739 receive degrees at PEC 49th convocation

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 12

The Punjab Engineering College (Deemed To Be University), Chandigarh, organised its 49th Annual Convocation Ceremony today. As many as 496 BE, 208 ME and 35 PhD students were awarded medals and degrees.

Naveen Tiwari, CEO-Founder of InMobi, graced the event as the chief guest. Dignified members of PEC administration, including the Director, Deputy Director, members of the Board of Governors and Senate, Deans, Heads of Departments and the distinguished faculty of the institute were present at the function. The event commenced with the arrival of the academic procession, led by Sushant Samir, Registrar, accompanied by the Board of Governors, the Director, Senate members and faculty of PEC.

Director Dheeraj Sanghi presented the annual report, which was a brief overview of the activities and achievements of PEC over the past year.

Some accomplishments were the introduction of MOOC’s to the undergraduate curriculum with the help of platforms such as EDX, Coursera and Swayam, and a new ME curriculum based on fractal credit system and Industry 4.0 compliance. In every semester, a week has been set aside for inviting experts from the industry to give lectures to students.

He also mentioned about the students’ contribution to the underprivileged sections of society through the AABHA project — which involves teaching young kids at government schools.

Tiwari reminded the students of the privilege to graduate from an esteemed institution in his speech. He mentioned how important convocation is in one’s life, and urged the graduates to be grateful to everyone who helped them and guided them through their four years of college.

Following this, a multitude of awards, including Silver and Gold medals, Kalpana Chawla Memorial Gold medal, Advisor’s Gold medal, Aditya Miglani Memorial Gold Award, Charu Mehta Memorial Award, Sarvnipun Chawla Memorial Award, Administrator’s Gold Medal and Charu Puri Award were bestowed on a number of meritorious students for their exceptionally good academic performance throughout the years.