Engineering a better future for teachers
Summer Leadership Institute, as the teaching programme is called, is a unique effort to make engineering education and research global
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The quality of education in the U.S. is going down because of various factors. In light of this it is strange to come up with a program to send Professors from the U.S.India does not need professors from the U.S. to tell college and universitiy professors there how to teach. India has a well established tradition of educating youngsters. I am one of them who got bachelor and master degrees in engineering in India and came to U.S. to do Ph.D.long back. Now, I am a full professor in the U.S. In my days the facilities for doing Ph.D in India were rare in engineering, it is not so now.
The only reason I can think is that there is still slave mentality prevailing from the the colonial days. Otherwise also, I am not happy to see everything being copied from the west in India irrespective of whether it is good or not. I think the money spent on the ASEE collaboration program should be utilised somewhere else. For example, somebody from the U.S. can show how to build infrastructure in India which is in shambles.
Sukhvarsh