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The School would like to thank Mr. Chhitish Shrestha, senior Big Data consultant in Ernst and Young Australia, for taking a guest session on Big Data projects for EMBA students. The session focused on live projects on Big data. He also talked about descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive analysis. The School has been offering Big Data Analytics courses to graduate students.

SCARE project launches in Nepal On 25 May 2021, Global Green Growth Institute Nepal, Kathmandu University and University of Bristol held a virtual consultation event to launch the “Climate Change and Sanitation: Assessing resilience and mitigation (SCARE)” project in Nepal. The event was led by Ministry of Water Supply under the chairmanship of Joint Secretary Mr Sunil Kumar Das in a close coordination with Ministry of Forest and Environment (MOFE) and Department of Water Supply and...

KU signs an MOU for building Balram and Tara Pradhan Energy Block A new building named "Balram and Tara Pradhan Energy Block" will be built at Kathmandu University in recognition of Late Mr. Balram Pradhan for his contribution to society in the Energy and Power sector. On 5th June 2021, an MOU has been signed between the School of Engineering, KU and Pradhan's family, to establish a basket fund with seed money of NPR 4.5 Million coming from the family. It has been agreed that the basket fund r...

Agreement Signed between School of Engineering, Kathmandu University and Alternative Energy Promotion Centre for Green Hydrogen Project On 28th April 2021, School of Engineering, and Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) signed an MoU for Setting up a demonstrative facility for commercial applications of green hydrogen technologies in Nepal. The MoU has been signed by Prof. Manish Pokharel, Dean of School of Engineering, KU, and Mr. Madhusudhan Adhikari, Executive Director of AEPC. The Mo...

Agreement Signed between KU and NOC for Green Hydrogen Project Kathmandu University and Nepal Oil Corporation have signed an agreement on 25 February 2021 to initiate the project “Technology Transfer and Local Adaptation for developing NOC as a hydrogen fuel producing and distributing company”. With reference to the MOU signed previously on 8th January 2021, NOC had approved the project proposal on 7th February 2021. As a part of academic-institution and government corporations' c...

Kathmandu University Collaborates with Bristol University to protect Nepal’s future generations from earthquakes In 2015, a devastating earthquake in Nepal resulted in the loss of 9,000 lives, 3.5 million people left homeless and entire neighbourhoods flattened. To prevent destruction on the same scale again, the multidisciplinary team behind The SAFER Nepal Project has been working with local partners to improve the seismic safety and resilience of school and community buildings in Ne...