Quality Engineering Design and Manufacturing is a dual degree course offered at IIT Kharagpur. The course seeks to help inculcate skills related to product realization from product design to manufacturing technologies, operations, and analytics. 

These programs provide the students an opportunity for an internship that helps them work in the field and explore it further. It is a new and advanced level educational program that targets engineers and helps them deliver top-notch designs, prototypes, fabrication, manage production, quality, logistics, and supply chain, and also operate these enterprises.

Degree offered by IIT Kharagpur

The 5-year dual degree curriculum in Quality Engineering Design and Manufacturing (QEDM) is delivered in two verticals - Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Electronics.

For each of the verticals, there will be B. Tech (Hons) in Engineering Product Design and Manufacturing and M. Tech in Design and Quality Engineering.

Special Features of the Program

This is the only program at IIT that offers a 6-month internship to its students. There are additional summer internships in the 2nd and 3rd year. The primary goal is for the student to gain maximum exposure and become well-experienced in every aspect. 

The interdisciplinary program is offered by a host of departments

• Department of Industrial & System Engineering
• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Department of Electrical Engineering
• Two verticals
• Industrial electronics Vertical
• Mechanical Vertical
• Past Recruiters (Placements and Internships)

There is a Quality Engineering Design and Manufacturing or QEDM program offered at IIT Kharagpur. Some highlights of the course are 

• This program is a 5-year dual degree course
• It is flexible and offers a plethora of choices to choose from 
• Based on your CGPA, you are allotted a vertical at the end of the first year. This can be either Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Electronics.
• The batch strength is very low in comparison to other core branches
• This course gives you the opportunity to choose a branch of your choice which is hardly possible after clearing JEE.

If you are concerned about placements, let me tell you that placements depend more on the student's performance than the particular branch. One of my friends told me that the entire batch got placed on the first day itself with many bagging core packages.