FEM workshop

Dear Students,

It is our pleasure to inform you that AeSI Alumni Association and
NAFEMS, an International Association for Engineering Analysis
Community is jointly organizing a two-day workshop on FEM and
Practical stress Analysis for the benefit of engineers involved in FEM
activities. Overall this workshop which is also supported by AeSI
Bangalore Branch is designed to enhance the functional knowledge of
young FEM users in the practical application of FEM.

NAFEMS is the world's premier organization with 25 years of expertise
in benchmarking CAD/ CAE software, publishing high quality books and
training for analysts. NAFEMS has provided new vistas to several
international organizations in domains such as Dynamics, Optimization,
Multiphysics, Heat Transfer, Non-linear Analysis, Electro Magnetics,
Process simulation, Biomechanics and CFD. The humongous work of NAFEMS
can be seen on www.nafems.org.

This Course is being handled by reputed industry experts with the
following objectives:

1. To offer guidance in guiding which approximations are acceptable
for solving practical problems
2. What are the best practices applicable to automotive, aerospace
and manufacturing industries?

Practical case studies on automotive/Defence/Aeronautics would also be
presented.

This course is aimed at practicing engineers who wish to learn more
about how to apply FEM techniques to their particular problems in the
most effective manner. The contents of this programme are specially
designed keeping the needs of junior and middle level analysts who
have to apply FEM for solving practical problems. The material that is
presented is independent of any particular software package, making it
ideally suited to current and potential users of all commercial FEM
software systems.

Date: 22 & 23 July 2011
Venue: Aeronautical Society of India, Bangalore Branch
Suranjan Das Road, New Thippasandra Post, Bangalore-560075

Registration Fee:
Industry and R&D Labs - Rs. 2000/-
NAFEMS /AeSIAA Members and Academia (Including Students) - Rs. 1000/-
For AMAeSI Students – Rs. 750 /-

This will be an excellent opportunity for engineers to get practical
and fundamental insight into the applications of FEM. We request you
to avail this opportunity by participating / nominating your
representatives. The pdf format of the workshop brochure is attached
for your reference. Additional details on the course feel free to
contact us.

NOTE: This workshop is open to Student as well. However seats are
limited and on first cum first serve basis.
For all your queries regarding the workshop, please contact our fellow
alumni and workshop secretary, Dr. Rajesh Kumar (9986018742)

Regards,
Rakesh Kumar
Hon. Secretary, AeSIAA

Effort not an hobby

This blog is an effort, it's not a hobby.

An effort to give back what I have received. It's a way to share my
experiences and insights that I had the previlege of having.

It's the effort of documenting the path that every aesi student charts
through.

So if you email me, or contact me via the comments, and I don't reply.
It's not that I don't want to. It's just I am involved with other
things in life.

Maintaining, writing here takes effort and so far I have managed to
keep it. I intent to do so in future.

This post is an apology to everyone whom I am not able to reply. Rest
assured I read each and every mail and comment that I receive.

Thanks for being part of this journey with me.

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Campus for AeSI and Industrial Training after section B

To speed things up, today I will attempt to answer two questions that
were asked two weeks back.

If you remember, in my previous two posts I am attempting to answer
question that are present in every aesi student's mind.

Today's questions are

3) Is it true that without 60%marks in section b u wont manage a
industrial training?

My knowledge on this is limited as it concens the new syllabus. In old
times, if you have overall 60% AeSI provided you with a 6 to 12 months
On Job Training. But one can always take your own initiative and get a
on job training in nal, Hal etc

Anyone here who has more Information on this, can you please chip in.
Any info on this is most welcome.

4) Are there any companies coming for recruitment in convocation?
Unfortunately there is no recruitment at the convocation.

At the convocation you get your certificates, you get to meet some
aerospace personalities and two good meals. That's it. No recruitment
drive there.

But don't worry, there's a good news in this department. AeSIAA has
taken this up and it conducts a recruitment drive or campus for AMAeSI
graduates once a year. Last time we did the recruitment drive in AeSI
Bangalore office and two AMAeSI graduates were placed through it. This
year aesiaa wants to make this event more grand!!

And there's one another avenue where lot of recruiter's post their job
recquirements. Ouraesi yahoo group. Be a part of it and participate.

Hope this helps. Please feel free to leave your questions, remarks in
comments.

2 day workshop on FEM and Practical stress Analysis – Register Today

Date: 22 & 23 July 2011

Venue: Aeronautical Society of India, Bangalore Branch

Suranjan Das Road, New Thippasandra Post, Bangalore-560075

Registration Fee:

Industry and R&D Labs - Rs. 2000/-

NAFEMS /AeSIAA Members and Academia (Including Students) - Rs. 1000/-

For AMAeSI Students – Rs. 750 /-

Workshop Info [pdf]

How to pass AeSI papers? - open question to all

Just received a distraught and passionate mail from a section a
student. He said aesi examination question pattern isn't suited for
Indian environment. He argued that instead of subjective paper, Aesi
papers should be objective. He also doubted that there is something
wrong in the the checking of aesi answer sheets.

Well I have to admit, many students including myself have doubted the
checking system of answer sheets by AeSI. At some point of time, we
have wondered what happened to our marks when we were sure we have
done a great job in the examination hall.

I guess the reason for this doubt is the opaque wall that aesi has
put. We don't have access to the checked papers and this non
transparency raises out doubts, which are magnified when we get bad
results.

Now when I look back at those semesters where I felt Mr Goyal had some
evil hand in failing me, I think somewhere I was also responsible.

Examinations are not about telling what you know. It's about giving
relevant answers to the questions asked. It's not about spilling
whatever you know, on paper, but giving the right and accurate
information required by the question.

Brief and to the point answers are Indicators of your understanding of
the question.

Well these topic is open to lot of discussions, so I open this
question to all of you. What do think about this? Do feel free to
comment.

More on passing aesi exams at http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=tips+exam&max-results=100

Apple iPhone and you

Read the following at the noise and signal blog. It's about why
Apple's iPhone is dominating the smartphone market.

"The basics absolutely matter. If the basics aren't right then
worrying about the other stuff is futile. This is why Apple put years
of thoughtful work into getting the basics right. Then they released
the iOS and the iPhone. Then, a year later, they turned the iOS into a
platform for third party developers. And today that platform is
available on tens of millions of iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads.
Apple got their priorities straight."

Same priorities are applicable to everyone.

Be it as an aero society student or aesi graduate. Whatever we do, we
have to get the basics right.

Learning nastran or Ansys will go unused if you fail to understand the
simple concepts of stress and strain! Knowing non linear analysis will
go in vain if you don't understand the difference between linear and
non linear!

So build your base first.

For all aesi graduates I recommend that in section A, make studies as
your primary focus. Concentrate on getting your concepts right, before
emarking on skill building! Know what is taught. Explore those
topics. Learn them such that you can explain them to your grandmother.

Skill building can begin in the late two semesters of section b.

More on this is myaesi ebook. Check that out if you haven't

Good luck and be a star!

Percentage of marks in AeSI

Ok so today let us take the second question. It's not specific to any
stream. This question is almost on every aesi students mind.

"what is the percentage of marks required for an aesian for job? Are
both section a and b equally important or stress is upon section b?"

The obvious answer to this question is, the higher the percentage the
better. There's no fixed number here but most of the govt.
organisation look for candidates with marks more than 60%

For private companies there is no stated numbers.

These marks are just signals. If you have good percentage marks, you
are sending a strong signal. But if they are in 50's, that signal
prompts people to question your knowledge.

That's the only difference.

As I said earlier is some post here, always shoot for high marks but
if your don't get them, don't loose hurt. There is more to life than
marks.

For your second question, overall marks are more important than just
section b!!

Hope this answers your question. Feel free to comment if you have a
different take on this.

Find more here http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=marks

What extra skills should an avionics stream student of AeSI have?

What extra skills should an avionics stream student of AeSI have?

After my post on being profssional, I have received a couple of emails
from many of you. One such email had 6 questions for me to answer.

The question are apt and well framed. I will try to answer them all by
putting then in 6 different posts.

Mr Sumantra is in avionics stream and so his first question was

"we dont have practical in our course, so what extra thing do you
suggest a student should learn for avionics stream?, like students go
for CFD , catia and ansys for aeromechanical"

Let me begin by saying, if your main dish is great, then dessert does
not matter.

Whatever you have studied in aesi is the base, don't leave crack in
that base. Anything that you do beyond that is the dessert! It adds to
glamour but it's the core studies that drives the engine.

If you have read MyAeSI Ebook, you will know about the equation
Knowledge + skills = job

Building skills are important. And now to your question of what skills
an avionics student of aesi should acquire.

First of all. Build your communication skills. Oral and written. They
are the most important skill that one needs to have, whatever be his/
her work.

Apart from communication, an aesi avionics graduate can get training
in labview, learn c coding, know how to use matlab simulink and
embedded system depending on personal interest.

As i am from propulsion stream, my knowledge on avionics is limited.
So over the lifespan of this blog, i have invited few accomplished
avionics engineers from aesi to answer this similar question. Please
find them here by searching the blog via this link.
http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=avionics&max-results=100

Hope this helps

Recent AeSI graduates: Be professional

Today I was at the Annual General Meeting of AeSIAA. There I came
across a letter written by a recent AeSIAA graduate looking for an
intrinship position.

I admire the initiative of that graduate. He thought out of the box
and mailed to AeSIAA office for referel. But my admiration stops there.

A look at the resume dissipitated any good feeling that I had for
him. It seems that some people mistakenly assume that raw enthusiasm
and a willingness to work is enough to get them in the door. It
isn't.

You have to be professional. You are an engineer now. You need to
know how to write a decent resume. You need to know what to put in
that resume. Just raw enthusiasm won't do.

Please don't do such silly mistakes. They do matter. You have
Internet as a vast resource and google a doorway. Why not utilize
that to craft a professional resume?

For more posts related to crafting a professional resume follow the
link http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=resume&max-results=100

What will aircraft engines look like post-2025?

What will aircraft engines look like post-2025?

Check this link. http://bit.ly/k6tP0Q

Must for an aero-mechanical stream guys of AeSI!!

Cheers!!