The State Scientific Institution “Joint Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus” (further - Joint Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus) was established by decision of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus dated May 17, 2006 № 45 as a result of reorganization of the Institute of Mechanics and Reliability of Machiny of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in the form of annexation the Scientific and Engineering Republican Unitary Enterprise “Belavtotractorostroyeniye” to it.

August 17, 1957 is considered to be the day of establishment of the Joint Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus when by decision of the Council of Ministers of the BSSR the Institute of Machine Study of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR was established.

Joint Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is leading research centre in the sphere of mechanics and mechanical engineering. Two centers of collective sharing are functioning by it: the Republican Machine Engineering Computer Center and the Centre of Structural Research and Tribo-Mechanical Test of Materials and Machine-Building Output.

At the present time two Heroes of Belarus are working in the Joint Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Among researchers there are one academician, three associate members, fifteen doctors and fifty-nine candidates of technical science.

• Oriented fundamental and applied scientific investigations in the field of Mechanical Engineering:

R&D for the competitable models of automobile, tractor and agriculture techniques;
computer mechanics, design, modeling, virtual testing mobile machines;
R&D for the new machine components, materials and technologies, nanomaterials and nanotechnologies;
R&D for the automobile and tractor electronics and electro mechanics.

• Test bench and on-road testing, technical diagnostics of mobile machines.
• Certification of mobile machines, their equipment and parts, adjustment of new types of transport.
• Consulting and certification of Quality Management Systems of machine building by ISO 9001.
• Issue of the scientific, productive-practical, normative and hand-book publications.