About Department of Mechanical Engineering,
IIT Guwahati
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is one of the largest and oldest
departments of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. It started in 1995 with an
intake of 16 students. Presently, it has about 400 undergraduate and 450 postgraduate students. There are about 45 faculty members in the department.
Department offers a B.Tech. program in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Tech.
Program in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in the following five
streams: (1) Aerodynamics and Propulsion, (2) Manufacturing Science and
Engineering, (3) Computational Mechanics, (4) Machine Design, and (5) Fluids and
Thermal. It has about 250 Ph.D. students working in the cutting edge areas of
mechanical engineering.
Department of Mechanical Engineering has a state-of-the-art workshop and
several laboratories. A mechatronics laboratory was well established in 2000 itself.
Presently, a number of projects are being executed in the area of mechatronics and
robotics. In the manufacturing area, research activities are going on welding, metal
forming, and advanced manufacturing such as laser-based manufacturing and
additive manufacturing. There is a strong group of Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD) in the department; experimental activities are also being pursued to validate
CFD models. Research is being carried out in microfluidics also. There are some
faculty members actively working in the area of energy; they are also associated
with the Energy Center of the institute. Other active research areas are finite element
method, nonlinear vibration, composites, and material science.
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IIT Guwahati
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is one of the largest and oldest
departments of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. It started in 1995 with an
intake of 16 students. Presently, it has about 400 undergraduate and 450 postgraduate students. There are about 45 faculty members in the department.
Department offers a B.Tech. program in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Tech.
Program in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in the following five
streams: (1) Aerodynamics and Propulsion, (2) Manufacturing Science and
Engineering, (3) Computational Mechanics, (4) Machine Design, and (5) Fluids and
Thermal. It has about 250 Ph.D. students working in the cutting edge areas of
mechanical engineering.
Department of Mechanical Engineering has a state-of-the-art workshop and
several laboratories. A mechatronics laboratory was well established in 2000 itself.
Presently, a number of projects are being executed in the area of mechatronics and
robotics. In the manufacturing area, research activities are going on welding, metal
forming, and advanced manufacturing such as laser-based manufacturing and
additive manufacturing. There is a strong group of Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD) in the department; experimental activities are also being pursued to validate
CFD models. Research is being carried out in microfluidics also. There are some
faculty members actively working in the area of energy; they are also associated
with the Energy Center of the institute. Other active research areas are finite element
method, nonlinear vibration, composites, and material science.
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