The Road Ahead

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The Road Ahead

• Budi Rahardjo
• Teknik Elektro ITB
• Bandung 2001-2002
• Presented 18 August 2001before the new ITB EE
  students16 March 2002 Kapita Selekta S2

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Agenda

• Why are you here? Where do you want to go?
• Whos the gate keeper?
• Entrepreneurship, an alternative roadmap
• Whats your personal roadmap?

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Why are you here?

• Why did you choose Teknik Elektro ITB?
• Because its the most difficult. I need challenge
• I love electronics since I was a kid
• IT is booming. I want to become rich
• I dont know. I follow friends (who choose ITB)
• I need the degree

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Purpose of education

• Feynmans experience
• Doing physics for fun, got nobel instead
• Teaching in Brazil no science was taught
• (Surely Youre Joking Mr. Feynman)

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Gatekeepers

• Know the gatekeepers in your fields
• Lets give it a try

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Where to go?

• Lecturers, professors
• Profesionals
• Bureaucrats
• Entrepreneurs
• Where do you want to go?
• Whats ITB contribution to Indonesias economy?

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Entrepreneurs

• Contribute to economy
• New economy, digital economy, network economy
• Learn new things
• Business plan, business model, venture capital,
  stock options, management, etc

Change The World
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Engineers

• What do engineers do?
• To drive developing technology into new areas,
  combining past experience with present science to
  create future products and innovationsEngineeri
  ng is the art of making intelligent tradeoffs and
  compromises among conflicting and sometimes
  mutually exclusive goalsBob Colwell,
  Phrenology, Astrology, Risk, and Product
  Quality, IEEE Computer, January 2002

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Personal Roadmap

• Current Indonesian (ITB?) students problem
• Low working ethics
• Things to ponder
• Integrity!

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Dare to fail

• Failure is part of success
• Work hard and smart
• Many examples of successful scientists,
  businessmen who have to go through many failuires

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Challenges problems

• There WILL BE problems. Always
• How to make them interesting for us to solve
• Examples
• No money (poor)
• No resources
• No time
• No

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Good luck in your journey
The point of a journeyis not to arrive - Rush