Engineers impact the life in society to larger extent than any other profession, opined design expert and former professor of IIT Bombay Achutha Rao said.
He was addressing the students at the technical expo Abhivyakta – 2018 held at the SRiX incubation centre on the S.R. Engineering College campus here on Saturday. Some 130 students exhibited the prototypes of their ideas of need based solutions during the expo.
Mr Achutha Rao highlighted the role of engineers in daily life. The engineers are more responsible than other professions as they find solutions to lot of societal problems. “In the good old days, if a person drives a car for about a decade, there is always a possibility that he will go see an orthopaedic doctor. However, the engineers fixed the problem by introducing the power steering mechanism. As technological students you must aim for higher achievements, own responsibility towards society and design eco and people friendly solutions,” he said.
S.R. Engineering College principal V. Mahesh said the SRiX sets the stage to showcase design talent of technical students by organizing Abhivyakta 2018. It was a platform for technical students to empathise the idea, design a prototype and display them for suggestion, developments and networking. Winners will get a cash prize of ₹ 100000 (One Lakh) to work on their idea/product further. Director, National Institute of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Sanjeev Chaturvedi exhorted the students to see through the necessity for the product before they design one. “The foundation for any innovation to succeed is necessity,” he said.
