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Detailed write up for follow up meeting with CI
Authors:
- Muhammad Uzair Sukhera
- Asad ullah Taqi
- Faizan Razzaq
- Marya Sharf
- Mir Muhammad Ali Khan
- Rabia Maqbool
- Saifullah Shah
- Sana Mehmood Awan
- Syed Arslan Ali Shah
- Taimoor Imtiaz Bhatti
- Usama Bin Shabbir
- Waqas Aliemuddin
- Aneeqa Ishaq
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Academic Issues
Resource Allocation for Final year students
The importance of Final Year projects in the course of our degree cannot be overemphasized. The department of Electrical Engineering at E&ME has by far been leading research at the Undergrad level in Pakistan.
Historically, Final Year students are given the following benefits at least:
· Cabins.
· Computers
· Access to the Internet.
Cabins
Final Year students need a place to work on their project. They also need a place where they can store tools, hardware etc. Electrical Department doesn’t have a project lab so these Cabins also allow students to work till late hours even after labs and class rooms have been closed.
DE-27 has not been allotted cabins. So, we face the following problems:
· We do not have a place where we can store hardware.
· We have to work in labs since we don't have cabins. We don't have much time to work there since labs are used for teaching most of the time.
· No classroom is free for more than a few minutes.
Solutions
· The former DSP lab can be turned into a Projects lab (where we are provided cabins, power supplies, cables etc). It is currently being used for nothing. Final year students should be given priority.
· The machines lab near cadet battalion might also be a potential Projects lab. Though, EE students would prefer a cabin in their own department.
Computers
Most of the projects in EE department are done in the following steps:
· Algorithms are developed
· Simulations are first done
· Results are compared to those desired
· Necessary changes are incorporated
· Hardware is assembled
Most of the work is hence, done on computers.
Computers have to be issued to 27 EE as soon as possible. Computers available in laboratories cannot be used since,
· Our data is insecure.
· They are a source of viruses.
· Labs are busy most of the time.
Solution
· Computers should be issued as soon as cabins are ready.
Internet Access
The Internet has now become a backbone to all research and development all over the earth. Electrical majors use it for:
· Accessing the IEEE database.
· Accessing online Forums.
· Accessing documentation on online libraries.
· Accessing Open-Ware like Open course-ware (http://ocw.mit.edu/).
· Contacting each other.
· Downloading books. (The commandant mentioned in his address that we should feel free to download books even if it is considered illegal.)
· Updating Anti Virus software.
· Using email.
Slow Internet speeds have up till now, hindered us. The bandwidth should be increased - as promised and as soon as possible.
Solutions
We are satisfied with your response to our Internet query. But, all this should be done swiftly. However it is suggested that:
· Wireless Internet access is provided to students in departments during day time.
· In all project labs few LAN internet connections are provided at least. For this matter we would want LAN access in the controls and communication lab (or the electric machines lab if it is to be provided to the students for Final Year Projects)
· At least, on-demand downloading of videos, books and software should be facilitated through restricted sites. Restricting website access isn't helpful. Student authorities should be consulted before websites are restricted.
· A search able index of available software, books and videos etc. should be available.
Student Feedback
As far as the student academics feedback is concerned, it hasn’t proved to be fruitful so far. There are some faculty members, who, in spite of their negative feedback many times by different departments and, are still teaching here and in the same way. The main reason for this is that the HODs do not personally take interest in the student feedback. Whenever students to go HOD with negative impression about a teacher, he says to try the same teacher for a few more weeks to see better results. By that time, it’s too late and that particular course is destroyed for the students.
The feedback that is currently conducted by NUST authorities has the following flaws:
· Questions regarding a teacher tend to be irrelevant and vague.
· Specific student comments are not entertained.
· The feedback is lost in administrative red-tape.
· The feedback has proven ineffective.
· After each course there is no formal re-evaluation. Consequently the course outlines remain as such year after year. The problems faced by students during their course are never addressed.
· Due to lack or re-evaluation, very often, gaps are left out in the various course contents, especially in pre-requisites. These gaps cause a lot of problems for the students. The humanities courses (mathematics) are mostly inconsistent with engineering approach. Such courses should be taught by a teacher who can relate their mathematics to engineering concepts.
This has led to:
· Incompetence among teachers.
· Bad teachers surviving although students are genuinely unhappy with them.
· Incompatibility in various course outlines
· Courses are taught while their pre-requisites are not taught earlier.
· Persistence of the problems faced by students in understanding the course material in each batch.
Solution
The solution to this grave problem is simple: the HOD should be empowered to take the feedback of teachers in his department and take swift action. Also, unavailability of a replacement shouldn't be an excuse. The HOD should take personal interest in the student matters and should, once in awhile, sit with the students to listen to their academic problems. Also a lot of care should be taken while devising course plan and sequence of courses.
College Educational Trips
It has been observed that the students are, in general, not aware of the practical implementation of engineering at the industry. We are well aware of the lack of funds and security issues; however there are plenty of options for college administration to arrange trips for the students. Such trips would broaden the vision of students and help them in exploring different dimensions of engineering
Due to excessive stress on the security college might not arrange the recreational trips however authorities are requested to officially support the trips of SAS (sports and adventure society). College authorities are requested to look into the following suggestions for the educational trips.
- Heavy Industries Taxila: Mechanical, Electrical and MTs students.
- POF WAH: Mechanical and Electrical students
- Tarbela and Mangla Power Plants: for students of electrical
- Aircraft complex Kamra: Electrical students studying radars and those working on projects of UAVs
- Pascom/PTCL exchange: students of computer and electrical engineering
- Mobile Network Switching Centres (MSCs): (telenor, mobilink, zong, ufone, warid in Islamabad) for computer and electrical students.
- Attock Oil Refinery: for students of electrical, mechanical and mechatronics
All the above mentioned places are in vicinity of Rawalpindi and college can easily collaborate with them, as most belong to armed forces.
Printing /Photocopy Facility in departments
The existing printing and photocopy facility present in the college is not sufficient for the students. The lack of this facility poses a serious problem for the students especially for in-living students, and they face a lot of problem in doing their work. The only photocopy machine available for the students is not enough to suffice the whole college. And it also mostly out of order. Same is the case with the printers in the printing shop. There is only 1 colored printer which is mostly out of ink.
The photocopy /printing facilities are important for the students. Most teachers give handouts which are to be photocopied by the whole class, it becomes a serious issue for the class senior to get them photocopied. Students need printers to print their assignments which they get on regular basis.
Solution
The printing and photocopy facility should be present in each department and students should be given access to these. Printers are currently available to the students only in the computer department. The billing system can be the same as followed by the printing press.
Training Program and Exam Date sheet
Students should be consulted for their preferred order of exam subjects for the exam date sheet. Each class can be asked to hand in its draft before the training office finalises the exam date sheet. It would not just gratify the students who are after all to go through the trouble of taking exams but would also eliminate any chance of rescheduling that the training office would ultimately have to do if the unsatisfied-with-date sheet students manage to get their petition heard by the HOD.
Same is true for the training program as for an effective study to be carried out throughout the week; the credit hours should be evenly spread over the week and not concentrated in 2-3 of the week’s days. Students of each class should be consulted as they can rightly tell which of the courses are tougher than others so that their classes should not all be scheduled for the same day.
Workshop facilities
The workshops available at the College of E&ME are not being used for students' sake. They should also accommodate final year students and help them with the mechanical fabrication of their project. The required material should be available at college for cheap purchase.
Provision of multimedia projectors in Electrical Dept
Electrical Engineering in EME has the top most merit among all the courses taught in NUST. But, unlike the Computer and Mechatronics department, the electrical department lacks multimedia in the classrooms. The projectors present in the class are obsolete, and it is very difficult for the teachers to prepare the slides for them. The teachers have to take the class in other departments if they have to use a multimedia.
Solution
It is essential that the projectors in the classrooms of electrical department be replaced be multimedia projectors at least in two classes.
Electronics Shop
Earlier this year, some students suggested the college authorities to open an electronics shop within the premises of the college. The students, on the demand of college authorities, provided a detailed list of the necessary products that the electronics’ shop should have. But, with the change of command of College of E&ME, the proposed suggestion and the consequent development was overshadowed by other college matters.
For students of Electrical and Mechatronics Engineering, this shop is an ultimate requirement. To get a single IC chip, one has to go to College Road --- There is both wastage of time and money. Most importantly, for the students working on Robots, it will prove to be beneficial in terms of both time and money. The Final Year Students also require miscellaneous electronics equipment and ICs for their projects. A new electronics shop in the college will be a great deal of convenience and relief for the students.
The shop can be given on contract to any reasonably good electronics shop (A list of famous electronics shops and their contact details was also given earlier this year). With the establishment of electronics shop, the products not available in Pakistan can also be ordered through them, thus, saving a lot of shipping expenses. The shop management will pile up demands from the students and place an order of their simultaneous shipping to save a significant amount of shipping charges.
Collaboration with local retailers and international manufacturers
Most of the electronics equipment used in the final year projects as well as the class projects is not available in the local markets. The college administration can invite the local retailers to acquire such equipment from the bigger markets at Lahore and Karachi and sell it at the college shop. For instance the retailers like http://www.electronicspk.com/.
The equipment purchased from abroad, accompanies huge shipment charges which ruin the budget of the students. Once a shop is established it would be quite much easy to stack orders from several students and then place the order simultaneously, thereby dividing the shipment charges in acquiring the equipment.
Placement Office
Placement offices play a very important role in every institution. In all institutions across the world, placement offices not only make it sure that each of their student gets an internship in a reputed company but they also play an important role in getting them jobs. Unfortunately, the placement office we have at our college isn’t up to the task. Not only is it totally dormant in its activities but the students also get the notice of most internships in the last week of application submission and in some cases (witnessed last year) even the last day. Mostly the applications are not at all followed up by the placement office and the students are said to follow up themselves. This lack of coordination left many of the students of degree 27 without getting any internship. This is a major issue of the students and we would be highly obliged if the authorities took some immediate steps for its solution as it is the final year of degree 27 and a cooperative working placement office is much required by us.
Solutions
Here is our solution to the problem which can be implemented immediately and would solve the problem greatly.
· First of all we should have a dedicated person for the placement office. The teachers already have their hands full with their schedules and placing the important task of placement office management in their hands is not only a problem for students but also for them.
· The professor teaching engineering management (already a part of placement office) should be made the head of placement office and his primary duties should be the placement office administration.
· Placement office should start its drive with full force ;to get students internships and jobs ,people with contacts in the industry should be made a part of it and they should have primary duties regarding placement office so that they can do justice to the job
· The placement office should make further contacts with the alumni and in the college’s annual dinner for the alumni the final year students should be made to interact with the alumni. Final year students should be made to realize the importance of keeping in contact with the college so that our juniors don’t face the problems we and our seniors did.
· For students who want to apply abroad for MS the collaboration of the college with the international universities should be made clear and methods for applying in them should also be discussed in detail with the respected students.
Career Counseling to be linked with Placement Office
The EME alumni may be in constant contact with the college administration, but the interaction of the alumni with the students is almost non-existent. Shahid Habib Khan, a student from DE-26 electrical, and a member of the alumni, have initiated a step to increase the interaction with the students. He has started a “career counseling center (C-3)”for the said purpose, and also arranged a meeting with the final year students of all the departments of EME collage in the ASG hall during the summers.
It is good step taking from the member of the alumni to help the students of the college, but he is lacking official support from the administration. The college should encourage such efforts from the students and give official patronage to the C. It is suggested that the C-3 initiative be linked to the placement office. The current students should be made part of this too. If the college invites the alumni for career counseling of the current students it would be more effective.
Online Job Portals
Once the placement office gets stronger it must be used to make the job hunt for the graduates much easier. The online job portals like RozeePk and brightspyre.com do have collaborations with universities. Recently NUST Business School (NBS) and SEECS launched an online job portal on their websites. It is recommended that similar portals also be launched on our college website. All the students should be made to enter their CVs in these databases through the coordination of these job engines with the college.
Issuance of Transcripts
In order to send applications abroad for any master’s degree, a transcript from NUST Headquarters is required but the process is an age in itself:
The master's admissions for the fall, 2009 have begun. Some have their deadlines as near as early December. Now to get a transcript, we have to pass through a long procedure in which we need clearance from the account office, cadet battalion, GSO-II, deposit our library card (membership is temporarily cancelled), and finally get recommendation from the Training Officer and the Head of the Dept.
After this, 14 working days are taken by NUST HQ to issue the transcript. Each transcript is of worth Rs. 500 and if one needs 8 transcripts he will have to deposit Rs. 4000. To end up with, there is some rule which the exam cell has told us that result of previous semester has been dispatched on Oct 16, 2008 and according to a NUST rule we can’t apply for the transcript for 6 weeks from then onwards. Earliest we can apply for a transcript in first week of Dec. which would mean a close in the admission deadline.
One has to undergo the same clearance procedure as is needed of the graduated student request for the transcript such as return of all library books and signatures from a lot many authorities and departments he/she had not even known to exist. Such a clearance procedure is absolutely unneeded and should be removed as part of the transcript retrieval procedure for students who are yet graduated but are making applications for a further degree. The distinction should be made as it can definitely shorten and ease the process.
Solution
Students requiring transcripts can submit their names to a student body/representative. Transcripts should be issued to these students as soon as possible. The security clearance should be done automatically.
Graduates should be issued transcripts as early as possible.
College Website
The college website is an important web domain which can make or mar the image of the whole institute on the World Wide Web. The college website lacks any appropriate description of the laurels achieved by the college in academics and vice versa. The college website simply lacks the glamour and life that the websites of top engineering universities have!
Following are a few suggestions to improve the college website:
· The websites of the famous universities world over have a database of the undergraduate as well as the R&D projects which lend credibility to the institute’s fame. Starting from De-27 the students must be encouraged to write a brief overview of different modules of their project during their project work to be uploaded on the college website.
· The college website just gives a brief description of the ongoing engineering programs and is simply not enough for the in-experienced freshmen to make the right choice of discipline. It is suggested that each department must put up a detailed write of their program and the dimensions of their discipline[1]. This task can be assigned to the students with ease. A small competition can be arranged with the winner earning a reference of his name on college website or else earning a certificate.
· Another suggestion for the college website is to allow the students to customize their own web pages: for instance, the website of the famous IIT league in India provides the students with such luxury.[2],[3] The customization by students will allow the outsiders to have a sneak peek into the college activities and most importantly will allow the students to share their projects, findings and ideas with each other freely[4]. These discussions will serve as reference for the upcoming batches and may, in the long run, provide a platform to the engineering students, all over the country, to get involved in healthy educational discussions.
· A college website development team should be constituted which must be provided full support of the administration to develop the college website.
[1] Electrical Engineering, Undergraduate Handbook 2008 http://www.ee.princeton.edu/undergrad/ug_handbook.pdf
[2] http://www.iitd.ac.in/bsp/index_files/page0005.htm
[3] http://iiita.ac.in/inner.php?conf=proj
[4] MIT on campus newsletter “MIT Tech Talk” http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/techtalk-info.html
Administrative Issues
Student Representation
Student representation is doubtlessly a task requiring extreme responsibility but a higher GPA should not be seen as the ONLY possible factor implying responsibility in someone. The sole purpose of college appointments is to get the issues and problems faced by students, resolved. The college appointments must be selected keeping in mind this “problem solving”. The purpose of college appointments must not be restricted only to conveying the administrative orders to the students!
Moreover a genuine student representative need not just be responsible, he/she should also be able to assert the confidence of all the students being represented, which is only possible in case he/she is selected by the students rather than the officials.
In fact a person selected by the students would naturally be the one they ‘believe’ is responsible of the obligations of representation and fully capable of fulfilling them.
Solutions
· It is suggested that the college appointments should be nominated by students and should be true representatives of them. They should be allowed to access all authorities.
· In all the classes Class Representative must be selected unanimously by class. The authorities are requested to issue proper notification for this.
· The HODs must keep closer contact with CRs to solve their problems at departmental level.
· A committee should be formed of Appointments, CRs and active students to discuss problems and issues with authorities on regular basis.
Shortage of rooms in Girls’ Hostel
All of us are working on our final year project. Due to courses at day time, students hardly get any time for their FYP. For that reason students have to stay in college after the college hours.
In case of girls, conveyance is a major problem after college hours. That’s why most of them want to shift in the hostel. But it is observed that there are not enough rooms to provide with accommodation to the final year girls.
It is also observed that the female captains have also been provided with lodging in the girls’ hostel, reducing the already small number of rooms for the UG students. Thus it is suggested that being a part of the military, these captains ought to be adjusted elsewhere.
Solutions
It is suggested to build more rooms at the back side of the hostel. But in the mean while the previous hostel can be renovated and some of the in-livings can be shifted there.
In case, if all these suggestion are not implemented and the girls of final year are not accommodated in hostel, then they should be provided with conveyance after 9:00 PM, because they will be paying for the buses but will not be availing it.
Medical facilities
All students (NUSTians, PCs and GCs alike) are really disappointed with the attitude of the Medical Officer. So much so, that the students hesitate to go to the MI room now. The Medical Officer has stated many times that he is not responsible for NUSTians and that he is only responsible for the GCs. After 4pm he refuses to attend any patient, however serious his condition maybe. The Lady Doctor is available only till 12pm, a minute late and the patient would find himself at the mercy of the dispenser. Moreover, after 4pm the dispenser refuses to give common painkillers to the students, even during the exams.
This issue requires immediate attention.
1. The practice hours of the Lady Doctor should be increased till at least 2.30pm so that students can visit the MI room during lunch break.
2. The dispenser should be allowed to consult the doctor for common diseases like fever, and then provide medicine to the students after 4pm.
3. The Medical officer should be paid a bit extra or at least persuaded to attend the NUSTians.
College Out-pass
The current out-pass system prevalent in college is moribund. It has the following flaws:
1. Only the appointment holders are allowed to sign out-pass, if a student is unable to find an appointment holder, he finds himself stranded inside the college.
2. The gate watchman asks for out-pass when leaving college, but seldom asks for it when a student is returning to college, hence out-pass has no effect.
3. Student has to get out-pass AND sign the register at the gate.
4. The students have lot of questions regarding the need of out-pass register. Why the students are not allowed free entry and exit like in other universities?
Solutions
An efficient system would be just to keep the Gate Register, and make it effective.
1. Any student leaving the college would have to sign his hostel’s specific register.
2. A detailed report of all students leaving and entering the college should be made from the register daily and sent to the Company commanders, thus eliminating the need for an out-pass and the daily headcount in the hostels.
3. Female appointments currently don’t have the authority to sign out-pass. It’s such a hassle to get it signed from G-II if one has to go out on a short notice.
If the Gate keeper is not able to perform these duties, then he should be replaced with a person who can. Some Security officer can be along with the gate keeper.
Behavior of College Staff
The behavior of College Staff and Drill Instructors is not good with the students. They usually talk to students rudely without any regard for their respect. Specially, the gatekeepers misbehave when one forget to display the College ID Card.
Morning fall
Morning fall in is something everybody goes through in their school life. It is meant to inculcate the importance of time and discipline. But when one reaches the stage of university studies it is this very time that suffers at the hands of a fall in. With working hours from 8 to 4 and ever-going projects and studies all this fall in does is to waste precious time and cause inconvenience. A university student doesn’t need a Montessori concept to tell him its time for class. Suffice it to say, this morning fall in (for the NUSTians) is a redundant routine and should well be abandoned.
(note: the authorities explained that the fall in will not be totally cancelled and senior degrees will have to attend on one day)
College Transport and Bus Stop
· Students availing the college transport should be charged on distance basis.
· Buses are still overcrowded on certain roots (DHA route for instance). Administration is requested to recheck the lists of students and is requested to make sure that the number of students for a bus is not more than its capacity.
· Routes of buses are not properly organized. The routes should be reorganized so that the buses which travel to distant destinations (e.g. Gulshanabad, Model Town, and DHA) do not have to go through detours. For example the bus which travels to Model Town takes a detour towards Muree Road and returns through Chaklala resulting in a travel time of 2 hours from college to Model Town. A total travel time of 3-4 hours each day for a student significantly affects the studies as well as the health.
· There are college buses for the residents of Islamabad whereas there are no college buses for the residents of Rawalpindi, for which college has hired sub-standard buses. The college (NUST) buses are allowed to use the main gate whereas the hired buses have to use the ASG gate. This distinction should be removed.
· The ASG gate and the bus stop is not suitable to students (travelling in their own cars as well as those using college hired buses) in times of inclement weather. So during rain or harsh weather all students should be allowed to use the main gate.
· The students' car park (ASG gate) has no shade which proves to be a problem during summer and during rain. This problem has been pending for almost over 6 months and yet still nothing practical has been done!
· There is a public bus stop for public transport at the main gate but there is no such stop at the ASG gate. Students who use public transport have to walk a long distance on the main road to the public bus stop and this poses a significant threat to their security. Therefore these students should be allowed to use the main gate at all times to easily avail the public transport.
· Students who do not find it feasible to avail the bus for both the morning and the evening trip should be given the option to register themselves and thus be charged for the only trip they want to avail.
(all students are permitted to contact college SNS faizan razzaq for any problems related to buses)
General Campus Issues
Girls’ common room
There isn’t any proper place for girls to sit and relax during the free time. Thus it is suggested that there should be a proper common room for girls in every department.
There is no common room in Electrical and Mechanical departments. The condition of the tiny common rooms in Computer and Mechatronics departments is pitiable. It must be improved and special care ought to be taken for its cleanliness.
College Cafeteria
This problem has been taken up with the authorities time and again and we already feel it is a lost cause!
Solutions
However keeping in view the shortage of funds the following suggestions are presented.
· The kiosk near the departments must be completed on emergency basis and a shade (like the one on bus stop) must be built near it. A pavement must also be built to ensure access in the bad weather too.
· The cafeteria near the cadet battalion lack sitting arrangement, new arrangement can be made available by following:
· Constructing some shade under the trees for female students
o Extending the cafeteria on their backside and build some shade on the backside of the shops for male students
o There is a vacant hall above the shops. This hall can be extended and tables can be put there for the students.
Even though Load shedding has apparently disappeared, we cannot totally depend on WAPDA for a reliable supply of electricity. The college should have sufficient backup for electricity, since almost all courses require students to perform some form of simulations or programming. Moreover, the supply of water in hostels is tied with electricity too.
Dean has assured us that one generator will be provided for two NUST hostels (Liaquat and Iqbal), Cadet Mess and Girls’ Hostel. This is a very good effort on the part of College authorities, but this facility should be extended to all the hostels, since they’re paying the same fees and hostel charges. This can be ensured by placing the existing generators such that electricity from them can be provided to the rest of the hostels (Jinnah, Nishter and Jauhar) in the evening.
Solutions
· Until the generators are installed, lab timings should be extended till at least 11pm. After an afternoon nap and the intervening dinner hour, there's hardly enough time to get substantial work done with the frequent load-shedding.
· For the final year students at least one lab can be left open for the students. The equipment required should be issued in the name of students. In case of any damage or loss the students will have to pay for it.
· The keys of the lab dedicated to be left open in evening can be handed over to the class representative, so the students are totally responsible for taking care of the lab.
The need for Internet in the college campus cannot be over-emphasized. Not only is it a requirement for reviewing research papers, it’s also needed for information on sensors, ICs and other equipment. Moreover, most teachers upload assignments and projects on online groups.
The main problems being faced by the college Internet infrastructure are:
- Bandwidth provided to the campus by NetSol is not enough, since there are more than 500 In-living students. Bandwidth should be at least 16 Mb/sec
- The person in charge in the server room has been overloaded with responsibilities. The manpower in server room must be increased to ensure proper working of the server and network.
- The Backup system for the servers is not reliable. Often the server hangs when the electricity goes. A simple gas generator dedicated for the server may solve the problem.
The wireless infra-structure is very difficult to handle in the absence of a Rigger and a wireless specialist. They should be provided if this system is to be run properly.
Even when the wireless network is running properly, there is no coverage inside most of the ASG blocks. Small wireless routers at specific locations inside the blocks maybe able to solve this problem. - The best solution for the internet access problem in hostels is a wired DSL link. Two connections of 2 Mb/sec each maybe provided to each hostel, with the router being placed in the Warden’s room. Most of the students have already connected their PCs through a LAN system. The college can utilize this infrastructure free of cost, just the DSL connections need to be provided.
The CI has promised a rigger and DSL connection for one hostel. Our only request is that this be done on an urgent basis, since the final year students in the hostels are suffering a lot.
College Functions
Annual college functions are an important part of any college or university. Functions like Welcome Parties for the freshmen, Farewell party for the outgoing batch, old Emenents reunion, and annual sports week are not held in the college of EME.
Welcome and farewell parties are organized at class level by the students themselves. The need is to give these functions official status. Only Girls welcome and farewell party are officially organized by the administration in the college auditorium. Such function should also be arranged for all the students.
A sports week is should be held in each semester in which the events should be held throughout the day, so the in living and the out living can both actively participate. An annual sports week is held in the MCS, which is a sister, campus of the EME. If they can have a sports week, so can us!
Most colleges have an old students reunion parties once every each year. It is a great event in which the present students get to interact with the people who have studied in the institute are now in the working field.
Winter Arrangements
There’s still no gas available in Jinnah Hostel, D Block. There are currently 33 Students of Degree 30 living there, and it would be really hard for them to live there without any gas heaters, since the hostel is really open, there is no corridor to protect them from the wind. The radiators currently installed are really ineffective, and the heat from them can only be felt when they are touched by hand!
Sports week
When students complain that there are no sports in the college, the authorities reply that the sports are arranged by the cadet battalion and tournaments are being arranged by societies like SAS. But these tournaments are arranged in the night time only because of the classes in the daytime and it is not possible for the out living students to participate in such tournaments.
Solution
The lack of sports activity for the out-living students is a serious issue. The solution of this problem is to arrange a sports weekend for the students. Instead of arranging some tournaments in the night time, there should be a 3 day sports weekend, so all students can participate in the games. Such an event should be held in each semester. Military College of Signals (MCS) holds a similar type of sports week and it is essential that such type of event be initiated in our college as well.
Thank You for considering Students’ problems and reading our suggestions in this regard!
