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Naturally, the fundamental purpose of engineering education is to impart relevant skills and knowledge to those people who are interested in gaining either a general awareness of the subject or who wish to become professional engineers and/or academic researchers.1 This paper discusses engineering education in India and the impact that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is having and is likely to have in the future. Steps should now be taken by institute administrations to provide: * Non-stop operation of centralised server systems, gateway and the network components irrespective of power-supply interruptions. * Gateway/servers area with the necessary router, firewall, proxy, secondary DNS systems and network management system. * Central server systems providing accessible archival facilities for open source software for a variety of systems and applications. * Digital library facilities and access for students from both the institute and their homes; * At least one EDUSAT interactive classroom. * A video-conferencing facility that is capable of inter-operating with any international video-conferencing system.
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Teaching;
Students;
Network management systems;
Local area networks;
Instructional design;
Entrance examinations;
Science education;
Digital libraries;
Conferences;
Campuses;
Appropriate technology;
Engineering;
Information technology;
Communication;
Educational technology;
Servers;
Teachers;
Experiments;
Computer engineering;
Engineering education;
Communications technology;
Quality of education;
Laboratories;
College campuses