Making Graduating Engineers Industry Ready

摘要

India aims to become a $5T economy with a strong advantage of being at the cusp of a digital leap. To benefit from digitalization, industries are looking for resources with essential skillsets and professional attitudes, which has become difficult to find in the current talent market. To tackle this gap, we need to study the task from a panoramic perspective. On one hand, we need to review the current challenges that include soft skills such as comprehension and interpersonal relations, as well as technical skills and employability at a time when knowledge is available at the click of a button. One should also look at related disciplines for best practices. Some reports indicate that in software development, traditional waterfall model is no longer popular. Instead, agile methodologies make this process very efficient and effective. Similarly, in management education, Case Method has become very popular. Can such changes be brought in to engineering education? This paper is about sharing experiences in teaching a new advance undergraduate course in Electric Systems Operations at an accredited university in North America with consideration on how to leverage this unique opportunity to better the pedagogy. Coupled with experiences of other universities and lessons learned new ideas will perpetuate more harmonious on-line curriculum for power engineering across the globe.