Dear friends and colleagues,
While attending oral examinations to defend diploma theses in engineering topics, I concluded that even though the technical background, the experimental design, and the methodology followed are robust, there are oftenly neglected or misunderstood the criteria of economic feasibility and the energy required. As a result, the scalability of the processes, the cost effectiveness, and the economies-of-scale perspectives are either not considered/evaluated at the theses' deployment, or are undermined (though significant at cases of industrial scale and applicability). Which is your opinion about this argumentation? Why it happens? How can educators handle it?
It need reformation in technical education. Some form of integration is needed while crafting the course.
Syllabus of course remain un change for decades. While industries evolve rapidly and are more dynamic than education institutions.
Technical education system courses need to include integrated techno commercial subjects. This will change outlook of students. Moreover, students should be encouraged for addressing real word problem. Their mid term assignment should include a real world problem and that includes scale of laboratory setup to large scale. e.g. sizing, costing with updated cost factors, energy optimisation, 3D risk assessment and environmental impact assessment.
Dear Ritesh, warm thank you for your insightful contribution to the discussion.
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