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SUMMARY:CCE Seminar: Training Future Engineers: What Can We Learn from Twe
 lve Outstanding Innovators? - Prof. Amaresh Chakrabarti\, Centre for Produ
 ct Design and Manufacturing\, Indian Institute of Science
DTSTART:20140916T160000Z
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DESCRIPTION:A design is a plan for a system\, its implementation and utili
 sation for attaining goals that are intended to change "current situations
  into preferred ones". Designing involves developing both the goals and th
 e plans for attaining them. In this sense\, all human beings are designers
 . but not all are necessarily good at designing. A study was undertaken\, 
 into the lives and work of 12 outstanding engineers and innovators that sp
 anned from antiquity to the modern times\, to seek common\, major traits o
 f\, or influences on these individuals. A major\, persistent thread across
  these lives was found to be design-driven motivation that seemed to have 
 fuelled their life-long creativity and learning. The talk focuses on the r
 elevance of this influence as well as the other influences as goals and en
 ablers for creating the engineers of the future: how can we inculcate stro
 ng motivation in life-long learning? The talk will provide an overview of 
 a Masters in Design programme that has been running successfully at the In
 dian Institute of Science\, Bangalore for the last 15 years. Based on the 
 personal experience of the speaker in teaching at this programme\, as well
  as his earlier experience of teaching and researching into engineering sc
 ience and design at the Engineering Department of University of Cambridge\
 , UK\, a number of recommendations are made on the desired structure and c
 ontent for a design and innovation-centred engineering education programme
 .\n\n*All welcome!* Please RSVP: rmk33@cam.ac.uk
LOCATION:Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education (Room 1S7)\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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