Volume VII, 2016 REFLECTIONS ach time I get to say something for this column, I have done so with a feeling of more pride Ethan before. This time, I owe that pride to the position Ramaiah University has found itself- in the top 100 universities of India in 2016. Our lives today move faster than ever, thanks to the pace that society is moving. Every event that happens, scientic or social, is reaching out farther, stronger and longer than ever before. As an Bowling Robot for World Robot Olympiad, 2016 academician, I can’t help often brooding over the research challenges that are created in the wake of Acknowledgments such change. The editorial team sincerely thanks Dr. S. R. Showcased in this issue are articles from faculty and Shankapal, Vice- Chancellor, Ramaiah students that reect their pursuits from research thru adventure. I and my team hope these interest you, the University of Applied Sciences for giving the reader, to forge or strengthen your relationship with opportunity to bring out this seventh issue of the university. ‘Reections’. The team also thanks all faculty, Dr. B. V. Vijay students and staff who have contributed Editor to the content of this issue. Dr. B. V. Vijay Dileepa C. Dr. Arun R. Rao Editorial Team Vignesh R. Dr. Ashmitha K. S. Goutham N. Chiranjith Barui Dr. Neena Prasad Ms. Sathiya R. Mrs. R. G. Shilpa Contents 4 What is required to make a “Global University”? - Dr. S. R. Shankapal 6 Future solutions could lie in the past… - Dr. S. Shrinivasan 7 Seriously, India Needs a Mission for Optimization - Dr. B. V. Vijay 10 The Road to Learning Can Begin Anywhere - Varun D. 11 Development of MoS Nano rods for Photovoltaic Applications- Dr. S. Srikari 13 Stability of Continuation of Solution of an Ill-Posed Inverse Problem - Dr. Deepak A. S. 15 Design of a Safe Modular Kitchen for Elderly Indians - Lohit H. S. & Chiranjith Barui 17 Analytics in Finance -Uday Jaggannathan Revenue management in the Airline Industry - Ms. Chandra Sen Mazumdar 20 Rapid Prototyping in Dentistry - Dr. Rakesh N. 21 Silver Jubilee Year of FDS - A Milestone Achieved - Dr. B. V. Sreenivas Murthy 25 “Be A Responsible Citizen – Begin Composting Your Kitchen Waste” - Ms. Supriya Rao 27 TECHNOCENTRE 30 SAMPARK 36 STUDENT PROJECTS 42 SERVICE TO SOCIETY 46 TRAVELOGUES OPINION What is required to make a “Global University”? - Dr. S. R. Shankapal country's scientic capability is quite and have international appeal. With time a university c o m m o n l y g a u g e d b y s o m e k e y , that provides an environment that attracts global Ademonstrated achievements. Some of these talent to teach, draws students from across the world include, for example, the ability to launch rockets, to its campuses and whose education methodologies deploy satellites in space, build nuclear reactors, and systems are comparable to the best in the world design and manufacture state-of-the-art defence will attain global recognition. By so positioning itself equipment, superior aircraft and automobiles. India such Universities will, in time, be recognised as is among the very few countries in the world that international brands. Harvard and Cambridge are, ranks in this list having successfully showcased its truly global universities, as they are able to attract the capabilities in these areas. Similarly, in the present best of talent from across the world and successfully knowledge era, countries are vying each other to combine all these in a truly, multi-national and multi- position at least a few of their own in the list of Top cultural environment to attain global recognition and 100 Universities in Global Rankings. It is widely educational excellence. The building of a global believed that the number of universities appearing in brand, therefore, requires enormous efforts to global rankings is a reection of the intellectual address the concerns and perceptions inherent in a capabilities of the academic, talent pool in that given cultural and geographic setting and embracing country. By guring in the Ranking Lists these a vision that will prepare the institution to attain universities are in a strong position to differentiate global acceptance. themselves and compete in the open and transparent international education markets. Despite India Global universities address global issues. The enjoying a fair amount of success by contributing to purpose of education is to make humanity more contemporary technologies, in the Information intelligent, knowledgeable and wise enough to technology sector, no Indian University has, as yet, address global challenges. To list a few: achieving been successful in featuring in any of the top hundred sustainable development while addressing global university lists published by Times Higher climate change; provide access to sufcient clean Education, QS or Shanghai Ranking systems. As a water without conict for everyone; balancing country which has set its ambitions to be a world population growth and the demand for resources; player it is high time that India focused some of its replacing authoritarian regimes with genuine energies into the education sector so that some of its democracy or other collaborative forms of Universities will elevate themselves to Global government through change processes that are University status. By denition, global universities a c c e p t e d b y a l l ; m a k e i n f o r m a t i o n a n d are those that appear in the Global Ranking Systems. communications technologies benet the lives of In this context, it is necessary to examine what it takes everyone; establishing ethical market economies that to become a global university. help reduce the gap between the rich and poor; combating the threat of new and re-emerging A university that aspires to be recognised as a global diseases and micro-organisms; drawing up new university may have to adopt systems and practices security strategies to reduce ethnic conicts, check that are globally acceptable and have global terrorism and the use of weapons of mass destruction; relevance. As a start a global university may need to meeting the growing demand for energy safely and induct, into its governing body, eminent efciently; accelerating scientic and technological educationists of different nationalities to reect the development to improve the condition of human international positioning and outlook. The beings and infuse ethical considerations into global University should move towards maintaining a truly decisions. These global issues need to be solved for international mix of faculty members that will cover achieving a society that can co-exist on the planet the diverse communities to be able to provide harmoniously. It is but natural that the solutions to comprehensive education to students who will come such global issues are expected to come from from different countries and from diverse cultural Universities which house global talent. In a practical backgrounds. A global university, therefore, requires context, however, in most countries, universities are to have access to sufcient nancial resources and unable to undertake research to address these global attract global human talent to attain the global status issues mainly for want of adequate funding. 4 REFLECTIONS OPINION A global university educates global students. A The mantle of a global university should not be global University should be able to attract casually assumed. It imposes signicant international students coming from different responsibilities on all members of the university countries with diverse ethnic background and all community. Accepting the responsibilities requires students should be allowed to express themselves knowledge and understanding that implies an without bias or discrimination. educational task in itself. Cultural openness is a critical pre-requisite. Simply The realisation of the dream of producing a global being open to the presence of international faculty university, for any country, does not come easily and members and students does not make a university so also for India. It is not also sufcient that a country global. Indeed, if there is no real cross pollination of spends huge sums of money to push some of its students, coming from different nations, then the universities to global university status. Other actions University campus is destined to become a set of silos. should be taken, in tandem, to support the cause of The willingness to embrace attitudes, pedagogies and Global University dream. For example, it is essential systems from beyond the national context is that federal and local governments pledge their necessary. This does not mean throwing away or support and commitment, populations are educated setting aside the unique contributions that a to accept cultural diversity and increased levels of particular location or institutional tradition might tolerance amongst local communities, faculty make in the process of globalisation but it certainly members are encouraged to actively think about means being comfortable going beyond them. global challenges, strategies, and educational practices. To put it succinctly it is the equivalent of A global university has global partnerships. A global converting a city like Bangalore into London or partnership is to be built on complementarity with the Boston and making members of faculty think like collaborating parties gaining mutual advantage. A Harvard or Cambridge University professors while global university understands that the world is a big educating the local population to think global, act place. It knows that it cannot be omnipresent and that global and consciously contribute to make the local it must make choices about where to focus its efforts. environment attain the characteristics of a true, The difference between a global university and a global, melting pot. national or regional university is that those choices are made with a view to opening up to global inuences and contributing to the global scene rather than take decisions that are driven purely by local nancial imperatives.