Aesthetic design as a key requirement in the product driven by technology has increased designer demand that can work with engineers.
On IITS, it might explain why scholars from the flow of design and techniques must be required to take courses from electrical engineering, mechanics and computers simultaneously with the main choices of humanities and social sciences.
“Both automotive stoves or energy saving, both engineers and designers in demand,” said D Udaya Kumar, Head of the Design Department, Iit Guwahati, where the design program at the Bachelor’s first time began in 1999.
Since then, the Institute has come a long way, introducing a PhD program in design in 2001 and the MDES program in 2007.
Following market demand, the Institute has added courses in interaction design, user design (UX) / User (UX), human computer interaction design (HCI), for Mention some, for the BDES program.
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Although the demand for design courses was quite new, their inception in India went on as far as 1961 when the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, became the first design institute to start the course for industrial development.
After that, IIT Bombay founded the industrial design center in 1969 to offer a PG Diploma before following up with a Master’s in Design (MDES) course.
With a national design policy recommend setting the design department in all IITs in 2011, more and more design courses are introduced in this technical institution.
Some IITs including those in Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Madras and Hyderabad have offered teacher courses in design since the 80s and 90s.
From these institutions, IIT Guwahati, IIT Bombay and IIT Hyderabad have a design program at UG level as well.
IIT ROORKEE is a new participant in the field, after establishing a department full of two new courses – a master in design (industrial design) and master in innovation management (MIM) – which will begin with the academic year 2021-22.
The design department aims to facilitate education, research, and entrepreneurial initiatives based on interdisciplinary design.
In IIT Delhi, the Masters program in the design began in 1994, recognizing students with a bachelor’s degree in engineering, design and architecture.
Receipt to the course is based on the ranks in CEED (general entrance examinations) carried out by IIT and IISC.
“Plans to introduce BDES in 2022 based on the general public entrance exam for design design (OTES) like in other IITs, where even students of art and trade can register,” said PV Madhusudhan Rao, Head, Design Department, Iit Delhi, added there Lack of large professional design quality and supply-supply gap.
“IITS has begun as a teaching institute before moving to research.
At present, the focus is on the application of innovation and knowledge where design plays an important role.”
Because the design led innovation is a driving solution for problems faced by industry and society, design graduates have high demand and accept 100% placement.
In IIT Guwahati, they were recruited by the IT sector with Giants Tech like Google, Microsoft, Infosys competing for the Freshers.
“Design is a well-paid profession with students producing packages from the top of RS 15 Lakh to Crore at the placement abroad.
This, Clubbed with quality education in IITK is known for their multidisciplinary infrastructure and approaches, attracting students in cheats,” said Deepak John Mathew, Head of the Design Department, IIT Hyderabad where placement is on the rise in UI, UX, visual communication and product design.