Prof. Eng. Nicodemus Abungu Odero A Short Description About Myself And Work I am an Electrical Power Systems Engineer by Training and Profession, with many years experience of designing Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution Systems. My largest projects being design of Master Plans of an [...]
Implementation of Applied Training, Research and Technology Transfer Model 1.0 Sensitization to Staff and Students Background: As the acting principal of the college of engineering and technology I sought to introduce the concept of Applied Training, Research and Technology transfer into JKUAT. I did this [...]
Intentions, Actions and Approaches for Transfer Introduction Three UAS Workshops were conducted at HNU and THI for 17 academic faculty from Kenya. The workshops were beneficial for the participants and they provided the information for moving forward the UAS idea of sharing the German model of university education. We have shared our [...]
East-Africa Network of Excellence for Universities of Applied Sciences Experiences and Implementation 1.0: Intentions of Implementation on Practical-Oriented UAS Model of Learning The School of Engineering, Energy and The Built Environment (SEEBE) has started internal attachment being implemented with collaboration with Delmonte Company https://www.delmonte.com/. Applied [...]
Application of Laboratory Based Teaching and Learning at TU-K Inspiration During the workshops attended in Germany, a major lesson learnt was that the professors have laboratories in which they are involved in research that integrates to their normal teaching obligations. Some of the laboratories visited [...]
Mount Kenya University's Intentions for Implementation: East African Network of Excellence for Universities of Applied Sciences Mount Kenya University, Main Campus The Kenyan Academic Context Contact: yatich2002@gmail.com/hyatich@mku.ac.ke http://www.odel.mku.ac.ke/index.php/2018/11/21/dr-henry-k-yatich-ph-d/ Higher education in Kenya is considered to be knowledge-based, hence not meeting the labour market needs. This has [...]
The Technical University of Kenya Vision resonates with the German Model of University of Applied Sciences (UAS) Introduction The German Model of Universities of Applied Sciences is very fascinating especially how these Universities are able to closely collaborate with industry and train hands-on skills. This [...]
Lessons learnt The transforming power of strong partnership between academia and industry: Participating in the series of workshops on the German model of University of Applied Sciences has been an eye opener on what can be achieved when universities work closely with industry. While currently we have many [...]
Lessons learned The lessons learned from the Workshops at HNU and THI are quite beneficial to academic faculty from Kenya, especially Moi University. They have provided participants with the information for moving forward the UAS projects. We have shared our lessons with Moi University management and I am quite optimistic that we will [...]
Lessons Learnt from the University of Applied Sciences Model 1.0 Concept of UAS Encourages Clear Understanding of the Problem before Solving it Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) is a concept that has linked training and research in universities to activities in the industry and society. [...]