Theme of the year!!!

- Jim Rohn - "The more you know the less you need to say."

 

Well  this  is  the  random quote  that came up as i opened my  gmail account!!  well  liked it immediately  and  now  this  year in 2006, it will be my  theme of the year.

 

The more you know the less you need to say!!!!  so know  more, i am  known to be not  so gregarious, and  it  might seem that  its shouldn't be the right  thing  for me. But hey, i don't  know what this quote said to  you, but  to me it shouted know more!!!! 

 

With  my resolutions almost ready to be finalised,  i  hope  i complete them  fully this year, last year's resolutions were too steep and  too broad so this  time i have taken care to make them  clear cut and  not  let some loose ground to go around them. 

 

Most of them involve my career  this time and i  hope i will complete each and every one of  it.

 

 

With  2005  has given me a lot, i hope the coming year  fulfill all my wishes and gives me the power to  do  what i would like to  do  the most in the world  that is to make a difference!!!

My 150th day part v

Future plan for the next 150 days, is to work hard and learn the work, get familiar with the tools, and give back my boss for which he hired, or should i say selected me. I have gained q lot in ~QL and in my next inings as kis would have called it, i.ll like to give my boss and nal somethinw !

My 150th day part iv

The difference between me who entered nal and now, apart from softwares, is that i have quiet a few friends, learnt how things work in organisations and plunged into a professional world! Moreover i tasted recognition!

My 150th day part iii

Another occasion that comes to mind was when i did Ansys all day. That day i didn't wanted to in home, i wished then to extend Nal's working hours!! I was engrossed with That so much thqt i wanted to stay with all night!

My 150th day part ii

Most memorable moment that i can think of in nal is the one when my boss called me in his cabin and said, 'i like your work!' its special coz there was no need of saying that on that day but seeing my work he couldn.t stop himself frm commenting!

My 150th day

Tomorrow will be my 150Th day in NAL!! During these daypg have worked on and learnt matlab, solidworks and consolidated my c skills. My greatest thing being in NAL, is working with my bOss and knowing him.

Truly a window's program

This was my second day and eighth hour using NASTRAN and the greatest feature so far was the undo feature, makes working and learning easy and comforting!! plus one to nastran!

NASTRAN

Heard about it, read about it, even wrote about it, but today finally tried it. This is finite element modelling and post processing tool. Don't know which is powerfull but nastran is fAR pleasant to work with. More latter.

NAL

Just after three days, it will my 150th day in NAL, bangalore and this occasion demands a big article and i'm planning to come up with it. Don't know as to what will be the content yet But i guess it will merit a good post.

Gambit

Well till yesterday, i didn't know what was this, till yesterday, before manas Bhaiya, talked i knew nothing about it. Its a software complimenting fluent. Like hypermesh as manas da poiTed out

meeting

 

As promised I  would  to  write  something on my meeting with Mr. Bishnujee Singh.

This I am doing for the benefits of the people who were not able to meet him  due  
exams or  other reasons.

Since so many days have passed and I can't  boast of a crystal memory, so all I will 
pen is what I have retained and remember. Another thing is the lettering may not be 
exact what Mr. Bishnujee said  but the essence is same.

Clad in a white t-shirt with Boeing 787's front view jutting out  from the chest region, he 
sat in one corner of his hotel room in front of his open laptop, while we, four of us , 
circled him.

Introductions  apart  he  moved on to the themes  and the discussions that  were 
interesting  revealing and inspiring. 

Here I try to present  his advice on various things.

On finding jobs:

Don't  only  just  go for the newspaper jobs, These  mostly come out at last resort or as  supplements. So  when you are ready, just send in your  resumes direct to the hiring  managers!!!!!  Reference do  play a part so select it carefully.

On general mood of the aesi people.

Change your attitude, be proud of what you are doing.  Know and believe its one of the 
best course that  you are doing. Know your worth. And  instead of looking  on the 
negative people of aesi  but see  bright  sides  like anshuman etc and so  many others  who  are and have achieved  success. Face the sun and all shadows will fall behind!!!!!

On studying:

Read  entirely. read with passion and with full dedications. Studying for AMAeSI is a full  time job. Devote your full time to it. Save yourself from part time jobs craze unless it  helps in your professional development.

On Mtech:

As  my views in ouraesi, its  more important to  get  some good experience in some 
blue-chip  companies than studying  oceans and HR in IIT's!!!!  The  world  comes to 
India not to get a manager but and engineer. So  get those skills.

On studying abroad,

Well  I insist on UK  because its much more easier to  get there and study than US 
and one should  have a minimum  work exposure so that they don't feel alien  to the ms  courses offered!!! 

Well  that's  it for  now. This is the only  thing  I remember right now, will write back if I 
remember something else. And  yes,  as I said the wording may not be exact same 
but  the essence is totally same.

But  before I close I would  like to add  a thanks to  Mr. Bishnujee for the time  and the 
effort he took for all of us.  Its  great to see a person making a difference. And like the  
Boeing 787 soaring on his t shirt, I wish him all the best for his  career and wish it to 
soar new heights!!!!

 

 

lessons from mr man

Mr man is my collegue at nal, irritating sometimes but he has taught me many lessons, most important being the value of interpreting data while manupulating it. for me number interpetatIon comes latter.

This is what we need to do....

John F. Kennedy  said "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." And that  i think is we need to do and some of ouraesi club members are doing. 

 

Its good to know people do care and understand our problems.  And are trying to  turn things around.......  if  any of these is  not making any sense  please visit  ouraesi club  on yahoo.....

 

Missed me...

My last post here i think was on seventh. Missed me kya? I was in chennai away from nal, so missed out on things but from tomorrow i'm back again hopefully with some bang!!

My message for our aesi on the first day!!!!

  Today  while introducing a friend of mine to  ouraesi club, i  saw  this a message i posted on May 10th 2002 1:39pm,  when this club  was born. And  remembered all things that had  happened  on that  day  to  get  this club  up and running. 


Many of things i said on that  day are  still relevent and now after 646 members in the club, i feel  proud  in seeing the club florish and soar hight.

It  feels  good to  know  that  a thing  is there now  where aesi  graduates  can come and gather, a place where one can file questions that  might  get an answe\. None existed when i needed one such answer and that created this club!!!

Its  has a long  journery  from the time when i have to coax my friends to  join, from the time when i alone posted and when, none new about ouraesi club!! It  has  grown and it will continue to  grow  from support of  so  many of its  members!1 thank  you  all  and  please  do  contribute, its  your  chance to  make difference.....

Here i am posting  the  mail  that i posted on the  time i menstioned above.

Welcome Member

Every college, engineering or otherwise, has a community! But for
Aeronautical society's student there's none. No place to gather , no
place to meet and no place to share. so i came up with the idea of
this group where through net we can interact and communicate with all
our fellow mates who are spread all over india !!

This is a mammoth task and a single individual can't complete it
alone. So i hope all the members joining here will take this task in
there hand & will spread the word for this group to there immediate
friends and will unite all the students of AeSI.

I am a member to one group but that group is very passive only 2 or 3
people contibute to the group rest just keep mum and i don't want
this to happen to our group. Hey AeSI students are not lazy!! So
please make it a point to contibute something, maybe how trival, once
in a week to the club. It can be anything ; a small artile you read,
or a very good site you visited , a great exam tip you heard or even
your problems in flights question paper you can't solve....

The idea here is just to contibute and show that we are an active
community.

The success and failure of any community depends on its people's. And
here the onus is on you. Borrowing John D Anderson words, my work is
done, yours is just begining................


Founder
~Sukhbinder

A little apology

Hi
  First of all a little apology, i owe to  you  all for  sending one message  repeatedly for three times, actually it was  a problem with my  mobile which i used sending the message, it  showed server not responding and i clicked thrice. Sorry!!!


Anyway,  exams  are over, at least for propulsion and aerodynamics students!!!   This  time the general mood of the exam was happy  except of course the Flights exams which  got  questions from ASM and Prop three.

As someone i talked pointed out, "this time  questions in aesi exams were knowledge based!" and  seeing VMD, ASM, P3 and MATHS 3 paper, i think he  is not  exactly  wrong.

More on exams latter !!! And yes, if  you  sometime  see  one message posted more than once, please ignore cause you  know  my  mobile misfired!!!!

I met Bishnujee singh

I met Bishnujee Singh yesterday ane today i.m mailing in middle of my
preparation just to tell you if possible don't miss the chance to meet him.
A little positiveness and big motivatin will not harm you. xe will be in
bangalore till 19Th. }ore on my meeting with him after exams!!

questions to cash

Yes this time from all that i have heard and talked about to students of aesi, this exams questions are questions to cash. Cashto leap ahead! Basic theory is the theme this time, so casx on guys, there's no hidden camerras around!!

Best of luck folks...

Second tuesday of December and today begins the exams. Best of luck to everyone appearing for the exams!! may the questions be just right and everyone of you come out bright!!

Best of luck....

With cyclone Fanoos deciding to spare chennai and sun finally making appearance is a relief. Studies under sunny weather are more productive and welcome. Best Wishes to all those appeari~g for exams!

Bracing for a cyclone named...

As chennai braces for cyclone Fanoos, aesi students in nanganallur are busy bracing themselves for the cyclone called exams! Streets are empty, tea shops vacant, and visit any room, bookS strewn on tables is t scene.

Today learnt.....

Nasa paid 5 billions for the same mistake that i was doing. Its explorer of mars become non functional because of dissimiliar units.... for t whole day my total program bugEd me.

AGM mein

 

Imagine a big hall full of people, some sitting on the beautifully constructed podium and other in posh chairs. Imagine yourself sitting with friends listening to the not-so-interesting lectures and clapping at recipients of awards and then you hear  your name being called. After  a while when u finally realize its  you only they are announcing and you move forward to the podium to get your degree , the DJ sound increasingly resonating with the claps that propel you towards the podium. you somewhat  dazzled, but brimming with pride accept the prize. And imagine getting the degree from the face of Indian aeronautics, and being congratulated by him and clapped by a hall full of people some very  eminent  personalities of our time. And imagine yourself wishing so hard at that very moment that your parents were there and see their son's moment of achievement... Well if  you haven't  gone to the AGM this time  you  have  the missed this exact feeling...... and  you can just now imagine, as told to me by  my roommate  who was there at the scene of action.

I can't possible recount the things that happened there but then from what I heard and from what I have felt while talking to friends who went there, each of them have enjoyed and  had a great  time.  Of course as with any big  functions there are bound to be some small glitches like a friend of  mine lost the very thing  he  went there to collect, his degree certificate and one lost 1000 bucks,  but  hey as  shah rukh khan said "bade bade sharaoo  mein asccci  chhoti choti  baate  hoti rehti hai! " and having said i hope and wish that they will recover the  things!! 

Anyway  some of the good things that people liked was that the degrees were awarded  not  behind close doors  as I  and  I  guess you  also  have heard from so many of our seniors, this  time it was in open and  in full ovations.....  I  admit there were no  black gown and black caps to swing up for that Kodak moment  but  hey  the jester of getting the degrees  in a ovation was  worth any  gown, and  I  am sure anyone who  has gone there and received the degree will surely  agree.

Another thing was that this  time degrees were awarded and they were given in a file folder to hold it.  This was the first time this has happened, in my knowledge.

Many members of this very club have visited the place, I hope people will share their experiences with us and let us know firsthand what they loved and hated about it. (of course that includes the vodkas, teas, juices and snacks!! And I heard from someone the tea was third class)  And  for all those graduating next,  my  friend and roommate  has  one  resounding thing to say 'go ahead, don't  miss it for your life and be sure I'll there next time among the one clapping  for you!'' 

 

 

Chennai...

With so many students in aesi, one can safely call chennai, student hub of aesi! so next week i'll be going there and i guess you can expect my regular updates about exams from there. Another post one can expect is on what happened at the agm in mumbai!

Contributions to... ii

or mAybe..... i don't want to write on petty things when so many people are contributing good things in the club.

Contributions to...

My contributions to ouraesi club in terms of post have decreased and i guess the reason being this blog where i post exclusively from my phone. Another reason being now i think twice or sometimes more times before i post. Y? Maybe i want pemple to like my post than to get my msg across or mAybe...

Matlab ii

Softwares should be like it, they should let you expand, inflate and let you rise higher. Thats what matlab is making me feel now.

Matlab

I first touched matlab in aug and after five hours i left it. Never thought them that i'll be so gripped by it now when i've used it more than 60 hours. I get ideas to use it in so many Ways.

Grand Hyatt mein.....

Its  second December and all  the must be enjoying there at  Grand Hyatt and why  not?  Its a important day for them, the  culmination of the labour they have been putting, the fruits  that they were waiting.......   My  roommate  and friend, who is there informs  me "Its good been there!' And from the way he said these thinks to me over phone, i can say he wants none to miss an event like this.

 

Don't  have much details  though  but  this  time he informs  some of the degrees  were awarded by  ISRO Chief and  not  handed over behind close doors as i heard!!  More info as it comes. 

 

But  from his  phone call it was clear, one should never miss such a thing.

 

Who created MATLAB?

hi  folks,

I guess, many of  us know what is MATLAB, some have used it and some just know  about  it.  But here's a small (really small history of the great tool) to really know  what was the inspiration behind MATLAB. No  historical dates though!!!   so without delay.

 

Jack Little and Cleve Moler, the founders of The MathWorks, recognized the need among engineers and scientists for more powerful and productive computation environments beyond those provided by languages such as Fortran and C. In response to that need, they combined their expertise in mathematics, engineering, and computer science to develop MATLAB®, a high-performance technical computing environment. MATLAB combines comprehensive math and graphics functions with a powerful high-level language. In addition to MATLAB, The MathWorks now develops and markets Simulink®, a product for simulating nonlinear dynamic systems

 

well  if  are the kind  who  needs  date  well  you  have google and  this link which i guess will  ignite the quest more.

http://user.it.uu.se/~eva/MATLAB/history.html .  so happy  hunting.......  for  my  personal point of  view, the software is just great!!

 

 

Who created MATLAB?

hi  folks,

I guess, many of  us know what is MATLAB, some have used it and some just know  about  it.  But here's a small (really small history of the great tool) to really know  what was the inspiration behind MATLAB. No  historical dates though!!!   so without delay.

 

Jack Little and Cleve Moler, the founders of The MathWorks, recognized the need among engineers and scientists for more powerful and productive computation environments beyond those provided by languages such as Fortran and C. In response to that need, they combined their expertise in mathematics, engineering, and computer science to develop MATLAB®, a high-performance technical computing environment. MATLAB combines comprehensive math and graphics functions with a powerful high-level language. In addition to MATLAB, The MathWorks now develops and markets Simulink®, a product for simulating nonlinear dynamic systems

 

well  if  are the kind  who  needs  date  well  you  have google and  this link which i guess will  ignite the quest more.

http://user.it.uu.se/~eva/MATLAB/history.html .  so happy  hunting.......  for  my  personal point of  view, the software is just great!!

 

 

This is my.....

This is my seventeenth week in NAL, bangalore. And i've enjoyed every bit of it. From my boss's dedication to dm's "That is not important, this is", i have seen all. Its a blessing to be Under my boss.

Today learnt the importance of teacher

Today learnt importance of teacher. yes i believe they are important but today saw that without doing anything your teachers can propel you far, just like my boss did today!

November software update....part v

Did the inclusion of excel surprised you. well don't be, its really a powerfull software, limited in its use only by your ignorance. Almost 90 % of its users only use 10% of its capabiliY.

November software update....part iv

My total number of flying hours as of yesterday is 384 hours! In this hours solidworks is at number one, matlab a distant second and c a close third, followed by excel!!

November software update....part iii

Good point is that the month i concentrate on one software i do make the hundred mark as in september and now in november. So one should concentrate on one software and this both softwarEs im using coz of my work.

November software update....part ii

Well another fact that emerged out of the data i presented to matlab was that solidworks is the software which has the highest flying hours. It is the only one which has crossed the 100 Mark with 115!

November software update....

Well, first good news. This month became the highest garner of numbers surpassing september's record of 103 by two hours! This has because of my focus on matlab!

Challenging project

This project of predicting the off design performance of axial flow compressor is a challenging one. It makes you think, plan, and impliment. Matlab is great tool and i'll learn it fully.

My idea or way of learning

My way of learning is learn a few basic and them just jump in. And i learn the details as i swim through it. This approach has varied advantage as it will makes you think, stagnation is Out, u learn faster, and the initial interest is sparked and sustained. So jump in...

Two ideas for matlab

There are two ideas that i would like to hopkinent in matlab. One is to make a fully capable but simple expense manager, and another a sample slide slow program that can be used via a SImple text file.

Lesson learnt....

Yesterday i learnt a lesson on how to dimension the drawings. They should not be dimensioned in what i think is fine, but to what the machinist will see in the drawing? Drawing should bE drawn on how it will be machined.

My boss and leader

Today my boss showed us why he is a leader. Small frame but tall deeds and an unshakeable faith and attitude. This are the stuff of leaders and i'll consider myself successful if i can take this while i leave nal.

My boss and leader

Today my boss showed us why he is a leader. Small frame but tall deeds and an unshakeable faith and attitude. This are the stuff of leaders and i'll consider myself successful if i can take this while i leave nal.

It may not be a secret but....

It may not be a secret for long but i heard my boss got an offer from infosys! and he rejected it, saying his set project is half complete, and he gets the job satisfaction he wants from this job

Plans after exam

My plan after the exam is to get into tigh compressor programming fully and learn all the tricks of the trade. As a final chapter to my NAL experience i want to develop something that NAL will use long after i have left it.

lateral thinking vs sequential thinking

What am i? a lateral thinker or a sequential thinker. Well kis just said i have traces of lateral thinker, and like everybody humans are a mix of both but only one dominates....

What-s working for kis

Well for some days kis is working good and what is the things that is working for him. ist he is focused on one topic, two he is not complaining of circumstances but keeping his mood on The right side and thirdly he is looking inside not others.

Grand hyatt challo

I admit there won't be gowns and no throwing of hats for that
picture, but hey its your graduating ceremony nevertheless.......
don't miss the even in Grand Hyatt in Mumbai this AGM on 2nd
December!!

I don't know about others, but every graduating member should go
to this important part of his or life. This event will come only once
in your life, don't miss it for some lousy cloths, my friends not
going so i won't go type or other flimsy reasons. This is the
culmination of all the hours that you have put in and all the
sacrifices you and your family did. Then why miss the climax when
the you have earned it.

I admit gown will be missing and it won't be extravagant as we see
in TV, but one thing i am sure it will be one you will remember
all your life, one that you will tell your ( maybe i am going far)
but to your grand children's!!

Well all i say if the reason is not very genuine, Grand Hyatt challo!!!!

for anyone who is interested in the venue and for the maps and
pictures of the venue please click this links.

http://www.mumbai.grand.hyatt.com/mumgh/photo_02.html
http://www.mumbai.grand.hyatt.com/

My current work

My current work involves designing and developing a comp program to predict the performance of an axial flow compressor. Its new thing for me and i'll concentrate on it after exams.

Idea just popped up.....

An idea just popped. The name of the project is my mgt. Does it ring something..... yes just like everything... i would like to develop my own mgt. I have resources and i can certainly Devote sometime to it. My mgt for my room

Best way to learn...... software

Best way to learn software or for the matter anything is by enquiry. Be a child, ask lots of questions, don't bed motives to learn but learn to know. Keep the what-if question alive.

My first boss...

Its still unofficial now, that if i'm asked who is my first boss, the answer will be dr. srm. It'll be official when they will offer me pay. But even they don't, he will remain my FirsT boss.

My first boss...

Its still unofficial now, that if i'm asked who is my first boss, the answer will be dr. srm. It'll be official when they will offer me pay. But even they don't, he will remain my FirsT boss.

I would like to.....

My wishlist for my cad and design work is to create and develop one good and usefull thing for the mgt. I want to design something that will enhance its usefullness and that will be my Tribute to my boss.

A landmark day...part ii

Today, its another landmark in way that with this drawing i became directly involved with the work of my boss. This mgt project is his life's passion and with this drawing and fin design I got a chance to have my name in it.

A landmark day...

Today is a landmark day in my life as project trainee in NAL. Today i drew and designed one part of MGT and now in all the drawings of mgt my name also got added... landmark day coz this is t first instance my name is getting written on nal's document.

busiest day in nal

Today was my busiest day in nal. By this i mean, i didn't had time to even think and do anything personal. From the begining of the day my time was occupied by chores of my scientists.

materials i've seen

This is, i guess, a silly post but nevertheless i'm posting here the different types of materials i've seen. Iron, steel, titanium, aluminum, gold, silver, tin, nimonic, inconel, copper, and plastic.

Being Zorro part ii

For those who have not understood a single words of my last post, read no further this post is not for u. And for those who did, i'd say Zooro's strength doesn't lie in his shord but in Cover.

Being Zorro

I was recently in chen and there i say legend of zorro and that made me think that sometime its better if your identity is under cover than exposed. The cover gives u strength and unbiasness, whereas exposure turns your mind of t main topic to think how others may react.

Exam dates released....

For all those waiting for the exam dates, the wait is over. Aesi exams begins exactly on this very date next month, that is on 13 december. Not exactly a beautifull no. but here wishing U all good luck. prepare well and do your best

The next thing

My next post here will be on my completing 100Th in NAL. The draft is ready and will post it as soon i'm online.

See and you will find ocean

master.... and i've only mentionned most common application..... what's the use of knowing Catia when one finds power point daunting, whats t use of matlab when one struggles with c, ThE core of matlab.

See and you will find ocean...

Today i was talking to my senior and he said i'm lucky and he would have attended nal regularly if he had so many softwares in his comp that i have in my work comp. This made me think WHat abt ms excel. A tool one can spend an entire year to master.

Documentations makes it worthy

Read the previous post... this is the continuation.... so as i was saying or posting documentation makes a thing worthy, as i saw and learnt in NAL. The crude programs I suddenly looked Smart and polished as i was literally forced to document them.

One important i learnt from NAL

One important thing i learn't from nal or i can say, i would have never learnt if were not here is the importance of documentation. Working is good but without proper and good documentatIon its nothing but a piece of paper or code.

One cool idea...

One cool idea just popped into my mind. I'll now write one solid modelling program everyday and will create all small parts by it only. this will help me strengthen my cad skills....

mobile killed big posts

Is  my  mobile  killing  my  big  posts,  i  guess it  is. Though  it  gives  me the advantage of posting whenever i want and most importantly  in giving the instant reactions to events  but  its  killing this  long  posts  i like  so  much to  write.

 

In that  tiny  screen, i  do  like to  post  big  but  none of the phones i have tried  is  doing  it  right now,  so  till then i  have decided that  i Will use my Internet  time  writing this stuff than roaming here and there in cyberspace.

 

In  near  future I'm also planning to  get a pen drive and then i think, the post will be regular and more bigger as i can write them at  my  PC in office and  post them here.

 

 

Flash  is  surely  be a boon for me. 

 

Sitting in net  doesn't  even  allow  the feelings  come  by and to  write them  so  i'll  write  from my  pc  now.  Got  lot to  tell.......

 

 

 

well this one is late

Well this one is bit late, but then they say, better late than never. So the news is now my computer has now one gb ram. one gb, that's half of hard disk space of my first computer.

I have been writing from my relieance mobile

For  all this  time  i have  posting  from my  reliance phone, my  primary  reason for  not  abandoning  the old so-common LG RD reliance Dirubhai Ambani]s first  model.  My  friends often taunt me to  change  it  but  the  day  this posting  facility  goes, I'll  move  on till then  i am  sticking to it  and you  better bear the updates  though  small  but  always there.

I  am  also  planning to write  one  from computer, this  was not  possible  because i was  busy  with my  work.  But  now  i promise to  write  at least  one big one.And  topics will range  from  this to  that.

I have been writing from my relieance mobile

For  all this  time  i have  posting  from my  reliance phone, my  primary  reason for  not  abandoning  the old so-common LG RD reliance Dirubhai Ambani]s first  model.  My  friends often taunt me to  change  it  but  the  day  this posting  facility  goes, I'll  move  on till then  i am  sticking to it  and you  better bear the updates  though  small  but  always there.

I  am  also  planning to write  one  from computer, this  was not  possible  because i was  busy  with my  work.  But  now  i promise to  write  at least  one big one.And  topics will range  from  this to  that.

Things that u shouldn't do in NAL

Don't ever skip the chance to be with your scientist, don't ever kill time chatting, and in gossip. Don't ever leave your computer unattended. Don't ever miss a chance to learn, and HeLp others

Things that u shouldn't do in NAL

Don't ever skip the chance to be with your scientist, don't ever kill time chatting, and in gossip. Don't ever leave your computer unattended. Don't ever miss a chance to learn, and HeLp others

In my 13Th week

This is my thirteenth week in NAL, if i go. In the past twelve weeks i've been greatly rewarded in learning the tools of my industry. Working on live project, thinking on work and constant deadline made t work easier.

In my 13Th week

This is my thirteenth week in NAL, if i go. In the past twelve weeks i've been greatly rewarded in learning the tools of my industry. Working on live project, thinking on work and constant deadline made t work easier.

Avionics and catia part iii

Softwares are tools and they need to support to at your present and future work and not be just decoratives to one's resume... One need to build specific skills and not get caught up in Learning everything...

Avionics and catia part ii

smart move... its like jumping to a different train because your one is not moving, not a good example but explains the point. One should always learn the software which they can use aNd is related to one's field.

Avionics and catia

Was talking to a avionic guy today and he was planning to learn Catia. Nothing wrong in that, but learning a software just because many job ad are asking for it is not a smart move...

Hours update... part V

And most important thing of this month is study of vmd, which should take up all my time after, NAL. This should be my prority as future plans will depend on it....

Hours update... part iV

My plan for this month is to build my programming skills and concentrate on matlab and its feature. Keeping simulation as my goal, i'll carry forward in this software without distraction and with a goal purpose to help nal and my guide

Hours update... part iii

Visual basic is one software tool, that i've not began in NAL, though my core project will rest on it. I've began doing api programming of solid modelling which is similiar to vb. Though I am still yet to build an independent software to use this api.

Hours update... part ii

This year highest was once again in solidworks, followed by ansys and c. Another highlight was that i began my matlab practice again and now i've nine hours experience in it.

Hours update....

Although i was online for two hours today, but didn't update u about the hours which i intend to do now. The previous month software hour count stands at 82 hours, 2 hours lower than auw and lowest in the 3 months i.m in NAL.

Sometimes two posts....

Sometimes u may find two similar posts posted, this demonstrate and is the mark of my absent mind ness that i usually succumb... so please ignore them. i'm trying to minimize it.

Happy diwali

This year i-was supposed to be at home, but due to rainfall i'm here cooking in bang. Next year this time i'll be at home, and will have a ge pay for mum and gifts for sisters and dad.

Happy diwali

This year i-was supposed to be at home, but due to rainfall i'm here cooking in bang. Next year this time i'll be at home, and will have a ge pay for mum and gifts for sisters and dad.

a request to all aesi members

I just met mam in gie, and after the conversation i understand the need of books of variety is the demand of hour here, so all of u have access to libraries of your organisation, please procure books, xerox or otherwise and send them to gie.

A contest coming up......

I know i shouldn't be revealing this now, but i can't resist. But i will only give u some hints.... the contest launch date is in december, the contest is inspired from an ad of ford, the contest involves you, t member of t club.

A contest coming up......

I know i shouldn't be revealing this now, but i can't resist. But i will only give u some hints.... the contest launch date is in december, the contest is inspired from an ad of ford, the contest involves you, t member of t club.

October update will be next i guess....

My october software usage hours update will be my next post. I don't have t data yet but all i can say is that there one unusual addition, one software re surfaced and t usage will be less than t previous months

Things i'll say

Things i'll say when someone ask me about my experience of NAL. The first thing that i'll say is one should always gates experience. Its the culmination of everything u learn.

AGM

The venue for the aesi agm is hotel grand hyatt santacruz mumbai. And during business hours on 2nd december, all of u graduates will get the complition certificate u have longed for.

U must be wondering

U must be wondering why the size of these last few posts have diminished. Well its because i'm posting these entries from my rim phone, and unfortunately the max text size is not big EnOugh. Anyway this allows easy anytime, anywhere posting.

My guide said...

My guide today said, "Ansys is not important, creating and developing that software is and there is nothing more satisfying than that!!"

Skills and imagination

Well, this are two things that will increase as u work. And given only one option between them, one should always choose imagination! skills without imagination are nothing more than THe carry bag that u Use and discard.

Which subjects...

Which subjects should one have strong command on mathematical modelling of turbomachines? well apart from the core subject, mathematics should be good, numerical analysis should be through and last of good command of a proggramming language.

NAL'S library

I'm very much interested in modeling,simulation, and predictive performance of turbomachines. And working here has enhanced my interest, so from now on i'll use nal's library for the puRsuit of this quest.

Lesson of my life

If i'm asked to sum one thing from my whole life, i know i'll say, "Being an optimist pays!" This is the sum of my life this time, everything i like, love, enjoyed, engaged and be a parT of is linked to this word.

What motivates me most?

The answer to this very question cropped up during my conversation with kis, and topic being elaborate, i'm reserving the full post by email only, this mobile can't afford the space, tH is topic require!

My earnings from NAL

It doesn't pay me, yet i've earned from NAL. My earning include, knowledge of designing centrifugal compressor, introduction to solid modelling, and finally the practical know how of hoW R

Learning is not separate from work

Yes, learning is not separate from work, loose touch with work, u'll loose learning. They are integral. Only learning is just knowing, but coupled with work, it is understanding. And that's what experience is all about!!

Advice to mr har

Today, something good came out as i was irritatingly scolding mr h. He is there for sometime in NAL and had learnt autocad but due to his tendecy of learning, he has not learned anything. work and learning are related, ignore work and u won't learn. U'll learn only if u work!

Mr. man three things he needs to shed

Well, i can name for obvious reasons, so lets begin by the first thing, doubting, he doubts too much, this kills the excitement, laziness, try before judging or giving a verdict, and last of all, think longterm!!

When someone asks me...

If ever someone asks me, "how is your place of work?" I know i will find myself replying as "An air conditioned room, a pentium four PC with more than five lakh software to tinker with anD india's top aero scientst to guide, this is my work place"

About forum

Someone in ouraesi talked about forum, and my first reaction was i don't think it will run. I speak from previous experience of being the web master of aerodreams.org. Forums administraTion is full time job and moreover people prefer opening mails than going and logging to a site. This saiD i'll welcome t move.

First november is the deadline

Well guys and gals, if a distinction with the name boeing sounds attractive, then all recent graduates of aesi, send in your resume along with a statement of purpose to Mr. Bishnujee. WHo knows maybe u.ll get lucky! Ist nov is the last date, so hurry!

CLOCTER LAB part ii

...in its 600 mm dia test bed, at some point of time in its development. An impeller in the bed, revolving at 18000rpm, is hammered by a gust of freon or air at a rate of 2.5kg per second, to check, verify or validate its performance. This Thyristor Controlled, variable speed rig is the place i call my office!!

CLOCTER LAB

At first glance, clocter lab looks an assemblage of pipes of varied dimenstions with huge motor at one end. The onlooker without knowledge will fail to admire that he is standing near a 375Kw powerhouse that has nursed the centrifugal compressors of this country. From industrial compressor to aircraft comp, each one had been fitted in its 600 mm...

what i did today

Nothing much, one c program, reports modification and an little staring at the htbasic program that sir gave me. He is an expert in it and i would like to replicate this quality of his in c.

NAL equals software part iv

... So go to any CAD institute for software training, but if work experience is your pot of gold, welcome to NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABS!!

NAL equal SOFTWARE part iii

...I'm not saying in NAL no software, but all i want to tell is NAL is not equal software, its equal to practical work, its equal to live projects, its equal to being under top minds of Indian Aerospace experts.

NAL equal SOFTWARE part ii

...making U feel that software is more important than t practical experience one is gaining doing a practical work. One can get software training in any institute but live work, one'll Only get here.

NAL equal SOFTWARE

Anybody knowing that i'm doing training in NAL, asks me 'so what work are u doing' and as u reply, they interupt 'that's fine but which software are u using?' making U....

Three things to learn from my boss

I call him boss, actually the proper term is guide. Anyways ist he is a ardent reader. I have never seen him without reading something. Secondly he never remains ideal, always tinkering with something. Thirdly he is enthusiatic about his work.

No goal no NAL

Thinking about training, then think about your goals. If u come here like mr r then u'll be in shock!! U must have a personal well defined goal before u venture coz its not always that u'll get the work u want in training. Keep a goal and stick to it as u go everyday to ur training. This will help kill t idleness that might come due to no work.

New record on ouraesi

I don't know if u have noticed but in this september ouraesi receive highest no. of messages. It broke previous record of 105 messages set in march 2003 by one message. As this update Is from my mobile, hence brief.

Aesi agm

This time aesi agm is on 2nd december in pune. How i wished i could have gone there but..... well in the next one i'll go and god willing will have a great satisfying job.

Place of familiarity

In NAL u can only get familiar with the tool but true learning comes in two ways, one ur work is related to that tool and other is by joining a course.

Most important lesson....

Most important thing i have learnt in NAL till now is that softwares are just tools, and the work is the core. So learn the core tools will automatically follow. Tool without work is waSte.

Clocter history

Well right now, i practically have no knowledge of clocter and its history. Will keep my eyes and ears open and will write about it here.

Interesting news

Kis's guide has given a lecture opportunity to him on tuesday. This will be his chance to be more visible in NAL and if he does well, he can influence indians MAV program.

Three things i would like to do now

No one thing is i would like to do C programs involving numerical analysis. Second thing is learn and apply batch mode of ansys and thirdly i would like to fuse c with solidworks drawing

SolidWorks 2006

 

 

How  could i have  missed this? I am using this for the last two months, i am praised for  my quick learning of this tool and i have heard my guide scientist  mention it to my college and yet i missed it.

 

But  no sweat, better late than never so  here is the news of the launch of solidworks 2006  in India.  I am using solidworks 2003 and 2004 version at  my work and have developed and designed impellers and diffusers with it, apart from the glass, stool, photo frame etc that i tried while learning it.

 

 

so without  much adieus, lets go to the news and see whats in store in solidworks 2006

 

 

SolidWorks Corporation has unveiled for the Indian market, SolidWorks 2006 - the latest version of the 3D mechanical design software it has been shipping for nearly a decade.  The product was unveiled at the first SolidWorks World India 2005 user meet in Bangalore.

SolidWorks 2006 features a host of new and unique capabilities to help designers and engineers bring better products more quickly to market, and to more easily transition from 2D to 3D design, the firm claimed. The software includes more than 200 customer-requested enhancements and significant innovations that break new ground in engineering efficiency.

The main features of the package include enhanced performance, new user productivity tools such as Smart Components, new features for consumer product, sheet metal, and machine designers, 3D drawing view and design checker, as well as enhancements to the DWG Series and SolidWorks Office Premium.

With SolidWorks 2006, users can now continue to work in drawings without waiting for drawing views or system graphics to be recalculated, the company said. The release will support the Windows XP Professional x64 edition with a soon-to-be-released service pack. A native 64-bit version of SolidWorks 2006 is expected to ship later this year, promising further performance gains, the firm said.

 

 

601 and counting

 

 

The  members count in OURAeSI is as of now  601.  Great i am pleased and more importantly, the  club is growing  both quality wise, with regular contributions from the members.

 

Dean IIT Madras.......

Another gem from ouraesi. i  take this mail is true and i believe  it.

 

Read this mail by sent by Dean IIT Madras.......

Dear Friends,

Here is a personal experience, as well as a moment of national pride, which I want to share with you. Hope you find it worth the time you put in reading it :

"In the middle of 1965 India-Pakistan war, US govt - then a close friend of Pakistan - threatened India with stopping food-aid (remember "PL-480"?). For a food deficient India this threat was serious and humiliating. So much so that in the middle of war, Prime Minister (Late) Lal Bahadur Shastri went to Ram Leela Grounds in Delhi and appealed to each Indian to observe one-meal-fast every week to answer the American threat. As a school boy, I joined those millions who responded to Shastri ji's call. I continued the fast even when the war was over and India became self sufficient in food. Hurt deep by the national humiliation suffered at the hands of the US govt, I had vowed to stop my weekly fast only when India starts giving aid to USA.

It took just 40 years. Last week THE day arrived. When Indian ambassador in Washington DC handed over a cheque of US$ 50 million to the US govt, two plane loads of food, medical aid and other relief materials were waiting to fly to the USA. Time to break the fast? With no bad feeling about the USA, and good wishes for the Katrina victims, this humble Indian feels proud of the distance India has covered in 40 years. Let's celebrate a New India!"

- Vijay Kranti.
Dean - IIT Madras

 

September update

So September also flew by, here's my update for number of hours spent in NAL on different softwares.

This month, i have logged 103 hours of software time,  and this is  23% jump from the previous month.

In my tenths week at NAL, i think i am progressing well. Anyway the major thrust, as anybody seeing me would have concluded came from solid works.

I have extensively did that stuff this time and now even my boss acknowledges that I'm growing with it.

Another highlight of this month was, i have begin my ansys chapter. Will the last week, i have done pretty much everyday logging first ever 10 hours in Ansys.

Another interesting fact was that i haven't touched matlab and fortran this month.

The reason perhaps, i was busy with all this task of compressor building, so had to cope with it.

This month, i feel Tc lagged behind and I've to do it always, so this coming month, I'll make one complete Tc project on thermal cycle analysis of turbojet, turboprop engine.

This program will be a professional one and i would like to make it user friendly, customise able, accurate and use full.  I will make this program in spare time and gift the whole program to my guide scientist.

 

My ten hours with ANSYS?

 

Well, for MATLAB, i can say its help is great, i mean great. And i have only used it for 5 hours till now in my life and i can say confidently that given a chance, i will learn the software easily and can make it work the way i want.

But, unfortunately, ANSYS, doesn't come a wee bit closer to it, in terms of friendliness to use.

In my ten hours of its use, i have just now begin to get comfortable with it. The menu's are different, the help is cluttered, commands not presented all at one place and difficult to begin with, are few of its shortfalls.

Unlike matlab's  help, which expects you to be novice to it and takes you to the guided tour, ansys, lacks the lucidness, clarity and the initial interest factor for a beginner. Its  much easier to begin and learn as you go in MATLAB than this software.

 Few enhancement it could include are the first few chapters should be uncluttered, not much links should be provided and in the middle of the chapters do not provide information, not required now, put them at he end.

Well, a striking difference that anyone tinkering with this software will feel is  that its passive for most of the time.

This was a striking thing that hit me while using ansys, which in case of matlab is exactly opposite. Matlab it active and very interactive.

Well, not everything was negative in my experience with ansys. Something  were very intuitive like using this software it feels like you are setting up a display with all careful, definition and modelling and meshing and the final show is when you see the result. It feels  like  you are preparing for a magic show, with all those pre-possessing , defining and patient modeling.

The fact that i used, possions ratio, Young's modulus, coefficient of expansion and so forth and actually applied them in  a  software for analysis was another good thing i enjoyed. I always  thought  this  was the stuff for books to scare us !!!!  ( just kidding)

But the ultimate pleasure with this software is when you see your work, hours of modeling and meshing, give you the solution and mostly the animation that you can see.

Imagine making a truss and finding loads in each members automatically and moreover seeing actually how the structure deforms is a pleasure that you need to see to enjoy.

My ten hours in ansys were slow, but after getting results, i know  every seconds i spend on it was worthwhile. 

 

My ten hours with ANSYS?

Well, for MATLAB, i can say its help is great, i mean great. And i have only used it for 5 hours till now in my life and i can say confidently that given a chance, i will learn the software easily and can make it work the way i want.

But, unfortunately, ANSYS, doesn't come a wee bit closer to it, in terms of friendliness to use.

In my ten hours of its use, i have just now begin to get comfortable with it.
The menu's are different, the help is cluttered, commands not presented all at one place and difficult to begin with, are few of its shortfalls.

Unlike matlab's  help, which expects you to be novice to it and takes you to the guided tour, ansys, lacks the lucidness, clarity and the initial interest factor for a beginner. Its  much easier to begin and learn as you go in MATLAB than this software.

 Few enhancement it could include are the first few chapters should be uncluttered, not much links should be provided and in the middle of the chapters do not provide information, not required now, put them at he end.

Well, a striking difference that anyone tinkering with this software will feel is  that its passive for most of the time.

This was a striking thing that hit me while using ansys, which in case of matlab is exactly opposite. Matlab it active and very interactive.

Well, not everything was negative in my experience with ansys. Something  were very intuitive like using this software it feels like you are setting up a display with all careful, definition and modelling and meshing and the final show is when you see the result. It feels  like  you are preparing for a magic show, with all those pre-possessing , defining and patient modeling.

The fact that i used, possions ratio, Young's modulus, coefficient of expansion and so forth and actually applied them in  a  software for analysis was another good thing i enjoyed. I always  thought  this  was the stuff for books to scare us !!!!  ( just kidding)

But the ultimate pleasure with this software is when you see your work, hours of modeling and meshing, give you the solution and mostly the animation that you can see.

Imagine making a truss and finding loads in each members automatically and moreover seeing actually how the structure deforms is a pleasure that you need to see to enjoy.

My ten hours in ansys were slow, but after getting results, i know  every seconds i spend on it was worthwhile. 

a great concern really

I totally  agree with vladimir.  Its  a grave  concern and  it  must  be stopped. I have faced the same and i would like to tell everyone in who is from aesi and is doing training "don't  dig  hole for  your fellow aesian's, set a good example".

The day i went in NAL for the first time, i felt and i felt it again today through a friend of mine. Please don't dig graves while you are doing training.

What do i mean? I mean don't commit to any training if u are not serious of continuing it, don;t come to training  for "...aisse hi kar raha huin, kuch aur karneko nahi hai".  This is injurious to everyone including you.

While on training two things have startlingly become clear to me, one aesi graduates are truly knowledgeable and i have heard senior scients acknowledge the fact and the other not so good fact is that aesi folks are not responsible. The first thing my guide scientist said to me as i  asked for training under him was, " aesi     guys are good but you folks are not trust worthy, i know u will leave any day!, sorry i can't take you.", And i would have easily vanished his remark if i didn't have the knowledge that he is talking from his personal experience.

I was lucky that i could convince my scientist and got this but not everyone gets that and today as i saw the face of one of my acquaintance, who didn't get training just because some few lucky idiots got the chance easily and dumped it when they wanted, without even bothering what  repercussions it will have on future persons who seek the training seriously and who need it.

So, i got one little request to everyone doing the training right now that please be responsible, you got here easily but that doesn't give you the right to dig graves for the future aspirants. Be responsible. And when you are here, you have twin responsibilities,  and the other one is for the scientist who took you in. He didn't took u out of pity to give some training to u, but he needed a hand in work , so he wrote that "I'm willing to take this guy as my trainee "  Don' betray his judgement! You don't walk away from the movie theatre while your companion is watching the movie.

 

 And for all those who are planning to come,  please do a thorough soul searching that  u can continue and will continue it for the stipulated time period, know very well the reason why you want the training and will the organisation you choose will be help in that goal.

And believe me, this phenomenon of digging the grave is not local but I've talks with friends who confirm that it s really widespread. Even GTRE Scientist are very skeptics taking aesi  trainees. 

 

And  on the final note, the CTFD head of NAL, i heard said pointing to three students of aesi doing training there,"This is the last batch of aesi in CTFD , i won't  take any more" 

So  folks be responsible and remember pioneers don't  burn the bridges after they cross the river, they  built  it.

 

Life's Little instuction manual

 I  come  here to post  some thing that i wanted to  do but this post  intriged me so  much that i am sending it as a gem of ouraesi post to this blog. 

Thanks vladimir mclousky.  This one is one of your best. keep up the good work.

 

Life's Little Instruction Book
-: Contributed By :-
[Vinay Kumar]

Have a firm handshake.

Look people in the eye.

Sing in the shower.

Own a great stereo system.

If in a fight, hit first and hit hard.

Keep secrets.

Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.

Always accept an outstretched hand.

Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.

Whistle.

Avoid sarcastic remarks.

Choose your life's mate carefully. >From this one decision will come 90 per cent of all your happiness or misery.

Make it a habit to do nice things for people who will never find out.

Lend only those books you never care to see again.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all that they have.

When playing games with ! children, let them win.

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

Be romantic.

Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

Don't allow the phone to interrupt important moments. It's there for your convenience, not the caller's.

Be a good loser.

Be a good winner.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

Keep it simple.

Beware of the person who has nothing to lose.

Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

Live your life so that your epitaph could read, No Regrets

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the one's you did.

Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.

Remember no one makes it alone. Have a grateful heart and be quick to acknowledge those who helped you.

Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.

Visit friends and relatives when they are in hospital; you need only stay a few minutes.

Begin each day with some of your favorite music.

Once in a while, take the scenic route.

Send a lot of Valentine cards. Sign them, 'Someone who thinks you're terrific.'

Answer the phone with enthusiasm and energy in your voice.

Keep a note pad and pencil on your bed-side table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 a.m.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

Send your loved ones flowers. Think of a reason later.

Make someone's day by paying the toll for the person in the car behind you.

Become someone's hero.

Marry only for love.

Count your blessings.

Compliment the meal when you're a guest in someone's home.

Wave at the children on a school bus.

Remember that 80 per cent of the success in any job is based on your ability to deal with people.

Don't expect life to be fair.

oops

Oops well  that's  what  come out, as i saw my  PDA not getting connected to this cyber cafes computer and and so  guys please  wait for the next  post. There were two of them and i promise I'll post them by tomorrow or  at the latest  by  Monday evening.

 

 

One of it will go to ouraesi, because it concerns a trend among aesi students that needs to be stopped and others are just  usual  my  musings.

 

 

Anyway,  let me announce that ouraesi is now  getting at least 8 members per week  now and its growing  good.  So  carry on guys. good things  should flourish.

 

 

One more thing,  please begin contributing, its the ultimate mantra to  happiness. Hey  i have  become philosophical,  maybe  you  guys should call me me  some  baba  now.....  

Character certificate

 

 

14-9-05 10:08 pm

Nothing great happened in Nal today, but had the opportunity to see, touch and dismantle the MGT gas turbine engine's combustion chamber.

It was nothing spectacular as such, a cylindrical mild steel piece about a foot long, 15 cm wide, with copper fuel tubes tangling at one end. But nevertheless touching and dismantling it did was a new and nice xp for me.

As we were doing this, harish, my bench mate at clocter control room,  remarked when i blurted out "what I'm doing here with this screws drivers and wrench". He replied, candidly, "The work at clocter before the computer is for the technical certificate and this one is for the character certificate!" Liked he point of view and how true.

Well, I'll continue this things keeping a balance on this things.

And  today i paste  and reread it, i realize that  this will also  help me learn about the various instuments  of  my  trade, even today, i ws re-introduced to  vernier Calipers!!!  

 

A fatal mistake

Well  as  you can see this  one i am posting  late  but this one is the day of the big  mistake,  lets  read it, even i have forgotten it.

 

 

 

9-9-05 10:18 pm

Well today did a big blunder at nal before my boss. I was drawing the curve of impeller blade but somehow my coordinates didn't matched.

It was a matter of same. I felt bad that i did such a mistake and haven't even realised that i did it.

There is one another thing, in all these days i didn't even see the things i was supposed to see.
This was not the only thing, i also saw that i was not at all resourceful and went to my boss without results. Now i have o make it an habit that i have to complete the task as soon as it it given.

This impeller design took a lot of my time which it shouldn't have. Lesson learnt from this episode was put work before your pleasures and personal work.

Approach sir as quick as you can. Interact and update him daily, tell him where u are and what u are doing.

And the biggest lesson is to minimize mistakes. At all cost minimize this silly problems. As i did today with the design, do a systematic check, eliminate all doubts. This is the way forward.

A good point that i learnt today while working on solid works about how to solve a problem is to eliminate all the lines little by little, with patience and systematically and finally you will know where is the wrong.

In all my work in clocter I'll do this and make sure that from now on errors are non-existent!!!

 

What's up

I haven't began that project report not even today. That's bad. But i was busy.

And before i dig into that let me tell you about 3 things i have to do from now on in clocter.
I need to do programs with basics.  Reading them only won't help, i need to get dirty and try my hands in it. I will use the graphics features of it and make myself comfortable in it.

I will also take bold steps in sir's program and try to emulate them.

Graphics, programming is good but programming the programs of my field is the challenge and this is what I'll learn here.

Another thing is about solid works. I tend to forget things so I'll make it a point to visit its tutorial by doing an example a day everyday.

I need to proficient in it     and nothing but practice will make it work. I don't want to be like prasanth, as he forgets things in solidworks when this is his base and he is doing this all the time.

Anyway, in matlab i will learn the programing part and simulink. Read and practice here is here again.

After a long time

6-9-05 11:30pm

Today was an ordinary day for me. did nothing extra ordinary, though the presence of a certain ms king from Imperial college london was the highlight of the day.

All the day,today went in decorating the clocter,the place of my work. Every department of propulsion division opened its stall there, show casing its acheivement. What benifit it would bring to NAL, i don't have a way to know, but i guess this exercise gave the divisions to poIish there creations and maybe a reminder of how little, how small there contribution is.

Talking about contribution, don't know which department of propulsion division is the most fruitfull. Will find it.
 

 

AeSI rule has changed

 

Hi  there, 

 

Well here's  a news from AeSI. I was not able to categorise the news on whether it is bad or good  due  to  lack of information. It  concerns the reappearing rule.  So here is the basic  text  of the mail sent to GIE by AeSI. Concerned  person note and the rest  of  us, lets  find out "Is it  good or bad news!!!"

 

 

The Governing Council has approved following update in the Rule No. 7 in the Rules for the Examination. This concerns options for students to improve scores in various subjects, comes in force with immediate effect, and now reads as follows:- "A student desirous of improving his/her score in any subject in which he/she has already secured a pass mark, may be given one extra chance to take the subject examination, and the higher of his/her two scores in the two attempts will be considered as his final score in that subject."
 

as  always

 

Why was i busy

 

 

Sorry  for  the  delay, i was busy and the attached  file is  what i was  busy on. This will be also an experiment to see if i can post  photographs  in my  blog via email.

 

 

Well if  you  can see the image, its an compressor impeller, i was busy  designing it and the image is the result. Please do  leave comments on what  do you think of this.

 

Been bit lazy....

Hi  there,  i  have been bit  lazy in updating this blog. Well thanks to  my new PDA that i have acquired. It  has been eating away  my  time and the fact that  i write so  much in it, it  made me forgot that i have to make them online too.

 

Well  3 small posts are in the pipeline, one of  which deals with my  brief experience with the MATLAB.

 

 

Its  a  cool  software and more i will post in my next  post.

 

Well as for the things i have learnt at  CLOCTER.  I can  now  declare that i can use SOLIDWORKS and i am now  actually  good at it.

 

 

Oh almost  forgot, one of the blog post  waiting to be posted is about my  first impeller design!!!!  OK  then see  you  latter.

 

Be very precise what you want to do.

Bishnujee  is  a  guy  that  mails in ouraesi club regularly and  i have one more quote from him and that i think is great and very motivating  it  is  "Be very precise what you want to do " and am i precise?

 

 

I guess i am but will need a little fine tuning. Will think of this  and make a mail.  

 

 

 

Update on OURAeSI

 

As  of  today, Ouraesi membership  has swelled to 528 members and  no one would be more happy to  see this club flourish than me. Back in may 2002, when i first conceived and rolled the club out in the cyber space, i have this aim to reunite all the aesi'ans and to  give them a platform to interact.

 

Well, let this post be on what i was thinking when i initiated the club, Well in those day, i was new in chennai and had loads of question on which stream to choose, what is the best way to study flights and etc. and I found the available resources and people too sparse. And moreover my introvert nature was another hindrance to come forward and ask  someone new, so that necessity  gave birth to OURAeSI club.  Here i would like to  state that  this club was stated by me but the real driver were all those  people who joined this and drove it to where it is now. I can't  thank much to the support of Thean mani, Gururaj and Anshuman, who  gave tremendous support and inputs to make this club to what it is now.

 

I am glad OURAeSI club is there and i am happy to know this will remain and will flourish as  we come and go. 

 

Its Kis's day

Well  today a good  day  for  kis, or to ay it in a better way,  i liked the way  kis worked today!!  He was positive, He took initiative and  he  overcame the fear to  do the things for himself.

 

 

From the beginning of the day, he was good and without  complaining or grumbling, he went  straight to work with whatever tools he had and did a good job, which  lead to a small success, which boasted his and mine confidence too.

 

Well  3 things are good today.

 

1.  He had a plan for the day and he carried the plan well.

 

2.  He didn't wait for his boss to  call him and hand him the experiment, but instead took the horse in his hand and drove it to the success.

 

3.  His  boss in not methodical as he should have been, so  this actions of kis will give directions to his and his boss project.

 

 

One good thing about his boss is that he encourages creativity and do-the-things yourself and that can be a great advantage for him and many under him, if he can take this positively.  He can perhaps take up the challenge to do the things he said he said to me when i arrived here in Bangalore.

 

Well in a way, i liked the day for kis, because he did all that things that he said to me when i arrived a month ago.

 

 

Anyway,  coming to myself, as august ends, i have calculated that my software hours as of now stands at 84 hours, with c taking the most 24 hours and solid works following with 16 hours.

 

Anyway learnt a thing about myself that whenever i got stuck in a c program, i went out and during the walk or after just returning to my desk, i solved the problems.  Will apply this techniques in all things in future. 

 

well time to go, maybe i will order  the palm tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

Analysis of result june 2005

Someone very eloquently put it " Its cold, its calculating. There is
no grey. Its all black or white". She was talking about maths and
statistics. Well that 's the very thing that's attractive about them.
They give answers. Here are the answers, that i got from the analysis
of the results this time, which as you maybe aware i am in the habit
of doing it for the past semesters.

This analysis is my 6th one, and having the data's for the past years
have given a unique perspective to this analysis, as i have compared
them all together as you will see from the graphs.

For the benefit of all those like me who are more akin to figures and
graphs, i have added like last year the magic of excel graphs. Eye
pleasing and informative at the same time. So without much adieu
lets begin.

Section A

a. In section A, as always principal of flights has the lowest passing
percentage. With 7.36% passing that is 7.36 people passing out of 100
hundred who appeared for the exam.

b. Best performance for the last four semesters is of ED, Which has
46.37% pass out this time.

c. Fluids is the subject with most number of student appearing this
time in any subject of section a.

d. The subjects of Thermo, Maths-II, Solids and fluids had more than
1100 student appearing in each! This probably stems from the backlog
that gets created as the students fail in this subjects in previous
semester.

e. 18.125 out of 100 people who had appeared in any subject of section
A has cleared the subjects. This number is fairly constant for the
last semesters as seen from the trend line of

sec a.

f. Of all the semesters, June 2003 has the lowest pass out percentage
in Section A, highest being December 2002 semester.

g. If you look closely at the data, you will see that this is the
first time that any
subjects pass out in Section A has crossed more than 45% and subject
who broke the record is ED.

Section B

a. In propulsion stream, biggest shocker is VMD result which
previously always hovered along 80% pass out line, but this time it
had Nil passing percentage, with no one passing out of 35 who
appeared.

b. Propulsion two is the top scorer of this semester in propulsion
stream with 84.62% passing percentage. This subjects passing
percentage fairly remained close to this 80% line only dip was in June
2004, when it went below 40%!!

c. Math-III is the second best in prop stream, with close to 60+%
passing percentage and many above 70+ marks!!

d. In propulsion I, the passing percentage has declined from 55+% in
December 2002 to 48% this semester.

e. In all propulsion core subjects, propulsion III is always the one
with lowest pass outs and this perhaps explains the maximum number of
students that appeared for it this time in propulsion stream.

f. Structure one is the highest scorer in aerodynamics stream of
section B, with an all time high of 86.21% pass outs and the marks i
heard were generous, as one of my acquaintance got 93, highest ever
mark i have heard of

g. Vibration also made a good showing with 71.87% passing percentage.
This is highest for vibration in last 6 semesters.

h. Aerodynamics one was a shocker this time, as only 3 out of 52 who
appeared passed. Looking at the data, you Will learn that aeroone has
the distinction of being the subject with highest ever pass outs of
AeSI, which was in dec 2003, got 90.47% passed in this subject.

i. With an average of 56.87%, aerodynamics stream for the first time
has overtaken the passing percentage of propulsion stream, which for
this semester stands at its lowest 43.36%!!

j. Compared to all the passing percentages for last 6 semesters,
propulsion streams results this time were lowest.

Well, if this facts enlightens you, i am sure the graphs that follows
will add more to your understandings, so take a look.

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Someone asked me "why do you do it?" well i do it because it give
answers, nay stupid answer. I do it because i love doing it. Please
don't forget to send your "hate mails" i love receiving them, they
decorate my email!!! :)

enjoy
sukhbinder

ps: The graphics takes sometime to load if your connection is slow, be patient.

IF they can do it, why can't NAL?

Yesterday was good day in a sense as i saw the flights of 6 r/c
aircraft's. Well in a way it was like my first test flight. only
difference being instead of testing own-build aircraft we were
assembled there for a session of seeing these commercial radio
controlled planes fly. The event went well, with only 6-7 people
involved and a total of 12 person present there at the time of flights
, everything went smoothly.

First test flight of a flying saucer type aircraft failed. It couldn't
generate enough lift to be up.After two and three miss starts, one
particular light weight plane did the flight we all were waiting for,
it soared high and was up in the sky for 4 minutes, with making
several rounds above us and finally making a smooth real aircraft type
landing. It got the applause we all were ready to release.

The most expected disappointment was the helicopter, it had some cool
advancements, as i learnt latter, but it was flimsy and fragile and
it paid the price at the very beginning of the show.

The supersonic stealth fighter type aircraft also impressed, as i saw
Sankar Narayan sir, taking much interest in it, probably because he
has selected that very triangular wing configuration and also the fact
that this aircraft was much smaller. But this one had an inherent
disadvantage of no rudder and aileron, so all the work needs to be
done with differential control of the aircraft's propellers!!!

An interesting incident happened when Radha Krish sir piloted the
stealth aircraft and it went straight to the bushes.

One particular thing that i learnt today was about SN sir,( he is
kis's boss,) was that he has foresight and he thought of everything
and he was prepared to have a tea biscuit party after the show and it
was i think his best demonstration.

He is a hard task master and has the unique ability to inspire
people. Full of tales and anecdotes, he never fails to tell you a
tale or something. So here in the NAL cricket ground, during the
flight test, he assembled the talents of Indian Aeronautical and
challenged them to think up of ways to ignite the passion.

At that time, while on the show this all looked like nothing, what
good it is when you see that NAL, India's premiere lab which has
graduates like SARAS, HANSA and LCA, will let there scientists fly
commercial radio controlled air crafts. It looked like shame. But
now i realize the real purpose behind the show and it shows how
clever SN sir is. With this field trip he reignited the flame of
creativity , challenge in everyone present there. He instilled "If
they can do it, why can't NAL"

First flight test

11:57 AM 8/24/2005

Yesterday was a good day, as i initiated my way to drawing. On my
boss's requirement i have to learn solid works. He said in future, i
will need more people to take care of the drawings and so i need and
extra hand and i have to be prepared for it. I guess is genuine and
not a way to let me stick with some thing non essential. Anyway my
benefit will be I'll learn solid works and what the heck. If i had to
do it all by myself then, i don't think i would have touched this
software, anyway great, doing something is better than not doing
anything! And it will add weight to my resume too.

well yesterday was a good day for one more reason. The reason was i
have developed a way to measure my effectiveness in nal. The main
premise is based on the fact that all the time i am in NAl, most of
the time, i am in front of a computer, so i will measure my
effectiveness, on the amount of time that i spend on different
software. This has two advantages, one that i will have a log of what
software and how many hours i have used that particular software and
the other advantage being to have the opportunity to learn the
software. I have selected 8 soft wares that i plan to learn while i
am in NAL, some of which i have started and some i will begin as the
work progress here. So this way my work will be cut out here, if I'm
not working on a project for sir, then I'm completing my computing
hours on a particular software.

I firmly believe that to be a knowledgeable software user, you have to
spend time with her, this is just like us, more we spend our time with
each other, more we discover each other. Same goes for
software's........

By playing with software, i don't mean checking out menus and reading
help, to truly know you need to take live projects and solve them, by
solving problems will you learn.

1:33 PM 8/26/2005
well yesterday was a good day, as my boss praised me. He said he was
happy with my work and i am the right kind of a person he was looking
for. I am glad to hear this. And would like that this should always
be there and i do as expected and better .

Well one thing i learnt yesterday from him, was the value of
accountability and not to bend rules, rules are rules. And today
was good in the sense i saw the flights of 6 r/c aircraft's. Well in
a way it was like my first test flight. only difference being instead
of testing own-build aircraft we were assembled there for a session of
seeing these commercial radio controlled planes fly. The event went
well, with only 6-7 people involved and a total of 12 person present
there at the time of flights , everything went smoothly. First test
flight of a flying saucer type aircraft failed. It couldn't generate
enough lift to be up.After two three miss starts, one particular light
weight plane did the flight we all were waiting for, it soared high
and was up in the sky for 4 minutes, with making several rounds above
us and finally making a smooth real aircraft type landing. It got the
applause we all were ready to release.

The most expected disappointment was the helicopter, it had some cool
advancements, as i learnt latter, but it was flimsy and it paid the
price at the very beginning of the show.

The supersonic stealth fighter type aircraft also impressed, as i saw
sankar narayan sir, taking much interest in it, probably because he
has selected that very triangular wing configuration and also the fact
that this aircraft was much smaller. But this one had an inherent
disadvantage of no rudder and aileron, so all the work needs to be
done with differential control of the aircraft's propellers!!!

An interesting incident happened when radha krish sir piloted the
stleath aircraft and it went straight to the bushes.

One particular thing that i learnt today was about sn sir, he is kis's
boss, it was that he has foresight and he thought of everything and he
was prepared to have a tea biscuit party after the show and it was i
think his.........

oops had to stop some work came by. will chat latter

From cyber cafe

4:41 PM 8/9/2005

Things i learnt today

Saw the basics of MATLab and with Fortran i learnt about taking
in data from texts files and then making them reading them from
the file and making the program runI am working on a simple turbojet
program which i have to read and decipher and then modify for
sir's use.

We are really interested in a small range and i will make the programs here.
will catch up latter bye

9:19 AM 8/11/2005

well yesterday was my day with my guide scientist. I
encountered a problem in fortran and i was not able to pin point
the problem in the code, so had to call sir and after a long
debugging process, we finally understood the result.

I liked the session as i saw how sir's mind was working. As i saw
myself jumping to conclusions, he remained on the program and began
analizing the program from the beginning

and bit by bit, patiently he solved the program. So learnt the
lesson of going to the root of the problem.

For today, i plan to read matlab simulink and check if c program
works in this fortran program. Sir will be absent today so i want
to learn and try as much MATLAB as i can. I also intend to modify
this fortran program to give me the output as i want it!!!

3:36 PM 8/11/2005

What i did today?

This is the first day when my guide scientist is not in clocter
for the whole day and i have this control room (as it is called) all
to myself.

They say you reveal yourself when you are alone, or when you
know you are not being watched? So i learnt one thing about
myself, that i am a computer fan and addict as i read about fuzzy
logic, how to use it, didi a small basic simulik model and read
and showed kishore MATLAb's capabilites.

I have a deep interest in FL and AI and i want to pursue it further
and would like to engage in a field that entwines aerospace and
software and FL AN and AI.

FL and AI will be of great use for autonomous vehicles, probes and scientific
experiments and i want to be a part of this when it happens here in India!!

4:42 PM 8/12/2005
Well today i have learnt two things one use the units and when
you have done a thing do it properly and if there is a fault in
your calculations ,find it before proceeding.

I went to my G Sc without that and had to get a secret some advice
and he asked me to be careful. Well that's what i learnt today.

Another thing that i felt was how clearly sir, stirred me from one
stage to another. And now the whole picture that he has painted for
me is coming in focus. Though lot of fuzz is still there but i am in
the project of MGT.

will go now will write latter

3:39 PM 8/16/2005

How do i describe today. I did a lot of calculation but my boss is
busy today and so he has not even looked at my data and has
dismissed me. Well lets see, maybe this will make me learn more. I
will learn more about the topic i am in.

sometimes this feels like not contributing anything to him. I want
to be a real help to him and want real work and this i know is his
test work by which he is testing me.

Well someone said that you must always go the extra mile. Am i
going with my boss. No i guess not, but i am trying and i will surely
get the reward.

I will learn more and more about the topics i have to read and i will
make sure that i know what i am needed to to do the next day.

One strategy to cope with sir is to know fully and to know what is
going to come next and this comes by observation and questioning. Be
vigilant

3:25 PM 8/18/2005

WELL TODAY WAS NOT BAD. i DID SOME CALCULATIONS AND NOTHING MUCH.
My BOSS DIDN'T COME

MUCH, THOUGH I WOULD LIKE HIM TO COME MORE OFTEN.

yesterday was also same, only thing was that he had a presentation and
so he took some randomly calculated values to the committee. Maybe
those were a small part in his over all presentation.

Kishore attended the brain storming session and he was excited about
it. My boss didn't take me. But his boss took him as the projector.
Well next time i will ask my boss to take me too. Lets see what they
are talking there. Anyway learning something here has too options. on
you have to come prepared that you will do this and that thing, then
only can you prepare and get the maximum out of the stay here. I
plan to learn matlab and fortran and autocad by this month.

I will learn the BASICs of this softwares and drive this knowledge to
the level seekd by the companies.

How can one improve the environment of clocter. well this is not
the .... sir is coming

2:31 PM 8/22/2005

Well today is bore, i have no work and my boss is busy so here i am
whiling my time.

Although i took this opportunity to make a make that graphs of
passing percentage and the task i take up twice in months years
time.

I have finished some of it and conclusions are remaining and those
will be there in the at home. I will take this file and will upload
it back to my site and in gmail. Another thing is that i need to
look a more methodical approach.

By methodical i mean, to make a template and in which i just need to
add the values to get that percentages and reports.

Well what was the most surprising fact that i have learnt from this
analysis, it was that section a in DEC 2004 had the lowest passing
percentage. In propulsion stream, sir came so had to stop.

June 2005 result a preview

Hello there,
if you all follow the ouraesi club, you will know that after each
exam i do a small statistical anlysis of the results, giving a proper
idea on how many student passed ina particular subject, stream and
area.

So this semster is no different. I am in the process of doing that
right now, but here in this blog, i am sharing a preveiw of what is
to come.

18.125 % out of 100 students who appeared in any subject of section
A passed. This is really constant for the last 6 semesters of which i
have records.

Why is this so, i don't have a definte answer. But then theree is an
interesting number that number of student appearing in thermo,
fluids, maths 2 and solids is all avove 1100 students!!!

43.36 % is the average pssing percentage of section B propulsion
stream, where aerodynamics this time notched 58.87% .

This is not common as from the last 6 semesters its the propulsion
stream that was excelling but this time generous marks in structures
pushed aerodynamic streams passing percentage ahead of propulsion!!!

In propulsion stream the biggest shocker is the VMD result. In the
last 4 semesters whose result i have, the passing percentage hovered
around 80+% passing out of hundred who appear for the exam but this
time no one passed out of the 35 who appeared!!! That was a not a
surprise to me, as i had the personal experience of appearing in
this exam and the drastic , sudden change in question paper was the
main reason to blame!!!

anyways, this is just the preview, more will come when i bring out
the summary in detain due in this week, with graphs!!! so w ait on.

please do reply if you have any suggestion or queries. Love to hear
from you.