JNU prides itself as the hub of Social and Economic ideas that shape our academia and industry. JNU is also on the forefront of research in Sciences, International Studies, Languages and Linguistics. With these strengths, JNU hopes in conjunction with technology to enable the students to learn and apply technology to the real life problems associated with the Indian society. The new curriculum of the School of Engineering, which integrates both technology and society, has a vision to shape and to provide leadership in imparting knowledge and training to the younger generation.

The five-year dual degree programme comprises BTech in an engineering discipline and Master’s programme with specialization in Social Science/ Humanities/ Science/ Technology. This is one of the very few programmes in the country, where the student would acquire skills in Technology and its application to a sustainable development of society.

In the first half of the dual degree programme, the students would need to do compulsory foundation courses in the areas of basic sciences, humanities, social sciences and engineering sciences apart from the departmental requirements in the core engineering discipline. The students will have options of choosing open category electives from a pool of courses to develop broad inter-disciplinary knowledge base. This will give them an opportunity to pursue MS/MTech in an area outside their parent discipline. The proposed dual degree programme in JNU would be novel in the sense that it would extend an opportunity to the students, especially in the fourth and fifth year of their programme to involve themselves in projects/dissertations and courses on Humanities, International Studies, Sciences, Languages, Linguistics and Social Sciences, in order to understand the demands of such disciplines and acquaint themselves with the frontier areas.  For example, the dual degree programme would also try to address the dynamics of economics, physical, biological and environmental phenomena through the prism of engineering. It is a fundamental skill that all successful engineering firms employ in order to retain competitive advantage and market share. The programme would provide students with the tools to optimize profits, minimize costs, analyze various scenarios, forecast fluctuations in business cycles, and more.

Also, the proposed programme would offer beyond these goals a set of special skills that would make engineers sensitive to their social and environmental responsibility. The programme would emphasize further that generating returns for society and the larger community is indispensable. With such an engaging and holistic learning approach, students will have the opportunity to become better problem solvers.