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Future of Technology Education

Tue. October 26th, 2021

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The Future of Technology Education suggests a re-imagining of the relationship between technological innovation and human societies. While technology has existed since the dawn of human evolution, its meanings and uses have changed in shifting historical, social, philosophical, and scientific contexts.

On October 26, we hosted a 'Tech for Thought: A KnowledgeTransfer series' workshop, titled Future of Technology Education, with Uday Desai and Aditya Malik. Conducted in partnership with Plaksha University (based in Mohali), the event explored questions such as what directions should the redefinition of the relationship between technology and human societies take? What urgent questions need to be asked? How is the vast complexity of global environmental, economic, and political challenges to feature in re-thinking technology education and explore the historical perspectives of engineering education, required developments in today's time, and how opportunities for education, policy, and impact can be created in the future?

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Uday B. Desai
Uday B. Desai has served as the founding director and Professor Emeritus of IIT Hyderabad and is also an honorary distinguished professor at Plaksha. He has held faculty positions at IIT Bombay and Washington State University and visiting faculty positions at Stanford University, Purdue University, and Arizona State University. He also chairs several committees under MEITY, DST, DRDO, and private organizations, and is the chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). Prof. Desai has authored/co-authored nearly 300 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and international conferences. He is a Fellow of INSA (Indian National Science Academy), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and The Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). He holds a B.Tech degree from IIT Kanpur, M.S. from the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.
Aditya Malik
Aditya Malik has held several senior academic and administrative positions. He has expertise in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences. Most recently he was the vice-chancellor at K.R. Mangalam University. Previously he has also been the founding professor and dean of the School of Historical Studies at the newly established Nalanda University and a professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has conducted several years of ethnographic fieldwork in rural western and northern India. He was trained in philosophy, archaeology, and ancient history at St. Stephen’s College (Delhi), Deccan College (Pune) and received further academic training in classical and modern Indian studies, social anthropology, and the history of religions from the internationally acclaimed South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg (Germany) from where he received his D.Phil. and Habilitation. Prof. Malik was honored as an Inspired Teacher, the highest civilian recognition for university teachers in India in 2016.

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event speakers

Uday B. Desai
Uday B. Desai has served as the founding director and Professor Emeritus of IIT Hyderabad and is also an honorary distinguished professor at Plaksha. He has held faculty positions at IIT Bombay and Washington State University and visiting faculty positions at Stanford University, Purdue University, and Arizona State University. He also chairs several committees under MEITY, DST, DRDO, and private organizations, and is the chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). Prof. Desai has authored/co-authored nearly 300 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and international conferences. He is a Fellow of INSA (Indian National Science Academy), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and The Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). He holds a B.Tech degree from IIT Kanpur, M.S. from the State University of New York, Buffalo, and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.
Aditya Malik
Aditya Malik has held several senior academic and administrative positions. He has expertise in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences. Most recently he was the vice-chancellor at K.R. Mangalam University. Previously he has also been the founding professor and dean of the School of Historical Studies at the newly established Nalanda University and a professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has conducted several years of ethnographic fieldwork in rural western and northern India. He was trained in philosophy, archaeology, and ancient history at St. Stephen’s College (Delhi), Deccan College (Pune) and received further academic training in classical and modern Indian studies, social anthropology, and the history of religions from the internationally acclaimed South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg (Germany) from where he received his D.Phil. and Habilitation. Prof. Malik was honored as an Inspired Teacher, the highest civilian recognition for university teachers in India in 2016.

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