Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has claimed an increase of 10 per cent in the placement for its M.Tech students. According to IIT-D job offered in some “non- traditional” and “interdisciplinary” streams have increased this year in the placement.
“Interdisciplinary streams like energy studies, industrial tribology (ITMMEC), atmospheric oceanic science andtechnology and Opto-Electronics and Optical Communication have seen a buoyant placement this year,” stated press release from IIT-D.
As many as 202 M.Tech students were placed this year as against 183 last year through Training and Placement(T and P) processes. Undergraduate placements including the five years integrated course pegged at 540. A maximum of 273 placements went to the core (technical) category followed by 187 and 133 placements in the IT and analytics sectors respectively.
IIT-D informed that Energy Studies, an interdisciplinary stream having courses spanning electrical engineering, Physics and mechanical engineering, has registered a near cent percent placement while other Interdisciplinary areas have also mapped a “vibrant placement trajectory”.
Shivam Garg, a student placed from Industrial Tribology and Maintenance Engineering stream feels that the trend is fundamentally because of industrial demand for knowledge in an interdisciplinary domain.
“Industry today expects that a candidate must have knowledge of more than one domain.Companies are therefore preferring those branches where people are capable of handling and solving problems related to multiple domains,” he said.