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Mems And Microsystems/Mikrosystemtech nik Scope In India
THE PRELUDE
So, we are seeing the worst economic crisis in history are we? But, to start on the positive note, India has launched the Moon Mission, and it was 5:30 am in Hiedelberg Germany when I was reading the News of a successful launch. And watching the Video on youtube by Dev Devendra and tejes animations company, a thought crossed my mind."Oh boy! Space industry and that cold war era was probably the golden period of science in India, and I am happy that it survived Germany's unification and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Are we heading to a potential space revolution? Can this revolution bring a far better impact on the way an Indian Engineering Graduate thinks? Will we be able to actually get out of the burden of useless text books and will be able to build the things on the spot in the classroom itself?Will we be able to ease the pressure out of the student by paying no attention to the grades? These same IT companies selected people on regulations like : atleast 60% in 10 Board, 12 Board and BE/BTECH or BSc blahblah. Now they are firing the people stating "bad performance" crap! will this ever stop please?
Will People family and other folks stop deriding a private engineering college student with dreams of space age(I personally had gone through all these)?
Will science boys like me ; who are not fit for IT be able to make it big? Will the boys be able to break away from the Indian Herd mentality of joining whatever is the society symbol?Will the Indians get over the US/UK/Foreign obsession?
Will the starved out Indian Science society given an elixir of life?
Probably I have to be one of those pioneers. "
These thoughts kept haunting me from past 7 years or so,it was only on October the 22nd of 2008 the thoughts started hovering around my head like the Juggernaut.
I think its time now for India and the Indians to move away from Bollywood and Cricket and get to the MEMS field.
MEMS in EU
The EU is far more advanced than any other Country in this Field. The Max-Plancks , the Fraunhofers and the IMEC's are churning out high technolgy research. They are at the brink of replacing ASICS and FPGA's with MEMS. All the Harddiscs you see today will be replaced by a single MEMS chip of the size of a 5 cents(Euro) coin.Imagine a Hard-disc , or a CPU of the size of a cellphone or even smaller, with unprecedented pace.Soon, a special polymer developed at Fraunhofers will be replacing Silicon from the IC chip.
The people behind these path breaking technologies are either physicsts, Mathematicians, or Mikrosystem Engineers. A complete lab on a single chip of the size of the 25 paise coin.
Unfortunately, nothing evolved in India after IT revolution! We are ages behind the EU in these fields, the need of the hour is investors who could invest in these kind of technologies in the Indian market.
THE IIT MYTH:
I know most of you would not agree with me. But, you are reading my blog and my opinions. So here it is for all you people: IIT is a white Elephant. Good only for people wanting to escape to US and not returning and not building any research facilities or what so ever in the home country. Not one Nobel laureate in the past 40 years. Not one significant path breaking technology which could help the industry in anyway!
Only good for satisfying the inflated ego of the parents and the in-laws. What have India invented in past 60 years after J.C.Bose under the shadow of the IITs?
Rest follow the herd!
THE FIRST INDIAN MEMS COMPANY.
SO enough of ranting and whining, here it is, I am about to become "one" of the founding Engineers of the first Indian MEMS company based in NEW DELHI by December 2008.To add a little info, the People behind this venture are the same people who have been responsible for JDS Unipase and Metconnex Inc Canada. One of the company ambitions is to become a 100 Million € firm by the begining of 2010.
SHORTAGE OF WELL QUALIFIED RECRUITS
The major problem in India at the moment is shortage of a well quaified freshmen. But, never mind, the job has to be done.PS: Just think how long are we going to be in this IT revolution which is seeing its lowest abb now.
