The Hindu Business Line : Change needed in engineering curricula

The final year should be reserved for application work, where students are presented with real situations and challenged to come up with possible solutions. This will make them intuitive and innovative.

Subba Lakshmi,

Madurai

Change is required in the engineering curricula. There is also a need to boost the morale of staff and implement programmes properly. Selfless service should be the motto.

T. V. Jayaprakash, Research Officer, CADA of Kerala, Thrissur

There is an urgent need to change curricula and incorporate subjects such as digital geographics, hardware and communication in multi-lingual systems and agronomy, in applied computer science. Young engineers with cutting edge expertise could be instrumental in changing more lives with IT.

S. Sivasankar, Senior Manager (retired), Canara Bank, Salem

Engineering curricula in India is theory-based. As a result, students rarely have access to manufacturing sites. If a student is interested in specialising in industrial design, he has to opt for a design school, as engineering institutions do not teachproduct-designing skills.

At least non-patented space design technology in theory and practice should be included as part of the curriculum so that the students upgrade their skills till national standards are evolved by an accredited body.

T. S. Sundareswaran,

New Delhi

The President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam mooted the idea of providing urban amenities in rural areas (PURA) to infuse fresh life into them and so that the villager or small town dwellers need not migrate to cities.

Infrastructure, especially for science and technology education, needs to be upgraded.

If India can provide enough opportunities for the youth, they would not leave the country.

V. Venkitasubramanian, Kochi, vvsmani2002@yahoo.co.in

India is yet to revamp the education sector to meet competition and new skill requirements. Professional courses need to be reviewed to meet the needs of the changing scenario.

C. P. Velayudhan Nair, Kochi, vglakshmi@eth.net

India, in comparison to developed countries, lacks skill not only in the engineering field, but also in almost all other fields.

P. Sankaranarayanan, Kochi Refineries Ltd, Kochi, dgmmtlsecr@kochirefineries.com

There is certainly a need to update curricula keeping in mind the requirements of the future.

Krithivasan, SBI, s.krithivasan@sbi.co.in

For India to keep up with world-class standards, an overall change in `skill-sets in the product space', as the Microsoft CTO said, may be required in engineering curricula.

A. Jacob Sahayam, Thiruvananthapuram, jacob_sahayam@yahoo.co.in

In order to create good products, engineers need to be creative, innovative and analytical.

Engineering curricula should inculcate these qualities in students. Exams tend to be theory-oriented; they should, instead, have more problem-solving type questions. IITs, for example, emphasise this.

Hariharan .S, s_hari@yahoo.com

Engineering students should be made aware of what companies need during their training. . Engineers should be aware of the concepts in their related fields.

Divyaa, B.E, Computer Science, Anna University, Chennai, edivyaa28@yahoo.co.in

The CTO at Microsoft is right, the engineering curriculum does need to be changed. Engineers reading this article in South India can relate to the un-relatedness (!) of engineering education to real-life applications.

Balaji Venkatesh, balajivno1@yahoo.com

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