Mechanical Engineering
The GATE ME paper tests mechanical engineering. Each lesson covers one part of the syllabus: the detailed list of topics, the key concepts and formulas, a worked example, and GATE-style questions whose numerical answers are recomputed by a program. Engineering Mathematics and General Aptitude, common to all papers, have their own tracks.
1Overview
2Applied Mechanics and Design
- Engineering Mechanics and Mechanics of MaterialsGATE ME syllabus for engineering mechanics and mechanics of materials, with equilibrium, friction, work-energy and impulse-momentum, stress and strain, Mohr's circle, bending, torsion, deflection, columns, strain energy and thermal stress, with solved examples.
- Theory of Machines and VibrationsGATE ME syllabus for theory of machines and vibrations, with mobility and Grashof's law, gears and gear trains, flywheels, governors, balancing, gyroscopes, free and forced vibration, damping, transmissibility and critical speed, with solved examples.
- Machine DesignGATE ME syllabus for machine design, with theories of failure, fatigue and the Goodman and Soderberg lines, design of shafts, joints, springs, bearings, gears, brakes and clutches, with solved examples.
3Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences
- Fluid MechanicsGATE ME syllabus for fluid mechanics, with fluid statics and buoyancy, control volume analysis, Bernoulli's equation, the momentum equation, dimensional analysis, viscous flow, boundary layers and pipe flow, with solved examples.
- Thermodynamics and Its ApplicationsGATE ME syllabus for thermodynamics and applications, with the laws of thermodynamics, ideal gas processes, entropy and availability, Carnot, Otto, Diesel, Brayton and Rankine cycles, refrigeration, psychrometry and turbomachines, with solved examples.
- Heat TransferGATE ME syllabus for heat transfer, with conduction and thermal resistance, critical insulation radius, fins, lumped capacitance and Biot number, convection correlations, radiation and shape factors, and heat exchangers by LMTD and NTU, with solved examples.
4Materials, Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering
- Engineering Materials and ManufacturingGATE ME syllabus for materials and manufacturing, with the iron-carbon diagram and heat treatment, casting (Chvorinov's rule, gating), metal forming, welding, machining (Merchant's theory, Taylor's tool life), non-traditional machining, metrology and CIM, with solved examples.
- Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchGATE ME syllabus for industrial engineering, with forecasting, aggregate planning, scheduling (SPT, Johnson's rule), MRP, inventory models (EOQ), linear programming, transportation and assignment, queuing (M/M/1) and PERT/CPM, with solved examples.