On campus placements after education

1.     A kid starts attending to school usually at the age of about 4 to 5. By the time, he reaches the age of 14 to 15, he completes his basic school education so as to go into his chosen area of domain.

2.     At the age of 15 to 16, now this kid turned little matured student decides what he is going to study in higher education – Engineering, medical, commerce, Humanities and Social Sciences, Hotel Management or architecture etc.

3.     Barring a couple of chosen domains, usually the competition to get into most of these disciplines remains very intense if one thinks of getting into some premier institutes.

4.     That way, a student literally needs to be on his toes during his two years of senior secondary education and prepare himself for these competitive exams.

5.     Crop of this hardwork is harvested, once a student makes into his chosen field of studies and gets admission into a good institute.

6.     Next three / four / five years of education (depending upon the course which student is pursuing), life of a students usually revolves around overall professional development.

7.     Tension starts building up about one year prior to the completion of degree program, when companies start visiting campus for placement process and students who have not worked hard enough are found looking around for the opportunities at that time.

8.     Companies in India do offer about USD 7000 pa to about USD 15000 pa depending upon the caliber of the student and the brand name of the company.

9.     Professionally, this is the most important phase of a student’s life as all the hardwork which has put in over last about 17 – 18 years of education is going to get rewarded.

10. Many of the institutes try their level best to host the best of the companies in their respective campuses to ensure good placements for their students.

11. Companies usually pick up the overall personalities, the ones who are kind of all-rounders, presentable personalities, sound with fundamentals and who possess exposure to various domains of life.

12. Parents usually are worried on the fact that how much salary their son/ daughter will be able to draw after completing the professional course.

13. But, answer obviously remains that it all depends upon one’s capability.

14. So, students are suggested to work very hard to enhance their skill sets in very broad domains so that they do get placed by best of the companies and at best of the salary packages.

Work hard to learn not only the courses but also broaden your horizon of thinking and personality, so as to have good on campus placements for better career prospects!!

Why to code and where to learn basic coding

1.     Computers started making they way into life of a common human being some time in late 1970s.

2.     Initial thorough effort toward the growth of computers was dedicated toward development of state of the art hardware like microprocessor, memories, SMPS and basic architecture.

3.     Last two decades have been more deeply focused on development of kind of softwares, which have completely taken the life by a storm.

4.     Life can’t even be imagined without use of latest version of mobile phones carrying softwares  like those of Android or iOS etc.

5.     Even each house hold equipment like Microwave oven, washing machine, air conditioner and car as well need a software to perform some part of its operation.

6.     Development of software means an ability to write a piece of code, which can instruct computer to perform a specific set of actions.

7.     Going by the trends, the way Computers have become a part of human life, a need has emerged out for almost every individual to learn coding.

8.     According to Steve Jobs, great entrepreneur from Apple –

“Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer.. because it teaches you how to think”

9.     Inventor of Windows, Bill Gates wrote his first piece of code at the age of 13. While few others start doing as early as when they are in 2^nd standard.

10. Learning to code is more of a matter of determination.

11. Following three websites help is learning the coding in an easy way –

https://code.org/

www.codeacademy.com

www.codeavengers.com

     

Happy learning and Happy Coding!!

3 simple rules for Electronic Engineers

(Rules)³ for Electronics Engineers

1.     Sir J J Thomson discovered electron in 1897. At that time, nobody had imagined at all, what this new branch of Engineering could do for them.

2.     Just 119 years down into human history and Electronics has brought us at a stage where we can converse with another person in a fraction of second. That is just one example of what technology of today can do for us.

3.     One of the pillars of today’s technology advancement i.e. invention of a Bipolar Junction Transistor happened in 1947.

4.     First Integrated Circuit was developed in 1958 through which engineers came to know that they could pack more and more number of transistors on a single silicon chip.

5.     We got Moore’s law in 1965 coined in by Dr. Gordon Moore ( Former CEO of INTEL) in which he said that density of transistors will keep on doubling every 18 months.

And since then there has been no looking back. Electronics has been following three golden rules stated in an easy language as below –

A.   Make the devices as small as possible no matter whatsoever is the current size of the devices.

B.   Make the devices as power efficient as possible no matter whatsoever power they are currently drawing.

C.    Make the devices as fast as possible, no matter at whatsoever speed those are currently working at.

6.     If one looks around himself, implementation of these three rules could be    easily observed in terms of much faster, power efficient and smaller in size Personal computers, mobile phones and all other electronic gadgets.

7.     Even, each generation of Apple iPhone seems to be following these 3 rules.

God bless engineers and researchers so that they continue to work following these 3 rules for the betterment of humanity.

Is all well with Indian Education system?

Is all well with Indian Education system?

1.     India got its independence from British rule in 1947 after later ruled former for more than two centuries. At the time of Indian Independence, there were only 20 odd universities to cater to a population of about 340 million.

2.     Clear from the number of universities prevailing at that time and size of population, not many people in India used to go for higher education and overall Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) in that sector was minimal.

3.     By the year 2006, India had created another 300 plus universities to reach to a number of 355.

4.     As of now, India has more than 750 universities to cater to a population of about 1.25 billion. It indicates that the number of universities in last 10 years has doubled from a number, which was otherwise achieved in 60 years of Indian independence.

5.     GER numbers in higher education sector hover somewhere close to 20 %.

6.    On numbers, it all looks very fine. But, question remains that “Is all well with Indian Education System?

7.     During author’s recent visit to one of the well renowned government professional institute, it was revealed that Student : Teacher ratio was prevailing at about 38 : 1. More than 60 posts of Faculty members were vacant in that institute. This is generally the trend in most of the government institutes in the country where there are hardly any regular teachers to engage the classes.

8.     Most of these institutes are dependent upon contractual staff members who are not able to put in the best of their effort owing to uncertainty involved in the tenure of their jobs.

9.      In contrast to the government institutes, average age of Faculty members in a private institute is not more than 30 years. It means that these Faculty members are so young, immature and inexperienced that at times there is hardly any age gap in the student and teacher. For most of these Faculty members, teaching as a profession had never been their first choice.

10. Most of the private institutes are not very well organized paymasters as well.

11. Regulatory bodies lay down a requirement of having a minimum number of PhD faculty members in any educational institute. Private universities misuse their autonomy and award PhDs to non-deserving candidates. Later these candidates with kind of ‘bogus’ PhDs only become guides and further give rise to poor quality of PhDs.

12. This whole vicious cycle is ultimately deteriorating the quality of education in the country. No wonders, ultimate absorbers of students educated in this way i.e industry usually cry foul to not able to get enough no. of employable candidates.

13. Regulatory bodies are also not able to play their part properly owing to the limited amount of time given to them for inspecting any educational institute.

14. Following can be done to improve the quality of education and institutes in the country –

(i)            Slow down the increase of number of private universities

(ii)    Have a tight quality check on existing number of institutes so as to weed out the corruption completely from such a noble profession

(iii)         Open up the provisions in the budget and try to fill the maximum of the vacancies first before thinking of opening up any new institutes.

(iv)         Motivate the Faculty members to adopt the teaching profession with much more seriousness.

(v)          Organize a large number of sessions for Faculty members / students to awaken them to the involve themselves in better quality research.