Employability
Employment Opportunities
Graduates from this joint programme will be highly employable and will be well-suited to technical, strategic, leadership, and entrepreneurial roles in materials and manufacturing engineering. Potential roles and sectors include:
Automotive & Auto-Ancillaries
- Working as a: Materials Engineer, Process Engineer, Quality Engineer, Fastener/Component Specialist, Soft Trim Materials Engineer
- At employers which could include: Valeo, Renault-Nissan, Mahindra & Mahindra, Expleo Group, Hitachi Energy, Barry-Wehmiller, Caterpillar, Ford, Nissan, TVS Motor, Ashok Leyland, Royal Enfield
Aerospace and Additive Manufacturing
- Working as a: Aerospace Manufacturing Engineer, Design Automation Engineer, Tooling & Producibility Specialist, Metal Parts AM Technician
- At employers which could include: Boeing, Safran, ASM Technologies, Agnikul Cosmos, Aeroin SpaceTech, Fabheads Automation
Semiconductor & Electronics Manufacturing
- Working as a: Materials Engineer, Process Engineer, PCB Manufacturing Engineer, Application Engineer, Quality & Reliability Engineer, Technical Sales Engineer, R&D Engineer
- At employers which could include: Applied Materials, Intel, Qualcomm, Microchip, Broadcom, Tessolve, Edveon Technologies, SPEL Semiconductor, Tata Electronics
Renewable Energy & Sustainability
- Working as a: Solar PV Design Engineer, Engineering Specialist, Asset Manager, Commissioning Engineer, Cost Analyst
- At employers which could include: Energy Alternatives India, Loom Solar, Aeternus Energy, Radian Generation, Illumine, TRDFIN, Gradiant, Capgemini
Industrial Manufacturing & R&D
- Working as a: Manufacturing Engineer, Process Engineer, Cost Analyst, Production Planner, Project Lead, Materials & R&D Engineer
- At employers which could include: Caterpillar, SaintGobain, Wheels India, Carborundum Universal, Garuda Aerospace, Ather Energy, Barry-Wehmiller, Cyient, Motherson, Fabheads Automation
Research & Academic Institutes
- Working as a: Research Engineer, Lab Scientist, Postdoctoral Fellow, Characterisation Specialist
- At employers which could include: IIT Madras, Centre for Material Research (Chennai Institute of Technology), CSIR Madras Complex (SERC & CECRI), SRM, Anna University, CUTN
Consultancy, Sales & Business Development
- Working as a: Technical Sales Engineer, R&D Consultant, Business Development Manager, Portfolio/SupplyChain Analyst
- At employers which could include: Capgemini Invent, Actalent, NTT Data, Seven Consultancy, Tech Data, Apala Group, Energy Alternatives
Other Opportunities in Chennai Could Include Working In:
- Automotive and Passenger Vehicles: OEMs, Tier-1 Suppliers
- Aerospace & Defence: Complex Components, Tooling, Process Automation
- Semiconductors & Electronics: Chip Manufacturing, Electronic Systems
- Renewable Energy: PV, Wind/BESS, Engineering Consultancy
- Advanced Manufacturing & Industry 4.0: Precision Heavy Industry, Digital Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing
- R&D and Academia: University-led Labs, National Research Centres
- Tech-Commercial Functions: Market Development, Technical Sales, Cost/Portfolio Engineering