Welcome to the website of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at San Diego State University (SDSU), the largest university in San Diego, and the fifth largest in California. Nationally, SDSU ranks in the top 50 among all doctoral universities, based on the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index created by Academic Analytics. As the new Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, I take pride in the fact that our highly qualified faculty who are among the most productive in terms of scholarly publications are also among the most effective teachers in the College of Engineering and SDSU. This has created an environment where both graduate and undergraduate students are actively engaged in research at the cutting edge of mechanical sciences and engineering. We are proud to offer an ABET-accredited Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, as well as a variety of options for graduate study.

Our mission is to prepare our graduates to apply basic and advanced engineering knowledge and skills to the design, analysis and research of engineering systems; to prepare them to compete successfully in today's job market and for lifelong learning. We pride ourselves on an educational experience that emphasizes hands-on, team-based projects. While we provide instruction in the state-of-the-art tools in mechanical engineering, we also require a solid grounding in the fundamentals. Student design projects emphasize real-world experiences, and are often sponsored by industry.

For more detailed information about the laboratories, research activities, and expertise of our faculty, please explore their individual web pages. I hope you find the information at this site useful and interesting. Please feel free to email me any comments you may have about our website.

Monte Mehrabadi, Ph.D., ASME Fellow
Chair