October 10, 2022

IIT-Bombay Updates Undergraduate Programmes to Reflect Modern Workplace Trends

I Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) engineering graduates now frequently look for jobs in a range of non-core engineering fields, such as management, consulting, finance, and start-ups, among others, the Undergraduate (UG) curriculum at IIT Bombay has recently been updated to reflect modern trends in light of this.

According to news reports, IIT Bombay engineering students will now take Humanities classes in addition to Management, Entrepreneurship, and Design courses as part of their regular core engineering curriculum. The non-engineering subjects, also known as "HASMED" or "Humanities, Arts, Social Science, Management, Entrepreneurship, Design," are very important in the new course curriculum.

This is in addition to a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) interdisciplinary approach combined with the fundamental engineering subjects of the branch of engineering that a student is pursuing.

…the first step was to try and determine where the IIT Bombay graduates are going after receiving their degree…

Speaking about how the committee that worked on the curriculum overhaul came to its conclusion, Prof. Kishore Chatterjee, head convener said, “The first step was to try and determine where the IIT Bombay graduates are going after receiving their degree. Three broad categories — specialist, generalist, and super-generalist — can be made of this. Specialists are those who want to pursue a career in academia or research or who want to work for a company in their core industry. Generalists are those who desire a career outside of their core industry, such as management, analytics, or consulting.” Aside from these two extremes, there is another group called super-generalists, where a student wants to pursue entrepreneurship and startups in various industries and where knowledge of both core engineering and other fields is necessary.

IIT Bombay's Dean of Academics, Prof. Avinash Mahajan, stated that the last time the prestigious institution's curriculum was altered was in 2007.

"The new curriculum has made HASMED and STEM courses a part of the course curriculum," he said. "Even though the old curriculum did offer several options for electives from different disciplines."

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