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department has been accredited by National Board of Accreditation.
Mechanical Engineering is versatile and evergreen branch of
engineering. A Mechanical Engineer can work in various specialized
areas like Automotive Systems, Bio Engineering, Combustion and
Propulsion, Design Engineering, Dynamic Systems and Controls,
Energy Systems and Thermodynamics, Fluid Power Engineering,
Heat Transfer, Refrigeration & Air conditioning and most
importantly in software field also. The department has most
modern CAD/CAM/CAE center. The department has high end softwares
like NASTRAN/PATRAN, ANSYS 6.0 for solid modeling, mechanism
and manufacturing, Cadian Mech 2004, AUTODESK INVENTOR series,
FLUENT for CFD etc. The department has nine laboratories, well
equipped with modern equipments such as Steam Power Plant, Refrigeration
and Air Conditioning Test rigs, Auto collimator Angle dekkor,
Gear tester, Friction wear test rig etc. The department has
undertaken a project to develop HCFC free room air conditioner.
The department is offering postgraduate program in Design Engineering
and Heat Power Engineering. From last academic year Ph.D. Programme
also has been started.
The department has conducted a few
software training workshops for engineering teachers and engineers
from industry.
The department has been approached
by an international company Eclipse(India)Ltd. Industrial
BurnerTechnology to design and conduct a training course
for its engineers.
Only this department among all the Pune University
affiliated colleges is conducting an elective course on Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for its final year students.
Dr. M. S. Loknath
Head Of Department |