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
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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