About M.E. Aeronautical Engineering
The Department of Aeronautical Engineering with well-conceived vision and missionary efforts started with a passion in the pursuit of fulfilling the aspirations of any undergraduate leading to research and innovations.
The Department of Aeronautical Engineering offers postgraduate programme in Aeronautical Engineering which is started in the year 2011 with a sanctioned intake of 18 and progressing with an intake of 24 from the year 2013. It is a two-year programme which enhances the knowledge any individual who are wishing to seek a career in the context of real-world applications.
Since its establishment, the department prepares technocrats to be competitive and best in class to join in the global industry. The programme has an exclusive state of art laboratories in various fields of Aerodynamics, Structures, Propulsion and Design, is the key for skill-based learning for the students of the M.E. Aeronautical Engineering. Based on their vast research and teaching experience, the faculty of the department has taken up the challenge to mould the students with broad skill set in the research, design, development, implementation and operation of aircraft, aero vehicles and related engineering systems.
Our student after pursuing Master of Aeronautical Engineering have joined in GE, BOEING, Rolls Royce and DRDO laboratories.
1. AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES LABORATORY
Aircraft Structures laboratory has a built-in area of 154.8 Square meter under the department of Aeronautical Engineering at Nehru Institute Engineering and Technology with adequate Equipment and testing Facilities. This Laboratory has Equipment like Universal Testing Machine, Beams, Columns, Photo elastic bench, Vibration Setup, Wagner beam and Set up for beam with Combined Loading etc. In this Laboratory Universal Testing Machine is used for testing the impact on various materials. The ability of materials to withstand such impact energy can be Studied and Compared for Aircraft materials. Due to the effect of winds on the Aircraft, various Loads will act on the wing, fuselage, and this creates Shear force and bending moments. To Study such effects the experiments beam, columns and beam with combined loading has been carried out for finding the maximum deflections. By conducting such experiments students are able to understand how the aircraft can bend maximum deflections due to gust load during manoeuvring.
Vibration setup experiments are conducted to expose the students towards Flutter Phenomena that happens in large aircrafts like Boeing 747, Airbus 380 etc. The amount of damping provided to any aircraft was also analysed. When the landing gear of an aircraft touches the runway, enormous stress is acted on it. The amount of stress distribution can be studied by using the apparatus called photo elastic bench. In this experiment, the materials are tested and fringe patterns are taken for the comparison of different loading conditions, if such materials exist at landing gear, we can easily analyse the amount of stress distribution over the materials. Carrying out these experiments helps to model an aircraft components and studying the behaviour of each structural components using various softwares like CATIA, Solid works which are used in design industries, and also by experimentally analysing the structural components helps to do structural analysis using software’s like Ansys which is widely used in research areas.
After gaining Knowledge in Aircraft Structure Laboratory, Students can get opportunities in industries like QuEST global, Safran group, Dellcom aerospace, Asco aerospace Canada Ltd., Boeing Chennai, Airbus stress analysis, Tata HAL technology Bangalore, Hector & Streak-lead piping engineering Mumbai. BAIL (Bangalore Aircraft industries PVT. Ltd) Static and Fatigue design of Structures, Altran India add Calsoft labs-Bangalore. In Altran Soft Industry, the wings design and fuselage design is carried out, which has been experimented in this laboratory. Experiments like determination of elastic constants for Composite tensile specimen and elastic constants for a composite Flexural Specimen helps students to gain knowledge in composite materials which plays a key role in manufacture of aircraft structures. This lab can also be used for testing structural components. Design data acquisition system allows high speed collection from multiple channels. This lab is currently being used for a number of research activities involving composite materials, polymeric materials and other structural materials. The objective of conducting the aircraft structures laboratory is to make the students understand the various principles involved in the aircraft structure theory. This will immensely help the students to enrich their practical knowledge in design of various aircraft structural components even in materials manufacturing industries.
2. AERODYNAMICS LABORATORYY
Aerodynamics Laboratory under the department of aeronautical engineering at Nehru Institute of Engineering and technology has an objective is to illustrate the application of experimental techniques and real laboratory work by simple aerodynamic experiments used in aero application.
The Aerodynamic laboratory houses low speed subsonic wind tunnel, supersonic tunnel with Schlieren system and water tunnel. Tunnel utilized to conduct research in aerodynamics, propulsion and fundamental studies in fluid mechanics.
The facility includes advanced instrumentation and flow diagnostics to allow researchers unique insight into the experimental models and flow regimes that are investigated. Low speed experimental aerodynamics is a cornerstone in the development of a wide range of vehicles and other devices that must perform their functions in the face of forces imposed by strong flows of air.
In this laboratory students can gain practical knowledge of various prototype model flow properties by using low speed and supersonic wind tunnels. It describes the fundamental aerodynamic and geometrical properties related to external flows over airfoils, wings, and bluff bodies.
After completion of this course students have the ability to calculate the aerodynamic forces and moments of various models and by using wind tunnel instrumentation the measure of flow velocity and aerodynamics forces are calculated.
3. CAD and Simulation Laboratory
CAD And Simulation Laboratory in Nehru Institute of Engineering and Technology is the facility available in the Department of Aeronautical Engineering. The objective of this laboratory is to Study various designs of Aircraft components and to predict, how the components such as airplane wing, fuselage, Engine components and so on, reacts to real-world forces, vibration, heat, fluid flow, and other physical effects by using SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, ANSYS Software.
The Lab has a capacity of 60 high-end desktops (Core i3 processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD with monitor) with computing facility which can carry out the current design and Analysis practices of an Aeronautical/Aerospace Industry.
Through this lab students will get design and analytical skills. These skills give ways to get jobs in Aeronautical/Aerospace Industry such as Airbus, Boeing, TATA Aerospace, Tech Mahindra, Honeywell, Capgemini, Quest Global, Altron Aerospace, Assystem’s in the field of Computer Aided Designing / Computer Aided Engineering / Finite Element Analysis.