The five Indian Institutes of Technology set up between 1951 and 1961 have established a great reputation for undergraduate engineering education, as good as and, in fact, better than most institutions in the world. But this achievement did not extendto postgraduate engineering education, particularly the training of Ph Ds leading to cited publications, exploitable patents, innovative products and entrepreneurs hip. An attempt is made here to analyse the reasons for this and suggest achievable, though tough, pathways.
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