Dr Shaikh, 'India has done "very little" in field of systems engineering'
This was the headline in the Navhind Times which is the major English language newspaper in the State of Goa, India. I will tell my mom to hold the copies of the newspaper for me. This should be a good time to insert an ad for Florida Tech Systems Engineering Program in the educational section of the Times of India or Navhind Times. Also closer to home, I have just been told that the crew of the next Space Shuttle Mission at the request of apna astronaut Sunita Lynn Pandya Williams (MSEM-FIT- mid 90s) has decided to have their lunch before lift off scheduled for around 9pm that night, at my nth cousin Theodore Mazarello's restaurant "Taste of Goa" on Dec 7. The restaurant is located in Cape Canaveral on AIA just opposite the USA (United Space Alliance) facilities. Theodore did not know what the FBI is upto for this lunch before launch - even if they clear the dining room, he said the Florida Tech Dept of Engineering Management and Eng Systems and the Florida Tech administration is most welcome to have lunch in his spacious kitchen or in the verrandah out side the restaurant. Apparently Sunita has requested him to make some boneless tandoori chicken so that she can have it in space, along with with the Chappatis and Samosas and stash of imli chutney and hot sauce that she plans to take up there. See link to one of the many bios of Sunita on the Internet: http://news.asianweek.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=093d2ca3568045fa121ec4ae481f8be8 So with Sunita in Space, Systems Engineering in the news and our ads, and my trip to India with Balbir Singh, Florida Tech should be front-page news in India in November and December. My be we can gift Sunita a Florida Tech blazer (type-cleared by NASA of course) so she can flash it from Space during one of their widely televised press interviews from Space ! Best Regards, Carmo _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
