IITs Lesser Known Courses: IIT Kharagpur Industrial and Systems Engineering

Students at IIT Kharagpur are recruited by industries such as analytics firms, IT/software services, manufacturing/FMCG consultancies, and financial firms. The department contributes to the changing industry needs and focuses on the country’s sustainable development.

IIT Kharagpur Programmes

BTech in Industrial Engineering

This four-year BTech programme in Industrial Engineering focuses on developing efficient and cost-effective work systems and business processes leveraging technology and management, and on industry-focused academic programmes blending theory with prevailing best practices and real-life problem solving. The courses emphasize analytical modeling, simulation, and computer applications.

Dual-Degree (BTech in Engineering Product Design and Manufacturing and MTech in Design and Quality Engineering):

This five-year unique programme was conceived at IIT Kharagpur to inculcate in students an enhanced awareness of Engineering Design, Manufacturing, and Quality issues related either to Mechanical Engineering Products such as Automotive Systems or to Electronic Products such as Real-time Embedded Systems. The programme’s academic contents are designed to expose the students to major engineering aspects related to products including Product Modelling and Development, Design for Quality, Manufacturability, and Assembly. This course is offered in two verticals – Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Electronics

Dual-Degree (BTech in Industrial Engineering and Management and MTech in Industrial Engineering and Management):

This dual degree course provides an in-depth background on various areas of Industrial Engineering during the first four years of the programme. Thereafter, the students will be exposed to the integrative concepts of Industrial Engineering and Management by going through advanced courses on production planning, system analysis, neural and fuzzy modeling, financial management, and others. During the study, the students will address a variety of industrial problems through business gaming, case studies, and projects.

MTech in Industrial Engineering and Management:

The compulsory subjects include Decision Modelling, Work System Design, Production Planning and Inventory Control, Systems Modeling and Analysis, and Advanced Decision Modeling. In addition, a large number of elective subjects are offered in the areas of Operations Management, Information Technology, Quality, and Productivity which includes Supply Chain Management, Technology Management, Software Engineering, and Management.

After the completion of two semesters of coursework, a student carries out a project work leading to a thesis on a live industrial problem. Seminars and group discussions on various topics are some of the regular features of the course.

Recruitment 

Some of the previous recruiters in different sectors have been:

a) Finance/Insurance

Deutsche bank, Capital One, American Express, Goldman Sachs, CitiBank, Capital Dynamics, Credit Suisse, HSBC

b) IT/Software services/Consultancy/Analytics

HT media analytics, Essex lake group, JDA, IBM, Oracle, ZS Associates, PWC, Affine Analytics

c) Manufacturing/FMCG/ E-commerce

Schlumberger, ITC, Bosch, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Coal India, Maruti and Suzuki, TVS, Hero Motocorp

The department at IIT Kharagpur has been instrumental in imparting training and extending frontiers of knowledge in the field of Industrial Engineering and Management through its well-established undergraduate, postgraduate, and research programmes, sponsored projects and industrial consultancy work, short-term courses, and continuing education programmes.