About This Book
Mechanical Engineering involves the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of materials, components, machines, plants and systems for lifting, hoisting and handling of materials. The discipline is concerned with turbines, pumps and fluid power, heating, cooling, ventilating and air-conditioning, fuels, combustion, engines and gas turbines in addition to steam, petrochemical and food processing plants.
Mechanical Engineering also focuses on automobiles, trucks, aircraft, ships special vehicles lifts and escalators plus fire protection and nuclear energy power generation.