Once christened core of engineering, Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineering professions have today lost the glitters which were earlier attached with these core professions. Today very rarely students opt for these professions.
Information technology or computer science, we all know today is a buzzword rather it has been the buzzword for last almost a decade and a half. Now a days these erstwhile core professions are selected by students who fail to get admissions in the computer allied fields of even the little known institutions, which have mushroomed throughout the country.. There is absolutely no doubt about the way computer has contributed towards the growth of our economy or in a larger perspective, our society. Computer has helped us in many ways. It has stored and analyzed all the information data, principles, and ideas and has taken decision in most scientific way after assimilating all those variables which no human being could have ever taken.
The principles of programming once fed in to processor have enabled it to take decision with unwavering accuracy. Sheer accuracy with which it can keep on taking the decisions where an individual may blink or may take decision which can later be proved otherwise, is we all know. For last 20 years computers science has been the number one branch in Engineering colleges. The dominance has only recently been threatened by new courses which have spurted on horizons like Biotechnology, Nuclear Physics, and Aerospace Engineering etc. But even these courses need computers to arrive at. Saga does not end here. Over these years numbers of graduates who have graduated from other Engineering branches, also latched on to the computer bandwagon immediately after passing out. The percentage of these remaining pass outs that could not get them hooked on to the software or the hardware arena has been abysmally low.
Such has been the dominance of Computer and INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY over the once described core branches that even at Indian Institute of Technology placement scene gets affected if these INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY majors decide not to go for campus recruitment during that specific year. Such situations were witnessed in the year 2002 and 2003 when IT multinational companies had mini hiccups in their growth projections and they decided to go in for cost cutting measures and stayed away from the campus recruitment. Nowadays you will rarely find an area which is untouched by computer revolution. We are today in such a transition phase where we can feel and experience the changes which are taking place around us at breakneck speed. Even today you have servers and backup servers which are storing banking information for the entire world. World has come closer, with telecommunication becoming cheaper by the day.
You are now well connected even when you are on the move. With so much dependence in our life on these gizmos, we have started relying on these pieces of hardware much more than our minds. This has resulted in our minds becoming more and rustier. How many in today's world carry out mental calculations. We tend to start looking for calculators of similar devices even for summing up two or three two digit numbers. In our old education system, mental mathematics used to get very high prominence. Now today, we can rarely find personalities like Shakuntala Devi in our midst, who would have blurted out answer after answer for mathematical problems. Designing a system in earlier times used to be a great task.
Designers used to slog over many days and months to arrive at a multi-storied building, a super thermal power plant, or an air craft. Now even this kind of complex design has been assigned to a simple graduate who is manning a terminal in a Business process Outsourcing firm. With the feeding of principles of design and logic in to computers, even a 12Th standard pass out operator today can run and design very complex building, Boilers, turbines, even a full thermal power plant, roads, transportation network, nuclear plant, transformer, switch-gears etc. One has to simply key in a few parameters for which computers will give prompts and within minutes you will have an optimized design of a super thermal power plant on your table for which otherwise you would have been slogging over months to balance out various parameters. One of the reasons for flourishing of Outsourcing as an option is standardization.
The Medical field has been one area where computers have not been able to make a great headway. This has been because of the number of variables and inability to standardize human body's reaction. But unflinching efforts are going on to conquer medical field by experts but the difficulty being faced by programmers are non standardizations of inputs related to diagnosis provided by medical experts which can not be translated in algorithms on one to one. However in medical field information technology's involvement has been in compiling and keeping data and in deciphering logic and working of medical instruments. India has progressed leaps and bounds in almost all the domains of INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY field. India who has vastly benefited from IT revolution, himself is a leading outsourcing firm these days. Recent statistics from International Labor Organization puts India at fifth position in outsourcing.
Like other countries Business Process Outsourcing in India itself are mushrooming and their growth rate has been phenomenal. Beauty of outsourcing is that now you can find an arts graduate preparing offers for a standard super thermal power plant or for that matter designing a substation. All this has happened because the variables have been documented and designs standardized. This development has weaned away young sharp minds from core engineering branches. As a matter of fact, these core engineering branches have made the world what we see today. They are in fact core of our existence and therefore have to be nurtured with best brains. Information technology or computer science has developed on basis of inputs or logic provided by these branches. We must make efforts to keep these cores of engineering bubbling with new ideas. This can only happen when young minds are attracted towards these branches. The infrastructure sector is going to be hit very badly. Today also, infrastructure sector is facing acute shortage of quality manpower.
There is a great need to strengthen our infrastructure network, we must also try to arrest this development. Custodians of our industry should ensure that there should not be too much disparity between emoluments which are dished out in the two sectors. Further you need this "Fading brigade" for R&D work as developments in technology never ceases to amaze us. India's spending on R&D as a percentage of GDP as compared to developed countries is quite less. During last government's regime India has committed to take it up to at least 2% of GDP. United Sates today has spending on R&D near about 3% as percentage of GDP. India today is growing economy and spending on R&D in a growing economy has to reflect a higher percentage. Even China's spending on R&D is quite less as compared to US. If these countries have to sustain their economy's growth, they must spend more on R&D. These core engineering professions then can get a lift. This is I suppose the only way to arrest this alarming trend.
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