The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers M.Tech in Machine Design, autonomous and affiliated to the Visvesvaraya Technological University. Principles and Techniques for designing machines, mechanisms, power generation units, automobiles, is a specialized activity of machine designer from an engineer’s perspective. A design engineer may have been trained as an engineer (mechanical, electrical, controls, etc.), a physicist, a chemist, a biologist, a material scientist, a computer scientist or even a machinist.A really good engineer is knowledgeable in all those fields in addition to knowing much about dimensional metrology. A designer crosses many disciplines and a machine designer often requires multi-disciplinary teams in industries. Industry leaders have learned that to maintain a competitive advantage in the global market place, one must continually improve their activities. But efforts to implement change must be weighed against the constant pressure of lower margins, higher demand and what seems to be a continually shrinking pool of resources. Designers or machine design engineers are educated and guided in this perspective to develop new products and processes with maximum optimization.