The Department of
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 

Mechanical Engineering deals with power and the design of machines and processes used to generate power and to apply it to useful purposes. These machines and system/process designs may be simple or complex, inexpensive or expensive, luxuries or essentials. Items such as kitchen food mixer, the auto-mobile, heating/air-conditioning systems, nuclear power plants, practical autonomous and tele-operated robotics, and interplanetary space vehicles would not be available today were it not for the mechanical engineer. Important areas in which mechanical engineers work at this time also have to do with the use of solar, wind, and tidal energy and of cogeneration from wastes for domestic and industrial uses.

In general the mechanical engineer works with systems, subsystems and components that have motion. The range of work that may be classed as Mechanical Engineering is wider than that of any of the other branches of engineering. However, it may be grouped generally into two categories:

a. Work that is concerned with power generating machines, and

b. Work that deals with machines that transform this power in accomplishing their particular tasks

The major specialty areas of Mechanical Engineering are applied mechanics, dynamic systems and control, design, engines and power plants, energy, fluids, lubrication, heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning, materials, pressure vessels, and piping, transportation and aerospace/hydrospace. Click Here to read more about these areas of specialization.