The article and the views expressed by the readers comprehensively cover the reasons for the present mess. The role of the politicians in the pitiable state of technical education deserves to be examined. In Andhra Pradesh, Rajashekhara Reddy introduced the fee reimbursement scheme for scheduled caste students and other CMs extended the benefit to other castes. Private engineering colleges started enrolling benami students to grab the funds. In spite of many "incentives", over two lakh seats are vacant in AP and Telangana. CBN and KCR are finding it tough to sustain the scheme imposed by their predecessors. In a candid interview to a news paper, a student admitted that she joined the college only on the understanding that she will get half share in the reimbursed fee and no one should insist on her attending the classes. Most of these colleges are nothing but dilapidated sheds within a crumbling compound. Students have no aptitude, teachers have no motivation and the managements are there only for the government money. Can the students passing out of such colleges be called engineers, let alone being entrusted with an engineering job?
If you are 'hands on' and know what you are doing, then you are employable because that shows you have had an experience. Real world task completion rests on this aspect alone.
The way you write and communicate is another important skill you should nurture. One employee may not communicate on the same scale as another, the one who communicates better would have a high level of vocabulary and grammatical form.
These two essential skills need be the primary touchstones of assessing a candidate's employability. If the candidate has these, from day one s/he is billable, a sure asset to the company.
Basically India never need an engineer except a civil engineer and I do not think any would be required in real future. The jobs an Engineer do here can be easily done by any graduate with little training.
Basically India never need an engineer except a civil engineer and I do not think any would be required in real future. The jobs an Engineer do here can be easily done by any graduate with little training.
The problem is wholly with INTELLECTUALS AND POLITICAL SET UP. Even as early as 1900 Britishers wondered why did not the INDUSTRIAL CLASS COMPRISING OF BLACKSMITHS/ARTISANS/WEAVERS etc., evince interest in EDUCATION? The problem is there are two set up of people completeley variance at each other. One group needs training and become the most advanced skilled persons in the world. However the other group does not have adequate practical application but excellent analysts. A professor of COMMERCE cannot file INCOMETAX RETURN or prepare TRIAL BALANCE if given by some ordinary businessman. However a person of ordinary education gives accounting which is excellently analysed by PROFESSOR. UNLESS what MORARJI conceived was put into practical application the situation will remain. After completion of eighth class students should be given option--if they go for engineering and science they should necessarily be given practical training for using tools and then only they should be inducted into ENGINEERING/SCIENCE.All students should be given practical rudimentary knowledge in PLUMBING/ELECTRICAL WIRING/BANKING LAW/CIVICS etc.,
Re: WHT AILS ENGINEERING GRADUATES
by prasidh r on Mar 03, 2015 04:30 PM
Similarly, an average electrical engineering graduate won't be able to identify electrical earthing problems in his own house, replace a capacitor in his own CRT based TV or build his own voltage stabilizer (forget building an inverter). The reason behind this technical backwardness is that there is little exposure to practical engineering problems in the academic curriculum of most institutions. Most of the "Electrical and Electronics Engineers" even struggle to solder components on a circuit board.
The problem is because of the poor quality of teachers and also no proper infrastructure in the college. Also students do not have good communication skills. They think using only Android or laptop should guarantee them jobs. After the third year of engineering, industry should take the students as interns for at least 1 year so that the students will know where they stand with respect to industry's demand from students. The students should be paid some stipend during this period. One should analyse why students join coaching classes for engineering which was unheard of in the old days. It is because the standard of teaching in most of the colleges have gone down, most of the private engineering colleges hire freshres with no experience for teaching. All these add up to make the engineering graduate not employable by the industry. Also students think out of the box which is a must for engineering students so as to bring out their innvative thinking.
The problem is because of the poor quality of teachers and also no proper infrastructure in the college. Also students do not have good communication skills. They think using only Android or laptop should guarantee them jobs. After the third year of engineering, industry should take the students as interns for at least 1 year so that the students will know where they stand with respect to industry's demand from students. The students should be paid some stipend during this period. One should analyse why students join coaching classes for engineering which was unheard of in the old days. It is because the standard of teaching in most of the colleges have gone down, most of the private engineering colleges hire freshres with no experience for teaching. All these add up to make the engineering graduate not employable by the industry. Also students think out of the box which is a must for engineering students so as to bring out their innvative thinking.
Indian industry does not need real engineers. Not a single Indian company does any kind of hardcore technical/engineering work that requires real engineering skills. Even engineering graduates from so called Tier 1 colleges prefer to opt for management roles, rather then technical work, because technical work options are few and far between. Indian industry which lives in a protected environment, has got into the habit of asking for sops and concessions. Rather then introspect, Indian industry looks for scapegoats outside. With no investment in R&D and abysmal quality standards, Indian industry cannot boast of even one world class product. Blaming fresh graduates is easy.
There is nothing wrong with the fresh engineers. The industries can hire them as a trainee and train them and teach their work ethics. I have tried over 50 companies till now, some are asking for reference or some demand experience. How the hell will a fresher get an experience unit and unless an industry provides it. The data that revealed that among the five lakh technical engineers who graduated in 2011, only 17.45 per cent are fit for employment, is totally based on some 100 questions out of millions on the internet. My view... these questions are not fit to determine whether we are fit or unfit. Train us as trainee and then have your facts corrected. An engineer can be trained more easily than a GM's nephew who is just a normal graduate and know nothing. The line "At least not to the 83 per cent of engineering graduates in our country who, as per the 2012 National Employability Report, are unfit for employment." is totally based on some assumption. I personally don't see any survey going on near me or any of my friends. You can write a book on this topic, so don't ever tell an engineer that you are not fit.
Talent Factory Chennai, is one of such companies planning to give break for engineering freshers, who are held in the previous recruitment drive. For colleges we bringing in companies to recruit and as far as the companies are concerned we will give an opportunity to recruitment of freshers. Talent Factory.
