Today, I attended a talk by Prof. P.K. Mishra, Emeritus Professor of IIT Bhubaneswar on Methodology of innovation. It was quite an enthusiastic talk. He explained to us how we should focus on real world problems and how ground breaking technologies can come out from dwelling on simple things. He supplemented his speech with a few TED talks. Two of those really awestruck me and are definitely worth sharing.
The first one is a TED talk delivered by Arthur Ganson, a kinetic sculptor.
The second is a TED talk by Theo Jansen, the famous Dutch sculptor who is reknowned for his Walking mechanisms. Those of you who are not aware of his beach animals , take a look at this video.
If you have watched these two videos, I am quite sure you have been impressed. What should be noted is that both of their accomplishments have come from basic ideas and I do believe, whatever they have done has been very intuitive to their mind. I completely agree with Prof. Mishra when he says that, at the undergraduate level, students should focus on practical solutions to problems by brainstorming and intuition rather than getting down to equation solving. This would not only develop a practical approach towards looking at problems but would also generate an interest for engineering in the students. For a budding institute like ours, I think that is the way to go.
The first one is a TED talk delivered by Arthur Ganson, a kinetic sculptor.
The second is a TED talk by Theo Jansen, the famous Dutch sculptor who is reknowned for his Walking mechanisms. Those of you who are not aware of his beach animals , take a look at this video.
If you have watched these two videos, I am quite sure you have been impressed. What should be noted is that both of their accomplishments have come from basic ideas and I do believe, whatever they have done has been very intuitive to their mind. I completely agree with Prof. Mishra when he says that, at the undergraduate level, students should focus on practical solutions to problems by brainstorming and intuition rather than getting down to equation solving. This would not only develop a practical approach towards looking at problems but would also generate an interest for engineering in the students. For a budding institute like ours, I think that is the way to go.
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