Founded in 1993, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) is one of the oldest and leading private universities in Bangladesh where academic excellence is a tradition, teaching a passion and lifelong learning a habit. IUB currently has more than 9,800 undergraduate and graduate students and over 13,700 alumni. The students of IUB experience an exciting academic life with copious opportunities to explore and nurture their innate talent.
Live in Field Experience (LFE) is a signature course of IUB. It allows IUB students, most of whom come from urban settings, to have an immersive experience of everyday life in rural Bangladesh. Unique in Bangladesh, the overarching idea, which owes its roots to some of the leading social thinkers of this region, is to bridge the gap in knowledge that an urban student has about their rural counterparts. As part of the LFE, which is a mandatory course, small groups of students (usually 5-10, mix of male and female, and English and Bangla medium backgrounds) spend a certain amount of time at different locations in Bangladesh and experience life in the fields.
EEE Students visit Energypac Engineering Limited in Baroipara, Savar, Dhaka.
10/05/2024
IEEE Power & Energy Society IUB Student Branch Chapter (IEEE PES IUB SBC), IEEE IEEE Industry Applications Society IUB Student Branch Chapter (IEEE IAS IUB SBC) and Department of EEE, IUB successfully organized an industrial tour to Energypac Engineering Limited on July 22nd, 2023.
More than 50 Students from selected courses along with two EEE Department faculty members, Prof. Dr. M. Abdur Razzak and Dr. Mustafa Habib Chowdhury, participated in this tour which made it a very interactive, engaging and a fruitful learning experience for the students. The students gathered effective hands-on practical knowledge from the industry experts from Energypac Engineering Limited throughout this day long tour.
Learning Outcomes from this Industry Tour:
1. Students learned and gained hands-on practical experience about the basic principles of a Distribution Transformer, Instrument Transformer, Cast Resin Transformer, transformer testing and manufacturing from the industry experts.
2.Students learned and gained hands-on practical experience about the basic principles and manufacturing of a Switchgear, Isolator, Control Panel and Power Factor Improvement Panel (PFI Panel) from the industry experts.
A strong industry academia partnership was maintained with the industry experts and the respective students and faculty members of the Department of EEE, IUB in this Industry tour. Prof. Dr. M. Abdur Razzak and Dr. Mustafa Habib Chowdhury also held a meeting with Engr. Rabiul Alam, CEO, Energypac Engineering Ltd. and discussed future collaborations and prospects of Industry-Academia partnership with Energypac and Department of EEE, IUB in the form of joint M.Sc. thesis projects and Final Year Design Projects for undergraduate students.
IEEE PES IUB SBC, IEEE IAS IUB SBC and the Department of EEE, IUB have extensive plans to conduct more engaging industrial tours in the coming days for pushing forward the Industry-Academia collaboration initiave and giving the students an understanding of real world engineering issues.