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Mr. Jitendra Hemant Karekar

Assistant Professor at K J Somaiya College of Engineering

Faculty
  • Department:
    Science & Humanities
  • Institute:
    K J Somaiya College of Engineering
  • Email Address:

    jitendra.karekar@somaiya.edu

  • Contact Details:

    Landline No. : 66449191

    Extension No. : 0

  • Office Address :

    KJSCE

  • Timings For Visitors:

    NA

  • Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae

Jitendra Karekar is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics, in the Science and Humanities Department, K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Somaiya Vidyavihar University  (SVU), Mumbai, India.

He has completed his post-graduation from IIT, Bombay.  He qualified State Eligibility Test (SET) for State of Maharashtra.

He is teaching Applied Mathematics for last 13 years. He is the faculty member of Emfinity (Mathematics club at KJSCE). He always believes in application and visualization based teaching approach rather than purely theoretical one.

His research interests are Data Science, Machine learning, coding, error-correcting algorithms and Mathematics education. He has published 2 papers in International journal of engineering education. He is a life member of professional bodies like Mathematics Teachers Association, ISTE etc.

SET,Maharastra State,2016

B.sc Mathematics,Mumbai University,2007

M.sc Mathematics,Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,2009

    Academic
  • K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Asst. Prof., December 2017 - Present
  • Konkan Gyanpeeth College of Engineering, Asst. Prof., October 2009 - December 2017
    • Non Academic
  • APPLIED MATHEMATICS - I
  • APPLIED MATHEMATICS - II
  • Pedagogies and Assessments

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  • Published a research paper titled “Poster Presentation: a novel online assessment tool for motivation, relevance and foundation for research in Mathematics” in Journal of Engineering Education Transformation, Special issue 36: 492-499, 2023

  • Published a research paper titled “Optimum Use of LMS for Dynamic Mathematics Classrooms in Blended Mode” in Journal of Engineering Education Transformation, Special issue 35: 168-174, 2022

  • Presented a research paper titled “Poster Presentation: a novel online assessment tool for motivation, relevance and foundation for research in Mathematics” in international Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education, ICTIEE 2023 on 7th January, 2023 at Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru, Karnataka, india

  • attended and successfully completed online international workshop on "Teaching for and with Creativity in Science and inquiry-based Learning” organized by Durham University, UK MS-DEED Team IISER Pune and MSFDA From 22nd to 23rd August, 2022

  • attended and successfully completed MS-DEED level 2 in-person Master Trainers Workshop on “Effective Teaching for Science & Mathematics Undergraduate Teachers” organized by MS-DEED Team IISER Pune and MSFDA From 16th to 26th August, 2022

  • attended and successfully completed MS-DEED level 1 Workshop on “introduction to innovative Pedagogies for Science & Mathematics Undergraduate Teachers” organized by Ruia College, in collaboration with IISER Pune and MSFDA From 27th to 28th July, 2022

  • attended and successfully completed online FDP on “Symposium on Engineering Mathematics with MATLAB” organized by IUCEE foundation, RV college of engineering and Mathworks india Pvt. Ltd. From 6th to 8th September, 2021

  • attended Webinar “Challenges in Science Education and Research in the Covid-19 Scenario” coordinated by Somaiya institute on 29 July, 2020

  • Successfully Completed 3 day online STTP on ”Latex for Everyone” organized by department of Engineering sciences, RAIT, Nerul from 18-20 June 2020

  • attended FDP on “online Teaching and E-Content” organized by S K Somaiya college in Association with IIDE on 11-12 June, 2020

  • attended Two days National level FDP on “Techniques and Applications in Teaching Engineering Mathematics” organized by Dept. of Mathematics, K.R College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu on 10-11 June, 2020

  • attended Webinar on “Applications of Mathematics in Engineering and Real Life” organized by Dept. of Engineering sciences and Humanities, Sanjivani College of Engineering, Kopargaon on 8 June, 2020

  • attended and Successfully completed one week online FDP on “Evolution from offline to online Teaching” organized by IQAC and FDP committee Satish Pradhan Dnyanasadhana College, Thane in association with Department of IT, Mumbai University, YCMU Mumbai regional center and Microsoft on 30th May – 3rd June, 2020

  • Successfully completed “Effective and Efficient online teaching in the age of Corona: A hands on Workshop” on 24th May,2020 involving 3 days of video lectures and hands on work, organized by TLC ICT at IIT Bombay Through IITB Bodhi Tree Platform and Funded by PMMMNMTT, MHRD, GOI

  • attended Guest lecture delivered by Prof. Michel Waldschmidt, France on “A LUCID INTRODUCTION TO ERROR CORRECTING CODES” organized by TLC, K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, on 14 Dec 2018.

  • attended state level workshop on “Mathematics for industry” organized by IAIAM and Dept. of Mathematics and LTC, SPPU in association with the Mathematics Consortium and Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana, Pune on 5-6 Oct, 2018

  • attended one week Workshop for “innovative Teaching Learning Practices to achieve Outcome Based Education and Accreditation” organized by SPIT, andheri, Mumbai from May 3 –May 9, 2018

  • attended ISTE approved one week STTP on Applications of Mathematics in Science and Engineering in DEC 2013 at Saraswati College of Engineering, Kharghar

  • attended ISTE approved one week STTP on Recent Trends in Material Science and Energy Engineering in NOV 2011 at Konkan Gyanpeeth College of Engineering, Karjat

  • attended Faculty Training Workshop on Ethical Hacking and information Security in Sept 2011 at Konkan Gyanpeeth College of Engineering, Karjat

  • 8 week online FDP course on “Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms Using Python” organized by NPTEL-IITM through July-September 2022

  • 12 week online FDP course on “Computational Mathematics using SageMath” organized by NPTEL through Jan-April 2022

  • 6 Month Training program in 3 phases “IUCEE international Engineering Educator Certification Program (IIEECP 2019)” in engineering education completed successfully on January-July 2019

  • 8 week online FDP course on “Data Science for Engineers” organized by NPTEL through July-Sept 2019

  • 8 week online course on “introduction to Abstract and Linear Algebra” organized by NPTEL through Aug-Oct 2018

  • Coordinator for Faculty Training program organized by LMS-KJSCE on “Features of LMS” for new joined engineering faculty on 5th November 2022

  • Coordinator for Faculty Training program organized at KJSCE on “Impartus Lecture Capturing” for the engineering faculty on 7th October 2022

  • Judge for the inter-collegiate PPT presentation competition on “Real Life application of Mathematics” organized by Department of Mathematics, B. K. Birla college, Kalyan on 17th December, 2021

  • Member of the organizing team for “CIASSP- Challenges, innovations and Adaptations of Covid-19: Science & Society Perspectives” organized jointly by Dept. of SAH, KJSCE and SKSC, SVU on 29th and 30th Oct, 2021

  • Member of the organizing team for “e-MAPCO: Poster Presentation competition on Application of Mathematics” organized by AMTSI on 18 Oct 2020

  • Member of the organizing Team for international conference ICERAT 2016 held at K.G.C.E.

  • Delivered an online session as a workshop facilitator on “Transforming Mathematics Education in Engineering: The Model KJSCE” during 9th international conference on Transformations in Engineering Education on 7th January 2022

  • Completed all 3 levels of MTTS (Mathematics Training and Talent Search), a national level summer program organized by NBHM (National Board of Higher Mathematics).

  • attended and organized workshops in Astronomy, Telescope handling