Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is a scientific, research and educational organization, which has been active for more than four decades. Lot of full time and part time students study in the programmes of Mechanical Engineering, Textile, Design and Textile Materials, Mechatronics, Industrial Engineering, higher professional level of Mechanical and Textile Engineering, and in postgraduate studies of programmes of Mechanical Engineering and Textile Engineering.
New study programmes cover the knowledge of new courses of industrial design, environmental engineering, industrial engineering, mechatronics, mechanical engineering, eco-textile engineering, cloth engineering and industrial engineering in textile. Industrial engineering is an established profession which is constantly gaining importance.
The ever more insensitive cooperation of the Faculty with industry requires a correct scientific and research direction of faculty. The research results are transferred to different branches of Slovenian mechanical engineering, metal processing and textile industry.
The Faculty is one of the most successful members of University measured by success of the undergraduate students as well as by the number of postgraduate students, by its income or laboratory equipment. After all there are numbers of internationally acknowledged professors who take part in a well organized international exchange and cooperation.