The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Altinbas University offers its students a flexible curriculum structure, allowing them to develop themselves in their own areas of interest. Ability to view problems from a wide perspective, problem solving and communication skills, teamwork, social responsibility, awareness in environmental issues and ethics are emphasized in the curriculum. To this end, students are offered a high number of elective courses and learning by doing and application oriented learning are emphasized. We aim for our students to be able to create novel knowledge and utilize this knowledge with the purpose of improving the present and future scientific and technological progress; in this perspective, the department seeks for its graduates to receive the necessary knowledge and basic research capability in the field of mechanical engineering, to possess creative and critical thinking skills, to have the engineering ethics and social responsibility, to aim for the life-long research, learning and self-development principles.