Hello Everyone!

I would like to introduce myself. I am Brian Davis and I am a foreign exchange student from Houston, Texas, USA. I will be attending M.Sc. Structural Engineering classes starting on Baisakh 2, 2066.

I am hoping to make some new friends on this site even before I get to Nepal. Currently, I am still living in Houston and I am preparing for my travels to Nepal closer to the start of classes. I am very curious about what student life is like at the Pulchowk Campus of IOE.

If you would like to know more about me, of if you would like to help me learn a little about Pulchowk, please comment on my blog entry. Nepal will be very far from home and I can use all the help I can get!

I look forward to meeting many new engineering students when I get to Nepal.

College Administration of Pulchowk Campus has decided to indefinitely close the Campus after recent tension between student unions. Students' union namely NSU has claimed ANNFSU(R) used voilent measures in the college. NSU, in a Official Release, says the lock in the college won't be released until secure environment for education is guarantted. No official Release has yet been received from ANNFSU(R). The Campus Administration has emptied the college hostel to avoid further vandalism to college property. No student's are allowed entrance to the college premises.

Nepal's first ever aircraft 'Danfe' built by young Nepali engineers has successfully completed its test flight here Pokhara in Kaski district on Saturday.
A Nepali license holder Russian pilot, Alexander Maximov, led the test flight of the ultra-light aircraft built by a team of students of the Pulchowk Engineering Campus, Institute of Engineering (IoE) in the capital.
The two-seater craft has a total take-off weight of 400 kg.
The aircraft held its flight for about a minute covering a distance of about 1.5 km.
A student team led by Bikash Parajuli and Ganesh Ram Sinkemana constructed the aircraft spending about Rs 1 million.