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Indian Engineering Education

–Surviving Challenging Times

Prof. Ashok Shettar, Vice Chancellor K L E Technological University, Hublic 2019

• Intake reduced by 80,000 seats

• Admissions reduced by 8. 5 %

2015-16 2016-17

16.515.7

8.67.9

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Intake Admissions

50% Seats are Vacant !


Engineering Education….. Scenario

Approximately 3,300 Colleges with Annual Intake of Over 1.5 Million

2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20

16.5 15.714.9 14.1 13.3

8.67.9 7.5 7.1 6.7

Intake Admissions

Actual available data

Projected• 80,000/ year, Intake

reduction• 5 % reduction

admissions taken


Engineering Education….. Emerging Scenario

Seat Filling50-80 %< 50 %

Top 20 %

Middle 50-80 %

Lower 50 %M

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Engineering Education….. Emerging Scenario

100 %

Three types of Institutions


TOP 20 % Institutions

• Financial Stability

• Autonomy

• Scale of Operation

• Brand Value


Seat Filling100 %50-80 %< 50 %

Top 20 %

Middle 50-80 %

Lower 50 %

Me

rit

Top 20 %

Constant Pressure

from Next Level

Institutions

Entry of Corporate /

Private Universities

with Large Intake

Complacency

“ It is more difficult stay on top

than to reach there” -Mia Hamm

TOP 20 % Institutions


• Financial -Struggling

• Autonomous / Affiliated

• Not-yet-established brand value

• Aspirational

• Aggressive Die-hard attitude

• Laid down

• Boiling Frog Syndrome (waiting for the world to Change)

Two Types

Middle 50% TO 8O% Institutions

• Create the space for Innovation

• Leverage the space to Grow

Way Ahead…

No Quick Fix !

Level of Autonomy

Affiliated Colleges

Autonomous Colleges

INI s

Universities(non-affiliating)

Bra

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Po

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Spac

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Inn

ova

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n

> 95 %

< 5 %

Way Ahead.. Create Space…

Create Space…

Strategic Move at Institutional Level

• Top Management

• Executive Leadership team

• Academic Leaders

REFRAME


Leverage the Space…

• Executive Leadership &

• Academic Leaders

Weakest Link

Bold Experimentation and Innovations in Design and Delivery

of curriculum /Courses



Practice based Curriculum

Introduction of new Courses

.

Study, Research,

Learn

Relook at the Existing

CoursesPedagogical Innovations

Best Practices

Dialogue

• Social Innovation• Engineering exploration• Product design and realization….• Research Experience for Undergraduates• Global immersion in Innovation &

Entrepreneurship• Harvard Calculus reform movement…• ……..

Contextual

Connected

Continuous

Improve Learning Outcomes


ENABLING

Actively promotes, supports & rewards, takes risks

PERMISSIVE

Allows but don’t support

PREVENTIVE

Constrains Innovation

UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES

Drive Innovation Eco-System

Three types of Orientations

Leverage the Space… Innovation is the Key

Crisis

Stable

Good

Great

Learn Experiment(Existing)

Prototype(New)

TransformDepartment

TransformUniversity / College

IMPROVE the System we have

INNOVATE the System we NEED

(Incremental =

Diminishing

Returns)

(Cross the

Chasm =

Difficult, butPromising)

IMPROVE Vs INNOVATE TO TRANSFORM

Improvement to Radical Transformation

Indian Engineering Education

–Surviving Challenging Times


We Can….

Create the Space

Leverage the SpaceThank You

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