Strategies for Promoting Globally Competitive Engineering Education in India

Abstract

In the last ten years, there is a growing chorus of discontent about what is not happing in the engineering education in India. Around 5 % of the engineering graduates are possessing required industry -relevant skills and competencies. All over the world major efforts are being undertaken to transforming the engineering education. Based on the research, it is suggested to improve the performance of the faculty members, their abilities to undertake the globalization of engineering education and digitalization. Further there is a need for improving the faculty development through flexible and blended programs under NITTTRs, NITs, State Technical Universities, modernization of curricula and instructional design and collaboration with the industry and government. The colleges are to network with well performing global universities and collaborate in research and development. There is an urgent need for Institute-Industry-Government Partnership for improving the curriculum, research methods and product innovation. The institutes can review their curriculum through Faculty-Alumni- Industry-Representatives of Entrepreneurs (FAIR) Committee once in a year and make improvements. The engineering students are to be exposed to the problems of the industries and they are to be coached to solve them. Their research work, dissertations have to be industry relevant. Further, the engineering institutes have to plan innovative products as a part of the capstone projects. Ultimately the Indian engineering education has to develop industry relevant competency model which will focus industry relevant skills and competencies.