IMO STATE POLYTECHNIC UMUAGWO

P.M.B 1472 OWERRI, IMO STATE

ASSIGNMENT
ON
ROLES OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING IN OIL
COMPANY
IMPORTANCE OF COMPUTER IN MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING
PRESENTED BY
OBINNA CHIMA SAMUEL
2013/ND/MEC/65463
COURSE CODE: ICT 101
COURSE TITLE: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
LECTURER:
DATE: FEB, 2015

INTRODUCTION
Mechanical engineering is the discipline that applies the principles
of engineering, physics, and materials science for the design, analysis,
manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the
branch of engineering that involves the design, production, and
operation of machinery. It is one of the oldest and broadest of the
engineering disciplines.
The engineering field requires an understanding of core concepts
including mechanics, kinematics, thermodynamics, materials science,
structural analysis, and electricity. Mechanical engineers use these
core principles along with tools like computer-aided design, and
product lifecycle management to design and analyze manufacturing
plants, industrial equipment and machinery, heating and cooling
systems, transport systems, aircraft, watercraft, robotics, medical
devices, weapons, and others.
Mechanical engineering is one of the broadest engineering disciplines.
It touches just about every industry, including oil and gas. Mechanical
Engineers

work

in

exploration,

extraction,

production

and

transportation of petroleum products. They explore new technologies

to improve equipment, tools and processes essential to the industry.
You could be designing equipment for process control systems or
creating a new compressor system to improve pipeline efficiency.
Perhaps you will come up with an improvement to a tool thus making
the jobs of maintenance employees easier.
ROLES OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS IN OIL COMPANY
Mechanical Engineers apply modern and applied physics to the
design,

manufacturing,

maintenance

and

troubleshooting

of

mechanical systems. They design and analyze the machinery and tools

required to start and complete processes. They also trouble-shoot and

improve the performance of equipment and machinery. Mechanical
Engineers play a key role in the following three areas:

Facility

Equipment

Mechanical

and

Engineers

Operating

design,

Unit

install,

Maintenance:

maintain

and

repair

equipment such as piping, furnaces, turbines, pumps, tanks,

boilers, compressors, heating, ventilating and air conditioning
(HVAC) systems. In oils and mining operations, they engineer
draglines, bucket-wheels, conveyer belts and crushers.

Capital

Projects/Large

Projects:

Mechanical

Engineers

oversee the design, implementation and shut down phases of

capital projects. They design specific mechanical equipment and
processes for these projects.

Product

Manufacturing:

Mechanical

Engineers

provide

technical advice to custom equipment design for manufactured

products used in the oil and gas industry. They provide research,
development and technical support for new tools and equipment
that improve operations.
IMPORTANCE OF COMPUTER APPLICATION IN MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING
Mechanical Engineering is a discipline of engineering that applied the
principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design,
manufacturing and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is branch of
engineering that involve the production and usage of heat and
mechanical power for the design production and operation of machine
and tools. Computer Applications is designed to test students' abilities
to use word processing, spreadsheet, and database application
software, including integration of applications. It is not same as the

computer science contest, which tests programming abilities. In

Mechanical Engineering also computer is applied/useful in many
different ways. This ways include the following:AUTOMATION: Automation is any system that does not require human
intervention. These include the uses of computer to control a particular
process in order to increase reliability and efficiency, often through the
replacement of employees.
IN AUTOCAD IN DESGNING: In the case of design we use computer
aided design (CAD) technology to assist in the creation, modification,
analysis or optimization of a design. CAD used to increase the
productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve
communication through documentation, and to create a database for
manufacturing. This also is the uses of computer application in
mechanical engineering; this is software application for computer
aided design and drafting. Before the development of technology many
Engineer used drawing board to draw the Engineering diagram.
Nowadays, they use AutoCAD.