Rejuvenating the Textile Engineering Education in Indian and South-Asian Universities

Dinosaurs were massive and powerful. Yet the lack of adaptability led to their extinction. Evolution of engineering to a great extent started with textiles. However, textile as an academic discipline is still nebulous. There are major flaws in the structure of the curriculum and serious weakness in the pedagogical approaches. Through this article, I argue that textile education in South-Asian countries needs major transformation in terms of principles, content and delivery. With the dynamic environment, we need to make the curriculum relevant and interesting coupled with the creation of teachers who can intellectually entertain the students. If this course correction, along with the augmentation in pay structure and nature of job, does not happen, then the textile education may slowly move towards virtual extinction. © 2023, The Institution of Engineers (India).