling

Production Planning and Control

• Aggregate production planning
• Forecasting models
• Materials requirement planning
• Product design and development
• Scheduling
• Supply chain management

Inventory Control

• Deterministic and probabilistic models
• Safety stock inventory control systems

Operations Research

• Assignment Problem
• CPM and PERT
• Linear programming
• Simple queuing models
• Simplex method
• Simulation
• Transportation Problem

Quality Control

• Definition of quality
• OC curve
• Quality control charts
• Quality function deployment
• Sampling plans
• Total quality management

Engineering Economy

• Breakeven analysis
• Demand and supply
• Methods of depreciation calculations
• Nominal and effective interest rates

Ergonomics

• Design of displays and controls
• Human-computer-interaction
• Industrial ergonomics

Thermodynamics

• Analysis of thermodynamics cycles related to energy conversion
• Behaviour of ideal and real gases
• Calculation of work and heat in ideal processes
• Entropy
• Irreversibility and Availability
• Laws of thermodynamics

I.C. Engines

• Carburetion
• Engine performance
• Fuel injection
• Normal and abnormal combustion in SI and CI engines

Energy Conversion Systems

• Basic cycles related to energy conversion system
• Binary Vapour cycle
• Bratton cycle
• Combined cycle
• Energy sources
• Regenerative cycles

Fluid Mechanics

• Bernoulli’s equation
• Boundary layer theory
• Compressible flow
• Control-volume analysis of mass, momentum and energy
• Equations of continuity
• Fluid properties
• Laminar and Turbulent Flow

Heat Transfer

• Basics of heat transfer in condensation and pool boiling
• Heat exchangers
• Modes of heat transfer
• Network analysis
• One dimensional steady and unsteady heat conduction
• Radiative heat transfer
• Two dimensional steady state conduction

Refrigeration and air-conditioning

• Adiabatic mixing
• Basics of airconditioning equipment
• Cooling load calculation
• Dehumidification
• Humidification
• Properties of moist air
• Psychometric chart
• Psychrometric chart
• Refrigeration system
• Solar refrigeration system
• Vapour Absorption system
• Vapour compression system

Steam and Gas Turbines

• Pressure
• Impulse Turbines
• Reaction turbines
• Work

Turbo Machines

• Adiabatic and polytropic compression
• Centrifugal and axial flow compressors
• Centrifugal pumps
• Euler’s equation
• Inter-cooling and after cooling
• Minimum work requirement
• Pumps and compressors
• Tangential and reaction hydraulic turbines
• Volumetric efficiency

Mechanical Measurements

• Displacement
• Fluid flow measurement
• Force
• Pressure
• Sound
• Speed
• Strain
• Temperature
• Torque
• Types of thermocouple and transducers
• Velocity
• Vibration

Applied Mechanics

• Centre of gravity
• Equivalent force system and equilibrium
• Friction
• Kinematics
• Kinetics of rigid bodies
• Moment of inertia
• Structural mechanics

Theory of Machines

• Automatic controls
• Balancing of rigid rotors and field balancing
• Balancing of single and multicylinder engines
• Critical speeds and whirling of shafts
• Kinematic and dynamic analysis of planer mechanisms
• Linear vibration analysis of mechanical systems

Machine Design

• Design procedure
• Safety factor
• Theories of failure

Strength of Materials

• Isotropy and anisotropy
• Linear elastic materials
• Mohr’s construction
• Principal stresses and strains
• Stress and strain in two and three dimensions
• Stress-strain relations
• Thermal stresses
• Uniaxial loading

Beams

• Bending moment and shear force diagram
• Bending stresses
• Combined stresses
• Deflection of beams
• Helical springs
• Shear stress distribution
• Strain energy concepts
• Thick-and thin-walled pressure vessels
• Torsion of shafts

The syllabus for the entrance exam is based on the topics prescribed under B.E/B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering). Exam preparations should be planned after understanding the exam syllabus clearly. Reference books and question papers of previous years can be used for study.