DOI: 10.5176/2251-1814_EeL13.37
Authors: Dr Prashant Sharma and Mrs Neha Jain
Abstract:
India has the potential to be a global technology leader. Indian industry is competing globally in software and even in areas such an automobiles, chemicals and engineering equipment. A critical issue for the future success of Indian industry is the growth of engineering education in India. This increasing demand for engineering has resulted in a mushrooming of a large number of engineering colleges in the country. Despite this, the industry complains of an absence of trained quality engineers. India awarded about 2.3 lakhs engineering degrees, 20000 engineering masters degrees and about 1000 engineering Ph.Ds in 2006. India’s doctorate degrees are less than 1{6e6090cdd558c53a8bc18225ef4499fead9160abd3419ad4f137e902b483c465} of graduate engineering degrees. The percentages of doctorate degrees to engineering degrees are much higher for most of the other countries studied (9{6e6090cdd558c53a8bc18225ef4499fead9160abd3419ad4f137e902b483c465} USA, 10{6e6090cdd558c53a8bc18225ef4499fead9160abd3419ad4f137e902b483c465} UK, 8{6e6090cdd558c53a8bc18225ef4499fead9160abd3419ad4f137e902b483c465} Germany, 3{6e6090cdd558c53a8bc18225ef4499fead9160abd3419ad4f137e902b483c465} Korea). There are more than 1,100 private engineering colleges. Currently, most graduates do not possess the skills needed to compete in the global economy, and industries have been facing a consistent skills deficit. The challenge for universities is to work out a healthy balance between wholeness of knowledge and specialization that caters to current technological demand.
Keywords: Higher engineering education, Engineering graduates,Quality engineers,Teaching learning process,Technical eduacation
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