Bridging the Gap between Academia & Industry
Pune Construction Engineering Research Foundation (PCERF) is an NGO established in the year 1983 by eminent Civil Engineers and Architects with an objective of `Education and Research’. Members of PCERF and its Executive Committee are eminent businessmen, engineers, and professionals from various sectors of the construction industry.
PCERF is working hard to create awareness about the latest technological developments and improve quality, knowledge, research, and developments in Construction and related Industry by way of organizing workshops, training programs, seminars, conferences etc. With the objective of `Education through Exhibition’, PCERF has been organizing the `Constro’ International Expo once in two years since 1985.
Today, there is a critical need to connect Academia with Industry. To give exposure and orient Post Graduate Civil Engineering and Architecture students, PCERF has initiated the **Student Internship Program (SIP)**. SIP helps students to inculcate a practical approach and also promotes innovativeness, indigenization of technology, & identifying real problems of the industry in the minds of students.
This effectively guides students on the applicability of projects and leads them to developing an entrepreneurship culture. Select students from some of the renowned institutes in Pune are taking benefits of PCERF’s SIP initiative and the students are interviewed by PCERF committee members before being absorbed in the industry. This process helps PCERF to create awareness or convey a general code of conduct to students while working in the industry and also helps in understanding interest areas of the students.
Once absorbed, the progress of these students during the SIP period is tracked on a routine basis by their faculty and PCERF committee. Students who produce excellent results during the SIP are allowed to work further with the respective industry and few select topics are taken up for further research. On completing SIP successfully, PCERF offers a certificate to the students on the basis of a 'Progress Report and Performance'.