The document is a speech given on Engineer's Day celebrating engineers and the profession of engineering. It discusses how Engineer's Day honors Sir M. Visvesvaraya for his work developing dams, bridges and irrigation systems. It questions whether India, which produces millions of engineers each year, is utilizing them effectively. It argues that engineering should be more of an interest and passion rather than just a profession. The speech calls on educators to improve teaching methodologies and ensure students learn how they should. It concludes with a pledge for engineers to pursue their profession with passion and honesty, for the benefit of humanity.

1. A very good afternoon and an extremely happy Engineer’s day to
Hon’ble Director Sir, Principal Sir, Faculty, Staff & all other esteemed
dignitaries sitting here.
And of course, how can I forget to greet the young engineering
students, my colleagues & my juniors who represent the future of this
Engineer’s day.
Happy Engineer’s day to all of you!!!
I am personally thankful to the Student Activity Department for
organizing such an auspicious event in this campus full of engineers.
Hope that such events bring us all together on the same platform and
hence enhance interaction and communication among the members
of this BRCM family.
I deem it a great pleasure to address the teachers, professors,
engineers and a thread of professionals from this podium on the
celebration of the 45th Engineer’s day.
Engineer’s day is celebrated in several countries of the world on
different days. In India, it is celebrated on September 15 in the honor
of Sir M. Visvesvaraya who was recognized for his genius in
harnessing the water resources. He was responsible for successful
design & construction of several river dams, bridges & implementing
irrigation and drinking water schemes all over India.
Engineer’s day poses an interesting question in my mind and I believe
this question must have struck you many times. “How golden is
Mother India who is blessed with millions of engineers every year”.

2. Perhaps it is difficult to answer: depends on the perception you see it
with.
However, I see it both in a positive and negative approach.
Perhaps in this rat race, we have lost the actual definition of
engineers. We calculate the number of degrees sold in a particular
year, not the quality which comes out of that business.
I leave it up to you to decide the way you want to calculate this
number.
We engineers perhaps have lost the sense of observance somewhere
in the race of marks. Engineering should perhaps be more of an
interest than a profession. A small child is also an engineer who
engineers his dreams on the sand, making castles.
I am not here on this stage to tell you what Engineer’s day is, but what
it should be.
The celebration of this Engineer’s day will perhaps be incomplete if it
does not ignite the spark in our minds to do something for the nation
and for our people. We have lost engineering somewhere between
the last night fights and ruthless assignments.
A teacher is a person who can mould the student the way he wants
him to be. Perhaps that’s why he stands at the highest levels of the
society having power to decide the future of a country.
But are we really teaching them they way they should be taught? Ask
yourself candidly.
Students are the assets of the country.

3. A student should ask himself, “Am I learning the way I should learn?”
Do not always blame others. “Be the change, you want to see in the
world.”
We need a lot more to improve with the teaching and learning
methodologies because from the womb of those methods, an
engineer is born. An engineer is not just the person who is carrying a
B.Tech. Degree in his hand, but it is the every element of this society
who serves as its building block.
I consider every profession Engineering.
A teacher engineers a student. A principal engineers an institution. A
doctor engineers medicine. A politician engineers politics and so on.
Of course, parents engineer their kids.
On this engineer’s day, we need to sign a pledge to adopt the best
practices & work with positive energy to reach the goals. We are not
here to cheat ourselves.
I am sure that each one of you has different dreams but surely you
should never give up your dreams and aspirations for it is those
aspirations that will drive you to higher levels of achievements and
make your life purposeful. Here I would like to quote the four lines
from former honourable president Dr. Kalam’s address.
“When you wish upon a star,
Makes no difference who you are,
Anything your heart desires,
Will come to you?

4. Now I request all of you to please stand and pledge with me on the
eve of this engineer’s day.
“I pledge that I as an engineer will strive to be an engineer by passion
more than by profession. I will try my best for igniting, motivating,
and accelerating the enthusiasm in the minds of my fellow beings. My
job as an engineer won’t be just for the sake of money, but for the
sake of humanity. I shall do my job with utmost honesty for my job is
divine. I feel proud to call myself an engineer. I thank my parents, my
school, my teachers, my alma mater, my country and every person in
my life for supporting me to grow up as an engineer. I promise myself
that I as a teacher would feel immense pleasure teaching students,
and as a student feel immense pleasure being taught. I wish myself a
very happy engineer’s day.”
Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan