About

We are a group of engineers from IITs/IISc/NITs and esteemed organizations and we want to complement your engineering education using our experiences.

The Story of DEM Labs

What is the issue?

India Today: Only 7 per cent engineering graduates employable: What’s wrong with India’s engineers? 1

Times of India: Over 80% of engineering graduates in India unemployable: Study. 2

Economic Times: A million engineers in India struggling to get placed in an extremely challenging market. 3

Youth ki awaaz: Why Is India Producing Unemployable Engineers? 4

These news reports are not all gimmicks, infact they are based on an employability-focused study based on 150,000 engineering students who graduated in 2013(Report in PDF), conducted by Aspiring Minds, A New Delhi-based employment solutions company. This survey resulted in some shocking stats.

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Why this happens? What is root cause of these issues? Is our engineering education so bad or there are other issues cripling the not-so-top-tier engineering colleges? Since the engineering syllabus of all colleges are the same, why such stark differences are observed.

We went deep into these:

  • Low-tier engineering colleges don’t have the appropriate level of industry interaction
  • They don’t have the support of a diverse alumni network
  • They don’t have the government aided infrastructure to provide extraordinary facilities such as IISc/IITs
  • Industries want to play it safe and interact with only the top-tier institutions

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The growing number of these findings had become our main topic of discussion for last several years. During one such session we unanimously stumbled upon this idea of Design Engineering and Management Lab(DEM Lab). Any contribution which we can make to help our engineering students would make us more than happy.

Brainstorming about these issues tell us that, many of these issues can be solved by increasing industry-academia interactions which is not always easy given the

  • bureaucratic nature to achieve and implement such memoranda of understanding
  • lack of enthusiasm from companies to amalgamate with anything other than top-tier engineering colleges
  • lack of local opportunites in many engineering institutions

How we are solving these issues

  • We don’t have a long list of requirements and understandings in order to collaborate. Once the institutions agree, our collaborators sign an MoU, take a pre-survey, and deliver the required training within a month or so after negotiating for time with the experts. The one and only roadblock is getting the time from our experts.
  • We don’t care about your reputations. Many of our experts come from unknown institutions and has achieved excellence through hard work, grabbing opportunities, and appropriate guidance.
  • We have local collaborators in many different states(and growing). We bring the best of elite institutions and esteemed organizations to your doorstep through out panel of experts.
  • We are providing these expertise which helps the students emulate the behavior, work ethics, and resourcefullness of our mentors. They indirectly becomes the guiding support and complement the academic know-how already provided by the faculty.

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What do students get out of us?

  • Learn about technical career paths for mechanical engineers
  • Learn about skills necessary to pursue technical career paths
  • Learn about cutting-edge tools and techniques used in industry and ways to learn about them
  • Learn about higher study (ME/MTech/PhD/Training Programs) after BE/BTech that helps in pursuing these technical paths
  • Learn about building engineeering products from experienced people holding patents and research publications
  • Learn about industry from industry veterans
  • Learn about pursuing research during BE/BTech
  • Learn about participating in technical competitions, many of which lead to great jobs in industry
  • Learn about creating your own projects and engineering design portfolio
  • Learn about placement scenario and processes of top mechanical engineering organizations
  • Learn about admission processes, academic details, and strengths of elite educational institutions in India and abroad
  • Learn about preparing for entrance examinations such as GATE/GRE/TOEFL/IELTS/GMAT
  • Learn about studying abroad
  • Receive guidance for BTech projects from our club of mentors

In short, holistic technical career guidance from people who have experienced it all.

What do institutions get out of us?

  • Opportunity for collaboration with industry
  • Opportunity for exposing their students to the engineering industry
  • Opportunity for exposure in national and international forums through their students

Information about our parent company

DEM Labs is a product offering from Vidyarthi Point. Vidyarthi Point, North East’s First Largest Student Community and Career Guidance Platform, is an educational organization which has been working in the field of career guidance for the last 7 years. The organization mainly focuses on helping students in all career related aspects like choosing right career, career planning and development etc. in a systematic and scientific way. Besides it supports the students in leading a successful career by proper guidance and motivation. Our strong database of information and knowledge is backed up by constant research, thus providing students with the most up-to- date information possible.

Our Vision and mission is to empower students to realize and achieve their dreams through counselling, planning and training. We also strive for success in providing the direction to our education seekers and help them to make perfect decision. We also provide professional services to students, parents and clients of similar trade about various schools, colleges, universities, professional institutes, distance learning courses and information about career opportunities and course fees. We also conduct events and seminars for the students about various subjects in various schools, colleges and academic institutes in regular basis.

Information about Founder

Arup Kumar Deka [ LinkedIn / Facebook ]

image-left Mr. Arup Kumar Deka is the Career Counsellor and Career Columnist of Asomiya Pratidin.

He has facilitated the growth and development of over 10,000 students and aspirants till date. He has taken more than 100 (approx) workshops in various schools, colleges and educational institutes. He provides his services as a career counsellor in various reputed schools, colleges and training institutes. His articles are regularly published in various News Papers, Magazines and gives his presentations and interviews in various TV shows.

  1. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/engineering-employment-problems/1/713827.html ↩

  2. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Over- 80-of- engineering-graduates- in-India-unemployable- Study/articleshow/50704157.cms ↩

  3. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/20639539.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst ↩

  4. http://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2015/08/employability-of- engineers-in- india/ ↩