The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Nis (FME) is an educational and scientific research institution, which with its scientific potential contributes to the development and transfer of new, primarily industrial technologies, nurturing technical culture, creating and evaluating scientific results and educating young people.
The basic research areas that belong to the technical and technological sciences are: Production and information technologies, Mechatronics and management, Mechanics, Thermotechnics, thermoenergetics and process engineering, hydroenergetics, mechanical structures and engineering, transport.
At the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Niš, research is also carried out in the fields of mathematics and social sciences.