Forge.Academy

Forge.Academy is where Forge teaches rather than incubates. If you are a founder looking for support, this is not the vertical you want, but it is the one most engineering students in Tamil Nadu will meet Forge through.

What you get

• The Innovation Practicum, a curriculum-integrated framework built around engineering, design, innovation and ideation sprints, run with multidisciplinary student teams
• ProtoSem, a twenty-week Graduate Innovation Engineer certification in which students design, develop and deploy a solution to a real industry problem and build working prototypes, covering IoT sensors, edge computing, additive manufacturing, industrial automation, robotics, artificial intelligence and AR/VR
• Forge.Fellows, a three-phase programme that takes educators from innovation educator to innovation mentor to innovation manager
• An AICTE-approved M.Tech in Technology Management, and an AICTE-approved MBA in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Venture Development — a two-year, four-semester, 104-credit full-time course
• The Innovation Practicum for Industrial Workforce, at three levels called User, Engineer and Innovator, for operators through executives

Who can apply

• ProtoSem is for pre-final and final-year engineering students
• Forge.Fellows is for educators
• The industrial workforce practicum is for companies training their own staff
• The masters courses publish no entry criteria on Forge's site

How to apply: There is no admissions page. Enquire through Forge's general contact page. Four of Forge's labs run under InnovateTN, a joint venture with the Department of Technical Education and TANSIM, Government of Tamil Nadu, which takes the Innovation Practicum into the state's engineering colleges and polytechnics.