Manufacturing is on the upswing in India due to competitive labour and material costs, availability of technically qualified manpower and familiarity with English language. For example presently India manufactures almost 1 lakh cars per month, 5 lakh two wheelers per month, which is 10 times more than what was manufactured 15 years ago. Leading automobile manufacturers like Toyota, Daimler Chrysler, General Motors started operations in India and focusing on making India as nodal export point. Software development activity, used very commonly in automobiles for design and analysis purposes, is being shifted to India taking advantage of our strengths in software development. For example Delphi Automotives, General Motors, Delmiya that are large MNCs are presently operating from Bangalore. Civil Aviation in India is poised for rapid expansion in the next few years, with several new private operators entering the field. Maintenance of civil aircraft would open up considerable challenges and opportunities to Mechanical Engineers.

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
The Department of Mechanical Engineering was started in the year 1979. Over the years it has grown into a full-fledged Department offering undergraduate and Post Graduate courses in Mechanical Engineering. It has so far graduated more than 2500 Mechanical Engineers who are contributing significantly to the development and running of various public and private organizations in India and abroad in the fields of Academics, Research, Industrial and Social sector.

DEPARTMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
The Department of Mechanical Engineering has an advisory council, having members from teaching and industry / research organizations. The council meets at least once in a semester to review and evaluate performance of the department and offer advice in needed areas.

               Council

Chairman	Prof. K. Muralidhar Head of the Department Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore-78
Secretary	Prof K. Prabhakar Professor Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore-78.
Member – R&D	R.Raghunath Scientist, A.D.E Bangalore
Member – Academic	Dr. B.K.Muralidhar Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering U.V.C.E., Bangalore.
Member – Industry	Dr. Sundarmurthy Director, Fe N Fe Industries Bangalore.

Departmental Infrastructure
The infrastructure facilities presently available at the department facilitate students to develop their skill and knowledge within the framework of curriculum prescribed by the Visvesvaraya Technological University

LABORATORIES
The department has following laboratories / workshops
     1)     Basic Workshop comprising of
              . Fitting Section
              . Sheet Metal Section
              . Welding Section
              . Carpentry Section
     2)     Material Testing Laboratory
     3)     Metrology & Measurements Laboratory
     4)     CAD/CAM & Robotics Laboratory
     5)     Foundry, Forging & Sand Testing Laboratory
     6)     Machine Shop
     7)     Energy Laboratory
     8)     Heat Transfer Laboratory
     9)     Fluid Machines Laboratory
   10)     Design Laboratory

HUMAN RESOURCES

(a) Faculty ·

TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS
The college arranges for technical field visits in conformity with the curriculumThe faculty and students have access to EDUSAT, a distance-learning programme – an initiative of the VTU, Belgaum. The faculty can access and browse textbooks and journals through DELNET and J-GATE, an open source for information promoted by the UGC and Ministry of Education, New Delhi. The faculty and students have unlimited and free access to INTERNET through the college Internet browsing centre. All these including representative Mechanical Engineering models available in the department contribute to the effective teaching-learning- process

COMPUTER CENTERS / INTERNET / SIS:
There is a centralized computer centre with a large number of computers with Internet facilities. Students have full access to the centre for their development and access to information. A well-developed Student Information System (SIS) is in place, where the faculty enters all the information with reference to student performance and attendance regularly enabling parents to monitor progress of their wards online.

STUDENT COUNSELLING – PROCTORIAL SYSTEM
The department has a well-designed proctorial system in tune with the institution policy. Students are grouped in batches and a proctor is assigned to look after their progress. The proctors interact continuously with the assigned students, monitor their progress & development based on feed back from the concerned faculty on aspects like: attendance, performance in tests and examinations.

Alumni interaction:
Alumni meetings are organized in the college at periodic intervals. Response has been encouraging as seen from the active participation of our former students. Efforts are on to connect other mechanical engineering alumni and explore greater interaction.

Quality admissions:
Quality of Admissions can be by the gauged from ranks obtained in the Common Entrance Test (CET) conducted by Government of Karnataka. Students between top 17 % to 35 % of CET rankings have been seeking admission to the department in the general category.
100% Results
Faculty take extra care in the students and the knowledge delivery process throughout the course period. These dedicated and concentrated efforts have culminated in obtaining 100 percent results in the final year for the department. During the last two years, all the students completed the B.E. degree course with distinction securing more than seventy percent of the total marks. A very large number of Final year students have secured first class with distinction (FCD) in the VTU examinations held during May 2004. The goal is now to be in tune with this trend and achieve top honours at the university level

PLACEMENT:
A good number of companies visit the campus to recruit graduating students. A partial list of recruitment for 2005 are as follows:

RESEARCH ACTIVITY:
Formalities for obtaining recognition of the department also as an R & D centre is through, facilitating opening up avenues for conducting basic and applied research. Two doctoral degree holders and three members of the faculty working for their doctoral degree are engaged in research, indicating the scientific temper that exists in the department.
The department has established contacts with NAL, Bangalore to undertake Post-graduate project works in the fields of wind turbines and composite leaf springs. It is planned to establish research facilities to validate theoretical results with experimentation in the fields of Metal Matrix composites, Flow over blades, Effect of Reynold’s number on the performance of blades etc. Currently, the department has installed advanced software package NASTRON to carry out analytical studies.

Papers Published in Journals:
A Technical paper by C.P.S.Prakash , Asst.Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, DSCE, on Metal Cutting was published in Manufacturing Technology Today (MTT),CMTI, a NICMAP Publication, Volume 4 ,Issue 3,March 2005

List of Publications by Faculty in 2005