NIT Durgapur to conduct on-campus lab classes for final-year students

The final-year batch has 650 students. If students don’t attend labs, they will face problems while being interviewed by potential employers or when they go for higher studies, a teacher said.

 

The National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur has announced that it is planning to allow final year BTech students to come back to campus so that they can do lab sessions to make up for the classes lost since March 2020. It must be noted that the institute has been kept closed since mid-March last year due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. The final-year students are schedule to graduate in June. 

“We are planning to hold the lab sessions for two months. During this period, students can attend theory classes on digital platforms while staying in the hostels in strict adherence to safety protocols. But if students graduate without attending the labs, they won’t learn a substantial part of their curriculum. They must complete the laboratory components physically,” NIT Durgapur director Anupam Basu said.

The final-year batch has 650 students. If students don’t attend labs, they will face problems while being interviewed by potential employers or when they go for higher studies, a teacher said. “Attending classes in the departmental labs is a must. Or their studies will remain incomplete,” he said. Another teacher said students would find it difficult to write some of the final semester papers if they didn’t attend lab classes.

The institute started bringing the 75 MTech final-year students to campus this month for lab-dependent hardware projects.

“We are looking forward to staggered physical reopening across all the years, starting with fourth-year students being brought to the campus from mid-March. Engineering studies cannot happen by merely attending theory classes online,” Basu said. 

Classes for the graduating batch have been disrupted since they were in the sixth semester. They were promoted to the final year in July last year, after which they have not attended labs.

Once the fourth-year students are through with the lab and theory classes, the institute wants to hold the eighth semester exams on the campus.

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