AICTE set to churn out engineer-managers

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is set to launch an integrated programme from this academic session that will churn out engineers with management skills.

The five and a half year long integrated management programme will also be available for those aspiring to hold a managerial position in the field of architecture, pharmacy or hotel management. Students will be admitted to the course through the exiting entrance test, conducted for admissions to engineering, architecture, pharmacy or hotel management. The basic qualification for appearing in the test will be 10+2.

The programme will be started in higher educational institutions in the second or third week of June this year. “We will soon issue a notification in this regard,” AICTE chairman S S Mantha said.

In the first four years of the programme, students will complete their course in the respective discipline opted by them. Thereafter, they would seamlessly proceed to undergo one and a half year duration management course.

“After completion of integrated course, those from engineering will get a degree in integrated engineering management programme, architecture a degree in integrated architect management programme, and likewise in the case of pharmacy and hotel management,” Mantha said.

Apart from this, the AICTE is also set to launch a dual degree five year duration management programme from this academic session. The basic qualification required for admission to the programme will be 10+2. The students will be admitted to the programme through an entrance test, date of which is yet to be decided by the AICTE.

“A student can take to a job after completing his three- year bachelor programme in management or he can continue one year of the masters programme,” Mantha said.