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Engineering education is the activity of teaching knowledge and principles related to the professional practice of engineering. Education is one of the best businesses in the current Indian scenario. The immense interest in engineering courses among Indian parents was aptly followed by the mushrooming engineering colleges in the past decade. Except a handful, the histories of majority of engineering colleges in India span not more than 15 years. Indian education system is swarmed with a wide variety of curricula most of which are designed to excel with rote learning. The pupils trained in an education system like this are capable of memorizing chunks of information but only a creamy layer of them have applicative skills, which is the prime requisite of the recruiting companies. Anyone with a gifted memory and ability to rote learn any amount of data can pass out an engineering degree with distinction. The scored marks or percentages can never be considered as a true measure of intelligence. In India we don’t really face unemployment but what we actually face is the ‘unemployable’ problem. Current studies reveal that only about 15-25 % of the Indian engineering grads are employable, having the skill sets that employers look for.