Technology Top Up Courses for Entrepreneurs
Technologies taught in the engineering college classrooms
are limited to the syllabus set up by the University programs. Normally
finalization of syllabus of each technology course has to follow the process of
review at multiple levels of authority in the university, which takes minimum
couple of years period between the initial proposal and final incorporation
into syllabus. Therefore, after the technologies are successfully invented
before they are actually taught to the students there is a lag of minimum 2 to
3 years.
In the present world of extremely fast development of
technologies, the technology which is more than 3 years old is already
obsolete. Knowledge of such 3 year old technology can at best be of some use to
our graduating students for the purpose of repair and maintenance of old
products, but not of any use to design and build products of future.
When we train students in our engineering colleges to get
ready to become entrepreneurs, teaching them 3 year old technologies is not
adequate. Can the syllabus be designed and updated so fast that it will be most
up-to-date all the time. Such rapid syllabus change with our existing
management set ups of educational institutions is not feasible.
How can we bridge this gap? Technology Top Up courses offers
a solution to this problem.
TT courses are short course modules of about 4 to 6 hours of
educational content, which can perfectly blend and follow a regular 40 hour
semester course of engineering college. These courses are developed and
continuously updated by world’s leading technology experts in the industry. The
engineering colleges can either reserve 10% to 15% of marks for this subject to
TT course or just make this TT course optional elective to only those students
interested in entrepreneurship.
Annexure 1 lists the TT courses identified at this stage and
this list is continuously evolving based on inputs received from the industry
experts.
The Technology Top Up courses are being coordinated and
delivered from College of Engineering, Pune.
For details, please contact
Ashok Ranade,
BTech (IITB73),MBA Ashok
Saraf, BTech (IITB73), MS
Adjunct Professor,
Production Engg Dept Adjunct Professor,
Electronics and Communications Dept
College of
Engineering, Pune College
of Engineering, Pune
Your post says the you are a Professor at COEP.
ReplyDeleteDid we meet at COEP? or you are an Adjunct Professor?
This makes a lot of sense to me Ashok. I am so surprised that it takes so long to get curriculum approved in such a fast paced era of exponential technological advances.
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