Helpless: Scores of engineering students wait accreditation
Engineering legislature was unknowingly of NED’s acclimatisation programme. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI: Muhammad Adnan has been watchful for his accreditation by Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) given dual years.
The 30-year-old automatic engineering connoisseur from NED University of Engineering and Technology graduated in Dec 2014, though is still watchful for a university to take movement to get his grade purebred with a PEC.
Such is a predicament of over 200 students who have graduated from a varsity in a final 4 years.
The university follows dual registration systems in 3 departments for a acclimatisation courses: mechanical, polite and electrical engineering. One complement is for unchanging students, who get acknowledgment in a four-year undergraduate programme after completing their middle or A-Levels, while a second complement is for students who, after completing a Diploma in Associate Engineering (DAE) or Bachelors in Technology (BTech), get acknowledgment in a two-year programme during a Centre for Continuing Engineering Education (CCEE) in NED academy.
Students enrolled during CCEE, that offers dusk classes, are joined into a third-year after execution of their two-year programme with unchanging students from a initial complement in a morning programme. Adnan is one of a 200 students who is a plant of a dual systems.
After a prolonged onslaught with a NED administration, students enrolled in a four-year programme were means to obtain accreditations by a PEC in 2015. However, students who have finished their BTech continue to suffer.
More than 45 students who have finished their BTech from Government College for Technology, Shershah, and DAE from Pakistan Swedish Institute of Technology, Quaidabad, finished their two-year acclimatisation march and were given admissions in a third year.
“After completing a third and fourth year, we were given final transcripts from NED, though when we practical for accreditation, PEC deserted a requests,” complained Muhammad Zeeshan, one of a pang students.
PEC sensitive that a final twin released by NED usually contains march sum for a third and fourth year, pronounced Zeeshan, adding that they [PEC] do not recognize any tyro who has complicated for reduction than 4 years from any engineering university.
“When we [the students] contacted a NED officials, they pronounced that a march was started by a former vice-chancellor, registrar and dean, so they have zero to do with it,” sensitive Zeeshan, who has spent scarcely Rs0.1 million for a acclimatisation march fee.
Adnan, Zeeshan and a organisation of other students, on coming a PEC, were told that a legislature is unknowingly of a fact that NED is using any acclimatisation march for faculties of civil, automatic and electrical engineering.
However, NED registrar Ghazanfar Hussain told The Express Tribune that NED recently sensitive a PEC about their acclimatisation programme and a university has finished all a authorised work in this regard.
“The students will be purebred with PEC shortly as we have collaborated with them in this matter,” he said, revelation that a acclimatisation courses were not primarily purebred with a PEC.
The matter of accreditation of these students has been forwarded to a registration department, PEC additional registrar Dr Nisar Muhammad Khan told The Express Tribune. The emanate will be resolved as shortly as a referred cabinet will finish a work, settled Khan, adding that a problem was from a university’s end, given NED started a acclimatisation march but informing a PEC.
Meanwhile, NED has committed not to continue their acclimatisation procedure in future. Students who have finished their BTech will usually be enrolled in second year of a normal 4 year undergraduate courses in a university.
What is a acclimatisation programme?
With an aim to give improved chances to students meddlesome in study engineering after execution of their DAE and BTech, NED started an dusk acclimatisation march in 2011 that was designed for acclimatisation in civil, automatic and engineering faculties.
“The students who successfully finished their courses were given admissions in a third year of their particular fields, along with unchanging students,” Syed Umer Bin Arif, who was a unchanging tyro during a NED automatic department, told The Express Tribune.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 5th, 2016.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1193517/helpless-scores-engineering-students-await-accreditation/