Engineering Colleges Should Face Challenges

Engineering Colleges Should Face Challenges

224 students receive degrees

Komarapalayam: Engineering colleges have a far important role to play in today’s globalized world and to that they must rise to face the challenges, Dr.N.R.Shetty, president, Indian Society for Technical Indian Society for Technical Education, said here recently.

Skilled staff

Dr. Shetty said teaching was one area where many technical institutions face difficulty. “Today most engineering colleges face paucity of skilled and experienced teaching staff because young engineering are not attached towards teaching. They are refusing to be drawn into teaching. The future depends on how good our engineering faculty will be and in that regard it is important to make the profession attractive.”

The second area that the chairman of the advisory committee on entrepreneurship development of the Government of India touched upon was change in approach to engineering education.

“We should no longer be continuing with an education system that produced engineers to meet local and national demands. Gone are those days. Today we required engineers who will compete globally and possess such skills that will make them competent. Our engineers should not just meet Indian demand but also world’s. The next point that Dr.Shetty talked about was ‘inclusive education’ where people of all segments of society had access to engineering education.

“There had to be judicious balance, and by that I mean inclusive education. People of all segments of society must have access to engineering education and to this the number of institutions must be increased.”

While putting forth his demand for more number of institutions, he said the quality should not be compromised with and the Government must actively ensure that quality is maintained high. He also felt that the Government must not withdraw from higher engineering education but involve its self more by having more IIT’s and IIMs.

Research

“Just half-a-dozen such institutions are not enough. Given our population we need at least population we need at least a hundred of them.” The other area, which he perceived to be important, was research in engineering in colleges, said Dr. Shetty. “Of the 1, 500 engineering institutions in the country, barring 10 or 20 colleges none of them are involved in research. This does not auger well for our future. I see research to be symbiotic with teaching,” he said. Against the present demand of 30, 000 Ph.D. holders in engineering the country had only about 450, he said.

Earlier, M.S.Mathivanan, Chairman, SMM Group of Educational Institutions welcomed the gathering. Dr.N.Madhava Rao, Principal, read the annual report. About 224 students received their degrees. V.Sivakumar, M.Tech, Textile Chemistry, and K.Sivakumar, B.Tech, Textile Chemistry, and K.Sivakumar, B.Tech. Textile Chemistry, won gold medals. C.Ravishankar of B.Tech, Textile Technology, bagged the silver medal.

Engineering Colleges Should Face Challenges

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