In India, Medical and Engineering education are the best choices for every 12th passed out student from science background. The students who have opted biology subjects with science in 12th standard prefer medical education and those who are opting mathematics with science prefer engineering education. The main problem in medical education is that this field is very competitive and there are limited seats are available for students and as a result medical education is very costly in India. So due to these reasons, engineering is the most preferred choice of 12th passed out student. The main reason behind to get admission in an engineering college for any 12th passed out student is to take participate placement activities of an engineering institute and to get a job easily. But now a days, this engineering education system facing so many challenges. Due to COVID-19 pandemic situation, the position of engineering education system now becomes more challenging.
The main challenges faced by our engineering education system in the current scenario are as follows: 1. Quality education at a reasonable price: Every student wants to get quality education at the cost of paying minimum fees. The NBA accredited and NAAC accredited engineering colleges claim that they provide quality education at a reasonable price. As we know that NBA and NAAC certification is provided to those engineering colleges which fulfils the quality standard of NBA and NAAC. The students who are interested to take admission in 2020 in an engineering college should verify that the college is NBA and NAAC accredited or not. 2. Competitive and qualified faculties: Most of the private engineering colleges claim that they have very good, competitive and qualified faculties. But at the ground level most of the colleges do not fulfil the guidelines of NBA and NAAC and they have a smaller number of faculties. The students seeking admission in 2020 in an engineering college should ensure that the college have proper faculties or not. 3. Lack of world-class infrastructure: Infrastructure means classroom, library, Canteen, sports complex, the building of the institute, gym, seminar halls, boys and girls hostels and transportation facilities etc. Most of the private engineering colleges claim that they have world-class infrastructure. It may not be true. Some best private engineering colleges may have world-class infrastructure. They have the best classroom, library, Canteen, sports complex, the building of the institute, gym, seminar halls, boys and girls hostels and transportation facilities but they are too costly. In a lesser fee, it is very difficult to develop world class infrastructure.
4. Lack of proper monitoring on curriculum development: There is lack of proper monitoring on curriculum development. In most of the private engineering colleges, we are teaching the old syllabus to the students and this syllabus is not fulfill the demand of industry. So, there is a need to revise and develop the curriculum as per the requirement of the industry. The private universities can revise their curriculum easily as compared to the private engineering college.
5. Lack of industry-institute interaction: Private engineering should develop a policy to interact with industry people frequently so that we can prepare our students as per the industry needs.
6. Lack of proper training of students: Each of the private engineering college is claiming that we are providing the best training to the students for their placement like technical ability, logical ability, qualitative and quantitative ability and the communication skills. Only some of the best private engineering colleges in India are providing the proper training and internship to their students to fulfill the gap of industry and academia and relatively their placement record is good.
7. Lack of proper placement activities: A huge number of private engineering colleges showing a large number of placement activities in their campuses and a lot of companies are coming to their campuses. But in actual practice, there is a very less placement effectively.
8. Lack of preference to the ordinary campus by recruiters: Most of the top recruiters do not give preferences to the private engineering colleges. The top recruiters prefer brand name in the engineering education field. Due to this reason, the bright students who are studying in private engineering colleges could not approach to the top recruiters. This is the biggest challenge Infront of the of the private engineering colleges.