Engineers Day 2013 Celebrations

• As part of the 46th Engineers’ Day celebrations KSEB Engineers’ Association, Alappuzha Unit launched an E-THOUGHTS – ‘Engineering Idea Contest’ for the engineering student community on the theme FRUGAL ENGINEERING on 12/9/2013. The contest aims at popularising the importance of Engineers’ day and encourages young talents to apply their imagination and critical thinking in the area of Frugal Engineering.
• As part of the 46th Engineers’ Day celebrations KSEB Engineers’ Association, Alappuzha Unit conducted a brain storming session on the theme FRUGAL ENGINEERING followed by Sir M. Visvesvaraya memorial lecture by Er. George Mathew on 27-9-2013 at Alappuzha.
  The Brain storming session was well appreciated for the active participation over fifteen engineers. The major discussion was on application of the Fugal Engineering in Generation, Distribution, Transmission and other areas. Er. James M David suggested that we must explore the idea of frugal innovations to reduce the cost of 33 kV substation projects. Dr. Binu Sankar recommended that we must study the property of insulating materials and oils and apply the frugal innovations to optimize it to suite Indian conditions. He pointed that most material designs are based on the extreme climatic conditions in the western countries. Er. Gangadhara Kuruppu pointed that frugal idea is very close to our ‘Gandhian Philosophy’ and we must practice Gandhian philosophy to save our mother Earth. Er. Vivek from Calicut unit contrasted the idea of ‘Value Engineering’ with the theme. Various innovative suggestions came from the participants and everybody opined that we must encourage and continue this type of discussions in future meetings. Er. Krishnakumar explained the philosophy and relevance of the theme ‘Frugal Engineering’ to the participants in the opening remark