Category: Vocational skills

How To Present Your Mechanical Design To The Team?

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The newbies in engineering often feel underestimated due to the lack of soft skills that are required to undermine the job role. For a mechanical engineer, it is more important to present the mechanical design more efficiently than knowing only the technical details.

For those who need to present mechanical design to the peers, or the client to pitch for new business, take help of these tips and make this task a less daunting:

Understand the audience

Represent your design from the perspective of an ordinary man. The audience may not be aware of the nitty-gritty involved, and therefore, your design must be able to communicate the required use and purpose to everyone.

Public Speaking Skills

Work on the confidence level to nail the presentation in front of people. If you still feel anxiety after practicing presentation behind the curtain, remain calm during the actual presentation to go on. Remind yourself that you halfway there, and face people with a smile.

Convey Details

Prepare for the questions that the audience is going to put in front of you. There can be questions related to designs, materials and choices, manufacturing processes and much more. If you don’t have answers to the questions, don’t get nervous and avoid fumbling. Tell them that you will get back with the right answer after the meeting.

Presentation Tips

Don’t keep reading all the content from the PowerPoint and take audience towards the pointer every time. It can leave them confused or bored while listening. Prepare bullets or rough narrative to explain your ideas.

Apart from the presentation, people will judge you more by the mechanical design and not the speaking skills. So, go easy and work on the essentials before the meeting.

Aeromobil’s Latest Electric Flying Car Concept Hopes To Take Off In 10 Years

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One of the leading engineering company, AeroMobil dreamt of launching the flying car but the idea got crashed before three years. Nevertheless, the company realms with the same concept and better way of implementation. The company invented an entirely new electric four-seater vertical take-off, namely AeroMobil 5.0.

Some of the special features of car AeroMobil 5.0 are:                           

  • This all-in-one vehicle can fly up to 200 miles
  • One can drive this as a standard car on roads
  • It does not require individual for landings
  • It has improved suspension for a smooth landing
  • The car has a motor on the wing tips
  • It will have airbags and a parachute within the vehicle

 

The previous concept AeroMobil 4.0 is quite different with this VTOL. It is a short take-off and landing vehicle, which means that it requires a short runway. The car 4.0 is still going testing and can travel up to 400 miles as it is energy efficient that AeroMobil 5.0.

 

As per the backdate news in 2015, AeroMobil was aggressive about launching Ferrari with Wings in 2017. However, the plan didn’t turn out to be a reality. As per the insiders of the company, the 4.0 version will be made available “in a limited series to private owners” from the year 2020.

 

After the 4.0 version enters the market, the AeroMobil 5.0 will also float in the market in the next seven to ten years. The company realms to bring the best experience of a ride as well as a flight with this newly invented vehicle.

Five successful women Engineers

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8th of March marks the International Woman’s Day to celebrate the woman who has achieved great heights all over the world. Here we have five successful woman engineers that made the country proud.

 

Priya Balasubramaniam, Vice President of iPhone operations, Apple

Serving as the Vice President of iPhone operations, Priya Balasubramaniam started her journey with Apple since the year 2001. The lady then made great success in the International supply chain team. She has played a prominent role to expand Apple product manufacturing.

 

 

Nandini Ramani, Vice President of Engineering, Twitter

Nandini Ramani plays a significant role as the Vice President of Engineering in the organization. She is also a major contributor to Twitter’s product strategy to promote the marketing activities, particularly, in India.

 

Anjali Joshi, Vice President of Product Management, Google

Anjali Joshi has been working with Google for ten years. She is well known for her versatility and her capability to handle any situation in the organization. She also has worked for Google’s cloud, and infrastructure along with news and finance departments.

 

Komal Mangtani, Head of Data Intelligence, Uber

Komal, before joining Uber has been working as the head of engineering at Box. At present, the lady is working as the head of engineering at Uber. Her team works to help Uber explore more market opportunities and analyze the overall business performance.

 

 

 

Aparna Ramani, Director of Engineering, Facebook

Aparna Ramani is currently working with Facebook as the Director of Engineering. She leads a team of professionals that deals with and processes real-time data and analysis. The team is a significant player in technology for Facebook’s Newsfeed.

What’s new in Ansys 19?

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ANSYS 19 is also known as the Next Generation Pervasive Engineering Simulation technology. With the expanding digital world and growing data, companies are struggling with the pressure to improve performance to deliver high-quality products within a limited time. ANSYS 19, is designed to empower such engineers and professionals to contribute to the overall productivity. The enhanced capabilities of the technology aim to produce accurate results. Here are some of the many features that will support Pervasive Engineering Simulation.

3D Design

ANSYS 19 now introduced the new 3D design family of products.

  • The package includes a real-time simulation environment that is developed to help engineers explore their designs and concepts.
  • The CAD modeling capabilities of the ANSYS Discovery SpaceClaim now have new assembly configurations.
  • Some of its supporting exploded views help engineers generate more efficient designs.

The technology helps to build upon topology optimization so that users can observe live progression to solve steps and make informed decisions.

Embedded Software

ANSYS 19 now has powerful capabilities to carry out tasks. These tasks include:

  • Workflow integration
  • Performance and usability
  • A fully certified embedded software with a Human-Machine Interface (HMI) and
  • Design capabilities

The technology is also supported by some dedicated solutions for automotive and avionics system and software. Added features here included capabilities for multi-rate application designs and enhanced HMI design capabilities that comply with ARINC 661 and that qualify for ISO 26262 and DO- 178C.

Electromagnetics

With the new technology, engineers can now design wireless, electrification and autonomous technology. The improved features of the technology include radar cross section analysis innovative electronic machine design, integrated electro-thermal analysis, and also a design kit to offer enhanced user experience with all the electromagnetic field simulation tools.

Semiconductors

To meet the growing demands of the next generation computing capabilities, which is not only automotive, but also is mobile, and delivers high performance computing through the advanced system. The technology thus demands products that are bigger, faster, and more complex. The simulation environment offered by ANSYS 19 delivers a platform that is more comprehensive, enabled for Big Data and capable of solving different design attributes such as thermal properties, power noise, performance and reliability across the spectrum accelerating your product success.

Systems

ANSYS 19 offers some of the most powerful capabilities in two crucial work areas:

  • System simulation for battery management design and deployment
  • Functional safety and analysis to use across all safety-critical industries

ANSYS 19 now has some enhanced features to help engineers easily model the complete design of a battery management system. Another add-on, ANSYS Simplorer helps the engineers to simulate and test the entire system after design and development. ANSYS 19 expands the functional safety analysis across all industries.

Get Hired! Engineering Hiring Managers Top Secrets Revealed

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It is now easy to get noticed as a top engineering candidate. A recent survey has identified a few major evaluation techniques employed by the hiring managers to distinguish promising candidates.

First 15 Minutes

More than 54% of the managers shortlist the top candidates within the first 15 minutes of the interview.

Top 3 Hard Skills

  • 80% managers look for analytical or critical thinking.
  • 65% look for technical skills (system, computer, software).
  • 59% seek troubleshooting skills.

Top 3 Soft Skills

  • Teamwork is a very important soft skill which is preferred by almost 85% managers.
  • 79% managers shortlist the candidates who possess good listening and comprehension skills.
  • 79% managers prefer candidates who possess a sense of personal accountability.

Resume

Eight out of ten hiring managers interview the candidates based on the match of the job description with the resume. The most preferred format of a resume is the digital or electrical format.

  • 67% prefer digital resume.
  • 29% seek a traditional hard copy.
  • 2% seek for a digital portfolio.
  • 2% shortlist based on a LinkedIn profile.
  • Less than 1% prefer video resumes.

Interview Tips

  • Clearly express the personal achievements and weaknesses.
  • Boldly communicate the skills and their reason for befitting the job.
  • Remain conscious about timely appearance, politeness, grooming conditions, and graciousness.
  • Learn about the company.

Common Interview Mistakes

  • Inappropriate usage of mobiles phones during the interview
  • Arriving late for the interview
  • Lack of enthusiasm and passion for the job and carrier
  • Behaving weird, ignorant, or ungrateful.