Anantrao Pawar College of Architecture, Pune, Associate Professor: Prof. Shilpa Ingawale Interview

Prof. Shilpa Ingawale has been working as an Associate Professor at Anantrao Pawar College of Architecture, Pune, Maharashtra. She has done B. Arch and Master's in Architectural Conservation as part of her education.

What are the key factors that keep you connected with the education sector?

"My urge of upgrading my knowledge and spreading it with young minds has helped me stay associated"

After 15 long years of my professional experience, I have joined academics to deliver finest quality and practical industrial knowledge to students to enhance their learning abilities and expand their knowledge by improving the existing teaching pedagogies. And I always had a passion for teaching and keeping myself updated with the latest happenings of the outside world. Hence I believe these factors have helped me stay connected with the education sector.

How do you motivate and prepare your students to confidently face the outside challenging world?

"Students are regularly engaged in co-curricular activities and skill development programs of college"

For the purpose of making students ready for the outside competitive world, we regularly organize Students Development Programs along with a diverse range of extracurricular activities. While co-curricular activities help them to showcase their unique talents to others, development programs on the other hand helps them to enhance their professional skills.

How does the curriculum of APCOA ensure the best practices of industry?

"It is prepared after thorough research about latest industrial development hence include best practices"

We design and update the curriculum of our college after rigorous analysis of industrial practices, development, trends and requirements. And we have adopted standardized approaches for effective teaching-learning processes and thoroughly analyze academic progress and performance of each student through extracurricular activities which we regularly organize as per industry standards and syllabus. In addition to this, we have signed MOUs with the practicing industries and professional organizations like IIA and AESA IID to understand industrial practices and technologies from a closer look.

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How does your college make the students industry ready?

"Students are offered diverse range of value based certification courses and competitive learning environments"

We organize a wide variety of skill development programs for students on a regular basis in order to make them ready for the outside challenging world. Apart from this, we offer various value added certification courses to students in the discipline of Interior Designing, Architecture, 2D and 3D Designing along with software like AutoCAD and our teaching staff is always ready to deliver best quality education to students and are in fact our main pillar in making students industry ready. 

What kind of opportunities does your college provide to students to help them pursue their dreams?

"We regularly organize NSS activities, cultural programs and leadership based events for this"

Our college provides abundant learning opportunities and appropriate platforms such as NSS, Professional Expertise Cultural Programs like Swar Rang Sakal YIN and leadership events to students to help them pursue their dreams and also contribute in social services.

What are some of the biggest challenges you see for your college specifically?

"Making students confident about the available job opportunities in the outside world is a real struggle"

The main challenge in front of us currently is to make our Graduate students convinced and aware about the scope and variety of job opportunities which are available in the outside world both in India and abroad as per their respective courses. Apart from this, making them industry ready and helping them develop a strong prospectus also become a hurdle for us sometimes. 

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How pursuing Graduation and Diploma courses in Architecture can be beneficial for students in today's time?

"Basic qualification in the Architecture courses can open doors of opportunities in various other disciplines"

As far as I have observed the education sector with respect to the field of Architecture, I can assure you that even a basic qualification in Architecture boosts the confidence level of students as it allows them to explore various interdisciplinary fields and opportunities and also enhance their knowledge in the domain of professional journalism and animations etc.