Brainstorming and Fishbone diagram Tools for Enhancing the Student Placement in Technical Education System

Increased engineering colleges and unemployment have raised critical issues of quality for sustaining invisible competition all around the globe. In the olden days, higher education success was truly measured based on the performance (ability to apply knowledge and skills in resolving problems) of graduates in industries, which in turn ranked the colleges. In recent years, campus placement for engineering students has been treated as an institution’s responsibility, and the institute, upon successful job placement and average salary offered for the academic year. Since there are many engineering colleges, the reputed companies select to conduct placement drives for those institutes whose courses/programs have been accredited by quality assessment bodies. The accreditation to engineering institutions and their performance are tested for different attributes such as admission, teaching-learning process, infrastructure, curriculum and examination, placement, and career. Placement and carrier could directly or indirectly affect the other qualities and hence their improvement being the major concern to many engineering colleges. Brainstorming technique is first applied to know the possible methods for enhancing placement of students. The fishbone diagram is a standard way of representing in a more structured and precise manner that helps to identify the root causes that affect the graduate outcome, institution’s quality, which in turn is the placement of students. The generic framework module is defined for enhancing the placement of students with the help of brainstorming and the fishbone diagram tool.