Engineers Day 2022: On September 15, National Engineer’s Day is observed annually all over in India to mark the birth anniversary of Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. This year, the day falls on Thursday.
On Today at Engineer’s day Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted to all engineers and people by his tweeter handle and tweeted, “The Nation is blessed to have a skilled and talented pool of engineers contributing to nation building and said our government is working to enhance infrastructure for studing engineering including building more engineering colleges.
Engineering Day 2022, is the 55th National Engineering Day that is being celebrated.
In India, Engineer’s Day is also called Visvesvaraya Jayanti, in the loving memory of Sir Mokshagundam. The day is celebrated to honour and celebrate Visvesvaraya’s contributions as well as recognise the contribution of engineers in our society. The aim is also to encourage the country’s young engineers to perform the important role in the society.
Besides India, Engineer’s Day is also celebrated in Sri Lanka and Tanzania on September 15
HOW- In India, People celebrate Engineer’s Day by sharing the message, status, photos, greet with each other by their social media handle (Instgram, Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter), etc
Engineers- Science and Engineers are the one together who bring technology to make our lives simpler, to bring comforts, and ease for people.
Especially in India, old craze to become engineer. Everybody says, Engineering is so easy that it is just like walking in a park. But only Engineers know that the park is called Jurassic Park.
As the world evolved and civilization progressed, mankind’s problems expanded and it was the engineer’s ground-breaking solutions that came to the rescue.
On September 15, 1861, Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was born in the Muddenahalli village of Karanataka, grew up in a Telugu Brahmin family. He completed his school education in his hometown and later on took admission in Bachelor of Arts (BA) undergraduade course at the University of Madras. Visvesvaraya’s fate took a major turn when he switched to a different carrer path and decided to Purse a diploma in Civil Engerineering at the college of science in Pune. After completing the course, he undertook variouss challenging projects and surprised many by producing remarkable results. Visvesvaraya founded many industries like the Mysore Soap Factory, Bangalore Agricultural University, State Bank of Mysore, Mysore Iron and Steel Works, Government Engineering College, and many more. Visvesvaraya Country’s one of the greatest civil engineers, scholar, and statesman. In recognition of his talent and achievements, King George V knighted him as a Knight Commander of the British Indian Empire. He is referred to as the “Father of Modern Mysore. In 1955, he was awarded India’s highest civilian award- the Bharat Ratna for his outstanding contribution to the country’s development. In 1968, the Indian government announced that the birth anniversary of Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya’s would be commemorate as National Engineering Day.
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. – Scott Adams
The problem in this business isn’t to keep people from stealing your ideas; it’s making them steal your ideas! – Howard Aiken
I’ve never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn’t be done better by fifty people – C Gordon Bell
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them – Michio Kaku
Engineering … to define rudely but not inaptly, is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion – Arthur Mellen Wellington
I have not failed, but found 1000 ways to not make a light bulb – Thomas Edison
One has to watch out for engineers – they begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb – Marcel Pagnol, Critiques des Critiques
Engineering is quite different from science. Scientists try to understand nature. Engineers try to make things that do not exist in nature. Engineers stress invention – Yuan Cheng Fung
