Welcome to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (Deemed to be University) TIET, Patiala.
The department of Mechanical Engineering at TIET is one of the pioneering departments of the Institute and came into being in 1956 along with the establishments of Institute. In the last 68 years , the department has made a steady progress and growth in stature. The department offers three Bachelor’s courses: B.E. Mechanical Engineering (1956), B.E. Mechatronics Engineering (2012) and B.E. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (2023), a Master’s course: Mechanical Engineering with specialization in CAD/CAM Engineering and Thermal Engineering and a PhD programme in different specialized areas. The BE Mechanical Engineering and BE Mechatronics Engineering of the department are accredited by NBA and the B.E. Mechanical Engineering programme is also accredited by ABET.
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering is perhaps the broadest of all engineering disciplines and it involves a great deal of interdisciplinary works. Mechanical Engineers use the principles of science and knowledge of materials, design, thermal aspect and manufacturing to continuously develop new technologies and products. Creation of robots, autonomous vehicles, airplanes, vehicles, medical devices, micro sensors and many others require a considerable involvement of mechanical, mechatronics and robotics engineering.
B.E. Mechanical undergraduate programme is carefully crafted to offer elective focus in three major areas: Automotive Technologies, Robotics and Smart Manufacturing. B.E. Mechatronics & Robotics and AI undergraduate programmes are sensibly created to offer elective focus in seven major areas: Robotics and Edge AI (NVIDIA Collaboration), Robotics and Smart Industry (Festo Collaboration), Advanced Robotics, Automotive Technologies, Industry 4.0, Electronics and Instrumentation, Software
The department regularly revises its curriculum to align it with developments in technology and ever-growing needs of industry. There is a significant industry connect which helps us to make our teaching-learning processes more effective and industry oriented. As a part of the academic contemporization to bring our teaching standards and practices at par with the best in the world; our curriculum has been harmonized with Trinity College Dublin. This contemporization process also includes training of entire faculty of the department on educational technologies, joint research by faculty of two institutions and student exchange.
The department has well equipped labs which are regularly upgraded and modernized with latest equipment and software and the department has industry sponsored labs. The competent and experienced faculty of the department is extensively involved in cutting edge research; in addition to effective classroom teaching, they support beyond the classrooms and mentor the students for their careers. Faculty members also continuously work for their professional development by attending and organising conferences and faculty development programme.
We are committed to continuously improve every aspect of teaching-learning process and research on realise our vision- “To be among the top ten departments in the country for higher technical education of global standards in Mechanical, Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering and its specialities.”
