tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14164267.post113173307581591756..comments2012-02-21T15:28:49.158-05:00Comments on Rants of a Homo Sapien: Graduating from B.E. to B.TechUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14164267.post-72774142016469899702012-02-21T15:28:49.158-05:002012-02-21T15:28:49.158-05:00http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/16/stories/2011021663...http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/16/stories/2011021663510500.htm <br /><br />Andhra University College of Engineering (autonomous) received the award of all-India Best Government Engineering College, instituted by the Star News.sjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05007196062530259843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14164267.post-1134286245817457162005-12-11T02:30:00.000-05:002005-12-11T02:30:00.000-05:00My PC was down with virus for more than a week (it...My PC was down with virus for more than a week (it couldn't have chosen a better time since I am devoid of any of my PC tools). <BR/><BR/>Anyway getting back to the topic, first thing first <B>"Congratulations AU"</B>, you deserved this graduation. This one was a long time coming. <BR/><BR/>Now given a choice, I graduated from IIT Andhra sounds more gratifying than IIT Vizag. But then the contentious issue is what will Osmania, the other IIT from Andhra, be called. If we can maintain the austerity just as IIT Bombay and Madras did, then it makes perfect sense to stick with Andhra, else its better to stick to the standards set by the others.sjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05007196062530259843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14164267.post-1133627831572627912005-12-03T11:37:00.000-05:002005-12-03T11:37:00.000-05:00>subject: IIT~status~for~7~tech~institutesQ: Where...>subject: IIT~status~for~7~tech~institutes<BR/><BR/>Q: Where did you did your undergraduation?<BR/>A: Andhra University<BR/><BR/>sounds charming enough. doesn't it? why? there is magic in the 'Andhra' part of the university. I always felt so.<BR/><BR/>I would have preferred the new name to be <I>IIT-Andhra</I> instead of <I>IIT-Vizag</I>. Somehow, <I>IIT-Andhra</I> gives the feeling of coming from the best university from Andhra. The 'IIT' prefix is good, it gives a (inter) national status, but if we lose the name 'Andhra', I believe, we are losing something.<BR/><BR/>Would like to know your thoughts.ramakrishna uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901176795841707101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14164267.post-1131936282587929872005-11-13T21:44:00.000-05:002005-11-13T21:44:00.000-05:00I took a cue from your blog and had to write this....I took a cue from your blog and had to write this. I just had to vent this out. I know we had discussed many of these things during our last 11 years (heck, its been a long time) but even today their approach continues to be misunderstood often. <BR/><BR/>How, my heart, still wishes we could go back and attend Prof. Govind Rao's lecture you were talking about, Prof. Ratnam's adhoc lectures. Even better we could have preserved them in digital format so that the whole department could benefit from it. They were truly the masters of their art. <BR/><BR/>A lot of times I draw inspiration from these Professors. I owe them all a bunch for whatever I am today. <BR/><BR/>We were indeed, lucky.sjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05007196062530259843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14164267.post-1131764016923105772005-11-11T21:53:00.000-05:002005-11-11T21:53:00.000-05:00SJ,I cannot emphasize how much I empathize with ea...SJ,<BR/>I cannot emphasize how much I empathize with each sentence, word, heck even the punctuation in this wonderful post of yours.<BR/><BR/>Considering about the transition in the faculty: our batch was lucky in the sense that we could see the difference between the good and the other faculty. Our juniors, I think, could never feel that they were in classrooms where the essence of EE was taught in a couple of lectures. <BR/><BR/>This reminds me of an anecdote about the Network Analysis course in 2nd year. Recently, I had commented that Prof. Govind Rao that he did not teach too many classes. This was true. However, he was so good that he taught all that was required for network analysis in one class by giving three kinds of signals (impulse, step, ramp), two kinds of generators (voltage, current) and three kinds of circuits (pure resistor, pure inductor, pure capacitor) and asking us to show the output signals of each of these. It is my feeling that I got the most out of that course in that particular lecture. A saying from Telugu: <I>Gangigovu palu garitedu chalu ...</I> aptly fits in (I can quote similar examples from other Professors too!).<BR/><BR/>This is, but one example of how you can learn from the masters of the knowledge. I donot find some of those teachings different from the teachings religious masters give in a pithy way. <BR/><BR/>I think we were simply lucky!ramakrishna uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901176795841707101noreply@blogger.com