Modern Engineers....Mark of FAME or SHAME..!!!!!

MODERN ENGINEERS….Mark of FAME or SHAME????????

“I am an Engineer”….Is it Really a Proud Feeling?????


Who Invented Bulb??- Thomas Edison…….Good!!
Who Invented Aeroplane??-Wright Brothers……….Great!!!!
Who Invented Laws of Physics??- Newton………….Fantastic..!!!!!!


How easy it is to learn a thing, grasp it and mug it up??? But it becomes equally hard to create something of our own. Isn’t it??

Yes we “The proud Engineers” don’t even know a single bit of the pains those great scientists have taken long ago. I think we loved to be called as “ENGINEERS”. But are we doing even a single thing like an engineer. No I don’t think so??

By the way if we understand the dictionary meaning of an ENGINEER, it is “A person who plans, builds, creates some thing new”. But today the scenario has totally changed.

Engineering, rather than a source of innovation and discoveries, it has become a mark of social status. Previously those great scientists devoted all nights and days to perform a single experiment and despite performing 1000 times were not able to arrive at the positive outcome. How ridiculous they might have felt??

In my childhood days if some one used to ask me “What you want to be when you grow up?” I used to proudly answer that “I want to be an engineer”. At that point of time I used to think that yes being and engineer is really a proud moment in life. But No, today I actually realize that the feeling or rather that proud feeling of being an engineer, no more exist.

Actually it is neither my fault nor is yours. It is actually the fault of our education system, whose books and other archives are not at all updated. These contain all those antiquated material in the books. The labs are not well developed and the faculties are not recruited up to the mark. Instead of providing practical knowledge to the students they are focusing on ages old theories and laws.

It is quite ironic that, despite of creating 5 lakh engineers a year India is not able to grab a single Noble or International Awards on its own in past 50 years?. All Indian who received such prestigious awards are either NRI’s or have completed their education from the foreign universities.

Why such a scenario has occurred? To an extent it’s a fault of our government and education system and to an extent a fault of those who took education in India and settled in foreign countries. But from their point of view they are quite right. If they don’t get the adequate facilities and fund for their research how will they survive?

In fact Definition of an Engineer has totally changed in India.
It has been a general mentality that if you do engineering you will get a good job with handsome salary and you can enjoy lavish lifestyle. But my dear, this thinking among the youth and society has created worst impact on the reputation of engineers. In all there are more than 2000 engineering colleges who provide technical education. But out of those only some including IITs, NITs and some top most colleges equivalent to IIT’s are up to the mark. What about the Rest? They are simply the source of income for the industrialists and politicians.

Engineering colleges in India are opening up and are getting approved so rapidly that they are not at all in a position to provide education up to the mark.

Nearly 50% engineers are unemployed. And those who are employed hardly have the technical acumen to fit into the organization. What’s this? What is the sense of producing such engineers in bulk who are of no use? It’s a waste of national property. It’s a national loss.

At times it feels as if “IS IT REALLY PRIDE TO BE AN ENGINEER”.

Guys it is absolutely true that modern day engineering colleges are no less than schools. Like in school every thing was spoon feeding, same is happening in engineering also. Just Pass the University exams and get a degree after 4 years. That’s it. Nothing creative and innovative which add up to your profile.

I don’t understand where our education system is going?

You can’t believe even a lay man think that doing engineering is not big deal. Because they know how the modern day engineers are produced and how much they are capable of?

So what the hell our education system is doing?

Well I am not the authority to worry about and answer such questions but yes I can only say that Identity and Status of Engineering is under intense scrutiny.

This only makes me to say whether

MODERN ENGINEERS…Mark of FAME or SHAME??????????????????


So Guys and specially engineers….DIL PE MAT LENA..!!!!!
I wrote what I think. Post your valuable comments too….!!!!!

Thank You..!!!!!!