Engineering Education Quotes

“To be a good professional engineer,
always start to study late for exams.
Because it teaches you how to
manage time and tackle emergencies.”
― Aamir Sarfraz (aamir rajput khan)

“Our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“Change flows organically from the students themselves.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“The emotional transformation of engineering education…is based on a philosophy of education that is grounded in the real world and in the lives of the students we serve…In the right atmosphere, the change flows organically from the students themselves.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“The emotional transformation of engineering education isn’t magical thinking. Nor is it a vague abstraction or a series of touchy-feely practices. It is based on a philosophy of education that is grounded in the real world and in the lives of the students we serve. It’s available to everyone. It isn’t expensive. It can’t be accomplished in the old paradigm under the old assumptions about how education change happens, but in the right atmosphere, the change flows organically from the students themselves. That atmosphere requires systematic language change, culture change, and personal change by students, faculty, and all the stakeholders in education.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“[Olin] formed a culture of student ownership and engagement…students are not consumers but rather are partners in their education.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“The emotional transformation of engineering education…is grounded in the real world and in the lives of the students we serve.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren’t pedagogical. They weren’t financial. They weren’t curricular. They weren’t research. They weren’t any of the usual things we’ve always talked about as the engines of change. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.”
― David Edward Goldberg, A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education

“There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine. Americans calmly explain these with mathematical formulas. Our difficulty is to learn, theirs to appreciate.”
― Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros

“Engineering is a profession that can do the job of almost all other professions.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“what if every engineering graduate in india really understood what they studied for 4 years ....!!?”
― ShambhuSuresh

“Engineering is not about what you learn or practice;
Engineering is about what you imagine to learn and practise”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Science is about studying non-practical nature and Engineering is about studying practical non-science”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Good engineer designs gadgets, great engineer designs society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Humanitarian Engineer (The Sonnet)

The burning scent of molten solder
is just as intoxicating to me
as the musky scent of soil drenched
in the first downpour of monsoon.

In the right human hands, a soldering iron
can solder the cracks in accessibility,
while in the hands of just clever apes,
soldering iron cooks up circuits of privilege,
while burning down the bridges of equality.

Any engineer can tell the voltage
of a battery from taste, but only
a humane engineer knows how to put
each volt and amp to humanitarian use.
The burnt fingertips count for something,
only when your innovation is catalyst for good.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Any engineer can tell the voltage of a battery from taste, but only a humane engineer knows how to put each volt and amp to humanitarian use.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience