Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

Abstract

The engineering educational institutes strive to develop the graduating students to possess the skillsets required by the related industries in the market. However the industries, that seek the engineering graduates as their employees assert that they spend lot of time, money and energy in training these graduates. This fact emphasizes that there exists a gap in the skillsets cultivated in the graduates by the academic institutes and those required at the industries. The main causes behind this have been the differences in their major goals along with the lack of focused collaboration and efforts required to thin the said gap. In this paper we present a model namely ‘Tailored Skills Development Model’ (TSDM) which proves to be effective in bridging this gap. The model proves to be supportive to the engineering institutions where they are able to cultivate the graduates with advanced skills that are necessitated by the industries in the specific engineering disciplines focused by the institutes. And the model also assists the industries to seek the better manpower with adequate skillsets. The model helps to reduce the training period, related cost and energy involved at the industry levels in search of the anticipated skillsets. The paper discusses the organization and implementation of this model at our institute along with the statistics of its execution. Keywords—Engineering education, Engineering institutions, Industries, Tailored Skills Development Model.