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Quality Curriculum and Incentives as a means of
Capacity Building and Training in Engineering
profession.
By
Dr. R.O. Onchiri and E. Kanda
Dr, R.O. Onchiri-MMUST; IEK 2012 Conference
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HIGH DEMAND OF ENGINEERS
Teaching
Industry
Pool of qualified Engineers
the over-enrollment of students to engineering
programmes without provision of adequate facilities
leads to overloading of faculty staff and eventually
compromising on quality
It is therefore necessary to match the increased
enrollment with facilities
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ATTRACTING QUALITY STAFF IN
THE FACULTY
Package
Perks / Facilities
Professional Career
Incentives
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UNIVERSITY AND INDUSTRY LINKAGES.
A key factor in improving the engineering education
in the country has to be a new model for industry –
academia partnerships
Industry’s recognition of the need for skilled
defining key research areas
Sponsorships for postgraduate with attractive
fellowships
Encourage experienced industry engineers / managers
to associate with engineering faculties / or as advisors
and encourage experienced teaching staff to associate
with industry in advisory / visiting
Institute Industry meets – Discipline specific open
days
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REVIEW MECHANISM
It is necessary to have a periodic review(five years)
of all the engineering disciplines.
The mechanism need to be discussed with the
major stakeholders – faculty, administrators,
industry, government, students and alumni.
Industry/ professional bodies should be involved
in the review process.
For institutions that are accredited the review
process can be merged with the accreditation
process.
The review reports should be accessible to all
stakeholders of the institution and there should be
post-review discussions of implications/ changes
actions taken.
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ENGINEERING DATABASE
A database containing the key input and
output parameters regarding engineering
education should be maintained and be
publicly available in the open domain.
All Engineering faculties should maintain key
facts and data on their web-sites
Yearly sample surveys should be published.
There is a need to have accurate data on the
actual numbers of BSc./ B.Tech/BE, M.Tech/ME
and PhD degrees being awarded each year
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Curriculum Structure of
Engineering program in Nigeria
Applied and
Design
engineering
45%
Technical
Arts
8%
Other
7%
Engineering
Sciences
25%
Basic Sciences
15%
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Miscellaneous
subject
7%
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Curriculum Structure of
Engineering program in USA
Applied and
Design
engineering
45%
Other
7%
Technical Arts
8%
Engineering
Sciences
25%
Miscellaneous
subject
7%
Basic Sciences
15%
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Curriculum Structure of Engineering program for
Namibia University
Other basic Engineering
sciences and science
mathematics
17%
2%
Basic
sciences
12%
Other
combination of
engineering
science and design
26%
Other
57%
Engineering
design
18%
Complementary
studies
(Humanities, Arts,
social sciences)
13%
Mathematics
12%
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Curriculum Structure of Engineering
program for South African universities
Other
combination of
engineering
science and
design, 27%
Engineerin
g science,
18%
Other, 58%
Basic
sciences,
12%
Mathematics,
Other basic
sciences
12% and
mathematics,
2%
Engineering
design, 18%
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Complementary
studies
(Humanities,
Arts, social
sciences), 13%
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Curriculum Structure of Engineering program for
Kenya the Engineering Curriculum is structured as
shown (KERB)
Other basic
sciences and
mathematics
2%
Engineering
science
17%
Basic
sciences
12%
Other
combination of
engineering
science and design
26%
Other
57%
Engineering
design
18%
Complementary
studies
(Humanities, Arts,
social sciences)
13%
Mathematics
12%
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CONCLUSION
It
is important introduces the students to
engineering practice during the course of
training.
Basic sciences are in the same range of about
one fifth of the overall curriculum in the four
countries as captured in this paper
Engineering sciences and design should be
taught by trained engineers
Basic sciences should be taught by persons
competent in the line areas.
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