Quickly utilize new joiners in an industry by transforming curriculum in engineering colleges like ready to eat Maggie

Current Situation:

Figure 1 depicts the various stages of the Indian technical education system and the training required from the industrial perspective to make the new employee's ready to work at the industry. Image also depicts the additional training costs and duration of graduates entering in companies.

It is observed that the training costs incurred to the industry for the newly recruited is highest for graduate engineers at level four and typical training time for these employees varies from 6 to 24 months.  Typically these new employees lack in interpersonal, methodological, personal competencies related, self-reliant problem-solving, interdisciplinary and out-of-the-box thinking skills.  Unless organizations provide the necessary training's to upgrade these skills they cannot start utilizing the new employees. This involves industry to spend time, cost and resources.

Solution:

 To improve the collaboration between industry and educational institutes by outsourcing small activities/work to engineering colleagues

Collaboration Plan:

§  Identify target organization which are interested in collaboration activity

§  Identify industry needs and current industry trends

§  Arrange the guest lectures from the Industry experts

§  Industries should outsource few task to engineering colleges

§  Educational institute should modify curriculum based on industry needs  

§  Educational institutes should give these task as assignment to students

§  Evaluation of these assignment should be done by industry experts

§  Industries can easily recruit those students who have consistently done well in these assignments  

Present a before-and-after storyboard: 

Create a looks-like prototype:

Design a 1-day experiment to test feasibility:

(a)   What will you do?

      I will discuss collaboration plan with few industry leaders and educational institutes and try to 

      get the approval.

(b)   What hypothesis will it test?

• Improved collaboration between industry and educational institutes will improve the productivity of the engineering graduates. 
• Improved collaboration between industry and educational institutes will reduce the time, cost and resources  spend on training and development of new joiners

 (c)    Cost of experiment?

       Negligible (as it involves only discussion with industry leaders and educational institutes)

(d)   How will you measure the success?

      Number of skilled students are getting recruited via this program defines the success of this idea.