Track: Engineering Education

Abstract

The role of scientific, technological, and engineering education in nations’ political, economic, social, infrastructural, environmental and human developments cannot be over accentuated. They form the drivers that propel advancement of any nation. Africa presently ranks high among the continents with a high number of sovereign nations operating consumer-based economies. There is no doubt that the quality of its engineering and scientific education plays vital roles in its technological breakthroughs or retrograde. It is observed that engineering/ scientific education in Africa is theory and examination rather than outcome and solution based due to the continual disconnection between the industry and the academia. Bridging the industry-university gap is the sure solution to the challenges of advancing the development of the continent. In this paper, ways of achieving mutual collaboration, partnership, and industry participation in engineering learning processes are discussed to aid the production of quality solution-oriented graduates to drive the wheels of her development.