Placements



Proud to say that the number of placements and internships we are grabbing through our Career Development Centre (CDC is the placements and internships cell of IIT KGP) has only been increasing since the start of the course in 2011.

Our seniors have grabbed placements in various companies including ITC, General Motors, Bosch, Honeywell, TVS Motors, Tata Motors, Siemens, Tata Steel, Ather Energy, ZS Associates, TCS Innovation Labs, etc.

In recent years, we have also been allowed to sit for the companies which are opening specifically for mechanical or electrical engineering students. This provides students with a great increase in opportunity. QEDM now has the sixth highest number of companies allowing students to apply in placements at IIT Kharagpur, only after Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical, Mathematics & Computing, and Instrumentation Engineering.

The average/median CTC does not provide the right image of our branch, as there have been a mere 10-12 students in every batch which has graduated. But if you are interested, the average CTC for our branch was more than 14 lakhs per annum this year.


You will be able to pursue non-core fields of your interest



The course load is relatively high for our department as compared to other departments as we have one semester full of internships during our 4th year. However, on average, we have 25-28 hours of classes every week which is not much higher when compared to other departments' students having 23-25 hours of classes. In fact, many of our seniors have successfully been able to grab internships and placements in non - core fields like software development, data analytics, finance, etc.

Some of the companies our seniors have interned at include Mathworks, Amazon, AB-InBev, HSBC, GE Digital, ZS Associates, Honeywell, American Express, Credit Suisse, Mercedez-Benz etc.

A similar course named Engineering Design, provided by IIT Madras, has also seen a steady increase in placement and research opportunities during the past 5 years. You can check out this link if you are interested to know about the course - Engineering Design.


Academic Avenues



Industrial Electronics curriculum covers most of the core subjects and labs of Electrical Engineering branch until 7th Semester.
It provides students with ample research opportunities in fields such as Embedded Systems, Control Systems, Power Electronics, and Electrical Machines.
Moreover, Industrial Electronics students can easily pursue a Minor in Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, and Instrumentation Engineering due to large overlap of core subjects with the minor curricula.
Microspecialisations which can be completed easily include Embedded Wireless Systems, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and Embedded Control, Software, Modeling and Design.

Mechanical Engineering vertical has almost all core subjects and laboratories of Mechanical Engineering. The possible research areas are Quality Engineering, Geometric Modeling, Computer Integrated Manufacturing and other mechanical core fields. Though the courses provide introductory knowledge, a solid knowledge base has to be developed by individuals in their own capacity.
Some of the students have even successfully joined many international universities like the National University of Singapore, University of Southern California, University of Alberta, Warwick Manufacturing Group at University of Warwick, Yuan Ze University etc. for their higher studies.