Tip to get out of slump - clear the desk!

Clear the desk. One of my frequently used technique is to clear the
desk.

Sometime I see my productivity at office snow dive and there's nothing
I can stall this fall. Even if I remember the tasks to be done, I
still don't have the enthusiasm to chase those.

It's at this time that I take the time to clear my desk, organize my
inbox, clear my drawer and fill my dust bin. Almost all the time this
simple exercise has set me to the right mood. Everytime it has
provided the extra thrust that recharges and increases my altitude. I
get back to my goals and tasks of the day re-energized and recharged!!

So whenever you are facing a slump, try cleaning things up. Start with
your work desk, email and organize. Even in studies if you feel stuck,
leave the task unattented and fuel your enerigies to organize.

IIT Mumbai, IIT Kanpur and AeSI graduate

Lot of buzz in the aesi group about how IIT Mumbai and kanpur has
decided take aesi graduates for the m tech. programs.

Really a good news. Previously they either didn't consider aesi
graduates or they put an additional criteria of two years of work
experience. But this is the first time an aesi graduate has been
offered a seat. But one thing aesi students and graduate have to keep
in mind is get a top gate score.

All this happened because the gratuate student who got the offer was
in the top rank. So the lesson learnt from all this episode is get a
top rank and people will abolish the false walls and barriers that are
put in your way.

The high rank dissolves everything. Good marks, execptional skills and
great communication will always doors for you.

So what are you waiting for; make the effort!!!

Get the Game Playable as Fast As Possible

Get  the game playable as fast as possible.. this is the exact thing that I want to tell anyone who is interested in learning a design or analysis software. Reading and learning shouldn't be the bulk of it. You have to make sure you  get to the basic design stage as fast as you can.

Begin delivering.
When I began learning solid works, I was playing by making cubes, glass, bowl etc but as soon as I got the sense of the things. I went straight to my design team member and asked him to give me a real life data for me to play around.

He was generous and he gave the coordinates of a centrifugal compressor he cad modelled. And I began cad modelling a real life compressor model. Had lot of hiccups on the way but was finally pleased with what I made. On hindsight, I know that my approach of getting to play with solid works as fast as possible was the trick that propelled me latter to be a part of the design team of

so whats the take away in all this..
Set a minimum amount of time that you will just do the exploration. Make this commitment before you begin on a software. Once you have fixed a time. then half it and carry on with this constrained target. Once you complete the knowing the software. Jump into to play with some real thing. if its catia, get your hands dirty of some real project, if its hypermesh, get a real life model to mesh.

This is the best way to accelerate your CAE tool learning. Nothing will teach you better than working on some real problem. No tutorial will stretch you that a real problem at hand can. So if you are sitting to learning a new CAD tool like catia, solid works, ANSYS or nastran, just remember to get the software playable as fast as possible.

How to pass aesi?

Lot of people ask me how to pass aesi.

And the answer is you pass aesi by hard work , by determination and by
getting up daily.

Yes getting up daily and devoting your first hour of your day on
revising all that you have read the previous day is key thing that can
make you pass aesi without much effort.

Ask my mom, and she is an ardent fan of getting up earlier and
devoting the earlier hours to the most important thing of your life.
This could explain the morning habit that he induced in us. Her
technique is simple but it works if it's put into practise consitently.

So why not apply it in your life for the next 30 days. For the next 30
days pledge to get up earlier than you usually get up and apply the
hour to the most important task of the day.

Try it for a month and you will not regret the new habit that you will
form.

Indian aerospace news

Quick update on Indian aerospace news

Last week's indian aerspace news weekly feature got cancelled. What
happened?

Lack of plan was the main reason that did it. This week also I expect
it won't be coming out on time, as I have plans for travel and
Internet connection is not as steady as I had in India.

If are missing the India aerospace news, please feel free to follow http://www.friendfeed.com/aerogeek
for all the latest updates on Indian aerospace news.

The key to getting things done!!

The key to getting things done is to remember them.

In all the goals that I am working for, I have noticed that my major hurdle doesn't involve in doing the actions assigned to the goal but to remember the goal. Some of the slipups that have occurrd have been because of this tendency to either forget the goal or letting the goal go out of the horizon.

Goal is the destination and if you need to steer your aircraft to that destination, you have to constanly correct it's course along the way, you can't live it alone or it mind end in an ocean.

So keep your goals infront of you all the time.

Make them as your wallpaper of your computer and mobile.
Keep them on the mirror.
Keep them in your wallet.

Just make sure you are exposed to them more than once everyday. This has worked for me and will work for you.

Try it!!

Good Website For Applied Aerodynamics

Looking for a good eBook for aerodynamics, then forget the eBook. Here’s one good website specially for applied aerodynamics.... please visit it by clicking on the following link

http://www.desktopaero.com/appliedaero/preface/welcome.html

Its good!!! Hope this helps!!!

5 things to do after you get your amaesi results

In this post i write about 5 things, an aesi student should do after
getting his or her amaesi results.

1. Join regular classs.
Tutions and all other bhaiya's classes are good and useful, but don't
neglect the daily discipline of joining classes of any study center
you are in.

2. Whatever be the result just communicate to your near and dear onces.
Yes whatever be the result,communicating with your parents and near
and dear at once as you get the result is the best strategy in long
term as well as short term. Don't delay telling them for a day or
week. Just tell them as you get to know. Put them on your seat and let
them decide how they react. Don't imagine.

3. Forget about the result, move on.
Whatever be the result, move on quickly from it. If you did well carry
the enthusiam and motivation forward, if the results came at a diffent
vector as you expected, carry on again. Learn the lessons, try to
analyze the whole results with fresh and new outlook and get back.
Move on. Life never stops, time never pauses, so take a hard look at
the results, learn from them and then move on. Forget the result.

4. Honestly answer do I deserve the marks I got? Why and why not.
Answering this will help you again look at the processes that worked
for you during this exams and what didn't.

5. Join regular clases.
Well this is how things work out. For the next semester join classess.
Even when you know they are waste join them just for the nugget of
insight that self study and studying from your immediate seniors won't
suffice. Join something that is regular and get disciplined in the
process.

I know the last point is repeated. It's worth repeating. If you just
want one suggestion then take this one and you will benefit the most.

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Some thoughts on learning catia or other car softwares

What should be your approach when you begin learning a new software
tool or a new language?

Well different people have different goals and ways to approach and
each will have different merits and demerits. In this post, I will
describe what I do when I begin learning a new language or new
software tool.

The first stage is being a sponge, I read, listen and see each and
every material data I get about the tool or the language. I do not
understand everything but I make it's point that I ran it through my
mind once.

During this phase I read, I get the software do what I understand, If
I don't understand, I read, seek other sources and again sit with the
software. This iteration and exploration continues. Once I feel i am
bored with and covered everything there is to read, I get to the
softwate and this begins the curiosity stage.

Here I am just curious and I poke around, any questions that comes to
mind I try, try it then and there. If I learnt one technique, I try to
apply it in more than one way that I know it can be used. If I learn a
function, I try all the possible limits of that to see what happens.
Most of the exploration happens because I ask what will happen if I do
this.

After this stage I ask for help, I get to see the people who are using
this software, if they are not available, I get some tutorials and
releigiously do them step by step. Once I complete the one tutorial I
don't jump on to the next tutorial but instead begin my poking and
exploration on the model or the program I just developed. Twisting,
tweaking and getting all sort of stuff out of the tutorials. I try
random big small values in all the tutorilas inputs , vary and
compltely ignore the few steps and see what happens.

This is the stage when maximum learning happens.

So these are the 3 stages, I have Learnt all the software I know!!
Hope similar a slight midification of this techniques will work for
you when take on to learn catia or any other cae software!!!

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Learn A software as if it's 20-20

A collegue of mine was recently telling me how they learnt and had the
matlab experience. He was in iit chennai. There one professor, one day
came and said he will give them one test problem and they have one
week's time and all of them have to solve it by using matlab.

Now before that no one had any exposure to that software, they have
never seen it and all of a sudden they have this assignments which
required them to program in matlab to plot the graphs and it was the
only mandatory criteria for the exam. So what do you thing happened?

The whole class geared up and did a quick crash course on the software
by the end of the timeline and everyone had the results ready. From
the professors side there was no restriction for them, they can use
internet or books if they want, all he wanted was the matlab code and
the results. He got all. For the students the challenge provoked them
to learn the software in quick time. Yes they didn't learn it fully
but they got to learnt it so that, if they are asked to do it again
they will be able to produce a result from matlab.

What are the lessons we can learn from this?

Don't bitch around for lack of tutors for a software, even in iit's
it's your initiative that helps you learn, tools come from the
institution but it's the students who have to roll the ball. So accept
the opportunities of learning a tool as you get them, don't wait fir a
teacher or a ready made tutorial!!

This time limit propelled the students to cut the crap and get down to
the core of the software. Since they had results to deliver they
played like 20 20 instead of a test match. So whenever you are
learning a new software tool, Remember 20 20!

That's the fasted way to learn.Concentrate on scoring on each bowl.

For my collegue, as he mentioned, that experience was just the brush
with matlab that he had, but for some, this little exercise stuck and
they went deep into the software to learn to use it more effectively.

So next time you are planning to learn something new, make it a 20-20
rather than a test match!!! Good luck.