UTM Convocation
by Kailash
The University of Technology, Mauritius’ convocation ceremony was held at Octave Wiehe Auditorium, Reduit on Thursday. One of the highlights that really struck me was that on top of the 3 schools already set up, UTM has the ambition of initiating 3 more schools including a School of Medicine and a School of Media. I must say that I am really impressed by UTM’s expansion with respect to the diversity of programmes being offered.
When I joined the then called School of Business Informatics and Software Engineering (SoBISE) in 2002, I had only 2 undergradute programmes to pick from, Software Engineering and Business Information Systems.
The same school now renamed School of Innovative Technologies and Engineering (SITE), can now boast a variety of courses like Mathematics, Web Technologies, Graphic Design, Telecommunications, Web technologies, Computational Science, Security, networking etc. UTM is also very close to industry, there are even Enterprise Systems courses in collaboration with enterprise solution giants like SAP.
SITE also ensures the student are trained using the latest software used by the industry, SAP, Oracle, .NET, Adobe etc. Same goes for opensource tools, there are modules dedicated to open source technologies, unix programming (freebsd) etc.. Heard SITE students are gaining notoriety with the industry in this respect.
Coming back to the Convocation one of the highlights which I appreciated was when students gave their lecturers a standing ovation. I think it is a very humble but telling reward for their good work.