SMIDO in historic partnership with KNUST

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• NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

  This what one has been advocating for years and it's good to know it;s about to happen for real!!!!!!!!
  
  However, the emphasis should not be solely based on just acquiring paper qualifications but, rather on how to work han ...
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  This what one has been advocating for years and it's good to know it;s about to happen for real!!!!!!!!
  
  However, the emphasis should not be solely based on just acquiring paper qualifications but, rather on how to work hands on to create and assembly vehicles both manually (WITH COMMON SENSE) and the new computerized systems (WITH COMMON SENSE).
  
  In other words, the KNUST students have a lot to learn from their Suame counterparts and vice-versa.........if not I can see the danger of one believing to be superior to the other and then, the end results would be the usual GHANAIAN thing of.......NOTHING being achieved and the usual educated illiterate syndrome will prevail and the whole purpose of this crucial exercise........will fail.
  
  So, I would advise both parties to throw caution to the wind and look at this partnership to work for Ghana!
  
  GOD BLESS GHANA!
  AFRICAN FOREVER!

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• Tekonline.org 10 years ago

  This certainly is a laudable idea that can have many dimensions: how to develop an effective teaching system for informal education, expanding such partnership to other areas (modern farming and fishing, carpentry, masonry, e ...
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  This certainly is a laudable idea that can have many dimensions: how to develop an effective teaching system for informal education, expanding such partnership to other areas (modern farming and fishing, carpentry, masonry, etc), preparing the Ghanaian workforce for the rapidly-advancing state of technology,.. We would be limited only by our imagination.
  
  The Suame artisans really do NOT have a choice; technology marches on relentlessly and waits for no nation.
  
  Auto mechanics in America now get retrained EVERY year! Because with each new model of car comes a new technological feature. RFID technology alone gets updated with every model. If a couple of years ago, you pressed a button on a key-fob to have the car door open, today, you only walk very close to the door and it gets unlocked automatically. And you still don't have to pull out a key to start the engine. Your mere presence in the car "enables" systems via RFID!
  
  Meanwhile, more and more sensors are invading the automobile. Last I heard, even the transmission now has computer sensors buried deep within.
  
  The dashboard is slowly being replaced with tablet computers, and Apple applied for a patent just a few months ago, for an "i-phone controlled car".
  
  Luxury cars have already started coming equipped with radar-based collision alert systems, and I'm sure by now we've all heard of self-driving cars, not only by Google, but also the likes of Mercedes and Toyota.
  
  The development of electric cars is now causing some technology transfer to the traditional gasoline-based vehicles. Recently we heard how BEFORE a Tesla electric car caught fire, it advised the driver to "pull over immediately and flee the vehicle"!
  Already, the electric Leaf by Nissan is able to automatically guide the driver to the nearest house with a charger when the charge dangerously falls. These technologies would soon be in non-electric cars as well.
  
  The same technologies driving mobile computing and the internet are finding their way to vehicles. The only thing that would give Ghana some breathing room would be the lack of navigation satellites in that part of the world. Vehicles now greatly depend on the internet for information: time, weather, traffic patterns, fuel-refilling stations, tourist sites, etc. Some Audi models comes equipped with an internet router.
  
  All the above trends I'm sure are no surprise to anyone and I hope I have not overly bored the reader. These trends are (or supposed to be) very much part of human nature; inventing A not stopping there but rather leading to B, C, D, etc.
  
  KNUST should seize this opportunity to have our hard-working artisans INSPIRED by technology rather than INTIMIDATED. The tutorials should be fun-filled and heavily reliant on multimedia. Local languages should be used to explain difficult concepts. In fact, the entire partnership should be seen as a testbed for a new teaching system, where a person without formal education can be made to grasp even the most complex concept. That is the challenge that can transform the Ghanaian workforce to meet the demands of today's technological world.

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• USMAN 10 years ago

  K-Poly is the only institution in Ghana offering Automobile Engineering at the tertiary level and not KNUST. You can now see that our useless universities want to always reap where they never sowed.

  K-Poly is the only institution in Ghana offering Automobile Engineering at the tertiary level and not KNUST. You can now see that our useless universities want to always reap where they never sowed.

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• Tekonline.org 10 years ago

  USMAN, indeed the polytechnics should also be in the vanguard of these modern trends, but currently KNUST has the most rigorous training in EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, the heart of modern automobile engineering.
  It is just a matter o ...
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  USMAN, indeed the polytechnics should also be in the vanguard of these modern trends, but currently KNUST has the most rigorous training in EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, the heart of modern automobile engineering.
  It is just a matter of resources.

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