Do you like to design and develop things from scratch? Is this your desire to design anything and everything right from the scratch.
Can you think of simply anything from new batteries, athletic equipment to medical devices and from personal computers, air conditioners, automobile engines to electric power plants and be the mastermind behind designing machines fostering all the innovations and amazing things coming from engineering.
Now this won’t come from a comfort zone, and that’s absolutely right! Well, while you might work on things consistently, there are few aptitudes that you might have inbuilt!
Can you think of simply anything from new batteries, athletic equipment to medical devices and from personal computers, air conditioners, automobile engines to electric power plants and be the mastermind behind designing machines fostering all the innovations and amazing things coming from engineering.
Now this won’t come from a comfort zone, and that’s absolutely right! Well, while you might work on things consistently, there are few aptitudes that you might have inbuilt!
1. Leadership
Leadership often calls for taking those difficult decisions, making sure the task is done no matter whatever are the circumstances. This won’t just need the technical skills but also the need to be rightly balanced even in those difficult situations. Are you ready?
2. Negotiation
What would we do, when we know the solution to the trend is not the way everyone is thinking? Are we ready to bring the best solution on the table, while trying to explain why we think it is the best?
The job skill would not only require us to bring the best on the table from our technical side, but we would also need to know how to flip the tables. If we know, what we are going towards is a good thing to do!
The job skill would not only require us to bring the best on the table from our technical side, but we would also need to know how to flip the tables. If we know, what we are going towards is a good thing to do!
3. Active listening
As much as we would like everybody to hear our research results and ideas, we got to listen to ideas from others as well. Listening would help us understand the project well. Also, we might be bumped with ideas as we let others do the talking.
4. Coordination and Collaboration
And nobody can beat teamwork! But if we don’t have proper coordination in teams our team won’t be able to beat any competition or records. Coordination would seem more like, finishing your stuff on time so others can start on time. On the bigger note, we can expect the project to be completed on time!
5. Time Management
How do you feel about multi-tasking? If you don’t have any idea about it yet, then tell us, how did you feel, when you had two exams in a row and you had to manage many things together?
How did you cope up with that routine? If you managed to do well, then you tried to multitask and manage time well! Are you ready to do this again?
How did you cope up with that routine? If you managed to do well, then you tried to multitask and manage time well! Are you ready to do this again?
6. Mathematics
Calculations can never be out of trend when you are in engineering. To have the right designs and fittings, mechanical engineers would need the right calculations. And we cannot do this, while keeping maths on some other table! Take it along if you want to be in the field of mechanical engineering.
7. Creativity
There are many mechanical engineers already on the ground. Which kind of engineer do you want to become? Are you willing to be one out of the box or the one who simply follows the norm?
Out of the box norm will keep your passion burning right. Add your touch of uniqueness and bring your creativity on your ideas to keep going!
Out of the box norm will keep your passion burning right. Add your touch of uniqueness and bring your creativity on your ideas to keep going!
8. Problem Solving
All workspaces desire us to be their supermen and superwomen who can solve the issues and make their project/products, superheroes without cape!
How about your desire to solve a problem and how it would benefit you along with your firm. If you will just think of your firm or just yourself, the other one would not be able to cope up.
So keep trying to hit a balance between both of these!
How about your desire to solve a problem and how it would benefit you along with your firm. If you will just think of your firm or just yourself, the other one would not be able to cope up.
So keep trying to hit a balance between both of these!
Willing to give mechanical engineering a try? If you are thinking on the side of mechanical engineering then here is some more insight on the topic:
How do I get through?
- Score 60% in 11th and 12th with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics as core subjects.
- Appear for exams like JEE Main, JEE advanced, SRMJEEE.
Once I am in, what would I do?
- Analysing problems
- Designing or redesigning devices or subsystems, using analysis and computer-aided design
- Investigating equipment failures or difficulties: to diagnose faulty operation and to recommend remedies.
- Developing and testing prototypes of devices they design.
- Analysing the test results and changing the design or system as needed.
- Overseeing the manufacturing process for the device.
How much will I Earn? (Average total compensation)
- Early Career (1-4 years): ₹3 lakhs.
- Mid-career (5-9 years): ₹5.4 lakhs.
- Later Mid-Career (10-19 years): ₹8.7 lakhs.
- Late-career (20 years): ₹9.9 lakhs.
Please repeat the skills that I should have!
- Excellent technical knowledge to solve any clutches in the system of operations.
- Budgeting skills to design and develop any device and structure.
- Creativity and innovation
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Commercial awareness and updating the knowledge about the latest inventions
- Interpersonal skills
- Project management and time management
- Excellent communication skills
Where can I apply for jobs?
- Microsoft
- Johnson & Johnson
- Apple
- Ford
- Boeing
- TATA group
- Larsen & Toubro
- Godrej Group
- Ashok Leyland
- BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited)
- HPCL (Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited)
- DRDO (Defence Research & Development Organisation)
- SCI (Shipping Corporation of India)
- ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation)
Who will help me?
- IITs and NITs
- Anna University
- Vellore Institute of Technology
- SRM Institute of Science and Technology
- Jadavpur university
- Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
- Jamia Millia Islamia
- Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology
- Birla Institute of Technology & Science
- Amity University Noida
Endnotes
Do you aim to land in Japan, Canada, UAE, New Zealand, Germany, USA, Malaysia, Switzerland, Philippines? If this is you along with the desire of routine office work mixed with occasional visits to worksites, then you can try your hand here.
If you are doubtful whether the work in engineering services, research and development, and manufacturing will help your passion sustain or not, then we assure you would need to bring in your efforts in the process.
Whether it is about money or the kind of efforts you need to bring in, it is you alone, who would need to make sure things go on the smooth run.
Feeling stressed? Talking can help you! Let us connect.
If you are doubtful whether the work in engineering services, research and development, and manufacturing will help your passion sustain or not, then we assure you would need to bring in your efforts in the process.
Whether it is about money or the kind of efforts you need to bring in, it is you alone, who would need to make sure things go on the smooth run.
Feeling stressed? Talking can help you! Let us connect.
Opportunities that you can come across:
- Manufacturing
- Aerospace
- Automobile
- Biomedical
- Construction and building
- Power
- Process
- Railway
Job roles for a Mechanical Engineer:
High designations
- Chief Engineering Officer
- Head of Engineering
- Vice President of Engineering
- Engineering Executive
- VP Software Engineering
Mid-level jobs
- Principal Engineer
- Lead Engineer
- Director of Engineering
- Software Engineering Manager
- Engineering Program Manager
- Manager of Engineering
- Principal Software Engineering Manager
- Senior Engineering Manager
Entry Level
- Software Engineer
- Network Engineer
- Mechanical Engineer
- Quality Engineer
- Electrical Engineer
- Data Engineer
- Product Engineer
- Manufacturing Engineer
- Engineering Technician
- Engineering Intern
- Apprentice Engineer
- Engineering Aide
- Engineering Clerk
- Entry Level Engineer
- New Grad Engineer
- Junior Engineer
Did you know?
Mechanical Engineers:
- Design, Develop, Build, and Test mechanical technologies and machinery.
- Work on components and equipment for many industries including healthcare, power, transport and water.
- Work mostly in engineering services, research and development, and manufacturing shaping the fundamentals of any organisation.
