Department of Design

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) is a premier institute of science and technology established in 2008. IITH has been consistently ranked in the&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/reports/" rel="noopener noreferrer">top 10 institutes</a>&nbsp;in India for Engineering&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nirfindia.org/2021/EngineeringRanking.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">according to NIRF</a>&nbsp;making it one of the most coveted schools for science and technology in the country.

IITH offers&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/academics/under-graduate/">undergraduate programs</a>&nbsp;in all the classical engineering disciplines, applied sciences, design, as well as several modern interdisciplinary areas. Students are given a flexibility to explore a broad set of areas, and potentially pursue a minor or double major in a discipline that is not their own. Students who wish to seek a deeper understanding of their own discipline are strongly encouraged to get involved in cutting-edge research with the help of a faculty to mentor them, and earn an Honors in their own field.

The very foundation of IIT Hyderabad is based on&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/research/">research and innovation</a>. The vibrant research culture is evident from the number of patents and publications that IITH produces consistently every year. IITH offers&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/academics/programmes-offered/">graduate programs</a>&nbsp;at both a masters, and a doctoral level, in several diverse areas. There are separate programs for technology, design, science, and liberal arts. The&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/academics/post-graduate/">MTech program</a>&nbsp;is offered in various modes and durations to cater to the ever-growing need of postgraduate level professionals in the country.

IITH encourages and supports&nbsp;<a href="https://iic-iith.netlify.app/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">innovation and entrepreneurship</a>&nbsp;at every stage. The minor program in entrepreneurship is open to all students of IITH, and many of the courses are offered by industrialists who are entrepreneurs themselves. There are various&nbsp;<a href="https://iith.ac.in/research/centres-incubators/">innovation centers and incubators</a>&nbsp;that promote entrepreneurship and help mentor young innovators. IITH has been very successful in building tie-ups with leading academic institutions around the globe.

IITH enjoys a very special relationship with Japanese universities and industries that goes beyond academic and research collaborations. In fact, some of the iconic buildings in IITH campus will carry the signature of Japanese architecture.

IITH creates a unique holistic ecosystem for education that offers interactive learning, a very flexible academic structure, cutting-edge research, strong industry collaboration, and entrepreneurship. This is an environment which enables students and faculty to translate their dreams into realities.

IIT Hyderabad

Mithrakkary, my ancestral islet village that once used to wake up to the hoots of early morning water canoes now rattles on vrooming bikes over the maze of bridges and roads. Dasan, a fish vendor on his traditional canoe often falls late these days to his counter parts rushing in motor bikes.

The not so slowly death of Kuttanad

In the product conceptualization phase of design, sketches are often used for exploration of diverse behaviour patterns of the components to achieve the required functionality. This paper presents a method to animate the sketch produced using a tablet interface to aid verification of the desired behaviour. A sketch is a spatial organization of strokes whose perceptual organization helps one to visually interpret its components and their interconnections. A Gestalt based segmentation followed by interactive grouping and articulation, presented in this paper, enables one to use a mechanism simulation framework to animate the sketch in a "pick and drag" mode to visualize different configurations of the product and gain insight into the product's behaviour. © Springer-Verlag London 2013.

World University root node

CIRP Design 2012 - Sustainable Product Development

Behaviour simulation in computer aided product concept sketching

The paper introduces the concept of functional segmentation for segregating the strokes in a product concept sketch into functionally meaningful groups. Analysis of the distributions of starting points, time and mean pressure associated with the strokes in sketches revealed that shape defining and shape detailing strokes are separable through thresholding of the stroke parameters. The inter-stroke time plot exhibited characteristic spikes which enabled stroke-sets to be conveniently segmented in to temporal groups. The temporal evolution of shape defining elements and the genesis of feature hierarchy showed significant correlation. This algorithmic stroke organization showed significant match with the segmentation done by designers interactively. Spatial grouping algorithms developed using Gestalt principles isolated shapes in a sketch well. A unified multi-parameter grouping and averaging technique is also presented for obtaining single stroke sketches without losing the feature structure. The work thus demonstrates that algorithmic functional segmentation require both geometric and non-geometric data (viz. coordinates, time-stamp and pressure associated with the strokes) and that the role based classification of strokes helps to relate functional composition of the product and temporal evolution of the sketch. The work identifies how the designers emotion, rational thinking and visualization skill influence the product concept sketching process. © 2010 World Scientific Publishing Company.