In 1977 Ms. Rashmi Urdhwareshe opted to study at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur Electrical Engineering and then completed her post graduation from COEP in Automotive Engineering which was then an unusual and challenging choice of career for a woman in India.
She was trained in electronic engineering and she help develop controls for the hydraulics of testing machines and then on emission control. She helped develop methods of measurement of emissions at what was the first Indian laboratory studying emissions. Her areas of expertise are automotive safety, emissions and ambient air quality (AQM), E-mobility, sustainable transport, vehicle regulation, homologation, etc. She was an expert on total quality management and co-authored a book on the subject.