Hyderabad, Sep 23: International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) has opened winter admissions for a new M.Tech program in Product Design & Management.
The program aims to create market and design-aware technologists, product designers, product managers, and start-up founders conceptualize, define, design technology products and connect them with markets, IIIt-H said in a release here on Thursday.
The curriculum of the M. Tech Program in Product Design and Management empowers graduates to understand the convergence of technology, design, markets, and the business of products.
The program can lead to the creation of new products, new startups, or groom early career IT professionals to become technology product managers for technology companies specifically around information technologies.
The M.Tech program includes courses around an understanding of technology products, the convergence of technology, design, markets & business, product design, development and management, products from emerging technologies (Research).
An extended program project in the second year helps with creating product-translating ideas into deep technology products that connect with markets.
According to Prof Raghu Reddy, Head of the PDM program, this program has a nice balance of technology, design, and management with a specific focus on ICT products to start with.
There are multiple channels of admissions, based on initial screening and subsequent interviews, the release added. (UNI)