Prof hails graduate courses at university

By GABRIEL LAHOC
A PNG Univeristy of Technology (Unitech) academic has hailed the new masters and doctorate degree programmes in engineering offered at the university and the potential of Papua New Guinea students in the fields of science and technology.
Prof Narhyan Gehlot, who did his doctorate in electrical engineering in nine months and has 51 patents for inventions, 33 of which have been issued in the United States of America, made the comment on National Broadcasting Commission Radio Morobe yesterday morning.
Gehlot, a lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering, paid tribute to former Unitech vice chancellor Misty Baloiloi, registrar Allan Sako and other senior Unitech academics for their input in the establishment of masters programmes in the engineering fields and called for more masters and doctorate programmes to promote science and technology and to get as many Papua New Guineans as possible involved.
In his discussions with host Mathew Kepas, Gehlot said local tertiary students had huge potential and could be the best in the world but they would need good teachers and trainers.
That, he said, was the major problem.
 “PNG students have good work ethics and excellent hand writing, are second to none but are generally more shy,” he said.
He said being shy was a good thing because it “reflects respect however it should be accompanied by a high level of confidence”.
He said in order to succeed students had to be broad minded and willing to learn.
“Be full of respect for another person, being punctual, continuous practice and good rest in sleeping are important factors towards the health, physical and mental well-being of a person,” he said.
“When you wake up in the morning drink a litre of water with lemon and honey added as these cleanse the body and keeps the fat away.”
A healthy and slim Gohlet encouraged listeners to eat fruit over artificially manufactured juice drinks and discouraged smoking and heavy alcohol drinking.