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 Motivating Students towards
Self Projects
Raviteja Chivukula
Technical Marketing Engineer

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 Inspiration Inspiration
Inspiration Inspiration

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 Inspiration to build Engineering Systems

Tesla Motors Renewable Energy Space X

Biomedical Swarm Robots Smartphone

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 Inspiration Inspiration
Inspiration Inspiration

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 Qualities of a great engineers

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 Inspired by goals

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 Quest for doing better & more

Fiber Optic Communication Speeds

Effective WDM Per channel

Year Organization Distance
speed channels speed
1975 GTE 45Mb/s - -
2009 Alcatel-Lucent 15 Tbit/s 155 100 Gbit/s 90 km
2010 NTT 69.1 Tbit/s 432 171 Gbit/s 240 km
2011 KIT 26 Tbit/s 1 26 Tbit/s 50 km
2011 NEC 101 Tbit/s 370 273 Gbit/s 165 km
1.05 12 core
2012 NEC, Corning 52.4 km
Petabit/s fiber

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 Quest for doing better
Moores law

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 Ingenuity

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 Strong Fundamentals & Rigorous Analytical Skills
Nikola Tesla

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 Questioning the Basics
Out of the box thinking / Innovation

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 Simplicity
Leads rise to elegant solutions

Hippo water roller

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 Simplicity
Outstanding Simplicity

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 Visionary
Giant leaps in mankind

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 How can these qualities be learnt?

Analytical Skills
Quest for improvement

Inspiration Question the basics

Vision

Strong Fundamentals

Simplicity Ingenuity

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 How can these qualities be learnt?

By actually
Bybuilding
Doing Engineering
engineering systems

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 What motivates students?!
Curiosity to learn

Enthusiasm by seeing things working!!

Marketplace motivations

Identity enhancement

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 But what is the problem?

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 Preparation Learning to play the xylophone

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 Gradual Approach to Learning to be an Engineer

DO ENGINEERING FROM K TO ROCKET SCIENCE

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 Challenges to doing self projects

Difficult-to-use tools

Not-so-quick results

A majority of students may not persevere

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 myRIO
Ease of use
Low Cost
Multidisciplinary
Pocketable
Battery operated
Wi-Fi
Algorithm Engineering
IP Protection
Connection to web
Ease of IO integration
Curricular Framework
Eco-system of Apps

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 What is biggest outcome of Self Projects

Confidence !!!

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 Inspiration Inspiration
Inspiration Inspiration

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 Do Engineering

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