Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

What Drives Us?

Mechanical engineers use the principles of energy, materials, and mechanics to design and manufacture machines and devices of all types. We explore how matter behaves at extremes and poke at the boundary between human activity and what machines can do. Traditional career pathways have broadened into new opportunities in biomechanics, high-performance computing, infrastructure systems, materials, and frontiers of human-machine interfaces for the benefit of humankind.

Students working in thermofluidics lab.

Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering is the largest major in the college, with 205 BS degrees awarded in 2017-18. More than 1,000 students are enrolled in our undergraduate program.

Undergraduate Program
MEM alumnus James Hing, PhD, scores a PECASE award, and shares the credit broadly.

Alumnus Goes to the White House

MEM alumnus James Hing, PhD, scores a PECASE award, and shares the credit broadly.

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One of the nation’s most prestigious business conferences selects Christopher Lee to represent Drexel Engineering.

Senior Selected for Forbes Under 30 Summit

One of the nation’s most prestigious business conferences selects Christopher Lee to represent Drexel Engineering.

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Quick Facts

1019
Total number of students enrolled
$720
Average weekly co-op wage for MEM students
$3,000,000
2019 total departmental amount of research expenditures

Student Organizations

American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Drexel Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Association (DBUA)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
Pi Tau Sigma (PTS)
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The Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Seminar Series brings noted scientists and engineers to campus. See some of our recent speakers from universities and government agencies.