DGEME Confers engineering degrees to army officer

Lt Gen Anil Kapoor said the future role of these officers will be to absorb the latest technologies and be ready to handle equipment ranging from obsolescence to the state-of-the-art. He spoke about the art of sustenance

Hyderabad: Lieutenant General Anil Kapoor, Director General EME and senior Colonel Commandant of the Corps of EME, conferred engineering degrees to 56 officers of Degree Engineering Course (DE-101) and Technical Entry Scheme Course (TES-34), at a convocation ceremony at Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME), Secunderabad on Thursday.

Lt Gen Anil Kapoor said the future role of these officers will be to absorb the latest technologies and be ready to handle equipment ranging from obsolescence to the state-of-the-art. He spoke about the art of sustenance and the myriad challenges which encompasses the modern principle of VUCART, i.e. Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity, Responsiveness and Time bound delivery.

Delivering the inaugural address, Commandant of MCEME, Lieutenant General TSA Narayanan said “We at MCEME have a well-qualified and self-motivated teaching staff, state of the art facilities in the form of labs, integrated class room and IT infrastructure, our college has also linked up with the National Knowledge Network and have a MoU with premier education institutions like IIT, BITs, JNU and JNTU Hyderabad”.

The DGEME trophy and GOC-in-C, ARTRAC book prizes were awarded to Captain Anurag Singh for best all round student officer of DE Course. Captain DS Rajawat bagged the DGEME Gold medal for standing overall first in order of merit in DE Course. GOC-in-C, ARTRAC trophy & book prize and DGEME Gold medal were awarded to Lieutenant SP Sharma for best all round student officer and overall first in order of merit of TES Course. Best project (Developing an intelligent Chatbot system to identify the languages spoken by the user and translate to English) prize was awarded to Captain Amritesh Kumar, Captain Dhanjit Kumar Singh and Captain Pankaj Bhatt of DE Course. Best project (IETM on BMP II – Automotive) prize was awarded to Lieutenant Viwidh Srivastava, Lieutenant Mayank Singh and Lieutenant Vaibhav Nigam of TES Course.