8. Engineer
Skilfully arrange for (something) to occur.
Qualified professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test
machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill
functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations
imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.
Branches in Engineering
Non Cricket Branches : Civil, Electrical, Mechanical
Circket Branches: Electronics, Electrical & Electronics (EEE), Computer
Science ETC
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Improving Your Creative Abilities
Keep track of your ideas at all times.
Many times ideas come at unexpected times. If an idea is not
written down within 24 hours it will usually be forgotten.
Pose new questions to yourself every day.
An inquiring mind is a creatively active one that enlarges its area of
awareness.
Keep abreast of your field.
Read the magazines, trade journals, and other literature in your
field to make sure you are not using yesterday's technology to
solve toady's problems.
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Engage in creative hobbies.
Hobbies can also help you relax. An active mind is necessary for
creative growth. Hobbies can also help you relax. An active mind
is necessary for creative growth.
Be a paradigm pioneer.
Assume that you can and will indeed solve the problem. Persist and have
the tenacity to overcome obstacles that block the solution pathway.
Learn to know and understand yourself.
Deepen your self-knowledge by learning your strengths, skills,
weaknesses, dislike, biases, expectations, fears and prejudices.
Improving Your Creative Abilities
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Improving Your Creative Abilities
Learn about things outside your
specialty.
Use cross-fertilization to bring ideas and concepts from one
field or specialty to another .
Avoid rigid, set patterns of doing
things.
Overcome biases and preconceived notions by looking at the
problem from a fresh view point, always developing at least two
or more alternative solutions to your problem.
Be open and receptive to ideas (yours and
others).
New ideas are fragile; keep them from breaking by seizing on the
tentative, half formed concepts and possibilities and developing them .
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Improving Your Creative Abilities
Be alert in your observations.
Look for similarities, differences, as well as unique and
distinguishing characteristics in situations and problems.
Keep your sense of humor.
You are more creative when you are relaxed. Humor aids in
putting your problems (and yourself) in perspective. Many
times it relieves tension and makes you feel more relaxed.
Adopt a risk taking attitude.
Fear of failure is the major impediment to generating
solutions which are risky (i.e. small chance of succeeding) but
would have a major impact if they are successful. Example
of GATE
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GETTING
STARTED
Reread the problem several time.
Re-describe the problem.
Ask themselves questions.
Create a mental picture.
Draw sketches, write equations.
Don’t jump to conclusions.
Lie back and hope a
solution will occur.
Unable to re-describe the
problem.
Jump to conclusions.
Effective Ineffective
ACTIONS
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GETTING
STARTED
Break the Problem into sub-problems.
Start at a point they first understand.
Use a few key fundamental concepts.
Use Heuristics.
Persevere when stuck.
Use quantitative formulas, descriptions.
Keep track of progress.
Don’t break the problem apart.
Don’t know where to start.
Fail to identify key concepts.
Guess.
Quit.
Do not do so.
Use no special format.
Effective Ineffective
SOLUTION PROCEDURE
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GETTING
STARTED
Need for
Success
• No company can succeed until individuals
within it succeed.
• No group can achieve its objectives until its
people achieve theirs
• Private victories precede Public victories
Dr. Stephen R. Covey,
Author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,
First Things First and The 8th
Habit
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Desire
Habits Defined
• Knowledge is the what to
do and why.
• Skill is the how to do.
• Desire is the motivation,
the want to do.
• A habit is the intersection
of knowledge, skill and
desire.
Knowledge
Skill
Habit
Webster defines a habit as an often involuntary pattern of
behavior acquired by frequent repetition.
20. Conclusion & Guide-lines to excel in Academics
Do not waste time whenever you are in the institute
Time lost will never come again
Prepare your daily time table & try to stick to it as much as
possible
:
Avail every facility in the Institute like Gymkhana, Computer
center, Language Lab, Library, Canteen
21. Use the opportunity of your stay at the Institute to
hone your soft skills
:
Domain knowledge
Positive attitude
Good communication skills
Emotional Intelligence
Body language
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is
not an act, but a habit – Aristotle
What is efficiency ?
What is effectiveness ?
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INCUBATING IDEAS
• The incubation period is very important in
problem solving.
• Working on a solution to a problem to meet a
deadline often causes you to pick the first
solution (Allah Subhanahu Tala) that comes to
mind and then "run with it," instead of stopping
to think of alternative solutions,
• Once the generation of ideas has halted (or you
collapse from the effort), an incubation period
may be in order.
• Little is truly understood about mental
incubation, but the basic process involves
stopping active work on the problem and letting
your subconscious continue the work.
