As a part of Departmental Outreach Programme, a Career Awareness Workshop was organized by the Department of Mechanical Engineering on 4th October 2023 at Jalukbari Girls’ High School, Jalukbari.

The resource persons for the workshop were Dr. Buljit Buragohain, a prominent career counsellor of the state and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Pallav Gogoi, Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Buragohain discussed various trades of ITIs and three-year diploma courses of Polytechnics that students can study after passing the high school examination. He explained that students should choose disciplines and subjects in higher secondary according to their personality, interests, and skills. He also discussed various career options in different streams – Science, Commerce, Arts, vocational etc. Apart from clearing the doubts of the students while choosing the right career path, Dr. Buragohain also gave a detailed explanation on how, with hard work and dedication, students can mould a successful career for themselves.

Dr. Buljit Buragohain also mentioned the need for general knowledge in various competitive examinations and interviews conducted for recruitment for which reading newspaper regularly is very important. Dr. Buragohain also informed about the free Career Counselling over phone (9435188630) on every Saturday from 6 PM to 9 PM. The other resource person, Mr. Pallav Gogoi informed about a variety of Academic Programmes (Bachelor, Master, Doctoral) in Engineering, Commerce, Management, Pharmacy, Science, Social Sciences and Humanities offered by Don Bosco University. 53 students and the Headmaster, Shri Syed Mazid Ali participated in the programme.