Mechanical engineers are concerned with the devices and phenomena related to the generation, transmission, application and control of power. Mechanical engineering grew up with the industrial revolution and is today the broadest of the engineering disciplines, encompassing many diverse activities and fields of interest. Mechanical engineers may be involved with research and development, design, manufacturing, sales, application and service or administration and management as well as teaching and cons ulting. Their fields of interest include solid mechanics, materials, fluid mechanics, acoustics, heat transfer and thermodynamics, combustion, control systems, manufacturing, CAD/CAM and robotics or combinations of these as is often the case in the desig n and development work of complex projects. As examples, one may cite space technology, the investigation of alternate energy from renewable resources, the development of completely automated factories through robotics, biotechnologies, micro and nano devices. At The Albert Nerken School of Engineering, the mechanical engineering faculty and the students have been and continue to be involved in these and other exciting new developments through their project work, research or consulting.