‘Shed inferiority complex to make it big in life’

Two top space scientists share their thoughts with students

August 04, 2017 12:38 am | Updated August 08, 2017 03:21 pm IST

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Tiruvunanthapuram Director K. Sivan on Thursday called on the students to overcome inferiority complex to succeed in life.

Mr. Sivan was speaking at the inaugural function of the two-day workshop on Finite Element Analysis of Structures (FEAST) software organised by PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology and Indian Society of Systems for Science and Engineering (ISSE), Amaravati chapter here. FEAST is a structural analysis software based on Finite Element Method (FEM) realized by Structural Engineering Entity of VSSC.

Addressing the engineering students, Mr. Sivan said that FEAST can become world’s top software if all the engineers in the country can contribute to its development.

“We may have certain limitations but we should come out of them to succeed. We can work together to make this product wonderful. Indians always have an inferiority complex and are always happy to be controlled by somebody else. This should be shunned and everyone should rise to the occasion,” he said.

Appreciating the efforts of ISSE Amaravati chapter for bringing together the industry and academicians, Satish Dhawan Space Centre-SHAR, Director and ISSE national president P. Kunhikrishnan said that the policy of the Indian Space Research Organisation is to make all its inventions and services useful to the common man.

About the workshop, Mr. Kunhikrishnan said that it is to teach the concepts of how the complex systems are divided into finite parts and clear off impediments before bringing all the finite parts together as a major system. He said this programme would be useful for students of the civil, mechanical, electrical, aeronautical and electronics departments.

ISSE Amaravati chapter president D. Rama Krishna, PVPSIT principal K. Sivaji Babu, Siddhartha Academy president N. Venkateswara Rao, and ISRO scientists were among those present.

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