Mark Twain once said, “I never let my schooling interfere with my education.”? Today, unfortunately, it seems that we are doing just that. There is no correlation between certification and education any more. Certified engineers are to be had a dime a dozen – this takes me back to the era when it was not uncommon to come across an office peon with an MA degree, when they were all the rage. The mismatch between the requirements of the industry and the products of our educational institutes is tremendous. As a result, although we are churning out engineering graduates at the rate of 350,000 every year, making the country the second largest producer of engineering talent in the world, we are not optimizing our talent pool. (more…)