New academic session begins at IIT Bhubaneswar
Representative Image. BHUBANESWAR: The IIT Bhubaneswar has completed admissions into all the programmes except for the first year BTech. Because of this, the new academic session commenced timely from August 2.
This year, 176 and 110 students joined the MTech and MSc programme respectively, while 44 scholars joined the PhD programme in the current academic session.
RV Raja Kumar, IIT Bhubaneswar director, said the pandemic posed many challenges to educational institutes on all fronts across the globe. Despite this, his institution has conducted research on innovative ideas and come up with unique mechanisms for running its academics in an uncompromised manner.
He said they have created a robust method of conducting conventional pen and paper examinations via online and applied the same in carrying out the performance evaluation of students. “We are happy that our institute was honoured with the ‘University of the Year’ award by FICCI recently for its performance during the pandemic,” he added.
Other professors and deans have made presentations on the salient features of the academic programmes and the academic regulations. The orientation programme was addressed by all the heads of the Schools.
This year, 176 and 110 students joined the MTech and MSc programme respectively, while 44 scholars joined the PhD programme in the current academic session.
The national institute has conducted an orientation programme for the students on Friday to welcome and make them understand about the academic, extra-academic and hostel activities of the institute.
RV Raja Kumar, IIT Bhubaneswar director, said the pandemic posed many challenges to educational institutes on all fronts across the globe. Despite this, his institution has conducted research on innovative ideas and come up with unique mechanisms for running its academics in an uncompromised manner.
He said they have created a robust method of conducting conventional pen and paper examinations via online and applied the same in carrying out the performance evaluation of students. “We are happy that our institute was honoured with the ‘University of the Year’ award by FICCI recently for its performance during the pandemic,” he added.
Other professors and deans have made presentations on the salient features of the academic programmes and the academic regulations. The orientation programme was addressed by all the heads of the Schools.
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