Hello World,
Tamilnadu’s engineering education is in great danger as of now. When I joined engineering in 2002, I knew I was into something from a few centuries in the past with very little to do with whatever I had to do post graduation. I was young and fairly inexperienced and so I wasn’t able to figure out the whole nonsense in detail. I was however absolutely sure I was in a game that was rigged to fail while dragging my career along with it.
After a decade-plus time from that, today, I am able to connect the dots backward and what I have is a disturbingly dark story that I wasn’t too far from figuring out when I was a student.
In the interest of time, let’s cut to the chase.
Have a look at these news items:
So, 40% of engineering colleges are filling a total of 10 seats or less. Over a lakh engineering seats are left vacant as the demand for engineering seats has taken a nose dive. Teaching faculty are hoping for a salary appraisal. National level engineering education controller organisation is allowing artisan science courses in engineering disciplines.
Here is the story on either side of the news items you saw above.
Candidates from engineering colleges of Tamilnadu are being defeated by students from other engineering institutes in the country in the interviews conducted for jobs in Chennai [based on my personal observation]. Candidates from engineering colleges in Tamilnadu who do end up getting the entry level positions, are, for the most part, from states other than Tamilnadu [they get their schooling done elsewhere and come with an edge]. This might seem like there is something unfair going on and you are not entirely wrong by assuming so. It is the engineering education that is being sold at sky high prices to the students of Tamilnadu that is the basis for this horror designed against Tamilnadu’s engineering students/graduates.
In the name of ‘BASICS/FUNDAMENTALS’, engineering colleges in Tamilnadu are selling outdated crap worth INR 4.50 [at best] to a large segment of eager youth. Remember, they are paying in lakhs, after paying in the same amount for their seat as well. Their tuition fees, for the most part, comes from educational loans which operate on average 14.5% compound interest which means, starting from the 7th month post graduation, the engineering graduate needs to start paying the loan back and missing which will force an interest on the interest and the snowballing effect will swallow the graduate and his/her family.
The format of education is another horror happening within these colleges where the students are directed to stay away from anything other than their textbooks/syllabus. They are discouraged from participating in anything the students might fancy making a hobby of. This results in the students graduating from engineering remembering about 3 formulae, 2 equations in the second order and a few foreign names referring to compatibility conditions or some other related procedures. These graduates tend to talk like telegrams: few words, assumed hyphens and filler words that don’t mean a thing. The result is that the interviewer is forced to do a PhD to understand what this engineering graduate from Tamilnadu is trying to say. Add in a cultural element of encouraging youngsters to do everything with confidence and we have these engineering graduates lying with confidence or declaring themselves unfit by confidently giving out incorrect answers assuming, they will win with their confidence.
Students are being forced to believe they need to master SOFTWARE PACKAGES if they should become eligible for jobs. That is true for very few jobs and even those jobs involves them going through on job training after they join. There is a huge market thriving on this fake demand being created by carefully installing software names in the official syllabi of courses [the university is the culprit helping this racket].
Everyone cannot know everything at all times. This needs to be installed or say buried in the heads of professors, HoD’s, lecturers of engineering colleges in Tamilnadu. The students will also need this medicine through their 8 semesters. They need to be advised: “It is ok if you don’t know something. Just say so.” The syllabus is just beyond repair. It will be anywhere between 350-400 years before that will be revised. Meanwhile, the students can better trust Google and learn their engineering and its applications on their own using the internet. Apart from learning their trade from the internet, they should also make it a practice of working towards a hobby of their choice such as [including but not limited to] blogging, drama, reading, film-making etc.
Engineering graduates from Tamilnadu need to learn the art of articulating their views without ambiguity in the simplest format so anyone can understand what they are saying. If you have to say “Everyone cannot understand this” then you don’t know your shit right and you are just bluffing. Knowing, understanding, applying are very different games within any trade and engineering is no exception.
As for the laminated cardboard the graduates get after clearing the 60+ exams, its only purpose at this point is: proof of eligibility and course completion. There might be some idiots saying, the chairman of the college was a rowdy but he delivers good product out of his engineering college. That is schizophrenia left untreated and at this point, there are a few lakhs of those patients roaming around in and around Tamilnadu.
If we are going to ignore this problem further, 10 years from now, all chain snatchers will be engineering graduates from Tamilnadu. Even then, those criminals will take pride in their engineering course and say the companies did not hire them. The fact is, this engineering nonsense administered in Tamilnadu is systematically rendering the graduates unfit for employment to most modern day jobs.
Given the current circumstances, even if some company decides to favour engineering graduates from Tamilnadu, they will still not find candidates for all of their positions. They have to depend on graduates from other states and institutes from outside of Tamilnadu. Try discussing this with a HR and you will face much darker facts about this issue.
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Regards,
