About Department of Mechanical Engineering

The Department of Mechanical Engineering was established to produce graduates with core knowledge and skills required by Mechanical Industries and Research Institutes. Mechanical engineering is one of the basic engineering branches. It deals with design and development of all kinds of machines. Through innovation and inventions, it has given humanity at large comfort and safety for life.

At SGU, we have state of the art infrastructure and laboratories with total investment in equipments of more than one crore. Taking into consideration the requirements of industry and research organization we have developed all our labs.

Mechanical engineering deals with the concepts of mechanics, thermodynamics, robotics, kinematics, structural mechanics, fluid mechanics, power sector, refrigeration, air conditioning sector and aerospace. This field of engineering is the broadest of all engineering fields, job prospects on offer for skilled engineer are plenty and unending. They can find employment in both government as well as private sector. Mechanical engineers are required to design, test, manufacture, install, operate and maintain a wide array of machines and mechanical systems that are used in industries. There is a great scope of job avenues for mechanical engineers in India.

Few of them are listed below:

• Automobile and auto part manufacturers
• Aerospace industry
• Various Government sector undertakings
• Aviation companies
• Steel plants
• Thermal plants and gas turbine manufacturers
• Air conditioning and refrigeration industry
• Shipping industry
• Engineering consultancies
• Armed forces