Sadgati P Srinivas – SOIL Vasu. Founder, Sustainable Organic Initiatives for Livelihood Foundation, SOIL Foundation and SOIL Trust. Karnataka-based Advocate of Matter, Moisture, Microbes – 3Ms in soil. His contributions include: promoting sustainable agriculture; soil health; farmer-centric soil biodiversity atlases; and local markets.
Ozone, Ozone layer. O3 gas. The Stratospheric ozone layer acts as a protective barrier blocking harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation in the upper atmosphere. On the other hand, tropospheric ozone forms from pollutants like nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in sunlight.
Bharata Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, 164 [15 September 1861 – 12/14 April 1962). Engineer – civil engineer; administrator. Dewan (Prime Minister) of Mysore. Worked with British India and Hyderabad State, apart from Mysore State. Board Director in Tata Steel. He designed: flood protection system for Hyderabad from Musi river; system to protect Visakhapatnam port from sea erosion; Krishna Raja Sagar dam; Tungabhadra dam; plan for road between Tirupati and Tirumala; Mokama bridge over Ganga. Bangalore engineering college, Railway lines in Mysore, Bangalore Agri University, and State Bank of Mysore.
Engineer. Engineer, engineering comes from ‘engine’; engine comes from ‘smart invention’. Engineering is the creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behaviour under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property. It is the practice of applying/using science, mathematics et al to solve problems, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve systems. It includes many subfields related to infrastructure, machinery, vehicles, electronics, materials, and energy systems. First engineering disciplines include: chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical. More got added in due course – aerospace, agriculture, automative, biomedical, computer, electronics, communications, environment, industrial, information, marine, materials, naval, nuclear, metallurgical, mining, software, instrumentation, textiles, forensic et al. Engineering management, management engineering. Social, political, marketing, financial, systems engineering.
Engineering’s focus is on systematic design and creation of products, processes, and systems; Technology is broader, application of knowledge, tools, products. Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, in a reproducible way. It includes products from such efforts. Tangibles and intangibles. Using tangible and intangible tools. Technology comes from ‘knowledge, craft, art of how to make things or way of doing’; the systemic use of knowledge to practical ends. The philosophy of technology is concerned with the ‘meaning of technology for, and its impact on, society and culture’. Science concerns itself with what is, technology with what is to be. Academically, we moved from BEs to B Techs as the courses available across.
In our careers, what brought us here, may not take us forward. It may in fact destroy us. We know we have blind spots. Our default behaviours cannot withstand the new pressure(s). We moved on to be in presence-based leadership? Not role-based. For trust, collaboration and results. Can we change and nudge ourselves to have the balanced focus, warmth, and soft power(s) we have? Being on the ground.
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Focus, warmth, power. In N? yathayogyayoga for 7L.