Dr. I. C Sharma currently holds the esteemed position of Principal at the Global Institute of Technology, in Jaipur, Rajasthan. With a remarkable 25-year tenure in academia, Dr. Sharma brings a wealth of experience to his role. His academic journey is adorned with significant achievements, including a PhD in Structural Civil Engineering, an M.Tech. in Structural Civil Engineering, and a B.Tech. in Civil Engineering. Furthermore, he pursued a comprehensive three year diploma course in Civil Engineering, further enriching his academic repertoire.

Dr. Sharma's commitment to excellence extends beyond his academic qualifications. He actively contributes to various professional committees, serving as a member of the QIV Committee at RTU (Kota) and the Indian Society for Technical Education. Additionally, he holds membership in Mission 10X at Wipro Ltd. and the International Association of Civil Engineers. With his extensive academic background and active involvement in professional societies, Dr. Sharma exemplifies dedication and leadership in the field of civil engineering and education.

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Being the part of management, what is your philosophy of leadership? How would you describe your leadership style?

My educational philosophy of leadership, in a nutshell, would begin and end with developing a positive culture that students, staff, and community members enjoy being a part of. Rather than finding ways to escape, I want to include everyone. If the bookends of my philosophy are cultivating a positive culture, the contents within are to sustain it. I try to build relationships with all stakeholders, discover and play to the strengths of my staff and institute community members. I build leadership capacity by empowering students and educators to embrace an innovator’s mindset, be real, and lead by doing. 

According to you, what makes education the best industry to work in?

Some of the reasons why a career in this sector can be rewarding is that you get to help others. Education is all about furthering the development of future generations. It can be a rewarding field to work in, whether you're in a hands-on role or not. The education industry is a vast and varied one, playing a significant role in countries around the world. We take a closer look at the current state of play in terms of jobs, skills, and teach the students how to get your career started. If we take a look at one specific market, we can see that the global online education market is forecasted to be worth $319.167 billion by 2025. Studies suggest that the increase of internet availability, cloud computing, and investments are driving this rapid growth. This motivates me to keep teaching.

What do you think should be the college's top priority over the next 3 years?

Our priority is to advance education, knowledge and wisdom for the good of society. We are working in the direction where are our institute will be recognized globally for the excellence of our faculties, students, research, learning and innovation. We are ambitious in our pursuit of new ideas, greater understanding and discovery. We aspire to have an environment with wellbeing, equality, diversity and inclusion and facilities to support our students and staff. We will work on our values to develop world class research infrastructure.

Being the Principal, how do you define your connection with students and faculties? How do you balance the expectation of colleagues and students?

My way to define connection with students to spend one on one time with each student. I look for something to give compliments to the students to encourage their efforts. I work to teach them to develop an interest in their interests by asking students to share their stories, attending their events and encouraging them. I give my best to support to my faculties to set goals and develop on-going assessment processes for examining the connections between their own learning, student learning, and institute improvement goals. My first priority is to participate willingly in the career growth of my faculties and in their happiness and sorrow if any.

How do you plan on using the immense knowledge and experience you have gained being an integral member of the education Institute?

In my view good learning experience focuses on being authentic, interactive, and collaborative to enhance engagement and improve knowledge retention. This adds value to the learner, encourages social learning, promotes learner self-assessment, and is inquiry-based. As a principal of GIT with over 24 teaching experience in academia, I always try to focus on the certain points to provide a good environment to my stakeholders for their professional carrier. I try to maintain the college infrastructure, fulfill pedagogy skills and provide highly educated faculty’s teachers. We also try to provide extra-curricular activities, have proper implementations of a government initiatives and provide assessment through proper evaluation tools.

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

I believe practical learning allows everyone to learn quick adaptation methods needed for daily challenges and scenarios at the workplace. This allows you to get a better understanding of your course topic. In our institute we teach students by adopting five rules in each and every subjects, the constructivist approach is based on the concept of constructivism. We also have the collaborative approach, the reflective approach, the integrative approach and the inquiry-based approach that promotes working together, reflecting on mistakes and asking questions 

How do you strategize the curriculum to make it befitting for the students?

We have always worked with a focus on outcome based education. In this regard we had played an important role to describe our strength imparting best education to our students. This includes our institute’s vision and mission, focusing on student’s benefits, objectives of teaching, and the student needs. After that, we identify the resources, develop experiences that meet our objectives, and help create ideal students' experience. Then finally we move towards the target.

How do you help your student to cope with the high competition outside?

Encouraging the students to learn, perform and to compete on their own way is our priority. We are always praising the students when they make efforts, encourage students to ask for any support any time from my end. We also work at improving their teamwork and collaboration with the help my highly educated faculty members, conducting seminars and webinars to improve the mental toughness and stress carrying capacity, before letting them to participate anywhere. In the past, we organized an internal round in the institute to judge and improve their skills and abilities. I feel proud that I can make my students strong and capable before joining the industry so that they do not face any problem.

How does Institute enhance the skills of the faculty according to industry levels?

Global institute of technology organizes a lot of faculty development programs and workshops for our faculty members We support the faculties in terms of financial aids to attend these FDPs and program all over India. The institute encourages the faculties to take part and attend various type of quality improvement programs. Our faculty members show their potential for improving their knowledge and professional growth by attending National initiative for technical teachers trainings (NITTTR), research promotion scheme, short term training program and more.

Any feedback you would like to share with the new generation coming forward?

I urge the new generation to dream big. However at the same time, remember to start small. Transformation does not require a massive push. Like everything in nature, it’s a gradual process. There will be spikes, when you hit the threshold where something big happens and there will be lows as well. You have to work from the ground up. Every tree starts off as a seedling – you have to take care of it and let it grow.