About KIET Talent hunt and Support program (KTS)
KIET Talent-hunt and Support program (KTS) offers training and scholarship to prospective students who aspire to undertake engineering education. Students enrolled in KTS program will experience a glimpse of four-years engineering degree through a series of extensive training sessions. Selected students will be offered generous fee waiver to attend KTS program, followed by need-cum-merit based scholarship to undergo engineering education at KIET.
KTS is a not-for-profit program. In fact, it is being substantially funded by KIET. The primary motivation of this program is to reduce to effect of weak financial and/or educational background for otherwise bright students to become engineers.
There is no application fees. There is no tuition/lab/exam fees to attend the 11 weeks training program.
Benefits for students to attend KTS
- Scholarship during KTS: Bright students will study KTS program on scholarship.
- Scholarship during Engineering: High achievers of KTS program will be offered need-cum-merit based scholarships for four years to pursue engineering degree at KIET. The number of scholarship will vary from semester to semester.
- Training to start engineering education: Students will be trained to start engineering degree. Basics of Physics, Mathematics and English will be revised. Engineering related subjects will also be introduced such as Introduction to engineering tools, computer programming and digital logic design. Moreover, students will also receive mentoring sessions about different aspects of engineering education. For details of training courses, see link
- Get a glimpse of semester-based system and engineering education: Many students face difficulties when they move from annual system (generally followed in FSc) to semester-based system (generally followed in all Pakistani universities). Through KTS program, students will get ample amount of time to adjust themselves with semester-based system. They will also get accustomed to engineering education and general ambiance at an engineering school.
- Judge your caliber for engineering education: After spending initial few semesters in an engineering school, sometimes very bright students come to realize that engineering education is not their passion. They joined an engineering school without serious deliberation, probably due to family or social pressures. They now lack motivation and caliber to further pursue engineering education. However, after spending considerable time and money at an engineering school, now it appears to be a very difficult decision to drop-out of engineering education and pursue a different academic program. KTS program will help a student to judge his caliber for engineering education by spending only 4 months at an engineering school. The earlier the aversion is diagnosed, the better it is for the student as well as for the institute. In short, a student can judge his/her caliber for engineering education through KTS.
Purpose and benefits for the institute to launch KTS
- Improve academic excellence of our students: The primary purpose of KTS is to improve academic excellence of students in our engineering programs. Students who will secure good grades during KTS program will be given scholarships for engineering programs. As per the rules of PEC and HEC, we are required to take only a fixed number of students once a year in our engineering programs. So the purpose to launch KTS is not to increase number of our students, but to improve quality of students.
- Search for talented students who can undergo engineering education: Generally admission tests are meant to select the bright students, and reject the weaker students. However, the admission procedure, many a times, rejects talented and capable students who somehow had a weak educational background in the past. KIET Talent hunt and Support program will counter this effect. It is an opportunity for weak (but talented and motivated) students to undertake engineering education. KTS program will train and judge the true caliber and motivation of students during a 16 weeks training program. However the minimum percentage requirement of 60% in FSc must be met.
- KTS program is a not for profit program: KTS is a totally free of cost program for bright and abvoe average students. Performance in the KTS program will be used to award need-cum-merit based scholarships to do engineering at KIET.
KTS Fall 2018 Duration:
11 weeks training program
Training courses taught during KTS Program
- English – 3 contact hours per week: This course focuses on improving English oral and written communication skills. They will be learning 1000 new words to improve their vocabulary. The students will be taught how to improve their thinking necessary to improve their writings. They will also be taught how to use idiomatic structures, proverbs and words from other languages to bring an edge to their composition. Students will also review business communication and ethics.
- Mathematics – 3 contact hours per week: Details to be announced soon.
- Physics – 3 contact hours per week: Details to be announced soon.
- Introduction to engineering simulation tools – 3 contact hours per week: This course covers fundamentals of two very important Engineering tools i-e MATLAB and LabVIEW. The students will be able to learn the structure and feasibility of the software along with their applications both in academic and industrial. Course contents include but are not limited to following: Introduction to Matlab environment, use of mathematical functions, plotting, matrix manipulation, linear equations, m files, conditional and iterative constructs, Introduction to LabView environment, opening and running VI, graphs, writing conditional and iterative constructs in LabView etc.
- Introduction to computer language programming – 3 contact hours per week: This course focuses on giving a flavor of programming by teaching Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) using Excel. Students will learn principles of programming by developing small VBA based macros for Excel. Students will learn about different functionalities of Excel, integration of VBA macros in Excel, accessing Excel cells through VBA, variable declaration, conditional statement, loops, functions, etc. Interesting easy to understand programming examples are accompanied.
- Introduction to digital logic design – 3 contact hours per week: This course will give a theoretical and practical introduction about digital circuits. Course contents include but are not limited to following: Logic gates, bread-board and digital logic trainers, soldering, use of oscilloscope, Introduction to Proteus simulator, adders, latch, flip-flops, counters, etc. Students will also learn to develop medium level examples such as logic circuit to control a small elevator, automobile alarm circuit, developing a digital clock, etc.
- Mentoring sessions – 2 contact hours per week: These are primarily interactive sessions between students and teachers. The topics discussed during mentoring include but are not limited to following: Benefits of PEC registration number, dynamics of semester system, GPA calculation, course selection, introductory talk by prominent faculty members, research activities at KIET, academic events at KIET, academic and administrative rules for students at KIET, time management, personal vision, etc
KTS Tentative Schedule
| Sessions | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 1) 8:40 – 9:30 | VBA (Lab) | Eng Tools (Lab) | Mathematics | DLD (Lab) | – |
| 2) 9:40 – 10:30 | VBA (Lab) | Eng Tools (Lab) | Physics | DLD (Lab) | – |
| 3) 10:40 – 11:30 | VBA (Lab) | Eng Tools (Lab) | English | DLD (Lab) | – |
| 4) 11:40 – 12:30 | Mathematics | Mathematics | – | Physics | – |
| 5) 12:40 – 1:30 | – | – | – | Mentoring | – |
| 6) 1:40 – 2:30 | English | English | – | – | |
| 7) 2:40 – 3:30 | – | Mentoring | – | Physics | – |
* 10 minutes break between sessions. However no break in Labs (each lab is a continuous 3 hour session)
KTS Fees and Fee waiver
- KTS Total tuition fees: It is totally free of cost for bright and above average students (i.e. no tuition fees, no lab fees, no exam fees) during 11 weeks training.
- Scholarship for Engineering Degree: After completion of KTS semester, top achievers to get 20-80% scholarships to attend 4 years engineering degree at KIET.