Our country has been slow in creating an environment for academics to engage in free thinking. Most academics are, therefore, constrained to operate within various narrow confines. Similarly, the academic engaged in technical education is no different. As a result, we fail to create true technical professionals. The country needs “engineers who should be allowed to engineer” and “managers who should be allowed to manage”. Till that happens, the value of free and independent professional thinking cannot be fully realized by our country.
Professional bodies (such as ISTE) need to work harder in removing the existing constraints on the professional engineer.
Here I reiterate my stance to ISTE Orissa chapter made in the early-to-mid 1990s. I hope ISTE office bearers of the Orissa chapter will be able to set good examples and lead the way in attracting greater resources to the state.
The ISTE membership drive in this part of the country will yield effective results only when the office bearers undertake genuine pains to attract (not coerce) membership. They need to first spread awareness of their good work in order to attract life time members. Lifetime membership cannot and should not be coerced. A person can continue to work in the best interest of the profession even without being a member of such societies.
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Here is the prelude to this post: The following message by Mr. Ajit Mohapatra (President, Orissa State Productivity Council) was given to Engineers in one event held at KIIT (back in 2006):
“E is equal to M into C square”
[where E = Engineer, M = merit and C = communication]
I wonder how many from KIIT University have been allowed to internalize the context and the depth behind this message. I may be corrected if I have misreported the above event
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