Hi Sachin!

Greetings!

I am telling you about

Life at DTU-EE in brief:

It's not very easy to get through the four years at EE here, but it's not difficult too. The curriculum and the syllabus has changed recently, which is good. Interesting and important subjects like optimization methods have been introduced.

As far as studies and the subjects are concerned, they are interesting. Though the fact that we study the subjects of all the branches in the first year, is not good. Level of studies is okay and it's easy to pass, since very less weightage is now given to the final exams, and practical is combined with theory. Getting high score is tough due to relative marking.

The faculty is not so good. Some teachers are very good, but many are very poor in teaching. In first year, it's adverse.

EE students need to attend many classes. There are less bunks, but still good amount of them. Attendance is always an issue for us.

Placements are okay and a few PSUs visit every year.

Overall life is chill as it should be for an engineering student.

Edit:

So you wanna know about EED at DTU. First of all you should know about EE in general. You must have studied AC and DC Circuits in 12th. The Faraday’s Law, EMI, magnetism concepts, etc. If you are interested to explore these things further, then it’s done in EE. Here you study about R,L,C, magnetism, machines, power systems, power electronics, the BJT and diodes which you study in 11–12th are also covered in much more depth. This was an overview of EE in general, be it any college, any country.

So, if you think you are comfortable with these things, then only you should pursue EE be it in any college.

Now coming to DTU specific, see DTU has mandatory attendance system, they really detain people with <60% attendance and give warning for < 75%. This strictness is mainly in EED, while other departments at DTU (CS/Civil) are chill in this matter. For DTU-EE, the faculty is NOT so good. Only some prof are good and knowledgeable, whose benefits are not given to all the students as there are about 4 sections of EE. HOD of EE is very strict in attendance matters but is a very knowledgeable person, though he teaches only limited courses and to limited sections. Overall, faculty is not good.

Also, DTU has the option to choose elective subjects, by which you can choose 2–3 courses (out of 6) as electives from any department (EE or others) per semester from 2nd or 3rd year onwards. So, if you wish you can study all core CS subjects as electives in 3rd year (OS,ADA,DBMS,ML,AI,PA,etc), though faculty there also is not very good.

Also, DTU has relative grading system, means that your CGPA is not your marks directly, rather it’s a statistical method where your percentile matters. For eg, a student getting 78 marks while topper has 80 marks would probably get 10 CGPA in the subject, it depends on the entire marks distribution, so people are competitive here, because if the average is high, then automatically the CGPA is affected accordingly. It’s a relative marking system.

Also, DTU has only 2 exams per sem per subject (1-mid and 1-end), while most colleges have 2 mid-term and 1 end-term. So, life is not so hectic here.

DTU has more holidays than others, full Dec off and 20th may to 31st july off, in addition to the extra holidays in between.

For placements, out of 138 students (EE: 2017–18), 90 were placed until May 2018 including all sorts of jobs. So, it’s not so great but still, hard-working people manage to get. See, here at DTU, a lot of companies visit, but most are for coding and most of them are open for EE as well, but since there are so many CS related students, EE people hardly find their way in the initial days, but generally all the EE students genuinely interested in coding and having moderate to expert level abilities to code, are usually placed at good IT companies on-campus and many times with multiple offers. A EE Student who knows to code to quite a decent level always have better chances to get placed earlier and with a better package than those EE students applying only in core electrical, unless they are placed at PSUs. EE and electronics companies visiting here are less and take fewer students. It includes Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Reliance, Tata Power, Maruti Suzuki, Siemens, ReNew Power, Lithion Power, Avaada Power, Samsung Semiconductor India Research, General Electric, Nestle, Bechtel, NVidia, Airtel Networks, SanDisk, Toshiba Japan, JK Cement, WSP Electrical, Honda, Himachal Futuristic Communications, IQVIA, CBRE, Philips Lighting, Tork Motors, Truechip Solutions, L&T Constructions, Omax Auto, TRAI, Vedanta, Varroc, Freescale, Keysight Technologies, STMicroelectronics, Exicom, HLS Asia, Samsung Engineering, JK Organization etc. Also, note that the usual cutoff for most of the companies be it IT, Electronics, Non-Tech, etc. to sit in the placements is 6–7/10 CGPA be it any branch, while most of the top IT companies don’t put any CGPA based cutoff to apply. Some may put it as high as 8/10, while some put it as 5–6/10 also. PSUs also visit, like IOCL and GAIL, (may not visit always) but are limited and usually takes only the cream (top-3 or top-5 after the interviews), minimum CGPA required to sit generally is 8.5/10 for these PSUs. Kindly understand that I am bound by the university not to reveal other details of the placements publicly. In case you are in DTU and wish to know more and the latest statistics of the placements, then you may contact me or any other senior at DTU.

Rest, there are many-many tech and non-tech societies and a lot of cultural events to enjoy.

Myth about this branch being difficult at DTU: I think this was the scene before 2015 when the marking was not relative. Frankly speaking, I think that DTU EE is easier when compared to EE of other colleges, because here there is relative marking, so if a subject is difficult it’s difficult for all and the avg decreases so CGPA increases as compared to absolute marks scored. Also, the labs are combined with theory, so passing becomes easy and it’s less hectic. There is usually no separate practical exam and the evaluation is done on the basis of the viva and the file. Also, see our’s a university with only one college, so the same teacher teaching will only make the paper and will only check it, so questions are predictive and syllabus is known unlike other universities like IPU, where the content taught in class, many times, may not match with the questions asked in the exam.

Hope it was an unbiased review and would be helpful. Every person has a different perspective and different priorities, so you yourself can only make a wise decision for yourself.

All the Best! Hope to meet you soon in DTU..

( As they say, somewhere in the North there is a place called DTU, be careful if you travel there, it might just steal your heart and keep it forever! )

P.S.- I will update more info especially the placement stats during mid-2019.

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Thank you and good luck.