The School of Engineering Entrepreneurship was established in 2010 under the visionary zeal of a former faculty of the institute Professor Rajendra Mishra who believed in developing a strong base in engineering education followed by an appropriate management education to be imparted to students at IIT Kharagpur. It has been envisaged that the school would respond to the fast-changing needs for innovation-driven and entrepreneur-led economic development in the country. The school has been striving to prepare young talents to think out-of-the-box, translate ideas into marketable products and smartly execute business models to reach their benefits to the society and in the process, create great value to the nation. With a well-defined and properly tailored program, the new generation professionals will be confident to develop innovative products and rapidly bring them to market at the right value to be a sustainable technology or business case. The school has a strong mix of well-trained faculty who work along with faculty of various departments and centers and other specialty schools on the campus namely the Vinod Gupta School of Management, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability, etc.

This new MTech. programme curriculum has been designed to give the students an opportunity to translate the product ideas, test assumptions, and validate customer interests. The program further enriches the understanding of essentials for technology innovation and entrepreneurship with a focus on different aspects of early-stage start-ups, design, marketing, finance, strategy, operations, and business plans around the product ideation and development. The student will practice the pre-incubation process of problem identification, solution development, proof of concept validation and prototype development, feasibility analysis, development of business models, and developing their go-to-market strategies and launching of a new venture. A set of five mandatory core subjects will expose the students to the above with an option to select some topics of their choice from a plethora of elective subjects in a variety of electives from the school and the institute in general. These lecture classes are supported by well-planned laboratory courses providing access to several basic as well as advanced experimental facilities. This program aims to inspire students interested in advancing their technology-based start-ups or developing innovative products within an organization. Students will be trained to think of sustainable engineering solutions strongly supported by business value creation. The students are mentored by experienced faculties, practice-oriented experts, and entrepreneurs to use their entrepreneurial mindset to design, create, and implement; to develop capability in demonstrating innovative ideas; to harness skills and add to engineering know-how which can pave the way to pursue a career in academic, research, industrial applications, or starting own ventures. As per current curricular norms, this program offers a unique feature whereby students will undertake a mandatory 8-week summer internship in either of the three categories viz. ‘Industry Internship’ or ‘Research Internship’ or ‘Project Internship’ under the mentorship of an expert from the institution/ industry/ research organization. This would be followed by an MTech. project having the flavor of technology innovation and entrepreneurship.

The school also has a unique set of laboratories in a variety of domains like Product Analytics and Modelling, Energy Systems, Bio Lab, Fabrication Lab, Analytics Lab, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Modeling as well as direct access to other institutional facilities like The M.N. Faruqui Innovations Centre’s Design Facility and Tinkering Labs and other centers of excellence in Advance Manufacturing, Indian Knowledge Systems, Computational and Data Sciences etc. The rich and valued experience of the faculty at the school and that of other academic units of IIT Kharagpur gives the strongest impetus to any student aspiring for this program. The students also will have access to campus incubators like Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park (STEP), AI for Cyber-Physical Systems Technology Innovation Hub, Agri-Business Incubation Centre (ABIC), and other emerging incubation centers. After completing the course, the students would be ready to take senior-level responsibilities in the diverse corporate world where entrepreneurial qualities drive success or start their own ventures. RMSoEE can be the best academic partner for your journey towards innovation and entrepreneurship.