Technological Advancement & Present engineering practices in india

A Nirjhar Chakravorti Presentation

Technological Advancement &

Present Engineering Practices in India

Nirjhar Chakravorti….. a Mechanical Engineer by profession, has completed engineering in the year 2000, from Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, India.

Nirjhar has received Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) from Institute of Management Technology (IMT), CDL, Ghaziabad.

As an engineering professional Nirjhar has worked at different industries, like Iron & Steel, Power Plant, Machine Tool and Paper Plant.

During professional life, Nirjhar has worked on different engineering activities, like core design, management planning and project engineering, along with the analysis of life cycle costing for capital expenditure of a profit making company and organizational re-structuring.

Nirjhar’s interest is to know different technology and process engineering.

Nirjhar ChakravortiEmail: [email protected]

Research Design

Execute

Advertise

Economic Solution to Applied Science & Technical Problems

Commercial Application

Scientific Discoveries

Who Are Engineers?

ENGINEERS

Technology

Present Engineering Practice in India• Core industry Steel Cement Power• Transport Train Bus Ship Aerospace• Automobile• Infrastructure Water treatment Alternative energy• Software• Information Technology

Imported from advanced countries

Technology

Basic technology

Improvement of existing technology

Role of Engineers in IndiaDetail Engineering

(for Product & Process) (based on technological knowledge received from overseas)

Production Planning

Manufacturing Maintenance

Supply Chain Management

Quality Assurance

Marketing & Sales

IT Services

Management & Administration

In Core Sector,

Engineers work as

Supervisors

Process Planning

In Software & IT Sector,

Engineers work as

Labours & Supervisors

Role of Engineers in India

R&D

Basic Engineering

on Industrial

Application

• Mostly in Academic level• Mostly theory based• Not much on hardware (i.e. development or improvement of machinery or equipment)• Inadequate fund

• At miniature scale• Only few corporate encourage fundamental engineering• Government own few company where basic engineering can be practiced• Indian Civil & Structural Engineers get more opportunity of basic engineering compared to other engineers• Thrust on Basic Engineering is missing at newly evolving streams, also (eg Computer Science, Software and Information Technology)

Technology

Why India Lacks Technology?• Inadequate Fund for Industrial & Engineering Research • Technology can be acquired from overseas• Government’s focus is on production and earning as much money as possible • Developing research and basic engineering infrastructure and culture needs sustainable policy and monitoring, which is not possible, because frequent changes in governing persons, who live with varied interests and potential

Government Policy

• Lacks Government

Policy• Lacks

political and economic interest

Corporate Policy

• Investing money for fundamental engineering involve risk of failure• Investing money on fundamental engineering does not produce quick money (Acquire money from such investment takes time. Most of the Indian businessmen are interested to earn quick maximum money out of dynamic and changing economy)• Multinational Companies (MNCs) are not interested to transfer core technology out of their countries and use Indian engineers as cheap knowledge workers only.

• Short sightedness of

Indian Businessmen• Conservative

approach of MNCs

Why India Lacks Technology?• Method of instruction or quality of teaching• Gap between students-teachers relationship• lack of world-class infrastructure and facilities which can't be seen consistently across all colleges• No honest and effective government control over infrastructure (including teachers quality) of private engineering colleges• Lack of faculty at most of the government engineering colleges• Conventional approach of syllabus• Failure of system to create awareness amongst students regarding necessity of knowledge, instead of focus on jobs only

Engineering Educational

Policy

• Lacks Government

Policy and control for

engineering education

• Lacks quality teachers, in general (at mass level)

That’s why India lacks Fundamental Engineering

Knowledge, i.e. Technology

Is Technological Advancement Necessity?

Why?

Yes

Nation’s Prosperity

Economic Competitiveness in Global Market

National Security

Nurture Talents

If India wants to be a Super Power, in true sense, then Technological Advancement is

necessity.

What can be next step?

Present Engineering Practice

Quality

Development of future engineering product and

practices

Value Addition

Focus for 21st Century

Product

Quality

Implementation of Total Quality

Management System Quality embedded

in new Product Design

Quality assurance at every stage of

product manufacturing

Engineers ProcessImplementation of

Total Productive Maintenance or Six

Sigma or Lean or any other system

Quality embedded

in new Process Design

Quality embedded at each step of manufacturing

process

Paradigm shift in engineering

educational syllabus and system

Quality education system to nurture

quality engineer and quality engineering

support staffs. Quality of

classroom and laboratory education

to be enhanced

Focus for 21st Century

Environment Friendly

Bio Degradable Pollution free

Value AdditionCost

Effective Material Safety

Product Cost Manufacturing

Cost Erection Cost Operational

Cost Maintenance

Cost(Life Cycle Cost

Analysis)

Cost Effective material

Material for Compact Design

Lighter material

(Focus shall be on development and selection of newer materials)

Implementation of Aspect &

Impact study

Focus for 21st Century

Product

New Quality driven Product and Process design capability is essential to explore in global

market. Quality of product and process is essential for

business development, because

Quality = Customer Satisfaction.

Engineers Process

To develop new product, process and

system, engineers needs to be educated

in an environment which promote

knowledge based quality education.

WHY QUALITY?

Focus for 21st Century

Environment Friendly

To save earth Growing global

pressure to implement

environ friendly technology In-house

technology can save lot of money

Cost Effective Material Safety

Business development

Money does matter, especially

in a developing country like India, every

penny counts!

Limited resource

Material cost is major cost of a

product

To value human life.

Unfortunately, in India, value of human life is not

a major focus! But interestingly,

human safety has direct

relation with long run business

sustainability!

WHY Value Addition?

Key for Technological AdvancementLong Term Research Based Approach

Long run honest government policy for technological research: Identification of areas which shall be prioritize for research and development Planning and implementation of research work Monitoring progress of the research work Corporate to be encouraged for technological innovation, in terms of business opportunities

Engineering institutions and colleges to work for innovation.Institutions practice education, so it shall encourage teachers and students to think out of the box (even with limited available fund!).

Corporate firms to promote technological innovation. Practicing technological innovation is not charity, rather it provides long run sustainability and larger market share.

Government

Corporate

Institution

Key for Technological Advancement

A National Drive for Engineering Advancement

Identification of areas of development Development of existing identified products and processes Development of identified new products and processes Development of human resource (i.e. engineers and engineering support staffs, by creating a new paradigm shift in educational approach)

An honest long run holistic approach for technological advancement.

Few possible steps for futureGovernment initiative to promote technology

Government should identify and prioritize products or process which has to be nationally developed. National effort should be organized to develop those products or processes as per priority list.

If government do not want to increase “overhead” of “technological advancement”, then it can invite any corporate to develop such priority product (with an understanding of mutual benefit) based on national projection on technology.

Few possible steps for futureFor Engineering as a profession

Empower (or create) an umbrella organization across all disciplinary and professional engineering organizations (like Institute for Engineers) with power and influence.

Enhance the visibility, prestige, recognition, and influence of members of the umbrella organization in the eye of industry, government, scientific and engineering community, and the Indian public.

Any organization who declares as engineering organization should disclose number of engineers in the organization along with monthly take home salary of engineers. There should be minimum salary structure for each age-group of engineers, which has to be strictly followed by organizations.

Few possible steps for future

we should strive for broader intellectual span. This should be combined with strong skills in knowledge integration, synthesis, innovation, communication, and teamwork.

What to Do?

Increase the scholarship in engineering higher education

Engineering students should gain both the capacity and the commitment for lifelong learning, since the technology treadmill is accelerating, and those relying on old skills and past learning will quickly fall off. But even broader skills and abilities are necessary, including the social skills and skill of quality management system.

Remember

3 Idiot!!

Drive for engineering education

Few possible steps for futureDrive for engineering education

Curriculum for engineering education shall be re-established considering national drive for technological needs.

Engineering education should be restructured as an academic discipline, thereby providing students with more flexibility to benefit from the broader educational opportunities offered by the various engineering colleges, with the goal of preparing them for a lifetime of further learning rather than simply near-term professional practice.

Government shall establish more control on educational standard of various private and government engineering colleges. If government want honest national drive for technology then quality must be focus.If government has not “priority” to enhance quality of various private and government engineering college, then some government college shall be identified as model engineering college for state of the art engineering education.Institute like IITs and model engineering colleges shall not prepare engineers for mere job! Government must ensure brightest future for students of model colleges.

Few possible steps for futureDrive for engineering education

Excerpt from “Engineering for a Changing World” by James J. Duderstadt, President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, The University of Michigan:

The current pedagogies used in engineering education also need to be challenged. Although science and engineering are heavily based on laboratory methods, in fact they are usually taught through classroom lectures coupled with problem-solving exercises. Contemporary engineering education stresses the analytic approach to solving well-defined problems familiar from science and mathematics–not surprising, since so many engineering faculty members received their basic training in science rather than engineering.To be sure, design projects required for accreditation of engineering degree programs are introduced into advanced courses at the upper-class level. Yet design and synthesis are relatively minor components of most engineering programs. Clearly those intellectual activities associated with engineering design–problem formulation, synthesis, creativity, innovation–should be infused throughout the curriculum. This will require a sharp departure from conventional classroom pedagogy and solitary learning methods. Beyond team design projects, engineering educators might consider adopting the case method approaches characterizing business and law education. More use might also be made of internships as a formal part of the engineering curriculum, whether in industry or perhaps even in the research laboratories of engineering faculty where engineering design is a common task.Yet as any engineering dean will quickly note, a significant shift from the lecture paradigm to more research or experiential learning through undergraduate research experiences, team design projects, or internships will require a substantial investment of faculty time and financial resources.

Our Future for Technology

A prosperous developed nation

Can we develop our own

technology?

Yes

NoTo stay as

week nation/ To live with a

fear of economic

fallout at any time!

Corruption Lack of

political and administrative

will Fund problem

Political and administrative

will Minimize

waste of other fields

Change in education

system

Lets begin…..

With a hope for shinning tomorrow……

Thank you.