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Panel Discussion - 18-July-2008, Hyderabad - At a gathering of faculty members, stakeholders in Engineering Services discuss different viewpoints - the framers of the curriculum, employers of graduate engineers, and owners of educational institutions. Lessons are also drawn from the IT industry, which has already experienced several of the problems that growth opportunities in high-technology services businesses bring.
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Dr.Ramajeyathilagam, Principal Consultant, Infotech Enterprises Ltd.:
According to their (Nasccom) presentations, requirements in CAE - that is FE analysis and Stress analysis - will be of the order of 2,00,000 by 2020. That many jobs will be outsourced to India!
The expectation is that there is going to be another boom. Like the "software" boom, there is going to be a boom in Engineering Design and Analysis - CAD and CAE. I will be concentrating mainly on CAE, but whatever I talk about will be applicable to CAD also.
In CAE - Computer Aided Engineering - we do stress analysis of various structural systems from various disciplines. In the last two years we have done this in all the fields - Marine, Industrial, Automotive and Aerospace - in all the engineering fields.
For some we use Finite Elements based (approaches), for some we us only analytical approaches. Especially in the Aerospace Industries they don't use - take foreign companies like Boeing or Airbus - they rely more on hand calculations, your analytical skills.
Whereas Marine, Industrial, Automotive, Rail, ... - they all use FE analysis extensively. So what is needed in CAE is not only FE tools, but the basic knowledge behind the FE tools - the basics of structural analysis is also essential for the engineer who is going to work.
Academics should concentrate on both FEM and the basics. The basic knowledge needed is structural analysis and strength of materials. If someone is very weak in strength of materials, it is very difficult to go into them (after employment). Strength of Materials and Theory of Elasticity has to be taught well. That is my feeling.
Coming to what types of analysis: being a Consultancy Organization what types of analyses do we get? It is not that we do only simple analyses. We do very sophisticated analyses also, and compare them with experimental results. Some of the analyses I will show are based on the works we are doing.
We do linear static analysis, modal analysis, forced-response analysis - harmonic, random, spectrum. Transient dynamic analysis, the toughest, is where we do shock, impact, drop-tests, non-linear, metal forming, buckling analysis and fatigue life estimation. These are some of the projects we get from various clients.
What is needed is that we should give the correct results.
Only then will we get continued business!
That is where we face the lack of experienced manpower.
The work varies from FE modeling to Analysis to Optimization to Interpretation of Results to suggesting alternate solutions. Everything is expected from you when the project comes!
The problem is, whenever they give a project they never reveal where it fails! They give the problem, they give the CAD model: we have to analyze and give them (the results). When giving the results we have to see the potential regions where it will fail. Only after that they share the experimental results. In such cases we don't know what is available with them, so we have to be very judicious in doing the analysis and interpreting the results.
This is where we need experienced people, who can not only predict but can extrapolate and interpolate the results so that it matches the results available with the customer. Otherwise they won't come to us the second time!
Customer satisfaction is the prime criterion for all service industries.
(In Infotech Enterprises at present) 500 people are working on CAD as well as CAE. In (the) Aerospace (Practice) itself we are expecting that by 2010 it will be around 2000 people. In Infotech as a whole, in CAD and CAE we are projecting around 10,000 people.
We are keeping pace with the software industry also!
Opportunities are there (in Infotech Enterprises).
We take Mechanical, Production and Aeronautical engineers to meet our requirements. Our requirements are mainly Aero but we take Mechanical and Production and give them some training for about 1 month on aircraft structures.
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