3. Present Engineering Practice in India
• Core industry
Steel
Cement
Power
• Transport
Train
Bus
Ship
Aerospace
• Automobile
• Infrastructure
Water treatment
Alternative energy
• Software
• Information Technology
Imported from
advanced countries
Technolog
y
Basic
technology
Improvement
of existing
technology
4. Role of Engineers in India
Detail Engineering
(for Product & Process)
(based on technological knowledge received from overseas)
IT Services
Management & Administration
In Core
Sector,
Engineers
work as
Supervisors
Process Planning
Production Planning
Manufacturing
Maintenance
Supply Chain Management
Quality Assurance
Marketing & Sales
In Software
& IT
Sector,
Engineers
work as
Labours &
Supervisors
5. Role of Engineers in India
R&D
Basic
Engineering
on
Industrial
Application
• Mostly in Academic level
• Mostly theory based
•Not much on hardware (i.e. development or improvement of
machinery or equipment)
• Inadequate fund
• At miniature scale
• Only few corporate encourage fundamental engineering
•Government own few company where basic engineering
can be practiced
•Indian Civil & Structural Engineers get more opportunity
of basic engineering compared to other engineers
•Thrust on Basic Engineering is missing at newly evolving
streams, also (eg Computer Science, Software and
Information Technology)
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6. Why India Lacks Technology?
Government
Policy
•Lacks
Government
Policy
•Lacks
political and
economic
interest
Corporate
Policy
• Inadequate Fund for Industrial & Engineering Research
• Technology can be acquired from overseas
• Government’s focus is on production and earning as much
money as possible
•Developing research and basic engineering infrastructure
and culture needs sustainable policy and monitoring, which
is not possible, because frequent changes in governing
persons, who live with varied interests and potential
• Investing money for fundamental engineering involve risk
of failure
•Investing money on fundamental engineering does not
produce quick money (Acquire money from such investment
takes time. Most of the Indian businessmen are interested
to earn quick maximum money out of dynamic and
changing economy)
•Multinational Companies (MNCs) are not interested to
transfer core technology out of their countries and use
Indian engineers as cheap knowledge workers only.
•Short
sightedness of
Indian
Businessmen
• Conservativ
e
approach of
MNCs
7. Why India Lacks Technology?
• Method of instruction or quality of teaching
• Gap between students-teachers relationship
•lack of world-class infrastructure and facilities which can't
be seen consistently across all colleges
•No honest and effective government control over
infrastructure (including teachers quality) of private
engineering colleges
•Lack of faculty at most of the government engineering
colleges
• Conventional approach of syllabus
•Failure of system to create awareness amongst students
regarding necessity of knowledge, instead of focus on jobs
only
Engineering
Educational
Policy
•Lacks
Government
Policy and
control for
engineering
education
• Lacks quality
teachers, in
general (at
mass level)
That’s why India lacks
Fundamental Engineering
Knowledge, i.e. Technology
8. Is Technological Advancement Necessity?
Why?
Ye
s
Nation’s
Prosperity
Economic
Competitiveness
in Global
Market
National
Security
Nurture
Talents
If India wants to be a Super Power, in true
sense, then Technological Advancement
is necessity.
9. What can be next step?
Present Engineering
Practice
Quality
Development of future
engineering product and
practices
Value
Addition
10. Focus for 21st Century
Product
Quality
Implementation of
Total Quality
Management System
Quality embedded
in new Product
Design
Quality
assurance
at every stage of
product
manufacturing
Process
Implementation of
Total Productive
Maintenance or Six
Sigma or Lean or any
other system
Quality
embedded
in new Process
Design
Quality embedded
at each step of
manufacturing
Engineers
Paradigm shift in
engineering
educational syllabus
and system
Quality education
system to nurture
quality engineer and
quality engineering
support staffs.
Quality of
classroom and
laboratory education
to be enhanced
11. Focus for 21st Century
Environmen
t Friendly
Bio Degradable
Pollution free
Value Addition
Cost
Effectiv
e
Material Safety
Product Cost
Manufacturing
Cost
Erection Cost
Operational
Cost
Maintenanc
e
Cost
(Life Cycle Cost
Analysis)
Cost Effective
material
Material for
Compact Design
Lighter
material
(Focus shall be
on development
and selection of
newer materials)
Implementation
of Aspect &
Impact study
12. Focus for 21st Century
Product
New Quality driven Product and Process
design capability is essential to explore in global
market.
Quality of product and process is essential for
business development, because
Quality = Customer Satisfaction.
To develop new
product, process and
system, engineers
needs to be educated
in an environment
which promote
knowledge based
quality education.
WHY QUALITY?
Engineers
Process
13. Environment
Friendly
To save earth
Growing global
pressure to
implement
environ friendly
technology
In-house
technology can
save lot of money
Cost
Effective
Material Safety
Business
development
Money does
matter, especially
in a developing
country like
India, every
penny counts!
Limited
resource
Material cost
is major cost of a
product
To value human
life.
Unfortunately,
in India, value of
human life is
not a major
focus! But
interestingly,
human safety
has direct
relation with
long run
business
Focus for 21st Century
WHY Value Addition?
14. Key for Technological Advancement
Long Term Research Based Approach
Engineering institutions and colleges to work for innovation.
Institutions practice education, so it shall encourage teachers
and students to think out of the box (even with limited available
fund!).
Long run honest government policy for technological
research:
Identification of areas which shall be prioritize for
research
and development
Planning and implementation of research work
Monitoring progress of the research work
Corporate to be encouraged for technological
innovation, in
terms of business opportunities
Corporate firms to promote technological innovation. Practicing
technological innovation is not charity, rather it provides long
run sustainability and larger market share.
Government
Corporate
Institution
15. Key for Technological Advancement
A National Drive for Engineering Advancement
Identification of areas of development
Development of existing identified products and processes
Development of identified new products and processes
Development of human resource (i.e. engineers and
engineering support staffs, by creating a new paradigm shift in
educational approach)
An honest long run holistic approach for
technological advancement.
16. Few possible steps for future
Government initiative to promote technology
Government should
identify and prioritize
products or process which
has to be nationally
developed. National effort
should be organized to
develop those products or
processes as per priority
list.
If government do not want
to increase “overhead” of
“technological
advancement”, then it
can invite any corporate
to develop such priority
product (with an
understanding of mutual
benefit) based on national
projection on technology.
17. Few possible steps for future
For Engineering as a profession
Empower (or create) an umbrella organization across all disciplinary and
professional engineering organizations (like Institute for Engineers) with power
and influence.
Enhance the visibility, prestige, recognition, and influence of members of the
umbrella organization in the eye of industry, government, scientific and
engineering community, and the Indian public.
Any organization who declares as engineering organization should disclose
number of engineers in the organization along with monthly take home salary
of engineers. There should be minimum salary structure for each age-group of
engineers, which has to be strictly followed by organizations.
18. Few possible steps for future
Increase the scholarship in engineering higher education
Engineering students should gain both the capacity
and the commitment for lifelong learning, since
the technology treadmill is accelerating, and those
relying on old skills and past learning will quickly
fall off. But even broader skills and abilities are
necessary, including the social skills and skill of
quality management system.
Remember
3 Idiot!!
Drive for engineering education
What to Do?
we should strive for broader intellectual span. This should be combined
with strong skills in knowledge integration, synthesis, innovation,
communication, and teamwork.
19. Few possible steps for future
Drive for engineering education
Curriculum for engineering education shall be re-established considering national drive
for technological needs.
Engineering education should be restructured as an academic discipline, thereby
providing students with more flexibility to benefit from the broader educational
opportunities offered by the various engineering colleges, with the goal of preparing
them for a lifetime of further learning rather than simply near-term professional
practice.
Government shall establish more control on educational standard of various private
and government engineering colleges. If government want honest national drive for
technology then quality must be focus.
If government has not “priority” to enhance quality of various private and
government engineering college, then some government college shall be identified
as model engineering college for state of the art engineering education.
Institute like IITs and model engineering colleges shall not prepare engineers for mere
job! Government must ensure brightest future for students of model colleges.
20. Few possible steps for future
Drive for engineering education
Excerpt from “Engineering for a Changing World” by James J. Duderstadt, President Emeritus and
University Professor of Science and Engineering, The University of Michigan:
The current pedagogies used in engineering education also need to be challenged. Although science and
engineering are heavily based on laboratory methods, in fact they are usually taught through classroom lectures
coupled with problem-solving exercises. Contemporary engineering education stresses the analytic approach to
solving well-defined problems familiar from science and mathematics–not surprising, since so many engineering
faculty members received their basic training in science rather than engineering.
To be sure, design projects required for accreditation of engineering degree programs are introduced into
advanced courses at the upper-class level. Yet design and synthesis are relatively minor components of most
engineering programs. Clearly those intellectual activities associated with engineering design–problem
formulation, synthesis, creativity, innovation–should be infused throughout the curriculum. This will require a
sharp departure from conventional classroom pedagogy and solitary learning methods. Beyond team design
projects, engineering educators might consider adopting the case method approaches characterizing business
and law education. More use might also be made of internships as a formal part of the engineering curriculum,
whether in industry or perhaps even in the research laboratories of engineering faculty where engineering
design is a common task.
Yet as any engineering dean will quickly note, a significant shift from the lecture paradigm to more research or
experiential learning through undergraduate research experiences, team design projects, or internships will
require a substantial investment of faculty time and financial resources.
21. Our Future for Technology
A prosperous developed nation
Y
e
s
No
To stay as
week nation/
To live with a
fear of
economic
fallout at any
time!
Corruption
Lack of
political and
administrativ
e
will
Fund
problem
Can we develop
our own
technology?
Political and
administrativ
e
will
Minimize
waste of other
fields
Change in
education
system
