{"id":485,"date":"2022-09-27T09:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T09:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vabcreativeconsulting.com\/?page_id=485"},"modified":"2022-09-29T10:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T10:34:39","slug":"design-thinking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vabcreativeconsulting.com\/\/design-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-47kfp9-af1969b0607275dc507b8174770fcdee\">\n.avia-section.av-47kfp9-af1969b0607275dc507b8174770fcdee .av-parallax .av-parallax-inner{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/vabcreativeconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/banner.jpg);\nbackground-position:50% 50%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-47kfp9-af1969b0607275dc507b8174770fcdee main_color avia-section-huge avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  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.flex_column.av-haql1-ded39cb6688de7d9ea90fda95366e011{\nmargin-top:0px;\nmargin-bottom:0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-haql1-ded39cb6688de7d9ea90fda95366e011 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-25  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-animated-generic bottom-to-top av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-8429h-69ef1a2715676e9df3758cd216740222 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-384 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/vabcreativeconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dr.-Deepak-L.-Waikar.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Deepak L. Waikar\" width=\"211\" height=\"252\" \/>Dr. Deepak L. Waikar, Founder and Managing Partner of EduEnergy Singapore, has been involved in education, training, research, and management fields for more than three decades. He started his professional career as an Assistant Director at the National Power Engineers Training Institute in India after his post-graduation from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University in India. He has been associated with the premier institutions, polytechnics, colleges, and academies in India and Singapore as well as with British and Australian Universities offering courses in Singapore. He has authored\/co-authored books, book chapters, research articles, and policy papers on power, energy, management, sustainable development, leadership, and education-related topics. He has served on various committees in professional bodies such as Chair of the Institute of Electrical &amp; Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Power &amp; Energy Society (PES) Chapter, Singapore, and Chair of the IEEE Education Society Chapter Singapore. He is a recipient of the IEEE-PES Outstanding Power Engineers&#8217; Award 2003 and SP Green Buddy Award 2004. Dr. Waikar has been associated with Singapore Certified Energy Manager\u2019s programme for more than a decade. He has also been an advisory committee member of the Indo-Universal Centre for Engineering Education (IUCEE). He has served as Editors and Reviewers for the conferences and journals. He has also been invited as an external examiner for assessing Master and Doctoral Thesis.<\/p>\n<p>He has delivered hundreds of invited keynotes, plenary, panel session presentations on power, sustainable and clean energy, education, management, sustainable development, and leadership related topics at the international conferences, seminars and forums in North &amp; South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. He has also been invited to give captivating &amp; impactful inaugural, valedictory, and guest speeches for conferences, seminars, graduation ceremonies, and similar events of colleges, institutions, and universities.<br \/>\nHe founded EduEnergy, Singapore in January 2014 for providing a range of advisory, training, coaching, mentoring, and consultancy services for colleges, institutes, organisations, and individuals. Dr. Waikar has conducted hundreds of students, faculty, and management development programmes on various topics such as Sustainable &amp; Clean Energy, Designing &amp; Managing Innovative Research and Development projects, Strategies for Infusing Blended Learning, Rethinking Teaching and Learning, Trainopreneurship, Problem\/Project-based Learning, Design Thinking, and Transforming Higher Education. Since July 2020, he is continuing to offer such programmes through online mode.<\/p>\n<p>He is a Senior Member of IEEE USA, a Life Member of the Institution of Engineers, India, and a Mentor for Teaching &amp; Education Research Association (TERA) Fellowship Program with Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore, M.S. from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, M.Tech. from the Banaras Hindu University, India, and PD Certificate in University Teaching from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He obtained PG-DBM and B.E. degrees from the Nagpur University, and the Government Engineering College Aurangabad in India, respectively. His research interests include Sustainable Energy Development, Rethinking Teaching, Learning and Academic Leadership, Re-inventing and Transforming Tertiary Education, SMART Model for Talent and Leadership Development, Innovative Project Design and Management, Smart and Micro Grid. 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