I . CIVIL
ENGINEERING PRACTICE
Buildings:
(a) Study of plumbing and carpentry components of
residential and industrial
buildings. Safety aspects.
Plumbing Works:
(a) Study of pipeline joints, its location and functions:
valves, taps, couplings, unions,
reducers, elbows in household fittings.
(b) Study of pipe connections requirements for pumps and
turbines.
(c) Preparation of plumbing line sketches for water
supply and sewage works.
(d) Hands-on-exercise:
Carpentry using Power Tools only:
(a) Study of the joints in roofs, doors, windows and
furniture.
(b) Hands-on-exercise:
II . MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING PRACTICE
Welding:
(a)
Preparation of arc welding of butt joints, lap joints and tee joints. (b) Gas welding practice
Basic Machining:
(a) Simple Turning and Taper turning
(b) Drilling Practice
Sheet Metal Work:
(a) Forming & Bending:
(b) Model making – Trays, funnels, etc. (c) Different
type of joints.
Machine assembly
practice:
(a) Study of centrifugal pump
(b) Study of air conditioner
Demonstration on:
(a) Smithy operations, upsetting, swaging, setting down
and bending. Example – Exercise – Production of hexagonal headed bolt.
(b) Foundry operations like mould preparation for gear
and step cone pulley.
(c) Fitting – Exercises – Preparation of square fitting
and vee – fitting models.
GROUP B (ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS)
III . ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING PRACTICE
1. Residential house wiring using switches, fuse,
indicator, lamp and energy meter.
2.Fluorescent lamp wiring.
3.Stair case wiring
4.Measurement of electrical quantities – voltage,
current, power & power factor in
RLC circuit.
5.Measurement of energy using single phase energy meter.
6.Measurement of resistance to earth of an electrical
equipment.
IV . ELECTRONICS
ENGINEERING PRACTICE
1.Study of Electronic components and equipments –
Resistor, colour coding measurement
of AC signal parameter (peak-peak, rms period, frequency) using CR.
2.Study of logic gates AND, OR, EOR and NOT.
3.Generation of Clock Signal.
4.Soldering practice – Components Devices and Circuits –
Using general purpose PCB.
5.Measurement of ripple factor of HWR and FWR.
REFERENCE
1.K.Jeyachandran, S.Natarajan & S, Balasubramanian,
“A Primer on Engineering Practices
Laboratory”, Anuradha Publications, (2007).
2.T.Jeyapoovan, M.Saravanapandian & S.Pranitha,
“Engineering Practices Lab Manual”, Vikas Puplishing House Pvt.Ltd,
(2006)
3. H.S. Bawa, “Workshop Practice”, Tata McGraw – Hill
Publishing Company Limited, (2007).
4. A. Rajendra Prasad & P.M.M.S. Sarma, “Workshop
Practice”, Sree Sai Publication,
(2002).
5. P.Kannaiah & K.L.Narayana, “Manual on Workshop
Practice”, Scitech Publications,
(1999).
