Technical education must move to be a part of the solution to environmental crises in future, said D.K. Paliwal, Member Secretary, National Board of Accreditation, here on Saturday.
In his Graduation Day address at Anna University, Mr. Paliwal asked engineering students not to lose sight of their responsibility towards society and environment.
For over a century, higher education promoted the development of industrial success with massive creation of output, which was now being viewed as unsustainable.
Higher education, hereafter, should be transformed to be a significant part of the solution to the sustainability problem that business and other facets of human life are grappling with.
In fact, sustainability should be the essence of higher education and should also be integrated in engineering education, Mr. Paliwal said, stressing that it was important to bring about changes in curricula and pedagogical approaches to imbibe the principles of sustainability, corporate responsibility and ethics.
Anna University Registrar S. Shanmugavelu said that the placement drive attracted more than 200 reputed companies every year. This year, the university has placed 1,387 UG students and 573 PG students from all the four constituent institutions. The university offers 50 UG and 104 PG programmes. As many as 3,890 graduates passed out from the four campuses, including 1,648 PG students.
As many as 90 students received gold medals. Vice-Chancellor P. Mannar Jawahar presided.
