The education here is full "ratta mar" they say meaning like what happens in data mining it is rote learning. I blame the exams and teachers. Exams are made such a way where you can learn everything and vomit in exams. No practical stuffs like coding etc asked in exams. And they are neither prioritized. But every year tons of students from nepal go to usa. How are they surviving there? USA students must be genius their level of learning is sky to earth core difference if you see the question paper. They are full on practical, practical and practical. And same goes for job market, when you are already so qualified at undergraduate by studying in USA, success becomes relatively easy to achieve instead of Nepalese dudes where there is literally not a singel teacher wo can teach. It is pathetic here in Nepal. I wish I went to India to study at least things are better there.

 

I have no experience with Nepalese students but in our Electrical Engineering department we had many excellent students from India who did very good work. Most of them came from a math or physics background, which seems the norm. They had bachelors or masters degrees in one of them, and were working toward an advanced degree in EE.

Our college was largely research focused but not only theory. The seemed to work in both with good success.

We had many students from China as well. Overall, very hard workers with good knowledge, but both Indian and Chinese students seemed—by and large—to lack direct practical experience with building physical circuits. They could create simulations with great skill but to build the same thing was a challenge to them. They didn’t have the practical knowledge that comes form building the circuits and is absolutely necessary when your circuit has to operate outside of idealized conditions.

 

I have no experience with Nepalese students but in our Electrical Engineering department we had many excellent students from India who did very good work. Most of them came from a math or physics background, which seems the norm. They had bachelors or masters degrees in one of them, and were working toward an advanced degree in EE.

Our college was largely research focused but not only theory. The seemed to work in both with good success.

We had many students from China as well. Overall, very hard workers with good knowledge, but both Indian and Chinese students seemed—by and large—to lack direct practical experience with building physical circuits. They could create simulations with great skill but to build the same thing was a challenge to them. They didn’t have the practical knowledge that comes form building the circuits and is absolutely necessary when your circuit has to operate outside of idealized conditions.

That is a real problem in this country. Most "engineers", in the real term, are unemployable. Hands on experience is virtually zero. Practicals are non existant. I understood from a faculty professor, that "practicals" involve maintainance and replacement of equipment which is expensive. So any practical is only a simple demonstration, not hands on.

 

I once had my Engineering Supervisor tell me that "all a College Degree shows is that you can learn. Some of what you learned may apply but the method of learning and the ability to do so is what makes an engineer". I had to learn the Corporate Engineering Standards as well as several others and ensure that my designs met those standards. He also beleived that an engineer could do anything if he applied himself. So not only did I do my area of expertise in Process Control using Distributed Control Systems, but also electrical power and motor controls, Ladder Logic Controllers, Variable Frequency Drives, bringing CAD into our project engineering department. I even did some structural steel, piping and concrete foundations design. I also did some IT work designing and supervising the construction of a large plantwide fiber optic backboned network and specified and built, configured and maintained all of the 15 separate computer-based process control systems in all the operating areas of a large chemical plant. From power, steam production, distilling, extraction, hydrogenation, and even packaging along with package boiler controls to small PLCs also. So, engineering at the plant level is more than just what you learned in school, you never stop learning.