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Scenario leaves much to be desired
Dr. Israel Raju Vuram
It is really wonderful that even average students get to study engineering while students putting in their best efforts are definitely getting into top engineering colleges. But offering engineering seats to the students who are below average is nothing but misguiding them.
Why show them a path at the end of which they are left unemployed and dissatisfied? If the below average students are not offered seats they will think of other possible opportunities and courses that are better for them.
This will definitely reduce unemployment and also increase job satisfaction. The present trend does not affect the engineering education in a big way.
But it is the students who are getting affected; being left unemployed or into the jobs that are nowhere related to their four- year course of engineering and that does not give them job satisfaction.
P. R. Subhasri,
Srinidhi Institute of Engg and Technology
Praveena Darla
Students should be given a clear idea of what they would have to study in engineering and that it is different from what they study in Intermediate either by parents or colleges.
What’s the fun if a student who hates Physics joins in engineering courses where application of Physics is huge? Joining engineering just for a job yield’s nothing. Apart from wasting four years they end up with frustration, hatred towards education and cursing everyone. They must be made aware of what Engineering is all about and other opportunities available to them if they don’t choose engineering. Parents have a role to play here.
Kishan Sindhe
Engineering colleges are emphasizing more on infrastructure facilities, fee structures rather than innovative teaching and learning methods.
As attitude, skill and knowledge are the three basic elements for accomplishing any task effectively, the ‘edupreneurs’ who established educational institutions are changing the way in which the technical education is to be taught. There are plenty of job opportunities for potential engineering and technical graduates in the areas of IT, Telecom, Pharma, Biotechnology, Tourism, Animation, Medication Transcription field. All the engineering colleges or Universities should constantly study the dynamics of the system and must be ready to offer solution to industry in this direction and also set the trend for the rest of the world.
At least, this would help students who are caught in the vortex of engineering education
Dr. Israel Raju Vuram,
Visakhapatnam
From the times immemorial, there has been a lot of craze for the engineering education.
R. Rajagopal
However, because of the number of engineering colleges growing, many graduates are being sent out every year without adequate opportunities for the employment or otherwise. Engineering is not the only life of an individual. Because of the notional demand created by the Corporate Colleges all the students and parents fail to think of other than EAMCET, AIEEE, IIT, etc.
Every student while at the end of the Intermediate must be given adequate counselling of the opportunities and the difficulties in pursuing any professional course and also the consequences after getting a degree.
There are many other professional courses at their disposal like Civils, MBA, CA, ICWAI, and CS. Let the thoughts be changed and let us think differently.
V.Veera Bhargav
The lack of requirements for a student to work in any industry is because of the lack of quality education. For the development of the university, it gives the permission to run its affiliated institutions without knowing whether the institutions have sufficient teaching faculty, laboratories and books for library leading to poor quality of education.
This is the fault of universities which gives permission to large number of disqualified institutions. After some time there may be no difference between a technical student and an ordinary student.
L. Ravikumar
The solution to prevent this is that the universities should make changes in its system for selecting a student and an institution.
L. Ravikumar,
Vijayawada
Buildings do not make an Institution. Equipment does not make an Institution. Library does not make an Institution.
Faculty is the heart of the Institution. It is the faculty that makes or mars an Institution. There is no doubt that there is shortage of meritorious teachers in the light of establishment of new engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh and elsewhere.
Faculty Development Programmes are to be conducted by groups of engineering colleges to get best out of the available faculty.
If one looks at the status of engineering education in the world, number of seats for engineering education for one lakh of population in India stand at very low level. Starting of new engineering colleges in that way is good for the students and for the good of the country.
India gained recognition all over the world due to its IT education and skills. Engineering Colleges alone cannot be blamed for lack of communication skills in their engineering graduates. Conscious efforts for improving the communication skills of student will have to be made in the schools and in the colleges.
Finally, I wish to add that more number of engineering colleges are required to be established.
However, managements are to be proactive for shaping their students well and make them employable. There is nobody born idiot and nobody born genius. We have to guide the students to be focussed and to become a balanced individual by providing wholesome education.
Dr. P. Narsimha Reddy,
Director,
Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology
Undoubtedly engineering education system in the present scenario lacks glitter and quality.
Today engineering has become a “Naam ke vasthe” study instead being a professional course.
Easy availability of seats doesn’t portray any difference between the merit and the normal ones.
The question to be raised is how many colleges are actually complete in terms of infrastructure and how many students from those colleges are employable? The authorities should ensure that at least from now no additional colleges are added in the pipeline unnecessarily.
It should as well ban the colleges which cannot actually meet the required standards. Moreover, it is the responsibility of the parents to know the likings and disliking of their wards and should understand that sheer forceful act cannot serve the purpose.
Nrupen Chakravarthy .Ch,
Hyderabad
The mushrooming of Engineering Colleges in the state and the lack of faculty and amenities in these colleges reflect the purely commercial attitude of the managements. For many of our politicians, the next most lucrative field after politics is none other than the field of education.
Hence a number of Engineering Colleges in our state are run directly or have the patronage of our public representatives.
There is no harm in it if these institutions are properly equipped and have good faculty to provide quality education. No institution with poor facilities and faculty can deliver quality education to its students as is often seen.
Though engineering education has been accessible to average and below average student today it is not at all a hindrance in providing quality education for many of these institutions when they are full-fledged in all respects. Sheer commercialisation without any accountability can cause enormous damage to the society and the students as well.
Dr .S. A. Khader,
Kurnool
It is the responsibility of the parents that they guide their ward in a proper way. Every student has a different talent and should be encouraged accordingly.
As the number of engineering colleges are increasing across the state and the students not even qualifying the entrance exam are getting the seats.
It shows that students are choosing their career according to wish of their parents. Students who really want to study engineering will make efforts to score high marks and get into good colleges.
Abdul Jabbar,
Nizamabad
Education is only giving direction and the right rope to climb-up on Individuals capacity and anybody can be trained given student’s interest. Interaction between industry and institutions is must for it.
In the industry, almost all the students pick up well and within a matter of a few months they become more useful to the industry and they learn what they have not learned in four long years.
The fault is not with more colleges but the absence of a proper system that creates employable engineers.
R. Rajagopal
During 1990s there was a huge craze for MCA but at the end of millennium it lost its lustre. With the IT boom engineering education too developed craze and students were joining just be qualified as an `engineer` without acquiring the required skills to sustain in the long run.
Because of this trend once a professional degree has now become a normal degree like BA or B.Com.
It is important to improve the quality of engineering education and giving bountiful opportunities to our graduate in mechanical engineering, agricultural engineering, Civil engineering that are evergreen and forever needed for the progress of our country.
Kaushik Yanamandram
The approval norms for starting private engineering colleges should be made more stringent.
Authorities should grant approval only when proper infrastructure is in place. Otherwise, the nation will get only engineers with poor quality.
A major factor that affects the quality of education is the absorption of students who have just finished their Engineering degree as faculty. This doesn’t exist in other courses or professions. A B.Sc graduate, for example, does not teach students of B.Sc.
Praveena Darla,
Vishakapatnam Burgeoning Engineering Colleges and increased number of engineering seats eroded the importance of technical education in India. The Government’s initiative to reduce the cut off mark in EAMCET also forced a poor performer in competitive exams to be eligible for engineering.
Budding engineers need to be trained well with advanced laboratory facilities as they are future of India’s technological advancements.
But the quality of teaching staff in engineering colleges is pitiable.
Unhealthy competition, lack of proper guidance, commercial thinking of colleges has increased the number of colleges but has eroded the concept of imparting good knowledge.
R Prathyusha,
Secunderabad
Everybody agree that the quality of engineering education is on the decline with majority colleges failing to acquire the required faculty or laboratories.
Many engineering graduates when they come to know they are not employable get depressed and add fuel to the worries of overburdened parents.
The only solution to make engineering students employable is to attach engineering colleges with industry as the Medical colleges are attached with hospitals.
Introduce ‘earn while learn’ scheme.
L.Balamma,
Eluru
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