The Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) is all set to hold its 7th convocation on April 17 with an impressive progress card for 2015-16.
Chancellor of Universities and Governor Dr SC Jamir will preside over the convocation and UGC Chairman Ved Prakash will grace as chief guest.
Eight PhDs will be conferred and 51 students will receive gold medals, said BPUT Vice-Chancellor Prof Shyam Sundar Pattnaik at a Press conference held here on Thursday.
He said over sixty thousand original certificates have already been distributed by the affiliated colleges. The university not only introduced e-examination and digital evaluation but also published the result on time with transparent evaluation of answer sheets, he claimed.
He too stated that MTech, MArch, MSc and other examinations have been streamlined so that they don’t spill over to the next academic year.
Highlighting some major performances, the VC said the NBA Workshop held by the university was first of its kind in the State and 2nd in the country. Similarly, roadmap workshops for technical education, industry academia integration meet were organised and MOUs with Tech Mahindra ltd was signed for PhD students of the university to work in their campus at Bhubaneswar. Signing of MOUs with the PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh for collaborative programme and NITTTR, Chandigarh for Faculty Development Programmes, were other milestones of the BPUT, said Pattnaik.