Engineers: Are they the real......? Part II

Considering the wealth spend by the country in creating an engineer and also the number of engineers created in comparison to the benefit realized in terms of technological innovations which results in receipts to the government I have no option but to agree with your postulate.

Yes traitors indeed. Sixty years to the independence, we still buy even the smallest of weapons. Sixty years to the independence and we could not even come up with a “Tommy gun”. Seventy percent of the defense budget here is still on procurement while in the US its on research and development.Be it the M-16, the antidandruff shampoo, or the RAY ban sunglasses all came from the DoD Labs.

Actually the problem is with the passion. Education is considered here as an avenue to make money rather than attainment of enlightenment. From Standard IX my class mates were hooked to Brilliant Tutorials. The paths were well laid out. IIT or REC à MS / MBA from USà Job in USA with HI/B à Green Card. The entire value system is wrong my friend. They become engineers as its often the easiest way to get through an MS or MBA and then a green card. Engineering is never a passion for most engineers save patriotism.

We cant even expect that they are salesmen to products that eats their nation’s wealth.

There is also a flip side. I know of some engineers from Caltech who came down to Indian defense research only to be frustrated by bureaucracy and corruption in the ministry level and went back.

So I agree that they are traitors, but our systems breeds such traitors.

Its a recursive relation, my friend.