Quality of Engineering Education

 The quality of engineering education depends on a wide range of factors. Engineering education needs to pay more attention to the development of innovation, entrepreneurship and the ability of its graduates to function in a constantly changing global environment. India has a large number of youth with strong math and science skills interested in engineering careers, but limited by inadequately trained faculty, poor facilities and limited research in a majority of its engineering colleges. Technical Education Quality Improvement Program, faculty training programs, infrastructure funding and many more programs aimed at improving the quality of engineering education were planned and implemented, but did not yield sufficient result.
The education system must provide for accountability to the outside world and create accountability within the system. Accreditation plays an important role in promoting accountability.

According to the regulatory agencies, accreditation signifies:

• for the parents, it signifies that their child goes through a teaching-learning environment as per accepted good practices.
  
• for the students, it signifies that he has entered the portals of an institutions, which has the essential and desirable features of Quality Professional Education.
  
• for the employers, it signifies that the students passing out has competence based on well grounded technical inputs.
  
• for regulatory authority, it signifies that the institutional performance is based on assessment through a component body of quality assessors, with of Strengths and weaknesses emanating as a feedback for policy making.
  
• for the institution, it signifies its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for future growth.
  
• for the industry and infrastructure providers it signifies, identification of quality of institutional capabilities and Skills & Knowledge.
  
• for the country, it signifies confidence in the Suitability for sustaining stockpiles of market sensitive human capital and a pragmatic national development perspective.
  
• for the alumni, it signifies attachment through the pride of passing out with credentials.