The undergraduate program is a 4-year, 144 credit units program. The emphasis is geared toward producing engineers that has the ability to do research, design, development, testing, control, and manufacture many different equipments or devices. This requirement comes from the fact that mechanical engineering still plays a major role in energy utilization and conservation, in renewable/bio energy, in heating and air conditioning, refrigeration and cryogenics, in the transportation and automotive fields, and in the fields of automation, fluid machinery, production, and processing machinery including petroleum and chemical fields, and consumer goods and appliances.