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India churns out a third of world's engineers
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Agartala: India accounts for nearly a third of the world's engineering graduates each year, and offers a million students the opportunity to pursue technology courses annually, Science and Technology Secretary T. Ramasami said here Saturday.
"Indians represent nearly 30 percent of the global annual supply of graduate engineers," Ramasami, a scientist, said while delivering the keynote address at the second convocation of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala.
"The world respects Indians for their originality and analytical strength. The other day, a leader of the world warned his people, 'Watch, the Indians are coming'," said Ramasami, a Padma Shri awardee.
"Engineers should mentally and professionally prepare themselves for innovations with twin priorities of quality and affordability. Nano, Chandrayaan-1 are examples of affordable innovations where cost optimization has been accomplished with relatively low levels of investments," he added.
At Saturday's convocation, 256 students including 60 girls were awarded degrees in engineering, with eight students bagging gold medals.
NITs are premier engineering and technology colleges, earlier called Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs).
In 2002, the human resource development ministry decided to upgrade all the 17 RECs as NITs in phases. There are currently 20 NITs, the one in Agartala being the latest.
"Indians represent nearly 30 percent of the global annual supply of graduate engineers," Ramasami, a scientist, said while delivering the keynote address at the second convocation of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala.
"The world respects Indians for their originality and analytical strength. The other day, a leader of the world warned his people, 'Watch, the Indians are coming'," said Ramasami, a Padma Shri awardee.
"Engineers should mentally and professionally prepare themselves for innovations with twin priorities of quality and affordability. Nano, Chandrayaan-1 are examples of affordable innovations where cost optimization has been accomplished with relatively low levels of investments," he added.
At Saturday's convocation, 256 students including 60 girls were awarded degrees in engineering, with eight students bagging gold medals.
NITs are premier engineering and technology colleges, earlier called Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs).
In 2002, the human resource development ministry decided to upgrade all the 17 RECs as NITs in phases. There are currently 20 NITs, the one in Agartala being the latest.
Reader's comments(7)
1: That`s grate to hear that we produce that
much of amount of Enggs...but how many of
them are quality enggs......we create 30% but
out of that only 30% to 40 % student deserve
qualities other are just pass.Only few of us
have good practical knowledge....what about
others ......
India is country where more than our likings we prefer the fields that give us money...that reduce the quality ...Lots of educational institue othere than Engg.collegs provide course for various technologies.The student who enrolled for this course are not from Science Background and just they are not getting job of there like of pay they go for these kind of courses and get gob so easily ..what about those engg. who prepered for 8 semisters and those are more that life in hell...they wont get gob just becoz they dont have these course certi...than engg. degree...
I really support to as india as global education hub but should provide quality educated people not quantity educated
India is country where more than our likings we prefer the fields that give us money...that reduce the quality ...Lots of educational institue othere than Engg.collegs provide course for various technologies.The student who enrolled for this course are not from Science Background and just they are not getting job of there like of pay they go for these kind of courses and get gob so easily ..what about those engg. who prepered for 8 semisters and those are more that life in hell...they wont get gob just becoz they dont have these course certi...than engg. degree...
I really support to as india as global education hub but should provide quality educated people not quantity educated
Posted by: Deeno20 - 08 Feb, 2010
2: Thats Really Supperb to Hear Engineers
(includeing me ) Done this great achivement
INSHAALLAH we will go beyond this...
Posted by: Niyazahmed - 07 Feb, 2010
3: It's wonderful to note “India churns out a
third of world's engineers"...
The innovations that we see today are not third of world's...The standard of research facility must be the one of the prime reason for that. There is a great need to improve it. The Engineering Colleges from semi urban/rural areas are the worst hit. The rural engineering students not only lack with infra but also faculty. The recent UGC moves are appreciated, but how far will they get success implementing them? Most of the colleges are run by politicians or indirectly connected people.
I feel we can make every college to connect with industry to take up their research, which can help to improve infra and faculty standards.
The innovations that we see today are not third of world's...The standard of research facility must be the one of the prime reason for that. There is a great need to improve it. The Engineering Colleges from semi urban/rural areas are the worst hit. The rural engineering students not only lack with infra but also faculty. The recent UGC moves are appreciated, but how far will they get success implementing them? Most of the colleges are run by politicians or indirectly connected people.
I feel we can make every college to connect with industry to take up their research, which can help to improve infra and faculty standards.
Posted by: Shatru Naik - 07 Feb, 2010
4: engineers can change the world for better.
so lets take a move to change our country in a manner or by a way that i dont know. how can engineer work for our india?
so lets take a move to change our country in a manner or by a way that i dont know. how can engineer work for our india?
Posted by: Ranjana Ravindranath Mishra - 07 Feb, 2010
5: MashaAllah!
Great! Our Great India!
With all that capability, we should soon hope to see India as one of the most progressive, most beautiful countries in all round development and upliftment of the common man too.
Jai Hind!
Great! Our Great India!
With all that capability, we should soon hope to see India as one of the most progressive, most beautiful countries in all round development and upliftment of the common man too.
Jai Hind!
Posted by: MsM - 07 Feb, 2010
6: I entirely agree with you Dr.T.Ramasami about
Engineering Education in India.
No doubt India is the second largest country where about 6 lakh Engineering Graduates turn out. Another area of interest is Research publications in Engineering and Science.
Here are some interesting statistics drawn from the databases of Thomson Reuters, which regularly indexes data on articles in about 10,000 journals published worldwide. Numerous studies have confirmed that Thomson Reuters data-management policy ensures that its databases cover serials regarded by researchers as the most significant in their field.
Within the last decade or so, India has seen a substantial and recent growth in its annual output of scientific publications.
India’s strength—as a share of total world activity—proves to be diverse, with Chemistry predominant for the most recent five-year period. It is followed closely by Agricultural Sciences, but agriculture has fallen back relative to the earlier period while Pharmacology has expanded rapidly. In fact, India’s portfolio is markedly balanced between the life sciences and physical sciences
India’s share of world publications on Thomson Reuter’s databases
1999-2003 2004-2008 Rank
Count Share(%) Count Share(%) Share Growth
Chemistry 21,206 4.42 33,504 5.71 1 10
Agricultural Sciences 4,303 5.91 5,634 5.65 2 17
Materials Science 6,960 4.08 11,126 4.81 3 9
Pharmacology & Toxicology 2,034 2.80 3,866 4.25 4 3
Plant & Animal Science 8,132 3.58 10,190 3.77 5 19
Physics 11,700 3.00 17,295 3.70 6 14
Engineering 8,101 2.69 14,103 3.57 7 5
Geosciences 2,839 2.64 4,266 3.13 8 13
Space Science 1,322 2.44 1,665 2.79 9 18
Microbiology 1,078 1.62 2,273 2.79 10 2
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP)
No doubt India is the second largest country where about 6 lakh Engineering Graduates turn out. Another area of interest is Research publications in Engineering and Science.
Here are some interesting statistics drawn from the databases of Thomson Reuters, which regularly indexes data on articles in about 10,000 journals published worldwide. Numerous studies have confirmed that Thomson Reuters data-management policy ensures that its databases cover serials regarded by researchers as the most significant in their field.
Within the last decade or so, India has seen a substantial and recent growth in its annual output of scientific publications.
India’s strength—as a share of total world activity—proves to be diverse, with Chemistry predominant for the most recent five-year period. It is followed closely by Agricultural Sciences, but agriculture has fallen back relative to the earlier period while Pharmacology has expanded rapidly. In fact, India’s portfolio is markedly balanced between the life sciences and physical sciences
India’s share of world publications on Thomson Reuter’s databases
1999-2003 2004-2008 Rank
Count Share(%) Count Share(%) Share Growth
Chemistry 21,206 4.42 33,504 5.71 1 10
Agricultural Sciences 4,303 5.91 5,634 5.65 2 17
Materials Science 6,960 4.08 11,126 4.81 3 9
Pharmacology & Toxicology 2,034 2.80 3,866 4.25 4 3
Plant & Animal Science 8,132 3.58 10,190 3.77 5 19
Physics 11,700 3.00 17,295 3.70 6 14
Engineering 8,101 2.69 14,103 3.57 7 5
Geosciences 2,839 2.64 4,266 3.13 8 13
Space Science 1,322 2.44 1,665 2.79 9 18
Microbiology 1,078 1.62 2,273 2.79 10 2
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP)
Posted by: Dr.A.Jagadeesh - 06 Feb, 2010
7:Dr.Jagadeesh, can you share the detailed
stats.
shatru replied to: Dr.A.Jagadeesh
post - 07 Feb, 2010
post - 07 Feb, 2010
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