The Department was established in the year 1967. The department has been teaching Mechanical Engineering courses to the students of B Tech., M. Tech. and Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering, and catering the need of specialists in the areas of Thermal Engineering and Machine Design of various R & D organizations, teaching and research institutions, industries etc. The Department teaches 13 courses of total 35 credit hours to undergraduate students. The courses include Thermodynamics refrigeration and air conditioning, Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Drawing, Machine Design, Workshop Technology and Practice, Theory of Machines, Heat and Mass Transfer in food processing etc. So far 27 students have completed M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. The postgraduate courses taught by the department are Viscous Flow and Convective Heat Transfer, Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer, Thermal Environmental Engineering, Thermodynamics, Industrial Heat Transfer, Refrigeration Systems, Ideal Fluid Flow, Solar Energy Utilization, Steam Power Engineering. The Department has done commendable research work in the areas of thermal engineering and machine design.