Amity, IIPM, Lovely university and finally Punjab university...seems greatest universities will emerge from this geographical region causing cultural revolution of neo-merit..
The greatest of engineers had no formal engineering education at high levels or any formal education at all in some cases.
Thomas Edison - No formal school, taught at home by mother. Soichiro Honda - little formal schooling, left home at 15 for work. Nikola Tesla - Did not complete college. Wright Bros - No college education, I don't think they completed high school.
etc.
I am not saying that everyone should be like the above people.... but they did not need to pass the JEE to become an engineer. And all the IIT engineers in history added up will struggle to come up with a list of inventions that Tesla did.
A piece of paper does not make you an engineer. An engineer experiments to build real life products - groundbreaking products or even run of the mill products. If you don't do this you are not a engineer. Matters little what a piece of paper says or what exams you passed.
Engineering is very practical .... solving differential equations or doing Laplace transforms on a piece of paper is not engineering although these can be supportive of the practical work.
If you want a good Btech degree go to IIT bombay, kanpur,delhi, kharagpur or madras. If you want MBA go to IIM ahmedabad,bangalore or kolkata. If you want masters degree in engineering go to USA and join some top university. What is taught may be same everywhere but the environment and the company you get matters a lot.
Re: difference
by R Chakravarti on Oct 05, 2013 08:28 AM
I have a BTech from IIT Bombay (1972). It is my impression that the institute has improved greatly since then. It is nowadays a good place for higher studies too, at least in some areas.
every other day you bring a new list, which one should I trust ? It is a fact that the quality of education in india has fallen to such a level that even postgraduates cannot write a decent quality letter. In the olden days even a 10th class pass would recite classics and interpret them. India today is just quantity with zero quality.
Kudos to Panjab University..it has broken the myth that IITs are invincible..parents pressurize children right from 5th or 6th class to set their sights on admission to IIT...only the second or subsequent choices will fall on non-IIT institutions..but Panjab Univ has heralded a revolution of sorts..Shortly many other names will be heard..one has to appreciate the tremendous effort taken over a period of time by the faculty and student community of Panjab Univ..kudos once again to PU..You have made every indian proud..Pl keep up your position and do not slacken..
Re: it is going to be a new beginning..
by desi twist on Oct 04, 2013 09:39 AM
I dont think such a myth ever existed at first place. I think it is best to leave the IITs alone, no need to overly praise them nor any need to overly bash them. Any university that can get good faculty, good labs and good syllabus can produce good engineers!!
Re: Oh!!!
by Cedric Lynch on Oct 04, 2013 04:28 AM
It isn't a mistake, it is the result of lack of standardisation in the transliteration into the Roman script of the vowel that follows a consonant in most Indian scripts when the consonant does not have a vowel sign on it. There are some other cases where there is an official transliteration but most people don't use it, for example the district in Gujarat whose official spelling in the Roman script is "Kachchh" but which most people spelling it in Roman script call Kutch. There is no ambiguity about its spelling in the Gujarati script.
Re: Oh!!!
by Rishant Sachdeva on Oct 05, 2013 01:37 AM
Punjab University (Actually University of th Punjab) is in Lahore Pakistan. The one in Chandigarh has always been "Panjab University" and Punjabi University is in Patiala.
Re: Oh!!!
by Rishant Sachdeva on Oct 05, 2013 01:38 AM
Punjab University (Actually University of th Punjab) is in Lahore Pakistan. The one in Chandigarh has always been "Panjab University" and Punjabi University is in Patiala.
It is really ironic that a university in a state where the youth are in the throes of one of the most under-reported drug abuse epidemics, is internationally ranked as one of the best!
