The Department of Mechanical Engineering came into its existence right from the inception of the KITSW in the year 1980 and has been serving as catering department to other disciplines. The Department is one of the largest in terms of faculty, students, and activities, continues to lead and expand its activities in various directions. The department currently runs undergraduate programme, one post graduate program in M. Tech Design Engineering and offering a Ph. D programme, 26 Research scholars have registered so far and out of which four candidates are awarded with Ph. D Degree and remaining are pursuing their Ph. D work in the areas of Thermal, Production, Materials and Design. The B. Tech (Mechanical Engineering) course was accredited five times by NBA.
Department has a total of 42 qualified, experienced and committed senior faculty and 19 of them are with Ph. D. degrees. Rest of faculty members possess M. Tech. Degrees and are pursuing their Ph.D. programmes and 10 skilled technical staff to associate with different laboratories. The faculty has been engaged in research in all the classical areas of Mechanical Engineering and upcoming areas like alternative fuels, solar energy, unconventional machining, composite materials, Nano Fluids and powder metallurgy. The department has got grants under MODROBS from AICTE, Minor Research Projects from UGC. The department is very well equipped with resources both in terms of conventional equipments and latest software's. Department has more than 180 computing systems and workstation loaded with wide range of engineering software products covering all areas of mechanical engineering like ANSYS,CFD,CREO,AUTOCAD, and EDGECAM. The department has a central workshop facility well equipped with the basic infrastructure to impart technical training to the students of all disciplines. The academic activities are supported by 15 laboratories and one Center of Excellence, IAAHP.
The Department has strong industry-institute linkage and is extending services for industrial consultancies. The students are consistently securing good ranks/scores in all competitive examinations like UPSC/GATE /GRE/CAT/GMAT/TOEFL/IELTS examinations. Alumni of the Department are spreaded over across the Globe.