Estimating, Costing and Engineering Contracting
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The official GTU curriculum for Estimating, Costing and Engineering Contracting (subject code 4341901) as prescribed for MECHANICAL · Semester 4 divides the course into 7 units, covering 29 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (4341901)Unit 1 Introduction
- 1. Introduction of Estimation, Costing and contracting and their importance in industries.
- 2. Methods of costing (Explain actual examples for these methods) A. Specific order costing - Job costing - Contract costing - Batch costing B. Continuous operation costing - Process costing - Service costing - Operation costing - Unit costing
- 3. Calculation of catalogue price, selling price and various over heads (Only numerical).
- 4. Depreciation methods (1) Straight line method (2) Sinking fund method (Only numerical)
Unit 2 Break even analysis
- 1. Calculation of Break-even Quantity analytically and graphically (Only real time examples).
- 2. Safety Margin and it’s importance.
- 3. Assumptions and Limitations of BEA.
Unit 3 Costing in forging and casting
- 1. Calculate volume of shapes of various combinations of cylinder, square, prism and sphere.
- 2. Calculate mass and material cost of given component (shape of component should be combination of above basic shapes like I- section, T-section, L-section, etc.).
- 3. List and calculate various forging losses for given data.
- 4. Estimate forging cost (for given data)
- 5. Estimate pattern making cost (for given data)
- 6. For a given component, Estimate casting Estimating, Costing and Engineering Contracting Machine Drawing Practice cost including all losses.
Unit 4 Costing in Fabrication shop
- 1. Estimation of fabrication cost of real time object like safety grill (e.g. windows, doors, etc.), gate, various shades, etc. (Sizes are given)
- 2. Estimate Solar Roof Top costing for various capacities. It includes, cost of welding, framing, solar panel, labour, taxes, subsidies, etc.
- 3. Estimate ONLY material cost in sheet metal work for various jobs. (Concept of development of solid surfaces to be used. Consider regular shapes like cylinder and prism only) (ONLY numerical to be covered in this chapter)
Unit 5 Costing in Production shop
- 1. Calculate cost of various lathe operations like turning, facing, knurling etc.
- 2. Calculate cost of various drilling operations like drilling, boring, reaming, etc.
- 3. Calculate cost of shaping, grinding and milling operations. (ONLY numerical to be covered in this chapter)
Unit 6 Costing of various processes
- 1. Estimate the cost of furniture work for given data.
- 2. Calculate running cost of power plant.
- 3. Calculate running cost of refrigerator, air conditioners, lift, cold storage, DG set, etc. (ONLY numerical to be covered in this chapter)
Unit 7 Budget and Contracting
- 1. Define budget. Objectives and advantages of budget.
- 2. Explain industrial budget with actual example.
- 3. Discuss Rail budget, Financial budget of State/country.
- 4. Budgetary control and it’s advantages.
- 5. Explain actual contracts. e.g. Housekeeping contract, Labour contract, Security contract, Annual Maintenance contract like CCTV, Lift, Diesel Generator set, water purifier, vehicle, computer system, etc.
- 6. Explain Tendering process and E-tendering Estimating, Costing and Engineering Contracting Machine Drawing Practice process. with real time example.
- 7. Explain about GeM (Government E Market). How to become seller or buyer on GeM.
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