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INTERVIEW OF ALOK SIR

Prof. ( Er. ) Alok Kumar

Alok Sir : Dear Friends

I am your average professor,

still learning daily

new thoughts,

new technology, adventure

including also

philosophy, life planning, gardening

and

making my own dream project

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Sir ! What classes do you teach?
Alok Sir : For four years now I have been teaching

Thermodynamics,

Workshop Technology,

Production Engineering,

for freshman students

majoring in the engineering.

I am also teaching

Industrial Management,

Energy Resources & Utilization,

Power Plant Engineering.

mainly

to final year B.E. students.

This year I am also teaching

Nuclear Engineering for the first time,

which is for students majoring in something other than science.

Do you have a favorite?

Alok Sir : I do not think I can say I have a favourite.

Each level of these classes satisfies a different part of me.

Do you have a specific lecture style?

Alok Sir : I definitely have a certain lecture style.

I emphasize conceptual understanding rather than mechanical memorization.

To that end, I try to attract the type of students to join my classes

who are willing to do the "Mechanical walk" in order to

understand the mystery of our universe and

feel the joy that results from such understanding and appreciation.

I encourage the students who join my classes to participate in a Socratic dialog.

In a Socratic dialog, the "teacher" never answers the question directly.

Instead of giving an answer to the student's question,

the teacher replies with a question until the student sees the answer him/herself,

until the answer comes from the teacher who lives within the student,

until the student becomes the teacher him/herself.

What are your research or other scientific interests?

Alok Sir : During the last several years,

my research has been more towards better methods of teaching

and writing in science & technology and in general,

how students can be more successful in maintaining

sustainable happiness and real personal growth.

To that end, with the help of one of my past students,

Shankar, Nidhi,Neha,Archana,Akanksha,Rina

there is now a website with a lot of material related to

"Success in College and After College"

" How to Get and Stay on Course "

In addition,

I am starting to teach a freshman in seminar with the above title every quarter.

That seminar grow out of informal lectures

I used to give every quarter on important topic.

My other scientific interests are in green chemistry, energy & environment etc…...

How did you get interested in life planning?

Alok Sir : That is a good question.

I feel I could write a series of books on the subject.

As always is the case, any one of us suddenly can become a living spring of water

from his/her life experiences.

In my case, I always liked teaching and learning.

I knew that from my first college years.

But life circumstances caused me to drift away to work

in various other work environments related to chemistry.

Being so thirsty for expression and the discovery of human nature,

I could not take being away from an academic teaching environment anymore.

The issue became an issue of life and death; it was so strong.

So I suddenly started on the new path by choosing to leave

a very high-paying permanent position

to take several temporary very low-paying positions.

I know it sounds crazy but it happened, and it had a great impact

on all the members of my family.

I was very lucky to have the full support of my family.

What advice would you give a student on how best to choose a good career?

Alok Sir : I would like to keep this answer short so anyone

who reads this will always remember it,

No Pain, No Gain

It is not without pain that we come to know who we are.

By finding out who we are more every day, it is possible to "do" what we are.

And by doing what we are, we are definitely home,

gravitating effortlessly towards total success.

Unfortunately, to have total success in life, inwardly and outwardly,

a high GPA is not enough.

To do what we love is very important but it still is not enough.

Only if your personality type matches with what you are doing, where, how,

when and with whom, then real success is within your reach.

Therefore, I say to my students that if you want to be a success, know who you are.

Do you have any hobbies?
Alok Sir :
Yes, I have several hobbies. I love taking walks and spending time in nature.

To that effect, I have gardens not only at my house

but also at the our College provided by the Management.

I encourage my students to get gardens so they can recalibrate themselves

after studying and feel good about themselves.

Some of them have responded.

It is a great pleasure to meet them at the gardens and see them working

with the soil and the plants.

If you go to my personal website: http://eralokkumar.blogspot.com/

you will see several pictures of some of my hobbies.

I also started to take a class on how to develop yourself with new thoughts

and now I am making it from all natural components.

In order to encourage my students to have hobbies,

I thought of the "Natural Telent Award," as I call it.

For each class I teach, at the end, the student with the highest score

gets a handy Gifts selected by me.

When they come to me to pick up their award,

while I am carving the "life curve" on it,

I have the opportunity to tell them face to face

how important it is to know themselves.

I consider it very important especially for the students with high GPAs

to be balanced in life.

After all, most of them will end up in leadership positions and

many people will be affected by their decisions.

We must prepare these students the best way we can.

I stress the fact that doing their work right would not be enough

without considering the well being of others and our environment.

Who is your favorite scientist?
Alok Sir :

Albert Einstein is my favorite scientist,

not only because of his bringing truth to science but because of his excellent personality and life values that perhaps most people are not aware of.

Another reason is because of the way he spoke about our favorite person, Gandhi.

"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one

as this walked the earth in flesh and blood,"

- Albert Einstein, in regard to Mohandas Gandhi.

Do you have a favorite quote?
Alok Sir :

"You Must Be The Change You Wish To See In The World," -Mohandas Gandhi.

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