Mechanical Engineering

The mission of the department generally includes the following themes:
1. Educational Mission: To provide students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, with a high level of academic experience to make them capable of competing and leading in different work areas.
2. Research Mission: To develop and improve research and innovative abilities of engineering science through encouraging students to present research papers in some disciplines from the first to the final stages of education, so they can make use of the latest data collecting technologies, such as the Internet and the electronic library.
3. Service Mission: To provide engineering consultations and specialized courses for community service and improving the skills of technicians, administrators, and engineers in the fields of industry, services and environment projects at the local and regional levels.

Mechanical Engineering Department seeks to achieve scientific and technological leadership at the level of Libya through establishing comprehensive programs that keep pace with the international scientific and technological developments in the field of mechanical engineering. Therefore, there are serious studies by the board of the department to include other disciplines that keep pace with the advanced technological development in the world, such as nanotechnology, biomechanics, mechatronics.