How's an MTech in industrial engineering from IIT Delhi?

IIT Delhi M.Tech program in Industrial Engineering covers a wide range of topics such as statistics, probability, optimization, simulation, etc thus attracting more and more recruiters every year.

Of all the fields, a major part of the batch prefers Analytics mainly because of the packages offered and the kind of companies visiting for jobs related to Analytics. Analytics companies arrive way before supply chains and other companies and most students prefer going for Analytics only. 

However, the IE branch has much better scope in other Institutes like NITIE, IITB, and IITK. IIT Delhi also isn’t very lacking and its placement statistics are a testament to the same.

Around 80% of the entire batch was placed this year with the major recruiters include

• Accenture
• Barclays Bank
• Capgemini
• Deloitte
• Flipkart
• Hindustan Unilever
• ICICI
• JP Morgan Chase

Coursework: The coursework lacks diversity in comparison to the IEOR at Bombay or IEM at Kanpur. But the best part is the rigorous projects part of the curriculum that begins right from the first year itself. These projects are based on real-life problems in society covering fields such as healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, and public policy while using modern programming tools such as Python, Matlab, Java, C, etc.

Some major courses offered in the program are

• Probability and statistics
• Linear and Non-linear optimization
• Industrial Engineering Systems
• Supply Chain Management
• MPC (Maintenance Planning and Control)
• Project Management
• OPC (operations Planning and Control)
• SMS (Stochastic Modeling and Simulation)
• Value Engineering and life cycle costing
• RAM (Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability)

Considering decent placements and rigorous coursework, MTech in Industrial Engineering at IIT Delhi is not a bad idea.