The Mechanical Engineering Department has several laboratories equipped with teaching and research facilities including a subsonic wind tunnel supported by a wide variety of measuring instrumentation, a supersonic jet impingement set up, shock tubes, hot wire and laser Doppler anemometers, a pulsating flow set up, heat transfer testing facilities, a solar cooling facility, gas emission analyzers, CFR gasoline test engine, an advanced material testing system, a potentiodyne analyzer, a vibration test rig, vibration meters, recorders, analyzers, amplifiers, accelerometers and transducers, laser measurement systems, electron and scanning electron microscopes, dimensional metrology equipment, and manufacturing engineering facilities equiped with conventional and CNC machine tools, and metal cutting dynamometry.  The Department also has a central modern machine shop, supporting research activities.

The following represents some of the research activities in the Department:

·      Transient heat convection including heat convection in pulsating internal flows.

·      Fouling in heat transfer equipment.

·      Modeling of transient boundary-layer flows.

·      Aerodynamics, flight dynamics and control.

·      Wave propagation and scattering in elastic structures.

·      Identification of non-linear systems, and modal identification.

·      Dynamic analysis and design of elastic multibody systems.

·      Laser machining and other laser-related applications.

·      Corrosion and material damage processes and reliability modeling.

·      Manufacturing processes planning and system analysis, evaluation, and optimization.

·      Automation and Computer Aided Manufacturing systems modeling and control.

·      Reliability of extrusion and forging dies.