Mechanical engineering is a very broad field. It encompasses machines, materials, energy, manufacturing, automation, biomedical engineering, aerospace and more. The department’s expertise and programs fully cover this breadth, offering students a broadly based education and a wide range of career choices.
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The department, founded in 1967, offers undergraduate as well as research and graduate programs in mechanical engineering and biomedical mechanical engineering.

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Programs
Undergraduate programs

Biomedical mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering
Graduate programs

Advanced Material Manufacturing

Mechanical Engineering
Research
The Department of Mechanical Engineering accepts around 200 new undergraduate students and 100 graduate students a year.
It currently has 21 full-time professors and four emeritus professors, who are actively pursuing research in cutting edge laboratories and supervising graduate students in six strong research programs: advanced materials and manufacturing engineering, biomedical engineering, solid mechanics and design engineering, dynamics, controls, automation and robotics, aeronautical engineering, thermal and fluids engineering.
Department research areas
Aeronautical and space engineering encompasses all aspects of aerodynamics, aircraft and spacecraft design, flight stability and propulsion. It also includes structural design, fluid/structure interactions, advanced materials, vibrations and controls — in short, most activities in the field of mechanical engineering.
Researchers
Thermal and fluids engineering is the foundation of almost all energy conversion processes. It plays a major role in aeronautics, biomedical engineering, chemical processes and manufacturing. The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers broad coverage of this field, with major research initiatives in aerodynamics, combustion, nuclear engineering and gas turbine engines.
Researchers
Research chairs
Isabelle Catelas
Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Orthopaedics for the Study of Musculoskeletal Diseases
Catherine Mavriplis
NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering and Professor
Stavros Tavoularis
Endowed and Sponsored Research Chairs HPCVL - Sun Microsystems Chair in Computational Science and Engineering