| Biswo |
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on 12-Mar-04 08:10 PM
Yes. Let's hear it.
If anyone is coming to my university or any university near Houston, let me welcome you:-)
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On the other hand, I find it very sad that none of our undergraduate programs are 'feeder' programs for top graduate schools in the United States. I hope those guys who beat teams from IIT and other top Asian institutes in international Robot competition will get into top engineering programs like MIT, caltech, Berkeley etc. If they get into those programs, and do really good , they will open the door for a lot of other graduates of Pulchouk engineering college. Because Pulchouk's fee is generously low, so it is still affordable to most of the Nepali students. which means top graduate programs will be within reach of the most of the households.
Let's face it,whether it is to make Nepal Singapore or whether it is to take Nepal to Asian Maapdanda, we need to have some Nepali active in frontier of the research. What we currently lack is educated Nepali. We see pretenders everywhere. That's why our development efforts often squeal to halt. That's why we make bridges that don't work. That's why our government offices have crores worth of machines, but once those machines have problem, they lay unused, unrepaired, because we often don't have manpower to repair those machines, and it is very costly to send those machines abroad to repair them(Last summer, I was reading about reports of how dozers and other expensive equipments lie unused in jilla sadak bibhaag of some districts..). Development is thus expensive in Nepal, and the root of all these is lack of manpower.
I have seen web sites of some exceptional engineering students at top universities. Their credentials often include being winner of international olympiads, international robotics competition, European robotics competition etc. So, I am sure such prizes help a lot.I wish those winners goodluck, and hope they will do great in their career down the road so that other Nepali can follow them.
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