Join us as we discuss engineering education in India, with a focus on the career path of Dr. Rucha Joshi, an Associate Professor at Plaksha University. Dr. Joshi shares her journey into engineering education, her current research projects, leadership role, and her perspective on the focus of the engineering education community in India. We also discuss the importance of collaborations, priorities in the community, and conferences in India that may be of interest to the broader engineering education community.

Name Drop

Dr. Rohit Kandakatla

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohitkandakatla/?originalSubdomain=in

Dr. Preethi Baligar -

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-preethi-baligar-18596415a/?originalSubdomain=in

Dr. Bill Oakes (William Oakes) -

https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-bill-oakes-12072113/

Dr. Shannon Chance -

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonchance7/?originalSubdomain=ie

Siara Isaac -

https://people.epfl.ch/siara.isaac?lang=en

Dr. Joelyn de Lima -

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelyndelima/?originalSubdomain=ch

Recommended Conferences in India:

https://ictiee.org/ictiee2026/

Compute : https://isigcse.acm.org/compute/2025/

IIT Bombay, IIT Chennai

https://www.et.iitb.ac.in/

For Engineering Education Research & Pedagogy: IUCEE is the most established choice in India. https://iucee.org/annual-conference/

For Education Technology Research

International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E): Technology For, Of, In, Across Education, 13th. Sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Organized by the EdTech Society, India and hosted by IIT Madras. T4E 2025 will be held in Chennai, India. https://etsociety.org/t4e-2025/ or https://etsociety.org/product-category/event/

iSIGCSE conference - Compute - https://isigcse.acm.org/compute/

https://isigcse.acm.org/compute/2025/

Other broader engineering conferences with Educational Tracks often happen at IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Chennai, and IIT Gandhinagar, etc. premier institutes.