MCP 301 Mechanical Engineering

I Semester 2021-22
Course Introduction

The scheduled time table for the three groups is: Monday - G1; Tuesday – G2; Thursday – G3
Lab Time: 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
Each of the three groups will be subdivided into 7-8 sub-groups A to H of preferably 3
students each.

Day of the lab Monday Tuesday Thursday

Prof. S.P. Singh Prof. K. Rama Krishna Prof. Kaushik Mukherjee

Instructors Prof. Anurag Goyal Prof. Sangeeta Kohli Prof. P.M.V. Subbarao
Course Coordinator: Prof Sangeeta Kohli

Laboratory Schedule
Week Activity Monday Tuesday Thursday
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
1 (a) Interaction with Students Aug 9 Aug 10 Aug 12
(b) Introduction to Experimentation
(PMVS)
(c) Homework
2 (a) Group presentation of HW on Aug 16 Aug 17 Aug 21
Instruments (Sat)
(b) Exercises on uncertainty estimation
through data analysis (PMVS)
(c) Homework
3 (a) Group presentation of HW Aug 23 Aug 24 Aug 26
(b) Introduction to data representation
through plots using excel and other
softwares.
(c) Homework
Sep 4 Aug 31 Sep 2
4 A,B,C,D: Design 1 (Sat)
,E,F,G,H: Thermal 1

Sep 6 Sep 7 Sep 9

5 A,B,C,D: Thermal 1
E,F,G,H: Design 1

Sep 13 Sep 14 Sep 16

6 A,B,C,D: Design 2
E,F,G,H: Thermal 2

Sep 27 Sep 28 Sep 30

7 A,B,C,D: Thermal 2
E,F,G,H: Design 2

Oct 4 Oct 5 Oct 7

8 A,B,C,D: Design 3
,E,F,G,H: Thermal 3
 9 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 14
A,B,C,D: Thermal 3
E,F,G,H: Design 3

10 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct 21

A,B,C,D: Design 4
,E,F,G,H: Thermal 4

11 Nov 1 Nov 2 Oct 28

A,B,C,D: Thermal 4
E,F,G,H: Design 4

12 Feedback and buffer turn Nov 8 Nov 9 Nov 11

List of Experiments:
A. Design

1 Material Testing: The experiments involves the students Remarks: 4 groups will be
performing virtual / guided experiments on Tension Test , working of one deformation each.
Compression test, Hardness Test and Impact Test. The test data Later they will communicate their
will be given and students need to find the various important findings
characteristics of the material
2 Gear Trains and Balancing of Masses: This experiment is in Remarks: Two grops will be
two parts and will be conducted as guided sessions. The students working on balancing experiments
will understand and implement the epicyclic trains in different and the epicyclic trains.
configurations and also observe the demonstration on balancing
of rotating masses.
3 Assembly and Disassembly: The students will get designated Remarks: For the four groups,
devices which they will disassemble, show the complete drawing each group will be given one
of each component and then assemble on a CAD software. subassembly/device to work upon.
4 Gyroscopic Moments and Coriolis Force: The student will Remarks: Two group model will
understand the principle of operation of gyroscope and be used. Each of group is given
enumerate the various utilities of this moment. Also there will be one experiment to perform and
other equipment of Coriolis force. Student will understand the after one hour the groups swap.
process of this force and measurement and it role in our daily
life.

B. Thermal

1. Bomb Calorimeter: Remarks: Real time measurement of

Measurement of calorific value of a fuel using the
apparatus available in the lab.
2. Centrifugal Pump:
Determination of performance characteristics of a
centrifugal pump in the lab.
3. Convective Heat Transfer:
Determination of convective heat transfer
coefficient for heat transfer from objects in forced
convection and natural convection modes:
4. Refrigerator:
Determination of the COP of a domestic
refrigerator during pull-down mode.
data will be possible with instructors
or TAs doing the experiments live in
the laboratory
Students will also watch a video as
HW with step by step demonstration
of the measurement process.
Remarks: Real time measurements
with live experimentation in the lab
Remarks: Real time measurements
with live experimentation in the lab
Remarks: Real time measurements
with live experimentation in the lab
Basic Instructions:

1. Course Note-Book
(i) It is a very important part of experimental work to maintain a separate note book in which
all the raw data and other details of the experimentation as Homework or Classwork will be
recorded. The data must be recorded in neatly drawn tables. We will be insisting on this and
Tas will frequently ask you to show your record book on the camera to ensure that you take
this seriously and imbibe this practice as a habit which will be very useful in the long run.

(ii) While the experiments will be done in sub-groups of 3, each student must note down the
following in their individual note-book: objectives, the procedure, the schematic of the set-up,
the problems faced while doing the experiment, major learnings from the experiments. These
can be collated in the form of a single report to be uploaded on moodle.

2. Home Work
(i) In every class, some home-work will be given to each sub-group to be completed during the
week for presentation in the next lab class,
(ii) In first three weeks, students will be required to make observations and simple
measurements with whatever is available in their surroundings – whether at home or in the
hostel.
(iii) Students are requested to make the best of these opportunities to learn about the relevance
of engineering principles even in the common devices that they see and use in their immediate
surroundings.

3. Experimentation
(i) Experiments will start from 4th week onwards.
(ii) There will be eight experiments in all to be performed as per the instructions given in the
class.
(iii) Some of these experiments may involve use of digital lab platforms and some may involve
watching the instructors and the TAs doing the experiment in the lab class, in real time and
recording the required data from the screen. Detailed instructions will be given in the class as
the case may be.
(iii) During the experimentation, some basic calculations must be performed to cross-check
that meaningful results are being obtained.
(iv) Students must carry out the experiments with understanding and NOT mechanically. If
expected results are not being obtained, they must explore the reasons behind the same and
whether a rectification is required in the experimental procedure.

4. Report Preparation and Submission

(i) Every sub-group will submit a single report typed neatly in the format provided below.
(ii) It is expected that every sub-group should have the following parts of the report ready
PRIOR to starting the data collection: Objectives, Brief Description of the Set-up, the
Measurements to be made and the Instruments to be used, Table of Observations.
(iii) Most part of the calculations for an experiment and report preparation should be done
within the laboratory time. The completed report MUST be uploaded before the following
laboratory class.
(iv) The report must have the format of a formal document. The suggested format is as follows,
which may be adapted depending upon the nature of the experiment:
 • Cover page with title of the experiment, details of students etc. (format of cover page
will be uploaded)
• Objectives of the experiment (which will be more specific than the title)
• Methodology followed and the Experimental Set-up (to meet the objectives) : this
should include some theoretical background of the experiment with schematic of the
set-up drawn by you (and not copied from the internet or anyone else)
• Observations: These must be neatly recorded preferably in the form of a table.
• Results with Sample Calculations and Uncertainty Analysis: One set of calculations
MUST be shown with all the steps. Remaining results can be obtained using MATLAB
or EXCEL and the final results can be tabulated along with corresponding input
variables.
• Discussion: Here, you must comment on the results, e.g., whether they are in the
expected range; if No, what are the possible reasons for the same; is the uncertainty
associated with the result acceptable or not; or any other comments relevant to the
experiment.
• Sources of Error: Here, you must identify those aspects in the experiment which you
were aware, could result in error but you could not eliminate that source of error. For
example, if you needed to use distilled water in an experiment but distilled water was
not available, then, that would be a prominent source of error. You should have already
identified these in the discussions but here, they will get enumerated.
• References: Any material downloaded from the internet or taken from books/papers or
any other resource must have the respective reference number. Please see ASME
website for finding the standard citation and referencing method followed by ASME
and use that in your report.

5. Attendance Policy:

It is compulsory to attend EVERY Laboratory turn. Each turn carries weightage. Any absence
from the laboratory class CANNOT be made-up. Every student must attend their laboratory in
their regular turn. Nobody will be allowed to attend the lab on a day other than the day of the
regular turn. If any student falls sick or has any other emergency and is unable to attend the lab
class, information must reach us preferably prior to the lab class or latest by the beginning of
that lab class. Such students can be allowed to make up for one missed turn at the most in the
last week of the semester which will be treated as a buffer turn.

6. Evaluation :
The evaluation in the laboratory will be continuous. The Homework as well as the Classwork
will be graded.

Presentation of HW including viva and

uploading the homework on moodle : 30%
Classwork including viva : 20%
Reports: 30%
Final Viva: 20%