The mission of the Mechanical Engineering Department is to impart the best theoretical and practical knowledge to the students and to produce Technocrats, Entrepreneurs and Intellectual Experts to meet the global engineering and technological needs.
We at Department of Mechanical Engineering serve a dedicated purpose of acquiring and exchanging technical knowledge and also work for the uplift of the society through research and development.
The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of an engineer's calculations as are the symbols indicating feet, minutes, pounds, or gallons. … This statement, while true in regard to the work of all engineers, applies particularly to that of the mechanical engineer...
— Henry R(obinson) Towne
"Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society..."
—Dean Gordon Brown; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962)
"The activity characteristic of professional engineering is the design of structures, machines, circuits, or processes, or of combinations of these elements into systems or plants and the analysis and prediction of their performance and costs under specified working conditions."
—M. P. O'Brien (1954)