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PREFACE
The Institution of Engineers (India) was founded in 1920 in response to
the felt need of the government of training technical manpower for building
infrastructure in the country at the beginning of the 20 th century. Realising
the need for a multi-faculty integrated approach for technical manpower
development, the government decided in favour of the Institution to
embrace all the faculties of engineering prevalent at that time. The available
models of Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers from UK were referred
but the model preferred for India was an integrated model. This model has
not only served the development needs of the country in the initial stages
but has been effectively serving the national needs ever since.
The Institution of Engineers (India), IE(I), has realized that engineers
make huge contribution across the world in the present globalized economy,
but their role is generally not properly understood. Engineering solves global
problems and improves health and wealth of nations.
Engineers help
Engineering is
for and about people, about making the world a better place to live.
Nearly 40 years ago, to be precise in 1971, Toffler argued that by
changing our relationship to the resources that surround us, by violently
expanding the scope of change and most crucially, by accelerating its pace,
humanity has broken irretrievably with the past. We have cut ourselves off
from the old ways of thinking, feeling, and of adapting.
stage for a completely new society and we are now racing towards it. What
we could see only in a diffused manner in the 1970s, we now both witness
and understand better as the dramatic development of technologies, such as
cloud computing, 3-G base global
The
It is extremely
necessary that the engineering fraternity takes the lead in setting ethical
standards in all areas of responsibility. Creative and successful engineering
can be found in the interaction of design and project management.
Risk
The global
important Convenient Truth ever realized and will possibly be the answer
to the Inconvenient Truth put forth by Al Gore.
Public engagement has been recognized by IE (I) an important aspect
of its functioning, and therefore, its 104 centres in India and 6 chapters
abroad conduct activities by involving the society. Memorial Lectures were
initiated in 1960 to bring in the best of the engineering personalities in the
country to focus attention on emerging technological and engineering
achievements, and also pay tribute to the outstanding engineering
personalities who have made landmark contributions in India.
These Seven Memorial Lectures, delivered every year,
have given
development.
The
Institution
discovered
that
Memorial
Lectures
presented in the New Millennium, i.e., from 2001 to 2011, reflect the current
approach for taking humanity forward.
The first of these lectures was initiated in the memory of Sir M.
Visvesvaraya started at the Annual Convocation of the Institution in 1960.
Dr. Visvesvaraya has been a great visionary, planner and administrator, who
was later also honoured with the Bharat Ratna Posthumously. Subsequently
IEI Memorial lectures
in
the
memory
of
civil
educationist
and
technical
creativity and ingenuity that has delivered todays incredible levels of human
and industrial development so that the same can be directed to the task of
delivering sustainable engineering and development solutions.
The Collection of Memorial Lectures presented at the Engineering
Congresses during 2001