After finishing your school days, if you are going to take engineering as your career, you should give more importance to the practical knowledge. Surely you have to gain more practical knowledge than that of theoretical. Gaining it will help you more than you think. Here, in this post, i'll try to explain the importance of practical knowledge with some incidents happened in my life.
Theoretical learning
It helps you to get an idea of how things work. It helps you to understand why one method works and why other fails. Theoretically, you can solve problems such as finding the vehicle's overall power with respect to engine rpm, bore, stroke etc. But you have to understand the theory and have to work on the engines practically. You cannot become a successful person unless you handle the real world situations on your own. Theories can lead you to understand about things deeply and to understand the reason behind it. The main concept of the theoretical knowledge is to learn about stuffs and to apply it in our real world. Surely, for doing practical works, you need to know about the theory behind it.
Practical approach
After learning about a thing theoretically, you can move for practical. The main reason for gaining theoretical knowledge is to know about how things work. But in reality, the things that you learn in theories is not always same in the practical world. For example, while reading theoretically about a carburetor, the basic overview of the carb structure, simple working and for our understanding, a simple 2d diagram will be shown. But, in reality, the carb have more parts and looks different than the depicted version of theory. It have separate passage for air during idling and adjusting nuts. But in theory, you just learn about the working of a simple carburetor. What i'm trying to say is, if you learn something new, it is better to learn something about it practically at the same moment itself.
Practical approach is always better because, it makes us capable enough to learn about how things work in the real world. The good part here is, while learning through practical approach, the knowledge we gained will stay with us for a long period and at the same time, we can be able to understand the theory behind it. It can lead to deeper understanding of a concept. Learning theoretically is about knowledge of how it works and practical knowledge is about how that thing works in the real world. Without learning about the thing practical approach, you are not gaining the 100 percent knowledge.
Here i'll share some of my experience..
During my 3rd semester, i've learned about working of a simple carburetor. What i've learned is basic principle and working behind the carburetor and the choke system. I thought the same system will be present inside a real world carburetor also. It was my semester holidays and my friend called me to tune the carburetor of his motorbike for getting good mileage. At that time, i know there'll be two screws to tune it but i don't know how to do that. After that only, i got to know about those screws and its function by seeing some YouTube videos and came to know about there's separate passage for air during idling and about tuning the carburetor for getting mileage and performance. There'll be no problem if this topic has been approached in a practical manner in colleges. Due to this, i've missed many things and thrown to a situation where i have to get those practical experience on my own.
The problem rises here. Most of the colleges only provide us theoretical knowledge. Imagine if we get placed in a company, pushed to a situation where we have to face and rectify a problem alone. Without getting proper practical knowledge, when we study, we can't able to face those problems on our own. Without getting a proper practical knowledge, we have to face more difficulties. I hope surely things will change one day.
Theoretical learning
It helps you to get an idea of how things work. It helps you to understand why one method works and why other fails. Theoretically, you can solve problems such as finding the vehicle's overall power with respect to engine rpm, bore, stroke etc. But you have to understand the theory and have to work on the engines practically. You cannot become a successful person unless you handle the real world situations on your own. Theories can lead you to understand about things deeply and to understand the reason behind it. The main concept of the theoretical knowledge is to learn about stuffs and to apply it in our real world. Surely, for doing practical works, you need to know about the theory behind it.
Practical approach
After learning about a thing theoretically, you can move for practical. The main reason for gaining theoretical knowledge is to know about how things work. But in reality, the things that you learn in theories is not always same in the practical world. For example, while reading theoretically about a carburetor, the basic overview of the carb structure, simple working and for our understanding, a simple 2d diagram will be shown. But, in reality, the carb have more parts and looks different than the depicted version of theory. It have separate passage for air during idling and adjusting nuts. But in theory, you just learn about the working of a simple carburetor. What i'm trying to say is, if you learn something new, it is better to learn something about it practically at the same moment itself.
Practical approach is always better because, it makes us capable enough to learn about how things work in the real world. The good part here is, while learning through practical approach, the knowledge we gained will stay with us for a long period and at the same time, we can be able to understand the theory behind it. It can lead to deeper understanding of a concept. Learning theoretically is about knowledge of how it works and practical knowledge is about how that thing works in the real world. Without learning about the thing practical approach, you are not gaining the 100 percent knowledge.
Here i'll share some of my experience..
During my 3rd semester, i've learned about working of a simple carburetor. What i've learned is basic principle and working behind the carburetor and the choke system. I thought the same system will be present inside a real world carburetor also. It was my semester holidays and my friend called me to tune the carburetor of his motorbike for getting good mileage. At that time, i know there'll be two screws to tune it but i don't know how to do that. After that only, i got to know about those screws and its function by seeing some YouTube videos and came to know about there's separate passage for air during idling and about tuning the carburetor for getting mileage and performance. There'll be no problem if this topic has been approached in a practical manner in colleges. Due to this, i've missed many things and thrown to a situation where i have to get those practical experience on my own.
The problem rises here. Most of the colleges only provide us theoretical knowledge. Imagine if we get placed in a company, pushed to a situation where we have to face and rectify a problem alone. Without getting proper practical knowledge, when we study, we can't able to face those problems on our own. Without getting a proper practical knowledge, we have to face more difficulties. I hope surely things will change one day.
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