Creativity combined with technical knowledge characterizes the classroom spirit in the department.
The application end of mechanical engineering is stressed in laboratory work and senior projects. A typical assignment might be for students to arrive at five solutions to building a vehicle powered by a mousetrap. Undergraduates put classroom solutions to the test in labs that support experimentation in Fluid Flow, Mechanics of Materials, Machine Dynamics, Vibrations, Heat Transfer, Energy Conversion, Instrumentation, Data Acquisition and Robatics.