It is now a common knowledge that
a degree in Engineering will assure you of a good future. While you may require
umpteen hours of special training to get into a well reputed technical university
such as IIT, NIT, IIIT or a few others, getting an Engineering degree isn’t
that tough though. Plenty of colleges out there are almost ready to award you a
degree in Engineering without you requiring a lot of basic-cum-in depth
knowledge of fundamental concepts. So, to take in students that are really
capable to survive in the demanding sector of Engineering, the CBSE conducts a
test for your knowledge in PCM – JEE, that is conducted in two stages as Main
and Advanced. The marks in your Main exam will be used for your admission in
the NIT’s , IIIT’s and a few other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions.
Candidates who acquire a certain level of marks in the Main examination will be
admitted to write the Advanced examination, which will be used for the admission
in the IIT’s in the country. Every year, the number of students who wish to
write the JEE Main Examination rises by a definitive percentage. A very much
visible evidence of this trend is the opening of academies that claim to coach
students for the JEE exams. These academies try to lump out a huge amount from
the parents for their fancy courses.
So, do you think that people who
end up with a Engineering degree either from institutes like the prestigious
IIT’s lead a great life than people who graduate from the regular universities?
The answer is NO. Of course, there are some people who get placed in big MNC’s
by studying in some prestigious universities and the fates of a few of them are
good to say. But, this population constitutes just about 15% of the Engineering
graduates. The remaining? I won’t say that their lives are in the rots, as that
would be misleading.
Various disciplines of
Engineering are there to be chosen from. Some of the names are far from
mediocre Engineering names. However, the engineering disciplines that the
students show the most interest are,
·
Electrical Engineering (EEE, when combined with
Electronics Engg.)
·
Electronics Engineering (ECE, when combined with
Communication Engg.)
·
Computer Engineering
·
Communication Engineering
·
Information Technology
·
Civil Engineering
·
Mechanical Engineering
Except the Civil and Mechanical
graduates, the graduates in any of the other disciplines would probably end up
having their job at an IT firm. The Indian IT industry is very much appealing
to the youth as it promises a starting salary package that no other work sector
offers. Most of them however, get sacked as soon as they reach a point in
experience where they are termed “Inefficient to Update” or reach a salary
range that the IT firms cannot offer to a person, but should. So to stay in the stream of the IT sector,
one has to update himself very frequently on par with the freshers in that
company. That is not that easy when you reach a certain age limit. So will the
fates of the Engineering graduates end miserably in a very short period of
their career?
The answer is…. again NO.
There are a lot of options to
choose that would pay the graduates a promising and satisfying salary. One of
them would be to do a Masters’ degree. Of course, as in any sector a Masters’
degree will get you a better place in an organisation, thus your level of corporacy
in the company increases, most probably guaranteeing you a permanent place. The
other option would be to join a Government firm, thereby assuring you
sustainable future. Agencies like DRDO, BARC, ISRO, BHEL, and many others don’t
ever fire you for some silly reasons or in some cases no reason.
So as to end, a degree in any
section does always have its worth and Engineering is not any exception. The
path lies in the way you treat your Engineering degree after graduation by not
just lounging in a private MNC for years, but finding a better way of life in
many of the vacancies in several organisations that promise you a good future.
