The document discusses the skills needed for engineers of the future, including critical thinking, collaboration, accountability, emotional intelligence, and learning agility. It provides examples of activities to develop these skills, such as lateral thinking puzzles and group storytelling exercises. The document also presents ideas for engineering projects, such as paper pens that plant trees and using copper coins to cool laptops. Overall, the document advocates that engineers need strong soft skills to create new ideas and help innovations become reality.

1. SKILLED ENGINEERS –
UNLEASHING THE POWER
WITHIN

3. What is the necessity of skilled
engineers?

4. ENTERPRENEURIAL ENTERPRISING ENGINEER
 Knows every thing
 Can do any thing
 Works with anybody anywhere
 Imagines and can make the imagination
reality

5. ENGINEERS OF THE FUTURE
 They must be able to
do more than just
perform technical tasks
 Responsible for
creating new ideas
and solutions
 Must be able to help
the innovation become
a reality

6. 1.CRITICAL & LATERAL THINKING
 Critical thinking is the
intellectually disciplined
process of actively and
skillfully conceptualizing,
applying, analyzing,
synthesizing, and/or
evaluating information
gathered from, or generated
by, observation, experience,
reflection, reasoning, or
communication, as a guide
to belief and action
 Lateral thinking aims to
put data/information into
a new or different context
(in order to generate
alternative answers or
solutions)

8. Activity-1
Four square riddle-Think critically

9. DIVIDE ‘A’ BY TWO EQUAL PARTS

10. DIVIDE ‘B’ BY THREE EQUAL PARTS

11. DIVIDE ‘C’ BY FOUR EQUAL PARTS

12. DIVIDE ‘D’ BY SEVEN EQUAL PARTS

13. “The secret of change is to focus all of your
energy not on fighting the old, but on
building the new”
- socrates

14. Activity-2
An Exercise in
Lateral Thinking

15.  3 of the glasses are filled with orange juice,the
other 3 are empty.By moving only one glass can
you arrage them so the full and empty glasses are
alternate.
PUZZLE-1

16. ANSWER-1
 Take the second glass
from left,pour the
contents into 5th glass
from the left then
return it to original
position.

17. PUZZLE-2
 Adam had none. Eve had two . Everyone now a
days has three. What are they?
Clue:

18. ANSWER-2
 The letter ‘e’

19. PUZZLE-3
 All you have to do is move three balls to make
the triangle point downwards?
Clue:

20. ANSWER-3

21. PUZZLE-4
 There are six eggs in the basket. Six people each
take one egg, how can it be that one egg is left in
the basket?
Clue:

22. ANSWER-4

23. PUZZLE-5
 Remove two matchsticks from this figure to make
two squares remain.
Clue:

24. ANSWER-5

25. “I AM JUST FOLLOWING WHAT MY
PREDECESSOR USED TO DO”

26. 2.COLLOBORATION
 Collaboration is in its simplest, and most understandable form, is
getting individuals, who may or may not have similar interests, to
work together in an organized endeavor to a satisfying and most
appropriate group end.

27. FOUR STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL COLLABRATION
1. Break down the task
2. Communicate
3. Listen
4. Be responsible/Be
accountable

28. COLLABORATION-TEAM WORK
Activity-3

29. THE TRUTH
 Form a group each of ten
 Create a story

30. MAN VS NATURE
Form a group each of ten
Create a story

31. JUDGEMENT BASED ON
 Communicates with
confidence
 Listen actively
 Treat others in
respectful and
supportive manner
 Active participants
 Adapts quickly and
easily
 All should write one
persons name based
on these qualities

33. A STORY OF UBUNTU – I AM WHAT I AM
BECAUSE OF WHO WE ALL ARE
 “If you want to go
fast, go alone. If you
want to go far, go
together.” -African
Proverb

34. 3.ACCOUNTABILITY
 Accountability has sometimes also been used as
a synonym for responsibility.

35. 1. You perform better under observation.
2. Accountability forces you follow through on
commitments.
3. Accountability creates firm deadlines for
important tasks
4. Learn from the successes and failures of
others.
5. Accountability prevents little problems from
turning into big ones.

37. 4.EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
 Emotional Intelligence. Dr. Goleman
described emotional intelligence as a
person's ability to manage his feelings so
that those feelings are expressed
appropriately and effectively

39. 5 SKILLS TO DEVELOP EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT
1. Rapidly reduce stress.
2. Emotional awareness
3. Use humor and play to deal with challenges
4. Resolve conflict positively.

40. FOR THE SAME CHALLENGE, TWO INDIVIDUAL
CAN RESPOND COMPLETE DIFFERENT WAYS

41. 5.LEARNING AGILITY
 "Learning Agility" is a competency or
capability which describes a person's speed
to learn. In most businesses, this skills is
considered one of the most important factors
in great leadership. People with strong
"learning agility" can rapidly study, analyze,
and understand new situations and new
business problems.

42. WHAT ARE SOFT SKILLS?
 Collaboration
 Critical thinking
 Accountability
 Emotional intelligence
 Learning agility

43. STORIES OF GREAT PERSONALITIES

44. WALT DISNEY
A Cartoonist, animator ….

45. J K ROWLING
An author

46. STEVE JOBS
An Entrepreneur
“A creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive
revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music,
phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing."

47. CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
An Mathematician
A Child Prodigy

48. KOCHOUSEPH CHITTILAPPILLY
An Business Man

49. DHIRUBHAI AMBANI
An Business Man

50. PROJECT IDEAS

51. 1.PAPER PENS THAT NOT ONLY REDUCE
PLASTIC WASTE BUT ALSO HAVE SEEDS
THAT GROW INTO TREES!
 The seeds the pens carry
are of the versatile
Agasthya tree, also known
as the hummingbird tree.
These trees hold a special
place in Ayurveda for their
medicinal properties.

53. 2.AQUAPONICS
Aquaponics = aquaculture (the raising of edible
fish) + hydroponics (growing vegetables and herbs
without soil).

54. 3. IS YOUR COMPUTER OVERHEATING A LOT?
YOU CAN SOLVE IT BY STACKING COPPER COINS
 A Japanese Twitter user
hit upon a brilliant idea to
prevent the overheating
issue in your laptop. All
you need is to stack
copper coins over it. The
thermal conductivity of
copper is much higher
than that of aluminum,
which is used to make
most of the laptop cases
including the MacBook
Pro.

55. 4. HOW YOU CAN MAKE A VACUUM CLEANER
USING A PLASTIC BOTTLE


56. 5. CONTROLLING 70-TON GRIPPER ARMS FOR
OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE CONSTRUCTION
USING LABVIEW AND COMPACTRIO


58. 5.TRANSFORM YOUR SMARTPHONE INTO A 3D
HOLOGRAM PROJECTOR WITH AN OLD CD CASE
 http://wonderfulenginee
ring.com/transform-
your-smartphone-into-
a-3d-hologram-
projector-with-an-old-
cd-case/

59. 5.TRANSFORM YOUR SMARTPHONE INTO A 3D
HOLOGRAM PROJECTOR WITH AN OLD CD CASE
 http://wonderfulenginee
ring.com/transform-
your-smartphone-into-
a-3d-hologram-
projector-with-an-old-
cd-case/

60. THANK YOU

61. PYGMALION EFFECT
 Performance can be
directly influenced by
the perceptions of our
bosses

62. PERSPECTIVE MATTERS

63. 2. GUY MAKES A MINI WINDMILL SMARTPHONE
CHARGER FROM AN OLD COMPUTER FAN
 There are different portable
chargers out there to charge
your smartphone on the go.
They include solar chargers,
power banks and even wind-
based ones and all of them
are good but are expensive if
you want to buy them in retail.
We are going to present you
with a simple DIY through
which you can make your own
$10 wind-based charger and
would be able to charge the
phone while biking or traveling
in any vehicle. It is a very
simple project involving an old
computer fan..

65. TRANSFORMER WORKING
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