Dinamis is an electronic journal in mechanical engineering managed by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Sumatera Utara, and published by TALENTA PUBLISHER - Universitas Sumatera Utara. This journal is not limited to scientific publications produced by students and lecturers of the Universitas Sumatera Utara but is also open to students, lecturers, and researchers from other institutions. From 2014 to 2019, this journal has been published four times a year. However, since 2020, this journal has regularly published scientific publications two times a year, in June and December. This policy aims to increase the selectivity of incoming articles and maintain the quality of scientific publications in this journal.

Since Vol. 9, No. 1 of 2021, Dinamis USU moved to the https://talenta.usu.ac.id/dinamis/ page which was facilitated by TALENTA PUBLISHER - Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, in order to improve the governance of scientific publications in the Open Journal System (OJS). The Dinamis journal strives to be a national periodical, accredited, or international publication that has a good reputation through print and online publications.

The Dinamis journal has been accredited by the National Journal Accreditation Board (ARJUNA) which is managed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia with Class Four (Sinta 4) from 2020 to 2024 according to Decree No. .204/E/KPT/2022, October 3, 2022, Concerning Scientific Journal Accreditation Ranking Period II, 2022.