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Preparing the Future on the

Academic Grounds

Buddhadeb Chattopadhyay

Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology, Kolkata.

Engineering Education

• 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).

Retaining the Perspective

• 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.

Accountability

• “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.

Quality of Engineering Teaching &

Research

• Communication ability & creation of teaching aids.

• Managerial skill impartation.

• Home Assignments, Evaluation &

Communication.

• Intra-Inter University Credit Transfer.

• Scopes for Cross-Fertilisation.

Demographic Dividend

• 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?

Present Out Put per Annum.

• 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

• 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.

Conclusion

• 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.

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