Geomatics engineering education in Kathmandu University : issues and challenges
Bhattarai, Narayan
Kathmandu University (KU) has started Geomatics Engineering Program (GE) from 2007. This program is a 4 year undergraduate engineering program running in the second year with a batch of 23 students from last year and 27 students in this year. The program has been heavily subsidized by the Ministry of Land Reform and Management (MoLRM), Government of Nepal for four batches of students( for 24 students each year)starting from 2007.Course syllabus is in the process of transformation and KU has been planning to run Graduate degree courses in Geomatics Engineering from 2011 onwards. The Land Management Training Centre (LMTC) of the MoLRM has provided the venue and the instruments for the lecture and practical classes as well as hostel for residence for the students. However, it is a temporary arrangement as long as the collaboration period lasts. In order to seek help to provide for required trained and qualified human resources to run the program and produce quality batches of students, a mutual dialogue of cooperation and understanding has been going on with International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)of The Netherlands. In this context, one teaching assistant from KU and two survey officers from LMTC have already gone to ITC for Master of Science Degree course in Geomatics. A three day workshop for the re-designing of the existing course syllabus was organized from 19th -21st November,2008 at KU in collaboration with the LMTC and ITC. Two senior staffs of the ITC also gave their valuation contribution in the workshop.
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