Appeal to First and Second Year Engineering Students!! Are You Missing Anything in Your Education? Are You Happy with Your Theoretical Outcomes without Any Practical Application? Read this Interesting Recent Batch Vs. Old Batches Student’s Point of View!

 Dear First and Second Year Students

I am writing this letter to you with a lot of concern and anguish. Please don’t mind and think me wrong. In recent times when we interviewed a large set of students, when we asked for the 5-year goal, almost all of them mentioned, including students from the core branches to become a software engineer. This is great. Having some goal is better than no goal at all. I can understand as I also worked in Software Industry for 14 years.

Having said that, we should have a mix of students (80% for regular jobs, 10% for higher education, 5% for competitive examinations, another 5% for entrepreneurship). This would be an ideal mix and helps society to grow organically. However, if you see the recent counseling process, it goes like 90% for Software, and the rest 10% got totally scattered!! This is not healthy composition for the Country’s Long-term growth.

If a student is a risk-taker, he/she should be given chance to start his/her own start-up. If a student is having leadership traits, he or she should be given chance to do MBA and take leadership roles. If a student is having a research quotient, he/she should be given chance to spend in research. However, the current pyramid is FLAT with only software aspiration. This is not sustainable!!

In 2015, I was mentoring a team. The team’s ambition was to develop an Ambulance on Fly. Initially, they developed an Aeromodelling! We all practically witnessed the prototype construction and testing. I don’t know whether Right Brothers really felt the joy or not, but when we all enjoyed it when I used to sit with this team, I felt like standing next to Right Brothers. Ram Chandra, Mazhar Hussain, Mahesh, Harish, Ram Satya Rao of ECE students made this prototype during 2015!! Please watch the following YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/dJhm9Ugva5Y . This is actually Joy. Of course, now all the team members settled in Jobs and working for Higher Education, but that construction experience and confidence is going to be a permanent experience.

You all got EAMCET ranks. Your branch is finalized. Hence, no more theoretical competition in your career. At least from now, you can start thinking creatively, and contribute towards innovation. In the process, you can finalize your goal after few experiments (Job or Higher Education or Entrepreneurship or Research). Hope you appreciate this viewpoint!!

Best wishes for your new journey. Hoping to talk to a few interested students in Innovation or Entrepreneurship or for any kind of career mentorship. Reach me on any social handles!!

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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