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Mechanical Engineering Department
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Head of Department Message Welcome to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, where education and research are our highest priorities and excellence is the motto. The department combines a strong and focused emphasis on the learning experience of every student.Engineers are the unsung heroes of society. We are the people who need to develop sustainable solutions for preserving energy resources and cleaning up our world. ... read more |
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Vision Statement The vision of the Department and College is to be recognized as an international leader in engineering education, research and to apply knowledge fo ... read more |
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- At the Department of Mechanical Engineering, we are conscious of the fact that Mechanical Engineering, as a discipline, is the traditional bed-rock of engineering. It is thus all-encompassing, based on well-established laws of nature which are used through ingenuity to design and operate functional products. These products can be basic, such as pulleys and gears; conventional, such as engines and power-producing systems; or advanced, such as control and automation systems for vehicles and machinery.
In spite of being traditional, mechanical engineering has undergone quantum leaps in modernization due to rapid advances in electronics and computer technologies. Engineering design, for example, utilizes high-speed computing processes in design and manufacturing, as indeed does computer simulation of fluid flows for the design of super-sonic systems. The premium on mechanical engineering graduates has thus expanded from traditional areas to hi-tech areas. They must thus integrate technologies rather than remain isolated. This requires a multi-disciplinary outlook, which we have been careful to incorporate into our syllabus while maintaining the conventional structure.
Curriculum is thus based on core areas, which include Thermofluids and Thermal sciences, Engineering Design and Analysis, Dynamics and Controls, CAD/CAM, and Manufacturing/Production Engineering and Management.
These are based on core areas of “Basic Sciences” such as Engineering Mathematics and Physics. Incorporating courses in Computer Simulation, Computer Aided Engineering, Production Tooling and Automation, Optimization, and Modeling and Simulation achieve modernization of the syllabus.
Classroom teaching is fortified by experiments conducted in well-equipped labs with state-of-the-art machinery.
Currently, the Mechanical Engineering Laboratories are in the areas of Thermo- fluids, Mechanics of Materials, Controls, Manufacturing, Mechanical Vibration and Automobile Technology. Students can thus typically carry out experiments to study heat transfer, fluid flow, flow in convergent-divergent nozzles, steam production and power generation in a power plant among other fundamental areas.
For computer programming, and the development of engineering software, or the use of educational codes, students have access to four computer labs of the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Which are equipped with high performance Sun workstations in addition to Pentium computers.
Projects carried out by graduating students indicate the level of interest generated in them as well as the multi-disciplinary involvement they have had to undergo. In the last semester.
Our graduates can expect to have a command on enginee...read more
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