Times are changing rapidly but our Engineering Syllabus is almost static. We are making them into salaried class/unemployed class, but not to be a successful person. For a Mechanical Engineer, while I understand that the subjects taught are important to be a successful mechanical engineer, it doesn't tell the life skills required to success in the competitive world. This is limiting the creative thoughts of graduates and is making a large a number of graduates unemployed
An engineering graduate needs to know commerce subjects like financial 101, different types of investments and disadvantages of not investing and advantages of investing early, managing household expenses, managing cost of projects and other topics which talks about financial health through the person's lifetime from school, to higher studies, working, family, retirement, unexpected necessity times.
An engineering graduate also needs to know about food and nutrition and lifestyle related benefits and disadvantages like what kind of food to eat, what not to eat, what benefits each product has that we consume, a meal plan, recipes, cookery classes etc..
An engineering graduate also requires business administration and entrepreneurial skills, for him to understand what it takes to setup an business, how to market and sell his produce, what it takes to setup a production unit whether material things or agri related, storage ways, channels of selling, marketing your produce effectively and how to tie up with logistics to export the products from our villages/citiies/countries
An understanding of taxes and subsidies available for setting up business or running business/production houses is also important
English skills for interacting with rest of world along with debate and group discussion, public speaking sessions are as important as machine design
People skills and HR skills are very important to interact with the world either personally or to work together as a community/team
A brief understanding of agriculture, organic farming, less carbon footprint, environment challenges etc... are few optional or mandatory courses that need the engineering gradudate to be knowledgable about
Why Yoga and Physical education is only touched up till school and not in colleges? An alert mind, living every moment blissfully leads to more productive individual and better performing person, and also towards a healthy lifestyle
Why I say this? While my brain would have captured the necessary way to tackle or address a problem from my engineering degree, everything else that I needed to know to be successful was not taught in my engineering college
There is no hard fast rule that basic farming, electricity, gardening skills are non engineering subjects, but essential daily life skills that might be useful for the individual to live a wholesome and independent life
Higher education further like MBA might be a recommended thing, but also looks more english way to get more money rather than making few essential lessons open to general public and other graduate degrees
Hence strongly feel and suggest that we relook at our education system to make our society more successful, healthy and blissful
An engineering graduate needs to know commerce subjects like financial 101, different types of investments and disadvantages of not investing and advantages of investing early, managing household expenses, managing cost of projects and other topics which talks about financial health through the person's lifetime from school, to higher studies, working, family, retirement, unexpected necessity times.
An engineering graduate also needs to know about food and nutrition and lifestyle related benefits and disadvantages like what kind of food to eat, what not to eat, what benefits each product has that we consume, a meal plan, recipes, cookery classes etc..
An engineering graduate also requires business administration and entrepreneurial skills, for him to understand what it takes to setup an business, how to market and sell his produce, what it takes to setup a production unit whether material things or agri related, storage ways, channels of selling, marketing your produce effectively and how to tie up with logistics to export the products from our villages/citiies/countries
An understanding of taxes and subsidies available for setting up business or running business/production houses is also important
English skills for interacting with rest of world along with debate and group discussion, public speaking sessions are as important as machine design
People skills and HR skills are very important to interact with the world either personally or to work together as a community/team
A brief understanding of agriculture, organic farming, less carbon footprint, environment challenges etc... are few optional or mandatory courses that need the engineering gradudate to be knowledgable about
Why Yoga and Physical education is only touched up till school and not in colleges? An alert mind, living every moment blissfully leads to more productive individual and better performing person, and also towards a healthy lifestyle
Why I say this? While my brain would have captured the necessary way to tackle or address a problem from my engineering degree, everything else that I needed to know to be successful was not taught in my engineering college
There is no hard fast rule that basic farming, electricity, gardening skills are non engineering subjects, but essential daily life skills that might be useful for the individual to live a wholesome and independent life
Higher education further like MBA might be a recommended thing, but also looks more english way to get more money rather than making few essential lessons open to general public and other graduate degrees
Hence strongly feel and suggest that we relook at our education system to make our society more successful, healthy and blissful
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