IIT Hyderabad starts full time Mtech program in Integrated Design and Manufacturing

MUMBAI:The Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Hyderabad has rolled out a program called ‘Integrated Design and Manufacturing (IDM)’.The course is meant to cater to the needs of the manufacturing sector and to make upcoming engineers more industry-ready.

“The conventional manufacturing sector is currently focused on cost-effective shop-floor operations. Engineers are trained in traditional manufacturing methodologies, with little or no focus on design methodologies.However, the Indian manufacturing sector will need to undergo a sea change in the near future, if it is to meet the challenge of India’s development. Design is fast becoming an integral part in manufacturing the world over.” said Vinayak Eswaran, professor and head of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, IIT Hyderabad in a statement.

The two-year program will teach students analysis, computational techniques, mechanics, design, optimization, soft computing in addition to traditional courses in manufacturing and production planning.

“To keep pace, Indian manufacturing education needs to provide courses that integrate design with manufacturing and enable students with component and system design, theoretical and computational approaches, and new manufacturing methodologies. However, the existing MTech courses, even in IITs, far less in other engineering colleges, do not cater to this growing requirement,” added Eswaran.