Glad to comment on this.I am an MTech in Computer Science, but my story is little diffrent as i did my engineering after MSc, I did this because i knew in our country better-paying jobs are only reserved for engineers and science students are assumed to be future teachers.
This negligence of including science reserch in industry/technology has resulted in mass going towards decent paying engineering stream, thus as mass increases with given financial funds the quality is bound to come down (similatr to Boyles PV=const law).
Only a good collaboration between industry and science principles can reverse this dogma and make us earn some good science Intellectual property rights.