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Rajasthan AE Exam 2023 - Dates, Recruitment, Eligibility, Admit Card, Syllabus & Pattern

Updated on 25th September, 2024 by Maniprabha Singh

About Rajasthan AE Exam 2023

Rajasthan Public Service Commission has opened the RPSC AE correction window on May 15, 2024 with the opportunity to correct details in Photo, Father's name, DOB and gender by depositing a fee of Rs 500. The RPSC AE correction window will be closed on May 24, 2024. Rajasthan Public Service Commission released the RPSC AE application form on August 23, 2024 in the official website. The Commission is set to conduct the RPSC AE exam on June 30, 2024.

Rajasthan Public Service Commission conducts RPSC Assistant Engineer (AE) for all the aspiring candidates. Those who have a degree in Civil/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering from a recognised University established by law in India or qualifications declared equivalent by the State Government can apply for RPSC AE. The exam is conducted in three stages - preliminary, main, and interview. All the eligible candidates will have to qualify in all the stages of the recruitment process in order to get recruited as Assistant Engineer in Rajasthan.

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Rajasthan AE Exam 2023 Highlights

Full Exam Name
Rajasthan Assistant Engineer Exam
Short Exam Name
Rajasthan AE Exam
Conducting Body
Rajasthan Public Service Commission
Exam Level
State Level Exam
Languages
English, Hindi
Mode Of Application
online
Application Fee
350
Mode Of Exam
offline
Exam Duration
4 Hours

Rajasthan AE Exam 2023 Important Dates

Rajasthan AE Exam Rajasthan Assistant Engineer Exam (session 2023)

23 Aug' 2023 - 22 Sep' 2023 . Online
Application Date
30 Jun' 2024 - 30 Jun' 2024 . Offline
Exam Date
27 Jun' 2024 - 30 Jun' 2024 . Online
Admit Card Date

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Rajasthan Public Service Commission formulates and prescribes the Rajasthan AE exam eligibility criteria. Only the eligible candidates would be allowed to appear in the Rajasthan Assistant Engineer Exam.

Following are the Rajasthan Assistant Engineer exam eligibility criteria-

1> Candidates must be an Indian citizen

2> Educational Qualification:

Panchayati Raj Department Eligibility-

A valid degree in Civil/Agriculture Engineering from a recognised University established by law in India or qualifications declared equivalent thereto by the State Government.

Eligibility Criteria for other Departments-

A valid degree in Civil/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering from a recognised University established by law in India or qualifications declared equivalent thereto by the State Government.

3> Working knowledge of Hindi written in Devnagri Script and knowledge of Rajasthani Culture is a mandate.

4> Age Limit - For General/Unreserved category candidates should be at least 21 years of age to be able to write the preliminary exam. The upper limit is 40 years irrespective of gender (Male, Female, and Transgender). However, there is relaxation in the upper limit for the SC/ST/ OBC-Rajasthan Domicile and SC/ ST (PH) candidates by five (5) years and fifteen (15) years respectively.

Rajasthan Public Service Commission has opened the RPSC AE application correction window on May 15 and will close it on May 24, 2024. Rajasthan Public Service Commission, the exam conducting authority of Rajasthan AE combined competitive exam released the RPSC AE application form on August 23, 2024. Aspirants need to duly fill the online form, upload photograph and pay the requisite application fee successfully.

For the candidates' convenience, the following Online Application/Edit Process with e-Mitra/CSC/Online payment mechanism

How to fill the Rajasthan AE Combined Competitive Examination Application form

  • Log on to the official website of Rajasthan PSC.
  • Click on the tab 'Application Form' & choose the desired post 
  • Prior to filling the online application of Rajasthan AE exam, candidates should carefully read and tally their eligibility criteria to avoid chances of cancellation of the application form.
  • Click on tab "online application" to fill the application form in online mode.
  • Candidates would be directed to a page where they have to select 'apply online' (For New Users). For already registered candidates, they can just opt for the tab 'Sign In' by using their application number and password sent to their registered phone number Email ID/Mobile number.
  • Candidates need to fill in all the required information in tab 'First Screen' and click on 'Submit' to move further.
  • Upload a recent photo and scanned signature.
  • Application fee should be paid via online mode. After the payment, candidates will be allowed to submit the online application form of Rajasthan AE Exam.
  • Post submission, print copies of the online application should be taken for future correspondence.
  • Once the payment is realised, the application process is considered to be successfully completed.

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Rajasthan AE Exam 2023 Exam Centers

StateCity
Rajasthan
Ajmer

Prelims Exam

The Preliminary examination is conducted by the Rajasthan Public Service Commission for screening candidates for the Main exam and the Personal Interview/Viva. Following are the specification of Rajasthan AE exam -

  • Mode of Examination- Offline
  • Type of Questions- Objective type questions
  • Total Marks allotted - 400 (Section A: 200 + Section B: 200)
  • Number of Sections - Two ( A- Compulsory and B- Optional) 
  • Total Duration - 4 hours (Section A: 2 hours + Section B: 2 hours)
  • Negative Marking- 1/3 part of the mark(s) of each question will be deducted for each incorrect answer.

Description-

Section - A: Compulsory Paper

Subjects- 

  • General knowledge & General Science
  • General knowledge of Rajasthan its Geography, Economy and Culture

Section- B: List of Optional Papers:- (Candidates need to choose any one paper )

  • Civil Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Agricultural Engineering

Mains Exam

Rajasthan PSC conducts the main examination for the candidates who qualify the preliminary exam. After the main exam, the selection procedure draws a conclusion with the round of personal interview. Following are the specification of Rajasthan AE exam main examination-

  • Mode of Examination- Offline
  • Type of Questions- Subjective Type Questions
  • Total Marks allotted - 600
  • Number of Papers - Four (Two Compulsory Papers and Two Optional Papers)
  • Number of Sections - Two  (A- Compulsory and B- Optional)
  • Total Duration - 12 hours (Section A: 6 hours + Section B: 6 hours)
  • Negative Marking- Yes. 1/3 part of the mark(s) of each question will be deducted for each incorrect answer.

Description-

Section - A: Compulsory Paper

Subjects- 

  • Paper I - Hindi - 100 marks: Time -Three hours
  • Paper II - Social aspects of Engineering - 100 marks - Time- Three hours

Section- B: List of Optional Papers:- (Candidates need to choose any one subject)

Each subject will have two papers of 200 marks each (Total-400 marks) and the duration of each paper is three (3 x 2 = 6 hours) hours.

  • Paper III - Civil / Electrical/ Mechanical /Agricultural Engineering: 200 marks: Time -Three (3) hours.
  • Paper IV - Civil / Electrical/ Mechanical /Agricultural Engineering: 200 marks: Time -Three (3) hours.

The standard of all the mentioned papers will be that of a Bachelor's Degree level except for the paper on Hindi which will be of Senior Secondary academic level.

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Rajasthan AE Exam Syllabus

Rajasthan AE Exam Prelims Exam 2023

General knowledge and general science including general knowledge of Rajasthan its geography, economy, and culture: Unit 01


Current affairs
  • Current events of state, national, and international importance
  • National and international agencies, and their activities
  • Games and sports at state, national, and international levels

General knowledge and general science including general knowledge of Rajasthan its geography, economy, and culture: Unit 02


History and culture
  • Landmarks in the political and cultural history of India
  • Major monuments and literary works
  • Renaissance, struggle for freedom, and national integration
  • History and culture of Rajasthan with special reference to: (a) the medieval background (b) socio-economic life and organization (c) freedom movement and political awakening (d) political integration (e) dialects and literature
  • History and culture of Rajasthan with special reference to: (f) music, dance, and theatre (g) religious beliefs, cults, saints, poets, warrior-saints, Lok Devtas, and Lok Deviyan (h) Handicrafts
  • History and culture of Rajasthan with special reference to: (i) fairs and festivals, customs, dresses, ornaments with special reference to folk, and tribal aspects thereof

General knowledge and general science including general knowledge of Rajasthan its geography, economy, and culture: Unit 03


General science
  • General appreciation and understanding of science including matters of everyday observations and experiences
  • Electronics telecommunications, satellites and elements of computers (both hardware and softwares), research labs including CSIR managed national labs and institutes
  • Environment and pollution etc.

General knowledge and general science including general knowledge of Rajasthan its geography, economy, and culture: Unit 04


Economic developments with special reference to Rajasthan
  • Food and commercial crops of Rajasthan, agriculture based industries, major irrigation and river valley projects, projects for the development of the desert and waste lands
  • Indira Gandhi canal project, growth and location of industries, industrial raw materials
  • Mineral based industries, small scale and cottage industries, export items Rajasthani handicrafts, tribes, and their economy
  • Cooperative movement
  • Tourism development in Rajasthan
  • Various five years plans: Objectives and progress
  • Major economic problems of Rajasthan and obstacles for economic development
  • Current budget of Rajasthan and central government
  • Economic reforms in India and their impact
  • Commercial banks and other financial institutions in Rajasthan

General knowledge and general science including general knowledge of Rajasthan its geography, economy, and culture: Unit 05


Geography and natural resources
  • Broad-physical features of the world important places, rivers, mountains, continents, oceans
  • Ecology and wildlife of India
  • Rajasthan's physiography: Climate, vegetation, and soil regions, broad physical divisions of Rajasthan
  • Human resources: Problems of population, unemployment, poverty, drought, famine, and desertification in Rajasthan
  • Natural resources of Rajasthan
  • Mines and minerals, forests, land water
  • Animals resources
  • Wildlife and conservation
  • Energy problems and conventional and non-conventional sources of energy

Civil engineering: Unit 01


Engineering materials and construction technology
  • Selection of site for the construction of various types of buildings: Planning and orientation of buildings
  • Bonds in masonry
  • Damp proof course
  • Scaffolding, underpinning, and ranking
  • Floors
  • Staircases
  • Roofs
  • Doors and windows
  • Requirements of fire protection
  • Ventilation and air conditioning, and acoustics
  • Building and highway materials, and their IS codal provisions
  • Stones, bricks, timber, lime, cement, mortar, plain and reinforced cement concrete, bitumen, asphalt

Civil engineering: Unit 02


Surveying
  • Generally adopted scales, chain, and compass surveying, leveling, temporary and permanent adjustments of levels and theodolite
  • Use of theodolite, tacheometry, trigonometrical and triangulation survey
  • Traversing and traverse adjustment, contours and contouring, simple circular compound and transition curves, and their setting out, theory of erros and survey adjustment
  • Computations of areas and volumes

Civil engineering: Unit 03


Soil/ geotechnical engineering
  • Classification of soil as per I.S. code, field identification tests for soils, water content, specific gravity, voids ratio, porosity, degree saturation, unit weight, density index etc, and their inter-relationship
  • Determinations of various properties of soils as noted above as well as grain size distribution, consistency limits etc
  • Soil permeability and its determination in the laboratory and field, Darcy's law, flow nets, its characteristics and uses
  • Compaction and consolidation of soil
  • Quality control, soil stabilization methods
  • Boussinesq's method
  • Newmark's chart and its uses
  • Shear strength parameters and their determination bearing capacity, local and general shear failures, design criteria for shallow foundation, plate load test and standard penetration test
  • Earth pressures on retaining wall
  • Stability of simple slope
  • Significant depth of exploration, design features of undisturbed sampler

Civil engineering: Unit 04


Structural mechanics
  • Stress and strains, elastic constants, factor of safety, relation among elastic constants
  • Bending moment and shear force diagrams for cantilever, simply supported and overhanging, fixed and continuous beams subjected to static loads: Concentrated, uniformly distributed and uniformly varying
  • Theory of simple bending
  • Shear stress, influence lines
  • Deflection of cantilever, simply supported fixed, and continuous beams
  • Determinate and indeterminate structures and frames pin jointed, plane, and space frames

Civil engineering: Unit 05


Steel structures
  • Design of ordinary and plate girder beams, roof trusses welded joints, axially and eccentrically loaded columns, grillage, gusseted and slab base foundations
  • Provisions of IS : 800 and 875
  • Economic span of bridges

Civil engineering: Unit 06


Reinforced concrete structures
  • Provisions of latest IS : 456, design of beams singly and doubly reinforced, design of shear reinforcement
  • Design of slabs spanning in two directions and T-beam slabs
  • Design of column axially and uniaxially eccentrically loaded
  • Design of isolated and combined column footings: Design of simple RCC cantilever and counterfort retaining walls
  • Reinforcement in overhead and underground water tanks

Civil engineering: Unit 07


Fluid mechanics including hydrology and irrigation
  • Hydraulic pressure at a point and its measurement
  • Total pressure and centre of pressure on plane and curved immensed surfaces, buoyancy
  • Conditions of equilibrium of floating bodies, fluid flow conditions, Bernoulli's, Navier-Stokes, Reynold's equations, flow through orifices venturimeter, notches and wires, flow through pipes and open channels, gradually and rapidly varied flow
  • Dimensional analysis, momentum and angular momentum principles as applied to fluid in a control volume, applications of jets, viscous flow, concept of drag, flow through pipes
  • Engineering hydrology, hydrology of floods and drought reservoirs and dams, overflow structures, ground water hydrology
  • Irrigation: Canals, Kennedy's and Lacey's theories, Khosla's theories for design of hydraulic structures
  • Ground water and well irrigation, water logging

Civil engineering: Unit 08


Public health engineering
  • Per capita requirement of water for urban and rural areas, forecast of population
  • Sources
  • Water supply standards of purity of public water supplies with various methods of purification, house drainage system distribution network with all the ancillaries: System of drainage
  • Layout of sewerage systems
  • Primary, secondary treatments, trickling filters, lagoons, and other treatment units and their design criteria
  • Flushing of sewers, sewage treatment, rural water supply, and sanitation

Civil engineering: Unit 09


Highway and bridges
  • Principles of highway planning, classification of road land width, building line, center line, formation width, terrain classification, pavement width, camber, longitudinal gradient sight distance, horizontal curve, super elevation
  • Vertical curve, lateral, and vertical clearances
  • Flexible pavements
  • Sub-base, base course and shoulder stone/ Kankar brick soling, WBM courses, shoulders
  • Granular sub-base, stabilized soil roads cement/ lime stabilized sub base, sand bitumen base course, crushed cement concrete base/sub-base course
  • Prime and tack coats, surface dressing, open graded premix carpet, semi dense carpet, build-up spray grout base course, bituminous base binder course
  • Asphaltic concrete, seal coats, mixed seal surfacing
  • Penetration macadam base/ binder course, full and semi groups
  • Traffic Engineering: Traffic characteristics, road user characteristics, vehicular characteristics, volume, speed, and delay studies origin, and destination study, traffic flow characteristics, traffic capacity, and parking studies, traffic regulation
  • Traffic control devices, intersection control
  • Alignment: Traffic engineering, pavem design, paving materials, and highway construction, and maintenance of different types of roads
  • Need for highway drainage and arboriculture, types of bridges: Choice of type of bridge, economical considerations of fixing spans culverts

Electrical engineering: Unit 01


Electrical circuits
  • Circuit components, KCL and KVL, network graphs, methods of circuit analysis, Nodal and Mesh analysis, analysis of D.C. and A.C. networks
  • Network theorems: Basic network theorems and applications
  • Network functions: Driving point and transfer functions, poles, and zeros of network functions
  • Response of networks to standard input signals
  • Two-port networks, elementary network synthesis, different type of network parameters, signal flow graphs, Fourier series, Laplace transforms and their applications
  • Frequency response, resonant circuits, and applications
  • Three phase balanced and unbalanced networks
  • Steady state response with sinusoidal input
  • Transient response: Transient analysis of RL, RC, and RLC circuits

Electrical engineering: Unit 02


Field theory
  • Electrostatic and magnetostatics: Electrostatics and electrical fields, magnetostatics and magnetic fields, field in conductors and in magnetic materials, field in dielectrics, Maxwell's equations, and time varying fields
  • Electromagnetic wave equations
  • Plane wave propagation in conducting and dielectric media

Electrical engineering: Unit 03


Electrical materials
  • Classification of materials on the basis of permanent magnetic dipoles, electrical and electronic behaviour of materials, classification on the basis of conductivity
  • Behaviour of dielectrics in static and alternating fields
  • Phenomenon of polarization
  • Super conductivity
  • Applications of magnetic, conducting, dielectric, and insulating materials

Electrical engineering: Unit 04


Electrical measurement and instrumentation
  • General principles of measurement: Unit and dimensions
  • Standards error analysis, basic methods of measurement, measurement of circuit parameters by bridge methods
  • Measuring instrument: Indicating instruments, integrating instruments, recording instruments
  • Measurement of voltage, current, power, power factor, energy, resistance, inductance, capacitance, and frequency
  • Transducers: Strain gauge, LVDT, resistance thermometers, thermisters, piezoelectric
  • Measurement of non-electrical quantities (pressure, temperature, flow rate, displacement, velocity, acceleration, strain etc)
  • Digital measurements: Digital voltmeters, frequency counter, distortion meter
  • Telemetry and data transmission: Data recording and display, data acquisition

Electrical engineering: Unit 05


Electronics and communication
  • Solid state (semi conductor devices): Diodes, Zener diodes
  • Transistors (Bipolar, BJT, JFET, MOSFET)
  • Biasing and their applications
  • Analysis of electronic circuits, equivalent circuit
  • Rectifier, filter, and voltage regulator
  • Single stage and multistage amplifiers-gain and frequency response
  • Multivibrators, flip-flops, and their applications
  • Digital electronics: Switching circuits and Boolean algebra, and logic gates
  • Memories sample and hold circuits, A/D and D/A converters
  • Logic circuits including DTL, TTL, ECL, MOS, CMOS, digital IC's (circuits)
  • Communication: Generation and detection of AM and FM noise behaviour of AM and FM systems

Electrical engineering: Unit 06


Microprocessor systems and computer
  • Microprocessor architectures, instruction set and simple assembly language programming, interfacing memory and I/O devices
  • Applications of microprocessors
  • Basic layout of digital computers, input-output devices, memory organizations, algorithms, flowcharts

Electrical engineering: Unit 07


Power electronics
  • Power semiconductor devices, thyristor, triac, GTO, MOSFET
  • Static characteristics and triggering circuits
  • A.C. to D.C. converters, choppers
  • Controlled and uncontrolled power rectifiers, bridge converters

Electrical engineering: Unit 08


Control system
  • Open and closed loop systems
  • Block diagrams and signal flow graphs
  • Response analysis time domain, frequency domain, steady state error analysis
  • Root locus technique, bode plots, Routh-Hurwitz, and Nyquist criteria of stability
  • State space analysis of linear systems

Electrical engineering: Unit 09


Electrical machines
  • Construction, principles of operation, equivalent circuits, basic characteristics and applications of distribution and power transformers
  • single phase induction motors
  • Three phase induction motors
  • Alternators, synchronous motors

Electrical engineering: Unit 10


Power systems
  • Generation: Thermal generation, hydro generation, nuclear generation
  • Nonconventional energy sources
  • Transmission and distribution
  • Transmission line parameters-resistance, inductance and capacitance calculation, performance of short, medium, and long lines
  • Neutral earthing
  • Underground cables
  • Corona, its effect, and remedial measures
  • Basic idea of power system stability
  • Line insulators, introduction to HVDC transmission
  • Switchgear and protection: Theories of arc extinction
  • Comparative merits of minimum oil, bulk oil, air blast, SF6 circuit breakers
  • Causes and consequences of dangerous current
  • Currents limiting reactors
  • Busbar arrangements
  • Requirements of protective relays
  • Protection of lines, transformers, synchronous generators, and busbars
  • Symmetrical components and their applications

Mechanical engineering: Unit 01


Theory of machines
  • Kinematic pairs, kinematic chain, mechanism and inversion, slider-crank chain, displacement, velocity and acceleration of a point in mechanism, and their determination, Coriolis acceleration, mechanisms for straight line motion
  • Laws of friction, brakes and dynamometers, types of gears, and gears trains
  • Types of governors, governor effort and power, static and dynamic balancing, longitudinal, transverse, and torsional vibration

Mechanical engineering: Unit 02


Strength of materials
  • Static stresses in machine parts, deformation, unit deformation (strain), Poisson's ratio, direct stress, shear stress, principal stresses
  • Compound stresses, torsional stress, stress - strain relationship, bending moment and shear force diagram for beams, laminated and coil springs, shafts, thick and thin wall pressure vessels, concept of fatigue, fracture, and creep

Mechanical engineering: Unit 03


Material science
  • Crystal structure, space lattice, crystalline and amorphous solids, coordination number, atomic packing factor, determination of crystal structure, imperfection in crystals, mechanism of plastic deformation, work hardening, recrystalization
  • Heat treatment of steel, composition, properties, and applications, common engineering materials, corrosion, plastics and their properties

Mechanical engineering: Unit 04


Manufacturing processes
  • Moulding and casting methods, principle of arc and gas welding, brazing and soldering, metal forming processes, basic machining processes and machine tools, hot and cold working of metals, mechanism of metal cutting
  • Geometry of single point cutting tool and tool materials

Mechanical engineering: Unit 05


Industrial engineering and management
  • Types of business organization, principles of management, elements of management, organization charts, elements of costing, break even analysis, types of budget and budgetary control, profit and loss account, balance sheet, motion study
  • Time study, plant layout, material handling, CPM, PERT, scheduling, dispatching, routing, and inventory, materials management

Mechanical engineering: Unit 06


Thermodynamics
  • Basic concepts of thermodynamics, laws of thermodynamics and their application to different flow and non-flow systems, gas power cycles and vapour power cycles

Mechanical engineering: Unit 07


Heat transfer
  • Conduction, convection, and radiation phenomenon, combined modes of heat transfer, critical insulation, fins, non-dimensional numbers applied to heat transfer, thermal boundary layer, introduction to two phase heat transfer, heat exchangers

Mechanical engineering: Unit 08


Environmental engineering
  • Basic air and refrigeration cycles, vapour compression refrigeration, vapour absorption refrigeration, expansion devices, refrigerants and their properties, psychrometric chart and psychrometric processes
  • Air conditioning for human comfort and comfort chart, cooling load calculation

Mechanical engineering: Unit 09


Fluid mechanics and trubomachines
  • Fluids and their properties, kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow, dimensional analysis and similitude, introduction to boundary layer flow, fluid flow through pipes, flow measurements
  • Hydraulic pumps and turbines, air compressors, gas turbines, and steam turbines

Mechanical engineering: Unit 10


Power generation
  • SI and CI engines, combustion phenomenon, fuels, carburetor, and injection system, high pressure modern boilers, stream plant layout and different accessories, hydro power plant layout, introduction to nuclear, MHD, and biogas power plants
  • Economics and sharing of load techniques of different plants

Agricultural engineering: Unit 01


Surveying, leveling, and land development
  • Linear measurements, different surveying devices and methods, land grading and leveling, contouring and terracing, earth work estimation, land development budgeting

Agricultural engineering: Unit 02


Soil and water conservation
  • Precipitation, hydrologic cycle, point rainfall analysis, frequency analysis
  • Watershed: Definition and concept, agricultural watersheds, prediction of peak runoff, factors affecting runoff, hydrograph, concepts of unit and instantaneous hydrographs
  • Erosion-type and factors associated with erosion, assessment of actual annual soil loss by erosion and its impact on agricultural production and productivity
  • Erosion control measures on various classes of lands i.e. contour cultivation, strip cropping, terracing, afforestation, pastures etc
  • Role of vegetation in soil and water conservation, grassed water way, and design
  • Design of gully control measures including permanent structures i.e. chute spillway, drop spillway, drop inlet spillway, retards and stream bank erosion mechanics of wind and water erosion, wind erosion control
  • Water harvesting structures i.e. Khadin, Tanka, Nadi, and Anicut

Agricultural engineering: Unit 03


Irrigation
  • Soil-water-plant relationship, water requirements of different crops and irrigation scheduling, direct and indirect methods of soil moisture measurements, measurements of irrigation water
  • Water conveyance and control, design of field channels
  • Design of irrigation methods, irrigation efficiencies
  • Drainage: Benefits of drainage, surface drainage, drainage of flat, and slopping lands
  • Design and layout of surface and sub surface drains, depth and spacing of drains and drainage outlets, installation of drains, and drainage wells
  • Pumps: Construction and performance characteristics, selection, installation, working principle and maintenance of reciprocating pump, centrifugal pump, turbine pump, submersible pump, propellers, jet, and air lift pumps
  • Water resources development and management: Water resources of India, surface water, ground water, development of irrigation potential, canal irrigation, command area development, on farm development works, aquifer parameters
  • Hydraulics of wells, steady and unsteady flow, well log, construction of wells, well development

Agricultural engineering: Unit 04


Farm power and machinery
  • Classification of internal combustion (IC) engines terminology, Otto diesel cycle, engine components, fuel supply system, lubrication system, cooling system and governing system, steering system, hydraulic system
  • Types of tractors, brakes, power transmission system
  • Traction theory and mechanics of tractor chassis, and selection of tractors
  • Farm machinery: Tillage, primary, and secondary tillage equipment, selection of sowing and planting equipment and their calibration, selection and calibration of sprayers and dusters
  • Principles, selection, and operation of harvesting and threshing machinery
  • Cost analysis of farm equipment and related numerical problems

Agricultural engineering: Unit 05


Agricultural processing
  • Various size reduction machinery and material handling equipment
  • Separation equipment-based on size shape and surface characteristics
  • Heating and cooling of food products, mode of heat transfer, and types of heat exchangers
  • Psychometric chart and its application in drying EMC and its determination, principles of drying and drying equipments, types of evaporators, refrigeration load calculation
  • Various milling process for rice, maize, wheat, and pulse milling, parboiling of wheat and paddy
  • Grains storage structures and their design requirement
  • Principles of food preservation and thermal processing

Agricultural engineering: Unit 06


Farm electrification and rural hosing
  • Selection, installation, and general cares of electric motors on farms, selection of wire sizes based on Indian standards
  • Types of wiring, rural electrification programme
  • Rural housing: Building materials and their properties, design of beams, slabs, columns, and foundations, planning and design of rural houses, farm roads, village drainage system
  • Waste disposal and sanitary structures, material, and cost estimation in construction

Agricultural engineering: Unit 07


Renewable energy
  • Solar radiation-its measurement, solar thermal devices, and gadgets i.e. solar cooper, solar water heater, solar dryer, solar refrigeration, and air conditioner etc
  • Solar photovoltaic devices, bioenergy-production, conversion, and utilization route, biogas-type of biogas plant and design of biogas plant
  • Biomass gasification and gasifier wind energy conversion process i.e. water pumping, wind mills, and aero generator
Rajasthan AE Exam Mains Exam 2023

Social aspects of engineering: Unit 01


Development processes
  • Inter relationship between social, economic, scientific, and technological factors for development
  • Development criteria, gross national product, energy consumption
  • Rural economy, poverty, unemployment, exodus to urban areas
  • Land acquisition act

Social aspects of engineering: Unit 02


Globalization of economy
  • World Trade Organization (W.T.O.), trade related intellectual property rights (TRIPS), quality assurance, ISO certification
  • 5 'S' theory, optimization of human, capital, and material resources
  • Financing methods of infrastructure projects-BOT, PPP etc, case studies of recent projects in Rajasthan-refinery, IIIT, NHAI highway, dedicated freight corridor, metro rail project
  • Technology for rural and desert areas, characteristic of desert areas, thar desert, desertification and its control, sand dunes stabilization
  • Rural energy needs, deforestation, modern solar appliances, challenges in solar power, and wind power generation, and their connection to grid
  • Rural industries
  • Soil and water conservation, water harvesting, watershed planning
  • Thermal comfort aspects of housing, transport in rural and desert areas, drought, famine, and disaster management
  • PMGSY project
  • Right to information act-its provisions

Social aspects of engineering: Unit 03


Technology assessment and transfer
  • Criteria for assessment and selection of technology, appropriate technology concept, technology transfer, and development

Social aspects of engineering: Unit 04


Human relations in industry and industrial laws
  • Application of social sciences to industry, leadership, and supervision, labour relations, trade unions, salient features of factory act, workmen's compensation act, minimum wages act
  • NAREGA project
  • Motivation
  • Conflict management

Social aspects of engineering: Unit 05


Project planning, appraisal, and feasibility
  • Techno economic feasibility studies, project planning and control, use of CPM and PERT, fixed and variable cost, IRR (internal role of return), cost-benefit ratio, NPV (net present value) break even analysis, depreciation, life cycle costing
  • Software applications in life cycle cost analysis
  • Project monitoring by SAP and other softwares

Social aspects of engineering: Unit 06


Environmental degradation and resource depletion
  • Environmental degradation due to energy production, transport, industries, mining, and intensive agricultural practices, control of air and water pollution
  • Hazards of environmental pollution
  • Health problems, challenges and their remedies due to some industry, textile industry, coal based thermal power plants, and refinery cum petrochemical complex in Rajasthan
  • Challenges and utilization of industrial by products (like Flyash) in Rajasthan
  • Depletion of natural resources due to population explosion and continuously rising standards of living
  • Environment impact analysis of projects, green technologies, concept of sustainable development
  • National environmental laws
  • Carbon footprint of technologies, carbon credit system
  • Dumping of radioactive waste-methods and monitoring
  • Effect on health

Social aspects of engineering: Unit 07


Development of science and technology
  • Information technology application in project designing, project evaluation programme, implementation, and monitoring

Civil engineering-I: Unit 01


Strength of materials
  • Behaviour of engineering materials in tension, compression and shear, elastic limit, yield stress, proof stress, nominal stress, actual stress and ultimate stress, factor of safety, load factor and elastic constants
  • Principal stresses and strains, strain energy, theories of elastic failure
  • Bending moment and shear force in statically determinate beams, stress due to bending moment and shear force, design of section, section modulus, elementary theory of torsion, combined bending and torsion
  • Forces in statically determinate plane trusses
  • Slope and deflection of statically determinate beams, deflection of statically determinate frames-Buckling of columns
  • Euler's, Rankine's, and Secant formulae
  • Combined, direct and bending stresses for short columns
  • Thin cylindrical and spherical shells

Civil engineering-I: Unit 02


Soil and foundation engineering
  • Soil exploration: Methods of site exploration, boring, sampling, standard penetration test
  • Preliminary definitions and relationship: Water content unit weight, specific gravity, void ratio, porosity and degree of saturation, density index, phase relationship
  • Index properties: Specific gravity, particle size distribution, consistency of soils, classifications of soils, field identification
  • Laboratory test: Particle size analysis, liquid limit, plastic limit, proctor density, field density, permeability, shear box and unconfined
  • Soil water: Inter-granular and pore water pressure, quick sand phenomenon, permeability, flow not and its uses
  • Vertical pressure distribution: Boussinesg's equations, circular load, pressure bulb and its significance, Newmark's chart, contact pressure distribution
  • Consolidation: Concept of one-dimensional consolidation, laboratory consolidation test, overconsolidated normally consolidated soils, settlement analysis
  • Shear strength: Basic concept, Mohr-Coulomb failure theory and measurement of shear strength
  • Earth pressure: Lateral earth pressures (active and passive), Rankine's and Coulomb's theory
  • Stability of slopes: Methods of slices, friction circle method, Taylor's method
  • Bearing capacity: Definitions, Terzaghi's method, general shear and local shear failures, plate load test
  • Compaction: Field Compaction method, water content, field compaction control and factors affecting compaction
  • Pile foundation: Types of piles, driving of piles, load carrying capacity of piles, pile load testing, under-reamed pile foundation, bored compaction piles.
  • Well foundations: Caissons, shapes of wells and component parts depth of well foundation and bearing capacity, forces acting on a well foundation. well sinking.

Civil engineering-I: Unit 03


Theory of structures
  • Statically indeterminate structures : Static and kinematics indeterminacy, energy theorems, stiffness and flexibility methods elementary analysis of structures, methods off consistent deformation, slope deflection and moment distribution
  • Analysis of beams (including continuous) and portal frames, influence lines, influence lines for moment, shear and reaction for statically determinate beams and planner trusses
  • Muller-Breslau principle and influence lines for indeterminate beams
  • Rolling loads on beams-shear force and bending moment due to concentrated loads, uniformly distributed loads-shorter and longer than span

Civil engineering-I: Unit 04


Structural design-I
  • Loads: Specifications for loads on buildings and bridges
  • Reinforce cement concrete: Limit state theory, resistance to bending, shear and bond
  • Design of singly and doubly reinforced beams, one way, two way, and flat slabs, columns with axial and uniaxial moment loading, footing, cantilever and counterfort retaining walls, simple underground and elevated reservoirs, cantilever sheds
  • Simple rectangular portal frames, spherical domes, staircase
  • Pre-stressed concrete: Properties of high grade concrete and high tensile steel, pre-tensioning and post tensioning losses in pre-stress, analysis and design of rectangular beams and slab

Civil engineering-I: Unit 05


Structural design-II
  • Steel structures: Tension and compression members, single and built up sections, connection and splices, roof trusses, simple beams and purlin connections, columns, lacing and batten, grillage, gusseted and slab base foundation
  • Plate and gantry girders, through and deck type plate girder bridges and with lateral bracings

Civil engineering-II: Unit 01


Fluid mechanics
  • Fluid properties, types of flow, fluid statics, forces on fully and partially submerged bodies, stability of floating bodies
  • Fluid kinematics, acceleration of fluid particle, velocity potential and stream function, irrotational flows, ideal fluid flow, Bernoulli's, Navier Stokes, Reynold's equations, application
  • Flow measuring device
  • Momentum and angular momentum principles as applied to fluid in a control volume, applications to jets
  • Introduction of viscous flow, concept of drag
  • Flow through pipes, laminar, and turbulent
  • Equations for boundary layer thickness and boundary shear over flat plates
  • Channel flows (GVF and RVF), surges
  • Dimensional analysis and similitude techniques

Civil engineering-II: Unit 02


Surveying
  • Distance measurements: Use of steel and metallic tapes, application of corrections, measurement of base line, errors in base line measurements, reduction to mean sea level, specifications for base line measurements, optical measurements of distances
  • Distance measurements: Use of substance bars
  • Angle measurements: Principles of theodolite constrictions, temporary and permanent adjustment, precision in relation to nature of work, compass, varieties, limitations, traverse adjustments
  • Vertical measurements: Use of leveling instruments of level, level tubes, estimation of sensitivity, optics, care and maintenance, parameters to define quality of telescope, leveling instruments and theodolities, methods of records and reducing
  • Vertical measurements: Stadia reductions, use of level rods, contouring, drainage and watershed lines
  • Methods of filling in details: Chain and compass, plane table and traverse surveys, principles and adjustments of closed traverse, determination of missing data, solution of two point and three point problems
  • Other surveys: Curve ranging using linear and angular measurements, simple compound and spiral curves
  • Measurements of area and volumes: Use of planimeter, measurements of areas and volumes including prismoidal, trapezoidal and Simpson's method

Civil engineering-II: Unit 03


Construction materials
  • Building materials: Building stones, building bricks, steel (plain, tor, high-tensile, and structural), timber, lime, cement, sand, surkhi, cinder, stone slabs, and lintels, aggregates for cement concrete, paints, distempers
  • Building materials: Use of pozzolana manufacturing of lime concrete, cement concrete for plain, reinforced and pre-stressed concrete work
  • Road materials: Coarse aggregate, screenings and binding materials for WBM, bricks for soling, coarse and fine aggregate for bituminous roads, IRC standard size aggregates, tars and asphalt
  • Road materials: Asphaltic concrete, asphaltic emulsions, mastic asphalt and minerals fillers
  • Constructions stone masonry: Ashlar, course rubble, random rubble, stone pillar, dry stone, and arch masonry
  • Bricks masonry: Types and their uses hollow and reinforced brick work
  • Wood work: Doors and windows
  • Steel works: Structural steel work, metal doors and windows
  • Roofing: Stone slab roofing, G.C. Steel sheet roofing, asbestos cement sheet roofing, jack arch roofing, tile and thatch roofing
  • Flooring: Cement concrete flooring, flag stone flooring, terrazzo mosaic flooring, terrazzo file flooring, brick on edge flooring, timber granolithic floor finish, linoleum and other floorings
  • Plastering: Lime plaster, cement sand plaster, composite, plaster, rough coat plaster, Araish plastering with gypsum, plaster of Paris, painting
  • Miscellaneous: Damp proof course, anti-termite treatment, sill, coping and corbelling
  • Centering and shuttering: Centering form work, shuttering and moulds, timber trestles and false work, scaffolding and shoring, under pinning
  • Sanitary and water supply: Providing and laying galvanized iron PVC, asbestos cement, stone ware, cast iron and RCC pipes, sewerage and drainage system, over head and under ground tanks, manholes and gully chambers, septic tank
  • Sanitary and water supply: Soak pit, dispersion trench, floor and wall treatment in toilets, glazed tile work, downpour pipes
  • Construction management: Management of construction, plants and equipments, planning for construction using network analysis C.P.M. and PERT techniques
  • Shallow foundation: Spread foundation, combined footing and strap footing, mat or raft footing

Civil engineering-II: Unit 04


Hydrology and water resources engineering
  • Engineering hydrology: Hydrologic cycle, precipitation, evaporation, evapo-transpiration and infiltration. Estimation of dependable runoff factors effecting runoff, rainfall runoff relationship
  • Engineering hydrology: Flood/drought estimation using frequency analysis and unit hydrograph methods, groundwater hydrology, aquifers, steady flow towards fully penetrating wells confined and unconfined aquifers
  • Crop water requirements: Consumptive use of water, water depth and frequency of irrigation, soil moisture and its variation in the root zone, wilting point, field capacity, different methods of irrigation and irrigation efficiency
  • Crop water requirements: Duty, delta, and outlet factor, cropping patterns, intensity of irrigation, command area development and its related problems
  • Diversion head works: Principles of design of weirs on non-permeable and permeable foundations, Khosla's theory, designs for uplift and exit gradient, silt exclusion from canal head works
  • Canals: Lined and unlined canals, Lacey's and Kennedy's theories, tractive force approach, types of lining and its selection criteria, lift Irrigation from canals and wells, ground water availability in unconfined aquifer
  • Canals: Safe yield formulae, construction and maintenance of wells, relative merits of lift irrigation and flow irrigation
  • Storage works: Different types of dams, elementary concepts of masonry, concrete, earthen, butteress and arch dams, forces gravity dams, structural behaviour stability considerations and stress variation in gravity dams
  • Storage works: Appurtenances, foundation treatment, and control of seepage
  • Multi-purpose project: Compatibility of multi-purpose uses, data needed in planning of multi-purpose water resources projects, reservoir planning, environmental consequences of irrigation
  • Multi-purpose project: Water logging, problems of alkalinity and salinity, farm drainage and CAD works

Civil engineering-II: Unit 05


Transport and traffic engineering
  • Survey investigation and preparation of road project
  • Highway standard classification, land width, building line center line, formation width, terrain classification, pavement width camber longitudinal gradients, sight distance horizontal curve, super elevation
  • Vertical curve, lateral and vertical clearances
  • Design of pavement: Flexible pavements
  • Pavement construction: Sub-base, base course and shoulder stone/kankar brick soling, WBM courses, shoulders, granular sub-base, stabilized soil roads, cement/lime stabilized sub-base, sand bitumen base course, crushed cement concrete base/sub-base course
  • Bituminous course: Prime and tack coats, surface dressing, open graded premix carpet, semi dense carpet, built-up spray grout base course, bituminous base binder course, asphaltic concrete seal coats, mixed seal surfacing
  • Bituminous course: Penetration macadam base/binder course, full and semi grouts
  • Traffic engineering: Traffic characteristics, road user characteristics, vehicular characteristics, volume, speed and delay studies origin and destination study, traffic flow characteristics, traffic capacity and parking studies, traffic regulation
  • Traffic engineering: Traffic control devices, intersection control, system approach in traffic management
  • Bridge engineering: Components of bridges, classification of bridges, requirements of an ideal bridge, selection of bridge site, bridge alignment, site investigation and collection of data, waterway of bridges
  • Bridge engineering: Economic span scour depth of foundation, afflux, clearance, free board, type of bridge superstructures and methods of erection, bridge bearings, joints in bridge, wearing coat, railing, parapet and approach slab
  • Bridge engineering: Type of bridge foundation, bridge pier, adjustment and wing walls, training work for bridges and protection works, low cost bridges, causeway, timber bridges, suspension bridges, pipe and slab culverts

Civil engineering-II: Unit 06


Water supply and sanitary engineering
  • Water supply engineering: Quantitative requirements of water supply for urban and rural areas, variation in demant, forecast of population, different sources of water supply, lakes, rivers and ground water, intake arrangements
  • Water supply engineering: Drinking water standard for water, bacteriological test, pumping of raw water, design of rising mains, water treatment, flow diagram, sedimentation coagulation, filtration and disinfection, water softening and aeration of water
  • Water supply engineering: Water distribution system and their design and analysis, clear water reservoirs, rural water supply and sanitation, problems of low cost potable water for rural population, tube wells for water supply, safe yield from tube wells
  • Sanitary engineering: Sewerage, separate sewers and combined sewers, hydraulic and structural design considerations, different types of pipe material and different shapes of build up sewers, superimposed load and sewers
  • Sanitary engineering: House plumbing, various accessories and arrangement, sewage pumping station
  • Characterization of sewage: Physical, chemical, and biological analysis, industrial waste water and its problems, natural purification process through soil mass and through water bodies self purification of streams
  • Characterization of sewage: Sewage treatment, physical treatment, screening, skimming tanks, grit chamber, settling tanks, secondary (biological) treatment, trickling filters and high rate bio filters, activated sludge and accelerated aeration plants
  • Characterization of sewage: Secondary, settling tanks, sludge digesters and sludge drying, final disposal, low cost waste water treatment oxidation ponds, oxidation ditches, aerated lagoons, septic tank, anaerobic lagoons
  • Characterization of sewage: Dry refuse disposal, basic concepts of urban and rural sanitation

Electrical engineering-I: Unit 01


Electrical circuit
  • Circuit elements, Kirchhoff's laws, Mesh and nodal analysis, topological concepts, network theorems and applications
  • Natural response and forced response
  • Steady state and transient response for standard inputs
  • Properties of network in terms of poles and zeros
  • Transfer functions
  • Resonant circuits
  • Three-phase balanced and unbalanced circuits
  • Two port networks
  • Signal flow graphs
  • Coupled circuits
  • Filters, image impedance, attenuation, phase shift and insertion losses in constant K and M derived filters
  • Fourier series, Laplace transforms and their application

Electrical engineering-I: Unit 02


Field theory
  • Electric and magnetic fields, Gauss's law, Ampere's law, divergence and curl
  • Fields in dielectrics, conductors and magnetic materials, Maxwell's equations
  • Time varying fields
  • Wave propagation in dielectric and conducting media

Electrical engineering-I: Unit 03


Electrical materials
  • Classification of materials on the basis of permanent magnetic dipoles
  • Electrical and electronic behaviour of materials
  • Classification on the basis of conductivity
  • Behaviour of dielectrics in steady and alternating fields
  • Phenomenon of polarization
  • Super conductivity
  • Application of magnetic, conducting, dielectric and insulating materials, piezoelectricity

Electrical engineering-I: Unit 04


Electrical machines
  • Construction of large power and distribution transformers, phasor diagram and equivalent circuit of transformers
  • Regulation and testing of transformers, power loss calculations, efficiency and all day efficiency
  • Starting methods of single phase motors
  • Applications in domestic appliances
  • Principle of operation, constructional features and performance analysis of three-phase induction motors
  • Torque-slip characteristics, circle diagram
  • Methods of starting and testing
  • Construction, circuit model, operating characteristic, performance analysis, synchronous reactance, efficiency, voltage regulation, parallel operation of an alternator
  • Starting of synchronous motor, V-curves, hunting and its prevention

Electrical engineering-I: Unit 05


Power systems
  • Type of power stations: Hydro, thermal, and nuclear stations
  • Pumped storage plants
  • Economics and operating factors
  • Power transmission lines, modelling and performance characteristics, voltage control, optimal power system operation
  • Load frequency control, symmetrical short-circuit analysis
  • Symmetrical components, p.u. representation, fault analysis, transient and steady state stability of power systems
  • Equal area criterion
  • Corona, neutral earthing
  • Power system transients, power system protection, circuit breakers, relays, H.V.D.C. transmission

Electrical engineering-II: Unit 01


Electrical measurement and instrumentation
  • Units and standards
  • Error analysis
  • Measurement of current, voltage, power factor and energy, indicating instruments
  • Measurement of resistance, inductance, capacitance and frequency by bridge methods, electronic measuring instruments, digital voltmeter and frequency counter
  • Transducers and their applications for the measurement for non-electrical quantities like temperature, pressure, flow rate, displacement, velocity, acceleration
  • Telemetry and data transmission
  • Data acquisition systems
  • A/D and D/A converters

Electrical engineering-II: Unit 02


Electronics and communication
  • Semiconductor devices physics
  • P-N junction and transistors, circuit models and parameters
  • FET, ZENER, TUNNEL, SCHOTKY, photodiodes, and their applications, rectifier circuits, voltage regulation, switching behaviour of diodes and transistors, small signal amplifiers biasing circuits, frequency response
  • Multistage amplifier and feedback amplifiers
  • D.C. amplifiers, oscillators
  • Large signal amplifiers: Coupling methods, push-pull amplifiers, operational amplifier, wave shaping circuits, multivibrators, flip-flop and their applications
  • Large signal amplifiers: Digital logic gate families, universal gates, combinational circuit for arithmetic and logic operation, sequential logic circuits, counters, registers, RAM and ROMs
  • Communication: Generation and detection of AM and FM, noise behaviour of AM and FM systems

Electrical engineering-II: Unit 03


Power electronics
  • Power semiconductor devices
  • Thyristor, power transistor, GTOs and MOSFETs characteristic and operation A.C. to D.C. converters, single-phase and three-phase D.C. to D.C. chopper
  • Inverters, single-phase and three-phase pulse width modulation
  • Sinusoidal modulation
  • Switched mode power supplies

Electrical engineering-II: Unit 04


Microprocessor systems and computers
  • Microprocessor architecture, instruction set and simple assembly language programming
  • Interfacing memory and I/O devices
  • Applications of microprocessors
  • Basic layout of digital computers, input-output devices, memory organizations
  • Algorithms
  • Flow charts

Electrical engineering-II: Unit 05


Control system
  • Open and closed loop systems
  • Block diagrams and signal flow graphs, transfer function
  • Response analysis, time domain, frequency domain, steady-state error analysis
  • Root locus technique, Bode plot, Routh-Hurwitz and Nyquist criteria of stability
  • State space analysis of linear systems

Mechanical engineering-I: Unit 01


Theory of machines
  • Kinematics and dynamic analysis of mechanisms, Coirolis component of acceleration, mechanisms for straight line, motor vehicle steering mechanism, Hooke's Joint and Geneva mechanism, kinematics synthesis of mechanism, velocity and acceleration analysis
  • Brakes and dynamometers, cams, governors, gears and gear trains, fly wheel and turning moment diagram, friction (types), laws of friction, Inclined plane, ball and roller bearings, single and multiplate clutches, force analysis of machines
  • Force and inertia torque analysis of mechanisms, balancing of rotating and reciprocating masses, balancing of single and multicylinder engines, gyroscopic motion, vibration analysis of free, damped and forced vibration of single degree of freedom
  • Vibration isolation and transmissibility, transverse vibration and whirling (critical) speed of shaft, torsional vibration up to three rotor system, geared system, Holzer's method

Mechanical engineering-I: Unit 02


Materials science
  • Crystal structure, space lattice, crystal systems, Miller indices, imperfection in crystal, determination of crystal structure, mechanism of plastic deformation, theory of work hardening and recrystalization, concept of creep, fatigue and fracture
  • Phase diagrams, heat treatment of steels, plain carbon steel, alloy steels, effect of alloying elements in steel, composition, application and properties of common engineering materials, materials for nuclear energy and bearing materials

Mechanical engineering-I: Unit 03


Machine design
  • Design procedure and flow diagram, factor of safety, unit deformation (strain), types of stresses, stress-strain relationship, deflection in beams, bending moment and shear force diagram, eccentric loading, theory of fatigue
  • Statistical nature of fatigue, endurance limit and its modification factor, concept of fracture in ductile and brittle metals, creep behavior in metals, design of levers, beams, shafts, laminated and helical springs, belt, pulleys and flywheel
  • Power screw, gear drives and friction clutches, thin and thick wall pressure vessels

Mechanical engineering-I: Unit 04


Manufacturing processes
  • Types of patterns and pattern making, moulding and casting methods, principles of arc welding and equipment, oxy-acetylene gas welding, gas welding flames, brazing and soldering, hot and cold working of metals
  • Introduction to lathe, milling, shaper, and drilling machine, cutting tools, merchant's force analysis, geometry of single point cutting tool, types of chips, Taylor's tool life equation, economics of metal cutting
  • Modem machining methods, NC and CNC, jigs and fixtures, fits, tolerances and limits, measurements of screw threads and gear profile, gear manufacturing, press tools and high velocity forming

Mechanical engineering-I: Unit 05


Industrial engineering
  • Type of business, their formation and dissolution, government control, public corporations and cooperative societies
  • Introduction to management, principle of management, elements of management, contribution of Taylor, Gilbreth, Fayol, and Mayo in the development of management, forms of organization, management structure, authorities and responsibilities
  • Organizational charts, span of control, work study and productivity, motion study, time study, theory of work sampling, make and buy decision, probability theory, Game theory, replacement theory, principle of plant layout
  • Material handling: functions, engineering, and economic factors, production planning and control, routing, scheduling and dispatching, Gannt's chart, CPM, PERT, material management, planning and programming, inventories, lot size, lead time, reorder point
  • Wages payment system, introduction to linear programming, value engineering, JIT and MRP, labour legislation, industrial relations

Mechanical engineering-II: Unit 01


Thermodynamics
  • Basic concepts of thermodynamics, properties of pure substances, first law of thermodynamics applied to closed and open systems, second law of thermodynamics, Carnot cycle, entropy, second law analysis of engineering systems, availability
  • Gas power cycles: Air standard efficiency, Otto cycle, diesel cycle, Brayton cycle with modifications, ideal jet propulsion cycle
  • Vapour power cycles: Carnot and Rankine cycles, reheat and regenerative cycles, reheat factor, binary vapour cycle, combined gas-vapour power cycle
  • Combustion: Solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels, stochiometric air and excess air, gas analysis, different calorific values, enthalpy of reaction and enthalpy of formation, dissociation

Mechanical engineering-II: Unit 02


Heat transfer
  • Conduction: One dimensional steady state heat conduction, heat conduction through composite walls, critical thickness of insulation, heat transfer from finned surfaces, fin efficiency and effectiveness
  • Convection: Free and forced convection, dimensional analysis, heat transfer correlations, hydrodynamic and thermal boundary layers, boundary layer equations and their solutions for flat plates and pipes
  • Radiation: Planck's distribution law, radiation properties, Kirchhoff's law, diffuse radiation, Lambert's law, intensity of radiation, heat exchange between two black surfaces, heat exchange between gray surfaces, radiation shield, electrical analogy
  • Boiling and condensation: Different regimes of boiling heat transfer, correlations of boiling heat transfer, heat transfer coefficient for laminar film condensation on flat plate, drop wise condensation
  • Heat exchangers: Different types of heat exchangers, logarithmic mean temperature difference and effectiveness for parallel flow and counter flow heat exchangers, correction factor and fouling factor
  • Heat exchangers: Heat exchanger design by LMTD and effectiveness NTU methods

Mechanical engineering-II: Unit 03


Fluid mechanics and fluid machines
  • Fluid mechanics: Fluids and their properties, buoyancy and floatation, kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow, similitude and dimensional analysis, incompressible fluid flow in pipes, steady flow of compressible fluids-normal shock waves
  • Fluid mechanics: Fanno and Rayleigh lines, oblique shock waves, flow in a pipe with friction, flow of viscous fluids-laminar and turbulent boundary layers, fluid flow measurement
  • Fluid machines: Centrifugal pumps-constructional details, specific speed, manometric and overall efficiencies, characteristic curves, hydraulic turbines-classification constructional features of Pelton, Francis, and Kaplan turbines
  • Fluid machines: Specific speed, velocity triangles, efficiencies, characteristic curves, governing systems, draft tubes, cavitation

Mechanical engineering-II: Unit 04


Environmental engineering
  • Refrigeration: Basic refrigeration and heat pump cycles, air refrigeration system, aircraft refrigeration, vapour compression refrigeration, vapour absorption system
  • Refrigeration: Refrigerants, refrigerator components and controls, unconventional methods of Refrigeration
  • Air conditioning: Psychrometric charts, different air conditioning processes, air conditioning systems and equipments, air conditioning plants, selection of air conditioner, layout of different air conditioning systems, air distribution, duct design
  • Air conditioning: Cooling loads and their calculations, human comfort and comfort chart, different applications of refrigeration and air conditioning

Mechanical engineering-II: Unit 05


Energy conversion
  • Combustion internal engines: S.I. and C.I. engines, combustion phenomenon, combustion chambers, carburetion and fuel injection, supercharging, engine fuels, various efficiencies and performance of I.C. engines, engines emission and control
  • Steam turbines: Flow of steam through nozzles, steam turbine types, velocity diagrams for impulse and reaction turbines, efficiencies and governing
  • Gas turbines: Centrifugal and axial flow compressors, energy transfer equation, velocity diagrams, efficiency and performance of gas turbines, multistage compression, reheat and regeneration

Mechanical engineering-II: Unit 06


Power plant engineering
  • Steam power plants: High pressure steam boilers and accessories, plant layout, fuel handling and firing, ash, smoke, and dust removal, fluidized bed, chimney and draught, condensers, heat balance sheet, plant operation and maintenance
  • Steam power plants: Thermal pollution and control
  • Hydroelectric power plants: Selection of site, different layouts, efficiency and load curves, hydrology, hydrological cycle and hydrograph, control in hydroelectric plants, economic loading of hydro power plants
  • Nuclear power plants: Nuclear reactions and fuels, nuclear reactors, nuclear power plant economics, safety measures and site selection, comparison of nuclear, steam, and hydro plants
  • Power plant economics: Economic load sharing between base load and peak load plants, typical load curves, effect of variable load on power plant

Agricultural engineering-I: Unit 01


Soil and water conservation
  • Forms of precipitation, hydrologic cycle, point rainfall analysis, frequency analysis
  • Water shed-definition and concept, agricultural watersheds, prediction of peak runoff, factors affecting runoff
  • Hydrograph, concepts of unit and instantaneous hydrographs
  • Erosion type, affecting factors, damages associated with erosion, assessment of actual annual soil loss by erosion and its impact on agricultural production and productivity
  • Erosion control measures on various classes of lands i.e. contour cultivation, strip cropping, terracing, afforestation, pastures etc
  • Role of vegetation in soil and water conservation, grassed water way and its design
  • Design of gully control measures including permanent structures i.e. chute spillway, drop spillway, drop inlet spillway, retards and stream bank erosion, flood routing, flood amelioration through soil and water management in upstream zone
  • Mechanics of wind and water erosion, wind erosion control, water harvesting structures i.e. Khadin, Tanka, Nadi, and Anicut

Agricultural engineering-I: Unit 02


Irrigation
  • Soil-water-plant relationship, permeability, infiltration, percolation, water requirements of crops and irrigation scheduling, direct and indirect methods of soil moisture measurements
  • Measurements of irrigation water-orifice, weirs, notches, parshall flumes, H-flumes etc
  • Water conveyance and control, design of field channels and canals, Lacey and Kennedy theories, most economical channel cross section
  • Underground pipe line structures and their design
  • Irrigation methods, their hydraulics, and design viz.-border, furrow, flood, drip, and sprinklers methods, concepts in irrigation efficiencies

Agricultural engineering-I: Unit 03


Drainage
  • Benefits of drainage, hydraulic conductivity, drainable porosity, drainage coefficient
  • Surface drainage, drainage of flat and sloppy lands
  • Design of open ditches, their alignment and construction
  • Design and layout of sub surface drains, depth, and spacing of drains, and drainage outlets, installation of drains and drainage wells, drainage of salt affected areas

Agricultural engineering-I: Unit 04


Pumps
  • Design, construction, performance characteristics, selection, installation, working principle and maintenance of reciprocating pump, centrifugal pump, turbine pump, submersible pump, jet pump, air lift pumps, and hydraulic ram

Agricultural engineering-I: Unit 05


Water resources development and management
  • Water resources of India, surface water, ground water, development of irrigation potential, canal irrigation, command area development, on farm development works, aquifer parameters, hydraulics of wells, steady and unsteady flow, well log
  • Construction of wells, design of well screen, well development

Agricultural engineering-I: Unit 06


Surveying, leveling, and land development
  • Linear measurements, different surveying devices and methods, land grading and leveling, contouring and terracing, each work estimation, land development budgeting, earth moving machinery

Agricultural engineering-II: Unit 01


Farm power
  • Classification of internal combustion (IC) engines terminology, Otto, diesel cycle, basic IC engine components and functions, fuels and fuel supply system, lubrication system
  • Cooling system and governing system
  • Types of tractors, transmission system-clutch, gearbox, brakes, PTO, differential
  • Mechanics of tractor chassis, principles of traction, steering system, hydraulic system and selection of tractors

Agricultural engineering-II: Unit 02


Farm machinery
  • Farm mechanization, tillage and tillage implements, types of hitching systems
  • Sowing and planting equipment and their calibration, precision planting
  • Types of sprayers and dusters, and its calibration
  • Selection and operation and principles of harvesting and threshing machines, reapers, combines, and thresher
  • Cost analysis of farm equipment and related numerical problems.

Agricultural engineering-II: Unit 03


Agricultural processing
  • Various size reduction machinery and energy requirement
  • Material handling equipment
  • Separation equipment-based on size shape and surface characteristics
  • Heating and cooling of food products, mode of heat transfer, different types of heat exchangers
  • Psychometric chart and its application in drying EMC and its determination, principles of drying and drying equipments, types of evaporators, single and multiple effect evaporators
  • Refrigeration load calculation, various milling process for rice, maize, wheat, and pulses
  • Parboiling of wheat and paddy
  • Storage structures for grains and their design
  • Principles of food preservation and thermal processing

Agricultural engineering-II: Unit 04


Farm electrification and machine
  • AC-DC machines, DOL starter, transformer, 3-phase induction motors and alternators, transmission and distribution of electricity
  • Selection, installation, and care of electric motors on farms
  • Selection and types of wiring based on Indian standards and design of wiring systems
  • Rural electrification programmes

Agricultural engineering-II: Unit 05


Rural housing
  • Building materials and their properties, design of beams, slabs, columns and foundations, planning and design of rural houses, farm Roads, village drainage system, waste disposal and sanitary structures, material and cost estimation in construction
  • Integrated rural energy planning and development

Agricultural engineering-II: Unit 06


Renewable energy
  • Solar radiation-its measurement, solar thermal devices and gadgets i.e. solar cooker, solar water heater, solar dryer, solar refrigeration, and air conditioning etc
  • Solar photovoltaic devices i.e. solar lantern, street light, power pack
  • Bioenergy conversion, production and utilization, biogas-type, classification, and design of biogas plants
  • Biomass gasification and gasifier alcoholic fermentation (ethanol and methanol production), wind energy conversion process i.e. water pumping, wind mills, and aero generator

Prelims Exam

Rajasthan PSC releases the web link for downloading the e-admit card for the preliminary exam of Rajasthan AE combined competitive exam on the official website. Candidates who successfully apply for the RPSC AE exam can download their admit card. The Rajasthan AE exam admit card should be carried on the day of examination at the exam hall/centre. No admit card will be sent to candidates via post, it can only be downloaded online.

Mains Exam

Rajasthan PSC issues the online admit card of Rajasthan AE main exam to only those candidates who have successfully filled the application form of the main exam and qualified the preliminary exam as well. The Rajasthan AE exam admit card should be carried on the day of the main examination at the exam centre. 

Prelims Exam

Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) releases the RPSC Assistant Engineer preliminary exam answer key after few days after the completion of the exam. The answer key is released for test takers to get an estimate of their probable scores and understand their chances of getting selected in the Rajasthan AE Main examination.

Steps to check the Rajasthan AE (Assistant Engineer) Preliminary Answer Key

  • Visit the official website of Rajasthan Public Service Commission.
  • Look for the 'RPSC AE' answer key link on the home page.
  • Click the solved paper according to sets pertaining to the Main Examination
  • For further use, save the answer key of RPSC AE exam.

Mains Exam

Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) releases the RPSC Assistant Engineer exam answer key a few days after the completion of the exam. The officials of Rajasthan PSC release the answer key of all set of question papers like Set A, B, C and D for RPSC AE exam. Candidates can estimate the probable scores to be obtained by them in the written exam before the formal announcement of Rajasthan AE examination.

How to check and download Rajasthan AE (Assistant Engineer) Answer Key?

  • Visit the official website of Rajasthan Public Service Commission.
  • Look for the 'RPSC AEN' answer key link on the home page.
  • Click the solved paper according to sets pertaining to the main examination
  • For further use, save the answer key of RPSC AE exam or download to make copies, if required.

Prelims Exam

Rajasthan PSC declares the Rajasthan AE exam result to shortlist candidates for the main and personality and Viva-Voce Examinations. The preliminary examination is nothing but a screening test and the marks secured in the Preliminary examination by the candidates is not included for determining their final order of merit. The result of the preliminary exam allows aspirants to appear in the main examination and subsequent rounds.

Mains Exam

  • Rajasthan PSC declares the Rajasthan AE exam main exam result after conducting the offline exam. Candidates should note that the marks secured in the preliminary examination by them is not included for determining their final order of merit. The result of the main exam is followed by the interview round. Candidates who secure the minimum qualifying marks in the written test of the main examination as decided by RPSC in their discretion will be called for the interview.  

Test takers should obtain a minimum of 35 per cent marks in each of the two compulsory papers and a minimum of 40 percent marks in aggregate to be called by the Rajasthan PSC for the interview which carries 72 marks.

Documents Required at Rajasthan AE Exam 2023 counselling

  • Academic certificates (10th, 12th, graduation degree)
  • Photo ID Proof

Mains Exam

The selection process comprises two distinct stages. Those are-

  • Main Examination
  • Personality/Interview/Viva-Voce Examination

Rajasthan Public Service Commission award marks to each candidate interviewed by them. During the interview, apart from the related questions, candidates also evaluated on their moral character, personality, address and physique; marks will be awarded for candidates' knowledge of Rajasthani culture as well. The marks so given shall be added to the marks obtained in the main examination by each candidate. 

Credits will be rendered for precise, effective and perfect expression combined with the right choice of words in all subjects of the Rajasthan AE examination. 

General Information

Contacts

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Relevant Links

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

1. Is RPSC AE conducted every year?

Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) Assistant Engineer (AE) exam is not conducted every year on a fixed schedule. The frequency of the exam depends on the availability of vacancies.

2. Who is eligible for Rajasthan AE?

RPSC AEN eligibility criteria state that a candidates must have a degree in civil engineering as well as should be between 18 to 40 years of age.

3. What is the interview marks for RPSC AE?

The  RPSC AE interview is for 72 marks.

4. Is the Assistant Engineer a gazetted officer post?

 Yes, Assistant Engineer in Group-A status has been gazetted.

5. How much does an Assistant Engineer make in India?

The estimated total pay for a Assistant Engineer is ₹5,30,000 per year, with an average salary of ₹5,00,000 per year.

Questions related to Rajasthan AE Exam

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Hello Aspirant,

Rajasthan Engineering Admission Process or in short REAP is counselling process for candidates seeking admission in colleges of Rajasthan state. It is of state level importance and it does not includes any college of national importance which comes under central government.

University like Bikaner Technical University, Rajasthan Technical University take part in this process which are of state level.

For more details about REAP you should visit to -

https://www.google.com/amp/s/engineering.careers360.com/articles/reap/amp

I hope this information helps you.

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