Quality Curriculum and Incentives as a means of Capacity Building and Training

in Engineering profession.By

Dr. R.O. Onchiri and E. Kanda

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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

PackagePerks / 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 areasSponsorships for postgraduate with attractive

fellowshipsEncourage 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 MECHANISMIt 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

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Curriculum Structure of Engineering program in USA

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Curriculum Structure of Engineering program for Namibia University

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Curriculum Structure of Engineering program for South African universities

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Curriculum Structure of Engineering program for Kenya the Engineering Curriculum is structured as shown (KERB)

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CONCLUSIONIt 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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