The Department of Mechanical Engineering came into existence in 1919 under the leadership of Professor Charles A. King, the first Head of the Department and Principal of the erstwhile Banaras Engineering College (BENCO). Over the last eighty years the Department has grown four folds to become the largest department in the Institute of Technology as well as in the Banaras Hindu University. In the last five years, the Department has produced 232 graduates, and 93 post-graduates. Apart from this the Department has to its credit 7 Ph.D.s. awarded during the period 1995-2000. The post graduate and doctoral programme in the Department is well established and infrastructural facilities exist for studies and research in a wide range of specialisation which include Machine Design, Production Engineering, Heat Power Engineering & Industrial Management. The faculty is well qualified with a vast experience in various fields of Mechanical Engineering.