Sunday 15 September 2013

Engineer's Day: on a different note

en-gi-neer [en-jə-ˈnir]
noun.
a person who has scientific training and who designs and builds complicated products, machines, systems, or structures
[Merriam Webster Dictionary]

noun.
a person who yearns for a 1 crore package at a US based MNC and eventually ends up in an IIM if this unfortunately does not happen.
a person who curses himself for not being in Computer Science and Engineering
[Dictionary of Current Indian Affairs]

Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Ranking slips in the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) tops the list second year in a row.
Why care about this when the IITs already came after 200th rank in the previous year’s list?

So, you’re an en-gi-neer and you’re proud of it?

Why Proud?

Because you can boast about how burdened you’re with your assignments, how you can pass just by studying the last night of exam, how you can post facebook updates like ‘I build the world’, how you can get a job that would make your neighbors raise their brows?

If you’re proud of any such thing then my friend you have been deceived, you have been deceived by the world and its glitter.

Quality of an Institute is not judged by how many of its students get jobs but by how helpful it is in the development of the World. How innovative its students are? What can they make which the world has never seen?

Does India lack brains?

Obviously not!
A girl from Goa developed a 3D gesture sensing technology which is good enough that it may replace (or complement) the touch screen technology. [MIT]
Another India based girl in USA developed a super capacitor that can charge your cell phone in seconds using Nano-Technology.

Ask yourself.
What are you striving for?

Even if you become a billionaire you may be in news for your lifetime but if you could give a technology that revolutionizes the world you’ll ever be memorized. That day you’ll be a true Billionaire, a billionaire of million hearts.

Earn. Earn enough. But don’t accumulate. Are going to live the next moment to enjoy your accumulation?

Be an Engineer not an E(arn)gineer.

Happy Engineers Day!

PS: Don’t google ‘Dictionary of Current Indian Affairs’, its fictional.

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