Developing a process of making an efficient engineer

Necessity is the mother of invention. Scientists and engineers contribute a lot in developing new technologies and making various innovations. Engineering students need to be guided by subject experts possessing good teaching skills. There are more than 3,495 engineering colleges in the country, with total intake capacity of 17.6 lakh students but as many as 4,521 faculty positions are lying vacant in 16 IITs due to inadequacy of competent engineering teachers. The aptitude of the engineering students is not assessed before allowing them to join the course and faculty is not given the training for necessary teaching skills. This paper is an effort to present various measures that can be adopted by the engineering colleges to develop the competencies in teachers and the students while maintaining equilibrium between the demands of the course, society and the need of the profession.