About the department
Mechanical Engineering is one of BIET's founding departments, teaching since 1979 at an intake raised from 60 to 120 on demand from industry and research institutes. It houses a research centre and a product development cell, is affiliated to VTU and approved by the Institution of Engineers (India), and has been accredited three times by the National Board of Accreditation.
State and central agencies - AICTE, DST, UGC, DBT, ICSSR, VGST, KSCST and KSBDB among them - have funded work here to Rs 197.45 lakh. Thirteen scholars have been awarded doctorates by VTU and thirteen more are registered, working on composites, alternative fuels, electronic engine management, fracture mechanics and precision engineering. As one of the largest and oldest departments, its workshops also serve the B.E., M.Tech and PhD work of other departments, and its graduates go into industry and into research institutions of international standing.
Vision & mission
The department endeavors to be a center of excellence, to provide quality education leading the students to become professional mechanical engineers with ethics, contributing to the society through research, innovation, entrepreneurial and leadership qualities. Keywords: Center of Excellence, Ethics, Research, Innovation, Entrepreneurial and Leadership.
Mission
- 01To impart quality technical education through effective teaching-learning process leading to development of professional skills and attitude to excel in Mechanical Engineering.
- 02To interact with institutes of repute, to enhance academic and research activities.
- 03To inculcate creative thinking abilities among students and develop entrepreneurial skills.
- 04To imbibe ethical, environmental friendly and moral values amongst students through broad based education.
Objectives
Programme Educational Objectives(PEO)
- 01Enable to understand mechanical engineering systems those are technically viable, economically feasible and socially acceptable to enhance quality of life.
- 02Apply modern tools and techniques to solve real problems in mechanical and allied engineering streams.
- 03Communicate effectively using innovative tools, to demonstrate leadership and entrepreneurial skills.
- 04Be a professional having ethical attitude with multidisciplinary approach to achieve self and organizational goals.
- 05Utilize the best academic environment to create opportunity to cultivate lifelong learning skills needed to succeed in profession.
Programme Specific Outcomes(PSO)
- 01Apply the acquired knowledge in design, thermal, manufacturing and interdisciplinary areas for solving industry and socially relevant problems.
- 02To enhance the abilities of students by imparting knowledge in emerging technologies to make them proficient mechanical engineers.
Head of department
Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering, with 26 years of teaching. BE from BIET (1991) and a Master's in thermal power engineering from PDACE Gulbarga (1997), with a VTU doctorate in 2012. He was PG coordinator for M.Tech (TPE) from 2017 to 2020 and became Professor in 2019. He guides three doctoral students, has seen three through under VTU, and has published 58 research articles. A life member of ISTE and a member of the Institution of Engineers, he has been warden of the BIET boys' hostel since 2014.
Faculty & staff
Infrastructure
Placement
| Year | Companies | Placed · In-campus | Placed · Off-campus | Total | Highest package |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 6 LPA |
| 2025 | 13 | 28 | 0 | 28 | 5 LPA |
| 2024 | 20 | 46 | 4 | 50 | 4 LPA |
| 2023 | 30 | 35 | 6 | 41 | 6 LPA |
Distinguished alumni
Girish R
Rajesh Pawar
Shobanbabu S. Talanki
Amit Kishore
SWOT
The department’s own assessment of where it stands, as published for accreditation.
- Qualified, dedicated and stable, with excellent academic backgrounds
- Well established department functioning since more than 40 years
- Strong research focus-publications, R & D projects
- Research funding ( Rs : 1.9 crores since beginning)
- Papers published ( 80 till date)
- Students Projects
- KSCST: More than 50 student projects
- VGST and AICTE: More than 20 Research projects
- NAIN : 03 Research projects
- A well-structured laboratory practices
- A strong professional component
- Well Equipped laboratory, library and IT Facilities
- Students are well trained to get good placement
- Oral and written communication skills
- Integrated design experience and real world applications
- More creative and independent laboratory experience
- Lack of motivation to excel
- Inadequate training in critical or analytical thinking
- Lack of active learning
- Technologies that do not require extensive industrial infrastructure (virtual labs)
- Information based technologies
- Use of technology for teaching large classes
- Possibility of re-designing curriculum and by-laws to allow multi-disciplinary teaching and learning
- Possibility of utilizing e-learning and distance education
- Readiness to accept changes
- Alumni support
- Emerging local and regional private colleges
- Accessibility of international institutions via distance education
- Fast pace of developments in technology (e.g. IT, emerging new fields)
- Opening up of engineering education to foreign universities ( and investments)
- Lack of sufficient number of quality students with strong interest in engineering
- Inadequate
- The quality of teaching staff