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UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY- TAXILA / UNDERGRAD PROSPECTUS 2011
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FACULTY OF MECHANICAL AND AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
THE DEPARTMENT
Mechanical Engineering is a highly versatile and diversified engineering discipline. On one hand it is concerned with the design
of machines and equipment that use energy and convert it into useful work. On the other hand it deals with the design and
development of those machines that are used for manufacturing, production and process equipment.
The department offers four years degree program leading to BSc in Mechanical Engineering. At present, around 600 students in
BSc, 150 students in MSc and 60 students in PhD are enrolled in the program.
COURSES OF STUDY
The Mechanical Engineering courses are built on a strong
foundation of mathematical, physical and computing sciences.
Emphasis is laid on the fundamental concepts and principles,
which constitute the basis of mechanical engineering practice.
The curriculum is designed to cover a broad range of areas. The
department offers a series of courses in the following areas:
Thermal Systems Engineering
Applied Mechanics and Design
Manufacturing Processes Engineering
Computer based Mechanical Engineering
Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Engineering Management
The courses in Thermal Engineering include applied
Thermodynamics, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Heat
and Mass Transfer, Power Plant, Fluid Mechanics and Gas
Dynamics. The department offers a wide range of courses in
Applied Mechanics and Design. Starting from a basic course in
Engineering Statics, a series of courses is offered in Mechanics
of Materials and Mechanics of Machines. These theoretical
concepts are fostered in a series of Machine Design courses
enabling the students to try their skills and design small
mechanical equipment. Product design is of no use without
product development studies. Manufacturing Processes
Engineering deals with the smart and economical product
development methodologies. Students start with Workshop
Technology in this area. Successive courses in Engineering
Materials, Manufacturing Processes and Production
Automation provide the students further insight to this
area. Additional courses like Engineering Management and
Economics in senior year introduce students to the efficient
management of the productive resources. Computer based
mechanical engineering concepts have been embedded in
various courses like Computer Programming, Machine Design,
CAD and Thermo-Fluids Engineering etc.
The University has a rich industrial neighborhood. The students
have the opportunity to make maximum use of this industrial
environment by engaging themselves in short term as well
as long term training. These industries include HIT, HMC, POF,
PAF complex at Kamra, HEC, KSB, TIP, CTI, ARL, OGTI, Railway
Carriage Factory, Research Establishments of PAEC, NESCOM
and a large number of units in the Hattar area. The students
pick real world problems either for their semester papers or
as final year project from these organizations and brush their
skills.
The department is offering Masters Degree program since
1983. A large number of engineering graduates have made use