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8 unusual facts about mechanical engineering


Beths Grammar School

There are six workshops in the department, with one dedicated to Electronics and another to Industrial Production; all workshops are used for Resistant Materials and D&T at Key Stage 3.

Bruce Molsky

His father, Milton, a mechanical engineer, was a first-generation American descendant of Jewish immigrants from Poland.

GP-1

It is possible to choose between six bikes, and six different engineers whose skills match the player's racing style.

Guthrey Centre

Both started their working career in Scotland, with John as a mechanical engineer in Glasgow, and Andrew as a civil engineer in Edinburgh.

HMS Sultan

HMS Sultan is the Marine Engineering training establishment and school of aircraft handling at Gosport, and is also home to the Defence College of Electro-Mechanical Engineering.

St Athan

This unit is home to the Special Forces Support Group, the DSG large aircraft maintenance unit and an element of the Defence College of Electro-Mechanical Engineering.

SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron

Jake Clawson (alias: Razor) (voiced by Barry Gordon) - The smaller member of the SWAT Kats, who is a mechanical genius.

William Speight

He trained as a mechanical engineer in his father's firm and emigrated to New Zealand in 1865 on the Maori.


ACEC California

As of February 2010 the membership includes nearly 1100 civil, structural, geotechnical, electrical and mechanical engineering and land surveying firms.

Ahmed Hamada

During the 2003 EgyKart Championship he managed to reach 4th position on the high but due to many absences in the championship due to his Mechanical Engineering Studies at the American University in Cairo, he finished off 8th in the Championship.

Ben Rich

After the war he started his college education when he was 21, majoring in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, followed by a master's degree in aeronautical engineering at UCLA, instead of in the medical field as he originally planned.

Charles Herbert Woodbury

After graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with degree in Mechanical Engineering), in 1886 Woodbury had great success painting up the New England coast and in the towns and beaches of Nova Scotia and exhibiting the results.

Ernesto Morgado

Ernesto M. Morgado has been awarded a Licentiate degree in Mechanical Engineering (1976) from Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) and a Master of Science in Computer Science (1981) and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (1986) from State University of New York at Buffalo.

Fabio Perini

In 1966 Perini founded in Lucca the Fabio Perini company, an individual mechanical engineering business specialized in design and manufacturing of industrial machinery for the paper making industry and the tissue converting industry.

Fausto Veranzio

When Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian-British philosopher and mathematician, moving from Berlin to England, began studying mechanical engineering in 1908, he was highly influenced by his reading of Renaissance technical treatises, particularly Veranzio's Machinae Novae.

Gary Dickinson

Dickinson earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Duke University in 1960, and was later a member and former president of the Dean's Council for the School of Engineering.

Homi J. Bhabha

This was due to the insistence of his father and his uncle Dorab Tata, who planned for Bhabha to obtain a degree in Mechanical engineering from Cambridge and then return to India, where he would join the Tata Steel Mills in Jamshedpur as a metallurgist.

IDEO

The firm employs over 550 people in the disciplines of human factors, mechanical, electrical and software engineering, industrial design, interaction design, and communication design.

Jesse Robredo

Robredo obtained his undergraduate degrees in Industrial Management Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at De La Salle University.

JNTUA College of Engineering, Pulivendula

The college started its first academic year with five branches of CSE, ECE, MEC, EEE and BioTech with an intake of about 300 students in the first batch.

John Alexander Douglas McCurdy

He was schooled at St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto in mechanical engineering in 1906, where he had been a member of The Kappa Alpha Society along with his friend Frederick W. Baldwin.

Kazuo Tsukuda

Tsukuda graduated from the School of Engineering of the University of Tokyo in 1968 with an advanced degree in marine mechanical engineering and joined Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) immediately after graduation.After years with the company he eventually became deputy general manager of Takasago Machinery Works and, later, general manager of Nagoya Machinery Works.

Kiran Seth

Kiran Seth (born 1949) is an Indian academician, Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi since 1976, and is most known as the founder of SPIC MACAY (1977), a non-profit organization which promotes Indian classical music, Indian classical dance, and other aspects Indian culture, amongst youth the world over; through its about 500 chapters and through conventions, baithaks, lectures and musical fests.

Madan Lal Dhingra

In 1906, Madan Lal departed for England to enroll at University College, London, to study Mechanical Engineering.

Martin Whitmarsh

Whitmarsh graduated from Portsmouth Polytechnic (now University of Portsmouth) with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1980, and started work at British Aerospace (now BAE Systems) as a structural analysis engineer at its Hamble-le-Rice facility.

MCKV Institute of Engineering

The institute provides four year Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degrees in Automobile Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.

Philippe Kruchten

In 1975, Kruchten received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France, an MA in Software Engineering in 1978 at the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications in Paris, and a PhD in computer science from the French Institute of Telecommunications in 1986.

Prithviraj Chavan

Chavan graduated in mechanical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and holds a Master of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Rational temperament

They usually seek careers involving systems—whether mechanical or electrical (as in engineering), organic (as in biology), social (as in psychology or sociology), or organizational (as in business or economics).

Rehabilitation engineering

While some rehabilitation engineers have master’s degrees in rehabilitation engineering, usually a subspecialty of Biomedical engineering, most rehabilitation engineers have undergraduate or graduate degrees in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering.

Robert Malpas

The son of Cheshyre Malpas and his wife Louise Marie Marcelle Malpas, he was educated at Taunton School and St George's College, Quilmes, Argentina, and then at the University of Durham, where he graduated BSc in Mechanical engineering with first class honours.

Robert Thirsk

His post-secondary education began with receiving a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Calgary in 1976, and continued with a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1978, an M.D. from McGill University in 1982, and his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1998 as a Sloan Fellow.

Serge Huo-Chao-Si

Serge Huo-Chao-Si studied in Saint-Denis, Réunion and in Lille, and graduated in mechanical engineering from high school on his native island.

Shekhar Chaudhuri

Chaudhuri graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 1972 with a B.Tech. (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering

In November 1984 the college was granted permission to conduct engineering courses in the disciplines of Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Computer Science Engineering, awarded by the University of Madras.

Srinath Rajendran

He is an alumni of Calicut University Institute of Engineering and Technology where he graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 2006.Further he went to Asian Academy of Film & Television in Noida.

Stationary engineer

The New York City Department of Buildings requires a Stationary Engineer's License to practice in the City of New York; to obtain the license one must pass a written and practical exam and have at least five years' experience working directly under a licensed stationary engineer, or three years if in possession of a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering.

Suhas Patankar

Patankar received his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pune in 1962 and his Masters of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1964.

Suman Chakraborty

Suman Chakraborty is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Tariq Mustafa

Tariq Mustafa is a graduate of University of London where he received his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in mechanical engineering with first class honours while also doing an engineering apprenticeship at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich.

Technological University of Pereira

The university offers studies in Engineering (Industrial engineering, Systems engineering and Computer science, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering); Science and Technology (Veterinary medicine, Medicine, Chemical technology, Industrial chemistry, Environmental management); Liberal arts (English, Spanish language and Literature, philosophy, Communication and Computer Education); Child pedagogy; and Sports science and recreation.

Ujjain Engineering College

Also Mechanical Engineering Branch of this college is considered to be the one of the best in Madhya Pradesh.

Ulrich Walter

Since 2003, he has been a full professor at the Technische Universität München (Munich, Germany), holding the chair of the Institute of Astronautics (space technology) at the University's faculty of mechanical engineering.

Waleed A. Samkari

Samkari attended Istanbul Technical University(1959–1965) where he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in mechanical engineering.

Wallace Rupert Turnbull

Wallace Turnbull graduated in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1893 and undertook post graduate work in physics at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany.

William A. Wilson

Wilson met his wife, Elizabeth "Betty" Johnson, at Stanford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1936 and a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1937 before marrying in 1938.

Yang Zili

He received an undergraduate degree from Xi'an Communications University (Xi'an Jiaotong University), and attended Peking University from 1995 to 1998, receiving a Master's Degree in mechanics (Mechanical Engineering).


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13274 Roygross

He is currently studying mechanical engineering at Drexel University and is working on the humanoid robot HUBO.

A.E. Muthunayagam

He was Co-ordinator for establishing ancillary Industrial units around the Space Centre in 1970, Referee to review papers for International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Pergamon Press, Newyork and Examiner of Post graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, for Kerala University, California University, B.I.T., Ranchi and I.I.T., Madras.

Ali Safina

Ali Safina was born in Multan, Pakistan then he moved to Oman with his parents where he completed his schooling; for higher education he went to Scotland and got a degree in mechanical engineering.

Alok Mittal

Born in Allahabad, Alok Mittal is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, from where he completed his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.

Amar Ghoul

In 1998, he gained a diploma from Oran where he became a Doctor of State Mechanical Engineering.

Anderson Mazoka

He attended Union College, where he graduated in 1969 with a degree in mechanical engineering.

Anne McClain

She is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (BS Mechanical Engineering); the University of Bath (MS Aerospace Engineering) and the University of Bristol (MS International Security), both in the United Kingdom.

Astra Manufacturing Polytechnic

Production engineering and Manufacturing Process: established in 1996 in cooperation with Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB).

Cadet College Lahore

Intermediate cadets apply direct for the Pre-Commission Cadetship Training in the Pakistan Military Academy Kakul, Pakistan Naval Academy Rahber Karachi, Pakistan Air Force Academy Risalpur, The Army Medical College for Pre-Medical Cadets and the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering College for Pre-Engineering Cadets.

Carl Rydquist

Rydquist earned a Master's Degree of Mechanical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology.

Consumer Electronics Association

Fry holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and an honorary doctorate degree from Santa Clara University.

Dash Navigation

They hired Sparkfactor Design for the Product Design (Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering).

Denis Redman

He was Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from 1960 to 1963 and therefore head of the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

Devrim II

A group of Eleven Engineering students from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechatronics Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering, named as Pak-Wheelers, from E&ME College of NUST participated in the Shell Eco-marathon Asia in July 2010 with their Hybrid Car.

Dinesh Keskar

Dr. Keskar received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology,Nagpur(India) with a Gold Medal in 1975.

Donald A. Hall

He attended the Manual Training High School in Brooklyn, and graduated from the Pratt Institute with a certificate in mechanical engineering in 1917.

Eduard Pestel

Pestel founded the chair of mechanics in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Haifa (Technion) in Israel.

Elsässische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden

After the takeover of Alsace-Lorraine by the German Empire in 1871, many Alsatians who considered themselves to be Frenchmen moved to the area around Belfort where, in 1872, the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (Alsatian Mechanical Engineering Company), SACM, was opened.

Frederick Morrell Zeder

Zeder originally got acquinted with Breer at Allis-Chalmers where they apprenticed at the same time in 1910 in mechanical engineering.

Harold G. Nelson

Harold G. Nelson (born 1943) is an American architect, consultant and Nierenberg Distinguished Professor of Design in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, President of the Advanced Design Institute and Affiliate Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington.

Harvey N. Davis

Harvey Nathaniel Davis obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, taught mathematics at Brown University and later returned to Harvard as a Professor of Physics and Mechanical Engineering.

Hiram Sibley

Sibley funded the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts, as well as the building which housed it, Sibley Hall, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Homayoun

Homayoon Kazerooni, a roboticist and Berkley professor of Mechanical Engineering

Iyiola Omisore

Later, he went to Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK where he earned a Post Graduate Certificate in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Sc degree in Building Services Engineering.

James Trane

Reuben Trane, James' son, earned a mechanical engineering degree (B. S. 1910) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and joined his father's plumbing firm.

Jastreb Vuk-T

Designed by Prof. Dr. Tomislav Dragović at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Aero Engineering Institute, University of Belgrade, the Vuk-T was manufactured by FAJ Jastreb in Vršac entirely from fiberglass.

John Lumley

John L. Lumley, Professor Emeritus, Graduate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering

Joseph K. Spiers

He received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University (where he was initiated into Phi Kappa Tau fraternity) and a master of science degree in aerospace engineering through the Air Force Institute of Technology program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1967.

Masayoshi Tomizuka

Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan in 1968 and 1970, and his Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 1974.

Michael DiMercurio

DiMercurio was a 1980 honors graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a B.S. in mechanical engineering, a 1981 National Science Foundation Scholarship fellow at MIT with a masters degree in mechanical engineering, and an officer in the U.S. Navy’s attack submarine force.

Nick Wirth

Wirth attended Sevenoaks School from 1977 to 1984 and has B.Sc(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering (First Class) from University College London and is the youngest-ever Fellow of the Royal Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Operation Sigma Sigma

The group offered the Sigma up to further development by other parties, selecting a proposal by David Marsden a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Alberta (on sabbatical at Cranfield Institute of Technology and a glider pilot holding records with his own glider designs such as the Marsden Gemini).

Sabina Jeschke

Sabina Jeschke (born 27 July 1968 in Kungälv, Sweden) is a German university professor for Mechanical Engineering at the RWTH Aachen University.

Sima Milutinović

Sima Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic:Сима Милутиновић) (12 July 1899, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina - 11 December 1981, Belgrade, Yugoslavia), was a mechanical engineer and a professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Belgrade, the most prolific Yugoslav aircraft constructor.

Simon Raab

He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, a Masters of Engineering Physics (Surface Physics) from Cornell University, USA, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Svetopolk Pivko

Svetopolk Pivko (Serbian Cyrillic: Светополк Пивко) (Maribor, Austria-Hungary, September 29, 1910 - Belgrade, Yugoslavia, October 13, 1987) was an engineer and professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade, was a colonel of the Yugoslav Air Force deputy commander of JRV, the founder and the first director of the Aeronautical Technical Institute in Žarkovo.

At the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering he held lectures in the following subjects: Statics, Kinematics, Dynamics, Vibration theory and Design, and at postgraduate degree courses he gave lectures in Analytical mechanics and Aerodynamic aircraft design.

Thomas McMurtry

Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, on 4 June 1935, McMurtry attended elementary school in Rockville, Indiana, and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in June 1957.

Tim League

Tim League graduated from Rice University in 1992 with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Art/Art History.

Tryggvason

Gretar Tryggvason, Professor and Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tuncer Őren

Ören received his MA in Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Istanbul, and his PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Arizona, under A. Wayne Wymore.

University Džemal Bijedić of Mostar

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University Džemal Bijedić of Mostar offers two-year and four-year degrees.

Vladimir Belić

In 1996 he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade, department of Thermal Engineering, meanwhile he became founder and youth coach of FC Volley from Vrnjačka Banja.

Zhang Guobao

He graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University with a mechanical engineering degree and became a senior engineer.

Zvi Hashin

In 2012, he won the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering, for his research on Micro-mechanics of failure of Fibre-reinforced plastic.