{"id":247860,"date":"2023-06-14T20:05:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=247860"},"modified":"2023-06-14T20:05:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T14:35:54","slug":"iits-and-the-future-of-engineering-why-theres-hope-amid-the-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/iits-and-the-future-of-engineering-why-theres-hope-amid-the-gloom\/","title":{"rendered":"IITs and the future of engineering: Why there\u2019s hope amid the gloom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cIITs and the future of engineering: Why there\u2019s hope amid the gloom<\/strong>\u201d published in The Indian Express <\/strong>on\u00a014th<\/sup> June 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Employment<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>concern associated with employment in India<\/strong><\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The director of IIT Madras has recently said in an interview that IIT graduates are not interested in taking core engineering jobs.<\/p>\n

Should IIT graduates be allowed to take non-core jobs?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Even though society might not be ready to accept it, freedom should be given to the IIT graduates in pursuing their career choice.<\/p>\n

Moreover, it is also a high salaried non-core jobs that attract the graduates.<\/p>\n

Why are some non-core salaries so high for IIT graduates?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The optimistic answer<\/strong> is that core engineering education equips students with practical and transferable skills due to its emphasis on real-world applications, empirical truths, and attention to practicality.<\/p>\n

This distinguishes it from non-core engineering disciplines (Physics, Economics) that may not have the same level of direct applicability and controlled experimentation.<\/p>\n

However, the pessimistic answer<\/strong> is that employers only look for the tag of IIT and offer a high salary rather than looking at their education.<\/p>\n

What is the current employment situation for other graduates in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are many engineering colleges producing many engineering graduates in India every year. Many graduates from these colleges have been dismissed as \u201cunemployable\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, even if these colleges make their graduates more employable, there are not enough employers.<\/strong> Further, non-engineers\u2019 graduates face more hurdles in getting employed.<\/p>\n

Out of India\u2019s 140 crore people, only three crore report salary income in their tax returns.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How are employment conditions worldwide?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

China:<\/strong> It has relatively few young people and proportionately fewer women. Hence, it has a smaller number of workforces requiring less jobs compared to India.<\/p>\n

Western Europe:<\/strong> In Western Europe, several native populations are declining, which will eventually lead to lower employment demands.<\/p>\n

US:<\/strong> It allowed \u201cpractical training\u201d wherein graduating foreign students were given a year to find work. This helped many people stay on permanently. That period of practical training is now three years for STEM graduates.<\/p>\n

However, even in the US, the students have shifted from opting core engineering to learning newer topics like AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning).<\/p>\n

Since these fields are new, it attracts funding for the universities and tends to create more jobs.<\/p>\n

What lies ahead?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The population of China is declining while Brazilians are inefficient in speaking English language. This provides India\u2019 next generation opportunity to opt for core engineering as rewarding career plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cIITs and the future of engineering: Why there\u2019s hope amid the gloom\u201d published in The Indian Express on\u00a014th June 2023. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Employment Relevance: concern associated with employment in India News: The director of IIT Madras has recently said in an interview that IIT graduates are… Continue reading IITs and the future of engineering: Why there\u2019s hope amid the gloom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10500],"class_list":["post-247860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}