Jayant Raj

Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science

Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM) is among the most research and technology intensive design and manufacturing schools in India, steeped in the ambience of Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. IISc is one of the top institutions in the world, and CPDM is its design and manufacturing face. CPDM is among very few schools in India that train students in developing and making systemically-complex, technologically-intensive, and socially-impactful solutions that are functional, aesthetic, usable and sustainable. It is among the top design schools in the world that specialise in training development of hardware products, and is among the very best in research into design, ranking alongside design schools and research centres in Stanford, Delft, Cambridge and CMU. CPDM pursues excellence in teaching, research and industry interaction in the areas of Design and manufacturing. The two-year professional Masters MDes programme is the flagship programme of the Centre. The Centre pursues an active research programme in advanced design and manufacturing, spanning the areas of Design Theory and Methodology, PLM, Human Factors in Design, User Interface Design, Vehicle Design, Technology Integration, Sustainability and Manufacturing, with major applications in Automotive, Aerospace and Biomedical sectors. The core competence of CPDM lies in the successful amalgamation of research into design and manufacturing (MTech by Research and PhD) and design and manufacturing in practice (MDes).CPDM firmly believes that practitioners and researchers are complementary to one another. While practitioners create products and manufacturing systems to improve the society, researchers develop effective methods and tools for supporting better design and manufacturing.