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The Head of the Energy and Industrial Engineering Department at the International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE), Professor Yezouma Coulibaly, has paid a 2-week visit to the College of Engineering (CoE) at KNUST. The visit formed part of a Staff Exchange programme between CoE and 2iE which is located in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Professor Coulibaly’s visit was within the framework of the Renewable Energy Education Project (REEP) supported by the EU-ACP EDULINK Programme. This Programme seeks among other specific objectives, to strengthen linkages and co-operation among African Institutions of higher learning and their European counterparts for capacity development. The Energy Center (TEC) at the College of Engineering is the lead project implementation partner.

While in KNUST, Professor Coulibaly was a guest lecturer in Thermodynamics for the 1st year Telecom and Electrical Engineering classes. The president of the Telecom Engineering class, Mr Benjamin Paa Willie, was happy about the visit of Professor Coulibaly and said many of his class colleagues had been highly impressed by the Professor’s bilingualism and are motivated to learn the French language as young engineering students to enhance their career prospects. Professor Coulibaly also had a series of meetings with Prof Abeeku Brew-Hammond (Acting Director of TEC), Dr David Anipa (EDULINK/REEP Project Co-ordinator), Dr Gabriel Takyi (EDULINK/REEP Distance Learning MSc Course Coordinator) and other officials at the CoE to review progress of REEP and also discuss areas of further co-operation.

To see the PowerPoint Slides used by Prof Coulibaly for his lectures please click here.

To learn more about the EDULINK Renewable Energy Education Project (REEP) please click here.

Source: The Energy Center, KNUST Posted: 31 Mar 2010

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