Mechanical Engineering

You have to pursue a 4-year BE/B.Tech Marine engineering course on the completion of which you qualify to become a fifth engineering onboard a merchant ship. You can also become a fifth engineer after completing a one-year graduate mechanical engineering course prior to which you should have completed BE/B.Tech in mechanical engineering. To become a fourth engineeer, you have to qualify part IV exam conducted by DG Shipping, Govt. of India. This qualification will take you through to the second engineer rank. To become a chief engineer, you have to pass a separate exam conducted by DG Shipping. You will also require a sailing experience of six months to become a fourth engineering and more years of sailing experience to rise up the rank.

Sardar Patel College of Engineering was founded in 1961 as a government-aided engineering college by Kulapati Dr. K. M. Munshi under the management of the Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan. It provides a variety of courses namely:
1) Electrical Engineering
2) Civil engineering
3) Mechanical Engineering
Sardar Patel College of Engineering is consistently ranked under top 3 colleges in Mumbai to do engineering from after IIT Mumbai and VJTI, Mumbai.
The companies which visit Sardar Patel College of Engineering on a regular basis for mechanical engineering are:
1) Lodha Group
2) L & T engineering
3) KPMG
4) EXL Business Process Solutions
5) UHDE India
6 Tata Motors
7) Feedback Infra
8) L& T Technology
9) Kristeel Shinwa
10) Emerson Network Power
The salary ranges from 3 Lacs to 6 Lacs for electrical engineering students while the average falls around 4 - 5 Lacs for the students.
You can find the placement statistics of Sardar Patel College of Engineering by visiting the following links:
1) http://www.spce.ac.in/placement.php

Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering (PCCOE), Pune boasts of an amazing placement record. Not only do they get the information technology companies such as Accenture, Cognizant, Wipro Technologies and Capegemini, but also automotive companies such as Audi, Mahindra, Bajaj, Honda, Mercedes, and many more. They even have a really good off campus record, and students have been recruited in good numbers by the Indian Navy too. Around 90% of the students who are eligible for placements get really good offers in all these companies.
The average starting salary rangers from 4 lakhs to 8 lakhs per annum. The highest salary here has gone up to as much as 36 lakh rupees per annum. Therefore, this college has been really good as far as placements are concerned, and it looks to stay this way, with Pune having witnessed a recent growth in the number of industries setting up offices there. It is one of the best options you can have. Admission to this college is done through the MHT-CET. Do let us know if there's anything else we can help you with.
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SIES Graduate School of Technology is an engineering college, an integral part of SIES, and was started in the year 2002. It is one of the Institutes in Navi Mumbai imparting engineering technical education.
SIES GST offers a number of courses like Electronics & Telecommunications, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Printing & Packaging Technology and Mechanical Engineering.
The overall placements of SIES GST in the year 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 was around 85%, 89%, 88% and 70% respectively. The overall average was around 3 lakhs.
Some of the companies which visit SIES Graduate School of Technology:
1) Tata Consultancy Services
2) Tech Mahindra
3) Larson and Turbo
4) Jacobs
5) JSW Steel
6) Saint Gobin
The placements in SIES for Mechanical Engineering is at par with respect to other specializations is a bit behind as it is a relatively new course opened in 2011. The Mechanical placements are around 55 -65% and they are also recruited by some of the IT Companies too.
To know more about the placements, please visit:
http://www.siesgst.edu.in/sies/careers/