This document provides an overview of mechanical engineering, including what mechanical engineers do, common skills required, careers in the field, and the history and foundations of mechanical engineering. It defines mechanical engineering as applying scientific principles and problem-solving techniques to design, manufacture, and market machinery. Mechanical engineers work in diverse industries and use tools like CAD to design systems and machines. The average salary for a mechanical engineer in Iraq is $36,174 per year.

1. University of Zakho General English
College of engineering First stage
Mechanical department Date:17/1/2018
Prepared by :
Nihad M. Abdul-Aziz

2. Content
What is Mechanical Engineering?
What do mechanical engineers do?
Skills
Careers in Mechanical Engineering
Foundations in Mechanical Engineering
History
salaries

3. The aim of presentation
To give generally definition about
Mechanical engineering and their
branches.
To show what Mechanical engineers can do
in their future.

4. Who is Engineer ?
An engineer is a
person who uses
scientific knowledge to
solve practical problems
Engineers create new
things and make old
things better

5. What is Mechanical Engineering?
Technically, mechanical engineering is the application of
the principles and problem-solving techniques of
engineering from design to manufacturing to the
marketplace for any object.
Mechanical engineers analyze their work using the
principles of motion, energy, and force— ensuring that
designs function safely, efficiently, and reliably, all at a
competitive cost.
Mechanical engineers make a difference. That’s because
mechanical engineering careers center on creating
technologies to meet human needs. Virtually every product
or service in modern life has probably been touched in
some way by a mechanical engineer to help humankind.

6. What is Mechanical Engineering?
This includes solving today’s problems and creating
future solutions in health care, energy, transportation,
world hunger, space exploration, climate change, and
more.
mechanical engineers use tools such as computer-aided
design (CAD), and product life cycle management to design
and analyze manufacturing plants, industrial equipment
and machinery, heating and cooling systems, transport
systems, aircraft, watercraft, robotics, medical devices,
weapons, and others. It is the branch of engineering that
involves the design, production, and operation of
machinery

7. What do Mechanical Engineers do?
Mechanical engineering combines
creativity, knowledge and analytical tools
to complete the difficult task of shaping
an idea into reality.
Mechanical engineers have an enormous
range of opportunity and their education
mirrors this breadth of subjects. Students
concentrate on one area while strengthening
analytical and problem-solving skills applicable
to any engineering situation.

8. What do mechanical engineers do?
❶ Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer: This involves
understanding the different factors that affect fluid flow in
pipes, AC's, tanks, rockets, jet engines and air crafts. It
involves optimizing the fluid flow and heat distributions in
various devices. Computational Fluid Dynamics is a
commonly used software here. Optimizing heat
distributions in HVAC components is the area of potential
highest employment here.
❷Acoustics: It's the branch of
engineering that explorer vibratory
phenomena in solid structures, in
air and water.

9. What do mechanical
engineers do?
❸Renewable Energy: This is a fast
growing field; when you look at the
combined fields of wind, solar and
electrical storage
❹Structural Mechanics: This
involves working with different structures
to increase their strength and reduce
weight. Optimizing the weight distributions
so that material is allocated in important
areas of the structure. A commonly used
software here is Finite Element Analysis
(FEA).

10. ❺Manufacturing: is an important
step in mechanical engineering.
Within the field, researchers
investigate the best processes to
make manufacturing more efficient
❻ Mechatronics: This is among the
fastest growing fields in Mechanical
Engineering, and requires knowledge of
mechanical engineering principles,
electronics and computer science
(programming). The knowledge of various
skill sets makes one very employable,
especially with the growth of IOT (internet
of things).
What do mechanical
engineers do?

11. ❼Bio Engineering: Mimicking
birds and animals to achieve
engineering progress has always
been a benefit to the engineering
com-munity. e.g. Mimicking of birds
to invent planes
❽Robotics: This involves automation of
mechanic-al systems by programming hardware
devices. This is a fast growing field which
involves knowledge of a variety of fields across
various engineering disciplines. Besides these
fields, there are several Mechanical Engineers
who work in Consulting, IT Services,
programming and industrial engineering jobs
What do mechanical
engineers do?

12. Skills
❶Problem Solving: A big part of a
mechanical engineer’s job is solving
problems using mechanical or thermal
devices. Mechanical engineers need to be
strong analytical thinkers who are
capable of solving problems brought to
them by clients or employers.
❷Creativity: Mechanical
engineering involves developing and
designing products, which range from
batteries to electric generators to
medical devices. Inventing products
involves a lot of creativity.

13. Skills
❸Communication Skills: Often,
mechanical engineers develop a product for a
client. They may have to explain complex
machines or devices to people who are not
familiar with mechanical engineering. They
have to be able to explain their ideas clearly
and effectively, and this takes
strong communication skills.
❹Teamwork: Mechanical engineering
involves lots of teamwork. Engineers often
work in groups to invent technologies and
solve problems. They might work with
people who are not mechanical engineers,
such as computer scientists or architects.

14. Skills
❺Math Skills: Mechanical
engineers need to be comfortable
using math to solve problems. The
math skills required in mechanical
engineering include calculus and
statistics. They need to be able to
apply these skills to analyze
problems and design solutions.

15. EngineeringCareers in Mechanical
Work in a diverse range of industries from
automotive to aerospace and petroleum
Can be applied to other engineering fields
as well
Develop everyday power-using machines
such as refrigerators and air conditioning
units
Design and test different types of
mechanical parts such as gear systems
and jet engines

16. Law firm (law Degree required)
Jet engine design (General electrics)
Mechanical gears technician
Race car design
Aircraft Design (NASA, Boeing)
Offshore drilling and natural gas extraction
(BP, ConocoPhillips)
Automotive transportation (General
Motors, Ford, Honda)
Professor/Teacher
EngineeringCareers in Mechanical

17. Foundations in Mechanical
 Mathematics
 Physics
 Thermodynamics and
heat transfer
 Materials science
 Gears and systems
 Fluid mechanics
 Structural Analysis

18. History
The application of mechanical engineering can be
seen in the archives of various ancient and
medieval societies. For example ancient Greece
and The medieval Chinese
During the Islamic Golden Age (7th to 15th
century), Muslim inventors made remarkable
contributions in the field of mechanical
technology. Al-Jazari, who was one of them, wrote
his famous Book of Knowledge of Ingenious
Mechanical Devices in 1206 and presented many
mechanical designs.

19. History
During the 17th century, important
breakthroughs in the foundations of mechanical
engineering occurred in England. Sir Isaac Newton
formulated Newton's Laws of Motion and
developed Calculus, the mathematical basis of
physics.
 During the early 19th century industrial
revolution, machine tools were developed in
England, Germany, and Scotland. This allowed
mechanical engineering to develop as a separate
field within engineering.

20. salaries
•Mechanical Engineer Salaries in Iraq by (Pay Scale) website
Like careers in many other
engineering fields, mechanical
engineers are well paid. The
average pay for a Mechanical Engineer in Iraq is
$36,174 per year. People in this job generally
don't have more than 20 years' experience.

21. Conclusion
Mechanical Engineering
is a field that requires
dedication and focus.
If you enjoy math and physics,
this is a great field to pursue.
It is a challenging but also
exciting and highly satisfying
career
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