INDIAS ENGINEERING EDUCATIOIN

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INDIAS ENGINEERING EDUCATIOIN

• Prof. M. S. ANANTHDirectorIndian Institute of
  Technology Madras
• CHENNAI, INDIA

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OUTLINE OF TALK

• India defies generalisation
• Youth and education
• Enrolment
• Universities and Graduates
• Engineering graduates
• Issues to be addressed

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INDIA DEFIES GENERALISATION

• Amazing scale and diversity of India
• 11th largest economy, 6th largest CO2 emitter!
• IT, Space, Atomic Energy Telecom growing
  rapidly
• Economy growing steadily at 8 to 10
• Manufacturing set to grow at 12 to 15
• Foreign exchange reserves 2.6 trillion, about
  60 increase over the past three years
• Poverty amidst plenty a serious concern

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INDIAN YOUTH

• By 2030 the world populayion up by 2b 95 in
  developing countries
• By 2050, India will have 25 of worlds Graduate
  Students?!
• Need to find creative employment
• SMEs, employment and global competition
• Need to enhance the quality and reach of
  education
• Need to increase innovation, competetiveness and
  entrepreneurship

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ENROLMENT PER 100000
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335 UNIVERSITIES

• TYPE No. QUALITY
• National Importance 13 Excellent
• Deemed 91 Variable
• Central 20 Good
• State
  204 Generally poor
• Private 7 Average
• 60 of engineering graduates from 4 states!

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COMPARISON OF NUMBER OF UNIVERSITIES

• Country Population Number of Universities
  in millions Current No.
  No. for parity
• India 1100 335 335
• Korea 49 120 2900
• UK 50 170 3700
• USA 280 1800 7000

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NUMBER OF GRADUATESIN THOUSANDS

• Level Number
  Engineering India
  India USA Ratio
• School 200000
• Bachelors 11000 500 70 7
• Masters 900 20 35 0.6
• PhD 5.5 0.7 7 0.1
• Ratios similar in other disciplines

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CATCHING UP (?) WITH USA(Prof. Rama Rao)
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COMPARISON IN UNIVERSITY FUNDING
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ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED

• ICT to enhance reach and quality of learning
• Faculty compensation
• Research parks
• Governance
• Internationalisation
• Increased investmentment in education

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ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED

• Offering the youth rewarding careers
• Managing 12 growth in manufacturing with
  significant increase in employment (SMEs)
• Increasing offshore investment drastically
• Pulling 80 million people out of poverty
• Infrastructure and social policies to sustain
  rates of growth

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MEETING OF UNLIKE MINDS

• Discovery is the result of chance meeting a
  prepared mind we prepare minds chance meets
  them in the US!
• Unlike Minds
• Faculty have a sound knowledge of the subject
• Students are ignorant of the impossible
• RD personnel can convert ideas into marketable
  products

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SOME EXAMPLES FROM USA

• Successful Research Parks located next to
  academic institutions
• Stanford and other institutions in Silicon valley
• MIT and Harvard in Route 128 Ventures
• North Carolina RD Triangle
• South Florida State Park

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A SECTION 25 COMPANY

• Located in vicinity of IITM
• House RD of companies (85 space)
• Share facilities with IITM
• Provide finishing-school services
• Incubate start-ups (15 space)
• Provide summer employment for students

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CREDIT-SYSTEM

• RD projects (per Rs 1M) 200 K
• Consultancy (per Rs 1M) 200
• Royalty (per Rs 100K) 100
• Sponsor Ph.D/ MS Students/yr 100/ 75
• Adjunct faculty/yr 200
• Teaching by Industry personnel/hr 2
• Joint guidance/yr 50-100
• Part-time employment for student 2.5-5
• Company needs 150 credits/year/ft2

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MILTON FRIEDMAN 1950s

• The untapped resource of technical and
  scientific knowledge available for the taking (in
  India) is the economic equivalent of untapped
  continent available to USA 150 years ago
• Todays figures do not bear this out
• Tomorrows can!
• We are good at crisis-management we have one now!