Engineering in India

Admission to the Engineering course in India demands 10+2 qualification. One is supposed to write entrance examination conducted at all India level to get entry to the premier institutes of India.

There are seven Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs) viz, Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur,

Madras and Roorkee, 20 National Institute of Technologies (NITs), couple of IIITs and several private institutes are engaged in the task of grooming engineers.The institutions in India which have created istinguished niche among world academia are.

IITs in India

Development of IITs

* The foundation for the IITs in India was laid in 1946 by the Executive Council of Viceroy, Sir Jogendra Singh.

* The main aim was to develop a technical structure to aid the industrial development in the country.

* On May 1950, the first Indian Institute of Technology was set up in Kharagpur.

* By 1961 four more such institutes were established in Mumbai, Kanpur, Chennai and Delhi.

* IIT Guwahati was established in 1994.

* In 2001, University of Roorkee was granted IIT status. This formed the seventh campus of the IITs in India.

IIT Entrance Test

(A) Undergraduate Courses:

While IIT JEE is the entrance examination for getting admitted to any of the bachelor degree courses, for B.Des and B Arch separate aptitude tests have to be given along with IIT-JEE.

(B)Postgraduate Courses: For studying Postgraduate courses in IITs, one needs to appear in the appropriate entrance exam.

These entrance exams are -

* GATE (M. Tech)

* CEED (M.Des)

* JAM (Msc)

OTHER CENTRAL INSTITUTIONS OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

· Indian School of Mines University (ISMU), Dhanbad

· National Institute of Industrial Engg. (NITIE), Mumbai

· National Inst. of Foundry & Forge Technology (NIFFT), Ranchi

· School of Planning & Architecture (SPA), New Delhi

· National Institutes of Technical Teachers Training & Research

· Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar.

Present Scenario in Indian engineering education

About 2.3 lakh students graduated in engineering in 2006, while only 20,000 master degrees and 1,000 Ph.Ds were awarded that year, according to the study 'Engineering Education in India', conducted by two professors of IIT Bombay.

Doctorate degrees in engineering are less than one per cent of graduate engineering degrees. The percentage of is much higher for most of the other countries like the United States (9 per cent), Britain (10 per cent) and Germany (8 per cent).