Chandigarh, Oct. 19 -- While women graduates were only around 14% of the total BTech graduates, a significant number of female students bagged medals at the 55th annual convocation held by Punjab Engineering College (PEC) on Saturday.

A total of 683 BTech, 56 MTech, and 40 PhD degrees were conferred during the convocation with 667 students awarded in person and 112 in absentia. Doctor of Science (DSc) (honoris causa) was conferred on Ravindra Kumar Tyagi, CMD, PowerGrid Corporation of India Limited.

Women lead half of major engineering disciplines

In the BTech category, four of the nine gold medallists were women. While looking at numbers, one may think that not as many women opt for engineering as men, women at PEC are still topping a...