Srinagar Workshop
Workshop on career opportunities begins at NIT Srinagar
Srinagar/IBNS: The Chemical Engineering (CE) Department of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Srinagar on Tuesday began its six-day online workshop on ‘Career Opportunities in Core and Non-Core sectors - The Alumni perspective’.
The program is being organized under the aegis of the student chapter of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE) NIT Srinagar Centre with its headquarter at Kolkata.
The inaugural session of the workshop was presided over by Director NIT Srinagar, Prof. (Dr) Rakesh Sehgal.
Registrar NIT, Prof. Kaiser Bukhari said appreciated the CE department for inviting alumni of NIT for sharing their vast experience with the young graduates. Such initiatives by the department will boost and encourage the students for more hard work," he added.
On the occasion President IIChE, Prof Jha expressed the desire for the establishment of a regional Centre of IIChe at NIT Srinagar, towards which the Director NIT Srinagar was affirmative.
He also stressed organizational memberships from NIT Srinagar faculty members.
Head of the Department, Dr Mushtaq Ahmad Rather said that the department was established in 1963 and has progressed significantly since then in all respects.
"Currently the department offers B.Tech and M.Tech degree programs," he said, adding that students are also pursuing their Ph. D research under the guidance of faculty members of the department.
Prof. Rather said the workshop is aimed to provide alumni perspectives for undergraduate students to learn about key career opportunities in the core chemical engineering domain as well as in the non-core domain.
On an inaugural day, Swayam Gupta who is an alumnus of NIT Srinagar and is pursuing an MBA in Marketing from IMT Ghaziabad delivered his lecture on ‘Value addition to the engineer within you, during campus life.
On Tuesday, Junaid Ashraf Shah who is working as Senior Technical Services Engineer for HaldorTopsoe delivered his lecture on “Careers In Oil and GasDomain.”
On Wednesday, CEO Able Industrial Data Consultants (Srinagar) Syed Parvaiz Qalandar will be delivering a lecture on ‘Process Industries and Related Issues’ and on Thursday lecture will be delivered on Alternate Career Path for Engineers in Non-Core Sectors- by Shazil Akhtar is a Credit Analyst at Genpact.
On Friday, the session will be hosted by Rajat Srivastava who is Policy Advisor, National Centre for Good Governance, GOI and will speak on “Combating career challenges in the post covid world.
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