Rohit Kandakatla
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Soujanya Reddy
- KG Reddy College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India
Abstract
India produces a large number of engineers every year. But industry leaders constantly complain about the absence of quality engineers for their industries. The future success of Indian industry depends on the growth of quality engineering education (EE) in India, especially since Indian industry is competing globally in software, and in areas such as automobiles, chemicals and engineering equipment. In India, majority of students opt for engineering after their 12th standard. A very high percentage of this majority opt for engineering succumbing to peer pressure without any prior knowledge on the profession and discipline. This results in freshmen students unable to cope with the curriculum from the very fi rst year of study. This keeps piling up till their fi nal year which results in lack of quality engineers graduating from colleges. Making efforts to address this crisis at the beginning would be the right time and would stop the problem from escalating. This paper discusses an initiative which was designed to address this issue for freshmen students.
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