The Technological Change: The T-Schoo Imperative

In its fifteenth year now, the DQ Top T-School Survey is a highly respected and pioneering barometre on the state of technical education in India. The T-School rankings, based on DQ’s PACE Framework, are much sought-after by the industry, for the deep insights it offers at a national level, as well as regional level, on the talent pool and where to hunt for the best talent

- Prabhu Ram

The world around us has been transforming at a very dramatic pace. The way we communicate, travel, play, and work has changed irreversibly, and with the speed of change anticipated to be even swifter in the times ahead. The incredible speed of technological change, as evinced from the breakthroughs in Industry 4.0 (comprising of Internet of Things(IoT) and smart sensors, big data, automation, robotics, and additive manufacturing, and permeated by Artificial Intelligence across all these domains), among others, but engineers and engineering expertise right in the center of the action, than ever before. As new technological cycles emerge and bring forth new innovations in the coming decades of the 21st Century, the global circular economy will be forever transformed the way we know it. Making these scientific discoveries and technological transformations will be possible only by engineering skills, and driven by the students graduating from T-Schools in India.

In the years to come, today’s students at Indian T-schools will be called upon to develop a creative mindset, adopt new problem-solving approaches and inculcate crosscutting capabilities, that enable them to move from the existing conventional thinking on how to solve problems. Tomorrow’s engineers will be increasingly called upon to adopt comprehensive approaches to problem-solving, leading large teams to define and solve problems, and in the process, build a proactive innovation culture.