Editor's Note

Bridging the Industry-Academia Gap

The world is entering an era of truly transformative change and the engineers play a pivotal role in inventing and developing the advent technologies. With the rapid and all-encompassing technological change, tremendous potential lies ahead of engineers to disrupt the market. Technological advancements have found their way in every industry today.

The emerging technologies are affecting our lives in ways that indicate we are at the cusp of Fifth Industrial Revolution. And this revolution will define the ethics and impact of the technology developed in the fourth revolution. Hence, it is crucial for the policy makers and educational institutes to train the youth for Industry 5.0.

BW Education’s current issue focuses on the need to bridge the industry-academia gap. In this special engineering edition we talk to leading academicians, researchers, policy makers and employers to understand the burning questions ailing the youth.

In order to help the aspiring candidates to identify good institutes, BW Businessworld ranks the engineering institutions across the country with a comprehensive assessment framework. With a purpose to provide high quality, ethical, independent comparison of the quality of engineering and technology schools in the country, we rank the schools based on a set of criteria that apply to Indian higher education and yet is globally favoured.

The BW Education Engineering Rankings 2019 aims to rank the institutions based on different matrices and performances in individual areas such as research excellence, innovation, teaching excellence, infrastructure, industry engagement and employability so as to display independent strengths. The rankings will judge the institutions based on how they perform against each other in variety of metrics thus reflecting the strengths and weakness of an institution in each specific area.

From academicians to corporate honchos, this special engineering issue has a vivid mosaic of content relating to engineering as well as special features of renowned public figures who have contributed towards the society as whole. The issue also acknowledges the work of individuals who have proven that engineering can be non-technical too.

Hope all the reader will find this issue, BW Education Engineering Special, an interesting read.

Happy reading!