Mechanical Engineering at Vishwabharati

The Mechanical Engineering Department at Vishwabharati Academy was established in 2008. In

more recent times, the department has been known for its research contributions in the fields of
control theory, manufacturing, thermo fluids, and biomechanics. Faculty members have given
keynote lectures in national and international conferences and received best-paper awards and
professional-society awards. All faculty members are active in research with many serving as
editors and associate editors of professional journals and as leaders in professional societies.
We are a small department with an undergraduate student-faculty ratio of less than 10 to 1 and a
graduate ratio of about 7 to 1. This allows our students to participate actively in the learning
process and provides opportunities for involvement in design competitions, projects, and
research. The mechanical-engineering program at Columbia University is designed to allow
students to take advantage of the unique and outstanding liberal-arts education provided by
Columbia College. An undergraduate has 27 points of nontechnical requirements and many of
our faculty members have received teaching awards.
The undergraduate laboratories occupy an area of approximately 6,000 square feet of floor space
and are the site of experiments ranging from basic instrumentation and fundamental exercises to
more advanced experiments using its state-of-the-art equipment. The Computer-Aided Design
Lab has software tools for design, CAD, FEM, and CFD. The Mechatronics Laboratory has
facilities for the construction and testing of analog and digital electronic circuits and gives
students the opportunity for hands-on experience with microcomputer-embedded control of
electromechanical systems.

Research facilities are located within individual or group research laboratories in the department
and these facilities are being continually upgraded. To view the current research activities, please
visit the various laboratories within the research section of the departments Web site. Through
their participation in NSF-MRSEC, the faculty and students also have access to shared
instrumentation and the Clean Room located in the Shapiro Center for Engineering and Physical
Science Research. In recent years, new research laboratories have been added for nanotube
science, optical nanostructures, nanomechanics, nonlinear and autonomous vehicle control,
medical robotics, microscale transport phenomena, and microfluidics.