Plan and research fields

A- Current short-term plan (up to 3 years):

1. Basic research in the fields of mechanical engineering
2. Traditional, new and renewable energy systems including energy storage and performance of conventional and alternative fuel engines
3. New and composite materials and their various applications
4. Water desalination (manufacturing of hollow fiber membranes equipment and membrane distillation)
5. Environmental engineering addressing noise pollution and reducing polluting emissions to the environment

B- Future and long-term plan (up to 10 years):

1. Development of basic research in the fields of mechanical engineering
2. Designing and evaluating the performance of conventional, new and renewable energy systems, various applications, automated control, operations research, noise and air pollution
3. Develop and modify internal combustion engines to suit alternative fuels such as natural gas and bio-fuels and improve efficiency to reduce pollution from harmful exhaust gases
4. Theoretical and applied research of new and complex materials and their various uses
5. Theoretical and applied research in bio-mechanics
6. Theoretical and applied research in air flow control
7. Water desalination technologies

C- Research areas in the department

1. Traditional and new energies (integrated energy systems)
2. Mechanical design, stress analysis and new materials
3. Turbine machines (gas and air turbines, pumps, gas and air compressors)
4. Project evaluation and development and environmental performance (noise and air pollution)
5. Automatic control
6. Analysis of vibration of mechanical systems
7. Applied Mechanics (Fluid Flow Control – Bio-mechanics – …)