Mechanical Engineering

Introduction

Automobiles, machine tools, turbines, wind turbines, wheelchairs, digital cameras or had nothing to do designs or manufactures without the mechanical engineer. The mechanical engineer can just as easily design, develop, produce and test tools, parts, engines, or machines for industrial production, as it may intervene in the design and manufacture of many consumer products. It is also present at energy production, or design and maintenance of systems that cooling and heating the building (Alexander, 2005).

Led to design equipment, processes or products with higher performance and complex, the mechanical engineer must be creative in considering the needs of society, the profit motive as the environmental. Mechanical Engineering is the branch of knowledge and profession that deals with design, design, analyze, fabricate, construct and maintain machinery, equipment and plants industrial, or portions thereof. It uses the principles of the mainly mechanical solids and fluids, thermodynamics and the laws of behavior of materials, and mathematical formulations, technical and empirical knowledge and criteria economical. Thus, Mechanical Engineering is related to the machines and their surroundings in a industry, such as structures, buildings and industrial facilities. The concept "Machine" has no clear definition that encompasses all machines and distinguishes clearly one type of those of another.

Thesis Statement

The paper highlights the importance of mechanical engineering and the opportunities and scope for this field.

Discussion and Analysis

Mechanical Engineering is the branch of knowledge and profession that deals with design, design, analyze, fabricate, construct and maintain machinery, equipment and plants industrial, or portions thereof. It uses the principles of the mainly mechanical solids and fluids, thermodynamics and the laws of behavior of materials, and mathematical formulations, technical and empirical knowledge and criteria economical.

Thus, Mechanical Engineering is related to the machines and their surroundings in a industry, such as structures, buildings and industrial facilities. The concept "Machine" has no clear definition that encompasses all machines and distinguishes clearly one type of those of another. The German engineer Franz Reuleaux professor (1829-1905) gives a definition that, despite having more than a century old, is While the concept mechanical picking machine "machine is a set of elements solids, arranged so that channel mechanical forces of nature to perform work as a result of certain preset movements. " There are other similar definitions, for example: "machine is a system formed by fixed parts and mobile is used to change mechanical energy and transmit it in a more useful.” These definitions appear movements, forces and energies, which are the main physical concepts with which you work in mechanical engineering.

Historical Review

It is beyond the purpose of this paper make a thorough historical review of the Mechanical Engineering, but as a summary we can say that has ancient roots and that humans have built tools since its inception, and roughly machines complex for thousands of years, although his birth as a specific profession is closely linked to the invention and application of the steam that is produced with the Industrial Revolution. His subsequent development was very rapid, contributing decisively to the ...