Dear principal sir, asst. professors, lecturers, seniors, and trendsetters of CTEC,
(I don't know how actively you use email, so I have decided to share in this group).
From my practical experience here in the United States, I realized that I at least need to share something with you to help our future generations of Textile Engineers.
I am just trying to make you all understand that Textile Engineering is not a limited field, it is really really a huge field with lot of interesting research areas. So, if we can manipulate some intelligent strategies while designing our syllabus for each department, course contents, and materials/ref. books/journals as well as enhance the hands-on-learning facilities through interactive lab sessions (which should include state-of-the-art technologies currently practiced by leading countries, i.e. nanotechnology, smart polymers, smart fabrics etc.) it will greatly benefit our future Textile Engineers to make some significant contributions and impacts on global and national textile business and in technological innovations as well.
I have no idea and I sometimes really get confused that 'why we are following a stereotypical syllabus since the beginning?', 'why we are so reluctant to update our syllabus based on real-world industrial applications?', 'why don't we keep pace with the level and course contents of textile studies of other countries like Britain, Australia, US, and India?'...Some people will argue with me, we don't have that enough money and government support to make that happen, but what it really takes is to have passion to give something exceptional to our next generation of engineers for a greater worldwide purpose.
Trust me if you have that level of skills and experience of dealing with the innovative technologies currently available and practiced in the industries, you don't have to be worried about your career growth and salaries, employers gonna find you based on your skills and that 4 year degree should facilitate the students to develop these skills, nothing is impossible, we know that but we really need to take action to turn that passion into reality.
I think it is really really possible to teach students the innovative technologies if they also have that passion, curiosity and enthusiasm to develop themselves as skilled engineers, otherwise this kind of initiatives won't benefit them at all, and they need to get motivated through the seniors/teachers who also share the same passion and enthusiasm.
You don't have to change the entire syllabus, I recommend to get rid of contents, which are conventional and obsolete and are not practiced in the industries anymore; instead you should replace them by adding contents, books, and journal paper resources followed by the top ranked Universities from different countries (Especially American, Swedish, British, German, and Australian Universities), which will definitely help them to learn similar contents and compete with them in a global platform. If you ask how?; it is not impossible, there are so many ways to make it work, we can really help you out as much as possible (but students also have to maintain that learning curiosity to achieve that goal).
This is the high time to take control over the foreign technologies through imitating their interactive research and resources they provide to their students (though it's not possible to practice their research in full scale but at least we need to update our students continuously and get them familiarized with new & recent technological innovations, at least we should start taking initiatives from now, it'll take time but at the end of the day everyone will get benefitted). Our initiatives of upgrading the educational setting/system, course contents, and research interests will definitely enhance the leadership & learning capabilities of our future generations.
I am sharing some links for your reference, and "Innovation in Textiles" website is really a great resource to think about my points.
1. https://www.spacefoundation.org/what-we-do/space-technology-hall-fame/inducted-technologies/outlast-technologies-smart-fabric
2. https://www.innovationintextiles.com/future-of-textiles-from-and-for-space-discussed-at-techtextil/
3. https://advancedtextilessource.com/tag/nasa/
4. https://advancedtextilessource.com/2016/01/08/textiles-in-space/
5. https://sputniknews.com/amp/us/201607071042592815-textile-sensor-technology/
6. https://specialtyfabricsreview.com/2018/05/01/developing-nasas-next-generation-spacesuit/
7. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/functional-clothing-design-9780857854674/
Written By :
Badrul Haque Rayan Vai CTEC
(I don't know how actively you use email, so I have decided to share in this group).
From my practical experience here in the United States, I realized that I at least need to share something with you to help our future generations of Textile Engineers.
I am just trying to make you all understand that Textile Engineering is not a limited field, it is really really a huge field with lot of interesting research areas. So, if we can manipulate some intelligent strategies while designing our syllabus for each department, course contents, and materials/ref. books/journals as well as enhance the hands-on-learning facilities through interactive lab sessions (which should include state-of-the-art technologies currently practiced by leading countries, i.e. nanotechnology, smart polymers, smart fabrics etc.) it will greatly benefit our future Textile Engineers to make some significant contributions and impacts on global and national textile business and in technological innovations as well.
I have no idea and I sometimes really get confused that 'why we are following a stereotypical syllabus since the beginning?', 'why we are so reluctant to update our syllabus based on real-world industrial applications?', 'why don't we keep pace with the level and course contents of textile studies of other countries like Britain, Australia, US, and India?'...Some people will argue with me, we don't have that enough money and government support to make that happen, but what it really takes is to have passion to give something exceptional to our next generation of engineers for a greater worldwide purpose.
Trust me if you have that level of skills and experience of dealing with the innovative technologies currently available and practiced in the industries, you don't have to be worried about your career growth and salaries, employers gonna find you based on your skills and that 4 year degree should facilitate the students to develop these skills, nothing is impossible, we know that but we really need to take action to turn that passion into reality.
I think it is really really possible to teach students the innovative technologies if they also have that passion, curiosity and enthusiasm to develop themselves as skilled engineers, otherwise this kind of initiatives won't benefit them at all, and they need to get motivated through the seniors/teachers who also share the same passion and enthusiasm.
You don't have to change the entire syllabus, I recommend to get rid of contents, which are conventional and obsolete and are not practiced in the industries anymore; instead you should replace them by adding contents, books, and journal paper resources followed by the top ranked Universities from different countries (Especially American, Swedish, British, German, and Australian Universities), which will definitely help them to learn similar contents and compete with them in a global platform. If you ask how?; it is not impossible, there are so many ways to make it work, we can really help you out as much as possible (but students also have to maintain that learning curiosity to achieve that goal).
This is the high time to take control over the foreign technologies through imitating their interactive research and resources they provide to their students (though it's not possible to practice their research in full scale but at least we need to update our students continuously and get them familiarized with new & recent technological innovations, at least we should start taking initiatives from now, it'll take time but at the end of the day everyone will get benefitted). Our initiatives of upgrading the educational setting/system, course contents, and research interests will definitely enhance the leadership & learning capabilities of our future generations.
I am sharing some links for your reference, and "Innovation in Textiles" website is really a great resource to think about my points.
1. https://www.spacefoundation.org/what-we-do/space-technology-hall-fame/inducted-technologies/outlast-technologies-smart-fabric
2. https://www.innovationintextiles.com/future-of-textiles-from-and-for-space-discussed-at-techtextil/
3. https://advancedtextilessource.com/tag/nasa/
4. https://advancedtextilessource.com/2016/01/08/textiles-in-space/
5. https://sputniknews.com/amp/us/201607071042592815-textile-sensor-technology/
6. https://specialtyfabricsreview.com/2018/05/01/developing-nasas-next-generation-spacesuit/
7. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/functional-clothing-design-9780857854674/
Written By :
Badrul Haque Rayan Vai CTEC
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