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Flying Helicopters are my inspiration - Mr. Kaada Rami Reddy, Sr Scientist in Australias Defence

“I used to sit in the last row in my classroom during my engineering days. Today I am a scientist, working for Australian government - National security. Looking at my fellow students working so hard in my university, I had competed with them even harder and achieved my dreams. I firmly believe every student who faced or facing certain difficulties in life, will challenge every situation they come across and certainly will reach their goals”, senior scientist at Australia’s national security aeronautical department, Mr . Kaada Rami Reddy says.

Profile:
  • Native: Anantapur, AP
  • Education: M.Tech Aeronautical Engineering at IIT Chennai, Ph D from Sydney University
  • Achievement: 34 articles have been published in the international journals
Job at Australia’s national security
After completing my PhD at Sydney University I had an opportunity to join as a research engineer at government’s aeronautical research laboratory and currently working as a scientist at helicopter specialization department. It costs 2 crores per hour to quality check on newly built helicopter’s , we use the computer simulation model to reduce the costing on quality check time, by doing that we not only reduce the costing but also it helps to improve accuracy, identifies defects and prevents accidents.

Engineering standards in Australia
In recent years the Engineering educations in Australia have been improved and setting worldly standards. Every graduate has at least minimum two job offers from various industries across the country. There are many companies who approaches universities, exchange their ideas and invest money in to the research units to further improve their efficiency to deliver better services and products to their customers. And this shows the trust they keep in engineering students and their universities.

The future in the Engineering sector in India
In the coming few years the engineering sector in India will improve and advance more in building new technologies. Strength in the B.Tech and M.Tech universities will increase rapidly in the coming years. Unlike mechanical, civil and electronics engineering there are many other new specializations available for new graduates to choose from and if we can generate quality engineers from these specialization I believe nothing can stop India to become a technology leader in the world. Engineering standards must always align with Industries requirements in the real world, in many cases the education which is provided by the universities is quite irrelevant to industries requirements and that has become a major setback for industries to find a candidate with a relevant skill set and so more job less engineers in our society.

Companies, universities, professors and students has to work together to improve their current status in terms of subject syllabus, industries expectations and other factors. As a priority these entities has to come together to a build a solid ground, mutual expectations and a strong relationship to create wonders in the future. And I believe these are factors which are lacking in the current Indian Engineering sector.

Difference in Research between Australia and India
There are many facilities provided by the government or private aids for scientists in Australia. Industries across the country visits universities and interact with university personals, Research & development units, investigate and find out requirements for the development of future technologies. Based on necessities, requirements from the research groups and the innovative scholars, funds are released accordingly to build new technologies which in turn help to grow our social standards. Whereas the Indian government is not able to facilitate or provide necessary support, equipment to our scientists as required. Our scientist should be given enough freedom to inspire, to let follow their passion and help build a better country.

There are many senior scientists in our country, who has incredible innovative minds and passionate to invent something new, due to lack of enough support our scientists are left behind. There are many Indian scientists across the world and I believe if our government recognizes those talents, embrace those talents and let our industries meet them work together, I am confident we can build a better world.

Advice to our students
Passion, hardworking nature, thoughts to think higher and better, try not to lose the confidence during tough times are the most essential ingredients for our scientists or for our students to achieve their goals in life. Especially for our engineering student try not let yourself down thinking that my college standards are lower than others and solution to bypass all these hurdles is to be industrious and build self-confidence within oneself.

For students who wants to get in to research and development has to define their interest in subjects, selecting those subjects, maneuvering those subjects to the career path by building bridge between the areas of interest ,career and settlement in life.
Compared to olden days the current Engineering universities are providing better facilities to their students, however, I see the relationship between the students and professors is slimming down and that particular gap is not able to win the student confidence on their institutes and that might let our students to let back on their passion to help build a better society.
Published date : 10 Mar 2012 05:37PM

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