Dr.Manish Thakker,Ph.D.
M.E (Instrumentation & Control Engg)
Assistant Professor
Department of Instrumentation & Control Engg
Dharmsinh Desai University(LabVIEW Academy)
Nadiad -387001,Gujarat, INDIA
Ph: 0268-2520502, M: 98245 36564, www.ddu.ac.in
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August 22, 2016
Subject:- Call for Registration as Professional Engineers.
Dear Sir/ Madam,
Our engineering manufactured goods and engineering services, except in some small pockets, stand nowhere in the international arena. The quality of our products leave much to be desired. Our exports are going down continuously for quite some time now. Even in our own country, we are swamped with imported goods as our products do not match their quality. As a result, our National Manufacturing base is in a contracting mode. The goal of achieving the status of a developed nation is simply not possible in the present environment.
One of the main factors for this dismal state of affairs is the competence of the Indian Engineering Fraternity. Today the Indian Engineering Fraternity is low in self-esteem, low in technical competence, not updated in the latest technology and techniques. We are churning out more than 1.5 million engineers every year. Out of these a vast majority are not fit to be employed by the industry, as they simply cannot be used by the Industry. We do not continuously upgrade our technical knowledge and skills. As a result, after 5-10 years after leaving college, most of us become technically outdated. If we do not take immediate and urgent steps to reverse this trend, it may be possible that India, in the not-to-far future, may be categorized as a failed state.
We, as responsible Indian Citizens, can do something to reverse this trend. The solution is to put in place a process to which ensures continuous upgradation of technical knowledge and skills of every engineer. We have also to scrupulously conform to a code of ethics. This is the only way the Indian Engineering Fraternity can aspire to reach the desired level of stature. The most capable and right body, to promote and modulate these activities for a particular stream of engineering, is that discipline’s respective Professional Association, such as for software and IT - CSI, Material Science and Metallurgy - IIM etc etc. Some professional bodies have taken up on their level, but the effect is not tangible. To really make it felt and be effective across the length and breadth of the country, the activities need to be initiated and sustained at all levels, by all streams of Engineering in a uniform manner.
Engineering Council of India (ECI) is a Federation of Indian Professional Engineering Institutions/ Associations covering all Engineering Streams. It’s registration process incorporates and sums up all the requisite steps enumerated above. Details can be had from ECI’s website www.ecindia.org.
The tangible advantages shall be:-
1) This status can be added to your qualification status in your CV.
2) In the employment market you would have an upper hand, as the employer knows that you have an upgraded knowledge and skill set over the other general applicants. Hence he would prefer you over the others.
3) Due to the higher technical competence levels of these Professional Engineers, better Indian products shall be available, thus enhancing the Indian Industrial might in the world arena.
4) Better products mean more orders, implying expansion of the Indian manufacturing base, resulting in more jobs for Indian Engineers.
Thus implying in a win-win situation for all concerned.
To boost the registration process, ECI is offering a 50% discount in the Registration Fee till 30th September, 2016.
I now request you to advise and encourage your engineering students and staff members, who are engineers, to register, with Engineering Council of India, as a Professional Engineer, (through the relevant Professional Engineering Association, if member of ECI, otherwise directly with ECI). I am also attaching a letter addressed to the students. May I request you to kindly take copies out and post it on your Notice Boards.
In case any further clarification or explanation is required, it would be my pleasure to respond to it.
I now eagerly look forward to hear from you.
With best wishes and kind regards,
(B. R. Jain)
Director
Engineering Council of India
1304, Hemkunt Chambers
89, Nehru Place
New Delhi-110019
Tel: 011-26283281, Fax:- 011-26283283
Email:- dire...@ecindia.org, direc...@ecindia.org
Encl:- As above.