I’m an engineer myself to be engineer so
I met four years of college life have
always had this feeling of something
being incomplete or improper in the
whole concept of doing engineering and
the way we do it and that is what I will
be talking about today I will be talking
about drawing on engineering and before
I move on to what is gone wrong in
engineering I’ll be taking a deference
with which it has gone wrong and that I
call as the way of doing things
and it’s a common thing for all
everything we do
the first thing so everything we do has
three components to it the first be game
why we do it or what we want to do
second being the action how do we do it
and what do we do to achieve our aim in
the third being the outcome what we
receive out of it so we will finally
power every final result is an outcome
of all these three components taken
together and now we look at the pattern
of engineering before to explain this in
a better way my aim here is to solve a
question my action is the steps or
sequences which I am following in order
to ease the outcome which is my result
and now let us look at the engineering
pattern here there is a slight mismatch
here the action comes first so you don’t
have a name and we start doing
engineering we start doing engineering
and that is followed up by an outcome
that maybe your degree that maybe your
job more than 10 lakh engineers in the
country
every year Milady’s and gentlemen what
was your name and you might say my aim
was to get that degree you might say my
job my aim was to get that job but in
the bigger things ladies and gentlemen
is that TM of engineering as well he is
not what engineering is supposed to do
he is engineering supposed to revolve
around all these concepts only and that
is where engineering has gone wrong I
talk about one more pattern which I call
the administrative matter now within the
government it may be when it comes to
engineering technology and education as
a way that is on their feet to provide
each and everything possible because
they have a good noble aim and that is
to set up a world-class education system
what are the actions they take in order
to do that I’ll only take engineering
into account they provide them with
infrastructure facilities tools
technology space and E is everything an
engineering college and the University
may require in the year 2015 and 16 more
than hundred seventeen hundred crores
were invested in IITs only what is the
outcome ladies and gentlemen a new
e-commerce shop fancy jobs abroad
good good packages and it’s personal
choice to make it’s fine you can you
meet you love them but is it anywhere
close to what the government and the
country expects out of it
have we still not gone wrong we’re
struggling to have our own individual
submarines most of our ions and emission
ammunitions need to be imported not even
a single light enjoying the
Indian army from 1986 to 2006 less than
percent of Engineers in his row I from
speaking about righties isn’t this just
an example that they are caught to be
known as the primary institutes he’ll be
not talking about the other Institute’s
at all now so you see there’s a huge gap
between what is expected
what would the aim was and what the
outcome has been he’ll be talking about
one more pattern which I call the
innovation pattern here surprisingly we
think of the outcome first hi phones
airports new televisions laptops gadgets
so many things – 7 is released via is
already talking about – 8 and
surprisingly it is madness always it
will be used by someone else we will
make it pending on Facebook and Twitter
it’s fine you can do that and then you
see these outcomes do not come from us
and become from big firms and what do
they do their action to bring out these
outcomes is research and development
manufacturing it’s it’s innovation at
the end of the day but it’s calculative
innovation because what was the aim here
in the simplest lab terms it was to earn
profits but ladies and gentlemen is that
what innovation is supposed to do to
make luxurious life even better to take
care of the house and let the have-nots
be his innovation only for the people
who can afford it
and that is where we have gone wrong and
the problem is even if I speak about it
my I choose engineering why did I not
having a name chosen generic and what
are the missing elements which led me to
do it a simple example I am a student in
class 12 I have many ideas to take care
of I have lot of ideas where I want to
innovate but has any idea ever has in
any paper by any college in any entrance
exam you are taking people who will
innovate but you’re not asking what
innovation you want to make instead you
ask them formulas you ask them formulas
which they need to mother in order to
innovate in the later half and that
gives them a competitive mindset
competitive mindset works when it is
calculative innovation it works when
Samson versus Apple happens it doesn’t
work when we’re taking care of the
larger mass we need to have a free mind
to have innovation which matters and
this has created it’s in fact is lost
the ability to create a quest among
students I did not get that rest you did
not get the quest most of us did not get
the quest and that is where we go wrong
and then as I talk about it what can I
do a standard Indian answer would be let
us change the system the selenium answer
to everything
wrong that happens but I will be a
little more practical I will be talking
what I can do and that is my engineering
homework and before the homework I need
to understand the importance of the aim
I need to understand why I am doing
engineering and what I want to do with
it and once I understand my concept of
engineering
I’ll help others instill a name we need
to know why they are doing engineering
they need to understand
the importance and the implications of
engineering and once they have an aim
they start asking questions what are we
doing how do we do it will that happen
is this experimenter useful one and that
is when we engineering starts becoming
right once they ask questions they meet
they start understanding concepts
concepts are easy things concepts are
concepts because they are easy they are
the building blocks of engineering and
we need to start creating an interest in
understanding these concepts what
happens when you understand the concept
we usually finish it in the paper and
then go away with it but we need to
model it model it the Ohm’s law need to
go to the circuits we need to understand
thermodynamics law in order to make
something useful and once you start
modeling concepts you experiment with it
and what is an experiment done for it is
simply done to find out mistakes
it is simply done to create mistakes so
that you learn from it so in making
mistakes here is a positive thing it’s a
positive thing even if you do the same
mistake in your semester law practicals
it is called earlier so you see how
things have changed and way we have gone
wrong making mistakes in them in
experiments is not taken as a positive
thing when you do it in class and that
is where we have gone wrong and once we
do all these things once we start
understanding these concepts once we
start learning what we are doing and
focus on this the biggest thing happens
and we start to learn and that is where
engineering goes right
gentlemen and thank you very much [Applause]