Engineering Services Exam Syllabus

Engineering Services Exam Syllabus

GENERAL ABILITY TEST

Part A: General English. The question paper in General English will be designed to test the candidate's understanding of English and workmanlike use of words. Part B: General Studies: The paper in General Studies will include knowledge of current events and of such matters as of everyday observation and experience in their scientific aspects as may be expected of an educated person. The paper will also include questions on History of India and Geography of a nature which candidates should be able to answer without special study.

CIVIL ENGINEERING 1

(For both objective and conventional type papers) PAPER-I 1. BUILDING MATERIALS Timber : Different types and species of structural timber, density-moisture relationship, strength in different directions, defects, influence of defects on permissible stress, preservation, dry and wet rots, codal provisions for design, plywood. Bricks : Types, Indian Standard classification, absorption, saturation factor, strength in masonry, influence of morter strength on masonry strength. Cement : Compounds of, different types, setting times, strength. Cement Mortar : Ingredients, proportions, water demand, mortars for plastering and masony. Concrete : Importance of W/C Ratio, Strength, ingredients including admixtures, worksability, testing for strength, elasticity, non-destructive Employment News UPSC 37 3. testing, mix design methods.

SOLID MECHANICS

Elastic constants, stress, plane stress, Mohr's circle of stress, strains, plane 2. strain, Mohr's circle of strain, combined stress; Elastic theories of failure; Simple bending, shear; Torsion of cir- cular and rectangular sections and simple members.

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Analysis of determinate structures - dif- ferent methods including graphical methods. Analysis of indeterminate skeletal frames - moment distribution, slope- deflection, stiffness and force methods, energy methods, Muller-Breslau prin- ciple and application. Plastic analysis of indeterminate beams and simple frames - shape factors. DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES Principles of working stress method. Design of connections, simple mem- bers, Built-up sections and frames, Design of Industrial roofs. Principles of ultimate load design. Design of simple members and frames. DESIGN OF CONCRETE AND MASONRY STRUCTURES

3. Limit state design for bending, shear, axial compression and combined forces. Codal provisions for slabs, beams, walls and footings. Working stress method of design of R.C. members. Principles of prestressed concrete de- sign, materials, methods of prestress- ing, losses. Design of simple members and determinate structures. Introduc- tions to prestressing of indeterminate structures. Design of brick masonry as per I.S. Codes. CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE, PLAN- NING AND MANAGEMENT Concreting Equipment: Weight Batcher, Mixer, vibrator, batching plant, concrete pump. Cranes, hoists, lifting equipment. Earthwork Equipment : Power shovel, hoe, dozer, dumper, trailers and tractor, rollers, sheep foot rollers, pumps. Construction, Planning and Manage- ment : Bar chart, linked bar chart, work-break down structures, Activity - on - arrow dia- grams. Critical path, probabilistic activ- ity durations; Event-based networks. PERT network: Time-cost study, crash- ing; Resource allocation. PAPER-II 4. (a) FLUID MECHANICS, OPEN CHANNEL FLOW, PIPE FLOW Fluid Properties, Pressure, Thrust, Buoyancy; Flow Kinematics; Integra- tion of flow equations; Flow measure- ment; Relative motion; Moment of mo- mentum; Viscosity, Boundary layer and Control, Drag, Lift; dimensional Analy- sis, Modelling; Cavitation; Flow oscil- lations; Momentum and Energy prin- ciples in Open channel flow, Flow con- trols, Hydraulic jump, Flow sections and properties; Normal flow, Gradually varied flow; Surges; Flow development and losses in pipe flows, Measure- ments; Siphons; Surges and Water hammer; Delivery of Power Pipe net- works. (b) HYDRAULIC MACHINES AND HYDROPOWER 5. Centrifugal pumps, types, performance parameters, scaling, pumps in parallel; Reciprocating pumps, air vessels, per- formance parameters; Hydraulic ram; Hydraulic turbines, types, performance parameters, controls, choice; Power house, classification and layout, stor- age, pondage, control of supply. (a) HYDROLOGY Hydrological cycle, precipitation and related data analyses, PMP, unit and synthetic hydrographs; Evaporation and transpiration; Floods and their management, PMF; Streams and their gauging; River morphology; Routing of floods; Capacity of Reservoirs. (b) WATER RESOURCES ENGI- NEERING Water resources of the globe: Multipur- pose uses of Water: Soil-Plant-Water relationships, irrigation systems, water demand assessment; Storages and their yields, ground water yield and well hydraulics; Waterlogging, drainage design; Irrigation revenue; Design of rigid boundary canals, Lacey's and Tractive force concepts in canal de- sign, lining of canals; Sediment trans- port in canals; Non-Overflow and over- flow sections of gravity dams and their design, Energy dissipators and tailwater rating; Design of headworks, distribution works, falls, cross-drainage works, outlets; River training.

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

WATER SUPPLY ENGINEERING Sources of supply, yields, design of intakes and conductors; Estimation of demand; Water quality standards; Con- trol of Water-borne diseases; Primary and secondary treatment, detailing and maintenance of treatment units; Con- veyance of treatment units; Convey- ance and distribution systems of treated water, leakages and control; Rural water supply; Institutional and industrial water supply.

WASTE WATER ENGINEERING:

Urban rain water disposal; Systems of sewage collection and disposal; De- sign of sewers and sewerage systems; pumping; Characteristics of sewage and its treatment, Disposal of products of sewage treatment, streamflow reju- venation Institutional and industrial sewage management; Plumbing Sys- tems; Rural and semi-urban sanitation. SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT Source, classification collection and disposal; Design and Management of landfills. AIR AND NOISE POLLUTION AND ECOLOGY Sources and effects of air pollution, monitoring of air pollution; Noise pol- lution an standards; Ecological chain and balance, Environmental assess- ment. (a) SOIL MECHANICS Properties of soil, classification and interrelationship; Compaction behaviour, methods of compaction and their choice; Permeability and seep- age, flow nets, Inverted filters; Com- pressibility and consolidation; Shear- ing resistance, stresses and failure; soil testing in laboratory and in-situ; Stress path and applications; Earth pressure theories, stress distribution in soil; soil exploration, samplers, load tests, pen- etration tests. (b) FOUNDATION ENGINEERING Types of foundations, Selection crite- ria, bearing capacity, settlement, labo- ratory and field tests; Types of piles and their design and layout, Founda- tions on expansive soils, swelling and its prevention, foundation on swelling soils. (a) SURVEYING Classification of surveys, scales, accu- racy; Measurement of distances - di- rect and indirect methods; optical and electronic devices; Measurement of directions, prismatic compass, local attraction; Theodolites - types; Mea- surement of elevations - Spirit and trigonometric levelling; Relief repre- sentation; Contours; Digital elevation modelling concept; Establishment of control by triangulations and travers- ing - measurements and adjustment of observations, computation of coor- dinates; Field astronomy, Concept of global positioning system; Map prepa- ration by plane tabling and by photo- grammetry; Remote sensing concepts, map substitutes. (b) TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER- ING Planning of highway systems, align- ment and geometric design, horizon- tal and vertical curves, grade separa- tion; Materials and construction meth- ods for different surfaces and mainte- nance: Principles of pavement design; Drainage. Traffic surveys, Intersections, signal- ling: Mass transit systems, accessibil- ity, networking. Tunnelling, alignment, methods of con- struction, disposal of muck, drainage, lighting and ventilation, traffic control, emergency management. Planning of railway systems, terminol- ogy and designs, relating to gauge, track, controls, transits, rolling stock, tractive power and track modernisation; Maintenance; Appurte- nant works; Containerisation. Harbours - layouts, shipping lanes, anchoring, location identification; Lit- toral transport with erosion and depo- sition; sounding methods; Dry and Wet docks, components and operational Tidal data and analyses. Airports - layout and orientation; Run- way and taxiway design and drainage management; Zoning laws; Visual aids and air traffic control; Helipads, hang- ers, service equipment.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

(For both objective and conventional type papers) PAPER-I 1. Thermodynamics, Cycles and IC Engines: Basic concepts, Open and Closed systems. Heat and work. Ze- roth, First and Second Law, Applica- tion to non-Flow and Flow processors. Entropy, Availability, Irreversibility and Tds relations. Claperyron and real gas equations, Properties of ideal gases and vapours. Standard vapour, Gas power and Refrigeration cycles. Two stage compressor. C-I and S.I. En- gines. Pre-ignition, Detonation and Diesel-knock, Fuel injection and Carburation, Supercharging. Turbo- prop and Rocket engines, Engine Cooling, Emission & Control, Flue gas analysis, Measurement of Calorific val- ues. Conventional and Nuclear fuels, Elements of Nuclear power production. 2. Heat Transfer and Refrigeration and Airconditioning: Modes of heat trans- fer. One dimensional steady and un- steady conduction. Composite slab and Equivalent Resistance. Heat dis- sipation from extended surfaces, Heat exchangers, Overall heat transfer co- efficient, Empirical correlations for heat transfer in laminar and turbulent flows and for free and forced Convection, Thermal boundary layer over a flat plate. Fundamentals of diffusive and connective mass transfer, Black body and basic concepts in Radiation, En- closure theory, Shape factor, Net work analysis. Heat pump and Refrigeration cycles and systems, Refrigerants. Con- densers, Evaporates and Expansion devices, Psychrometry, Charts and application to air conditioning, Sensible heating and cooling, Effective tempera- ture, comfort indices, Load calcula- Continued

38 UPSC Employment News tions, Solar refrigerations, controls, Duct design. 3. Fluid Mechanics. Properties and classification of fluids, Manometry, forces on immersed sur- faces, Center of pressure, Buoyancy, Elements of stability of floating bodies. Kinematics and Dynamics. Irrotational and incompressible. Invis- cid flow. Velocity potential, Pressure field and Forces on immersed bodies. Bernoulli's equation, Fully developed flow through pipes, Pressure drop cal- culations, Measurement of flow rate and Pressure drop. Elements of bound- ary layer theory, Integral approach, Laminar and tubulent flows, Separa- tions. Flow over weirs and notches. Open channel flow, Hydraulic jimp. Dimensionless numbers, Dimensional analysis, Similitude and modelling. One-dimensional isentropic flow, Nor- mal shock wave, Flow through conver- gent - divergent ducts, Oblique shock- wave, Rayleigh and Fanno lines. 4. Fluid Machinery and Steam Genera- tors. Performance, Operation and control of hydraulic Pump and impulse an reac- tion Turbines, Specific speed, Classi- fication. Energy transfer, Coupling, Power transmission, Steam generators Fire-tube and water-tube boilers. Flow of steam through Nozzles and Diffus- ers, Wetness and condensation. Vari- ous types of steam and gas Turbines, Velocity diagrams. Partial admission. Reciprocating, Centrifugal and axial flow Compressors, Multistage com- pression, role of Mach Number, Re- heat, Regeneration, Efficiency, Gover- nance. PAPER - II 5. THEORY OF MACHINES Kinematic and dynamic analysis of planer mechanisms. Cams. Gears and gear trains. Flywheels. Governors. Bal- ancing of rigid rotors and field balanc- ing. Balancing of single and multicylinder engines, Linear vibration analysis of mechanical systems. Criti- cal speeds and whirling of shafts Au- tomatic controls. 6. MACHINE DESIGN Design of Joints : cotters, keys, splines, welded joints, threaded fasteners, joints formed by interference fits. De- sign of friction drives : couplings and clutches, belt and chain drives, power screws. Design of Power transmission sys- tems : gears and gear drives shaft and axle, wire ropes. Design of bearings : hydrodynamics bearings and rolling element bearings. 7. STRENGTH OF MATERIALS Stress and strain in two dimensions, Principal stresses and strains, Mohr's construction, linear elastic materials, isotropy and anisotropy, stress-strain relations, uniaxial loading, thermal stresses. Beams : Bending moment and shear force diagram, bending stresses and deflection of beams. Shear stress distribution. Torsion of shafts, helical springs. Combined stresses, thick-and think-walled pres- sure vessels. Struts and columns. Strain energy concepts and theories of failure. 8. ENGINEERING MATERIALS Basic concepts on structure of solids. Crystalline materials. Detects in crystal- line materials. Alloys and binary phase diagrams. Structure and properties of common engineering materials. Heat treatment of steels. Plastics, Ceramics and composite materials. Common ap- plications of various materials. 9. PRODUCTION ENGINEERING Metal Forming : Basic Principles of forging, drawing and extrusion; High energy rate forming; Powder metallurgy. Metal Casting : Die casting, invest- ment casting, Shall Moulding, Centrifu- gal Casting, Gating & Riser design; melting furnaces. Fabrication Processes : Principles of Gas, Arc, Shielded arc Welding; Ad- vanced Welding Processes, Weldability: Metallurgy of Welding. Metal Cutting : Turning, Methods of Screw Production, Drilling, Boring, Mill- ing, Gear Manufacturing, Production of flat surfaces, Grinding & Finishing Pro- cesses. Computer Controlled Manufac- turing Systems-CNC, DNC, FMS, Au- tomation and Robotics. Cutting Tools Materials, Tool Geom- etry, Mechanism of Tool Wear, Tool Life & Machinability; Measurement of cutting forces. Economics of Machin- ing. Unconventional Machining Pro- cesses. Jigs and Fixtures. Fits and tol- erances, Measurement of surface tex- ture, Comparators Alignment tests and reconditioning of Machine Tools. 10. INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Production Planning and Control : Forecasting - Moving average, expo- nential smoothing, Operations, sched- uling; assembly line balancing, Product development, Break-even analysis, Capacity planning, PERT and CPM. Control Operations : Inventory control ABC analysis, EOQ model, Materials require- ment planning. Job design, Job standards, Work measurement, Quality Management - Quality analysis and control. Operations Research : Linear Programming - Graphi- cal and Simplex methods, Transportation and assignment models. Single server queueing model. Value Engineering : Value analysis for cost/ value. 11. ELEMENTS OF COMPUTATION Computer Organisation, Flow charting, Features of Common computer Lan- guages - FORTRAN, d Base III, Lotus 1-2-3, C and elementary Programming.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

(For both objective and conventional types papers) PAPER - I 1. EM Theory Electric and magnetic fields. Gauss's Law and Amperes Law. Fields in di- electrics, conductors and magnetic materials. Maxwell's equations. Time varying fields. Plane-Wave propagat- ing in dielectric and conducting media. Transmission lines. 2. Electrical Materials Band Theory, Conductors, Semi-con- ductors and Insulators. Super-conduc- tivity. Insulators for electrical and elec- tronic applications. Magnetic materials. Ferro and ferri magnetism. Ceramics, Properties and applications. Hall effect and its applications. Special semi con- ductors. 3. Electrical Circuits Circuits elements. Kirchoff's Laws. Mesh and nodal analysis. Network Theorems and applications. Natural response and forced response. Tran- sient response and steady state re- sponse for arbitrary inputs. Properties of networks in terms of poles and ze- ros. Transfer function. Resonant cir- cuits. Threephase circuits. Two-port networks. Elements of two-element network synthesis. 4. Measurements and Instrumentation Units and Standards. Error analysis, measurement of current, Voltage, power, Power-factor and energy. Indi- cating instruments. Measurement of resistance, inductance, Capacitance and frequency. Bridge measurements. Electronic measuring instruments. Digital Voltmeter and frequency counter. Transducers and their appli- cations to the measurement of non- electrical quantities like temperature, pressure, flow-rate displacement, ac- celeration, noise level etc. Data acqui- sition systems. A/D and D/A convert- ers. 5. CONTROL SYSTEMS Mathematical modelling of physical systems. Block diagrams and signal flow graphs and their reduction. Time domain and frequency domain analy- sis of linear dynamical system. Errors for different type of inputs and stability criteria for feedback systems. Stability analysis using Routh-Hurwitz array, Nyquist plot and Bode plot. Root locus and Nicols chart and the estimation of gain and phase margin. Basic concepts of compensator design. State variable matrix design. Sampled data system and performance of such a system with the samples in the error channel. Sta- bility of sampled data system. Ele- ments of non-linear control analysis. Control system components, electro- mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic com- ponents. PAPER - II 1. Electrical Machines and Power Transformers Magnetic Circuits - Analysis and De- sign of Power transformers. Construc- tion and testing. Equivalent circuits. Losses and efficiency. Regulation. Auto-transformer, 3-phase trans- former. Parallel operation. Basic concepts in rotating machines. EMF, torque, basic machine types. Construction and operation, leakage losses and efficiency. D.C. Machines. Construction, Excita- tion methods. Circuit models. Armature reaction and commutation. Character- istics and performance analysis. Gen- erators and motors. Starting and speed control. Testing, Losses and efficiency. Synchronous Machines. Construction. Circuit model. Operating characteris- tics and performance analysis. Syn- chronous reactance. Efficiency. Volt- age regulation. Salient-pole machine, Parallel operation. Hunting. Short cir- cuit transients. Induction Machines. Construction. Principle of operation. Rotating fields. Characteristics and performance analysis. Determination of circuit model. Circle diagram. Starting and speed control. Fractional KW motors. Single-phase synchronous and induction motors. 2. Power systems Types of Power Stations, Hydro, Ther- mal and Nuclear Stations. Pumped storage plants. Economics and oper- ating factors. Power transmission lines. Modeling and performance characteristics. Volt- age control. Load flow studies. Opti- mal power system operation. Load fre- quency control. Symmetrical short cir- cuit analysis. Z-Bus formulation. Sym- metrical Components. Per Unit repre- sentation. Fault analysis. Transient and steady-state stability of power systems. Equal area criterion. Power system Transients. Power sys- tem Protection Circuit breakers. Re- lays. HVDC transmission. 3. ANALOG AND DIGITAL ELECTRON- ICS AND CIRCUITS Semiconductor device physics, PN junctions and transistors, circuit mod- els and parameters, FET, Zener, tun- nel, Schottky, photo diodes and their applications, rectifier circuits, voltage regulators and multipliers, switching behavior of diodes and transistors. Small signal amplifiers, biasing circuits, frequency response and improvement, multistage amplifiers and feed-back amplifiers, D.C. amplifiers, coupling methods, push pull amplifiers, opera- tional amplifiers, wave shaping circuits. Multivibrators and flip-flops and their applications. Digital logic gage families, universal gates- combinational circuits for arithmetic and logic operational, sequential logic circuits. Counters, reg- isters, RAM and ROMs. 4. MICROPROCESSORS Microprocessor architecture-Instruc- tion set and simple assembly language programming. Interfacing for memory and I/O. Applications of Micro-proces- sors in power system. 5. COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Types of modulation; AM, FM and PM. Demodulators. Noise and bandwidth considerations. Digital communication systems. Pulse code modulation and demodulation. Elements of sound and vision broadcasting. Carrier communi- cation. Frequency division and time division multiplexing, Telemetry system in power engineering. 6. POWER ELECTRONICS Power Semiconductor devices. Thyris- tor. Power transistor, GTOs and MOSFETs. Characteristics and opera- tion. AC to DC Converters; 1-phase and 3-phase DC to DC Converters. AC regulators. Thyristor controlled reac- tors; switched capacitor networks. Inverters; single-phase and 3-phase. Pulse width modulation. Sinusoidal modulation with uniform sampling. Switched mode power supplies.

ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

(For both objective and conventional type papers) PAPER - I 1. Materials and Components Structure and properties of Electrical Engineering materials; Conductors, Semiconductors and Insulators, mag- netic, Ferroelectric, Piezoelectric, Ce- ramic, Optical and Super-conducting materials. Passive components and characteristics Resistors, Capacitors and Inductors; Ferrities, Quartz crys- tal Ceramic resonators, Electromag- netic an Electromechanical compo- nents. 2. Physical Electronics, Electron De- vices and ICs Electrons and holes in semiconductors, Carrier Statistics, Mechanism of cur- rent flow in a semiconductor, Hall ef- fect; Junction theory; Different types of diodes and their characteristics; Bipo- lar Junction transistor; Field effect tran- sistors; Power switching devices like SCRs, CTOs, power MOSFETs; Ba- sics of ICs - bipolar, MOS and CMOS types; basic of Opto Electronics. 3. Signals and Systems Classification of signals and systems: System modelling in terms of differen- tial and difference equations; State variable representation; Fourier series; Fourier representation; Fourier series; Fourier transforms and their applica- tion to system analysis; Laplace trans- forms and their application to system analysis; Convolution and superposi- tion integrals and their applications; Z- transforms and their applications to the analysis and characterisation of dis- crete time systems; Random signals and probability, Correlation functions; Spectral density; Response of linear system to random inputs. 4. Network theory Network analysis techniques; Network theorems, transient response, steady state sinusoidal response; Network graphs and their applications in net- work analysis; Tellegen's theorem. Two port networks; Z, Y, h and trans- mission parameters. Combination of two ports, analysis of common two ports. Network functions : parts of net- work functions, obtaining a network function from a given part. Transmis- sion criteria : delay and rise time, Elmore's and other definitions effect of cascading. Elements of network syn- thesis. 5. Electromagnetic Theory Analysis of electrostatic and magneto- static fields; Laplace's and Piossons's equations; Boundary value problems and their solutions; Maxwell's equa- tions; application to wave propagation in bounded and unbounded media; Transmission lines : basic theory, standing waves, matching applica- Continued

Employment News UPSC 39 tions, misconstrue lines; Basics of wave guides and resonators; Ele- ments of antenna theory. 6. Electronic Measurements and in- strumentation Basic concepts, standards and error analysis; Measurements of basic elec- trical quantities and parameters; Elec- tronic measuring instruments and their principles of working : analog and digi- tal, comparison, characteristics, applica- tion. Transducers; Electronic measure- ments of non electrical quantities like temperature, pressure, humidity etc; basics of telemetry for industrial use. PAPER - II 1. Analog Electronic Circuits Transistor biasing and stabilization. Small signal analysis. Power amplifi- ers. Frequency response. Wide band- ing techniques. Feedback amplifiers. Tuned amplifiers. Oscillators. Rectifi- ers and power supplies. Op Amp PLL, other linear integrated circuits and ap- plications. Pulse shaping circuits and waveform generators. Digital Electronic Circuits Transistor as a switching element; Boolean algebra, simplification of Bool- ean functions, Karnaguh map and ap- plications; IC Logic gates and their characteristics; IC logic families : DTL, TTL, ECL, NMOS, PMOS and CMOS gates and their comparison; Combina- tional logic Circuits; Half adder, Full adder; Digital comparator; Multiplexer Demultiplexer; ROM and their applica- tions. Flip flops. R-S, J.K, D and T flip- flops; Different types of counters and registers Waveform generators. A/D and D/A converters. Semiconductor memories. Control Systems Transient and steady state response of control systems; Effect of feedback on stability and sensitivity; Root locus techniques; Frequency response analysis. Concepts of gain and phase margins: Constant-M and Constant-N Nichol's Chart; Approximation of tran- sient response from Constant-N Nichol's Chart; Approximation of tran- sient response from closed loop fre- quency response; Design of Control Systems, Compensators; Industrial controllers. Communication Systems Basic information theory; Modulation and detection in analogue and digital systems; Sampling and data recon- structions; Quantization & coding; Time division and frequency division multiplexing; Equalization; Optical Communication : in free space & fiber optic; Propagation of signals oat HF, VHF, UHF and microwave frequency; Satellite Communication. Microwave Engineering Microwave Tubes and solid state de- vices, Microwave generation and am- plifiers, Waveguides and other Micro- wave Components and Circuits, Mis- construe circuits, Microwave Anten- nas, Microwave Measurements, Ma- sers, lasers; Microwave propagation. Microwave Communication Systems terrestrial and Satellite based. 6. Computer Engineering Number Systems. Data representation; Programming; Elements of a high level programming language PASCAL/C; Use of basic data structures; Funda- mentals of computer architecture; Pro- cessor design; Control unit design; Memory organisation, I/o System Organisation. Microprocessors : Archi- tecture and instruction set of Micropro- cessors 8085 and 8086, Assembly lan- guage Programming. Microprocessor Based system design : typical ex- amples. Personal computers and their typical uses.


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