Engineering is the most preferred post school (after 10 plus 2) career option in India today.
It is evident from the fact that, the engineering entrance examination coaching market in India amounts to a staggering sum of Rs 10,000 crore every year. An ASSOCHAM report estimates that this can fund 30 to 40 new IITs. There are basically four kinds of engineering institutions in India: private-unaided, private- aided by Govt, State Govt aided and the ones under Universities.
Why most opt for Engineering
Wide range of career possibilities
Wide range of career possibilities
It can range from Design to IT to Marine to Aviation to Space Technology to Instrumentation to anything else one can think of.
Feed for mind
Engineering as a profession about developing the best possible option given a set of conditions and a desired output. Hence challenges are there in every front to be met and opportunity for intellectual development.
Contribute to Society
Here a satisfaction of contributing to society in every possible way can be attributed.
Engineering as a profession about developing the best possible option given a set of conditions and a desired output. Hence challenges are there in every front to be met and opportunity for intellectual development.
Contribute to Society
Here a satisfaction of contributing to society in every possible way can be attributed.
Financial Security & social reputation
The profession has an aura around itself that commands social reputation and better pay packet offers more financial security.
Professional Environment
For an engineer, the working environment will be quite professional and the associated intellectual stimulation is a reward in itself.
What Industry looks for
Sound knowledge of the fundamentals
Ability to transform the design document into work floor solution
Sound knowledge of Engineering ethics and principles.
Integrate the solutions and work processes with environmental and human factors.
Well informed decision making
Be part of a team
Strong interpersonal skills
Ability to transform the design document into work floor solution
Sound knowledge of Engineering ethics and principles.
Integrate the solutions and work processes with environmental and human factors.
Well informed decision making
Be part of a team
Strong interpersonal skills
Who are the education and skill providers?
There are Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs), National Institute of Technologies (NITs), IIITs and many private colleges who offer Bachelors degree in Engineering & Technology programs in various disciplines to about 5,00,000 students annually.
Admission to the Engineering course in India is after a 10+2 qualification in Science discipline. One is supposed to write entrance examination conducted at all India level to (IIT JEE & AIEEE) get entry to the premier institutes of India. There are state level entrance examinations for the Institutions under the State’s control and admission tests for programs offered by deemed Universities.
If one looks at the ratio of number of aspirants and the total number of seats offered by the premier institutes across the country, it can be well imagined the intensity of effort one has to put in. The aspirant should have thorough understanding of the syllabus and the nature of the questions asked in the entrance examination to have a right approach to the preparation of the examination
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Regulatory bodies
Engineering Education is administered by the MHRD through the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). AICTE provides the guideline for starting new programmes in technical education and is also accredits the programmes through the National Board of Accreditation (NBA).
Popular courses
Large numbers of students take the Engineering Entrance Examination but few are aware of the various career options that engineering as a profession offers. Most popular are:
o Agricultural Engineering
o Aeronautical Engineering
o Architecture
o Automobile Engineering
o Biomedical Engineering
o Biotechnology
o Ceramic Engineering
o Chemical Engineering
o Civil Engineering
o Computer Engineering
o Environmental Engineering
o Electrical Engineering
o Electronics Engineering
Genetic Engineering
o Industrial & Production Engineering
o Information technology
o Instrumentation Engineering
o Marine Engineering
o Mechanical Engineering
o Metallurgical Engineering
o Mining Engineering
o Petroleum Engineering
o Polymer Engineering
o Textile Engineering
The Job Scenario
Though a report based on a survey done by McKinsey Global Institute finds only a quarter of the graduating engineers from India employable, in the last decade the Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industries have topped the list of recruiters. Further a NASSCOM report foresees a shortage of 5 lakh knowledge workers by 2010, 70% of which would be in the BPO sector alone. The report further says India would need as many as two and a half lakh skilled engineers working in engineering services by 2020. Hence it says - India also needs to pay attention to the third major growth stream – Engineering Services Outsourcing (ESO) that is about expanding global innovation capacity in design, research, innovation and engineering. A fresh Engineering graduate now earns a whopping 3 – 4 lakhs per annum, higher than CAs, doctors, architects, journalists or PR professionals.
Indian students are creative, innovative and scientifically inclined. When it comes to mathematics and the physical and biological sciences, Indian schoolchildren are ahead of their counterparts in other developed countries. Most of them opt for Computer Science. Still, companies like Microsoft and many more are not happy with the computer engineers they are recruiting from college campuses. Findings show that this is because of the lack of trained faculty and the spending on research and development in higher education in the country.
Another finding mentions that the top five industries appealing to most students were IT, Management Consultancy, Automobile, Investment Banking and Chemicals.
Conclusion
Students are now aware that in this era of globalization and internationalization, global challenges demand global solutions and so many are opting to study abroad to get a better exposure before taking a plunge into the work life. The students very well understand that the global knowledge society is heading for a disappearing boundary. So also, international higher education is responding to this very favorably and US institutions tops the list of favorites. Students now want global skills from these institutions; look for freedom of mobility to move from one institution to another, one nation to another, collaborating across disciplines, faculties and borders. Now it remains for governments and higher educational institutions in partnership with the private sector to generate offerings to match with the students' goals and ambitions.
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