Engineering Education in India: Ethics and Stakeholders Perspective

Mohan. V. Buke¹, Santosh. M. Tondare^2, and Sachin. D. Panchal²

¹Principal, Sandipani Technical Campus Faculty of Engineering, Latur, India

²Assistant Professor, Electronics & Telecommunication Dept., Sandipani Technical Campus Faculty of Engineering, Latur, India

Cite this paper:
Mohan. V. Buke, Santosh. M. Tondare and Sachin. D. Panchal. Engineering Education in India: Ethics and Stakeholders Perspective. American Journal of Educational Research. 2015; 3(2):137-141. doi: 10.12691/education-3-2-5

Abstract

Rapid and drastic changes in economic growth are creating higher demands for technical educations especially in engineering educations. Engineering education faces significant challenges as it seeks to meet the demands on engineering profession in the 21^st century as unemployment, research work and social aspects. To meet these changes & continuous demands i.e. from industry or society, engineering institutes have to upgrade themselves on a continuous basis with quality of education that can prepare students to face and overcome these challenges. The paper presents a review on engineering education and discussion on different stakeholders such as regulators, Management, students, faculty with their expectations, key roles in the development of institute and the students. How all these stakeholders could involve making engineering education more interesting and entrepreneur oriented has also presented. However to comb up with the current technologies, industrial and social needs, engineering students has to ethical where the importance of engineering education with ethical values increases.

Keywords:
engineering education stakeholders ethics institute

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