Which are important topics for the ESE Mechanical Engineering Exam for Production Engineering subject?

Metal casting, Metal Joining, Metrology and inspection, Production planning and Control, and NDT Techniques in condition monitoring are some important topics for the ESE Mechanical Engineering Exam for Production Engineering subjects.

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Alloys and Phase diagrams, Heat Treatment, Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals, Mechanical Properties and Testing are some important topics for the ESE Mechanical Engineering Exam for Production Engineering subjects.

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Fluid Statics, Buoyancy, Equations of Motion, Flow through pipes, and head losses in pipes are some of the most important fluid mechanics topics for ESE Mechanical 2023.

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To score good marks in the ESE mechanical engineering exam, you must complete the question paper in time and try to solve all the previous year’s question papers.

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Important Topics for the ESE Mechanical Engineering Exam

By BYJU'S Exam Prep

Updated on: September 25th, 2023

The prelims exam for ESE Mechanical Engineering 2023 will be conducted on 19th February 2023. Since there are no changes in the syllabus or pattern that UPSC has declared in the previous year, it is advised that all the candidates must take a reference from the previous year’s exam. We are sharing all the important topics for the ESE Mechanical Engineering exam in the article below. Cracking ESE is the dream of every Engineering aspirant preparing for government engineering exams. To crack the ESE 2023 exam, aspirants should know the important topics for the ESE Mechanical Engineering exam.

BYJUS Exam Prep and its content experts have evaluated all the previous year’s papers on the ESE Mechanical Exam. Therefore, based on these papers, we are sharing important topics for the ESE Mechanical Engineering 2023 exam. The article below shares important topics with subject-wise marks and percentages.

Table of content

1. Important Topics for ESE Mechanical Engineering 2023 Prelims Exam
2. Important Topics of Paper -1 Mechanical Engineering
3. Important Topics of Paper -2 Mechanical Engineering

Important Topics for ESE Mechanical Engineering 2023 Prelims Exam

We have shared important topics for ESE Mechanical Engineering 2023 Prelims Exam, which will be conducted on 19th February 2023. In addition, the total number of questions and their percentage marks is also shared along with the important topics for the ESE Mechanical Engineering exam.

Subjects	Important Topics from subject	Total Number of Questions	% Marks in 2021
Heat Transfer	Boiling and Condensation	3	2 %
Fluid Mechanics Machinery	Pumps, Pipe Flow	23	15 %
Thermodynamics	Zeroth law, First Law	12	8 %
Industrial Engineering	Work Sampling, CPM PERT	5	3 %
Engineering Mechanics	Laws of Motion	5	3 %
Mechatronics Robotics	Sensor Actuator	12	8 %
IC Engine	Cycles, Performance Parameter	7	5 %
Power Plant	Boiler, Vapour Power cycle, Gas Power cycle	14	9 %
Refrigeration Air conditioning	Various Refrigeration system	6	4 %
Renewable Sources of Energy	Wind energy, Fuel cell	12	8 %
Strength of Materials	Stress-strain, Bending, Principal Stress, and Strains. SFD BMD	9	6 %
Design of Machine Elements	Theories of failure, Joints, fatigue loading (almost full coverage)	11	7 %
Theory of Machines Vibrations	Vibrations, Flywheel	13	9 %
Production, Material Science	Material science, Forming,	18	12 %

Important Topics of Paper -1 Mechanical Engineering

As per previous year’s trends, important topics for the ESE Mechanical Engineering Exam for subjects like Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, IC Engines, Refrigeration, Air conditioning, etc., are shared below. These are the subjects that were asked in ESE paper -1.

Fluid Mechanics: Fluid Statics, Buoyancy, Equations of Motion, Flow through pipes, and head losses in pipes.

Thermodynamics and Heat transfer: Properties, Zeroth, First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, Entropy, Rankine, Otto, Diesel, and Dual Cycles; ideal and real gases; compressibility factor; Gas mixtures. Steady and unsteady heat conduction, Free and forced convection, boiling, and condensation.

IC Engines, Refrigeration, and Air conditioning: SI and CI Engines, Emissions of fuel, Refrigerants and Working cycles, Compressors, Condensers, Psychometric properties and processes, Comfort chart, Load calculations, and Heat pumps.

Turbo Machinery: Reciprocating and Rotary pumps, Pelton wheel, Kaplan and Francis Turbines, velocity diagrams, Impulse and Reaction principles, Steam and Gas Turbines, Theory of Jet Propulsion – Pulse jet and Ram Jet Engines, Reciprocating and Rotary Compressors – Theory and Applications

Power Plant Engineering: Rankine and Brayton cycles, Fuels and their properties, Flue gas analysis, Boilers, and steam turbines.

Renewable Sources of Energy: Solar Radiation, Solar Thermal Energy Storage, heating, cooling and Power Generation, and Harnessing of Wind Energy.

Important Topics of Paper -2 Mechanical Engineering

As per previous year’s trends, important topics for the ESE Mechanical Engineering Exam for subjects like Engineering Mechanics, Engineering Materials, Mechanisms and Machines, Design of Machine Elements, etc., are shared below. These are the subjects that were asked in the ESE paper 2.

Engineering Mechanics: Bending Moment and Shear Force Diagrams, Theory of Bending Stresses, Thin and thick Cylinders.

Engineering Materials: Alloys and Phase diagrams, Heat Treatment, Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals, Mechanical Properties and Testing.

Mechanisms and Machines: Velocity and Acceleration Analysis, Free and forced vibration of undamped and damped SDOF systems, Vibration Isolation, Helical, Spiral, and Worm Gears, Balancing of Revolving Reciprocating masses, Effect of the Gyroscopic couple on automobiles, ships, and aircraft, Governors.

Design of Machine Elements: Failure theories, S-N diagram, Riveted, welded, and bolted joints. Shafts, Spur gears, rolling and sliding contact bearings, Brakes, and Clutches.
Manufacturing, Industrial, and Maintenance Engineering: Metal casting, Metal Joining, Metrology and inspection, Production planning and Control, Inventory control, CPM, PERT, Failure analysis, Fault Detection, Field Balancing of Rotors, and NDT Techniques in Condition Monitoring.
Mechatronics and Robotics: Microprocessor Architecture, I/O, Sensors and actuators, Pneumatic and Hydraulic actuators, stepper motor, Mathematical modeling of Physical systems, control signals, Robot Classification, Direct, and Inverse Kinematics.

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