Electronics and Communications http://www.orkut.com/Main#Community?cmm=214030

It’s one of the most active engineering community exist inside orkut , however its small in terms of number of threads posted but it has great amount of useful content related to electronics and communications. Members are friendly and ready to help new comers in any possible way. Most threads in the forum are tagged “official” by the owner or moderator so there is no time waste in searching for genuine thread, you can see all posted threads in one single page. Topics like “Project help”, “career opportunities”, “GATE help” and “seminar help” are most replied threads. There are also two different threads for electronics and communications, check “electronic forum” and “analog and digital communication threads.”

All over it’s a small big bundle of knowledge on Electronics and Communications.

Automobile Engineering http://www.orkut.com/Main#Community?cmm=8438416

A Chassis to share innovations, advancements and gain knowledge in the field of automobiles. With this small description this orkut community on Automobile engineering has 11000 members with average activities on forum. Active since feb 2006 there is a large content posted and most of them are really helpful. But don’t expect comments to threads instantly. While surfing we found most active threads like “how to project our project”, “SAE standards”, “best college for BE Automobile engineering etc.”

Chemical Engineering http://www.orkut.com/Main#Community?cmm=28402

More than 19000 members related to the field of chemical engineering, this orkut community is pretty active and generate a large amount of helpful resources related to the subject Chemical Engineering. Though sometimes with very less or no activities, still this online group is one of the dedicated communities in comparison to other same name communities on orkut. Community is created since March 2004 is also one of the oldest groups existing on orkut. There are many helpful threads in chemical engineering community like “Chemical Processing” “post your institution name here” and “a lot of chemical engineering book here”. Guys are really helpful in guiding before and after this course, like job openings, project help etc. If you are looking for friends with someone who had pursued chemical engineering, than do not miss this group.

Electrical Engineering http://www.orkut.com/Main#Community?cmm=7185269

A small community of 3000 members is a good online group for people interested in electrical engineering which is another important branch of engineering science. However, there is no real discussion or debate on the subject but most of the threads are posted by members who need help regarding their queries. This community is better than another same name community which has over 40k members but it’s a very inactive forum. One can find many job opening threads, queries, solutions, project help etc on this orkut community for Electrical Engineers.

Civil Engineering http://www.orkut.com/Main#Community?cmm=15454

Meet more than 30000 civil engineers and engineering students on this community, best for sharing ideas, post your work related queries and make a big network of friends with same profession and interest. Civil Engineering community on orkut is average community, it get active sometimes but its highly expected to get good replies if you start a thread there, some members are really helpful and gives very professional advices.

Mechanical Engineers http://www.orkut.com/Main#Community?cmm=3166

Another interesting community, a quite large group of more than 40,000 members with a good number of everyday activities, it shows that they enjoy being on this community. Whatever they do or talk on forum they don’t forget their focus, i.e. Mechanical Engineering and that’s why even when they play forum games they named it “Mechanical Gaming Zone”. There are many other good threads like “interview questions” , “Reference for Mechanical Engineers” and “COMPLETE Advanced Tutorials of CATIA with projects” with more than 100 replies. Worth joining.