Industrial Design Center (IDC), IIT Mumbai and Guwahati

Description

Design shapes our objects, environments, communication and many of our interactions. Design at IDC is all encompassing, coexists in an active triadic relationship with design education, design research and design practice.
Design education - to train and propagate; design research - to seek, analyze, experiment, integrate; and design practice to apply, implement and realize. IDC strives towards creating an excellent pedagogical environment with foundations in these areas to prepare professionals and visionaries of tomorrow

Concerns:

Design education can be the means to understand, disseminate and practice design in society. IDC's experiments in design education and awareness have inspired several designers, design educators and design schools. In the emerging socio-economic-cultural scene, IDC intends to play an important role. The concern at IDC for the problems at the grass root level in developing economies has led to efforts in solving such problems with design as a means and a tool.
The designer in a global economy requires competence to deal with a broad range of challenges thrown up by socio-economic and cultural diversities. This diversity is reflected in the structure of the educational program, the type of research activities and the projects the students and faculty undertake. The emphasis is on addressing the unmet design and communication needs of the community.

*This information is compiled from http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/

Campus Placement

 Placement for IDC Students
Many Industries, Firms and Organizations come to IIT to recruit fresh students from IDC. IDCians are much in demand and it is quite common to get several job offers before the students complete the course.


The Placement Office:
The Placement Office handles all aspects of campus placements for the graduating students at IIT Bombay.

The office is well equipped with excellent infrastructure to support every stage of the placement process. Arrangements for Pre-Placement Talks, Written Tests, Interviews, Group Discussions etc. are all handled by the staff at the office.

Contact Info:
Placement Office
IIT Bombay, Powai
Mumbai - 400076

Phone - +091-022-25767096/97
Fax - +091-022-25767092
Email - placement[at]iitb.ac.in
Website: http://placements.iitb.ac.in

Infrastructure & Facilities

The workshop, studios and the laboratories at IDC provide an excellent opportunity for the students to explore materials and medium, model prototypes, experiment with conepts and test out their design solutions. These are constantly upgraded to include state of the art facilities and technologies.

Links to facilities:
          
. Laboratories
          
. Studios
          
. Library

In addition to laboratories, studios and library, IDC has the following facilities:

The Material Library continuously collects information on new materials/processes/techniques etc. for applications into a wide range of product design problems.

The Product Development Cell undertakes design detailing and development projects. It has facilities for building working prototypes.

The Rapid Prototyping Cell is equipped with FDM machine and has been built with industry support.

The IDC Auditorium with a seating capacity of 120 is used for conducting courses, seminars and workshops.