The department seeks to combine excellence in education and research with service to the industry. MEIE offers two degree programs namely Mechanical B.Eng program and Industrial B.Eng program. The department together with the department of the Electrical and Computer Engineering are currently running the Mechatronics program that accepted its first intake from cohort 2002.

Mechanical engineers design, manufacture maintain and control machines ranging from micro-actuators to robots and to vehicles, design engines, actuators  and power plants that drive these machines, analyze the environmental impact associated with power generation. To achieve their goals, mechanical engineers study a combination of mathematics, physics and chemistry, along with engineering courses in areas such as fluid mechanics, heat transfer, dynamics, controls, environmental sciences, and electro-mechanical systems.

Industrial Engineering on the other hand is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skills in mathematical, physical, and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design to specify, predict and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems. 

Mechatronics engineering is the design of computer-controlled electromechanical systems. As its name implies, mechatronics involves a blurring of the traditional mechanical and electrical/computer engineering fields.