Experiencing Engineering ... Students and a special Experience

On Friday, 9 Dec 2011, a few gentlemen belonging to the Final year batch arrived late to their classes. They were in a hurry as is everyone else to enter their classrooms. In this rush, they forgot to ensure that there were no flaws in their dress code. A few had trouble wearing the ties in a rush, while a few forgot to wear a collar button, or their sleeve buttons. They were stopped and asked to set these right before they moved to their classes. Having been late, the bell rang and they were detained - as they were deemed late to the classes. At this point I decided to make them work inside the campus and experience engineering.

Instead of observing standard operating procedure in dealing with latecomers and grooming defaulters to classes, they were requested to report to the "Estate Manager" for performing duties. All five Gentlemen, who, by now were neatly dressed, were reluctant to report. They were instructed that they would be performing Engineering work - related to maintenance.

They reported to the estate manager Mr.Ambrose and received their work detail with instructions to hold firm the rules of the college, and not let go of the grooming whilst they performed the work. By the end of the day, all of them, as a team, had worked on servicing two Electrical Motors within the campus -- which they later confessed was a wonderful learning experience. They had also worked on preparing mild steel for their junior batch's practical examinations.