Engineering candidates rush for computer science stream

Engineering seat candidates in Goa for the educational year 2019-20 have grabbed computer technology flow seats as their first choice on the end of the primary spherical of admissions. Officials of the Directorate of technical training (DTE) stated this fashion is in music with the engineering move alternatives of students nationally. Mechanical engineering is still the second choice for students.

As the dependence on statistics generation will increase for all engineering jobs across special disciplines, students feel laptop science will provide them the exceptional job prospects, officials said. Until two years in the past, mechanical engineering becomes the top desire. This modified last 12 months with the mounting recognition of laptop technological know-how.

“For the last two years, computer science has been the move-to circulate for students. Everything is getting automated and even in areas like mechanical engineering, the work is getting much less bodily and increasingly automated. For campus placements at schools, we see extra of the software program agencies coming with process offers, which affects students’ circulate preference,” the official said.

Though the variety of computer technology circulates seats on offer in Goa is high with the area being supplied in all engineering schools, seats had been stuffed across the five institutes.

“Seats for data generation and electronics are filling up the remaining. It is unusual due to the fact IT and computer technological know-how are nearly the same. But students assume these two are completely one of a kind. There is not any recognition approximately what IT has to offer,” stated a teacher of an engineering university in Goa, who is assisting DTE to perform admission-associated counseling.

In all, 2,029 students applied for engineering seats in Goa to DTE for the educational 12 months 2019-20. The engineering seat admissions are being executed primarily based at the advantage list drawn up by way of DTE as in keeping with the scholars’ rankings at the Goa Common Entrance Test.

While all seats in Goa Engineering College, Farmagudi, Padre Conceicao College of Engineering, Verna, and Don Bosco College of Engineering, Fatorda, were taken on the top of the first admission round, Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering and Information Technology (RIEIT) noticed the very best number of seats going vacant. RIEIT did not find takers for nearly 50% of the seat closing year.

Seats at Agnel Institute of Technology and Design, Assagao, will see vacant seats finding takers throughout the next round of admissions, as turned into the case ultimate 12 months. No seats at the institute have been left vacant closing year.

The next round of engineering admissions will start from July 15 in which the vacant seats could be filled. Students from the all-India quota might be amongst those claiming those seats.