Monday, Mar 15, 2010
Engineering graduates urged to consider teaching as job option


Vellore: Vice-Chancellor of Anna University P. Mannar Jawahar has urged engineering graduates to consider teaching as a desirable employment option. He was delivering the Graduation Day address at the 19th Graduation Day of Thanthai Periyar Government Institute of Technology (TPGIT) here on Sunday.

Mr. Jawahar appealed to the engineering graduates to take up any job which they get, even at the risk of being under-employed, in the light of the economic recession which deprived them of jobs in the Information Technology (IT) sector. In the last 10 years, 90 per cent of the graduates in core engineering subjects such as mechanical, civil and electrical engineering jointed IT companies, thanks to the boom in the IT sector. “Do not worry about the lack of jobs in the IT sector. Take up whichever job you get. You can get good employment in future,” he said.

During his student days, engineering graduates had to wait for five years to get employment in a good concern. But the situation had changed in recent times only after the advent of the IT sector. As regards civil engineering graduates, there was scope for them in view of the expansion of infrastructure industry, with the construction of roads and bridges everywhere throughout the country.

Mr. Jawahar said that he was giving this advice to the graduates of TPGIT in the light of the fact that 70 per cent of the students were from rural areas, and their parents would be eager to see them well-placed rather than go for higher studies.

He stressed the need for according priority to increasing access to higher education. Transformation and development of society could take place only through harmonious development of people, which is possible only by increasing the access to higher education.

Mr. Jawahar distributed degree certificates to 254 candidates, including R. Parimala of B.E. civil engineering, who obtained 14th rank in the Anna University examinations held in 2009.

P. Ramamoorthy, Principal, TPGIT, who presided, said that out of 19 M.E. applied electronics candidates who appeared for the examination, seven passed in first class with distinction, while the remaining had obtained first class. All the three candidates who appeared for M.E. manufacturing engineering had obtained first class with distinction. In MCA, out of 30 candidates who passed, 12 obtained first class with distinction, and 18 first class. Out of the 54 candidates who wrote B.E. civil engineering, 11 obtained first class with distinction, while in B.E. mechanical engineering, 17 out of 60 passed candidates got distinction. In B.E. electronics and communication engineering, 31 out of 61 successful students got distinction.

S. Jayabalan, Controller of Examinations, Anna University, and V. Dillibabu, scientist, Defence Research and Development Organisation, Bangalore, and alumnus of TPGIT, spoke.

R. Elangovan, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, introduced Mr. Jawahar.

K. Srinivasan, Head of the Department of Physics, introduced Mr. Jayabalan, while K. Muthukumaran, Head of the Department of Chemistry introduced Mr. Dillibabu.