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    Become an Engineer Not Just an Engineering Graduate
    Become an Engineer Not Just an Engineering Graduate
    Become an Engineer Not Just an Engineering Graduate
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    Become an Engineer Not Just an Engineering Graduate

    By Sivakumar Palaniappan

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    This book “Become an Engineer, Not just an Engineering Graduate” is written with the aim of encouraging engineering graduates to be passionate engineers, help them enhance their employability potential and enable them to sculpt their career as exuberant engineers. Need of the hour is not just the IT professionals, but exuberant engineers who have the courage to confidently take-on the technological challenges of today and tomorrow. We need engineers and scientists who can understand the ground reality, with grass roots exposure, clarity of basic engineering concepts and ability to put all these together and think in a collective perspective to find technical solutions to all the haunting social problems. This book is written by a leading blogger and career coach with over a decade of experience who has taken his own career like a grand experiment, transitioning from core electronics engineering to human resources to blogging to public speaking to corporate training to career consulting and coaching. Every chapter starts with a real life “student tale” that brings in the right significance to the chapter and relevance to its contents. This book is not to read at once and keep it back in the book shelf. It should be your life guide and a reference for your long term career crafting process.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNotion Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2014
    ISBN9789383416615
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    Become an Engineer Not Just an Engineering Graduate - Sivakumar Palaniappan

    Become An Engineer

    Not Just An Engineering Graduate

    A Comprehensive guide to every

    Engineering Aspirant

    Sivakumar Palaniappan

    Notion Press

    5 Muthu Kalathy Street, Triplicane,

    Chennai - 600 005

    First Published by Notion Press 2014

    Copyright © Sivakumar Palaniappan 2014

    All Right Reserved.

    ISBN: 978-93-83416-61-5

    This book has been published in good faith that the work of the author is original. All efforts have been taken to make the material error-free. However, the author and the publisher disclaim the responsibility.

    No part of this book may be used, reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

    Become An Engineer Not Just An Engineering Graduate

    Testimonials

    The book ‘Become an Engineer’ is very well written and will be of great value to engineering students and recent graduates. The author, Sivakumar Palaniappan, has drawn from his significant experience to give very simple, but powerful and practical messages. I particularly liked the student tales to which readers can easily relate. The workbook feature is also very effective. I wish the book a lot of success. It will definitely make a difference in the lives of those who read it.

    Dr.Krishna Vedula

    Professor and Dean Emeritus

    University of Massachusetts Lowell

    Executive Director (IUCEE)

    Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education

    A timely guide for young students who are aspiring to enter the engineering profession. Do I really want to be an engineer?, Which engineering discipline should I choose?, How do I prepare myself for an engineering career? If these questions have ever crossed your mind – then this book written in conversational style could guide you to find an answer.

    Dr.G Venkatesh,

    CTO, Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd

    ADI Chair Professor, IIT Madras

    A big failure of public policy has resulted in heedless expansion of poor quality engineering education in the last 5 years. Now lakhs of students face unemployment and underemployment. If you want to bootstrap yourself out of this mess this is the book for you.

    Mr. Sharad Sharma

    ISPIRT Foundation

    A Think Tank for the Indian software product industry

    I remember in the childhood days one was allowed to dream of becoming either Engineer or Doctor, without understanding what it means to be one. Siva gives a fantastic view into what would entail to be a real engineer and not have only an engineering degree.

    As NASSCOM Engineering council chairman, one of the dimensions we are dealing with is clearly competency of our engineers. If you dig deep, the ability to apply knowledge, experimentation, and having the required eco-system to relate to are some of the fundamental challenges of today’s context in India. Siva has looked at, how can engineers relate and solve some of these challenges to be a good engineer. This is apt timing by Siva; I wish him a grand success.

    Mr. Vijay Ratnaparkhe

    President and Managing Director, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Limited

    Chairman, NASSCOM Engineering Council 2013-15

    In the age of globalization, we in India have a tremendous opportunity to leverage our youth to build a strong economy that is much needed for building the nation. The quality of education has been quite sub-standard and this will be a challenge unless it is addressed right away. The reasons are many. Siva has done a phenomenal job touching every single aspect that contributes to this and has given excellent solutions and guidance. A must read for everyone aspiring for an engineering degree, or currently in college and also for those who have graduated. My heartfelt congratulations to Siva’s efforts in a time that this is much needed.

    Mr.Anand Purushothaman

    Chief Executive Officer, Payoda Technologies

    Hundreds of thousands of young Indians enroll in engineering colleges every year. Siva Palaniappan’s book provides a much-needed guide to these students as to how they can make their engineering education much more than a passport to a job. With the job environment changing fast, this book is right intime. I hope prospective engineering students and their families will read this book carefully before deciding on whether to apply to engineering schools."

    Dr. Rishikesha T. Krishnan

    Director

    Indian Institute of Management, Indore

    Foreword

    Dr.Mylswamy Annadurai

    Outstanding Scientist /

    Programme Director, IRS-SSS

    ISRO Satellite Centre

    Airport Road, Vimanapura PO

    Bangalore 560 017

    3rd December 2013

    Sub : Become an Engineer, Not Just an Engineering Graduate.

    *****

    The manuscript of the book titled Become an Engineer, Not just an Engineering Graduate, a comprehensive guide to every engineering aspirant by Mr.Sivakumar Palaniappan came to my reading at the peak of Mangalyan activities. Mostly I read it during the travelling time between my residence to the Spacecraft Control Centre.

    The book is need of the hour as Tamilnadu alone produces graduates who are more in number than that of USA. But if one considers the whole of India, then we produce much more engineering graduates. What about Quality Engineers?

    This gap of engineering graduates Vs engineers need to be filled in. This guide tries to identify the action plan at the individual level.

    I strongly recommend such reading, as most of the ideas are in sync with me.

    If the guide comes in local languages, its impact will be more felt.

    Best wishes,

    Dr.M.Annadurai

    Preface

    Engineering is much more than a medium of employment;

    It’s true essence lies in creativity and innovation.

    Technical education in India has scaled significantly over the past few years. Thousands of engineering colleges have mushroomed across the country, producing nearly a million graduates every year. Even remote villages that are devoid of primary schools and basic living facilities are likely to have a private engineering college somewhere in their vicinity. The current focus seems to be on quantity rather than quality of engineering graduates, and this clearly reflects in the employability ratio of students graduating from these colleges.

    Raising serious concerns about the employability of engineering graduates, a recent study in India states that 30% of the country’s fresh engineers cannot solve even simple mathematical problems. Their ineptitude is not just limited to mathematics; but also extends to basic engineering concepts, applied physics, analytical thinking and English comprehension.

    Isn’t it alarming that more than one-third of our engineers don’t have the basic skills needed for day-to-day transactions? Their feeble understanding of basic concepts such as decimals, ratios, fractions and powers renders them incapable of applying these concepts to real world problems. The study also reveals that only 18% of technical graduates in the country are employable, and that too after weeks or months of training by companies that hire them. This means that 82% of India’s engineering graduates are not readily employable. Where are we going wrong?

    Lack of sound basics, analytical abilities and a poor foundation in engineering principles are fundamental reasons for this poor employability rate.

    This problem, however, is not unique to India. The World Economic Forum has rightly stated, We are entering a new era of unparalleled talent scarcity, which will put a brake on economic growth around the world, and fundamentally change the way we approach workforce challenges.

    Unfortunately, our education system has responded to this increasing demand for quality engineers by merely stepping up the production of engineering graduates. In a society that reveres medicine and engineering over all other professions, this seems to be a highly profitable option. Every year, lakhs of students enter the engineering stream, out of which many do not even have the interest or the aptitude for the engineering. This further deteriorates the quality of engineers coming out of these engineering colleges.

    Most of our technical institutions today are merely functioning as assembly lines that manufacture engineering graduates in bulk. There is absolutely no emphasis on nurturing real talent and encouraging passionate engineers who would be equipped to handle the technological challenges of the modern world.

    Take the example of a final year electronics engineering student Ramesh, who was looking for campus placement. He aspired to work in an MNC in the domain of embedded systems, for which he appeared in many campus placements. Unfortunately, he couldn’t get through in any. The reasons for this were manifold – first, he was not able to clear most of the entry level written tests conducted by companies. In one of the tests, he even failed to write a program to count all even numbers from 1 to 100. When he cleared written tests, he couldn’t get past the technical interviews. In one of the interviews, he was not able to answer why semiconductor materials are commonly used to make electronic devices? In another interview, he failed to conceptually explain the difference between RAM and ROM. He was also unsuccessful in drawing a simple JK flip-flop.

    There were a few unusual occasions when Ramesh did managed to clear the technical interviews, but unfortunately he got stuck in the HR rounds. When an HR manager asked him tell me about yourself, he had nothing to say. He did not have any interesting hobbies, he was not into any sport, he did not have any significant academic achievements to show and above all, he was not confident about himself. He had nothing much to offer in terms of personality and extra-curricular talents.

    This is not the story of

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