Tag: Mechanical Engineering
Snippets from the IISc Archives – Arcot Ramachandran
Making Things Work: 75 Years of Mechanical Engineering
Research and teaching aside, the Department has also contributed to the creation of many new programmes and centres on campus Times were tough for IISc in the 1930s. It faced a serious cash crunch – income from both the Mysore Government and JN Tata’s Bombay properties had dwindled. World War II was looming on […]
The Mechanics of Life
Scientists from IISc are addressing questions about the biological world using their engineering skills Most mechanical engineers do what we think they do – design and fabricate aircraft, machines, and other such human-made objects. But it turns out that some members of their tribe are also curious about how living things work. One of […]
Building a Testament to ME History
These photographs by Gouri Patil, a PhD student at IISc, capture the different physical locations that the department has inhabited Photos 1, 2 &3: Mechanical Engineering first took formal shape at IISc in the form of the Department of Power Engineering. The “PE building”, as it is still referred to today, was inaugurated in 1951 […]
