The bird's flight entered into me and created a feeling on the seashore of Rameswaram. From that day evening, I thought that my future study has to be with reference to something to do with flight. At that time, I did not realize that I have to go towards flight science. Then one evening after the classes, I asked the teacher, "Sir, please tell me, how to progress further something to do with flight".
He patiently explained to me that I should complete 8th class, and then go to high school, and then I should go to college that may lead to education of flight. If I do all these things I might do something connected with flight sciences.
This advice and the bird flying exercise given by my teacher really gave me a goal and a mission for my life. When I went to college, I took Physics. Thus my life was transformed as a rocket engineer, aerospace engineer and technologist. That one incident of my teacher encouraging me to ask questions, showing the visual examples proved to be a turning point in my life which eventually shaped my profession. Shri Sivasubramania Iyer was an example for shaping not just students but igniting the youth both average and extraordinary by allowing them to ask questions and answering them till they fully understood.
Teacher puts the students ahead Now I would like to discuss about my mathematics teacher Prof Thothatri Iyengar. As a young science student, I had an opportunity at St. Students looked at the personality who was a symbol of our own culture, with awe and respect. When he walked, knowledge radiated all around.
The great personality was, Prof Thothatri Iyengar, our teacher. They had an understanding to have an integrated class by Thothatri Iyengar for first year B. Hons and first year B. Thus, I had the opportunity to attend his classes, particularly on modern algebra, statistics and complex variables. When we were in the B.
I still remember, in , he gave a masterly lecture on ancient mathematicians and astronomers of India. In that lecture, he introduced four great mathematicians and astronomers of India, which is still ringing in my ears. Let me discuss one.
Thothatri Iyengar explained, based on his analysis, that Aryabhata was both an astronomer and mathematician, born in AD in Kusuma-pura now called Patna. He was known to represent a summary of all Maths at that point of time. He covered important areas like arithmetic, algebra first ever contributor , trigonometry and of course, astronomy. He gave formulae for the areas of a triangle and a circle and attempted to give the volumes of a sphere and a pyramid.
He was the first to give value of pie. He discovered that the earth takes about days to orbit around the sun. This great teacher combined his knowledge of science with his deep insight into many aspects of our civilizational heritage.
Thothatri Iyengar was an example for continuously building capacities among students and putting the students well ahead in mathematical sciences. He also injected great thoughts in the minds of students and promoted nobility in thinking and action. Now I would like to discuss about the teacher who built the capacity of working together and evolution of integrated system design even during engineering student life.
Learning integrated system design While I was studying aeronautical engineering in MIT, Chennai, during the third year of my course, I was assigned a project to design a low-level attack aircraft together with six other colleagues. I was given the responsibility of system design and system integration by integrating the team members.
Also, I was responsible for aerodynamic and structural design of the project. The other five of my team took up the design of propulsion, control, guidance, avionics and instrumentation of the aircraft. My design teacher Prof. Srinivasan, the then Director of MIT, was our guide. He reviewed the project and declared my work to be gloomy and disappointing. Srinivasan told me "Look, young man, today is Friday afternoon.
I give you three days time. There was no other way out but to finish the task. My team felt the need for working together round the clock. It was Prof. Srinivasan studying my progress. After looking at my work, he patted and hugged me affectionately. He had words of appreciation: "I knew I was putting you under stress and asking you to meet a difficult deadline.
Through this review mechanism Prof Srinivasan, really injected the necessity of understanding the value of time by each team member and brought out the best from the system design team.
I realized that if something is at stake, the human minds get ignited and the working capacity gets enhanced manifold. This is one of the techniques of building talent. The message is that young in the organization, whatever be their specialization, be trained to systems approach and projects, which will prepare them for new products, innovation and undertaking higher organizational responsibilities. Teacher has to be a coach like Prof.
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