With a view to training students on life skills to meet requirements of global industries, Global Resource Centre has been established in P.S.N.A. College of Engineering here.
Inaugurating the facility on Monday, M.S Ilankumaran, Chief Executive Officer, SKU Education-Asia, said that engineering students should be solution providers and not mere data-providing technocrats. Though Indian students had good technical knowledge, their articulation skills did not match international standards.
In foreign universities, industries had been deciding the syllabus for engineering courses whereas universities decided syllabus in India. The requirements of industries had been changing every four months. Upgrading syllabus every year was necessary to compete globally, he said.
The resource centre would offer unique programmes not only for engineering students but also for students of arts and science colleges and polytechnics. The trainers would address and interact with the students in their mother tongue. The centre would train students right from the first year.
These centres had been established in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Malaysia, and in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in India. Three centres would be set up in each district of Tamil Nadu. Eighty engineering colleges, 11 polytechnic colleges and six arts and science colleges had this centre so far, Mr. Ilankumaran added.
Three-hour session
J.E. Moshe Dayan, Programme Coordinator, said that there would be a three-hour session every week, mostly online from Michigan, US. To begin with, 20 students from each college would be trained. Priority would be given to train students who studied in Tamil medium in school, he added.
