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48th Engineer’s Day
Engineering Challenges for Knowledge Era
By Prof. V. R. Shah
15th September 2015
• Science
• Engineering
• Technology
• Data
• Information
• Knowledge
• Wisdom
source: Journal of Knowledge Management Practice, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 2007
• Agricultural age
• Industrial age
• Information age
• Conceptual age - Human Intelligence - Intuition - Discretion
http://www.slideshare.net/pcampmn/haywoodwhat-is-infor-and-mingle
http://www.slideshare.net/VishweshwarHegde/knowledge-era-paradigms-agile-indiaconf2016
Are Challenges same ?
What is so different about technology of knowledge era?
•Newer technologies are invented at faster pace
•Communication is faster
•Larger markets because of globalization using technology is
viable
•Obsolescence is faster
•High impact of Disruptive Technologies
•Networked Economy
•Intellectual property right
•Cyber loss
•Path breaking technological development
Obsolescence and Dematerialization
Products and Concepts
Communication Revolution
•Penfriend, Snail mail-Postal Services
•Telephone
•Mobile
•Internet
•Smart Phones
Disruptive Technologies
• Sustaining – Steady, linear improvement of existing technology
• Disruptive – Introduction of completely new approaches that have the potential to create a new industry or transform an existing one– Revolutionary – radical innovations
• digital photography, high-temperature superconductors
– Evolutionary – formed by the convergence of previously separate research areas
• MRI imaging, faxing, electronic banking
• Networked Economy
- Emerging economic order withi the information society
- Through Social Networks
- As against Industrial Era where individual was the focus
- Question of Intellectual Property Right
• Larger Challenge and who will take it
- Academia
- Industry
- Future Engineers:
Renaissance Engineers in the Making--- Purdue University
-From Industrial to knowledge era
-Education - production factories called schools
-Requirements are different
http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/
Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side
Paradigm Shift
Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side
Workshop at Nagpur
Smritivan
Architect: Vastushilpa ConsultantsStructural Consultant: Vinod Shah Consulting Engineers
Nalanda University
Architect: Vastushilpa ConsultantsStructural Consultant: Vinod Shah Consulting Engineers
Nalanda University
Architect: Vastushilpa ConsultantsStructural Consultant: Vinod Shah Consulting Engineers
Nalanda University
Architect: Vastushilpa ConsultantsStructural Consultant: Vinod Shah Consulting Engineers
Nalanda University
Architect: Vastushilpa ConsultantsStructural Consultant: Vinod Shah Consulting Engineers
Nalanda University
Architect: Vastushilpa ConsultantsStructural Consultant: Vinod Shah Consulting Engineers
Are Challenges same ?
Thank You.
• Different era• Stone – Era• Industrial Era• Knowledge Era- Era of future- Conceptual era- Era of inner understanding
• Wave- Three waves – Toffler- Six Waves – Unesco report
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