Engineering revolution in India
Can you go to your office or college or school without a vehicle?
What would have happened if we had no roads to walk on? And a bridge over any
river makes easy to go from one end to another. How about going too far off places
without trains and planes? Thanks to Engineers
for developing different machines and many other everyday applications that
make our life so easy. Life seems impossible without engineering inventions. Technical
innovations have opened up many ways and it must continue to do this in future
also. Do you know who the first engineer is? Well don’t worry as no one knows about it and about the first engineering device either. Unfortunately that information has lost. Engineers date back to the ancient times when first inventions such as pulley, lever & axe were made. Earlier engineers worked only for military purposes and with time they started designing civilian structures such as roads & buildings. Do you know how Civil engineering came into existence? Military engineers also took part in building projects for civilians use and from this use of military in civilian engineering , a new branch of engineering came up which is known as Civil Engineering. Now many engineering branches have evolved like Aeronautical, Agricultural, Bio-medical, Civil, Environmental, Mechanical, Structural, Electronics & Communications, Computers, Chemical, Electrical Engineering and many others. Engineering education is being considered among the key enablers of growth and development of a countries economy. So research in engineering education will play a vital role in country’s development. Engineering has became a most preferred choice of the students now a days. This demand has resulted a mushrooming of large number of engineering colleges in country. The gorwht of engineering educatin started after independence with the then prime minister of Idnia , Mr. Nehru’s vision of engineers & engineering education for the ultimate economic development. This resulted in setting up of Indian Institute of Technologies ( IITs ) at Kharagpur, Bombay, Kanpur, Madras, Delhi , Guwahati & Hyderabad( recently ) for imparting quality technical education in the country. India has about 3000 engineering colleges which include IITs, National institute of Technology (NITs), besides other good government and private engineering colleges. Among the private engineering college few have been accepted as quality institutes like Birla Institute of Technology ( BITS-pilani ), Vellore institute of Technology ( VIT ) , Dhirubhai Ambani institute etc. India’s growth rate of engineering education is higher compares to countries line US, UK and Japan. But now studies reflect hat growing problem of un-employment of engineering students in the country and industry complaining of unavailability of competent students on a par with the requirement of the industry. So the quality of education, curriculum and syllabus should be compatible with industry requirement to meet the current demand. The current curriculum should be reformed to provide greater flexibility and choice of electives. Laboratory courses to be revised and case studies should be discussed. Research must be encouraged. Despite the change in the curriculum, India needs quality academicians to mentor the engineering students and researchers in right direction. But this software era, the remuneration of a faculty is no where comparable to sky-high corporate salaries. This is resisting the quality engineers to take this path. Some action needed to be taken by the government to encourage people to take this career. The future hold abundant possibilities and challenges, this must be faced with more commitment. Engineering students must get the best of education & contribute towards the development of new India. References: CSR ( survey of engineering colleges ) August edition Author: Ms. Sireesha Murali , Co-founder , EEEGUZ.COM portal. Contact: siree@eeeguyz.com |