B.Tech Colleges Blog http://www.btechcolleges.com/blog Education is progressive discovery of our ignorance Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Technical Education in India http://www.btechcolleges.com/blog/?p=4 http://www.btechcolleges.com/blog/?p=4#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:55:11 +0000 admin http://www.btechcolleges.com/blog/?p=4 In India, engineering or technology education is considered one of the most lucrative career options, engineering has for long been the most preferred career option amongst India’s youth. The many engineering colleges in India that span the length and breath of this country has made sure that engineering education is available to all who are interested in it, there are a lot of reasons why students in India consider engineering to be a good choice, the number of engineering colleges has been on the rise for the past few decades bringing with it good benchmarks in quality and assessment. The number of courses offered at engineering colleges in India has almost quadrupled. There is an increase in demand for engineering courses such as medical electronics where employees are in high demand. The engineering colleges in India too are recruiting students and graduates for research and allied work.
Ever since the establishment of the NITs and IITs, engineering education in India took a paradigm shift. The engineering colleges all over the country started following good quality benchmarks and several new technical universities were set up to facilitate the same. The success of IIT in the world stage brought in confidence among the smaller engineering colleges to achieve similar feat. With the manufacturing industry in the early 90’s and the IT industry in early 2000’s becoming a stronghold that started to guide the economy, it became a necessity for the engineering colleges in India to churn out engineers in both quantity as well as quality. Many engineering colleges in India are able to train engineers with equal quality with minimal resources compared to their peers abroad. The many government run engineering colleges in India aid the gap created by the privately owned institutions.

The various engineering disciplines that students can opt for specialization include Mechanical, Civil, Electronics, Computer, Biochemical, Chemical and Electrical Engineering. Some of the top engineering colleges in India like IIT, Delhi and others also offer short term courses on various subjects. The engineering colleges in India also have very active placement cells that invite some of the top companies for recruitment at the campus.

Top engineering colleges in India are as follows

•    Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
•    Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
•    Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai
•    Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
•    Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
•    Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
•    Indian Institute Of Technology, Guwahati
•    IIIT, Allahabad
•    College of Engineering, Chennai
•    National Institute of Technology

]]> http://www.btechcolleges.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=4 351 A brief History of Btech education in India http://www.btechcolleges.com/blog/?p=3 http://www.btechcolleges.com/blog/?p=3#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:54:43 +0000 admin http://www.btechcolleges.com/blog/?p=3 Rapid modernization of our society created a great demand for engineers and technically educated minds. Though engineering and Technical education in India have been developing faster than anywhere else in the world since the early eighties, due to rapid industrialization and economic growth it is in the all time high irrespective of the global slow down.. Indian now has the second largest number of engineering students in the world. English is the only medium if instructions in all engineering institutions. In a recent assessment by the United Nations, the Indian economy was rated as the sixth largest in the world and is expected to move into the fourth place by the end of this century Recent advances in scientific, industrial and technological areas, particularly in space, nuclear and missile technology, computer engineering and information science have earned India world recognition as an emerging global power.
Origin of the word “engineering” is from the Latin word “ingeniare” means “to design” or “to create”. Engineering can be defined as “the branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines and structures” and “technology” as the “application of scientific knowledge for practical purpose, especially in industry”. Engineering education in India has started long back in the year 1847. In that year was established the Thomason College of Civil Engineering at Roorkee, later to become the Roorkee University (1949), the first engineering university in the country. The development of technical education has been one of the major achievements of the post-Independence period.
The growth of educational facilities has been phenomenal during the last decade. The outturn of graduates in engineering doubled within a span of 10 years from about 30,000 in 1987 to 60,000 in 1996. In view of the large-scale proliferation of institutions, the AICTE is keen to ensure that the quality of programmes offered by them is not compromised with. It has, therefore, setup the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) which has introduced a system of accreditation of each program offered by the recognized institutions.
Civil engineering is considered to be the oldest of the main branches of engineering. Two other comparatively older branches are Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. As a result of scientific and technology breakthroughs, today new fields of engineering and technology are continually emerging. At the same time, boundaries between various branches are becoming less and less clear-cut.

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