Engineering education was first introduced in Bangladesh in 1948 with the establishment of Dhaka Engineering College. Since then, engineering has become a popular field of study due to high demand for engineers. While many engineering graduates find jobs, the number of graduates often exceeds the number of jobs available. Some graduates pursue further education or start their own businesses to become entrepreneurs. The government is working to improve job opportunities in sectors like IT and industry to better utilize the skills of engineering graduates.
Engineering education was first introduced in Bangladesh in 1948 with the establishment of Dhaka Engineering College. Since then, engineering has become a popular field of study due to high demand for engineers. While many engineering graduates find jobs, the number of graduates often exceeds the number of jobs available. Some graduates pursue further education or start their own businesses to become entrepreneurs. The government is working to improve job opportunities in sectors like IT and industry to better utilize the skills of engineering graduates.
Engineering education was first introduced in Bangladesh in 1948 with the establishment of Dhaka Engineering College. Since then, engineering has become a popular field of study due to high demand for engineers. While many engineering graduates find jobs, the number of graduates often exceeds the number of jobs available. Some graduates pursue further education or start their own businesses to become entrepreneurs. The government is working to improve job opportunities in sectors like IT and industry to better utilize the skills of engineering graduates.
Engineering education was first introduced in Bangladesh in 1948 with the establishment of Dhaka Engineering College. Since then, engineering has become a popular field of study due to high demand for engineers. While many engineering graduates find jobs, the number of graduates often exceeds the number of jobs available. Some graduates pursue further education or start their own businesses to become entrepreneurs. The government is working to improve job opportunities in sectors like IT and industry to better utilize the skills of engineering graduates.
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ASSIGNMENT
An Essay On ‘Prospects of Engineering Graduates in Bangladesh’
Prospects of Engineering Graduates in Bangladesh
The engineering education in Bangladesh was introduced through the establishment of Dhaka Engineering College in 1948. Dhaka Survey School, established in 1876, became Dhaka Engineering College (later renamed as Ahsanullah Engineering College) with undergraduate programs in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Chemical engineering. Later on, to facilitate postgraduate studies and research, Ahsanullah Engineering College was upgraded to the status of a university under the name of East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology (EPUET) in 1962. After liberation the university found its current name: Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). BUET now offers programs through fifteen departments and also has several research centres and institutes. Alongside BUET, four other public engineering universities and some private universities are also offering engineering courses. Engineering education has been booming throughout all these years. Engineering discipline is highly preferred by the students with academic excellence due to high market demand, social prestige and diversity. The industrialization in Bangladesh started mainly with agro based industries since 1950. From the seventies, the pace of industrialization increased and noticeably diversified. The vision of developing engineering education was to meet the increasing demand of engineers as the country was thriving to develop the industrial sectors and infrastructures. In this process, the engineering education system has produced a good number of well skilled engineers, who not only helped the country in the industrial development but also proved their skills at the world level.
Engineering students have different options after graduating.They can
continue their post graduation in country or abroad.Or,they can apply for a job in the country.Job facilities in our country is not sufficient for the huge number of graduates from different institutions annually.So,many graduates struggle for jobs according to their ability.Moreover,many jobs don’t provide adequate amount of money as salary. Research facilities in universities is not up to the mark.Research and Development sector is hardly introduced in the industries.
The government is trying to improve the condition of job sectors for
graduates.IT sector has been greatly developed.Industries are growing which are recruiting young fresh graduates.
Entrepreneurship in engineering education has been introduced
recently. Different institutions form clubs like Career Club etc that helps graduates to undertake new business ideas of their own.Thus they can get self employed.Universities arrange industrial tour that causes interaction with industry personnel which gives students proper ideas about their job responsibilities.Teaching as a profession has become popular among the engineering graduates.They can apply for jobs as a lecturer in public or private universities.
To conclude, we can hope that the engineering graduates will make
their way in future through their ability and hardwork.Thus they can build up a bright future for themselves and the country at large.