Inculcating Entrepreneurship Skills in Engineering Graduates

The purpose of this paper is to explore the new trend in engineering education that should be brought into education system and to suggest the methodologies of its implementation. It has been constant observation that engineering education is producing large number of graduates each year, maximum of which tend be employees in nature. Very little percentage of engineering graduates tends to be entrepreneurs. The paper discusses in detail the case study of Indian engineering educational trends. Looking at the low rate of growth of Indian industry, a drastic change in engineering education system should be brought. To achieve overall excellence into the engineering education, the paper discusses possible areas of skill set, that should be incorporated into engineering academics. The paper also suggests few implementation techniques, which should be dealt with each year of engineering academics to get the effective results. The paper asserts that engineering educators have to change their traditional mindset while designing the syllabus and other activities for each year of graduation and should give a new thought on effective utilization of graduation period for further improvising the overall knowledge diversification level of the engineering graduates. Entrepreneurship skills combined with technical skills of engineers can bring remarkable change into Indian industry growth rate and call well support the economical growth of the country.