Hyderabad: Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan, Governor of Telangana State conferred engineering degrees to 64 Officers of Degree Engineering Course (DE-100) and Technical Entry Scheme Course (TES-32), in a smartly conducted Convocation Ceremony at Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Secunderabad on Thursday.
It was indeed a rare honor for the Student Officers to receive their degrees and awards from the Governor of Telangana State in presence of their families.
Addressing the newly graduated officers the Governor said “Your graduation today marks the beginning of a very challenging journey ahead. As you embark on this important mission as Techno Warriors, you must constantly remind yourself that you belong to an era where old concepts are being cracked, established paradigms are being refined and hierarchies are being restructured.
Rapid advances in technology are relentlessly fuelling all these changes at a rate that is both awesome and exhilarating. Your challenge is to harness these technologies for the Army and ensure that maximum benefits are accrued”.
The impressive ceremony was attended by a host of senior dignitaries from military and civil administration amongst an august gathering of more than 300 guests and students. The affiliation of MCEME with JNU for conferring the B Tech degrees empowers the officers to undertake confidently the challenging tasks of providing effective Combat Engineering Support to the Indian Army during both Peace and War.
While delivering the inaugural address Major General TSA Narayanan, Commandant, MCEME said “We at MCEME have a well qualified and self-motivated teaching staff, state of the art facilities in the form of labs, integrated classroom, IT infrastructure. The college has also recently linked up with the National Knowledge Network and is in the process of setting up procedures to harness the large knowledge pool existing in premier education institutions like IIsT, IIsM, ISB, JNU, and JNTU Hyderabad”.