2025EE31495 : Mudit Agarwal

Stepping into IIT Delhi was an exhilarating experience paired with boundless expectations and hopes for academic entertainment through exceptional opportunities. Besides the standard lectures and reading exercises which abound in our courses, MEP 1001 and Professor Sunil Jha gave us a stage for hands - on education with cutting-edge tools and latest technologies at the Central Manufacturing Facility. This wonderful laboratory houses not only tons of machines, instructors and students, but also, perhaps, their aspirations to build something from scratch, build something that matters and create objects with power to fascinate all around them! It is indeed our honor to be the first batch who is getting the privilege to construct and work in this facility with all the great intellectual individuals. I am here, among my peers, to pen down my excursion through this exciting course!

The CMF : A Whole New World!

Our first visit to the facility was marked by touring all the different laboratories harboring distinct and unique technologies. Our insightful and lively TA introduced us to such a myriad of machines and such advanced mechanisms that we didn't even know existed, thereby taking our eagerness to participate to cloud nine! His thorough explanations regarding the variety of procedures linked to manufacturing and how laborious some of the tasks are - requiring pin point precision, greatly contributed to the group morale and enthusiasm, making our labs - the correct way to start a Tuesday!

Towards our "Waiter Robot"

Our project was finalized with a blaze of anticipation and a feverish excitement! So much to explore, so much to learn and so much to choose from. The system that has been set in place for our training and construction, although not devoid of bugs, is an incredible one - fostering autonomy and prudence in making decisions. It is thrilling how we are placed in a professional, transactional environment and are simultaneously dealt with, with such care, calmness and concern. Our conversations with all our instructors, TAs and the Professor are so electrifying and motivational, sometimes unbelievably so! IITD never ceases from being "Too good to be true!"

All the information provided to us is so perfectly detailed and laid out there for us, it is astonishing and makes you ponder how many hours have been put into consolidating such intricacies. Our team had a considerably smooth sailing through getting an idea of the varied skills required, to make their choices and sum up their points! A lovely experience indeed!

Much more to go!!

Within the entangled web of booking training facilities (sometimes overbooking them, perhaps), learning new skills for the experience (and of course, points) and the abundance of discussions for scheduling and planning of our projects, our zeal stands tall as we await our next venture into the CMF!