new delhi come 2010 the new entrants at delhi technological university dtu will be offered an additional oneyear mba course at the end of their btech studies an mba programme in addition to the fouryear btech course would ensure the students have a dualdegree with specialization in technology knowledge or innovation the newlyestablished university also has major expansion plans right from enhancing its residential capacity to setting up innovative classrooms and research centresthe dualdegree would be introduced from the 201011 academic session whereby btech students would be eligible to opt for the oneyear mba programme at the end of their third year based on their academic and professional performance projects and summer trainings students would be selected from across engineering disciplines for the mbaspeaking about the objective behind a dualdegree even as the university has already started a fulltime mba programme from this year vice chancellor p b sharma said a large number of engineering graduates opt for an mba programme after graduation and then drift away from their area of expertise to specialize in marketing finance and hr among others our objective is to attract the best engineering talent for a masters degree in management and yet retain their scientific temper so this mba would offer specialization in areas such as technology knowledge and innovation management among otherswhile the fulltime mba degree which started this year from the delhi school of management of dtu is open to all students including those from nonengineering background and admission is based on common admission test cat group discussion and personal interview scores the additional mba programme is only for students who are pursuing btech from dtuthe university which was till recently a duaffiliated college and was known as delhi college of engineering is also planning additional infrastructure for expansion it has already added new academic programmes and increased intake by 400 seats this year at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels according to proposed expansion plans a new girls hostel with a capacity of 200 and a boys hostel with 500 capacity will be added besides a multistorey academic block for it biotech nanotech vlsi design computer engineering and software engineeringwe are also planning a teaching block housing lecture theatres of 240 seats two conference halls and five tutorial rooms in the pipeline are also one multidesign centre a highend testing laboratory a micro electro mechanical systems design centre and a photonic design centre added sharma