Superfluous Curriculum Burdens on Mechanical Engineering Students, Causes and Remedies

Conventional mechanical engineering curriculum practiced world wide, offers courses on manufacturing engineering, thermodynamics, heat transfer, industrial engineering, mechanisms, vibration and control, and mechanical design in single or multiple fashion. This scheme contains extra or repeated (superfluous) subjects and lack some fundamental courses. These superfluous courses need to be addressed for removal. The current engineering field expects the professional to excel beyond the boundaries of conventional curriculum. If the expected mechanical engineer is trained according to the expectations of the companies without making him to know all conventional trades, the curriculum burden can be reduced to a large extent. Different streams of specialties are to be created in the curriculum to satisfy the job market. A decision needs to be made whether some portion of the curriculum can be shifted to the companies to train the engineering bachelors according to their taste or such a burden be put on the student in the college. Strong intellectual, innovative and technical foundations need to be made of the engineering bachelors by addressing, curriculum, faculty, laboratories and computational facilities like issues in an optimised form.