KNUST/UNIST invent innovative prototype scientific devices

By
Florence Afriyie Mensah, GNA

Kumasi, Aug. 27, GNA –
Some Engineering and Science students who participated in a collaborative work
at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), have
invented prototypes of a drone for commercial agriculture, egg and waste sorters,
and an intelligent wheel-chair.

The students were from
the Colleges of Engineering of the KNUST, and the Ulsan National Institute of
Science and Technology (UNIST), Korean Republic.

The three-week
programme marks another giant stride in innovative scientific and technological
inventions in the KNUST.

The collaborative work
was through an exchange programme aimed at fostering technology transfer and
learning experiences to address emerging development challenges, through the
use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

The drone will provide
farmers with useful, accurate information on their crops to facilitate their
operations, whiles the waste sorters will separate plastics from glass and
other substances for easy recycling.

The egg sorter will
differentiate healthy eggs from bad ones as well as categorize the sizes, with
the intelligent wheel chair checking the vital signs of patients and alerting
of looming health danger.

Professor Mark
Adom-Asamoah, the Provost of the College, said the College had already signed a
Memorandum of Understanding to formally bolster their partnership to undertake
projects in the area of ICT under the ‘World Friends ICT Programme’.

“The expectation is
that engineering students would be able to build their capacity in those areas
for the benefit of the Ghanaian society,” he said.

The College, he said,
had resolved to create opportunities and the requisite platform for engineering
students to expand the scope of their expertise by learning from experiences of
their colleagues abroad.

Prof Adom-Asamoah
expressed optimism that students to be trained in the next few years would be
top-notch engineers in the country and beyond.

He said the College
was also envisioning to bring in aspects of entrepreneurship to help address
the unemployment challenge, by establishing a business innovation centre, which
would make an input to that effect.

The University, he
noted, had forged plans of going into innovation of apps with the idea of
putting different teams together to work on the same project year after year,
until perfection was achieved.

GNA

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