Vol-5-Issue-4

Academic Decision Making for MBA Dissertation Projects during

Final Viva voce

16th October, 2022

“No research without action, no action without research.” ~ Kurt Lewin

Post Graduate Dissertation (PGD) is a unique aspect of MBA programme offered by APU which enable the student to carry out one year longer primary data based research on a contemporary management problem. One of the most important benefits of PGD is that students get to come up with their own titles and ideas which are derived either from their work place experiences or their own interests. They have the opportunity and freedom to explore in-depth research into a topic of their choice. It offers the opportunity to take an exciting and fascinating look into something they are passionate about.

Tihar Celebration at LBEF

22nd October, 2022

Thegreatnessofaculturecanbefoundin its festivals- Siddharth katragadda.

LBEF celebrated Tihar on the auspicious day of Dhanteras at the college premises with full of fervour and delight. The presence of Er. Pankaj Jalan (Chairman), Er. Prakash Kumar Kejriwal (Executive Director), Prof (Dr.) Sandeep Kautish (Director Academics) and Mr. Uday Kant Jha (Director Administration) of LBEF made the event more meaningful and exciting. All the faculties and staffs of LBEF campus enthusiastically participated in various programs like Lakshmi puja, deusi, bhailo, singing,

dancing and other programs. Artwork of rangoli, flower decorations, bright paper designs and glimmering lights further symbolized the importance of the festival. This commemoration bought recreation, refreshment, entertainment and fun all together.

Guest Lecture on Entrepreneurship: A Roller Coaster Journey

4th November, 2022

In the series of inviting distinguished speakers from the industry for sharing their real-time experiences with our students, LBEF Campus organized a guest lecture on “Entrepreneurship: A Roller Coaster Journey” by Ms. Yashaswi Surana, Founder of Alapino who shared her experiences, learning, and also failures during her journey so far as an entrepreneur in last four years. She emphasized that having an idea is not everything to succeed in entrepreneurship if you do not have a good execution plan and the ability to execute it. The session was very applauded by students and asked many questions during the

question-answer round at the end of the session. Dr.. Sandeep Kautish (Director Academics) delivered the vote of thanks and felicitated the speaker, Ms. Yashaswi Surana.

Editorial Board

IN THIS ISSUE

The Buzz

TIHAR CELEBRATION AT LBEF

GUEST LECTURE ON “ ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A ROLLER COASTER JOURNEY

ACADEMIC DECISION MAKING FOR M.SC. ITM DISSERTATION PROJECTS DURING FINAL VIVA VOCE

ORIENTATION AND INDUCTION PROGRAM

POSTER MAKING COMPITITON ON WORLD AIDS DAY

STUDENTS CLUB ACTIVATION DRIVE AT LBEF

LBEF STUDENTS GOT CERTIFICATION FROM UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA

NAGARIK NEWS COVERED THE ARTICLE ON THE TOPIC ‘LEGALIZATION OF STUDENT VISA’

KENDRABINDHU COVERED NEWS ABOUT LBEF

WORLD CUP LIVE SCREENING (FINAL MATCH)

X-MAS, X-CITEMENT

GUEST LECTURE ON LEADERSHIP SKILLS

INFO SESSION: DREAM IT, BUILD IT, LIVE IT

POETIC ECONOMICS

WHEN I WILL SHINE

GALLERY

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN

Dear Readers, Greeting from the LBEF Campus

I trust you all were doing great in your life and career while reading this message.

Er. Pankaj Jalan, Chairman LBEF Group of Institutions

I’m delighted to welcome our readers to our 4th issue of LBEF connect for the year 2022. The fourth trimester of the year has brought many new achievements for us. We organized Orientation and Induction program at Aloft Kathmandu where all new students of October/ November 2022 intake from all different courses of LBEF Campus as B.Sc IT, M.Sc ITM and MBA participated and learnt about the academic padagogies of LBEF and APUTI Malaysia. We wish all our new students a very successful and joyful academic journey throughout their course tenure at LBEF.

The past three months are a testimony of various curricular and co-curricular activities held at LBEF. Various guest lectures on the different topics I.e. “ Entrepreneurship: A Roller Coaster Journey “by Ms. Yashaswi Surana and “Leadership Skills” by Mr. Kim. J. Badden and Mr. Kovid Panthy were conducted and very much enjoyed by all the participants. Similarly, Academic Decision Making for MBA Dissertation Project during Final Viva voce, and Academic Decision Making for M.Sc. ITM Dissertation Projects during Final Viva voce were also held. Various non-academic events such as World AIDS Day Art Competition, World Cup Live Screening of Final Match, and X-Mas - X-citement were organized to encourage and motivate students. Students Club Activation Drive was conducted to select various Club Presidents, SRC Heads and Mentor/ program leaders. We aspire to establish these Students Clubs as pioneer in driving student activities at LBEF with more participation and learning oriented.

I am hopeful that we are going to continue to pursuit the academic excellence in the coming year 2023. I would like to convey our regards to our readers for their blessings and well wishes and we aspire to do more academic achievements in the future too.

Stay Safe and Healthy and wish you a very Happy New Year in advance. God Bless You All!

MESSAGE FROM THE DESK OF EDITOR

Dear Readers,

Welcome to the 4th issue, vol. 5 of LBEF Connect 2022. The last three months were very productive from the perspective of both academic and extracurricular activities. We strive to deliver cutting edge and quality education to our students and we will continue doing so in the upcoming days too. Orientation and induction program was held at Aloft Kathmandu on 12th November 2022.

In the last 3 months we organized guest lectures on the topic of” Entrepreneurship: A Roller Coaster Journey “by Ms. Yashaswi Surana and “Leadership Skills” by Mr. Kim. J. Badden and Mr. Kovid Panthy. Similarly, Academic Decision Making for MBA Dissertation Project during Final Viva voce, and Academic Decision Making for M.Sc. ITM Dissertation Projects during Final Viva voce were also conducted. These academic activities will help to broaden student’s mindsets and help to deepen their knowledge. Besides these, students were actively in many non-academic events such as World AIDS Day Art Competition, World Cup Live Screening (Final Match), and X-Mas, X-citement. Students Club Activation Drive was conducted to select various Club Presidents, SRC Heads and Mentor/ Program Leaders. Tihar celebration was organized at LBEF premises where all faculty members along with all staff members were present and participated.

Lastly, I kindly thank all students, non-academic and academic staffs for their continuous support and hard work in helping to keep the mission and vision “Quality Education for All” of the LBEF campus at the key priority and striving hard to achieve the same.

Wish you a very happy new year 2023 which is just in front of us.

Ms. Anwesha Sthapit Editor LBEF Connect

THE BUZZ

Academic Decision Making for M.Sc. ITM Dissertation Projects during Final Viva voce

7th November, 2022

“Researchiscreatingnewknowledge.”~NeilArmstrong

Post Graduate Dissertation (PGD) is a unique aspect of M.Sc. ITM programme offered by APU which enable the student to carry out one year longer primary data based research on a contemporary Information technology Management related problem and proposes a conceptual model for effective and efficient implementation of the solution in Nepal Context. Typically, a student review more than 50 recent, robust and relevant research papers during a Post Graduate Dissertation work at LBEF.

Orientation and Induction program for October Intake

12th November, 2022

Orientingthebeliefsinnewpeopleislikeimplantingorincorporating theorganizationscultureintothem-AlanDundes

Believing the same, LBEF Campus organized a series of activities where new students imbibe the information and help them realize their responsibility towards their prospects. The event was organized at Aloft Hotel, Chhaya Center, Thamel in which new students from different stream such as B.Sc IT, M.Sc IT and MBA participated. The program was initiated by Er. Pankaj Jalan (Chairman) with the introduction of LBEF Campus and its collaboration. After that Mr. Uday Kant Jha (Director Administration) gave motivational speech and imbedded the values of honesty, sincerity and dedication among them. After that Prof. Dr. Sandeep Kautish (Director Academics) explained in detail about the Asia Pacific University of Malaysia and briefed rules and regulations of the university. After that all Program Leaders, Dr. R.N.Thakur (M.Sc IT), Mr. Suman Bhattacharya (MBA) and Mr. Jyotir Moy Chatterji (B.Sc IT) explained about their respective course structure and also emphasized about their relevance for the working in the various industries. Then every student introduced themselves in person and also availed an opportunity to interact with the various academic and non-academic staff members of the institution. All the students eagerly participated and enjoyed various management related games organized by Ms. Anju Ghosh (Coordinator-Exam and University Connect). In the end, Prof. Dr. Sandeep Kautish gave the vote of thanks to all delegates, participants, staffs and students for making the event a grand success.

Poster Making Compititon on World AIDS Day

1st December, 2022

On World AIDS Day, let us all pledge to be sympathetic and empathetic towards those who are fighting a battle against the disease and let us do your part to erase the stigma around the illness.

With the same motive, LBEF students participated in Poster making competition for AIDS Awareness on 1st December 2022. LBEF students enthusiastically participated in the event and designed attractive and interesting posters with an objective to spread the awareness. And the winner of the event was Harish Singh Air (B.Sc.-IT 1st Semester) Each year, on 1st December, the world commemorates World AIDS Day. People around the world unite to show support for people living with HIV and to remember those who have died from AIDS-related illnesses. HIV/AIDS has killed up to 40.1 million people and infected 84.2 million over the past 40 years. In 2021, some 650,000

Students Club Activation Drive at LBEF

4th December, 2022

people died from AIDS-related illnesses, down 68 percent from its peak of two million deaths in 2004. Mr. Suman Bhattacharya 4. Sports Club Anup Pant & Tashi Yangjum Sherpa Bharat Rawal & Aashish Paneru Mr. AlsonRegmi, Mr. Suman Bhattacharya 5. Social and ECA Alisha Basnet Anwesha, Khadka, Dixanta Nath Shrestha

Ms. AnamikaDahal, Ms. Anwesha Sthapit 6. Software Architect Club RohitKhadka NischalSikhrakar, DipakNeupane Dr. R.N. Thakur

LBEF Students got Certification from University of Geneva

1st December, 2022

One of our student, Rabin Dahal from MBA 3rd Semester was able to complete an online course on (Understanding Financial Markets) from coursera and got the certificate of University of Geneva .

Nagarik News covered the article on the topic

‘Legalization of Student Visa’

15th December, 2022

Kendrabindhu covered news about LBEF

15th December, 2022

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World Cup Live Screening (Final Match)

18th December, 2022

The Sports Club of LBEF organized the live screening of The World Cup Final match between France and Argentina at the Seminar Hall. More than 60 students enthusiastically joined the event. The students were very happy and were over joyed to view the match. They also appreciated the various refreshments (Food: Popcorn and Chips, Drinks: Coke and Coffee) provided to them during the live screening of the match, which added thrill and excitement to the participants. Even the winner of “Predict and Win “contest was declared, and the prize was the winning team jersey.

X-Mas, X-citement

23rd December, 2022

Guest Lecture on Leadership Skills

27th December, 2022

X- Mas, X-citement event was held at the premises of LBEF College. The purpose of the event was to bring all the students, faculty members and staffs of LBEF together while spreading festive cheer with musical performances, food stalls and fun games. The special guests for the event were Er. Prakash Kumar Kejriwal (Executive Director of LBEF group of institutions), Mr. Uday Kant Jha (Director Administration) and Dr.Prof. Sandeep Kautish (Director Academics). The event started by welcoming the special guests, faculty members and students, followed by the cake cutting ceremony. The entire environment was cheered up by Santa who was dressed for the occassion and distributed chocolates throughout the event. Students played varieties of games like Kookie face, musical chair, dare and win, guess the song, panipuri eating competition and so on. The all-day event was mesmerized with musical performances from the students. The food stalls served various hygienic delicacies which were highly preferred by the audience. This event bought recreation, refreshment, entertainment, excitement and joy all together.

LBEF Research and Development Cell organized this event at seminar hall of LBEF. The guest lecturers were Mr. Kim. J. Badden( Founder and Lead Trainer of Plus leader Company) and Mr. Kovid Panthy Entrepreneur and Author).The two guest speakers shared their ideas about two types of leaderships (Autocratic leadership and Democratic leadership). They also talked about persuasion (small-big) i.e. convincing someone from small to larger approaches. Another main topic was the” foot- in –the door technique” (small- to big), where it implies two techniques( Ethical technique and Un-ethical technique). The main discussion of the lecture was based on the hultprize theme for this year, “designing fashion” where the guest speaker utilized ‘Example and Experiment Session” with the students to coordinate and encourage them. And finally they wrapped up the session by saying “We want and you win.”

Info Session: DREAM IT, BUILD IT, LIVE IT

28th December, 2022

Nepal Cloud Professionals and Student Representative Council (SRC) of LBEF Campus organized an informative session about Imagine Cup, its benefits, rules and the whole concept. The main guest of this event was Mr. Awan Shrestha (Imagine cup 2021 World Finalist and Earth Category Runner Up, Computer Engineer) who introduced the concept and criteria of “Imagine Cup. He even shared his experience of being an Imagine Cup 2021 World Finalist and Earth Category Runner Up Competition’ to inspire and encourage the students to participate in the competition. He even gave valuable information about Azure (Database of Microsoft Company) to the attendees. All the participating students showed their interests in participation and these activities are part of their career development process.

Rabin Dahal MBA, 3rd Sem

POETIC ECONOMICS

To master someone’s thought it’s hard to try, it’s even arduous to make customers buy

Price increase, sales decrease seems gloomy, cash-rich acquires resulting mediocre doomy.

Workers demanded wage increase thinking it sage, employer got frustrated And fired in rage.

In melancholy, the worker gave up his life. How can economics, turn it right?

WHEN I WILL SHINE

The day will come when I will shine, The days might be different but they will be mine. Hurdles all around, struggle on my left, A new day will come for sure; this time will fade away.

I’ll see you there, with my high hopes alive, The days might be different but they will be mine. The days will be mine; the days will be mine.

Lokesh Bhatta BSc.IT 5th Semester (SRC)

One who always thinks never does much, One who always does never think much, Thoughts are your enemy, friends as well, Do you have the courage to cope with them?

Is this me only, who has dreamed so far? If there are many, where they are? Let me know them, we may go along, We’ll walk together, ending up with a victory song. And with all our diligence that empowers, The days will be ours; the days will be ours.

Orientation at Aloft

Poster Making Competition