“The Purpose of Engineering
Education is forgotten?!”
“Core Engineering is the future of India” Experts - The News
item on this topic in TNEI is timely and worthy. The opinions expressed by the
experts are highly true. The students are not informed of the valuable opportunity
in the Core Engineering branches. It is the duty of the Placement wing of
the Engineering colleges to explain the VALUES and Challenging benefits of the core
Engineering prospects and not simply giving the statistics of numbers who have joined
in IT industry and forgetting that the real purpose of giving education in the
Engineering College is to mold CORE ENGINEERS.
As is rightly told, prospective students are looking at
short term benefits and not the future. The real Engineering marvel is to see
the theory working. Virtual Reality is not the materialistic world. Can
virtual informative mass structure felicitate persons to live in or as a
matter of fact can the Satellite Vehicle be launched virtually alone.
Almost about half a lakh students join in Engineering in Tamilnadu
every year. If and only if majority of them enter and excel in the field
of their respective core branch, the technical Engineering Excellence in this
country or in TamilNadu would have gone to a much higher level. If at all one
is interested in SOFTWARE skill, they may as well choose the software course
in the arts faculty itself and a core Engineering seat need not be wasted.
I normally get letters from the TOP RANKING students after two
years of working in Software Company’s asking for recommendation letters for doing higher studies. Few years before the culture was to write GRE , TOEFL,
GATE during the final year level, and the toppers make it is point to join in a
P.G. course in a good Engineering college either in India or in abroad.
Now that is also virtually stopped, but realizing about it
after two years of joining in a different arena. Sometimes the students,
especially the new entrants are carried out by the wrong analysis of few analysts. The best part is some toppers changed the fields of study from MEDICINE to ENGINEERING by this
kind of wrong reports. To site an example, in the recently concluded councelling
one student has blocked a seat in MEDICINE as well as in different Engineering Coleges and finaly had chosen an Engineering Institute in North after
locking the opportunities of other bright students opportunities.
In India, there are proven Engineering Establishments like
BHEL, BEL, ISRO, DRDO, NPOL, MALCO. SAIL, NALCO, ONGC , NAL, HAL, HMT,
TATA MOTORS, ASHOK LEYLAND , L&T and other TELECOMMUNICATION
ENGINEERING FIRMS to give the BEST POSSIBLE jobs in the core engineering.
It is a sad part that the bright students have forgotten the IES also.
Adding salt to the Injury, bright young Engineering Graduates apply for IAS,
ARMY, NAVAL and AIR wing of DEFENCE do have challenging work for bright core
Engineers. If Engineering in JAPAN or CHINA have grown it is due to the real
involvement of Engineers in their respective branches of study.
...HAPPY ENGINEERS DAY...
DR.S.RAGHAVAN
SENIORMOST FACULTY IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING,
NIT TRICHY
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