Department of Mechanical Engineering

The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, leading to the award of Bachelor of Engineering and Masters of Engineering degrees. These programs are based on the semester system. The BE program covers an intensive eight-semester duration of teaching and laboratory work At the MS level, students follow three semesters of teaching, with an option to major in Manufacturing/Production Engineering, Dynamics and Control, Thermal Sciences and Mechanics/Design before embarking on their independent thesis work. Opportunities also exist for exceptional students to continue their graduate work towards a PhD program where individual research at internationally accepted levels is carried out under the supervision of faculty that is best qualified for providing the required guidance.

Under Graduate

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


Post Graduate

The postgraduate curriculum of Mechanical Engineering at College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, has been developed based on the guidelines and discussions with the faculty of international universities with whom the National of sciences and Technology (NUST) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) The curriculum, being proposed for the award of MS/PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering, has been planned to meet the following objectives

To meet the national requirements.
Meet the requirements of the international universities.
Have the requisite academic background in the state of the art technology for employment in the research and development.
Have design and development training coupled with management and economic background to successfully purue his career as young engineer or even as an entrepreneur at international level

Engineering

Engineering is the science, discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired objective or inventions.The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD, the predecessor of ABET[1]) has defined engineering as follows:“[T]he creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property.”[2][3][4]One who practices engineering is called an engineer, and those licensed to do so may have more formal designations such as European Engineer, Professional Engineer, Chartered Engineer, or Incorporated Engineer. The broad discipline of engineering encompasses a range of more specialized subdisciplines, each with a more specific emphasis on certain fields of application and particular areas of technology.

INTRODUCTION

The Department of Mechanical Engineering was founded in 1937. The Department has laboratories and workshops with a built-up area of about 5000 square meters besides the class room area covers approximately 2000 square meters.The wide acceptance of its graduates by the Pakistani industry as well as Universities worldwide for post graduate studies is an indication of the quality assurance being observed.

Quantum mechanics

The following are categorized as being part of Quantum mechanics:
Particle physics, the motion, structure, and reactions of particles
Nuclear physics, the motion, structure, and reactions of nuclei
Condensed matter physics, quantum gases, solids, liquids, etc.
Quantum statistical mechanics, large assemblies of particles

Classical mechanics

The following are described as forming Classical mechanics:
Newtonian mechanics, the original theory of motion (kinematics) and forces (dynamics)
Hamiltonian mechanics, a theoretical formalism, based on the principle of conservation of energy
Lagrangian mechanics, another theoretical formalism, based on the principle of the least action
Celestial mechanics, the motion of heavenly bodies: planets, comets, stars, galaxies, etc.
Astrodynamics, spacecraft navigation, etc.
Solid mechanics, elasticity, the properties of (semi-)rigid bodies
Acoustics, sound ( = density variation propagation) in solids, fluids and gases.
Statics, semi-rigid bodies in mechanical equilibrium
Fluid mechanics, the motion of fluids
Soil mechanics, mechanical behavior of soils
Continuum mechanics, mechanics of continua (both solid and fluid)
Hydraulics, mechanical properties of liquids
Fluid statics, liquids in equilibrium
Applied mechanics, or Engineering mechanics
Biomechanics, solids, fluids, etc. in biology
Biophysics, physical processes in living organisms
Statistical mechanics, assemblies of particles too large to be described in a deterministic way
Relativistic or Einsteinian mechanics, universal gravitation

Sub-disciplines in mechanics

The following are two lists of various subjects that are studied in mechanics.
Note that there is also the "theory of fields" which constitutes a separate discipline in physics, formally treated as distinct from mechanics, whether classical fields or quantum fields. But in actual practice, subjects belonging to mechanics and fields are closely interwoven. Thus, for instance, forces that act on particles are frequently derived from fields (electromagnetic or gravitational), and particles generate fields by acting as sources. In fact, in quantum mechanics, particles themselves are fields, as described theoretically by the

Types of mechanical bodies

Thus the often-used term body needs to stand for a wide assortment of objects, including particles, projectiles, spacecraft, stars, parts of machinery, parts of solids, parts of fluids (gases and liquids), etc.
Other distinctions between the various sub-disciplines of mechanics, concern the nature of the bodies being described. Particles are bodies with little (known) internal structure, treated as mathematical points in classical mechanics. Rigid bodies have size and shape, but retain a simplicity close to that of the particle, adding just a few so-called degrees of freedom, such as orientation in space.
Otherwise, bodies may be semi-rigid, i.e. elastic, or non-rigid, i.e. fluid. These subjects have both classical and quantum divisions of study.
For instance, the motion of a spacecraft, regarding its orbit and attitude (rotation), is described by the relativistic theory of classical mechanics, while the analogous movements of an atomic nucleus are described by quantum mechanics

Classical versus quantum

The major division of the mechanics discipline separates classical mechanics from quantum mechanics.
Historically, classical mechanics came first, while quantum mechanics is a comparatively recent invention. Classical mechanics originated with Isaac Newton's Laws of motion in Principia Mathematica, while quantum mechanics didn't appear until 1900. Both are commonly held to constitute the most certain knowledge that exists about physical nature. Classical mechanics has especially often been viewed as a model for other so-called exact sciences. Essential in this respect is the relentless use of mathematics in theories, as well as the decisive role played by experiment in generating and testing them.
Quantum mechanics is of a wider scope, as it encompasses classical mechanics as a sub-discipline which applies under certain restricted circumstances. According to the correspondence principle, there is no contradiction or conflict between the two subjects, each simply pertains to specific situations. The correspondence principle states that the behavior of systems described by quantum theories reproduces classical physics in the limit of large quantum numbers. Quantum mechanics has superseded classical mechanics at the foundational level and is indispensable for the explanation and prediction of processes at molecular and (sub)atomic level. However, for macroscopic processes classical mechanics is able to solve problems which are unmanageably difficult in quantum mechanics and hence remains useful and well used

Mechanics

Mechanics (Greek Μηχανική) is the branch of physics concerned with the behaviour of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effect of the bodies on their environment. The discipline has its roots in several ancient civilizations (see History of classical mechanics and Timeline of classical mechanics). During the early modern period, scientists such as Galileo, Kepler, and especially Newton, laid the foundation for what is now known as classical mechanics.

Mechanical

Mechanical engineering, a branch of engineering concerned with the application of physical mechanics
HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning), the mechanical systems of a building
Mechanical (character), one of several characters in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mechanical (Myst), one of the settings in the computer game Myst
Mechanical Animals, the third full-length studio release by Marilyn Manson
Mechanical license, used in the music industry to indicate the payment made from a licensee to the owner of a copyright for the right to mechanically reproduce a song
A kind of typeface in the VOX-ATypI classification
Mechanical is often used as a general term to distinguish from another class of item. Mechanical may mean:
Machine, especially in opposition to an electronic item
Mechanical watch, utilizing a non-electric mechanism
Mechanization, using machine labor instead of human or animal labor
Automation, using machine decisions and processing instead of human
Manufactured or artificial, especially in opposition to a biological or natural component
Mechanism (technology), a portion of a mechanical device

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