Excellence Through Values

Vignana Bharathi, Hyderabad

Significance of Today – Sep 15

Core Theme - Excellence thru Values

Past Legends

Sir MV – Achievements

Sir MV - Life

Sir MV – Life Values

More Recent Legends

Take away

A memorable day in the annals of the engineering fraternity

Birthday of Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya

Renowned Indian Engineer and Statesman

Honoured by the country’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in the year 1955

Provides good opportunity for us engineers to focus on relevant topic of national importance

Important theme for this year.

ex·cel·lence - The state, quality, or condition of excelling- The quality of being eminently good

val.ues (moral, ethical)- a set of moral principles of conduct or guiding philosophy governing an individual or a group

Excellence through Values- Reaching and performing at the excelling state through (leveraging, not compromising on) moral principles of conduct for the overall good of our culture, nation and entire human race on the whole.

Key to Success• Top Leaders, Nations, Companies achieved their

positions through excellence in respective areas

Need of the present • Mediocrity not acceptable• Fast changing world with intense competition• Mistakes (process/quality) can be fatal

Realize dream for future• Both for self and nation

The Art we have mastered

Real differentiator among the great ones

Life fulfilling experience

Message of the great – • “We want that education by which character is

formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.” – Swami Vivekananda

Hire/Fire differentiator for Corporates• Enforced through Vision Statements, Compliance

trainings, Policy Documents and so on.

“Today, the western scientific progress has physically united the world. It has not only got rid of the ‘space’ factor, it has also equipped the various countries of the world with deadly arms. But they have not yet learnt the art of knowing and loving one another. If we want to save humanity at this most critical juncture, the only option is the Indian approach.”

- Dr. Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975), British Historian

(I want to see) "Some blood transfusion from the East to the West, to save Western science from spiritual anaemia."

- Erwin Schroedinger (1887--1961) Austrian theoretical physicist, the Nobel prize

winner for Quantum Mechanics in 1933.

"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked."

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Pushpak Vimana (Ramayana)

Yantra driven boat & continuous circulating fish (Mahabharata)

Harappan Civilization (3500 BCE?)

Ashoka Pillar (3rd century BCE)

Perpetual Motion Machine (Aryabhatta, 5th Century)

Khajurao Temples (9th century)

Gola-adhyaya and Graha Ganita (Bhaskar, 12th century)

Military powered rockets of Tipu Sultan (18th Century)

Parashara

Kanada

Bharadwaja

AgastyaCharaka

Sushruta

Varahimihira

Earlier Legends…

JC Bose

Homi J Bhabha

Vikram Sarabhai

Sir CV Raman

The legacy continues…

APJ Abdul Kalam

E SreedharanNarayan Murthy

A living sample of excellenceA living sample of excellence

One of the many living contributions of Sir M visvesvarayya

Unique example of hi-tech engineering and excellence

Built in 1932 on Kaveri River

In Mandya Disc, near Mysore, Karnataka

At the time of Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV

Height – 125 feet, Length 8600

Capacity – 49 billion cubic feet

The first dam in the world to use automatic sluice gates

Has attached terrace garden popularly known as Brindavan Garden

Legacy of Sir MV

KRS Dam Brindavan Garden Bhadravati Steel Plant Bank of Mysore Irrigation system in the Deccan area Automatic weir water floodgates (near Pune) Flood protection system for Hyderabad Prevent erosion at Visakhapatnam port Plan for road construction between Thirumala and Tirupati First electricity generation plant in Asia Mysore Soap factory Parasitoide laboratory Sri Jayachamarajendra Polytechnic Institute The Bangalore Agricultural University The State Bank of Mysore The Mysore sugar mills

Born on 15 Sep 1861 (Muddenahalli, Chikballapur, Kingdom of Mysore)

B.A. (Madras University), Civil engineering (CoE, Pune)

Key Jobs

• PWD Bombay

• Indian Irrigation Commission

• Dewan of Mysore State

Honours

• Bharat Ratna (1955)

• Knight Commander of Order of Indian Empire

• Honorary membership of International Institution of Civil Engineers

• Fellowship of Indian Institute of Science

• Popularly known as “Father of modern Mysore State”

Last Breath on 14 April 1962

Living the idea Sincerity

• Deewan of Mysore state offer• Last day of service

Time management Dedication to the cause

• Leading delegation to US• SJP Institute

Long term vision• Krishna Raja Sagar Dam and Brindavan Gardens• Consulting relatives over taking up the job of diwan only under the

assurance that no relative would seek any favour.

Multifaceted

Established life in plants

Accredited with the invention of wireless before Marconi

First ever Indian to get a patent

Inventor of Crescograph

Experiments involving Coherer used by the Navy for communication.

Honors Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

(1903) Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)

(1912) Knighthood, 1917 Fellow of the Royal Society (1920) Member of the Vienna Academy of Science, 1928 President of the 14th session of the Indian Science

Congress in 1927.

Took up research and devoted his entire life to scientific research.

Opposed Patents

Upheld self esteem by opposing discrimination at Presidency College

If anybody ever intends to dedicate himself to a great mission, let him not expect a fruitful end. If his patience be infinite then alone he will come to understand that a day will come when his perseverance, inspite of repeated failures will bring him success….

First Asian to be awarded Noble prize in Physics.

Proposed the breakthrough theory ‘Raman effect’

Co-proposer of Raman-Nath theory along with Nagendra Nath

Only non-German whose paper was published in ‘Handbuckder Physik’

A field of study, Raman Spectrography, Has been named after him

Honors• Knight Bachelor (1929)• Nobel Prize in Physics (1930)• Bharat Ratna• Lenin Peace Prize

Sacrificed his high salary Govt job for carrying out research

Given due credit to his students who helped him in his breakthrough discovery Raman effect.

Presented Raman effect at swedish Academy using Alcohol and avoided the same in the evening party.

Abruptly left a high profile meeting in the middle, to search for future scientists in school children.

Laid emphasis on “Swadeshi”

Father of Indian Nuclear Program Bhabha presented, with Heitler, the 'Cascade

Theory of Electron Showers', in 1937. Electron-positron scattering was later

named ’Bhabha scattering’ Bhabha recognized heavy electron particles in

cosmic rays and called them 'Meson'. He played pivotal role in establishing the Tata

Institute of Fundamental Research(1945) in Bombay, and the Atomic Energy Commission of India three years later.

Three Atomic Reactors ('Apsara', 'Cirus' and 'Zerlina‘) are the Results of his efforts.

Country First• Stayed back during WW2• Rejected British institution

offers

Visionary• Nuclear energy for power

production

Talent for the country• Reversed brain drain

Self Reliance• In Nuclear Energy

Missile man Of India

Pioneer work on development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology

Inspired young to see India a developed country by 2020

Pivotal organisational, technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear test in 1998

Heavily involved in the development of India's first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III)

Honors• First Asian to be bestowed the Hoover Medal,

America's top engineering prize (2009)• Doctorate from 30+ universities• Padma Bhushan in 1981• Padma Vibhushan in 1990• Bharat Ratna in 1997

Visionary• Vision 2020

Innovation and Application• callipers for the polio affected

Simple living high thinking

Empathy• Exhibition

Humble• People’s President

Managing Director Delhi Metro project• On or before schedule, within budget

Successful on-time progress/completion of the Konkan Railway • 760 kms line, 150 briedges, 93 tunnels in 82

kms

Restored Pamban Bridge in 46 days against 3 months available

Member of the advisory board foundation for the Restoration of National Values

Delhi Metro Chief

High moral standards• Resignation on bridge

collapse

Unquestioned Honesty & Integrity

Disciplined Lifestyle• Daily routine maintained

Selfless / Focus on work• Message to media

Philanthropic

I was raised in Tamilnadu in South India, in the ashram of Sri Ramana Maharishi, of an English father and a Polish mother. Both were dedicated followers of Sri Ramana Maharishi. Therefore as a child growing up in the small town of Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu, I was fluent in Tamil and was surrounded by Indians who were proud of their nationality and heritage, and believed they had a lot to teach us Europeans. I still speak enough Tamil to get by, and feel that my roots are indeed in India. I must be only professed "vellakaaren" (=white) Tamilian in America.

After all, how could anyone, even an English boy, grow up in Tiruvannamalai, in the ashram of Sri Ramana Maharishi, and not acquire a pride in his roots?

It is therefore with some misgivings that today I find myself dealing with Indians, many of who do not feel proud of their Indianness. Indian Americans represent the most affluent minority in America, ahead of Jewish Americans and Japanese Americans. This is a statistic and not an opinion.

Indians are recognized throughout America as technically superior.

Since the day Indians learn pride, India will rapidly move out of its third world status to become one of the world’s inductrial powers.

Just matching my preference with the groups choice

Nation FirstWith harmony of personal goals with national interest

Honesty and Integrity

Discipline

Let us come up with top 3 as a group…

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ” 

- Swami Vivekananda