Engineering courses will come in more exciting combos, say experts

Engineering courses will come in more exciting combos, say experts

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Bengaluru: 15.08.2021

From clubbing tech-rich courses with traditional engineering streams to combining engineering with medicine, accounting and more, experts say students have great opportunities ahead of them.

Domain experts discussed the vast possibilities during a webinar held on Friday to support engineering aspirants from class 12, who are in the last leg of Karnataka CET preparations.

With the exam nearing (on August 28 and 29) Presidency University in association with The Times of India and Vijay Karnataka organised webinars and a CET Prepmaster mock test on Saturday.

Supriyo Guharoy, director, Presidency University, said: “Computer science will be a key driver in the digital age. However, even traditional courses are seeing new domains. It is an exciting time for an engineering graduate.”

Prof S Sadagopan, ex-director, IIIT Bangalore, agreed with Guharoy and added that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have begun playing a crucial role and will impact not just every engineering branch, but every other human endeavour. “Be it hospitality, medicine, journalism, or management, every field will be impacted by AI and ML,” he said.

“The reimagining of engineering for 21st century in India will go beyond engineering; it will be engineering with law, financial accounting, medicine and much more,” he added.

Guharoy said there is a healthy race between universities and colleges to provide professional and industry exposure to students and curriculums are being tailored to suit industry expectations. “Students, meanwhile, must get into the groove and change their grade-focused mindset. They must relearn, enhance their experiential learning, adopt critical thinking, self-learning and think out of the box,” he said.