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RAJSHAHI, May 10, 2025 (BSS) - Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) authority held a freshers' orientation for the newly-admitted first-year (honours) students under 2024-2025 academic session amid festivity and fanfare today. 

 The orientation for the students of different departments was held at the central auditorium. 

     Vice-chancellor (VC) Professor SM Abdur Razzaque welcomed the students with flower sticks wishing them every success at the campus. 

     A documentary on education, research and co-curricular activities of the RUET was screened in the initial stage of the orientation.

     With Students Welfare Director Prof Rabiul Islam Sarker in the chair, the ceremony was addressed, among others, by Applied Science and Humanity Dean Prof Prof Abdul Kader Zilani, Electrical and Computer Science Faculty Dean Prof Bashir Ahmed and Mechanical Engineering Faculty Dean Prof Nurul Islam.

     Registrar Arif Ahmed Chowdhury talked about academic ordinance, disciplinary rules and different other education and research activities. 

     Inspiring the students, the VC urged the attending students to take pleasure in the student life with a bit of care. "The purpose of education is to acquire knowledge from reality and to utilize it for mankind," he added. 

     He also urged them to remain on the right track as it's very much important to acquire knowledge properly. 

     Prof Razzaquer also reminded them to be part of building a new Bangladesh through acquiring modern and practical knowledge. 

     This year, the students were admitted in 14 Departments under different faculties of the university.