Monday, September 30, 2013

Project Viva - Crazy Experience For Every Engineer.

So here I am after long time carrying lots of memories to share, this one is my favourite. Check out and have fun.
               That was our final project viva, Just like everybody's project viva ours is also very funny and memorable experience. But I can say it is very special for me as it was the last good college memory I had with my buddies. It went like this.
              Fortunately we all know the name of our project, Our professors must be proud of us :). We asked to prepare a presentation about our project so we can explain to external viva guy, while presenting he will ask questions, But the constrain is it should not have more than 15 slides. Thankfully there is no lower limit. So we spent days and nights and ended up preparing a PPT (How we prepared PPT would be a different blog post). So we all set to the battle.
             Considering the alphabetical order of names I had to explain the first few slides of PPT. Before going to viva we struggled a lot to distribute the available knowledge among us  and came up with a plan regarding who should explain which piece. So my piece is to give the overview of project. I started the presentation gave the overview it ended in less than 20 seconds, when looked at viva madam I realized that she was expecting something more, So I left with no chance than grabbing my dear friend's piece and presented that also, I'm still feeling guilty about that. Mine ended with out any questions.
             Next my dear friend started his presentation. It went like this.
Nikhy: So we developed a mobile application using JAVA, With this we can send signal to some AC which will take care of switching on/off  the home appliances.
Viva: (With a kind of astonishment she asked ) You guys developed a JAVA application, (That was the most sarcastic expression I have ever seen.)
Nikhy: Yes madam.
Viva: Great, Let me ask you a question, some Java based question.
Nikhy: Poker Face!!    ( I can read his mind he must be thinking, Oh god why me!)
Viva: Know tell me who developed this JAVA application.
Nikhy: We only developed but we took help from Radhanand Sir (who was sitting there in viva along with external).
Viva: OK then tell me the answer for this question. By observing her body language we realized that was less tougher question then previous one.
Nikhy: Madam actually Sir did that application and gave us. (he lost his patience, and gave up)
Viva: I appreciate your honesty. She gave some free advise which we didn't care.
         It is time for Bobby, He started his presentation which involves some intelligent stuff about which he doesn't have any clue.
Bobby: blah, blah TTL Level, blah blah blah Micro Controller, blah blah Linear Circuit.  blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Viva: What is the difference between Micro controller  and Micro Processor?
Bobby: blah blah blah.( Wow I got a question which I can answer).
Viva: do you know what  TTL Level for blah?
Bobby: yes madam, TTL Levels are transistor blah  .. => started acting like answer just slipped out of his mind.
Viva: You don't even know TTL Levels?
Bobby: Poker Face !!!. (I observed an exchange of glance between my prof and external, She was like evdra villaku chaduvu cheppinodu, He was like Nene aa daridrunni).
           Next comes Raghav.
Raghav:   blah, blah ( Left nothing to present, started bluffing same old shit we already shared.) but on the projector he has a block diagram of some micro controller.
Viva: How many ports does that micro controller have?
Raghav: With more than required confidence, he said  three B, C, D. ( I think my smart friend read it somewhere that is why he was confident).
Viva: With another sarcastic expression she asked, where did port A go?
Raghav: Started bluffing like this.
 Yes madam this micro controller do have port A, But will not be visible physically, blah blah. (But actually it will have only 3 ports)
Viva:  None of the micro controllers has three ports expect this one.. (Trolled).
Raghav: One more poker face.
And we finished our engineering.