Jugaad Engineering
Research seminar with Prabjit Singh, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Poughkeepsie.
Optional
Meeting ID: 923 9477 7186
Passcode: 501051
Jugaad is a north Indian word that roughly translates to getting the job done the best way you can with limited resources. The art of Jugaad was, by necessity, the mainstay of research and development before the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Sir Isaac Newton famously invented and built the reflecting telescope with the limited resources on his family farm during the plague of 1665. My talk will be on my 46 wild-turkey years in IBM, where I unknowingly practiced the art of jugaad-style engineering, coupled with a deep reliance on the fundamentals-based approach drilled in me during my IIT Kharagpur undergraduate years.
I will present the unique jugaad-fundamental approach I took to overcome some of the significant challenges I faced during my IBM years such as a low-cost corrosion chamber I invented and developed for testing electronic hardware; a planar solder joint approach to facilitate the study of electromigration in solders; and a means to test the effect of airborne particulate matter on the reliability of mission-critical computers.
Hosted by Professor Ronald Lasky.
