Rote Learning to Real World Impact Bridging the Campus Corporate Chasm for viksit Bharat 2047

A Teachers' Day panel on why so many graduates arrive at their first job unable to do the job. India will produce millions of engineers on the road to Viksit Bharat 2047. The harder question is what those degrees actually equip them to do. Curricula still reward memorisation over judgment, and the gap shows up on day one of employment — in design thinking, in structured problem-solving, and in the deep-domain depth that real work demands. This panel brings industry and academia into the same room to name those gaps precisely and to propose frameworks that institutions can actually adopt. Not a lament about employability. A working session on what changes, who changes it, and how soon. What we'll cover • Where the current engineering and higher-education curriculum breaks down, specifically • Embedding design thinking and practical problem-solving without waiting for syllabus reform • Building deep-domain skill in emerging areas — semiconductors, AI, cloud, 5G/6G • What industry can commit to, and what faculty need in return • Practical steps for students who don't want to wait for the system to catch up Who should attend Engineering and higher-education students · Faculty and academic leaders · Industry and hiring professionals Moderator Bharathwaj T A — Director, Engineering, Stealth mode Startup, Founding Mentor, Silicon Setu Panelists — Industry Dr. Shalini Pathak —Sr. Principal Engineer at STMicroelectronics | Member Technical Staff | DFT Architect Dr. Kalyana Sundaram Chandran — Senior Manager, Semiconductor Testing, Caliber Interconnects, Panelists — Academia Prof. Binsu J Kailath — Professor and Dean, Academic,, IIITDM Kancheepuram Dr. Muralidhar Reddy — Professor and Director - Innovation and Corporate Relation Organised by Silicon Setu, an initiative of ENADU CSP Foundation, in partnership with TechShikSha Foundation. 5 September · 7:00PM IST