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Welcome to Mechanical Engineering website!
One
of the first three departments established in the
University, the Department of Mechanical Engineering
offers programs of study leading to the degrees of
Bachelor of Science -B.S., Master of Science -M.S., and
Doctor of Philosophy -Ph.D., supported by well equipped
laboratories and workshop facilities. The undergraduate
program is designed to provide basic mechanical
engineering training upon which self learning, further
studies and engineering practice can be built. The program
includes various courses covering basic subjects in
thermal and fluid science, mechanics, machine design and
production engineering supplemented by a wide range of
specialized senior year technical electives.
Graduate
research in the Department is conducted primarily in the
areas of thermal-fluid science, mechanics, machine design
and manufacturing.
Current
research interests of the faculty include internal
combustion engines, modeling of engine processes,
combustion modeling in combustion chambers, simulation
studies of low-heat projection metallic and ceramic
engines, simulation studies of different compound engine
schemes, computer modeling of general thermodynamic
systems; solar air heaters, solar ponds; CFD; heat
transfer and fluid mechanics, natural and mixed
convection, convection in porous media, radioactive heat
transfer, combustion in porous media, two-phase flow heat
exchangers, turbulence research; boundary layer studies,
wake flows, fluidics, thin film ceramics; thermo
elasticity; thermo elasticity in hot cylindrical shells,
materials engineering; high-temperature materials,
creep-resistance materials, super alloys, creep fracture,
materials characterization, directional solidification
techniques -AISI, AICU eutectic alloys, fracture
mechanics, stress analysis and design, integral
estimation, resistance curves, manufacturing technology,
casting technology, aero engine turbine blades; fracture
mechanics, and computer integrated manufacturing.