2,863 students get degrees at Thapar Institute convocation

The three-day 38th Convocation-2024 at the Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (TIET) here kick-started yesterday.

S. Krishnan, Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEIT), Government of India, was the guest of honour. Manoj Ahuja, Chief Secretary of Odisha, who was a student of BE Mechanical Engineering-1986, received Distinguished Alumnus Award.

A total of 2,863 degrees were awarded to the students, which include 2,164 students from BE/B. Tech, 64 from BE-MBA, 123 from PhD, 141 from ME/MTech, 50 from MSc, 43 from MCA, 196 from MBA, 35 from MA (Psychology), 24 from BA/BBA/BSc and 23 from BA/BBA/BSc Hons.

Forty students received medals/awards for their outstanding and meritorious academic, scholastic and all-round performance.

Semanpreet Singh, who achieved the highest position among successful candidates in all fields of the final year of BE/BTech examination with a CGPA of 9.98, received the President’s Medal for the academic year 2023-2024.

Neeraj Bansal was honoured with the Ranbir Singh Gold Medal as the All-Round Best Student for the academic year 2023-2024. Ayesha Sood received the Prof V Rajaraman Computer Science and Engineering Award for securing the highest CGPA of 9.5 in BE Computer Science & Engineering for the class of 2024.

Prof Padmakumar Nair, Director, TIET, extended congratulations to all degree recipients.