Thirteen PhD degrees, 27 gold medals awarded at NED University's Convocation 2019

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mehmood on Saturday awarded 13 degrees of PhD and 27 gold medals to the successful students in the 28th Annual Convocation -2019 of Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw (NED) University of Engineering and Technology's main campus.

The Federal Minister for Education was the chief guest while Chancellor of NED University, Governor of Sindh, Imran Ismail chaired the Convocation.

The successful students who were awarded degrees in the Convocation include 2113 graduates and 843 masters.

Speaking on the occasion, Shafqat Mehmood said that the present government has firm resolve to give due status to engineers.

He said that it was encouraging to know that 40 per cent of the total successful graduates in this Convocation are female engineers.

The Federal Minister called upon the female engineers to pursue their dreams with devotion.

Thirteen Ph.D degrees were awarded in the fields of Electronic Engineering, Architecture, Textile Engineering and Computer Science & Information Technology.

The students were given bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering, metallurgical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, architecture, Computer Science & IT and many more.