Dr. Manish Biyani Message:

I am pleased to learn of your interest in Biyani’s, an academic organization to nurture the “best values and talents” of yours. Dear parents and prospective students, Since we lapsed the 20th century and headed into 21st century, we are experiencing the greatest advances in our life we never imagined before. And this could happen due to emergence due to wide range of “Pervasive technologies” which are reaching new heights everyday. Technologies are the application of engineering knowledge, tools and skills to solve practical problem and extend human capabilities. For example, biotechnology started out as a craft and for thousand of years, mankind exploited empirical how-know handed down from generation to generation to produce breed, beer, wine etc. However, the evolution of production procedures was so slow that it could hardly be perceived because new “Know-How” had to be obtained in a completely empirical way due to the total lack of “Know-Why”. Today, our world is facing enormous challenges including global warming, exponentially growing population, and depleted natural resources and to handle these, how engineering students are being prepared to enter the “real world” is critically important. Therefore, a sound scientific basis of Know-Why (i.e. engineering activities) is necessarily requires to provide tools for rapid and efficient development of novel Know-How (i.e. process, products) which will be critically important to build a sustainable life on the earth.

In this talk I will elaborate the above issue by discussing transformation of a bold idea to develop a simple, rapid, robust, portable and cost effective diagnostic devices for home health monitoring. The science behind this idea is important but is not all for creating new value for society in the terms of commercialization and that is the Know-How and Know-Why based engineering which can build the necessary bridge between application and science.