Reality of Engineering Education in India
Guest Article by Titus Manohar “A Successful Engineering Graduate” has become more of a myth in India, in the recent years. The lives of the many lakhs of students are being overshadowed by the successful few, with the formers’ struggle with unemployment going unnoticed. India, when it comes to education, has majority of students who would aspire to become a Doctor or an Engineer as opposed to a Physicist or an Astronomer. Our students, even from very young age, are presented with the choice of either becoming an engineer or a doctor which has constricted their knowledge about the various other courses/fields they can excel in. Engineering education, to start with, is a vast area of study which is evolving greatly with every single idea, notion and invention that is being propounded or introduced in one or the other corner of the world. With the number of students pursuing an engineering course increasing exponentially, the onus of revamping the c