Scenario of engineering education in India

There has been enormous advancements in Indian Engineering education over the past few decades. This magnification of engineering education has been devastatingly due to privately funded educational institutions. Momentarily, India has emerged as the massive pool of engineering talent among the global education domain. Today’s engineering education is facing challenges of employment in knowledge intensive, productivity conscious, technology savvy industry environment. Apart from employability issues, maintaining the quality; nurturing innovation and entrepreneurial skills with development of path breaking technological ideas is the need of an hour. With this preview the authors present the scenario of present technical education in India. This paper discusses on major challenges in engineering education and puts forth some possible reforms in evaluation strategies to inculcate quality in technical education. This study explores opportunities for teachers, administrators and management to contribute in a collaborative manner to foster quality technical education.