BACKGROUND OF THE DEPARTMENT
Mechanical Engineering Department of Wolaita Sodo University has been established in July 2012, with the objective of responding to the need for rapid industrialization and the changing societal needs of the country for sustainable development. The department believes in cultivating the full potential of students, and the advancement of all forms of knowledge keeping i
n pace with international standards of academic quality, including the high skilled employment needs presented by a growing economy operating in global environment. OBJECTIVES
The objective of the Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Program is to provide broad-based educational training in mechanical engineering and its applications leading to a Bachelor of Science Degree. Its goal is to enable graduates to meet the challenges of the engineering profession in a rapidly changing environment that exists in a developing country like Ethiopia. These challenges require the ability to apply existing knowledge in new ways thereby creating new systems and opportunities as well as adapting existing technology to local production conditions. These require the ability to manage service, maintain and improve upon existing systems. Vision
“To impart futuristic technical education and instill high patterns of discipline through dedicated staff who shall set global standards, making our students technologically superior and ethically strong, who in turn shall improve the quality of life of human race in general and our own people in particular.”
Goals
- To Develop future professionals with problem identification/solving skills and positive attitudes to serve the society
-To produce technically sound and practically competent engineers of global standard.
-To train professionals equipped with relevant knowledge and skills, who would contribute to the development of the country.
-To bring out professionals who are not mere government expectants for jobs, but job creators.
-Reorient the education system to be more practical, research oriented and problem solving.
-To address the demands of the new education policy of the country
