5 things not to do in AeSI for AMAeSI exams

In today's post I will discuss 5 things NOT to do when you are in AeSI
and aiming to clear AMAeSI exams. They are from my experience of going
through aesi. Hope they will chart a path for you and you will avoid
them in your journey.

1. Don't skip the in basics
I did this in fluids and though I passed the subject in first attempt,
but I had a tough time when I encountered those basics again in
aerodynamics-1. So remember to cover the basics before you delve
deeper. In mathematics II, basics came handy for me as the paper
revolved around it.

2. Don't forget the syllabus book
As discussed in many previous post, you will automate and streamline
your study schdule if you study a subject with the syllabus book. Not
only syllabus gives all the topics in logical order but it will make
sure you don't miss any.

Further reading
Http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=syllabus

3. Don't skip exams, whatever be your preparation.
This happened to me, I thought I have not prepared well for principles
of flights and so I didn't go to the examination hall. That turned out
to be a grave mistake when I saw the question paper, later that
evening. And that mistake cost me two semester in which I had to study
flights. So whatever be your preparation, don't skip the exams. If
nothing more you will train your mind to be the examination hall.

4. Don't lie about your results.
After the exams don't lie about your results especially from your near
and dear onces. I have seen how students falsedisguise their results
and cause tension and anxiety in them. This lie snowballs and not only
spoils your next attempt but also hurts your near and dear once when
they come to know about it. I have never done this and this had kept
me inso many surprises that AeSI threw at me during my days of AMAeSI.

5. Don't be an island.
Since AeSI has no proper institution, meeting and having lots of
seniors and friends and network is rare. So form relationship. Use
internet, this website, ouraesi, aesi and aesiaa groups to be
connected to the aesi community!! In fact this website and ouraesi
sprang to make sure aesi students and graduates do not remain in an
island. So get involved and connect.

So that's it. Hope you will gain something out of this. Want to
explore the communities I mentioned here, click on the following link

Http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=community

For all posts related to amaesi click the following link.

Http://www.my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=amaesi

Ten things to do before AMAeSI results are announced

1. Make a list of subjects you are taking in the next semester.
2. Check this semester exams paper and evaluate the marks on each
question that you will give yourself, if you are the examiner.
Evaluate what and how you answered each questions.
3. Make a routine for the next semester.
4. I always advocate setting a lower limit, so set a lower minimum
limit of time that you will devote to each subject daily. Don't be
ambitius, set a minimum limit maybe less than an hour but make sure
you do it each and every day.
5. Get into the habit of making your morning heavy. Do all your
important task in the the first hour of the day.
6. Most importantly set goals for next semester. From studies, to
skills development set some concrete measurable goals for the next 6
months.
7. Form a new habit. Replace a bad habit with a new one. Getting up
early or study a certain no of hour per day could be the habits toucan
try to install.
8. Pledge to use your imagination more in your studies this semester.
Cultivate it. Use visualization to remember all that you have studied
in the last semester.
9. Pledge to Study to be an engineer than study just for exams for the
next semester.

10. _______________________

Number 10 is intentionally left blank for you to fill. Fill it and
follow them.

Have a successful next semester!!

Small steps and big rocks.

What are you filling your life with, big rocks or sand?

Big rocks are the important goals of your life, they are the one which
will ultimately fuel your life.

And gravels and sands are just the stuff that you do in between all
the big tasks of your life.

Imagine your life as a jar and answer what will you fill your life with?

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Indian Aerospace News – 21/6/2009

Every Sunday, I will carry a brief round of Indian aerospace news.  I read  lot of Indian aerospace news and share them at friendfeed, but with this weekly post I will summarize and highlight some of them here in this blog.

Bharat Forge's non-auto revenues to grow

Auto-parts' maker Bharat Forge expects 40 per cent of its revenues to come from sectors such as mining, power, oil and gas and aerospace by 2013.

Sahana Sarma, Partner, McKinsey & Company, said the current downturn is a structural break and is the time to ask "'What is the new normal?'."

"Indian innovation is among the fastest growing in the world but with a low level of diversification. India's young population can be a critical asset over the next few decades," Sarma said.

So be prepared AeSI engineer's

IAI Gets $100 Million Contract for HAROP Killer Drones

Officially unveiling the HAROP loitering weapon at the Paris Air Show, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has announced receiving a contract to supply the HAROP Loitering Munition (LM) system to a foreign customer. Foreign sources hint the customer could be India. The contract is estimated to be worth over $100 million.

 

Tata Elxsi Limited will pursue projects in the automotive and aerospace sectors

Embedded product design and engineering company Tata Elxsi Limited has said that it will aggressively pursue projects in the automotive and aerospace sectors into fiscal 2010. Tata Elxsi’s development centre in Thiruvananthapuram focuses on supporting automotive and aerospace customers for mission-critical embedded software, hardware and systems.Tata Elxsi expanded its Thiruvananthapuram development centre last year to meet scale-up requirements of its clients in these industries.

“We have recently bagged a project in the technology-intensive aerospace and defence domain from a European Tier 1 aerospace supplier. We began our engagement with a pilot activity, which has been expanded into a full-fledged development program,” R Natarajan, VP -Automotive and Aerospace practice, Tata Elxsi said.

So good opportunities for avionics engineer in the next year. Be prepared.

 

Aerospace investors eye engines for growth

But the main difference between aircraft makers - or "airframers" - and the engine makers lies in their earnings models. Boeing and Airbus tends to earn the most when they sell a plane.

By contrast, engine makers make relatively low margins on engine sales, one Rolls-Royce executive explains.

"The business model of engine makers is very different from other manufacturers," explains Accenture aerospace and defence analyst Damien Lasou. "Their business model is a service model, which is very protective during a downturn."

Put simply; when an aircraft manufacturer buys an engine, it enters into a long-term service agreement with its maker.

Broadly speaking, the original purchase price makes up only about a fifth of the total cost of an engine's 30-year lifetime, according to Mr Lasou.

"Having many engines in service is a guarantee of future revenue," he says.

The same is true for suppliers of any "selectable" aircraft equipment, including anything from radars to tyres, sound systems to aviation electronics, observes Honeywell's Mr Carmassi.

"In the commercial world, it is not uncommon for a product to be given for free to be installed in a Boeing or an Airbus, in the knowledge that it has a 30-year servicing requirement paid for by the airlines," he explains

Read this BBC article the insight. A must read for all AeSI’s Aero-mechanical students!!!

An interesting statistics.

Currently, there are some 55,000 engines in service across the world. GE is looking after some 20,000 of them, hotly followed by Pratt & Whitney, while Rolls-Royce has 14,000 engines in service.

India rocking in Britain

Davies, who was in India for business and official meetings last week, said India and Britain now needed to forge partnerships in new areas, including aerospace and advanced security, to give their business ties a further boost. Davies said he had met with representatives of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at the Paris air show recently and discussed entering into “partnerships” with India in the areas of aerospace and advanced security, in which Britain had “excellence”.

Yet another sign of India's immergence in aerospace sector or something else?

 

And to finish all this read this interesting piece from Forbes.com

When I graduated from college with a degree in physics, I moved to Los Angeles to look for work in the aerospace industry. But I got no response to the many résumés I sent out. My time in college began to seem less like an investment and more like a form of consumption--an expenditure of four years and a fair bit of money with no clear economic rationale (though it certainly had other attractions)……..

One small Tip that will help get maximum

I am writing this post just to tell you one tip, yes just one step
that you can take to drastically increase the usefulness of the
training.

And what is it? What is that mantra of training that will help you get
the maximum out of any training you do? What is one thing that will
ensure that you get a good start in your first job?

But wait, this blog is not about me blogging about these stuff all the
time, today you are invited here to share what you think is one thing
that you will tell anyone if he or she wants to do a training that
will change his or her life.

And to start, I will mention my one thing that will help you get max
out of your training.

Answer honestly to yourself "why you are doing it?"

Just having clear answer to this question can unlock the productivity
reservoir for you. Having a clear goal will set the agenda and lay
down the destination for you. After that your work during the training
is to chart the path to that destination.

Now it's your turn. Do comment on what is one thing that YOU will tell?

AeSI’s brand new website

Something is very right in AeSI now, I don't know who is in charge now but externally AeSI is making progress. Why and how do I say that. well this Tuesday saw AeSI's brand new revamping of the site.
felt great that finally it has moved ahead and incrementally getting good. The designing is shiny and lot more clear.
Though the sections still need some content but its looks good and professional..

check out AeSI's brand new website www.aerosocietyindia.com
change as they say is the only constant and AeSI, at least at the site level has began showing that it is changing. Hope soon this change will be reflected in the burecrasy and on the examinations and student aspect of AeSI...

Here's a big cheers for AeSI India.

Which Programming languages to learn?

In my last post i listed my top 6 reasons to learn a programming
language and i am sure after reading that most of you will wonder
which programming languages to learn? So this is the post to answer
that question.

Any language will do as long as you can use it to accomplish your
daily tasks. I am not advocating that by learning a programming
language , everyone will begin to develop production level software,
all I am saying is learn to program so that you are able to automate
some of your repeated and sandry tasks and work more effecienly!!

So that's it. Learn programming to make yourself effecient, and
productive.

You might consider matlab, vba, fortran, c, and autohotkey!!

All of them had their own advantage and disadvantages.

For example matlab is the easiest one to program and it's ability to
plot easily is a huge advantage. While the disadvantage is you need
matlab to be installed, you need the full software license to begin.

Whereas VBA or visual basic for application is always available on all
windows systems. It comes with ms office,catia, solidworks and all
kind of windows based softwares. So you will find it much easier to
get hold of. The disadvantage is that it's limited to windows pc's.

Fortran and C are real programming languages and they have the
advantage of getting free compilers on the net. They offer much more
flexibilty on what you can program. But the disadvantage is you have
to learn the language well and you need a good amount of motivation to
program something productive out of them.

Autohotkey. Well, if all you looking is to have a way to automate
windows, get yourself autohotkey. It's a tool that will help you
automate your day to day windows task. It's easy, quick and powerful
for automation of windows. Only disadvantage is you can only use it in
windows system.

I hope, I have wetted your appetite on some of the programming
languages that you can consider.

Have a look on the programming related posts that I have written so
far by clicking the following link

Http://www.my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=programming

Automation

In my last post about my 6 reasons to learn programming, I missed
automation.

Here in my office, there is not a single day when this topic does not
come up in the conversation among the employees here. It's a big deal
and something each AeSI graduate and engineer should pay head to.

As computers evolve and proceses improve there will be more and more
need of automating things. Computers are the work horses that we are
using so much these days and in future their use will only increase,
so will the need to automate most of the tasks. So that's one more
reason why one should learn a programming language!!

Efficiency and productivity from a system can come when it can deliver
the work with minimal interference from us and for that knowing how to
command it effiecntly is the need of the day. For this reason only
pick up a programming language early in your aesi days.

Set some time aside to practise, read and do programming everyday.

You will thank yourself in future!!

Backbone of GIE

Today I want to tell you about a lady who had a big impact in my life.

Setting in library, she always used to come and enquire about our well
being. She is Nirmala madam!

The face of GIE. I still remember her smiling face and the encouraging
but firm voice, with which she ran GIE.

As always, she is one of my guiding angel during my AeSI days. A
mother away from home. I have already written about professor krishnan
but little have I talked about the backbone of gie.

Facinating lady, from managing the adminstrations, she is also the PR
of gie. I know many seniors will remember her in the same vein.

This post is a tribute to her. And a big thank you to her for being
part of my AeSI life!!

Blue sky technology

Recently read an article on rediff about what GE is doing in
Bangalore. There I came about this term, blue sky technology;
essentially what it meant there was that GE not only works on the
present engines technologies but at the Bangalore center, it is also
exploring the blue sky tecnologies that are still to come in
production level.

The motivation for them is to find and explore out some material and
technology that will help then build better, efficeint, more reliable,
and cost effective engines.

What stuck with me, from all this discussion was the term blue sky.
Just as I explained in my last post regarding exploring and giving
your curiosity a drive everyday at office. This is exactly what
exploring blue sky tech means.

Yes we work on individual softwares. Some on catia, some on
solidowrks, some on ansys, and some on nastran. That's your job as an
analyst. But the job mostly requires few feature set of that tool and
if you are working on it for long then you might be pretty confident
in all those features, and those features will be a small set of the
sky load of features the software has to offer. So spread your wings
and get out and explore the blue sky.

Delve and find out new features. Learn how to use the innumerable
unusef features. How they work, why they are there and how can they be
used with the task you are doing?

Carry this exploration and I am sure you will come out and will cover
a lot of ground and gain lot of knowledge in that tool.

If GE can do it, so can you and me. So what are we waiting for, let's
spread our wings and explore the vast blue sky!!!