The department was founded in 1993, designated as a research and learning center for students of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and School of Education. The department also offers the following elective courses for students of other schools at the university:

• Physics for non-engineers
• The Earth and Space Science

The department has laboratories for practical classes and research. Original laboratory works are necessary in support of theoretical materials given during lectures.

The department faculty carries out research programs in the following fields:

• Production and transmission of electrical energy
• Renewable forms of energy (solar, wind, etc.) and their practical use
• Composite materials and their derivatives
• Non-linear hydro-dynamics and heat transfer
• Other fields

The department also offers opportunities to combine fundamental disciplines with other branches of sciences and technology in order to carry out interdisciplinary research in areas like:

• Physical methods for improving technological processes in the oil industry
• Heat transfer and fluid mechanics enforced by different physical fields
• Effect of different physical fields (magnetic, ultrasonic, etc.) on properties of fluids
• Effect of physical fields (electric, magnetic, electromagnetic) on biological objects
• Other areas

The department has close relations with many scientific institutions and research centers in the country and abroad.