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SKILLED ENGINEERS –UNLEASHING THE POWER
WITHIN
19th Century and first half of the 20th century• PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER
Second half of the 20th century• SCIENTIFIC ENGINEER
The 21st century• ENTERPRENEURIAL ENTERPRISING
ENGINEER
What is the necessity of skilled engineers?
ENTERPRENEURIAL ENTERPRISING ENGINEER
Knows every thing Can do any thing Works with anybody anywhere Imagines and can make the
imagination reality
ENGINEERS OF THE FUTURE They must be able
to do more than just perform technical tasks
Responsible for creating new ideas and solutions
Must be able to help the innovation become a reality
1.CRITICAL & LATERAL THINKING
Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action
Lateral thinking aims to put data/information into a new or different context (in order to generate alternative answers or solutions)
Activity-1Four square riddle-Think critically
DIVIDE ‘A’ BY TWO EQUAL PARTS
DIVIDE ‘B’ BY THREE EQUAL PARTS
DIVIDE ‘C’ BY FOUR EQUAL PARTS
DIVIDE ‘D’ BY SEVEN EQUAL PARTS
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new”
- socrates
Activity-2An Exercise in Lateral Thinking
3 of the glasses are filled with orange juice,the other 3 are empty.By moving only one glass can you arrage them so the full and empty glasses are alternate.
PUZZLE-1
ANSWER-1 Take the second
glass from left,pour the contents into 5th glass from the left then return it to original position.
PUZZLE-2 Adam had none. Eve had two . Everyone
now a days has three. What are they?
Clue:
ANSWER-2 The letter ‘e’
PUZZLE-3 All you have to do is move three balls to
make the triangle point downwards?
Clue:
ANSWER-3
PUZZLE-4 There are six eggs in the basket. Six people
each take one egg, how can it be that one egg is left in the basket?
Clue:
ANSWER-4
PUZZLE-5 Remove two matchsticks from this figure to
make two squares remain.
Clue:
ANSWER-5
“I AM JUST FOLLOWING WHAT MY PREDECESSOR USED TO DO”
2.COLLOBORATION
Collaboration is in its simplest, and most understandable form, is getting individuals, who may or may not have similar interests, to work together in an organized endeavor to a satisfying and most appropriate group end.
FOUR STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL COLLABRATION
1. Break down the task
2. Communicate3. Listen4. Be responsible/Be
accountable
COLLABORATION-TEAM WORK
Activity-3
THE TRUTH
Form a group each of ten Create a story
MAN VS NATURE
Form a group each of tenCreate a story
JUDGEMENT BASED ON Communicates with
confidence Listen actively Treat others in
respectful and supportive manner
Active participants Adapts quickly and
easily
All should write one persons name based on these qualities
A STORY OF UBUNTU – I AM WHAT I AM BECAUSE OF WHO WE ALL ARE
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” -African Proverb
3.ACCOUNTABILITY
Accountability has sometimes also been used as a synonym for responsibility.
1. You perform better under observation.2. Accountability forces you follow through
on commitments.3. Accountability creates firm deadlines for
important tasks4. Learn from the successes and failures of
others.5. Accountability prevents little problems
from turning into big ones.
4.EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Emotional Intelligence. Dr. Goleman
described emotional intelligence as a person's ability to manage his feelings so that those feelings are expressed appropriately and effectively
5 SKILLS TO DEVELOP EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT
1. Rapidly reduce stress.2. Emotional awareness3. Use humor and play to deal with
challenges4. Resolve conflict positively.
FOR THE SAME CHALLENGE, TWO INDIVIDUAL CAN RESPOND COMPLETE DIFFERENT WAYS
5.LEARNING AGILITY "Learning Agility" is a competency or
capability which describes a person's speed to learn. In most businesses, this skills is considered one of the most important factors in great leadership. People with strong "learning agility" can rapidly study, analyze, and understand new situations and new business problems.
WHAT ARE SOFT SKILLS? Collaboration Critical thinking Accountability Emotional intelligence Learning agility
STORIES OF GREAT PERSONALITIES
WALT DISNEY
A Cartoonist, animator ….
J K ROWLING
An author
STEVE JOBS
An Entrepreneur
“A creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing."
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSSAn Mathematician
A Child Prodigy
KOCHOUSEPH CHITTILAPPILLY An Business Man
DHIRUBHAI AMBANI
An Business Man
PROJECT IDEAS
1.PAPER PENS THAT NOT ONLY REDUCE PLASTIC WASTE BUT ALSO HAVE SEEDS THAT GROW INTO TREES!
The seeds the pens carry are of the versatile Agasthya tree, also known as the hummingbird tree. These trees hold a special place in Ayurveda for their medicinal properties.
2.AQUAPONICSAquaponics = aquaculture (the raising of edible fish) + hydroponics (growing vegetables and herbs without soil).
3. IS YOUR COMPUTER OVERHEATING A LOT? YOU CAN SOLVE IT BY STACKING COPPER COINS
A Japanese Twitter user hit upon a brilliant idea to prevent the overheating issue in your laptop. All you need is to stack copper coins over it. The thermal conductivity of copper is much higher than that of aluminum, which is used to make most of the laptop cases including the MacBook Pro.
4. HOW YOU CAN MAKE A VACUUM CLEANER USING A PLASTIC BOTTLE
5. CONTROLLING 70-TON GRIPPER ARMS FOR OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE CONSTRUCTION USING LABVIEW AND COMPACTRIO
5.TRANSFORM YOUR SMARTPHONE INTO A 3D HOLOGRAM PROJECTOR WITH AN OLD CD CASE
http://wonderfulengineering.com/transform-your-smartphone-into-a-3d-hologram-projector-with-an-old-cd-case/
5.TRANSFORM YOUR SMARTPHONE INTO A 3D HOLOGRAM PROJECTOR WITH AN OLD CD CASE
http://wonderfulengineering.com/transform-your-smartphone-into-a-3d-hologram-projector-with-an-old-cd-case/
THANK YOU
PYGMALION EFFECT Performance can be
directly influenced by the perceptions of our bosses
PERSPECTIVE MATTERS
2. GUY MAKES A MINI WINDMILL SMARTPHONE CHARGER FROM AN OLD COMPUTER FAN
There are different portable chargers out there to charge your smartphone on the go. They include solar chargers, power banks and even wind-based ones and all of them are good but are expensive if you want to buy them in retail. We are going to present you with a simple DIY through which you can make your own $10 wind-based charger and would be able to charge the phone while biking or traveling in any vehicle. It is a very simple project involving an old computer fan..
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