Rupam Das
Member • Feb 22, 2013
Indian Education System is a sad tale of producing incompetent "Workers"
Alright, we have said it many a times and there must not have been anything new to the topic. But there certainly is. As you must be knowing that I have been part of some of the largest global contest and research and innovation drives in over last one year, I would love to put before the youngsters who come and reads CE articles.
1. To start with, the course work is about 20 years behind than what it should be. Reason? Lecturers and teachers who has the onus to form the syllabus are too afraid of updating themselves too quickly. So even today colleges take C lab in Turbo C and because Turbo C does not work in full mode in Windows 7 still has windows xp installed. Talk about objective C , which is the commercial version of C or gcc on which Unix based system are dependent are out of the order.
2. For electronic engineers, the subjects they study: Basic electronics with resistors and power supplies are the basics that should now be covered in class 3. Ok, in Electronic lab students builds power supply but never drives a motor or LED through it. Result? They never know where it is used.
3. It is still 8051 in syllabus with 8085 and 8086. You got to be kidding me. 8051? That is never used in any practicle purpose anywhere. Students during their courses never knows what is an AVR, what is Arduino or a Raspberry PI or other advanced boards. They have no exposure to PCB design, or designing modules or break boards.
4. A computer science student has a web development lab. And what you teach them? How to print hello world in web page. How to print tables. There is no HTML5, CSS, Javascipt, Ajax. Some universities do have LAMP. And what is it? simple CGI scipts, perl basics of php. An engineering student is never aware of building a real site. He does not have exposure to wordpress, drupal, joomla or anything.
5. Students learn DSP and does Matlab lab. But they do not know any fundamentals of FFT or where they are used. They design filters but are never exposed them to apply over sound or music files. They dont know proper statements in matlab.
6. None of the engineering students are exposed to high level document editing with word and there is nothing called photoshop. Photoshop is an Integral part of any design if one has to survive in the industry. No photoshop exposure.
7. Now let us talk about .Net and Java. People are unaware of swings and NetBeans IDE and Eclipse. They are still typing java programs in Notepad. You believe me? People have no Idea about WPF or WCF when it comes to .Net.
8. When it comes to database programming people are unaware of No-SQL, students are unaware of API based database programming for cloud. They can't form decent T-SQL queries.
9. In a networking lap a student hardly ever networks two computer?
10. Surprisingly I know many Phd holders in wireless who have never transferred a file wirelessly let alone configuring a wireless network.
11. There is no exposure to 3d, no blender, no Unity.
There is no creativity, nobody is driven towards innovation or start up. In short, entire system is on the verge of collapsing and days are not far when our technical students will never manage to get a job let alone competing. We are living in a dream world created by us where we appriciate our knowledge, growth and contribution!
1. To start with, the course work is about 20 years behind than what it should be. Reason? Lecturers and teachers who has the onus to form the syllabus are too afraid of updating themselves too quickly. So even today colleges take C lab in Turbo C and because Turbo C does not work in full mode in Windows 7 still has windows xp installed. Talk about objective C , which is the commercial version of C or gcc on which Unix based system are dependent are out of the order.
2. For electronic engineers, the subjects they study: Basic electronics with resistors and power supplies are the basics that should now be covered in class 3. Ok, in Electronic lab students builds power supply but never drives a motor or LED through it. Result? They never know where it is used.
3. It is still 8051 in syllabus with 8085 and 8086. You got to be kidding me. 8051? That is never used in any practicle purpose anywhere. Students during their courses never knows what is an AVR, what is Arduino or a Raspberry PI or other advanced boards. They have no exposure to PCB design, or designing modules or break boards.
4. A computer science student has a web development lab. And what you teach them? How to print hello world in web page. How to print tables. There is no HTML5, CSS, Javascipt, Ajax. Some universities do have LAMP. And what is it? simple CGI scipts, perl basics of php. An engineering student is never aware of building a real site. He does not have exposure to wordpress, drupal, joomla or anything.
5. Students learn DSP and does Matlab lab. But they do not know any fundamentals of FFT or where they are used. They design filters but are never exposed them to apply over sound or music files. They dont know proper statements in matlab.
6. None of the engineering students are exposed to high level document editing with word and there is nothing called photoshop. Photoshop is an Integral part of any design if one has to survive in the industry. No photoshop exposure.
7. Now let us talk about .Net and Java. People are unaware of swings and NetBeans IDE and Eclipse. They are still typing java programs in Notepad. You believe me? People have no Idea about WPF or WCF when it comes to .Net.
8. When it comes to database programming people are unaware of No-SQL, students are unaware of API based database programming for cloud. They can't form decent T-SQL queries.
9. In a networking lap a student hardly ever networks two computer?
10. Surprisingly I know many Phd holders in wireless who have never transferred a file wirelessly let alone configuring a wireless network.
11. There is no exposure to 3d, no blender, no Unity.
There is no creativity, nobody is driven towards innovation or start up. In short, entire system is on the verge of collapsing and days are not far when our technical students will never manage to get a job let alone competing. We are living in a dream world created by us where we appriciate our knowledge, growth and contribution!
