Mechanical Engineering Department of IIT Delhi

Mechanical Engineering Department is one of
the oldest departments of the institute. It is
also one of the biggest departments of the
institute with student strength of about 650
which will touch approximately 900 in next few
years. While managing this increased strength
which is an urgent need of the nation,
department is committed to well being and all
round development of its students.The
department currently runs two undergraduate
programmes:
B. Tech. (Mechanical Engineering)
B. Tech. (Production & Industrial
Engineering)
Objective of the undergraduate programme is
to prepare the manpower that is globally best.
Most of the students, who graduate from the
department, end up taking leading positions in
industry, academia and government in both
India and abroad.
Department has currently four masters
programmes:
M. Tech. (Design of Mechanical Equipment)
M. Tech. (Industrial Engineering)
M. Tech. (Production Engineering)
M. Tech. (Thermal Engineering)
Along with other departments, Mechanical
Engineering Department was instrumental in
starting an interdisciplinary master's
programme in Power Generation Technology
which is completely sponsored by Industry.
Department also offers Master of Science
(Research) with more research content than
course content. Strength of department lies in
its Ph.D. Programme with more than 70
research scholars pursuing the programme.
Department is organized in terms of three
groups for academic and administration
purpose which are
Mechanical Design Group
Production & Industrial Engineering Group
Thermal Engineering Group
The department has faculty strength of 50 (37
in position and). Faculty members of the
department are also occupants of different
chairs of the institute which include BHEL
Chair, NTPC Chair and Mehra Chair.
Department has a technical staff of 43 who are
associated with 23 different laboratories.
Department also houses an institute central
facility on Rapid Prototyping. The department
is very well equipped with computational
facilities and resources both in terms of
hardware and software. Department has more
than 250 computing systems and workstations
loaded with wide range of software products
covering all areas of mechanical engineering.