Dr. Sheetal Bukkawar is presently serving as Dean of Administration and Student Welfare at Saraswati College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai. With a Ph.D. in E&TC, Dr. Sheetal has a rich experience of over 18 years in teaching and student management. She has carried out various activities for the academic success of students at institutional levels. She is a true educationist with all the required skills to enhance student experience and growth in the college premises. 

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What are your roles and responsibilities being the Dean of Administration and Student Welfare?

“Propagating and managing student-oriented activities”

Being a teacher and Dean of Student Welfare, it’s my first and foremost duty to positively mold my students' lives. Being Dean Administration, I take care of all administrative work of Saraswati College of Engineering and look after the admission process, students scholarship matters, student’s association activities and so on. Also, I assist all the other matters related to students' well-being at the campus by guiding and enhancing their growth.

What extracurricular activities do you offer to enhance the skills of the students?

“Sports and Cultural events along with social awareness programs”

At SCOE, we have different clubs for students like Music club, Art club, dance club, Sports club, Orator club, photography club, Fashion club, etc. so that students can pursue their hobbies along with academics. We have an NSS team of students who work for various social causes. Also, the college consists of a Students Council along with faculty coordinators of the college making sure that various activities on campus like Annual fest, Celebration of festivals are arranged and executed properly. All these events and activities are beneficial in developing team spirit, leadership attitude and cooperation among students. 

How do you try to bring in a practical approach towards subjects?

“Enriching professional skills through training and projects”

Along with the prescribed syllabus by the university, we conduct regular training sessions enhancing soft skills, aptitude and logical reasoning, various software languages, etc. to make them practically ready to work in industries. Also, students are motivated for Internships and Industry projects so that they get to know about the industry working atmosphere well in advance. We believe in Project-based learning and for the same, we arrange various industry-oriented training sessions, seminars by industry people to make our students Industry ready.

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What can an inbound student gain from studying here at your college?

“Strong academics and holistic development of students”

The College vision is to encourage a value-based innovative learning environment that engages deep intellectual, spiritual and moral stimulation and to promote holistic personality development for nurturing leadership. With this vision, the college provides the cutting-edge of holistic learning and develop promising youngsters into leaders of tomorrow with globally relevant, future-ready and actionable intelligence. We support each student to achieve their best possible success, by knowing each child, respecting differences, meeting individual needs, providing support and challenge, and making appropriate adjustments to teaching and learning. We provide timely and effective feedback to students and support students in acting upon this feedback as well. 

What do you see as the greatest strengths of Saraswati College of Engineering? 

“Practical approaches to learning and influential faculty”

SCOE always believes in ensuring the development and inclination of ethical and moral values amongst the students through academic, extracurricular and social activities. At Saraswati College of Engineering, there are many opportunities to enhance the skills as well as students’ overall development. The Students of Saraswati College undergo the training of upcoming technologies along with their university prescribed syllabus. It helps them to cope with recent advancements in technologies. A positive and Opportunistic atmosphere for staff and students for self-development and well-trained faculty, result-oriented and energetic teaching faculty are our strengths. 

What are some of the biggest challenges you see for higher education?

“Enrolment rate and deviated mindset of students”

The Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) of India in higher education is just 15% which is very low when contrasted with the other creating nations. With the expansion of enrolments at the school level, the stock of higher education foundations is deficient to fulfill the developing need in the nation. As far as SCOE is considered, students' deviation towards research area and placements is a challenging point. We need to empower students with more practical skills so that they can create opportunities rather than grasping ones’ already existing in the field. 

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Any suggestions you would like to give to the current youth?

“Know the right set of values and skills”

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor but without folly. Do not become a part of the crowd; stand differently and most importantly maintain emotional stability.