In a bid to address the emerging trend of adaptable, cost-effective and custom-built solutions, the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (UoN) intends to apply innovative techniques in engineering education to extend its current curriculum. This is to inspire and inculcate an entrepreneurial spirit in the trainee engineer (particularly mid-level students and below) needed to actively work and effectively compete in the field of electrical and information engineering.
A team led by Associate Professor Heywood Absaloms from the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering has received a grant from KENET for the generation, deployment and evaluation of a multi-topical, practical laboratory-based program with persistently updated and hosted online material targeting 3rd Year students in the BSc. Electrical and Electronic Engineering course.
The proposed program is intended to provide a scalable and measurable answer to the training of a competent, entrepreneurial student in the two fields required in modern tailor-made systems design; software and hardware. Provisions have also been made to make content available to interested parties outside the UoN community in the spirit of open-learning and collaboration.
The other team members are Graduate Assistant Kinyua Wachira, Tutorial Fellow Oscar Ondeng’ and Technologist Christopher Waweru, all from the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering. The one year project shall run from August 1, 2020 to July 31, 2021.
