Career Information About New Courses

Updated on: Wednesday, February 01, 2012

In an era when science and technology is moving in leaps and bounds, the application of science and engineering has grafted newer studies that bring better scope as well as studies in more specific segments.

Apart from providiing traditional engineering courses, here, we bring these new emerging courses of this form, for the benefit of contemporary and future generation students.

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

Nuclear engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of the breakdown of atomic nuclei and/or other sub-atomic physics, based on the principles of nuclear physics. It includes, but is not limited to, the interaction and maintenance of nuclear fission systems and components - specifically, nuclear reactors, nuclear power plants, and/or nuclear weapons. The field also includes the study of nuclear fusion, medical and other applications of (generally ionizing) radiation, nuclear safety, heat / thermodynamics transport, nuclear fuel and/or other related (e.g., waste disposal) technology, nuclear proliferation.

Today nuclear engineering is a dynamic and expanding field, and today's nuclear engineers contribute across a myriad of nuclear applications that improve human health and welfare.

Nuclear engineers are leading in research that will enable long-term sustainable and economic production of nuclear energy from fission and fusion; provide for responsible recycle and disposal of nuclear wastes; develop advanced, radiation tolerant materials for high-temperature applications; assure security by detecting illicit transfers of nuclear materials; and advance applications of nuclear methods for medical imaging and therapy.

Nuclear Engineering has re-emerged as an exciting and vigorous field for graduate study. Energy and energy policy are now nationally visible topics, and research in fission and fusion energy is growing with new efforts toward the development of Generation IV fission reactor systems and work in magnetic and inertial confinement fusion.

The Post graduate programme in nuclear engineering offered in IIT and some of the deemed universities provides research and development expertise in the experimental and theoretical studies of fusion and plasma physics, radio isotope applications in manufacturing engineering, computer aided tomography, reactor safety studies, heat transfer in nuclear sub-systems, and development of radiation detectors.

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING

Knowledge engineering is a field within artificial intelligence that develops knowledge-based systems. Such systems are computer programs that contain large amounts of knowledge, rules and reasoning mechanisms to provide solutions to real-world problems In other words Knowledge engineering is an engineering discipline that involves integrating knowledge into computer systems in order to solve complex problems normally requiring a high level of human expertise.

At present, it refers to the building, maintaining and development of knowledge-based systems. It has a great deal in common with software engineering, and is used in many computer science domains such as artificial intelligence,including databases, data mining, expert systems, decision support systems and geographic information systems. Knowledge engineering is also related to mathematical logic, as well as strongly involved in cognitive science and socio-cognitive engineering where the knowledge is produced by socio-cognitive aggregates (mainly humans) and is structured according to our understanding of how human reasoning and logic works.

With IT field showing tremendous advancement there would be lots of opportunists for knowledge engineers. SRM University Chennai offer post graduate programme in knowledge engineering.
GEOMATICS ENGINEERING

Geomatics engineering is a rapidly developing discipline that focuses on spatial information (i.e. information that has a location). The location is the primary factor used to integrate a very wide range of data for viewing and analysis. Geomatics engineers apply engineering principles to spatial information and implement relational data structures involving measurement sciences, thus using geomatics and acting as spatial information engineers. Geomatics engineers manage local, regional, national and global spatial data infrastructures.

Geomatics engineers design, develop, and operate systems for collecting and analyzing spatial information about the land, the oceans, natural resources, and manmade features. Geomatics engineering applications include integrating science and technology from both new and traditional disciplines:

Geomatics Engineering combines engineering with rapidly emerging technologies such as global positioning systems (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), geodetic positioning and remote sensing that have revolutionized global navigation, resource and environmental management and urban planning.

Geomatics technology and techniques are used in a wide variety of fields such as:

Forestry
Agriculture
Mining
Oceanography
Hydrography
Environmental management
Urban planning
Public utilities
Coastal zone management
Transport
Navigation
Defence
Medical epidemiology
Pollution management
Geomarketing
Planning of education and health facilities
Dispatching and emergency measures
Economic and financial projections
Insurance

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