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MAIN COURSE

Mechanical engineering.

1.When was Mechanical engineering recognized as a separate branch of engineering?

2.What does mechanical engineering deal with?

3.Why are lists of the professional divisions and technical committees of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) given?

4.When did machines appear?

5.Who were the forerunners of modern engineers?

6.What are the main trends in modern machine-building?

7.What is the third important trend in machine-building?

8.What does the training of future engineers include?

Applying for a job. Writing resumes (CVs*)

1.What is your future speciality?

2.Who/what influences your career choice? For example - family, money, peers, you, other? What influence do they have over your choice? What do you think of that?

3.What are your main tasks?

4.What skills are required in your position on a day-to-day basis?

5.What parts of your job do you find most challenging?

6.What are you really good at?

7.What do find most enjoyable?

8.Could you describe one of your typical workdays?

9.How do you want to describe yourself in relation to your career when you

meet someone new?

10.Where do you see yourself working?

Equipment instruments and materials

Instruments

1.What are pliers used for?

2.What do the pliers consist of?

3.What is the function of pliers, jaws and handles?

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4.What material are bench-shears made of?

5.What are the bench-shears provided with?

6.What purposes are alligator shears used for?

7.What principal parts do the alligator shears consist of?

8.What purpose are pipe-cutters used for?

9.What parts does a pipe-cutter: consist of?

10.What instruments are used for disassembling and assembling machine parts?

11.How are wrenches subdivided?

12.What is a nut wrench used for?

13.What wrenches are used for screwing and unscrewing nuts?

14.What tools are used for filing operations?

15.What operations are performed with a file?

16.What is the difference between a file and a chisel?

17.What machinecutting tools do you know? What are they used for?

18.What parts does a cutting tool consist of?

19.What other mechanical tools can be used in repairing?

Engineering materials

1.What are metals and what do wo call metallurgy?

2.Why are most metals dense?

3.Why are metals malleable? Why are metals malleable?

4.What are grains? What is alloying?

5.What is crystalline structure?

6.What do the properties of metals depend on?

7.What changes the size of grains in metals?

8.Why are metals so important in industry?

9.What types of metals do you know?

10.What is steel?

11.What are the main properties of steel?

12.What the drawbacks of steel?

13.What kinds of steel do you know? Where are they used?

14.What gives the addition of manganese, silicon and chromium to steel? 15.What can be made of mild steels (medium-carbon steels, high-carbon

steels)?

16.What kind of steels can be forged and welded? 17.How can we get rust-proof (stainless) steel? 18.What is used to form a hard surface on steel? 19.What are 'high-speed steels alloyed with? 20.What is creeping?

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