Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 10

The Punjab Engineering College (PEC) has appointed Baldev Setia as its new director, the institution said in its statement on Tuesday.

A graduate of Civil Engineering in 1985 and post-graduate of Water Resources Engineering in 1992, both from Regional Engineering College, Kurukshetra, Setia has been a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering of National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, since 2006, the statement said.

He has over 35 years of experience in teaching, research, consultancy, and administration and got his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India) in 1998.