90% of the Engineering Students are facing Lack of skills

Even as India is emerging as an engineering and manufacturing outsourcing hub, 90 per cent of the engineering resources in the country do not posses the right skill set to work in real time, Ansys, provider of engineering simulation software, said.

According to Gautam Dutta, country manager of Ansys, engineering courses abroad are project-oriented, while in India it is examination-oriented.

“All students are prepared to answer questions in examinations, rather than making them adept in asking the right questions and gain practical knowledge. It is a big challenge. Only 10 per cent of the engineering jobs are filled by engineering graduates from premier institutes, while others have to undergo intense training and get their skills honed to work in real time,” Dutta said.

In a bid to widen its reach in India, Ansys has signed two channel partnerships with ATeN Systems and Technology and Entuple Technologies. Presently, India is one of the biggest users of Ansys engineering simulation software products.

ATeN Systems and Technology will be ANSYS India’s PAN India educational product distributor.

Nawdeep Puranik, managing director of ATeN said, “India has become the world’s engineering and manufacturing outsourcing hub. Every year more than 2,500 engineering students graduate from engineering and polytechnic institutes.”

“Today the challenge is to produce global, industry-ready engineers. Computer-aided engineering, or engineering simulation, is rising-sun technology,” he added.

Another channel partner Entuple Technologies and ANSYS together will focus on automotive, aerospace and defence, and industrial equipment and rotating machinery industries to address their electronic design automation (EDA) needs.