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Originally Posted by sgiitk I have worked my way through the entire thread, so here I go. I will say that about 85% or so of Engineering Graduates in India are unfit for employment. ... |
Really good points sir. I would like to post my experience of the same. First, I started my education(B.Eng.,) in India and went to Germany in an Exchange program. What I noticed:
1. Education(engineering) has to be learned with interest and not by force or by parents will.
2. One needs to be exposed to practical applications and has to made to think on his own to be a good engineer.
3. Student projects and company internships should be done seriously and not for the sake of time pass or that its a mandatory one.
4. One must be persuaded to come to the exams expecting anything to everything. No mugging up and vomitting stuff.
To support my above points, here in Europe people are quantified at their 8th standard what level of education they will receive and based on their aptitude they are streamlined. And for Bachelors in Engineering(Diplom in germany 10 semesters equivalent standards of any international masters), just to get a seat in a university, one has to undergo a 6 week practical course(a worksmanship course, in any manufacturing process or an industry) prior to the course commencement. A 20 week internship is mandatory during the curriculum and the work done is taken very seriously. Regarding the diploma thesis or Bachelors Thesis(note: They call it "Thesis" like in the PhD because they take it pretty seriously and every word is looked upon) has to be done in a company or inside university under a professor. It will be mostly a live project. The final report and the presentation is done very seriously, such that, every word we speak and every line written in the report is scrutinized for individuality and truth. Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v is dealt with very rudely and even a ban. The syllabus is never a standard, rather professors change it for every semester and new learnings from projects or industry are immediately added to the lectures. The exams force oneself to learn the concepts and not mug anything from the books, well professors never recommend one single book rather one has to look into atleast 4 books for a single chapter in the syllabus. Exams are very short, I have written exams with just a couple of questions and each carried 50 marks! Story writing in exam is strictly prohibited. They are mostly calculation oriented or questions will be formulated for single line answers. Typically German!
I finished my degree came back to India with a eagerness to use it for my country. What I got? As we all know, the same treatment from AICTE. I wanted to work in the defence sector and I am not allowed to! I was looked upon as an alien and a terrorist. Finally, I managed a job in the private sector, well got fed up with the way things are going in India and decided to come back for a Masters.
I feel that though our engineering syllabus is capable of churning out good engineers and we have pretty good professors, but the sheer number of engineering colleges and the number of students in the engineering makes it nearly impossible to churn out quality engineers. If one takes a look at the engineers from the 60's and the 70's, when there were only one or two engineering colleges in every state, I am sure todays engineers cannot stand upto their skill and knowledge and most important their practical approach to any problem. Its very sad that today every student who enters engineering, has a decision in his mind to end up with Infy or TCS or Wipro or other IT giants and nobody or very less want to stick to core engineering.
Personally, in my own family I am looked upon as an idiot because I am fighting to stick to my core engineering and not land up in IT at any cost. Nothing against the guys in IT, but I seriously find it irresponsible(its my personal opinion, no harm against anyone and their situations) when one studies mechanical engineering and ends up programming in C or Java.