Mechanical Engineering Department was one of the first few programs that were started since the inception of the college in the year 1995 with an intake of 60 students has now grown exemplarily with an admirable intake of more than 700 students and 54 highly qualified and dedicated faculty. The department takes august responsibility in organizing guest lectures, seminars, workshops and training programs with the help of engineers and academicians of national and international repute to help students to keep abreast with the latest developments in the field of mechanical engineering. The Department has excellent facilities for research. Faculty members and students publish their research papers in Journals and Conferences of international repute.. Students regularly visit Industries and significant places for learning. CII-AICTE survey of industry linked technical institutions 2015 has placed the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the first position at all India level.
The department has well-established Laboratories like thermal engineering lab, Heat transfer lab, steam lab, computer aided design lab, and Computer aided manufacturing lab, mechatronics lab, strength of materials lab, fluid mechanics and machinery lab, dynamics lab, metrology lab, manufacturing technology lab 1, manufacturing technology lab 2 and basic workshop (Sheet metal/Carpentry/Welding/foundry).
To add credit, the department has produced more Anna ranks in the university examinations than any other college in Tamilandu and fetched gold medals three times. The faculty and students have publications in the reputed National and International Journals. The placement record of the department has always been impressive. Students regularly visit Industries and undergo in-plant training. Students are encouraged to actively participate in professional society activities in which real time all-Terrain vehicles are fabricated through events like BAJA, EBAJA, EFFICYCLE, SUPRA, Formula vehicle events namely GOKART and SOLARIS and able to win many prizes.