IIT Delhi Offers A New “B. Tech in Design” Academic Programme

The Department of Design, IIT Delhi is set to offer a new 4-year undergraduate program ‘B.Tech. in Design’ from the 2025-26 academic session. Admission to the newly launched program will be based on JEE (Advanced) ranks. However, candidates must qualify for the design aptitude test, UCEED (Undergraduate Common Entrance Examination for Design) to be eligible for admission.

The program is specially designed for minds who are keen to understand socio-technical systems and design solutions for the wicked problems in these systems. Students will learn about prevalent technologies, systematic design thinking processes, communication and presentation skills, and research methods for analyzing socio-technical systems and teamwork, under the B.Tech in Design program.

The program is transdisciplinary program that combines strenghts of technology to design which promotes a uniques combination of learning processes. It includes systematic discovery and understanding as engineering education does and exploration of individualistic and creative leaps as under the design education.

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B.Tech in Design program will strongly focus on product design that will help to address problems in Industry and society

The courses under this program will include, half of the courses that belong to the core discipline of design and rest from other departments, centres and schools with B.Tech programs. The especially designed curricula will help in making collaboration and partnerships between teh design department and other departments and schools.

Prof. Jyoti Kumar, HoD, Department of Design said that the expectation of the program is to prepare students to take leadership positions in industry, academia, government and entrepreneurship among others. Students may chose different career paths after the program. The curricula is broad and analgous to the existing programs at IIT Delhi, that will prepare students to be experts in design specialisation, Prof Kumar added.

It is expected that this newly launched program in Design will harness the existing strenghts of the Institute.