pt powerpack 2013 support material - interview questions on engineering questions (for all branches)

8/12/2019 PT PowerPack 2013 Support Material - Interview Questions on Engineering Questions (for All Branches)

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The following sectoin is a list of questions generally posed to the engineers. These are questions compiled forstudents of all branches. These include the topics taught to almost all the students during the first year ofengineering. These questions also hapen to check your fundamentals.

ENGINEERING QUESTIONS(Common to all Branches)

l Explain the fluid mechanics of swimming. Do you swim? Name all types ofstrokes.

l Tell me some of the memory management algorithms in a multi processorsystem. Which one you will use?

l Draw a graph of y = tan x. What is dy/dx in the above question? What is secx? What does dy/dx denote?

l How does a fan work? Why does it have only three blades? Why not more orless? What is PSPO?

l How is a pencil made? Do we hurt mother nature in the process?

l What are the dimensions of Computer Based Training? How do you sell a CBTpackage?

l Describe Carnots cycle? Which real cycle comes closest to it?

l Tell us the three laws of thermodynamics.

l Explain the concept of "Entropy".

l What is artificial intelligence? Isn't it dangerous?

l What is the mechanical equivalent of entropy?

l Tell me the four latest developments in your field of engineering.

l What is a Super computer?

l How do you hope to keep in touch with your field when youll be doing management for 2 years at the IIM?

l What is the difference between Engineering and Technology?

l What is the process cycle in a thermal power plant?

l What is the difference between spark ignition and compression ignition engines? Compare the two.

l What is the role of probability in Quantum Mechanics? Name 5 great scientists of this field.

l What are geostationary satellites? What is an elliptical orbit?

l What is a boiler, a turbine?

l Can you suggest improvements in the B.Tech./B.E. Course?

l What steps would you take to improve India's environment?

l What is the difference between 1st angle and 3rd angle?

l What is science/Engineering/Technology?

l What will be the result if 5 is entered in a calculator and Inv. Log and Inv.Ln buttons are pressed continuously?

l What are differe nces between thermosetting and thermoplastics?

l Explain Bernoulli's theorem.

l What is Reynolds number? Explain its range.

l What is exponential growth? How does the rate of growth change?

l What is mean, median, mode?

l If you have data on the incomes of families residing in some slum of your city, which of the above will give you a better ideaabout the general income?

l What do you think of JIT (Just In Time) manufacturing? Is it still a fad?

l If you are in the material dept, how will you justify the feasibility of introducing JIT in your company? What are the shortcomings?

l Define a robot. Differentiate a man from a machine. Are internet search engines Robots?

l What is a Perpetual Motion Machine?

l How will you operationally plan bulk deliveries? What is logistics?

l What is the transportation technique. Distinguish it from a LPP?

l What is Vogels Method?

l What have you done in Math, Statistics and O.R.? Explain the concept of simulation.


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l Do you think it is right to have different projects for different groups of students?

l Does Probability = zero always denote an impossible event?

l What are 4th generation computers? What is MMX technology?

l What is the expression of circle in x, y coordinates and polar coordinates?

l What is 75% of 150? What is 200% of 0.75? What is 30% of 17.5?

l What are your favourite subjects?

l Which higher level language do you know?

l If you pressed 66 into a calculator and constantly pressed log, what would be the final result?l y = xxx, find y', y'', y'''.

l Name few companies specialising in your field of study. Would you like to join them?

l Why dont you go abroad? Whats your GRE score? What's your salary expectation?

l What does exponential mean? Where did it come from?

l What is the difference between Engineering and Technology?

l What is the relation between Engineering and Management? Don't you think Engineers should not switch over to Management?

l Give the practical use of the Simplex Method.

l What is the derivative of ex?

l Dont you think that Operations Research is also Management? Where did OR originate?

l Why dont you want to continue with Engineering? Isn't that a national waste?

l What does the determinant signify?

l Which numerical methods have you studied?l What is the geometrical interpretation of Newton's Method?

l Do you read Newspapers? What is todays headline?

l Which newspapers are respective leaders in India's different regions?

l What is TEL?

l If P(A) =1 and P(B) = 1, then P (A or B) = 1 + 1 = 2. Comment.

l What is the difference between precision and accuracy?

l What statistical measure of central tendency would be most relevant to you if you wanted to open a readymade textile store?

l What is the difference between hardness and Toughness?

l What is linear in linear programming?

l What is a logarithm? What is the relationship between exponent and log equation if a = ex and loge

a = x?

l What is the rank of a matrix? Why is it important?

l Please explain the scope of your final year project in detail.l Why transmission losses are so high in India? What should/can be done to reduce them?

l Describe the various forms of electrical energy storage. What are the applications of each?

l Can you suggest a plan/strategy in broad terms to bridge the shortage of power in the country?

l What is HVDC transmission? Explain?

l Differenti ate between electrical and electronic engineering.

l How do you explain the concept of Energy, potential energy, kinetic energy to a villager?

l What are the problems of the electronics industry and the fertilizer industry in India? What are subsidies?

l What is the difference between a CNC machine and tracer lathe? What is a planing machine?

l What is a cycle graph?

l What is chronocycle graph?

l Name the best engineering corporations in India.

l What is the principle governing aircraft movement? Draw the relevant diagram.

l What forces act on an aircraft?

l What is Bolzano Weierstrass Theorem?

l Convert 121 into binary.

l What is Entropy? Is the entropy of this room increasing or decreasing? Why?

l What is the difference between BASIC and FORTRAN? Compiler and Interpreter? If I had an application program that could beequally well written in BASIC and FORTRAN, which would I use? Are these things antiquated now?

l What is a polynomial time algorithm? Heuristic algorithm?

l What is a mainframe? Name some companies that make them.

l What is RDX? Suppose you were asked to go about bombing 5 places in Delhi how would you go about it?

l What is Frequency modulation (FM)? What have you studied in communication?

l What does CDAC do? What is VSNL? What is DOT?

l Differentiate between Uplink and Downlink frequency, microwave link and satellite communication.l What is White noise?


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l What is a crossbar exchange?

l Clearly explain the evolution of microprocessors.

l What are the networks that are available in India for data transmission?

l What is DMA, Virtual Memory?

l Differentiate between ROM & RAM?

l What are the essential files needed to boot a computer? Can you write out the code in config.sys?

l Which is the latest microprocessor?

l How many types of viruses do you know? Suppose a virus infected floppy is inserted into a drive, when does the computer getinfected? Name some antiviruses.

l What is basic time, how is it different from standard time?

l What is detonation/knocking? How can you reduce it in vehicles?

l Why do cable system do not employ line of sight propagation? What principle is used?

l How does a compact disc work? What is a DVD?

l What is an Actuator & Manipulator (In Robotics)? How come Japan has maximum robot penetration?

l What is Boolean Logic, Flip Flop? What is GIGO?

l Draw Diesel cycles. Differentiate between two stroke and four stroke engines, What is octane number?

l How are Maruti car cylinders balanced, though it is a 3 cylinder engine?

l How can a spider walk on a vertical wall while we cannot?

l What is an unstable system? Give a practical example of an unstable system. What is a metastable system?

l Explain what is electrical engineering to a villager.l Why did we adopt 230 V system for domestic consumers whereas in U.S.A. all the home appliances at rated to operate on 110V?

Why the discrepancy? What are the advantages / disadvantages of the two voltage systems?

l Do you know anything about CAD? About CAM?

l What is Industrial Engg? What is the difference between Production and Manufacturing?

l What is ABC analysis? What is OR? What is queuing? What is LAN? What is PC, PC /AT? What are analog and digital computers?Explain them to a layman.

l What is PLC?

l What are the advantages and disadvantages of CI and SI engines? Why are SI engines still used?

l Which engine has the maximum efficiency?

l What is On line information? Where are the centres of Textiles in South? Relation between textiles and tyre manufacturers?

l What do you mean by Customer support? What is Customer Delight?

l Differentiate between PTA and DMT? How is PTA advantageous over DMT?

l Differentiate between a chemist and a chemical engineer without using any technical terms?

l There is a box divided into two sections by a movable membrane. Both sides are at NTP. On one side a chemical has been placedand it starts evaporating. What will happen to the membrane? How long will it move? Will it move in a constant speed or varyingspeed? How do you term this process as? (Isothermal or Isobaric)

l Have you heard of solids of Revolutions? Derive a formula. Name and draw diagrams of 3 such solids.

l What is an operating system? Explain it to a layman.

l What are the various types of OSs. List their relative merits and demerits.

l Diff erentiate between Unix, OS2?

l What is object oriented programming? Name two object oriented programming languages.

l What are entities called in ADA?

l Imagine a truck, with a rectangular box type container closed from all sides airtight with pigeons in it (assume that pigeons willlive). There is a drier and cleaner. The Truck is going from place A to B where it comes across a bridge. Since the bridge is weakand it will not be able to bear the weight the cleaner goes to the back and starts banging on the container. This would makepigeons fly within the space available in the container. Hence the truck would become lighter. Then the truck can cross thebridge.

Do you agree/disagree? Why? Explain

What difference will it make if container is not air tight etc.

l How did the Bill Gates story start?

l What is AquaRegia?

l Comment on Iridium project.

l Differentiate between AM & FM?

l What is superconductivity?

l Differentiate between forward and backward drive in automobiles.

l What are Rotary engines? How are they different from normal engines?

l What is an integrated steel plant? What is the tonnage of integrated steel plants and mini steel plants? Comment on "Ispat"

group.l What are cross bar switches? Are they electromechanical or electronic?


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l What are electronic switches?

l What do you know about Computer networks? Explain clearly the w.w.w. concept.

l What is Push, Pull, Kanban, CONWIP? (production control related question)

l What are the diff erent types of databases?

l How will you convert binary to octal? Binary to Hexadecimal? Octal to Hexa?

l Is C++ a purely object oriented language?

l Do you like to solve puzzles? What is MENSA group?

l What are the different types of sorting algorithms? What is the time complexity of Bubble sort? Insertion sort? Quick sort? Whatis the time complexity of a simplex algorithm What is image processing?

l What is Hammond code? What is Parity checking? (Related to digital comm.)

l What is Ultrasonic machining? Where is it used?

l What is the use of differential in a vehicle? Why is isnt it used in a bullock cart? Describe the working of a refrigerator physicalprinciples. (Joule Thompson effect)

l What is a differential? Tell us about refrigeration system? What does a compressor do? What is the process of evaporationcalled? What is an AC? What is a refrigerator?

l What is a Strongly typed language? Name a strongly typed language?

l When is type checking done?

l What is static binding? What is dynamic binding?

l What is RDX? What is the structure of Phenol? What does it look like in the lab? What about 99.9% Phenol?

l Differentiate between Distributed and Parallel processing. Which is more powerful?

l What are Conic sections? List all you know.

l What is analysis in Civil engg?

l What is Fourier series? How is it applied in Harmonics/Fundamental?

l What are the specific parameters we look for, in analysis of structure?

l What is allowable, compressive, tensile stress in steel and concrete?

l Seismic Waves How are they modelled for design purpose? What are tsunamis?

l What are real number? Imaginary numbers? Why Imaginary numbers used?

l Explain Differentiation and Integration as you would explain it to a V class student? Why they are necessary?

l What is the difference between a cable and a rod?

l What do you know about Hardness nos.? How are they measured?

l What will happen to the level of water in a lake if I throw the iron rods lying inside the boat overboard? Why?

l What are cellular phones? How do they work? How are the calls routed? Name all cell companies.

l What are the different types of floppy drives available?

l Where do we provide reinforcement in a cantilever beam? How does stress vary in a beam?

l Define RDBMS? Why are RDBMS packages prefer to languages?

l How can backups be taken on computers ?

l What is the Malthusian population theory?

l What is HDTV?

l How does a tool get evaluated? (for eg. life of tool, reliability, safety etc.)

l Differentiate between a natural language and a computer language?

l What are the functions of a lubricant in an engine?

l An engineer says that there can be a three stroke engine. Make a drawing of it and explain its working?

l What is discrete function, continuous function, limit?

l What are spontaneous equations? Differentiate between spontaneous equation and Quadratic equations?

l What are the different parts of generator?

l What is Inventory? What are the various types of material handling equipments? What is buffer?

l Why does a single phase induction motor need a starting condenser?

l How many types of pumps do you know?

l What is information, noise? What is noise in advertising? How does a high definition TV work?

l How do you define channel capacity? What does Shannons theorem state? What is a order of channel capacity for a fibercommunication system and that for a satellite communication system? Advantages of Satellite communication system.

l Differenti ate between tube and transist ors?

l What is sampling? What law is involved in it?

l Why digital signals are used in communication? Can analog signals be used?

l What gates can be used for all logic design? Implement Y = A x B = C using only NAND gates?

l What technology is used in a Rural Automatic Exchange?

l What is a J K flipflop?

l What is Indias rate of population growth? What is the rate of growth of GNP? Show them graphically.


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l As an electr onics man, explain how there are so many channels in Star T.V.. Why is T.V. an electronic instru ment?

l What is numerical analysis? How many roots does an n degree equation have? What is USM? What are its uses? What is HEREF?

l Why is manhole so called?

l Name 3 methods of finding temperature of fluid in a tube. What is Octane number?

l How does a fax work? How does email work?

l Conservation efforts in mining activities. Do you think you can have mining without causing environmental damage?

l What is MIS? Which companies in India use MIS?

l What is Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS)? Can we have batch sizes as low as 1?l What do you know about DC transmission? What is transmission loss? How can it be reduced?

l What are the basic parameters of Thyristor design?

l In a duct, mention 3 ways of measuring temperature and velocity.

l What are geosyntheti cs?

l Name some recent developments in civil engg. What are prefabricated structures?

l What changes do you envisage in the design and construction of high rise buildings, a few years hence?

l What is Darwin's theory? What is social Darwinism?

l Arthur C. Clarke has envisaged buildings several km tall. Is that feasible?

l Name a building which has space frames? What factors do you consider while orienting the windows of the building?

l What about PVC? Is it still viable commercially? What will happen if govt. reduces import duty to 30%?

l What are the Expert Systems Name some which have been developed and commercially employed?

l You have studied in the IITs and enjoyed at governments expense. At the IIMs also, there is government subsidy. Dont youthink someone else should enjoy the IIMs?

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