Bio of Som Karamchetty, PhD

 

Som Karamchetty, PhD

     After working as an executive and as a senior staffer for sixteen years, Som retired from the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in 2004. Som was on the faculties of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, The University of Newcastle, Australia, and Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA as a full time member, or a visiting professor for over two decades.  He served as the ARL Distinguished Visiting Professor at Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA in 1996.

     In a sixty year engineering, applied research, and management career, he delivered several reports to customers and inventions to his employers, and received three patents and several awards. He was chosen as the Principal Technology Investigator for Artificial Intelligence and manager of advanced technology projects at Martin Marietta Data Systems. In 2016, he published a peer reviewed paper on hierarchical engineering model of the human body in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) publication.

     Dr. Karamchetty received M Tech and PhD degrees from IIT, Kharagpur, and BE (Hons) from College of Engineering, Kakinada, India. Trained as a Program Manager from the Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) he was admitted to the US Army Acquisition Corps in 1993. He is a life Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), held ASME committee positions, and was also a member of several professional associations.

     As a volunteer business mentor with SCORE Association from 2004, he counseled over 2,500 clients with a good fraction of his clients having started businesses and created jobs. He was honored as an Emeritus Mentor.

     He continues to write new concepts and proffers suggestions in a number of areas and works to help India and US in technical and business sectors.

A Report on the plight of US unless it corrects its course

 

The Right Course for US

Here is a very interesting and informative presentation at the link below. The US should look at it as a warning sign.

What we consume and what assets we have are not measures of our likely future. What we produce and what our capabilities to produce are the real indicators of our future.

The US should bring its production home and to very good friends in order to begin producing everything we need. Otherwise, before long, the workforce will forget how to make anything. Here are the indicators.

Over a half a century ago, young people used to distribute newspapers, help mother in washing dishes, assist dad in mowing the lawn, do child minding, work part time as waiters and waitresses in restaurants, and so on. They knew how to do manual work to earn and save money, and to create wealth for themselves and thus for the nation. Consequently, they used to grow up with good communication, marketing, making, and management skills. American farmers produced enough grains to help the hungry nations.

Now, children and young people get pocket money from parents to buy imported electronic devices and apps to play games using only their fingers. Parents take loans so that the children can pursue soft subjects in school and college.

Americans get immigrants to do manual labor. The immigrant laborers use imported machines and tools. We have no strategic plan to train unskilled laborers. The result is that they remain unskilled forever needing basic welfare benefits. Our academics do great theoretical and analytical discoveries and inventions. However, it is known that such creative ideas and concepts yield only single digit wealth while the final manufactured products yield high double digit returns.

We started counting a few hundred billionaires while ignoring hundred million families unsure of their future.

We should start making things before we forget what manufacturing is.

We should begin exercising our limbs again lest we suffer muscular dystrophy.

We should get back to building bridges and canals for international trade and development lest we are forced to build space high walls to defend our lands.

We should enrich our workforce skills along with advanced robotic and AI/ML technologies so the machines serve us lest we get forced to serve the masters of such machines.

We should deploy our intellectual, creative, communication, and manual capabilities so that all citizens work and enjoy the fruits and flavors of our combined effort.

Here is the link.

https://www.turkishnews.com/tr/content/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/THE-CHINESE-ARE-LEAVING-US-IN-THE-DUST.pdf

THE CHINESE ARE LEAVING US IN THE DUST!

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Claimed benefits of Subhas Palekar Method of Farming

Palekar Method of Farming

Here is a short note and some links that discussed about Palekar method of Farming.
It is worthwhile reading, analyzing, and evaluating this method for scaling, and then adopting it.

It appears that Palekar method of farming is quite beneficial to farmers, especially with small acreages in India.

Here are some claims:

It is yielding 5 to 10 times financial returns than before.

It provides a continual cash flow to farmers.

It uses local labor but not in large quantity.

It uses machinery to a small extent.

It is quite suitable for farmers holding 1 to 10 acres.

It utilizes cows thus helping the Hindu cause.

It is good for multiple products that are also organic.

It does not use chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

It requires a small investment of money.

It requires the framer to learn the technique, which is not complex.

It utilizes domestic varieties of seeds.

Here are some links:

http://ww7.palekarzerobudgetspiritualfarming.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhash_Palekar

I have some posts on Facebook; here is a link:

https://www.facebook.com/SomKDSR/posts/10158405401385406?__cft__[0]=AZUDcDjQYvV1oSA8662ekO89VANN4B9cjsC1l5woWAC4Q7tGu2aJK7ThIRL__VL6wVGpxi7PfFlATE3Z18Q9nJTLhcIXxhwyu-2bZDpNrTeGLfs0WAukweoad3CBBgnHJCw&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

More:

https://www.pureecoindia.in/an-open-letter-to-subhash-palekar-who-claims-organic-farming-is-worse-than-atom-bomb/

https://www.ecologise.in/2019/08/15/budget-zero-budget-farming-a-response-to-subhash-palekar/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/zero-budget-farming-inventor-palekar-is-modis-go-to-agri-man/articleshow/70097986.cms

https://www.facebook.com/zbnfonline/

https://spnfhp.nic.in/en-IN/spnf.html

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A Strategic Plan is needed to address the Problems of the US Black Community

Black Lives Matter - Need for a Strategic Plan

By Som Karamchetty, PhD

     The Need for the development of a Strategic Plan is suggested here. It starts with identifying the Basic Needs of the Black community. Maslow's Need Hierarchy is the appropriate framework to analyse the Needs. It will be realized that the prior attempts like Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action (AA) have helped a small fraction of the community, while the vast majority have been  forsaken. It has actually been costing the nation in terms of welfare payments to the vast majority as well as wasted human potential. Therefore, it is essential to get a good handle on the Needs of the large majority of that community and address them.
     Once the Basic Needs of the majority of the community are identified, the nation should build step ladders such that people can satisfy their basic needs, move up the ladder, and become highly contributing people. In practical terms, it may only require training in knowledge and skills of the modern technological economy, provision of the tools, and networks. A Strategic Plan should be developed, resourced, and executed. It will actually have a high return on investment both economically and socially.
     Leaders of the Black community have a higher stake in taking the lead in putting forth a plan for the Strategic Plan in collaboration with the majority of Americans.

Here is a presentation explaining the concept and method.

Plan for a Developed Country Status for India

     I sent a note in 2005-06 to Indian leaders suggesting that by applying Maslow's Need Hierarchy, they should develop a Strategic Plan for making India a developed country.
     In 2015, I gave talks at a few Indian universities and the presentation, I used at that time is reproduced here. That presentation used the 2005 US and India data sets only.

That presentation is posted here.

An Enhancement of this plan

     In autocratic countries, a centralized planning may work as the leadership imposes it on the people whether or not the people like it or benefit from it. 
     On the other hand, in democratic countries, unless the plan components are generated by the people, they will not participate in it with passion and enthusiasm. Leaders in democratic nations do not and cannot impose their will on people. People may displace the governments if they do not like the plan or if the results do not benefit them.
    With a view to addressing such concerns, I suggested the development of Panchayat level Planning, which is an enhancement of the plan presented above. This planning method is also posted on my Blog as a 
Document and as a Presentation.