My views as a panelist on the Essence, Relevance, Challenges and Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary courses/Research Oct 22 | 1500-1630 | Industry Institute Conclave-2021 at NIT Raipur Why Interdisciplinary courses are so Important for any institute? The fact that there are several departments inside an institute clearly indicates that there is some homogeneity amongst them at some level. While on the surface Electrical Engineering might be different from Mechanical or Civil Engineering but they might have some commonality in terms of ways of addressing an engineering problem or trying to solve a problem. May be they look at the problem, pick their arrows from their repositories of knowledge, use a mix of arrows, aim them and deliver the arrow with the right amount of deftness to attack the problem. If you fail, you return back to the repository and try to pick up a more optimal set of arrows and go about attacking the problem – each time the pick of a