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TE CIVIL SECOND SHIFT BATCH 2

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REPORT WRITING ON QUALITY OF ENGINEERS - IS IT DEGRADING?

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

SUBMITTED TO

PROF.MARUF QADRI

BY 1. HUZAIFA KHAN

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2. AYESHA MASTIM

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3.TARANNUM SHAIKH

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4. ATIQUE BARUDGAR

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5. IRFAN QURESHI

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6.SAYYED SAGEER

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7.SHAHBAZ KHAN

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8. QURESHI FAUWAZ

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9.KHAN RIZWAN

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11. KHAN SAIF

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12. SHAIKH AZAZ

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13. NAEEM JILANI

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14. KHAN SALMAN

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DEDICATION LETTER

THIS REPORT IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE UNEMPLOYED ENGINEERS AS A CONCERN.

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FORWARDING LETTER

We students of TECES Batch1&2 present this letter to our ECS Professor Maruf Sir. We were given a project to write a report on the Degrading Qualities of Engineers. We all have contributed our best in preparing a meaningful and useful report. We have used many magazines and newspapers of different years to get the abstract for this report, as well as internet. We hope this report is beneficial for everyone.

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PREFACE As a part of the education system being students, and to gain partial knowledge about the current educational practices we have prepared a report on “QUALITIES OF ENGINEERS:IS IT DEGRADING".The basic objective of this report is to know the root cause of degrading qualities of an engineer. In this report we have included various causes, the type of educational practices, tried to figure out the root cause, the ethics of an engineer and its conclusion with solution. Doing this report project helped us to make our studies better, our way of seeing education changed,it helped us to build our selves as an engineer with ethics.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LETTER “...the beauty of the destination is half veiled and the fragrance of success is half dull until the traces of those enlightening the path are left to fly with the wind spreading word of thankfulness...” To prepare this report, we students had taken help of many teachers of our college as well as our fellow companions, by interviewing them. We would like thank them all to help us. We even thank our ECS teacher Maruf Sir to give such an opportunity to prepare a report which will help us in our upcoming future. Last but not least we thank the new inventions.

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ABSTRACT Engineering education is expanding but quality engineers are not being produced. The report is based on the data of more than 55, 00 engineers who graduated. The report goes deeper to identify the patterns in employability across different regions and kind of colleges, analyzing in detail the distribution of education pattern and employability. We have even focused on moral qualities of the then engineers and the engineers now. After over viewing the whole report we have ended up on conclusion with some solutions to the problem of degrading qualities of engineers.

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Table of contents Dedication Letter................................................................iv Forwarding Letter...............................................................v Preface................................................................................vi Acknowledgement Letter..................................................vii Abstract..............................................................................viii Contents..............................................................................ix List of illustrations.............................................................xi Contents 1.

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Introduction 1.1) Purpose 1.2) Background 1.3) Methods of investigation 1.4) Scope The Engineers before and the engineers now 2.1) Previous state of an engineer 2.2) Current state of engineer Legal and ethics consideration in engineering 3.1) Moral failure 3.2) Corruption Failure of educational system 4.1) Coaching classes 4.2) Indian engineering syllabus 4.3) Mathematics and communication is weak 4.4) Marks based study not skill based

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2. Fig3.1 Do you think lack of morals and ethics is a cause for degradation of engineers? 3. Fig 4: Major Cause of degradation

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4. Fig 4.1 : Rise in Indian Coaching Industry 15 5. Fig 4.3.1: How much would you rate level of mathematics and communication skills of upcoming engineers? 19 6. Fig 4.3.2: Skills desired by employers 20 7. Fig 4.4.1 : Does scoring based learning affects The depth of knowledge of students? 21 8.Fig 4.4.2 : Percentage of Ph.D. output to Graduate

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1. Introduction An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical, societal and commercial problems. Engineers design materials, structures, and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost. The word engineer is derived from the Latin words ingeniare ("to contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness").

The work of engineers forms the link between scientific discoveries and their subsequent applications to human needs and quality of life. 1.1 Purpose The purpose of this report is to investigate the rise in the degradation of quality of the engineer. This report will also recommend the preventive measures for the unemployment and degradation of engineers. 1.2 Background Engineers have significantly higher starting salaries than do college graduates with bachelor's degrees in many other fields. After 4 years of college, an engineer could be making ₹20,00,000 to ₹30,00,000 a year. And society will always ANJUMAN-I-ISLAM KALSEKAR TECHNICAL CAMPUS

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need people, like engineers, who solve problems and come up with new ways of thinking about and doing things.

But now scenario has dramatically changed there is a false perception in the society that if one does engineering he/she is a brilliant student and that it is easy to get a job with a fat salary. It is this perception that makes many students opt for engineering. Some know about this even before joining an engineering college but they do not dare to take a decision opposite to custom. Towards the end of the course students come to realize the reality and end up accepting any offer that they get, be it a less-paying job in the same field of study, a job in a totally different field, or decide to study further just to escape social and peer pressure. Problem also lies in the fact that the quality of engineering education has dropped. The National Employability Report, Engineering Graduates - 2014 by Aspiring Minds says that less than one out of four engineering graduates are employable.

In India, engineering colleges are springing up like wild mushroom in last few years. Their number has gone up from a not too modest 1,511 colleges in 2006-07 to an astoundingly high 3,345 in 2014-15. The state of Andhra Pradesh alone has more than 700 colleges.

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Questionnaires were issued to100 people from 6 educational institute on 25 Sept 2015. Three engineers who were unemployed were also interviewed to get in-depth views. References were also made to the newspapers articles and books. 1.4 Scope Besides pointing the causes of the degradation & unemployment, this report recommends the initiatives to be taken in education system to enhance the skill based teaching.

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2. The engineers before and the engineers now. 2.1 Previous state of Engineers: Engineers are responsible for some of the greatest inventions and technology the world depends on. Everything from space shuttles to air conditioning systems to bridges requires the work of an engineer. To be successful in the field of engineering, they possess certain qualities. Some of those top qualities include: 1. Possesses a strong Analytical Aptitude: Then engineer has excellent analytical skills and is continually examining things and thinking of ways to help things work better. They are naturally inquisitive. 2. Shows an Attention to Detail: Then engineer pays meticulous attention to detail. The slightest error can cause an entire structure to fail, so every detail must be reviewed thoroughly during the course of completing a project. 3. Has Excellent Communication skills: Then engineer has great communication skills. They can translate complex technical lingo into plain English and also communicate verbally with clients and other engineers working together on a project. 4. Takes part in continuing education: Then engineer stays on top of developments in the industry. Changes in the ANJUMAN-I-ISLAM KALSEKAR TECHNICAL CAMPUS

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technology happen rapidly, and the most successful engineers keep abreast of new research and ideas. 5. Is Creative: they used to be creative and can think of new and innovative ways to develop new systems and make existing things work more efficiently. 6. Shows an ability to think logically: they has a top notch logical skills. They are able to make sense of complex systems and understand how things work and how problems arise. 7. Mathematically inclined: They have excellent math skills. Engineering is an intricate science that involves complex calculations of varying difficulty. 8. Has good problem solving skills: They have sharp problem solving skills. An engineer is frequently called upon solely to address problems, and they must be able to figure out where the problems stems from and quickly develop a solution. 9. Team player: They used to understand that they are a part of a larger team working together to make one project come together successfully, and therefore, must work well as part of that team. 10. Has excellent Technical Knowledge: They used to have vast amount of technical knowledge. They understand a variety of computer programs and other systems that are commonly used during an engineering project.

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2.2 Current state of Engineers: Today’s engineers are produced in masses due to availability of opportunities in private colleges and they lack in skills and morals. These mass produced engineers are responsible for unemployment in the country. Since companies are recruiting engineers based on their academics and skills these engineers are good in academics but lack in skills results in rejection in interview of job placement. There are some of the key findings by New Delhi-based employability Solutions Company, on skills, gender, locations, and institutions. The report is based on a sample of more than 520 engineering colleges across India. India has 6,214 engineering and technology institutions with 2.9 million students enrolled, and according to the Ministry of Human Resource Development. Engineers are not developed to their full potential, according to a study by Towers Watson and the institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME). Towers Watson director of organisational surveys and insights Yves Duhaldeborde said the development need of skilled engineers had been “neglected”.

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The most problematic demographic is engineers in their thirties, typically with line management responsibilities. According to the research, these employees are less engaged; 45% believe there are substantial obstacles to doing their job well’ compared to 35% of twenty-year olds. The IME’s head of commercial development Alastair Barr said: “We needs to give serious thought as an industry to how we equip people with not only the core engineering skills required in today’s economy but also the people skills that allows us to drive up the productivity as a whole”.

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There is a real concern within the engineering profession that an increasing number of higher-education staff teaching engineering have no industry knowledge or experience. Part of the problem is that teaching posts are filled by new graduates as a means of funding further study. ‘There is a real concern within the engineering profession that an increasing number of higher-education staff teaching engineering have no industry knowledge or experience. Many engineering graduates that choose to continue their higher education studies and research activities full time have no option other than to accept teaching posts to fund their academic careers. ‘Hence some higher education staff have no interest in teaching and this manifests itself in a poor learning experience for students.

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3. Legal and ethical consideration in engineering. Codes of engineering ethics identify a specific precedence with respect to the engineer's consideration for the public, clients, employers, and the profession. Many engineering professional societies have prepared codes of ethics. Some date to the early decades of the twentieth century. These have been incorporated to a greater or lesser degree into the regulatory laws of several jurisdictions. While these statements of general principles served as a guide, engineers still require sound judgment to interpret how the code would apply to specific circumstances. The general principles of the codes of ethics are largely similar across the various engineering societies and chartering authorities of the world, which further extend the code and publish specific guidance. The word ethics has different meanings but they are correspondingly related to each other. In connection with that, engineering ethics has also various senses which are related to one another. It aims at knowing moral values related to engineering, finding accurate solutions to the moral problems in engineering and justifying moral judgments of engineering. Engineering ethics give a view of moral problems and how to solve these issues specifically related to engineering field. 3.1 MORAL FAILURES: ANJUMAN-I-ISLAM KALSEKAR TECHNICAL CAMPUS

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There are so many engineering disasters which are greater / he avier than the level of acceptable or tolerable risk. Therefore, for finding and avoiding such cases such as nuclear plant accident at Chernobyl (Russia), Chemical pla nt at Bhopal (India) where a big disaster of gas leakage, occurred in 1980, which caused many fatal accidents. In the same way, oil spills from some oil extraction plants (the E xxon Valdez plant),hazardous waste, pollution and other relat ed services, natural disasters like floods, earthquake and dang er from using asbestos and plastics are some more cases for en gineering disasters. These fields should be given awareness of engineeri ng ethics. Hence, it is essential for engineers to get awareness on the above said disa sters. They should also know the importance of the system of engineering. When malfunction of the system is a rapid one, the disaster wi ll be in greater extent and can be noticed immediately. When t hey ate slow and unobserved, the impact is delayed. So, the engineers should not ignore about the funct ions of these systems. These cases also explain and make the engineers to be familia r with the outline of the case in future and also about their related ethical issues. • Any product or project has to undergo various stages suc h as planning, idea, ANJUMAN-I-ISLAM KALSEKAR TECHNICAL CAMPUS

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design and manufacturing which is followed by testing, s ales and services • This has to be done by engineers of various branches like Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical etc. • These engineers may be grouped together as a team or th ey may be separated from each other with an interconnection or co-ordination. • Despite of the engineers’ full attention and care, sometimes the product or project may be unsafe or less useful. • This may be due to some reasons 1) The product or project may be designed for early obsolescence or 2)due to under pressure because of running out of time, budgetary etc or 3) by ignorance on the size of the project.

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Fig3.1 : Do you think lack of morals and ethics is a cause for degradation of engineers? 3.2 CORUPTION: Parties involved with construction and engineering projects are especially vulnerable for a number of reasons including: High risk Jurisdictions:Many major construction and engineering projects are carried out in high risk jurisdictions. Limited regulation:The temptation for parties to engage in bribery and corruption is inevitably greater where there is a perception that the risk of being detected and penalised is relatively low. Limited to carry projects develop

competition:The pool of parties with the capacity out and complete the larger and more complicated is often quite limited. Over time, parties will relationships with key decision-makers in the

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procurement process. This may present a further inducement to become involved in bribery and corruption. Ease of concealment:The significant scale of many projects makes it easier to conceal bribery and corruption. Large sums of money transferring through complicated structures and supply chains can provide cover for unlawful activity.

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4. FAILURE OF EDUCATION SYSTEM • Indian engineering institutes are divided into (i) Indian institute of technology IITS which are of national importance. (ii) National institute of technology NIITS (iii) Central, State, Deemed and Private university. • All universities (except iit&niits ) are governed by central authority - AICTE. 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 EDUCATION SYSTEM

LACK OF STUDENTS' INTREST

LACK OF TEACHERS' ALL OF THE ABOVE KNOWLEDGE

Fig 4: Major Cause of degradation.

• India has large chunk of engineering institute in every nook of the country above 10,000 institute.

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• With the growing pace of technology, India is also trying to keep up in the race of technological development. • But yet India has not able to produce a institute, which can be included in top 150.

4.1 COACHING CLASSES: • The industry (private coachings) is booming and estimated to be about Rs 5,000 crore (and growing annually at 20 percent)!

Fig4.1 :Rise in Indian Coaching Industry



Indias biggest IT firm “Infosys” chairman N R Narayana Murthy had said that the quality of students entering IITs is degrading year after year due to coaching classes. Coaching classes teach aspirants limited sets of problems, out of which a few are asked in the examinations. ANJUMAN-I-ISLAM KALSEKAR TECHNICAL CAMPUS

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• The classes enables students to spoon feed and teach them tricks to beat exams. • In coaching classes forget about real knowledge or even developing any mental abilities (besides memory) – it’s the marks that count thus it enhances marks based study and due to students attending coaching classes in cities, the interest of school teachers to impart knowledge to students has now started dipping gradually.

• why they are increasing ?(1) it is our education system which is to blame since it weighs the students’ standings on the brilliance of his score-card, practical exams are given a sufficiently low weightage as compared to theory . (2) Professors inthese classes teach a single concept in many different classes. Hence they virtually have it at the tips of their tongues. Repetition of the same concept in the nth class having more or less the same kind of students requires no genius. Yet, they represent youth, liveliness and energy since most of them are recent graduates. Students admire them even beyond their academic connections. (3) Due to absence of the professor or lack of completion of syllabus also forced students to join classes. ANJUMAN-I-ISLAM KALSEKAR TECHNICAL CAMPUS

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4.2 INDIAN ENGINEERING SYLLABUS: • The syllabus itself is very old and nobody is taking pains to change or modify them. • The board which is responsible for preparing the syllabus is headed by oldies who are not in pace with latest trend or they are not so specialized to take any action. Recently there was

news that vice chancellor of Mumbai

university has not proper qualification and he is heading a big system. • In India normally any new technology or analysis method in syllabus is generally adopted after 15 to 20 years later, take example of limit state method in DRSS ,according to which structures were started constructing in around 1992, but it was included in 2012 MU syllabus. Indian universities syllabus are unable

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• Not many structural changes have taken place in the curriculum even though rapid developments have been taking place continuously in the fields of science and technology.

4.3 Mathematics and communication is weak •

Acc. to TOI only 18% engineering graduates are employable, following numbers tells the truth:- Chennai, home to Anna University, one of the largest universities in India with about 400 colleges affiliated to it, has an employability rate of an awful 1%. Even the state with the highest employability percentage, Delhi, is only at 13%. Bangalore, the so called ‘silicon valley of India’ is at a staggering 3.2%.

• Of the 1.2 lakh candidates surveyed across multiple states, 91.82% lack programming and algorithm skills, 71.23% lack soft and cognitive skills, 60% lack domain skills, 73.63% lack English speaking and comprehension skills and 57.96% have poor analytical and quantitative skills.

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Fig 4.3.1:How much would you rate level of mathematics and communication skills of upcoming engineers ? •

The low employability among engineering graduates is a cumulative outcome of poor education standards and higher demand of skilled employees.

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Fig 4.3.2: Skills desired by employers. •

There is lack of proper planning, appropriate guidelines, and corrective measures while sanctioning new institutions and disciplines. Thus a large number of institutions are being established taking only profit into consideration and with little emphasis on quality of education.



In most of the engineering institutions the course curriculum is, by and large, theoretical in nature and students are not made aware of the applications of the theories in industry.

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the Embedded Model incorporates the soft skills in the teaching and learning activities across the curriculum. This model does not require students to choose additional courses because soft skills become the part of the learning outcomes of the respective courses. It includes activities like questioning, class discussion, brain storming, team work, presentation, role play, project, field work and site visits.

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Our Indian education system is a closed classroom approach. The teacher comes, starts pouring in information. Students are seated all facing the teacher, taking notes, absorbing information as much as they can. Study and write the exams. Pass. Get a degree. This may be makes us good at technical abilities, but does not make us thinkers.

• The assignments given quite often are routine and do not involve any research or innovation. • The approach to the engineering curriculum in our country emphasises rote learning. The same set of questions is asked year after year. If your memorisation skills are good, you may cram and score well.

• Our engineering students after passing four years in college are not able to make up their mind of research oriented, this can be clarified by following statistics:-

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Fig4.4.2 :Percentage of Ph.D. output to Graduate Engineers Output

4.5 LACK OF SKILLS IN TEACHING STAFF: • One of the most important factors is the lack of good teachers. Professors should be expected to publish and be actively involved in research. There are several colleges in which students who graduate join as lecturers’ right after graduation. This will only create more and more incompetent students leading to lower standards in the future. •

The rapid growth of engineering institutions not only has led to surplus numbers of engineering graduates, but also a dramatic shortage in qualified faculty. According to a study cited in the Rao report, an additional 10,000 doctorate holders will be needed by 2008 (report was

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issued in 2003) to adequately staff engineering faculties across the country.



The extra teaching load on professors in all has led them to restrict to do research work or write technical paper which results in further development of their knowledge.

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Conclusion

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5.1 Summary • Engineers are not developed to their full potential, according to a study by Towers Watson and the institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME). • There is a real concern within the engineering profession that an increasing number of higher-education staff teaching engineering have no industry knowledge or experience.

• The coaching classes enables students to spoon feed and teach them tricks to beat exams therefore required skills lack in students. • Due to absence of the professor or lack of completion of syllabus also forced students to join classes. • Our engineering students after passing four years in college are not able to make up their mind of research oriented. • The low employability among engineering graduates is a cumulative outcome of poor education standards and higher demand of skilled employees. • One of the most important factors is the lack of good teachers. Professors should be expected to publish and be actively involved in research. ANJUMAN-I-ISLAM KALSEKAR TECHNICAL CAMPUS

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• Our Indian education system is a closed classroom approach. The teacher comes, starts pouring in information. Students are seated all facing the teacher, taking notes, absorbing information as much as they can. Study and write the exams. Pass. Get a degree. This may be makes us good at technical abilities, but does not make us thinkers.

5.2 Conclusion After referring so many papers and interviewing people our team has concluded that, the major lagging is in the education system. The students are running for scores but they are lacking in skills, the syllabus is not updated with the modern and latest technologies and methods etc.Absence of the professor or lack of completion of syllabus also forced students to join classes. Besides this the students are lacking in morals which is a big issue.

5.3 Recommendation • Industries should be ready to take on some students for some part time work. Could be short duration of time, may be 10 hours a week. This will help student learn discipline, working in team, meeting the deadlines, and to start thinking how to work on your own stuff.

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• Some lectures every semester should be given by people working in the industry and not who is a full time lecturer. This brings in a more practical approach towards the subject being taught rather than just theoretical.



Choice of doing their graduate thesis in a industry. This is really helpful as companies would not need to train the students for 6-12 months. They can use the thesis to get them ready and can directly put them in related projects. The student gets freedom to research and learn on the topic, and becomes a near expert in the time. This is the way how most students in Europe get their first job. And, they are productive in a few months if not the very first day.

• If India aims to become more competitive in research outcomes, the number of PhD students and faculty with PhDs needs to be raised. Given that the majority of faculty members have only a master’s degree, providing them an opportunity to upgrade their degrees to PhDs might be a realistic option for improvement over the short to medium term while the government tries to increase the number of PhD students coming out of the system. ANJUMAN-I-ISLAM KALSEKAR TECHNICAL CAMPUS

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Attract good students to the PhD programme. How can this be achieved? i) Increase the PhD fellowship amount ii) Involve industry to sponsor special doctorial fellowships. iii) Special outreach / publicity to potential students.

• The real challenge before the teaching community is positioning ourselves as a neutral ambassadors in providing necessary inputs on the employability of the students through scientifically designed curriculum and assessments to meet the demands multi nation companies in today’ scenario. • If India is to make its mark in science and engineering education and research, it is important that we encourage the nurturing of quality national and international journals and conferences. Most world-class universities have their own presses for special book and text publications. Some of the Tier 1 institutions should start their transaction series and alsoplan to set up an academic press.

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Glossary Cognitive skills

: It refers to gain meaning and knowledge from experience and information.

Contrive : To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation. Perception : Conscious understanding of something. Lingo

: Language, especially language peculiar to a particular group or region; jargon or dialect.

Incorporated : A type of company, a legal entity where the ownership has been arranged into shares. A shareholder has no responsibilities to the company and the potential losses of the shareholder ted to the value of the stock turning to zero in the case of a bankruptcy. Deemed university : is a status of autonomy granted by the department of Higher Education in the union Human Resource Development ministry, on the advice of the UGC, under section 3 of UGC Act, 1956. The status allows full autonomy in courses, syllabus, and fees. Valdez : A city in Alaska. Thesis

:A long essay or dissertation involving personal research, written by a candidate for a university degree.

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BIBILOGRAPHY 1.AUTHOR NAME- BATCH 2 TE CIVIL2 STUDENTS.

2. TITLE OF PUBLICATION- QUALITY OF ENGINEERSIS IT DEGRADING.

3.DATE OF PUBLICATION- 10 0CTOBER,2015.

4.PLACE OF PUBLICATION- AIKTC

5.SOURCE OF INFORMATION-INTERNET.

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INDEX A AICTE,13 Assignment,21 Analytical,17

C Communication skill,4 Code,9 Coaching industry,14

D DRSS,17

E Embedded model,20 Employable,17, 25 Engineering disaster,10 Ethics,9

I IITS,13 ,15 Indian engineering institute,14 ANJUMAN-I-ISLAM KALSEKAR TECHNICAL CAMPUS

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Indian universities,17 Industries,26 Infosys,15

J Jurisdiction,9 ,12,

M MU Syllabus,17

P Phd,22 ,26,

Q Qualified faculty,23 Quality of enginners,4

R Research,21

T Teaching staff,8 Technical knowedge,13

V Vice chancellor,16 ANJUMAN-I-ISLAM KALSEKAR TECHNICAL CAMPUS

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