On February 10, 2011, the class of 1^st year undergraduate students has started at KUET for the academic session of 2010-11. To celebrate this red letter day of the first year students who just entered in the level of higher education, Central orientation was held at the KUET Auditorium presided over by the Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor of KUET Prof. Dr. Muhammed Alamgir  and attended by the Deans of the Faculty, Head of the Department, Directors, Provosts of the Hall, Teachers and other High Officials of the university. Total 665 first year students were attended in the orientation. Along with the existing six undergraduate engineering departments, this year two new Departments namely, Urban and Regional Planning (URP) and Leather Engineering (LE) having 60 new students in each department started the journey. As a result the intake has increased by 22%. In the ceremony, Prof. Alamgir urged all the students to study hard and to maintain discipline in the campus in order to prepare themselves to take the challenges of modern technologies to built a poverty free modern democratic Bangladesh to fulfill desire of the Father of the Nationa, Bangabandhu Shieikh Mujibur Rahman