Softskills 7 7

SKILLED ENGINEERS –UNLEASHING THE POWER

WITHIN

19th Century and first half of the 20th century• PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER

Second half of the 20th century• SCIENTIFIC ENGINEER

The 21st century• ENTERPRENEURIAL ENTERPRISING

ENGINEER

What is the necessity of skilled engineers?

ENTERPRENEURIAL ENTERPRISING ENGINEER

Knows every thing Can do any thing Works with anybody anywhere Imagines and can make the

imagination reality

ENGINEERS OF THE FUTURE They must be able

to do more than just perform technical tasks

Responsible for creating new ideas and solutions

Must be able to help the innovation become a reality

1.CRITICAL & LATERAL THINKING

Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action

Lateral thinking aims to put data/information into a new or different context (in order to generate alternative answers or solutions)

Activity-1Four square riddle-Think critically

DIVIDE ‘A’ BY TWO EQUAL PARTS

DIVIDE ‘B’ BY THREE EQUAL PARTS

DIVIDE ‘C’ BY FOUR EQUAL PARTS

DIVIDE ‘D’ BY SEVEN EQUAL PARTS

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new”

- socrates

Activity-2An Exercise in Lateral Thinking

3 of the glasses are filled with orange juice,the other 3 are empty.By moving only one glass can you arrage them so the full and empty glasses are alternate.

PUZZLE-1

ANSWER-1 Take the second

glass from left,pour the contents into 5th glass from the left then return it to original position.

PUZZLE-2 Adam had none. Eve had two . Everyone

now a days has three. What are they?

Clue:

ANSWER-2 The letter ‘e’

PUZZLE-3 All you have to do is move three balls to

make the triangle point downwards?

Clue:

ANSWER-3

PUZZLE-4 There are six eggs in the basket. Six people

each take one egg, how can it be that one egg is left in the basket?

Clue:

ANSWER-4

PUZZLE-5 Remove two matchsticks from this figure to

make two squares remain.

Clue:

ANSWER-5

“I AM JUST FOLLOWING WHAT MY PREDECESSOR USED TO DO”

2.COLLOBORATION

Collaboration is in its simplest, and most understandable form, is getting individuals, who may or may not have similar interests, to work together in an organized endeavor to a satisfying and most appropriate group end.

FOUR STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL COLLABRATION

1. Break down the task

2. Communicate3. Listen4. Be responsible/Be

accountable

COLLABORATION-TEAM WORK

Activity-3

THE TRUTH

Form a group each of ten Create a story

MAN VS NATURE

Form a group each of tenCreate a story

JUDGEMENT BASED ON Communicates with

confidence Listen actively Treat others in

respectful and supportive manner

Active participants Adapts quickly and

easily

All should write one persons name based on these qualities

A STORY OF UBUNTU – I AM WHAT I AM BECAUSE OF WHO WE ALL ARE

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” -African Proverb

3.ACCOUNTABILITY

Accountability has sometimes also been used as a synonym for responsibility.

1. You perform better under observation.2. Accountability forces you follow through

on commitments.3. Accountability creates firm deadlines for

important tasks4. Learn from the successes and failures of

others.5. Accountability prevents little problems

from turning into big ones.

4.EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Emotional Intelligence. Dr. Goleman

described emotional intelligence as a person's ability to manage his feelings so that those feelings are expressed appropriately and effectively

5 SKILLS TO DEVELOP EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT

1. Rapidly reduce stress.2. Emotional awareness3. Use humor and play to deal with

challenges4. Resolve conflict positively.

FOR THE SAME CHALLENGE, TWO INDIVIDUAL CAN RESPOND COMPLETE DIFFERENT WAYS

5.LEARNING AGILITY "Learning Agility" is a competency or

capability which describes a person's speed to learn. In most businesses, this skills is considered one of the most important factors in great leadership. People with strong "learning agility" can rapidly study, analyze, and understand new situations and new business problems.

WHAT ARE SOFT SKILLS? Collaboration Critical thinking Accountability Emotional intelligence Learning agility

STORIES OF GREAT PERSONALITIES

WALT DISNEY

A Cartoonist, animator ….

J K ROWLING

An author

STEVE JOBS

An Entrepreneur

“A creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing."

CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSSAn Mathematician

A Child Prodigy

KOCHOUSEPH CHITTILAPPILLY An Business Man

DHIRUBHAI AMBANI

An Business Man

PROJECT IDEAS

1.PAPER PENS THAT NOT ONLY REDUCE PLASTIC WASTE BUT ALSO HAVE SEEDS THAT GROW INTO TREES!

The seeds the pens carry are of the versatile Agasthya tree, also known as the hummingbird tree. These trees hold a special place in Ayurveda for their medicinal properties.

2.AQUAPONICSAquaponics = aquaculture (the raising of edible fish) + hydroponics (growing vegetables and herbs without soil).

3. IS YOUR COMPUTER OVERHEATING A LOT? YOU CAN SOLVE IT BY STACKING COPPER COINS

A Japanese Twitter user hit upon a brilliant idea to prevent the overheating issue in your laptop. All you need is to stack copper coins over it.  The thermal conductivity of copper is much higher than that of aluminum, which is used to make most of the laptop cases including the MacBook Pro.

4. HOW YOU CAN MAKE A VACUUM CLEANER USING A PLASTIC BOTTLE

5.  CONTROLLING 70-TON GRIPPER ARMS FOR OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE CONSTRUCTION USING LABVIEW AND COMPACTRIO

5.TRANSFORM YOUR SMARTPHONE INTO A 3D HOLOGRAM PROJECTOR WITH AN OLD CD CASE

http://wonderfulengineering.com/transform-your-smartphone-into-a-3d-hologram-projector-with-an-old-cd-case/

5.TRANSFORM YOUR SMARTPHONE INTO A 3D HOLOGRAM PROJECTOR WITH AN OLD CD CASE

http://wonderfulengineering.com/transform-your-smartphone-into-a-3d-hologram-projector-with-an-old-cd-case/

THANK YOU

PYGMALION EFFECT Performance can be

directly influenced by the perceptions of our bosses

PERSPECTIVE MATTERS

2. GUY MAKES A MINI WINDMILL SMARTPHONE CHARGER FROM AN OLD COMPUTER FAN

There are different portable chargers out there to charge your smartphone on the go. They include solar chargers, power banks and even wind-based ones and all of them are good but are expensive if you want to buy them in retail. We are going to present you with a simple DIY through which you can make your own $10 wind-based charger and would be able to charge the phone while biking or traveling in any vehicle. It is a very simple project involving an old computer fan..

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