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Uday Athvankar

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After being trained as an architect from J.J School of Architecture, Prof. Uday Athvankar worked in the field for 4 years with Architect Kamu Iyer, before switching over to Industrial Design in 1970. As a UNESCO scholar, he studied Industrial Design at Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Over 45 years,he has been dividing his time between Industrial Design teaching, Design research and Design related consulting for companies. As an Industrial Design Faculty at IDC, IIT Bombay, Prof. Uday Athvankar taught various courses that include Game design, Product design, User studies, Communication theory, Drawing and sketching, Marketing and product planning and Qualitative research techniques at PhD level. He has been a design consultant to many industries and start-ups on product innovation.