About the guest: Professor Mayur Parulekar, a wandering, traveling soul has been teaching at D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering for the past 10 years. Starting at 21 teaching a batch of engineering students who were exactly his age or some even older than him at that time. Professor Mayur Parulekar also enjoys traveling and reading in his free time. He believes that gaining knowledge and new information is one of the most important investments that anyone can make. He has explored from big international cities in Europe to small remote villages in India. He has seen it all! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayur-parulekar-7587b528/ D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering: https://www.linkedin.com/school/djsce/ Introduction to Negotiation on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/negotiation Artificial Intelligence by Andrew NG on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone ------------------------------------------------------------------- Key Insights in this episode: Teaching philosophy and teaching as a profession Future of recruitment for college students Impact of Coronavirus on current and graduating students How graduates working in the industry can give back to their college ------------------------------------------------------------------- Timestamps: Teaching Philosophy-  2:15 - 2:42 Why Engineering and life in Engineering-  2:43 - 5:33 Life in DJ Masters - 5:34 - 8:00 Why select teaching over a mainstream job or MBA - 8:01 - 21:05 How to pick up on a new subject or topic and teach it - 21:06 - 24:40 Online Learning and Resources (Introduction to Negotiation, Tableau)   - 24:41 - 30:33 DJ as an autonomous college - 30:34 - 34:54 Future of Recruitment - 34:55 -  37:42 Education in Mumbai University (why is it so theoretical?) and future of education - 37:43 - 41:50 Why should alumni get back to school/colleges to help them out and what can they do - 41:51 -  45:22 Why is attendance mandatory in college? - 45:23 - 52:33 Impact of Coronavirus on education - 52:34 - 58:07 Tips for current and graduating students during a recession - 58:08 - 1:05:48 Mayur Parulekar outside of DJ, Passion for travel - 1:05:49 - 1:13:03 Top 3 - 1:13:04 - 1:21:39 Rapid Fire - 1:21:40 - 1:25:55 Not the Onion - 1:25:56 - 1:31:21