Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application.
Engineering is a broad discipline that is often broken down into several sub-disciplines. Although an engineer will usually be trained in a specific discipline, he or she may become multi-disciplined through experience. Engineering is often characterized as having four main branches: chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering.
India has a total 6,214 Engineering and Technology Institutions in which around 2.9 million students are enrolled. Every year on an average 1.5 million students get their degree in engineering, but due to lack of skill required to perform technical jobs less than 20 percent get employment in their core domain.
A relevant question is what determines the salary and the jobs these engineers are offered right after graduation. Various factors such as college grades, candidate skills, the proximity of the college to industrial hubs, the specialization one have, market conditions for specific industries determine this. On the basis of these various factors, your objective is to determine the salary of an engineering graduate in India.
ID: A unique ID to identify a candidate
Salary: Annual CTC offered to the candidate (in INR)
Gender: Candidate's gender
DOB: Date of birth of the candidate
10percentage: Overall marks obtained in grade 10 examinations
10board: The school board whose curriculum the candidate followed in grade 10
12graduation: Year of graduation - senior year high school
12percentage: Overall marks obtained in grade 12 examinations
12board: The school board whose curriculum the candidate followed
CollegeID: Unique ID identifying the university/college which the candidate attended for her/his undergraduate
CollegeTier: Each college has been annotated as 1 or 2. The annotations have been computed from the average AMCAT scores obtained by the students in the college/university. Colleges with an average score above a threshold are tagged as 1 and others as 2.
Degree: Degree obtained/pursued by the candidate
Specialization: Specialization pursued by the candidate
CollegeGPA: Aggregate GPA at graduation
CollegeCityID: A unique ID to identify the city in which the college is located in.
CollegeCityTier: The tier of the city in which the college is located in. This is annotated based on the population of the cities.
CollegeState: Name of the state in which the college is located
GraduationYear: Year of graduation (Bachelor's degree)
English: Scores in AMCAT English section
Logical: Score in AMCAT Logical ability section
Quant: Score in AMCAT's Quantitative ability section
Domain: Scores in AMCAT's domain module
ComputerProgramming: Score in AMCAT's Computer programming section
ElectronicsAndSemicon: Score in AMCAT's Electronics & Semiconductor Engineering section
ComputerScience: Score in AMCAT's Computer Science section
MechanicalEngg: Score in AMCAT's Mechanical Engineering section
ElectricalEngg: Score in AMCAT's Electrical Engineering section
TelecomEngg: Score in AMCAT's Telecommunication Engineering section
CivilEngg: Score in AMCAT's Civil Engineering section
conscientiousness: Scores in one of the sections of AMCAT's personality test
agreeableness: Scores in one of the sections of AMCAT's personality test
extraversion: Scores in one of the sections of AMCAT's personality test
nueroticism: Scores in one of the sections of AMCAT's personality test
openess_to_experience: Scores in one of the sections of AMCAT's personality test
Finally determined the salary of Indian engineering graduate on the basis of above factors