Mysore/Mysuru: The Graduation Day for the outgoing students of 2019-2023 Batch was held at ATME College of Engineering, Mysuru, recently.

Dr. T.N. Srinivasa, Registrar (Evaluation), Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, who was the chief guest, called upon the students to develop their knowledge and skill in the fast growing technology and to be updated regularly. He opined that a student’s career starts with this Graduation Day and he always should develop good self-attitude along with individual growth without a supervisor.

Stating that engineers are the backbone of the society, he said they should go on improving their efficiency for which he gave the example of the newly constructed ten-lane Highway between Mysuru and Bengaluru, reducing the journey time to mere one-and-a-half hours, showing India’s prosperity.

He assured that VTU would be working as a student-centric University and also informed the student community that several reforms would be brought about by VTU including announcement of the final semester results within one week from the day of the last examination, providing a tamper-free and good quality degree certificate and so on.

Mentioning that today’s engineering students are at crossroads having many avenues for the development, he opined that students should develop good attitude and skills, thereby emerging out as job-providers rather than being job-seekers.

The guest of honour, Natesh Palahalli, Delivery Manager, DXC,Technology-GD India, addressed the gathering and opined that a lot of technological opportunities are available in India owing to the fast-changing technology with new challenges. However, he advised that developing a good attitude, effort and skill set, the students would harness the above said opportunities.

Earlier, Secretary of the institute K. Shivashankar inaugurated the event and administered the oath to the outgoing students.

Dr. A.K. Murthy, Principal, ATME College of Engineering, welcomed the gathering and briefed about the institution.

Students of various engineering branches were distributed Course Completion Certificate by the chief guest and the other dignitaries. Toppers of each branch as well as the toppers in subjects as specified by the donors were honoured with cash prizes.

Dr. K. Chidananda Gowda, Dr. Syed Shakeeb Ur Rehman, H. Venkatesh, Dheerendra Kumar R. Mehta, all GC members of ATMECE, were present.

Dr. L. Basavaraj, Director, IQAC, Dr. M.S. Govinde Gowda, Dean-Academics, Dr. S.R. Bhagyashree, Dean, Research, Dr. L. Parthasarathy, Programme Chief Coordinator and Head, Department of  EEE, Heads of various Departments, staff, parents and students attended the function.

The programme was compered by Dr. Shakunthala, Maria Sushma, H. Swapna, Soumyashree, R. Shreeshayana and Dr. K. Sathish, Assistant Professors, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering.