Buddhadeb Chattopadhyay
Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology, Kolkata.

• Knowledge.
• Know-how.
• Character.

Generic Industry Skill for Engineering
1. Problem Solving and Logical Reasoning
(Analytical Capability).
2. Process Orientation (Attention to Details).
3. Learning Ability (Willingness to Learn).
4. English Communication (Verbal & Non-
Voice).
5. Pragramming Fundamentals (Generic
Domain).

• Rapidity of Changes Creates Historical
Attitude.
• Institution Should Educate Students How to
Cope With the Confusions of Values.
• Technology Threats to “Sweep Humanity Off
Its Cultural Feet”.
• If, Culture is Divorced from Education; No
Worthy Professional Can be Created.

• “Freedom Within Discipline”.
• NKC Feedback format may be quantified.
• Unbound stability lowers potential & reduces
Deliverables.
• Regularity in attendance.
• Quantifiable Research Output Like, H-index,
No. of JRF/SRF obtained Ph.D. etc. should be linked up.
• Mechanisms for Reward & Punishment Should be in Place.

• Communication ability & creation of teaching aids.
• Managerial skill impartation.
• Home Assignments, Evaluation &
Communication.
• Intra-Inter University Credit Transfer.
• Scopes for Cross-Fertilisation.

• The Country will Appear to the World as
Unusually Young, in Usually Greying Market.
• India is Already the Second Reservoir of Skilled
Work Force, Following China.
• By 2035, China Will be Greyer than Us.
• Nearly 80% Population of West Would be
Pensioners.
• Who will Push the Lock, Stock & Barel?

• 2.0 M English Speaking Graduates.
• 15.0 K Law Graduates.
• 9.0 K Ph.Ds.
• 2.1 M Engineering Graduates, which is
Expanding @ 300 K p.a.
• These Strengths Need to be Translated into
National Economy Effectively.

Industry Might Consider the Following
• Two-way Trafficking.
• Project Guidance.
• Project Sponsorship.
• Real-time Training.
• Managerial Skill Development.
• Soft Skill Inputs.
• Cater as a Changing Agent of Attitudes.

• Future Society Would be Knowledge Driven.
• Straight-Jacketed Economy Driven Society Will be Replaced.
• Need to Explore Synergy Between Industry &
Academia.
• Look Forward for Such Healthy Symbiosis.

• Need is to Change the Mind set and Attitudes.
• Higher Technical Education Needs a Paradigm
Shift in Different Orbit Altogether.
• It has to be Co-axial With the Target Industry.
• “To Improve is to Change; to be Perfect is to
Change Often.” – W. S. Churchill.