Under the auspices of Building Stronger Universities (BSU), the Danish coordinator of the Environment and Climate Platform of BSU, Dr. Susanne Lildal Amsinck and the Engineering College of Aarhus University in Denmark have donated some equipment to the College of Engineering. The local students’ branch of the humanitarian organization Engineers Without Borders facilitated the donation as a result of correspondence between the IPO, Prof. Carl Jakobsen of Aarhus University and Dr. K. O. Boateng of the College of Engineering. The equipment forms part of donations from Danish universities and companies.
The electronic equipment include oscilloscopes, counters, power supplies, multimeters, function generators, digital network equipment, evaluation boards etc. Professor Carl Jakobsen, of the Engineering College of Aarhus University in Denmark who initiated the proposal hoped the equipment will be beneficial to KNUST. He promised to arrange for workshops, training and lab-exercises in the use of the equipment. In the long term he hoped both universities can support each other in the training and education of engineers.
An official ceremony was held to commission the electronic equipment for use by students and staff of the Departments of Electrical/Electronic Engineering and Computer Engineering.
The Vice-Chancellor of KNUST, Professor W.O. Ellis expressed his profound joy for such an important gesture from the Danish team and all other groups who made the donation possible. He believed the donation of the electronic equipment would go a long way to foster better education of Ghana’s engineers. He hoped the relationship fostered between the University of Aarhus and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology would go a long way to promote educational improvement.
On behalf of the College of Engineering, Dr. Kwame Osei Boateng, head of the Department of Computer Engineering expressed appreciation for the donation of the electronic equipment. He believed the equipment will be used extensively in the Departments of Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering and other related fields. He expressed the interest of the College in cooperating and arranging workshops to exchange experiences in using the equipment which would benefit lecturers, laboratory technicians and students.
