hyderabad eighteen army officers were conferred engineering degrees at a convocation ceremony at the military college of electronics and mechanical engineering mceme in secunderabad lieutenant general paramjit singh commandant mceme and colonel commandant corps of eme conferred the engineering degrees to the 18 officers of technical entry scheme course tes31 on thursdayin his address lt general paramjit singh congratulated the graduating officers on being conferred b tech degrees officers need to keep pace with latest developments in technology he saidlt general paramjit said the officers will have to familiarise themselves with the latest weapon systems the affiliation of mceme with jnu for conferring the btech degrees empowers the officers to undertake confidently the challenging tasks of providing effective combat engineering support to the indian army during both peace and war the army informed in an official press releasedeputy commandant and chief instructor mceme major general tsa narayanan said the college had also recently linked up with the national knowledge network and was in the process of setting up procedures to harness the large knowledge pool existing in premier education institutions like iist iism isb jnu and jntu hyderabadlt vikas thakur electronics won the dgeme gold medal gocinc artrac trophy best student book prize and certificate and commandant silver medal lt vishabh singh mechanical won the commandant silver medal best project award was given to the team of officers comprising lt vikas thakur lt varun singh jamwal lt satyam dhawan and lt joe sibi mattathil