About Central Workshop

Central Workshop is one of the pivoting units of the institute which teaches conceptually “how” a product comes to its present form by way of imparting core manufacturing education to all the first-year students of IIT Delhi.  It also provides product manufacturing support to the entire institute community in general and undergraduate students in particular.

More than 1000 undergraduate students in their first year acquire hands-on manufacturing skills in the Central Workshop. The Central Workshop not only introduces art and science of manufacturing but infuses confidence to take up product design and manufacturing activities in future.

Central Workshop is also a place where B.Tech. students of Mechanical Engineering and Production and Industrial Engineering acquire training and knowledge in specialized areas of manufacturing like Metal Casting, Metal Forming, Machining, Welding and Joining, CNC machining and 3D Printing. M.Tech. students of Production Engg. also use Central Workshop facilities for their practical classes in various courses as well as for their projects.

Central Workshop has undertaken efforts to reorganize, modernize and prepare it for continuously changing global manufacturing scenario. Efforts are also on to prepare students for a broader view of manufacturing which involves planning and deploying optimum ways to transfer raw material into goods by integration of people, capital, processes, systems and enterprised to deliver products of value to the society.