Engineering Design Process Example
Why most of the engineering graduates form India do not have any application or practical skills?
For example, electrical engineers who have not seen or worked on power generation and distribution,mechanical engineers who do not understand anything about the design and production process and computer engineers who waste 4 years to learn some Java and C programming etc.It is really pathetic that the education system is wasting such young talents.I have met people from Europe,China and Taiwan with 1 or 2 years of vocational training posses the right skills and are most sought after by manufacturers. They don’t talk much but they will do an excellent job.
I studied at MSU at Baroda India, so I know that this is very true.
Colleges do not work with Industries and students just want to pass with hi marks so they do not try anything other than books and notes. For example they have to write journal, which is nothing but copy after copy of same thing year after years. Students do not want to go to see real things in the industries or construction site.
They do not go to classes (many many) just copy some ones notes, but pass with distinction. They have no home work.
So Graduates from India have no practicle training and vocational back ground as they get in to job market. They have operated only a bicycle at the most. They can not cut a sheet metal even with two hands.
However they catch up fast once they are in working environment.
They do well in any field and company.
One of my US interviewer asked me what machines I used as a child? I said a bicycle when I was 15. He said he drove a tractor when he was 6 year old. He was surprized that I became a Mech. Engr. He gave me job to design tractor and I did very well.
Indian students have vision if not the practical experience at the on set. India was very rural but now it is becoming more indstrial. What India needs is more mass production Industries, own and foreign, so future graduates will have both vision and the hands on knowledge too.
MSU Engineering Design Day 2011 | reWorking Michigan | WKAR NPR PBS