IITHE-Indian institute of technology for human

excellence.
Rajshekhar
Shekhar.biradar@gmail.com

Abstract
Pure fun + divinity and moral values + technology = Blissful engineering students. How
wonderful it would be if we learn technology with enjoyment and also using the same
technology to learn art of living. This research paper will try to enrich the learning
process by providing entirely new and innovative systematic methods (TECHNOFUN
AND TECHNOADHYATMA) of learning/teaching that makes us to understand the
concepts, enjoy the principles and assimilate the hidden divinity and moral values. .

Contents
1. Introduction

2. Introduction to technofun

3. Technofun

4. Technofun teachings

5. Introduction to Technoadyatma

6. Possible reasons behind the lack of human touch

7. Technoadhyatma

8. Technoadhyatma teachings

9. Benefits

10.Conclusion
1. Introduction
This paper is like honey, a very rare nutritious food which has heavenly taste and a
best known health accelerator. Similarly it is very rare to mix fun and human values
with the learning process of engineering subjects. Such a rare effort is made in the
following sections to strengthen the man making philosophy. The examples given
here are related to electronics and computers however this technique can be used to
various other branches or streams of education.

Pure
fun
pure

Bliss

Tech

Divinity and moral values

2. Introduction to technofun
Smile is that mantra by chanting which one can lighten their hearts, free their
minds, and improve their health. So smile is divine. We will experience an
inexpressible fascination when we learn scientific concepts and difficult
phenomena’s with a smile on our face. The goal of technofun is to combine fun with
technological assimilation.
 by Bernard Schoenbaum, Published in the New Yorker 12/28/1987
3. Technofun(TF)
Technofun is one among those incredible learning methods which have a an
amazing caliber to make study joyful and helps us to understand the most
complex concepts in a very simple way

4. Technofun teachings
There are plenty of methods to add fun into technology. As an example, few
selected samples of technofun teachings are given below:-

EX 1:-Fourier’s song
This song explains the entire concept of Fourier transforms its properties and
application.

Lyrics by Dr. Time and Brother Fre(quency)

"Because we love Fourier Transforms, and we know you will too..."

 Properties of the Fourier Transform
(or, Fourier's Song)

Integrate your function times a complex exponential

It's really not so hard you can do it with your pencil
And when you're done with this calculation
You've got a brand new function - the Fourier Transformation
What a prism does to sunlight, what the ear does to sound
Fourier does to signals, it's the coolest trick around
Now filtering is easy, you don't need to convolve
All you do is multiply in order to solve.

From time into frequency - from frequency to time

Every operation in the time domain

Has a Fourier analog - that's what I claim
Think of a delay, a simple shift in time
It becomes a phase rotation - now that's truly sublime!
And to differentiate, here's a simple trick
Just multiply by J omega, ain't that slick?
Integration is the inverse, what you gonna do?
Divide instead of multiply - you can do it too.

From time into frequency - from frequency to time

Let's do some examples... consider a sine

It's mapped to a delta, in frequency - not time
Now take that same delta as a function of time
Mapped into frequency - of course - it's a sine!

Sine x on x is handy, let's call it a sinc.

Its Fourier Transform is simpler than you think.
You get a pulse that's shaped just like a top hat...
Squeeze the pulse thin, and the sinc grows fat.
Or make the pulse wide, and the sinc grows dense,
The uncertainty principle is just common sense.

EX 2:- smile OHM

Saints and seers have tremendous resistance towards worldly pleasures because they
always chant ohm ohm which is the unit of resistance (sms)
EX 3:-Memory hierarchy

Increasing Increasing
speed cost per bit Increasing
size
Registers
Registers

Primary
Primarycache
cacheL1
L1

Secondary cache
L2

Main Memory

Magnetic disk/
Secondary
memory
 Increasing
Metaphor : speed Increasing Increasing
(Skill cost per bit size
&talent) (Salary) (Number)

Direc
tors

Supervisors

Managers

Workers

Memory system and corporate system have comparable hierarchy of their respective
positions. Here analogy is made only with respect to speed, cost, and size. Registers are
similar to directors of a company as their number is less,they are very talented and they
work with great speed and cost per bit is high (salary). Similarly others are
associated/linked in the same way with respect to speed, size and number. As a company
cannot run only with high performance directors similarly a memory system cannot only
include registers as the total cost becomes very high.

5. Introduction to Technoadhyatma
“Most of the Indian technical institutions have transformed into an industry producing
engineers to cater the needs or to satisfy the demands of multinational companies.”
This was the keynote address delivered by our former president of India Dr.A.P.J Abdul
Kalam at some technical institution. These powerful chains of words effortlessly remove
the layer of the flower spread over the inability on our part to realize the responsibility of
being a citizen of India or in higher sense our ignorance to human values.
“We want that education by which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased,
the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet.” Says swami
Vivekananda. It is indeed doubtless that there should be a small orientation by technical
institutions towards spirituality. The question is how to teach noble grand ideas and
human values to engineering students whose eyes are fixed on the western countries and
understands only one language that is technical language. Sections below make an
endeavor to solve this problem in an innovative way.
6. Possible reasons behind the lack of human touch
In satyuga the aim of mankind was bhakti, in tretayuga it was on dharma, in
dwaparayuga mankind’s aim was kshatriyaahood and in kaliyuga man’s important aim is
to make money. Lust, anger, fame, greed etc are the tough competitors for the money but
money manages to hold its place at the top by making humanity its slave.
Following points try to provide few possible reasons behind the lack of human touch
1. rich peoples have become the ideal human beings for the society
2. excessive influence of the western countries
3. media exposing sugar coated cheap heroism to teenagers
4. absence of sense of being citizen of India.etc

7. Technoadhyatma(TA)
Technoadhyatma is a combination of two words viz technology and adhyatma, both are
pure sciences, one is the science of the matter and other is the science of the non material
aspect of human beings. Technoadhyatma is a one among such methodologies which tries
to balance these to sciences for socio-economic development of the nation.
Technoadhyatma is an innovative method of teaching technology to engineering
students. It’s a general law that people understand best if they are taught in accordance to
their thinking mindsets. So this simple method involves expounding the spiritual aspects
of the technology. As referred before most of the engineers understand only technical
language hence technoadhyatma acts like a compiler (translator) which translates spiritual
sciences into technical sciences. The training that we need to undergo to use this
tehnoadhyatmic tool is to have proper practical knowledge of these two profound
sciences.

8. Technoadhyatma teachings
The teachings of TA can be broadly classified into two types they are named as
1. ApplyTA
2. AnalyseTA

1. ApplyTA
Most of the time the problems faced by machines are more or less similar to the day to
day life problems or bottlenecks. Thinking in this sense applyTA deals with extracting
those teachings from technologies which improved machines and using the same
teachings to improve ourselves. Below are the few examples to demonstrate the usage of
applyTA. First concept is explained and then it is transformed into teachings.

EX.1. ANTISATURATION CONTROL (soft attachment)

Fig: 16: Collector Clamping Circuit
Quasi-saturation

Hard - 1/Rd
Saturation
Second breakdown

iC
IB5>IB4,etc.
IB5

IB4

Active region Primary

IB3
breakdown

IB2

IB1
IB<0
IB=0
IB=0
0
BVCEO vCE
BVSUS BVCBO
If a transistor is driven hard, the storage time which is proportional to the base current
increases and the switching speed is reduced. The storage time can be reduced by
operating the transistor in soft saturation rather than hard saturation. This can be
accomplished by clamping CE voltage to a pre-determined level and the collector current
V V
is given by I C  CC CM .
RC
Where VCM is the clamping voltage and VCM  VCE  sat  .
TA teaching:
A man is said to be efficient if he has the capacity to switch from one mind state to
another state instantaneously. As the electronic device which has less switching time has
immense value and applications similarly a man with less switching time has great
importance in this world. On this earth a single man plays varieties of roles, he/she may
be father/mother, student, son/daughter, citizen, employee etc. so he/she has a big
responsibility to balance all these roles then only their can be peace in family ,office and
ultimately in the world. The secret to manage variety of duties is to not to get attached to
any single duty or work excessively. How is this possible? The answer lies in the above
explained technology. Transistors switching time is more if it is driven into hard
saturation. This problem can be solved by driving it into soft saturation rather than hard
saturation similarly we have to drive ourselves to soft saturation(less attached) in order to
improve the efficiency of our life. Let me cite a small analogy provided by Sri
Ramakrishna. “be like a nurse who takes care of the children’s in rich people’s house.
She looks after the children’s as if they were her own children’s (high performance) but
at the bottom of her heart she knows that children’s were not her own (soft saturation). If
for some reason she had to leave her job, she joins another job taking care of some other
children’s without much pain or struggle(less switching time) and deliver high
performance. It means we should be like a lotus in the water. We should not get attached
completely to any duty at the same time we should deliver high performance to all our
works. Another suitable analogy is that of the Maglev (magnetic levitation) train where
wheels of the train are just above the tracks .i.e. it is neither attached nor detached. If
wheels touch the track then friction arises and efficiency drastically decreases so we can
say that the distance between attachment and detachment is the distance between maglev
train wheels and its track.

EX.2:- ULTIMATE FORMULAE’S

The foremost aim of physical science is predict behavior of matter accurately. It became
cumbersome to analyze some complex systems output for different types of inputs based
on theories and laws. To rescue us from this limitation, formulas appeared before the
screen. Formulae’s representing the actual physical behavior of nature is one of the
greatest milestones in the physical science. It helped to visualize intricate behavior of
nature and make many unimaginable theories and laws of nature for example e=mc^2
TA teaching
Most of the times in our life we fail to interpret the various happenings of day to day life
correctly. It sometimes becomes difficult to our mind to understand the situations and
take appropriate decisions. To use our beliefs or our own theories of life to interpret the
situations in many times is difficult. So we need a set of simple formulae’s which helps
us to live a clear and doubt free life and perform appropriate actions which give best
results. These set of formulae’s which contains doe’s and don’ts in a simple language is
termed as shaastra’s. Shaastra’s are always aimed at the welfare of society and people.
Some of the fascinating shaastra formulae’s are listed below
1. Truth = strength
This is one the important formula to distinguish between truthfulness and falsity. Here
strength has very broad meaning apart from our limited physical strength.
2. Expansion = life; contraction = death
Freedom, broadness, struggle are all the signs of life whereas narrow mindedness self
centeredness, selfishness are the signs of death
3. Action + unselfishness = true action
True action is defined as the action performed without any selfish motives
4. Man – self control = animal
Animals are slaves of their genetic constitution only man has the power to go beyond
genetic constitution and exercises self control.
5.

Trifle makes perfection but perfection is not trifle. We have to take care of all small
things if we are aiming for some great achievements.

2. AnalyseTA
This is another type of TA where the machine’s analysis is in simile with life analysis.It
\justify above statement.

EX.1. DIODE CHARACTERISTICS (JOURNEY TO SUCCESS)

Diode is forward biased when anode is made positive with respect to the cathode. Diode
conducts fully when the diode voltage is more than the cut-in voltage (0.7 V for Si).
Conducting diode will have a small voltage drop across it.
Diode is reverse biased when cathode is made positive with respect to anode. When
reverse biased, a small reverse current known as leakage current flows. This leakage
current increases with increase in magnitude of reverse voltage until avalanche voltage is
reached (breakdown voltage).
of ignorance
TA teaching:
The journeys of success or failure trace the same trajectory as that of the general purpose
diode’s forward and reverse bias VI characteristics. Where current (I) signifies
achievement and voltage (V) signifies dedicated work. If we start working from null
work for few days we rarely see any considerable achievement. Each dedicated working
person’s achievements starts manifesting only if his single hearted work crosses the
threshold of unselfish work rendered. Similar to that of built in voltage concept. It is
interesting to note that every person has their own threshold level similar to having
different cut in voltages for different semiconductor devices. Before reaching threshold
work we can see that the void depletion region of ignorance becomes thinner and thinner
and vanishes away as soon as ignorance is destroyed completely and then we can see
success manifesting. Once the person has done required sufficient hard work, his
achievements increases rapidly by performing just small dedicated work in the positive
direction. Achievement starts increasing in exponential term. In the same sense if we
work in the negative direction performing anti-social activities the depletion region of
ignorance expands, we may see achievement in a short period but we end up with
irreversible destructive breakdown. So diode demonstrates the journey of success and
failure and allows us to study the various stages of winning and losing.

EX.2.Really logical gates

 AND gate: In this modern era the friendship between eastern and western countries has
to play an important role in achieving worlds peace and prosperity. East should know
from west how to live outside the house and west must learn from east how to live inside
the house. So development cannot be achieved through either east or west alone, both
have their own wonderful roles to reach completeness. Hence AND gate is used to
signify that only if west and east both are active than only completeness can be realized.

OR gate: The various ways which lead towards the total evolution of human beings are
scientifically classified into 4 paths. They are karma yoga (the yoga of action), jnana
yoga (the yoga of pure knowledge), bhakti yoga (the yoga of devotion, pure love), raja
yoga (the yoga of self discipline and mind control). It is interesting to know that all of
these paths lead to the same goal. Any one path or all or combinations of the paths can be
chosen to reach supreme goal. This property is in accordance with OR gate.

∞ One of the best ever technoadhyatma teaching given by swami Vivekananda

Duty is seldom sweet. It is only when love greases its

wheels that it runs smoothly; it is a continuous friction
otherwise. How else could parents do their duties to their
children, husbands to their wives, and vice versa? Do we not
meet with cases of friction everyday in our lives? Duty is
sweet only through love, and love shines in freedom alone.
Karma Yoga. New York, 1895. Complete Works, 1: 67

9. Benefits
Following are the benefits of technofun and technoadhyatma:-

1.These two powerful tools acts like a memory boosters as they use the principle of
association and linking which is one of the best methods of improving memory.
2. These tools help us to effortlessly analyze and understand even the most complex
technical concepts.
3. They change the way we read the engineering subjects and induce tremendous interest
and enthusiasm among students.
4. They teach us noble and moral lessons which have a power to bring marvelous
developments in the society.
5. Lastly they make us to laugh and enjoy the study.

10. Conclusion
Thus these tools can be effectively used to accelerate the present learning process and
give incredible socio-economic-spiritual upliftment. The institutions where these tools are
used can be termed as Indian institute of technology for human excellence (IITHE) where
technology is used to realize the best potential excellence hidden in each and every
individual.