DAT and Interview Questions

 With kind courtesy of Darshan Chavhan (MVD - IITB) it's a great pleasure to share these questions compiled by him.

Personal interview- Non Technical

1. Why do you want to join this course
2. What exactly you aim to learn in this specific field.
3. Explain studio test product and your Idea behind it.
4. Portfolio materials and manufacturing processes.
5. Recycling waste materials and making products with them.
6. Why master in design and not master engineering.
7. What makes your designer.
8. Application task of good and bad design examples from India.
9. Why you used that specific things for inspiration in your portfolio.
10. What is your dream after master in design.
11. What was your engineering project.
12. Who is your favourite designer in India and why.
13. Which is your memorable project or working experience or accomplishment and why.
14. What you did apart from drawing or designing.
15. Tell me about your work software used and tools used in job what are some of the challenges you faced in job and how you solve them.
16. Colour codes in HEX, RGB, CMYK
17. Name a product which is aesthetically pleasing but not the function or user friendly.
18. Distinguish between product design and industrial design.
19. Identify the products on the table and find materials and manufacturing processes used in them.
20. Materials and manufacturing processes used to make the parts of the final year project.
21. how knowledge in engineering is used in complement to design.
22. How can you prove that you are a designer.
23. Where do you see yourself after 3 years.
24. recent trends in respective product design Automotive design fields and New Zealand to it.
25. What things do you consider while designing a product.
26. Should designer consider the cost factor while designing a product.if yes then why and if no then why support your answer.
27. Consider your account statement for above question and contradict or counter yourself.
28. The situation where designer shouldn't consider cost while designing.
29. Name a product and cost is more and even then people would buy it.
30. Name any product on the table which head and change its form since its Inception.
31. Give difference between GATE and CEED and what does this exams test in the student.
32. How do you get to know about IDC department.
33. Which engineering subject will be never be useful to you in the future anymore.
34. Give reason why after btech student shift career either do it or management sector . why should engineers do only hard core engineering jobs.
35. Why odd or even vehicle movement is bad.
36. Give 10 unique uses of a specific product.
37. if you were given right conditions to grow a plant which plant would that be and why.
38. How to prevent plucking of leaves and flowers in parks.
39. what kind of flower would you like to grow in your garden and why.
40. Which are your most favourite enlist various subjects in mechanical engineering and why
41. Talk for 1 minute why engineer should not be a designer.
42. Tell one good product and one bad product and explain in detail.
43. Pick up one product from disc and describe ways to improve it.
44. How much time did it take to make your portfolio.
45. How did you prepare for CEED.
46. Tell me about your engineering interest and what design can be done in biomedical engineering
47. Show me your best work and describe it.
48. Which font did you use in your portfolio.
49. Difference between million and billion compare to lakh and crore
50. Which is your favourite Indian and foreign car and why do you like it.
51. What is the population of India
52. Why you did engineering instead of designing
53. What is your dream project
54. how glass paper weight is make and what are the colourful bubbles inside them.
55. Why sketching is important for designer.
56. What is design
57. What is golden ratio and who is inventor
58. 1/3 rule and its inventor
59. Tell me about yourself
60. what u did in the period of Lockdown.?
61. how can u tacke the problem that even in the Strict lockdown, some people are defying it Through Graphic Design.

 Personal interview- Technical

1. What paint is used in the prototype
2. Tell me the car scale ratio of the model prototype
3. Which is your favourite car and why
4. Explain concept compact SUV
5. Questions on design of Freewheel
6. Bottle cover for water bottle
7. Types of 3D printing and explain
8. Solve (y=lxl-y)
9. Make on spot logo
10. Make logo for yourself
11. Sketch mobile phone in front of panel
12. Design experiment to test laminar flow of fluid
13. Gears types engine differential how engine works TDC four stroke engine
14. RPM of washing machine and how to increase speed
15. What is first hand projection and third and projection and their symbols
16. How gudgeon pin is fitted and draw it
17. Tell me about it is powertrain
18. Material used to make piston engine flywheel choices body parts seat seat belt
19. Tell me about welding processes
20. Relation between current provided to welding and heat generated (Q=I2R)
21. Kirchoff's Law
22. What Is your dream project.

DAT Situational (Non-Technical)

1. Draw side view of royal Enfield and render showing different materials.
2. Storyboard sketching
3. Advantages of visual media
4. Design family phone charger
5. Make model of pyramid
6. design stationery organiser for 10 to 12 year old and make 3D model
7. Draw different types of chairs
8. Why to use hemispherical structure in building
9. Funniest commercial you seen
10. Sketch exploded view of wrist watch without using any actual original parts
11. Product design for blind person to cross roads in India
12. Design mobile covers for 2 contradictory personalities with stickers
13. Design vehicle for disabled user who don't have arms. make 3D model for the same.
14. Alternative to styrofoam, disposable cups
15. Redesign Indian railway logo
16. Colour theory
17. Sketch free hand arm chair
18. Compare LED and CFL bulb
19. Latest technological trends ( additive manufacturing, internet of things and 5G)
20. List of latest products
21. List of latest Automotive designs
22. Design doormat that can easily cleaned.
23. Create meaningful themes using basic shapes (triangle, circle, rectangle)
24. Design 3D model of stationery organiser for children corrugated sheets are provided
25. build passenger bridge using binding wire, matchsticks, cardboard, wooden blocks, paper
26. identify component without seeing and state components name, material, dimensional drawing and uses
27. Make water bottle for 5 year old kid sketch and 3D mode. thermocol and metal where I provided
28. Make machine that helps in plucking mangoes and can count the numbers.
29. Sketch Renault kwid
30. Make 3D cuboid of given dimensions using paper
31. Design seat of bullet train
32. Identify problems from pictures provided
33. if paint has property to change colour at different temperatures then on which household item would you to use this suggest two applications and uses
34. Draw Mahindra REVA
35. five shapes are given and draw another objects for each of them worship is one of the major components.
36. Entertain the panel
37. to think any situation where creates problems and basket show how to solve them ( All out coil)
38. Sketch of vacuum cleaner with two views and dimensions materials and manufacturing processes
39. Make something creative using A4 size paper
40. Redesign flag for India
41. Redesign IRCTC logo
42. Make tetrahedron from paper
43. Design and sketch autorickshaw
44. make model of lamp for office and sketch it with 3D model
45. Design mobile tea shop which additional features
46. Redesign bulb packaging so that it can survive drop from 2 inches
47. Design or any product and composed it in A3 sheet
48. make a bangle holder that any bangle can be accessed without disturbing others Creative Concept and make the 3D model where thermocol cartilage paper straw buttons wires are provided
49. What is your hometown is famous for.
50. Design logo for your state Maharashtra and city Pune
51. Name three badly designed products and why. Give one well designed product
52. Solution for any one of the problems that India is currently facing. (Bicycle Lane)
53. Design tricycle for kids
     
     

    DAT Situational Test (Technical)

 

1. 12th standard maths, matrix, probability ,  work time relation, bending moment diagram, load transfer, strength of steel and melting point.
2. Design and technical development awareness in product design material and used in manufacturing
3. Basic engineering mechanics questions
4. BM and SF diagram
5. Calculus questions
6. Civil mechanics questions
7. Electronics questions
8. Film identification on Thermochromatic
9. List the types of sensors and their uses
10. Probability selecting four people from group of four men two women and four kids so that exactly two kids can be selected
11. Area of curved boundary ( y=X2 and y=X+2)
12. Sfd and bmd diagram of overhanging simple supported beam with entire UDL
13. velocity and volume flow rate of liquid through a circular pipe and its acceleration
14. State one technology and write four points
15. Write one property and one application of following: thermocol, abs polymer,  mylar magnesium and its alloy, tiO2
16. Force on spring
17. Calculate potential and current flowing through circuit
18. Probability selecting set of people from large group of people
19. Fluid pressure and velocity
20. Thermal conductivity specific heat
21. Thermodynamics Truss bending moment diagram, network analysis functions Maxima minima mechanics kinematics quality and chemical constitutions
22. Describe the one well designed product (rubber)
23. find coefficient of friction between two surfaces where wooden block of non weight table stopwatch and ruler are provided
24. how will you determine thickness of leg of chair
25. you are given the flammable fluid how will you determine whether it is suitable for using in IC engine or not
26. What is industry 4.0