Engineers: Ensuring Excellence In and Beyond the Campus

Abstract

Every Engineering College in India invariably has the phrase “ensure academic excellence” in its vision statement. Survey reports in the last 10-15 years by various organisations in India, including NASSCOM, tend to cast a shadow on these claims of engineering colleges being institutions of excellence. These surveys indicate a growing gap between the number of engineering graduates passing out every year from the campus and those entering the corporate world. This paper looks at the reasons for the decline in academically qualified engineering graduates not being considered “qualified” for entry into the corporate world. It further explores the role of the stake holders and the means to mould raw students into qualitative engineers who can excel in their personal and professional fronts.