Learn Engineering by Activity with Products
"For a rewarding career that transforms India, an engineer needs to graduate with good experience of designing and building real products that solve needs of society."
Prof. Timothy A Gonsalves, Founder LEAP
Founding Director (2010-2020), IIT Mandi
Professor (Retd) CS&E Department, IIT Madras
LEAP in Progress
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Colleges
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Faculty
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Students
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Projects
Our Programs
Bootcamps
LPB01 - Reverse Engineering
LPB02 - Automation with ESP32
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Build a Better Product
LP1XX-Reverse Engineering with Feature addition
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Practicum for Innovative Engineering
LP2XX-Solving Real-life Problems
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Engineering Education in India today
India has a very large number of engineering and science graduates. Indian companies provide engineering services globally. However, when it comes to product design and innovative solutions to society’s problems, India lags far behind.
This is due in large measure to the limited practical exposure of students in the largely theory-oriented UG teaching in most of our colleges. Further, many of the teachers have not worked in industry and hence have little practical experience.
Many students do not develop innovative and entrepreneurial mindset. Most of them do not get core engineering jobs, many leave engineering altogether. Out of about 1 million engineers graduating per year in India, over 40% are considered unemployable by Indian industry and over 80% are unemployable in the knowledge industry.
We estimate that barely 3-5% are capable of doing innovative design.LEAP is working towards changing this, making even students from rural engineering colleges capable of doing innovative design.
Product Driven Learning
LEAP for Industry-ready Engineering Graduates
LEAP provides IIT Style / Industry-oriented Product Driven Learning (PDL) to Engineering Colleges by focused programs from 1st Year to 4th Year BE / B Tech. All LEAP activities involve building products and learning by doing.
LEAP is funded by the Maker Bhavan Foundation, USA through the IIT Madras Incubation Cell
Faculty Development Programme
LEAP for Empowering College faculty
- Faculty Training Workshop at the start of a LEAP program
- Faculty members are trained in both Technical and Management aspects during the workshop.
- Faculty Technical training is aligned to the respective LEAP Program content, covering topics and hands-on activities as per the LEAP Program content, e.g. LP201 Faculty Training workshop covers aspects like:
- Product Driven Learning methods
- System Design Aspects
- Research to Prototype to Productization
- Solutioning within given cost and time constraints
- Project Specific Topics
- Faculty Management training is aligned to implementation of the LEAP Programs at their respective colleges, including topics like Program delivery, Progress reviews, Student mentoring, and Evaluation strategy.
- Regular connect is done with Faculty members on Progress and Challenges during LEAP Program execution.
- Faculty members are also provided opportunities to connect with Industry Network.