The sentence, to my mind, is not well-written. Aside from your very reasonable question here, the quoted sentence is misleading as a definition- if that is what it attempts to be -because it uses the same words, 'mechanical' and 'engine' to define the term, 'mechanical engineeers'. I also think 'mechanical related' should be hyphenated as 'mechanical-related'.
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