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Contact Rosario Fernandes - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi Cornel, My area of specialization in IIT was Solid State Electronics in general and Solar Cell Fabrication Technology in particular for my degree of Bachelor of Technology B. Tech (in Electrical Engineering). Besides my narrow area of specialization, I took courses in Control Systems Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Signals and Systems Engineering, Communications, Solid State Physics, Quantum Physics, IC Design, etc. I also took courses in Engineering Management, Industrial Management, Industrial Psychology, Engineering Economics, Engineering and Business law, etc. (Unfortunately we were not taught Criminal Law in IIT - we were trained in solving problems, not creating them through fits of theological, social or political piques !). After my fourth year at IIT, I spent a summer at the BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Center near Bombay fabricating high efficiency, space quality solar cells for India's indigenous Bhaskara satellite. During my fifth year at IIT, I fabricated high efficiency Gallium Arsenide solar cells at IIT. After my second and third years at IIT, I spent the summers at the National Institute of Sports, Patiala and Bangalore respectively training with the Combined Universities team and the Indian national team for the 1980 Moscow Olympics resp. I indulged a lot in Solid Geometry during those camps as it helped me mark my angles as a hockey goalkeeper (something Niels Bohr the former soccer goalkeeper of Denmark indulged in - like scribbling on the goal-posts - before he won a Nobel Prize in Physics). Well for my research into solar cells, I was rewarded with 11 full scholarships to US Universities. I chose Drexel University in Philadelphia and ignored offers from a few Ivy league universities because Drexel offered me an offer I just couldn't refuse - an opportunity to co-op study and to do intensive research in semiconductor fabrication technology (similar to solar cell fabrication techology) at the world famous Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J. and work with some distinguished researchers. I also got an offer to coach the Drexel Dragonettes - the university girls' field hockey team. After my my MSEE from Drexel, I got an engineering appointment at Advanced Micro Devices in Austin, Texas and I commenced my MBA studies at the University of Texas at Austin. One of my term papers in UT-Austin was on "Re-Discovering Goa" which gave me some great insights into Goa's rich past history, before and after Portuguese colonization. I finally completed my Doctorate in Engineering Management at Southern Methodist University in Dallas while working full time for Hitachi Semiconductor. In between my terms at SMU, I also tried out for Team USA in 1992. Well, Engineering/Management and Hockey were always at different ends of the Spectrum for me - I often had to turn down some lucrative opportunities in hockey to concentrate on my studies. The fields of academics and sports merged for the first time in December 2006, when I teamed up with my aging coach Balbir Singh, Sr. and a couple of engineering researchers to write a paper on "Using Systems Engineering Principles to help India win the the Hockey World Cup and the Olympic Gold Medal." This paper was presented at the PAN IIT Global Conference in Bombay in December 2006 and got a lot of accolades in the press, incluing personal congratulatory messages from President Dr. APJ Kalam and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. Some of the things I learned from my IIT experience was to think out of the box despite naysayers with a holier than thou attitude (that is why my suggestions of Upside-Down Cruxifictions, Organ Harvesting from the condemed criminals to solve the high crime rate and severe shortage of organ donors in heavily Catholic Goa, in a unique Judeo- Christian way) and to question everything and to take nothing for granted - including the so-called Bible truths - which led to my pre-occupation with Where Was Jesus and What Was He Doing between ages 15 and 30years. Well my research shows that Jesus spent a lot of time in Kashmir and Northern India during that time (the Lost Years of Jesus, etc). However, because Matthew, Mark, Luke and John did not accompany him on these overland trips, there is no record of them in the New Testament. So it should come as no surprise that there is similarity between Christ's teachings of Non-Vilence and the concept of Ahimsa among the ancient Indians or the Christian concept of the Holy Trinity (three Persons in one God) and the ancient Indian concept of Teen Murthi. My curent preoccupation is with Technical Marketing, Engineering Entrepreneurship, Starting a High Tech Incubator to create high tech companies and Creation of the Central Florida Technopolis (similar to Silicon Valley, from the Space Coast to the Gulf Coast of Central Florida). So Cornel, if all this national level hockey, management, out of the box thinking, Re-Discovering Goa, developing a profound knowledge of my home state of Goa, questioning Bible Truths, Technical Marketing, teaching Engineering Entrepreneurship, creating High Tech companies and creating the Central Florida Technopolis is not Thinking Broadly Outside the Frame of Narrow Specialist Training, then what is ? (simultaneously, I have helped my sons Jason and Jonathan to get a lucrative world wide patent on forecasting the next day stock prices with 99.1% accuracy). Best Regards, Dr. Carmo D'Cruz, Goan, IITian, ex-Velim in South Goa now Indian Harbour Beach, Florida >From: "Cornel DaCosta" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CARMO DCRUZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<goanet@goanet.org >,"Roland Francis" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Thinking broadly outside the frame of narrower specialist training >Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:08:23 -0000 > >Hi Carmo and Roland >1. This reply is already dated and I am not too keen to enter the minefield >about IITians. however, when I asked "how well do IITians think broadly >outside the frame of their narrower specialist training?" I was somewhat >startled to hear that, hockey for you Carmo, was an example of this broad >education! > So let me explain from my experience of Related Studies/Complementary Studies that, were an essential component for students undertaking vocational courses like engineering, business, quantity surveying etc at different levels of study up to degree level work in the UK. This was meant to be parallel to their main studies and to include a mind broadening education on themes like how mass media worked, power and control in society, crime and punishment, elements of the legal system, immigration/emigration, sex in the media, the political structure, the nature of knowledge etc. In turn, those doing the arts, humanities, law and social sciences took courses in relation to the nature of science/technology and their place in society, the financial sector, entrepreneurial activity, the investment and banking system, nuclear power/energy, the function of professions etc. > >Students in nursing and health took topics like the nature of society, >power and power relations, social class and other forms of stratification, >immigration/emigration, the media, and items from above. Those taking > >medicine in institutions other than mine also provided a broadening >education to potential doctors and I did a couple of sociological lectures >for them, by invitation, on class and caste stratification, > >multiculturalism and recent immigration into Britain. > >Sport was not included in this kind of 'curriculum' as most students >engaged in some kind of sport or the other in their own time. The students >could largely determine the choice of topics in these weekly three-hour >sessions and they mainly discussed issues rather than had formal inputs >except from a few invited speakers. The students taking different main >subjects were generally mixed for Related/Complemetary Studies where this > >was possible and there always was team teaching. > >It is a while since I engaged in this kind of work but I did have >management responsibility for the entire programme of Related Studies in >one College of Further Education at one stage in my career. > >In short Carmo, it would be unthinkable that recipients of such kind of >Related/Complementary studies courses, linked to their main course of >academic/vocational study, could conceivably talk about upside-down >crucifixion and harvesting of organs, or about some of the seemingly >bizarre ideas about caste hybridity etc. Their broadened education would >alert them where to draw the line when addressing other informed people >about issues. In short, a broad education (however limited), complemented >their specialist training and I wonder what you make of this kind of >thinking? > >I do not claim that the above kind of approach was exemplary but it did >seem to work in ensuring that people completing their education did not >have mindsets that were unduly narrow, even when their ideological and >political orientations generally differed greatly....... > >Cornel >