Facilities - Department Of Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering course aims at developing competence in core areas of Mechanical Engineering with adequate exposure to the state of art technological developments like CAD, PLM, MECHATRONICS, ROBOTICS and the like.

Laboratory Facilities:

Control Laboratory

Research area includes Sensors and Actuators, Mechatronics System, Feed forward and feedback control system, Vision and Shape control.

Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

Research areas of interest of the lab are Particle image Velocimetry: Comparisons of computational results for YAG and silicon in Czochralskiprocess, Study of Czochralskiprocess, Visualization of Natural convection in a Czochralskicrucible using Liquid Crystal thermography (LCT) technique , Optical Techniques: Interferometry, Schlieren, and Shadowgraph, Applications of Rib Turbulators, Smoke Flow Visualization, Flow visualisation behind a cylinder.

Heat Transfer & RAC Laboratories

Research Areas include Liquid-Vapor Phase Change Phenomena, Heat Pipes/ pulsating Heat Pipes/ Thermosyphons, Flow and Heat Transfer in Narrow Channels, Dropwise Condensation, Energy Systems, Nanofluids.

Material Testing Laboratory

Research to understand Advanced Polymeric Composites, Functionally Graded Composites, Smart Particulate Composites, Nano-composites.

Experimental Stress Analysis Laboratory

Research topics include Composites, FEM, NDT, Dynamic Fracture, High-strain rate Deformation, Photo-elasticity, Molecular Modeling, Coupled Field Analysis.

Machines shop

It is a machining practice lab for various machines such as Shaper, Slotter, Planer, Drilling machines, Electrical Discharge Machine, Gear hobber etc. There are provisions for studying the working principle of various types of machines used in various industries. The work benches are built with safety and the shop is large enough to carry out the machining and manufacturing processes comfortably.