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Which institutes offer courses in production and industrial engineering? What are the career opportunities?

- Naren, Eluru
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Which institutes offer courses in production and industrial engineering? What are the career opportunities?
The study of Industrial and Production Engineering constitutes topics like operations management, production and manufacturing engineering. Professionals in this field deal not just with manufacturing machines and procedures but also with related people, knowledge, material and finances.

After completion of a course in Industrial and Production Engineering, candidates can seek employment in manufacturing and engineering companies. The industry can be any industry that is connected to manufacturing; it can be automobile, aeronautical, shipbuilding, instrumentation, agriculture or construction industry.

Some roles the professionals in this field can assume are production engineer, safety engineer, quality control engineer, plant engineer, manufacturing engineer or process engineer.

College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad offer B.E in Production Engineering. The eligibility criterion is +2 with Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Admission is based on performance at entrance test.
For details, log on to www.osmania.ac.in

In Andhra Pradesh, there are a few institutes that offer Industrial/ Production Engineering at B.Tech level. Industrial and Production engineering is a specialised area under mechanical engineering. So you can also pursue this branch by opting for mechanical engineering at B.Tech level and then Industrial and Production Engineering at M.Tech level. Some of the institutes that offer B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering are: Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (www.jntuh.ac.in )

Andhra University, Visakhapatnam (www.andhrauniversity.info ) Some of the institutes that offer M.Tech in Industrial/ Production Engineering are:
Osmania University, Hyderabad offers M.Tech with Production
Engineering as specialisation.

JNTU, Hyderabad offers M.Tech in Industrial Engineering and Management as specialisation.

Admissions to these programmes are based on performance at GATE/ entrance test. For details, log on to the websites of the universities.

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