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Understanding chemistry: Chemical engineering graduates find employment in manufacturing industries, government or academia.
I would like to know about a career in occupational therapy.
Occupational therapy is the therapeutic use of self-care, work, and play activities to increase independent function, enhance development, and prevent disability; may include adaptation of task or environment to achieve maximum independence and enhance quality of life.
It is the art and science of directing man’s participation in selected tasks to restore, reinforce, and enhance performance; to facilitate learning of those skills and functions essential for adaptation and productivity; diminish or correct pathology; and to promote and maintain health. Its fundamental concern is the capacity, throughout the life span, to perform with satisfaction to self and others those tasks and roles essential to productive living and to the mastery of self and the environment.
Occupational therapy is mainly used for treating patients with various kinds of physical disabilities. In old age, more particularly, some skills are required to perform normal acts.
Occupational therapists design activities to develop self-independence in physically-challenged people. This type of therapy is patient-specific, involving recreational, creative or educational activities. The patient’s specific interests, his background, his previous experience also form an integral part of treatment.
In short, Occupational therapy trains in rehabilitation of physically and mentally impaired persons.
Occupational therapists works in hospitals and other health care and community settings.
Please provide details about the Design and Manufacturing Engineering course offered by Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing.
Study in design and manufacturing engineering helps to meet the growing need for advanced design and manufacturing education. You will be trained in areas related to computer-aided design and manufacturing, product development, advanced manufacturing processes and systems, engineering measurement and analysis, packaging technology, and intelligent design and manufacturing.
You will be given excellent research opportunities in the above areas, covering both practical and theoretical concepts. Students will be well suited for careers in the academia, industry and the public sector, particularly in areas of product design, development and manufacturing.
You will be covering following areas in depth:
Design engineering: engineering/ product/ industrial design, computer-aided design/ manufacturing/ engineering (CAD/ CAM/ CAE), integrated-design and manufacturing, web-based engineering, design optimisation, artificial neural networks, knowledge-based systems, genetic algorithms and evolutionary computing, engineering multimedia, rapid prototyping, mechanical transmission, gears and cam mechanisms.
Advanced manufacturing technology: condition monitoring, condition-based maintenance (CBM), mechatronics, embedded systems, Internet-based monitoring, fixturing systems, control, image processing, robotics, automation, infrared thermography, sensor fusion, simulation, industrial engineering and operations management.
Engineering mechanics: kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms, flexible mechanisms, modelling and simulation using the finite element method (FEM), and modelling of heat transfer and fluid flow.
Design and manufacturing engineering emphasises the fundamental principles involved in the proper selection of materials, definitions of optimal shapes, and establishment of appropriate manufacturing processes necessary to meet today’s product demands.
The Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing is an institute for interdisciplinary academic and research programme that integrates engineering design, manufacturing and management with Information Technology. At present, the institute is operating from the IIT-Madras campus with the support of their staff and faculty members.
What are the career prospects in chemical engineering?
Chemical engineering is the branch of chemistry and engineering that deals with the application of physical science (example: chemistry and physics), with mathematics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms.
It largely involves the design and maintenance of chemical processes for large-scale manufacture. They translate processes developed in the lab into practical applications for the production of products such as plastics, medicines, detergents, and fuels; design plants to maximise productivity and minimise costs; and evaluate plant operations for performance and product quality.
Chemical engineers are employed by almost all companies in the chemical process industry. Their work also extends to processes in nuclear energy, materials science, food production, development of new sources of energy, and even medicine. In addition to process and product development and design, chemical engineers work in areas such as production, research, environmental studies, market analysis, data processing, sales, and management. Petroleum refineries and the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and service industries also employ them. Approximately three-quarters of all chemical engineers are working in manufacturing industries; the rest is employed by government or academia or self-employed.
JAYAPRAKASH GANDHI
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