The Department of Mechanical Engineering, through teaching, research and extension, develops scientific and professional knowledge of mechanical engineering, being organized into three functional areas: Solids and Project Mechanics; Thermofluids, Mechanical Processes and Production and Computational Mechanics.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is the academic unit whose mission is aimed at developing teaching, research and extension in the scientific and professional field of mechanical engineering, training highly qualified professionals with a marked social commitment.

The Department has its origin in the University School of the former State Technical University (1959), with the structure of the Teaching Council for the specialty of Mechanics. Subsequently, this Council would become a Department, maintaining a Department-Career structure, in which capacity it would be responsible for attending to the nascent Mechanical Execution Engineering career (D.U 999 of 12/27/66), from which the first 16 professionals would graduate. the year 1968.