LOCUS 08-09 exhibition will be held from 12th-14th Mangsir (27th-29th November) at Pulchowk Engineering Campus Premises. The organizing team are busy with the final preparation.

LOCUS is a student-initiated movement to help students bridge this gap. Locus, started in the year 2003, aims to provide a platform for innovative ideas and creations. It focuses on providing a fertile ground for intelligent, inquisitive and innovative minds and also broadens the professional experience of the students in the technical field. Locus, keeping up with its literal meaning, has been providing the students the right track to showcase and hence enhance their talent.
Every year LOCUS conducts many skill development programs among students from various national level colleges which include seminars, talk programs, training courses, etc.But its main highlight is a 3-day long annual event within college premises of Pulchowk Engineering College, IOE. This 3-day long program includes various formal and informal events.

The LOCUS events are broadly classified into two categories:

1. Competitive
2. Non-competitive

1. Competitive Events
This category includes competition on various topics and is further classified as:
Formal Events:

Software Competition:

In Software Competition participants are allowed to present their skills on topics as deemed fit by the participants themselves.

Hardware Competition:

In hardware competition participants are free to design any hardware in the area of their own interest. Judgment will be based on market feasibility, innovation, creativity and practicability.

Electrical event competition:

In Electrical Hardware Competition participants can research freely on any topic and implement their ideas and knowledge on the hardware that relate to electrical engineering field.

Paper Presentation

For paper presentation, the choice of subject matter is open to the students; however it must be related to technical field. For the competition, participants can present a paper on any research they have recently carried out. Any kind of project ideas which they couldn't convert into real projects can also presented in the form of papers or simulation models.

Quiz competition

The quiz competition is fully based on technical questions and is designed to test the technical knowledge of participants in subjects related to information technology. The quiz contest will take place in the bachelor level with questions related to current and historical technical areas.

INFORMAL EVENTS
Some of the possible informal events are as follows:

1. Games:Counter-Strike,FIFA etc
2. Online cryptography
3. coding contest
4. web designing competition
5. and many more

NON-COMPETITIVE EVENTS
Exhibition:
The 3-day locus event consists of exhibition stalls from various firms, institute or organizations.
Anyone from the professional or educational field who want to exhibit their projects or any other materials without being a part of any competitive event can also exhibit their presentation in the LOCUS event.
Electrical lab: micro hydro, transformers, peltric set, and power lab components.