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Basic contents of courses |
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Once the pre-requisite piping engineering basics are taught and ample exercises are done by students, we simultaneously train the students how to use pipe stress software and the basic computations of static and dynamic stress analysis using design codes and practices. |
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Then small design problems are solved using flowcharts of design procedure. |
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Once the students gain confidence a piping system for an entire process plant is given as a five day exercise. |
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This follows with theory and practical examinations and later special industry problems are given as brain teasers. |
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Once these design problems are completed, free time is awarded to students to complete remaining exercises and repeat what has been taught. |
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At the end if possible company interviews are arranged and/or list of passed out students is kept awaiting opportunities. |
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Note that additional lectures by industry experts will be arranged to imbibe confidence into students. |
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Who should apply? |
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Graduate engineers in mechanical, chemical, petrochemical, industrial, production, engineering discipline are eligible to apply for this piping engineering course. |
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What is different in this course? |
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First of all we stick to knowledge of piping system design only as a piping engineering department person will not go to a process department of an engineering, procurement and construction company. |
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So only some preliminaries about process are taught to know about design specifications of components in piping system of a plant. |
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A building block concept is adopted as we are trying to say that an engineering IT sector is being developed only for engineering graduates. |
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A systems approach then becomes inevitable and many flowcharts giving sequential logical procedure of design used in actual problem solving using software are taught to understand how things develop within piping engineering department. |
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Software used |
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CAESAR II is a comprehensive program for pipe stress analysis. CAESAR II has become the standard for pipe stress analysis, preferred by major corporations and engineering firms worldwide. |
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An automatic pipe routing software: for laying out an optimum pipe network with rapidity and accuracy, which will increase quality and constancy of the design while considerably reducing the overall concept to design time. |
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Placement |
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Majority of the engineering, procurement and construction companies in India and abroad will have CAESAR-II software for pipe stress analysis. A small requirement in these companies means a major chunk of a batch being placed! |
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In fact COADE software products are internationally reputed and used worldwide. Hence finding jobs even abroad after gaining professional experience in piping department will not be difficult. |
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MOU’s with top industries |
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We will soon try to have memorandum of understanding (MOUs) with top epc industries in India with several objectives. |
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A few objectives are to help in developing syllabus, inform us on updates in codes and practices, supply some design material and drawings (such as P&IDs), set examination papers, send experts/ managers to deliver a few lectures, evaluate answer-books after examinations are conducted and also help if possible to absorb some of our trained engineers, supervision during small projects and design of piping system for a complete plant; and so on. |
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Maximum capacity of batches |
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The minimum number of students needed to start a batch is twenty, while maximum capacity of a batch is forty. |
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How many batches in a year? |
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At most three full time batches and a single Saturday/ Sunday batch for piping engineering course can be accommodated in a year. |
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Special problems given by industry managers |
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The piping systems are very commonly required in power, process sector. Other industrial applications are refrigeration systems, gas pipelines in petrochemical plants, offshore facilities, piping in a ship (vessel)’s engineering structure, and may not be limited to these industrial applications. |
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The biotech plants, gas pipeline, buried pipelines; double-walled pipelines are some special applications. |
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For such applications special problems are obtained from industries and brain teasers are given as design problems to students to be solved using CAESAR-II which contains all standard codes. |
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Course material |
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In today’s fast paced life and to win an edge over competitors, extra efforts are always required. |
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In current system, we have totally eliminated conventional lecturing system. Instead, we provide course material for next day’s lecture a day before and ask the students to come prepared for lecture. |
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The lecturer then introduces the students in few minutes about the topic and induces them to enter an interactive session for half an hour. |
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Later he/ she summarizes the contents and applications of topic in ten minutes. This follows with problem-solving session where help comes from lecturer to understand steps. |
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Then a short tea-break and a Tutorial sheet containing problems to occupy a little over an hour is given to each student. |
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The advantage of this system is that the student does all study, problem-solving, work in the lecture hour and learns the hard way! |
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Thus he is better trained and can face actual piping system design confidently than other students. |
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On some of important topics taught, expert lectures too will be arranged to give an insight into industry operations and requirements. |
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Examination system |
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There will be five three hour theory papers (objective questions and design problems) and five practical examinations conducted for the students. |
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Also the file worked out for piping system for a process plant will be examined by external faculty who has rich experience in piping department. |
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The marksheets will be submitted to companies coming for interview to have an index of progress made by student in the training course. |
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About updates, upgrades and future |
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Upgrades and updates in design codes, practices and commercial software will be done frequently as soon as information becomes available. |
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More commercial software in future is likely to get added in course content as funds become available (mainly from some profit made after conducting every batch and sufficient funds accumulate.) This way we can stay ahead in the race |
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Faculty strength |
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We have decided to train a large number of internal Lecturer grade faculty if needed frequently for software to be used to conduct courses (as new software products will get added to existing ones). |
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This way we can give better attention to students and practical sessions always follow in a logical sequence. |
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Same will hold true for pre-requisite topics. Additional expert lectures will be arranged after deciding additional inputs required to clarify doubts and learn from experience of them. |
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Building block concept |
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Our first aim is to adopt a building block approach in conducting this piping engineering course. |
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As most of the piping system design is a software based analysis, we will give the students several flowcharts telling how to carry out various step-wise design procedures using these softwares (and even without it). |
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Thus we are introducing the students to engineering IT world. This develops a high level of confidence in the students and if they study well they will survive in the competition and excel. |
