Among the competitive IT advancements, there is a decrease in students choosing Civil Engineering at the graduation level. Every passed out graduate is attracted towards IT employability, packages and students are reluctant to do ground-based internships.
Though the Civil Engineering branch was prominent a few years ago, it has become underrated these days. The officials and senior professors say that after Covid-19 graduatea are not willing to take industry-based internships, but opt for a regular office-going job.
C Shekar Reddy, Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry said, “Yes, it is accurate that students are thinking twice before opting for a course in Civil Engineering. There is need for corrections in the curriculum, consultation with industries, and seeing that every semester includes students visiting industries. Every graduate is looking for employability. For many reasons, Civil Engineering is a hard job but experience makes one stand on demand.”
The institutions have come down to decrease the class size of engineering branches. For instance, if it was 60 intake earlier, now it has reduced to 30 because they must sustain to see the trend in markets.
R Ravi Chandran, Vice-Chairman, Sri Vishnu Educational Society, said that parents have been influencers for child education when they notice that colleague’s children are moving to other countries with high packages in IT jobs. The 30 per cent of management seats are left off to be filled. Colleges have to make industries hire the students who have skills. In the last four years, manufacturing companies kept up their salaries.
The Vishnu Educational Society started investing to morph the structure like western countries using sensor technology in structures, additional programmes of getting into steel structural designing in constructions, so that students align with industries and use concrete material for designs. For four years, the professors have observed that there is a trend of seats in civil engineering being left out.
Prof BS Murty, Convenor, Education Panel, CII Telangana and Director, IIT, Hyderabad, said that students are looking at IT jobs with more ease so that they don’t need to visit far off manufacturing plants from the city. Due to Covid, now people have the work from home option. So, people want to sit at home. It has become a chicken and egg story now. Unless skilling students move out, state will witness more manufacturing works. We are attracting students with core internships and giving credit to it.
