Engineering materials and metallurgy is one of the main courses for Mechanical engineering students in their fourth semester syllabus and part of giving more clarity and understanding in this subject a guest lecture is arranged on “Advances in materials and metallurgy” Mr. Kesapillai, senior metallurgist gave a lecture on the topic.
The following topics were taught during the lecture hours:
- Basics of Metals
- Micro Structures of metals
- Iron carbon diagram
- Applications of light weight metals
- Power metallurgy and applications
- Recent trends and advances in the field metallurgy
And also hands on training were given to the students for study the micro structure of different metals by using mechanical metallurgical microscope.
An interaction section was conducted after the lecture. The section was very interesting and informative.