48th Engineer’s Day

Engineering Challenges for Knowledge Era

By Prof. V. R. Shah

15th September 2015

• Science

• Engineering

• Technology

• Data

• Information

• Knowledge

• Wisdom

source: Journal of Knowledge Management Practice, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 2007

• Agricultural age

• Industrial age

• Information age

• Conceptual age - Human Intelligence - Intuition - Discretion

http://www.slideshare.net/pcampmn/haywoodwhat-is-infor-and-mingle

http://www.slideshare.net/VishweshwarHegde/knowledge-era-paradigms-agile-indiaconf2016

Are Challenges same ?

What is so different about technology of knowledge era?

•Newer technologies are invented at faster pace

•Communication is faster

•Larger markets because of globalization using technology is

viable

•Obsolescence is faster

•High impact of Disruptive Technologies

•Networked Economy

•Intellectual property right

•Cyber loss

•Path breaking technological development

Obsolescence and Dematerialization

Products and Concepts

Communication Revolution

•Penfriend, Snail mail-Postal Services

•Telephone

•Mobile

•Internet

•Smart Phones

Disruptive Technologies

• Sustaining – Steady, linear improvement of existing technology

• Disruptive – Introduction of completely new approaches that have the potential to create a new industry or transform an existing one– Revolutionary – radical innovations

• digital photography, high-temperature superconductors

– Evolutionary – formed by the convergence of previously separate research areas

• MRI imaging, faxing, electronic banking

• Networked Economy

- Emerging economic order withi the information society

- Through Social Networks

- As against Industrial Era where individual was the focus

- Question of Intellectual Property Right

• Larger Challenge and who will take it

- Academia

- Industry

- Future Engineers:

Renaissance Engineers in the Making--- Purdue University

-From Industrial to knowledge era

-Education - production factories called schools

-Requirements are different

http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/

Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side

Paradigm Shift

Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side

Workshop at Nagpur

Smritivan

Architect: Vastushilpa ConsultantsStructural Consultant: Vinod Shah Consulting Engineers

Nalanda University

Architect: Vastushilpa ConsultantsStructural Consultant: Vinod Shah Consulting Engineers

Nalanda University

Architect: Vastushilpa ConsultantsStructural Consultant: Vinod Shah Consulting Engineers

Nalanda University

Architect: Vastushilpa ConsultantsStructural Consultant: Vinod Shah Consulting Engineers

Nalanda University

Architect: Vastushilpa ConsultantsStructural Consultant: Vinod Shah Consulting Engineers

Nalanda University

Architect: Vastushilpa ConsultantsStructural Consultant: Vinod Shah Consulting Engineers

Are Challenges same ?

Thank You.

• Different era• Stone – Era• Industrial Era• Knowledge Era- Era of future- Conceptual era- Era of inner understanding

• Wave- Three waves – Toffler- Six Waves – Unesco report