Dear Friends
and Students
The California
Gold Rush (1848–1855) revived the American economy but it also created
a significant negative impact. Indigenous societies were attacked,
approximately 3 lakhs people migrated to California from the rest of the US and
abroad, gold worth tens of billions were recovered, which led to great wealth
for a few, but for many a little. One large negative aspect of the Gold
Rush was how it affected the environment around it, miners devastated the
surrounding ecosystem and flooded the rivers with sediment, the sediment washed
downstream and flooded farms, and ruined the crops.
What is the
connection between Gold Rush and CSE Crush? Looks
like both are creating a similar impact. As per statista.com, Number of
students enrolled in engineering at an undergraduate level across India in
2020, by discipline (CSE 9.35L, Mech 6.84L, ECE 6.11L, Civil 4.84L, EEE 3.7L).
Furthermore, in the last 2 years the number of seats in CSE have dramatically
increased! A few colleges converted traditional core engineering seats to CSE.
A few colleges increased intake in CSE. A few colleges added new branches of
the CSE family (AI-ML, DS, IoT, Business Systems, Blockchain, Cybersecurity
etc.) For e.g., the state of Tamil Nādu increased seats in these courses by
over 50% this year (2021- 35K, 2022- 57K).
Multiple
Signals now point to Europe/ U.S. Recession. The
link between the US slowdown and IT is always significant. Margin pressures are
increasing for all IT companies. As A Result, there would be slowdown in
lateral hiring, campus hiring may happen but delayed onboarding, significant
layoffs, risk for professionals on bench, expecting deep expertise from the
freshers and so on.
How does this
situation impact aspirants wishing to join CSE only? Today out of
10 enquiries, 9 enquiries for CSE, 1 for ECE and rest almost nil! This is not a
good sign. This is a clear obsession! Computer Science students are of
3 Types- Type 1. Deep Algorithmic & High Reasoning/Problem Solving
ability (only 10% have this) Type 2. Reasonable Coding Knowledge
with average reasoning (>60%) Type 3. Low computational thinking
(30%). Type 3 students are unfit for the software industry.
Today Type 2
students possess basic programming, a little bit of data
structures knowledge, peripheral view of databases and a few software tools. They
are called CSE graduates. These students suffer a lot during a recession. If a
mechanical/EEE/Civil/Chemical student with basic programming, basic database
& data structures orientation, can outperform Type 2 CSE students. They
learn worldly knowledge through their core domain skills. With basic automation
skills (Programming and IoT orientation), they can bring more business to
organizations. They can also contribute towards Engineering automation.
The
Departments of CSE and ECE are no longer Vertical Skills!! It is a
hard truth. Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, Electrical are Vertical
departments. CSE/ECE are horizontal departments. They provide support
to Vertical departments in their automation pursuits. Core engineering domain
industry needs people with good domain skills, programming skills, and
engineering software usage skills. These students are more productive than Type
2 CSE students in future. CSE AI-ML and Data science branches need students of
CSE Type 1 level. They need a good understanding of Math, Statistics,
Programming, and domain orientation. Type 2 CSE students merely use the
algorithms developed by Type 1 CSE. Even Mechanical/Civil/Chem/EEE can use (not
create) these ML algorithms and can be called Data scientists.
Institutions
suffer if they keep on depending on CSE Glory. They have to
quickly divide whole education into verticals and horizontals. Horizontal
departments should offer skills/electives and make them compulsory for every
vertical student. Horizontal departments students should groom towards Type 1
level. Type 2 CSE/ECE students have less market sustainability. Hence,
they need to be moved upwards (Towards Type 1). For e.g., they need to be
trained in competitive coding or VLSI design/IoT expertise, etc. If
they cannot go upward, they should be trained in Management and
Entrepreneurship. Type 3 students should be quickly identified and push them
towards their passion. If this strategy is not implemented in the institutions,
CSE crush becomes CSE crash!
Convert
Obsession to Opportunity! A Fad to Fortune! Avoid Crush to Crash!
Are you Type
1 CSE/ECE or Type 2 CSE/ECE or Type 3 CSE/ECE? If you are Type 2 go upwards or
change your hat quickly! If you are Type 3, wear a new dress altogether!
Ravi
Saripalle
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