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CoE urged to strengthen science and technology education – Ghana News Agency


By
Florence Afriyie Mensah, GNA

Kumasi, March 11, GNA
– Professor Mrs Rita Dickson, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has charged the College of
Engineering (CoE) to device innovative strategies to strengthen science and
technology education.

The College should
strengthen its partnerships and collaboration with local and international
industrial establishments to offer practical and industry-driven training and
research programmes to make its graduates highly competitive and globally
accepted.

Prof. Mrs. Dickson
made the call at the Sixth Students and Industrial Partners Awards organised by
the CoE to honour students who have excelled in their fields, and industries,
which have supported the teaching and learning of engineering.

This year’s awards
ceremony coincided with the official opening of the annual Students’ Career
Fair, which offered students the opportunity to discover the diverse
opportunities in pursuing engineering.

Prof. Mrs. Dickson
applauded partners of the College for offering the needed support to train and
provide the students with 21st century skills to position them appropriately in
the job market, which had become highly competitive.

She said the
University would continue to support the activities of the CoE to provide cutting-edge
solutions to the country’s industrial problems.

Prof. Mark
Adom-Asamoah, the Provost of the College, said the awards was to encourage
students to continue to work harder in their quest for academic excellence.

The industrial
partners were also acknowledged for their enormous contribution and support to
the College in the training of engineering students.

The ceremony saw 250
students being awarded in three undergraduate categories in each of the 15
programmes offered at the College.

All students who
received the awards would be placed on the Provost’s list for 2018/2019
academic year, and would remain on the list until the beginning of the
2019/2020 academic year, when they would have to justify their continued
placement or give way to others.

Prof. Adom-Asamoah
said industrial partners had been providing vacation training, supporting
Engineering, Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship conferences, and donating
equipment and accessories for teaching and learning.

Again, the partners
have refurbished some teaching facilities and donated to the College’s Needy
Students’ Fund.

Prof. Adom-Asamoah
said the College’s Board had instituted an award in honour of two of the former
vice chancellors, who were also engineers.

They are the Prof.
F.O. Kwami Award, which is given to the best graduating male student, and the
Prof. K.A. Andam Award, presented to the best graduating female student.

GNA



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