Engineering Education in African Universities: A Case for Internationalization

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Kumar, A., Ochieng, A. & Onyango, M.S., 2004. Engineering Education in African Universities: A Case for Internationalization. Journal of Studies in International Education, 8, p.377-389.

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Engineering education is getting global. This article assesses the present scenario in engineering education, which is undergoing a paradigm shift because of the Internet, innovation, and internationalization. The influence of information technology, industrial development, national politics, and economic policies on internationalization of engineering education has been discussed. Quality control and accreditation practices in some countries have been reviewed, and a link between technology advancement and engineering curricula has been drawn. A stable political and economic system is necessary to retain the highly qualified African engineers who are the drivers of the engineering education toward achieving this goal.

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Kumar, A. & Namango, S.S., 2017. Compensation Effect in Transesterification Kinetics of Croton Megalocarpus Oil using Heterogeneous Alkaline Earth Catalysts. In International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology. p. 1568-1572.

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Case, J.M., et al., 2016. The significance of context for curriculum development in engineering education: a case study across three African countries. European Journal of Engineering Education, 41, p.279-292. Website Abstract

Curriculum reform is a key topic in the engineering education literature, but much of this discussion proceeds with little engagement with the impact of the local context in which the programme resides. This article thus seeks to understand the influence of local contextual dynamics on curriculum reform in engineering education. The empirical study is a comparative analysis of the context for curriculum reform in three different chemical engineering departments on the African continent, located in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa. All three departments are currently engaged in processes of curriculum reform, but the analysis shows how the different contexts in which these efforts are taking place exert strong shaping effects on the processes and outcomes for that reform.

Anil Kumar

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Engineering Education in African Universities: A Case for Internationalization

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