Engineering Education in India

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Engineering is one of most popular choices for a student with science background in their college times. It is very safe to say that our society has some kind of obsession with engineering. And this has created a huge market for institutes to pop-up at every nook and corner.

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Engineering Education in India Engineering is one of most popular choices for a student with science background in their college times. It is very safe to say that our society has some kind of obsession with engineering. And this has created a huge market for institutes to pop-up at every nook and corner. However, there are some amazing institutions also in the country which do an absolutely great job of teaching and training students in the field of engineering. And these institutes are seriously investing tons of money on building a world-class infrastructure; bring together talented and distinguished faculty members and last but by no means least designing a research-led, cutting-edge curriculum in line with the requirement of the industries in India. PM Narendra Modi took the initiative to boost Indias manufacturing sector in order to create more and more jobs for millions of graduates who are graduating every year from thousands of colleges across the country. His Make in India campaign has further underlined the importance of quality graduates that India now very seriously needs to produce. Earlier, it has been reported by several leading newspapers that the quality of students coming out from the engineering colleges are not able to do even simple mathematical calculations, leave alone the stream specific tasks. Another important shortcoming of most of the engineering graduates is that since they arent industry ready obviously, the companies are spending sky-rocketing amounts on training of new joiners. Literally, things are being taught all over again. Scarcity of jobs in streams such as chemical engineering, manufacturing engineering and pharmaceuticals coupled with lack of interests of students in these have pulled them towards the glitter of swanky software giants in India. Hence, non-IT students are joining technology firms after getting diploma equivalent of training on leading technologies. However, my recent visit to Nashik on a talk helped me in changing my perspective. Nashik can very well boast Indias top engineering and management institute. With absolutely modern, eco-friendly buildings sprawling over 200+ acres of lush green campus with fast Wi-Fi, ultra modern lecture theaters, laboratories and well furnished hi-tech residences for boys and girls took me on a sci-fi ride. The cafeteria with sumptuous meals, faculties with master and doctorate degrees, heavy focus on industry-institute interactions, tons of guest lectures are some of the goodies being offered. This is essentially changing the way engineering education has always been thought. The focus on learning by doing, learning from peers as well as from professors obviously is the prime area. Apart from this, huge focus on team-work, leading the team understanding team dynamics is being done to make the graduates industry ready. Industry heavy weights sit with curriculum designers to provide their inputs on knowledge and skills required for tomorrow. It can be inferred with a lot of confidence that paradigm shift in technical education design and delivery has begun and while no one is watching and realizing, a power, dynamic India is emerging which will be ready with appropriate knowledge and skills tore-engineer the 21st century which belongs to Asia in which India will be playing a major role. Welcome aboard.

About Author Kaushik Kumar is a dynamic and enthusiastic educationist who loves to spend a lot of the time designing and developing strategic content for various audiences. And when not writing content, he loves to travel to top engineering colleges in India and talk to students regarding their experiences and expectations. He frequently talks about careers in IT, importance of soft skills, team dynamics, motivation and leadership.