Achieving Excellence in Indian Engineering Education through ContinuousQuality Improvement

Abstract

The engineering education is a confluence of research, experiment and experience. Engineeringeducation is essential to improve the technical manpower of a country. Technical manpower isthe key to the industrial growth and development of a country. In the recent years though thenumber of the engineering graduates being introduced to the job market increased rapidly everyyear, the statistics of unemployable workforce also have the similar trend. The quality of thegraduates and their employability is determined solely by the education quality they received.This unemployment scenario resulted in shifting of interest of the potential school students fromengineering courses to other courses which are relatively cheaper. As a result of which a largenumber of seats are lying vacant in a number of engineering institutions. Applications for closureof the college/ courses or reducing sanctioned intake are increasing at AICTE. In this scenario.

where survivals of the colleges are at stack, the quality of education an engineering instituteoffers will only be the sole rescue. In the current paper a conceptual model for improving qualityof engineering education through continuous quality improvement is highlighted.