Coffee With Sundar » podcast http://coffeewithsundar.com Things I talk over Coffee... Wed, 09 May 2012 11:03:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Podcast: Rendezvous with Chetan Sankar – B school professor @ Auburn University http://coffeewithsundar.com/podcast-rendezvous-with-chetan-sankar-b-school-professor-auburn-university/ http://coffeewithsundar.com/podcast-rendezvous-with-chetan-sankar-b-school-professor-auburn-university/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:09:31 +0000 Sundar Rajan G S http://coffeewithsundar.com/podcast-rendezvous-with-chetan-sankar-b-school-professor-auburn-university/ Dr. Chetan Sankar was awarded “Distinguished Alumni Award – 2007-08″. I met Dr. Chetan @ NIT Trichy during the award function.

Dr. Chetan Sankar received his BE degree in Mechanical Engineering from NITT (RECT) in 1971. He obtained his MBA from IIM Calcutta and Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania. He is Professor, Department of Management, College of Business, Auburn University. He earlier worked as Assistant Professor at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. He was also Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ. He has won several Awards and Recognitions which includes iNEER Recognition Award by the IntlNetwork for Engg Education and Research; Outstanding Research Award, College of Business; ASME Curriculum Innovation Award; I prize Decision Sciences Institute Instructional Innovation Education Award; American Soc. for Engg Education Instructional Unit Competition. He has 11 Full books by Tavenner Publishers & 11 Books with few Chapters. He has several Articles in Refereed Journals and over 100 Published in Conference Proceedings. He has served in several Editorial boards like Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education; Americas Conference on Information Systems, IT in Education; Journal of STEM Education: Innovations & Research; Journal of Global Information Technology Management; Case Research Journal; Technology/Engineers Track for the Case Research Journal. He has several sponsored projects with a Total Budget of $2.2 Million.

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Here are the questions discussed

* How important is work experience for taking up teaching as a profession (0:02)

* What are your views on improving education in India (1:27)

* How do you determine the success of an academician (5:54)

* What has been the impact of NIT Trichy in your life.. What you could have got better from NIT Trichy? (6:31)

* Who were your role models? Did you ever have one? (7:48)

* Can you recommend some good books to read? (10:21)

* Discussions about present generation, the changes happening in India etc (11:46)

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]]> http://coffeewithsundar.com/podcast-rendezvous-with-chetan-sankar-b-school-professor-auburn-university/feed/ 1 Podcast: Peak Oil Crisis with Chandramouli Mahadevan http://coffeewithsundar.com/podcast-peak-oil-crisis-with-chandramouli-mahadevan/ http://coffeewithsundar.com/podcast-peak-oil-crisis-with-chandramouli-mahadevan/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:30:05 +0000 Sundar Rajan G S http://coffeewithsundar.com/podcast-peak-oil-crisis-with-chandramouli-mahadevan/ Hi All,

Its my pleasure to invite Chandramouli Mahadevan a.k.a Mouli for the first “live” interview on CWS. Mouli is a TLM (Tech Lead and Manager) at Google. He is voracious reader and is kind enough to share some of his learnings about Peak Oil Crisis with CWS Readers. Thank you Mouli for sparing your time.

The interview is here.

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You can also download the interview here.

http://coffeewithsundar.com/PeakOilDiscussionsWithMouli.mp3

The following can be used as a reference to skim through the interview.

  1. What is this Peak Oil Crisis all about? (0:09)
  2. Why did the whole issue start? Why is it that the people are suddenly aware of it? (1:26)
  3. How is today’s oil crisis different from 1970′s oil crisis (6:25)
  4. What are the alternate sources of energy available to us? (8:31)
  5. There are these small steps like minimizing driving, work from home etc.. Can economies of scale help us mitigate the crisis with these small steps? (10:16)
  6. Recently, there was a report that US found oil reserves which is approximately equal to one third of the earth’s reserves. Will this help? (13:51)
  7. Well there is shortage of resources on earth!! Should we go beyond earth.. Should we look at moon or mars etc? for resources? (17:45)
  8. We all agree that there is a problem. What can we do to solve or postpone this crisis? (19:51)
  9. Do you think we should get back to small community, work near by, the old way of life? (20:42)
  10. What do you think are the short term impacts of Peak Oil Crisis? (22:06)
  11. Can you talk about the food crisis. (24:06)
  12. What is going to be the biggest problem that earth is going to face? Global Warming vs Peak Oil Crisis vs Combination of both? (25:45)
  13. How long have you been tracking this issue? Can you share some references for further reading? (27:00)

Here are some references for further reading on Peak Oil Crisis.
theoildrum.com
energybulletin.net
lifeaftertheoilcrash.net
Peak Oil – Is the world running out of Oil?

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