ISRO Syllabus for Scientist and

Engineers 2017
This year, ISRO is holding exams for recruiting young graduates for the post
of Scientist/Engineer (SC). The exam is going to take place in 2 stages Written
Test + Interview. (Written Exam is only qualifying) Your academic
performance and bio-data will be screened and then candidates will be shortlisted
for Written Test. The exam will take place on May 07, 2017. You will have ti appear in
one of the 3 subjects - Civil, Electrical or Mechanical - as per your expertise. If
you have chosen Mechanical exam, then you might have noticed that there is no such
Official Syllabus put out by ISRO for the preparation of the exam. To sort out this
confusion for you, we are providing you detailed ISRO Syllabus For Mechanical
Engineering. Read further to know why and how you should use this syllabus for
maximum benefit.

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rapidly changing exam patterns, have prepared this ISRO Syllabus For
Mechanical Exam 2017.

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 We have arranged various topics here according to their importance and
weightage.
This syllabus is prepared on the basis of analysis of past 11 year papers.
This list gives you the weightage of all topics so that you study the ones that
will fetch you more marks before picking up the one that will get you
comparatively lesser marks.

ISRO Syllabus for Mechanical Exam 2016

ISRO Syllabus For Mechanical which will consist of 80 questions. Here are the topics
with their weightage:

1) Strength of Material:

Weightage: 10 13 Questions
Tough to grasp Concepts, Moderately Time Consuming, High Scoring, More
numericals.
Question Types/ Sub Topic: Simple stress and strain, elastic constant,
Poisson's ratio, thermal stress, principal stress and strain, Mohrs circle
analysis, shear force and bending moment, slope and deflection, bending and
torsion, columns, strain energy, pressure vessel, testing of material on UTM and
impact testing.

2) Theory of Machine and Mechanical Vibrations:

Weightage: 8 10 Questions
Few Topics, Mostly Numericals, High Scoring, Less Time Consuming.
Question Types/Sub Topics: Planer mechanism, cams, flywheel, governor,
gyroscope, gear and gear train, balancing, under damped and damped vibrations,
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 natural frequency and resonance, harmonic oscillations, whirling of shaft,
logarithmic decrements.

3) Design of machine elements:

Weightage: 3 4 Questions
Very Few Selected Topics, Formula based questions, Very Less Time Consuming.
Question Types/Sub Topics: Design against fluctuating load, riveted and
welded joints, bearings, clutches, belt drives, springs.

4) Engineering Mechanics:

Weightage: 6 - 8 Questions
Moderate difficulty level, More Time Consuming, High Accuracy Possible.
Question Types/Sub Topics: Kinematics of motion, trusses and frames,
Impulse and momentum (linear and angular), angular motion, friction, rolling
and sliding motion.

5) Thermal Engineering:

Weightage: 8 - 10 Questions
Very Less Time Consuming, Highest Accuracy Possible, Low Difficulty Level.
Question Types/Sub Topics: system properties and temperature
measurement, first law of thermodynamics, heat and work transfer, entropy,
second law of thermodynamics, availability and irreversibility, properties of pure
substances, properties of gases, refrigeration and air conditioning, Air standard
cycles.

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6) Heat Transfer:

Weightage: 6 - 7 Questions
Theoretical topics, Less Time Consuming, High Accuracy Possible, Mostly
Numericals.
Question Types/Sub Topics: Conduction, conduction in cylinder and
spherical objects, critical thickness of insulation, fins, convection and various
dimensionless parameters in free and forced convective heat transfer, radiation
heat exchange between plane surfaces, shape factor, heat exchanger-LMTD and
NTU methods.

7) Fluid Mechanics and Machinery:

Weightage: 12 - 15 Questions
Needs Clear Concepts, Less Time Consuming, High accuracy, Highest Scoring
Subject.
Question Types/Sub Topics: Fluid properties; hydrostatic force, pressure
measurement, buoyancy, Fluid kinematics, fluid dynamics, Bernoullis equation,
orifice, venturi meter, Vortex flow, boundary layer, elementary turbulent flow,
flow through pipes, Impulse and reaction turbine, centrifugal pump, specific
speed and cavitation.

8) Production Engineering:

Weightage: 10 - 13 Questions
Time Consuming, Moderate Accuracy Possible, More Theoretical.
Question Types/Sub Topics: Metal casting, metal forming, rolling, forging,
extrusion, drawing, sheet metal operations, and blanking, punching, principles of
powder metallurgy. Principles of welding, brazing and soldering, machining

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 analysis, tool life and wear, various machining processes, principles of non-
traditional machining, metrology and Inspection: limits, fits and tolerances,
various gauges.

9) Material Science:

Weightage: 3 -5 Questions
Theoretical, Less Time Consuming.
Question Types/Sub Topics: Crystal structure, miller indices, heat treatment
of steel, types of cast iron, properties of material.

10) Engineering Mathematics:

Weightage: 8-10 Questions

More Time Consuming, Very High Accuracy Possible, Mostly Numericals.
Question Types/Sub Topics: Linear Algebra: matrix algebra, eigenvalues and
eigen vectors, definite and improper integrals, gradient, divergence and curl,
directional derivatives, line, surface and volume integrals, applications of Gauss,
Stokes and Greens theorems, first order differential equations, higher order
linear differential equations with constant coefficients, Laplace transforms,
Complex analysis, analytic function, probability and distribution.

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