The
principal parameters in this competitive world are quality, cost and
innovations. Excellence in all these three areas can be achieved only
through excellence in Engineering, Technology and Management. It is also in
this context that, the State of Punjab has set up the Punjab Technical
University.
It
is a known fact that education in Engineering & Technology differs from
Education in the field of liberal arts and general sciences. The Technical
Education system must respond to the latest in the practice of technology by
periodically modifying programmes of study, curricula, and syllabi. The
teaching methodology also needs to be constantly upgraded to make the skill
development as well as to increase knowledge delivery more effective.
Earlier the Engineering Colleges, in the State, were affiliated to different
Universities in the State who lacked proper expertise. Thus lacked will and
research facilities for the development of Technical Education system in the
State. There was no uniformity in the syllabi and the curricula being
followed in the different universities. Their academic calendar followed was
different. Their standard could not be compared and matched with each other
and, most importantly, very little research and development work in the new
Technological areas was being taken up by them. All this hampered the growth
of Technical Education and its response to the demand of technological needs
of the State.
Thus
the setting up of Punjab Technical University has in one stroke overcome all
these disadvantages. It is also conceived that with the pooling of all the
resources of the colleges and have more autonomous functionality, the
response time to changes as demanded by the practicing technologies will be
decreased. This way the pace of change could be easily maintainable.
Thus
Punjab Technical University will have a clear focus on the following
priorities: -
The
future of the State as well as of the country lies in the quality of its
technical Education and the technical Education should be directed towards
creating a global competitive Indian industry and entrepreneurs.
Technical
Education must be closely inter-linked with the needs of the industry and it
should build entrepreneurs. It will be an employment generator as well as
capable of more sustained growth.
