Dr. Lucy Agyepong, Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering (left) taking Prof. Frimpong-Boateng (2nd right) through some equipment at the STEM lab
The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology
and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has paid a working visit to
Academic City University College, a premium STEAM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) and entrepreneurial tertiary institution.
The visit was to enable the minister familiarize
himself with the university’s fully digitized state-of-the-art campus at
Haatso, Accra.
The visit also afforded the minister the
opportunity to have a guided tour of Academic City’s modern STEAM laboratories
equipped with real industry machinery and equipment. Some of the engineering
equipment inspected included refrigeration and air condition systems, turbines,
computer-aided design and manufacturing systems, numerical control milling
systems, a home-made incubator with hatched chicks among others.
Prof. Frimpong-Boateng together with his special
advisor – Oliver Boachie were received by the President of Academic City, Prof.
Fred McBagonluri who took them on a tour of the university.
Speaking after the tour, the minister said, “My
visit has been extremely fruitful, per the kind of engineering equipment I have
witnessed today. I am very much impressed about how Academic City has rapidly
developed and well-positioned to be the center of science and technology
education in the country.”
Assuring the university of the ministry’s
support, Prof. Frimpong-Boateng indicated his intention to partner with the
university to offer training in computer science and engineering especially in computer-aided
manufacturing (CAM), commencing next year.
“Training our people in CAD/CAM is very crucial.
We don’t have people in the country who understand this. I know a few Ghanaians
in Germany and USA who are into this but it will come to Ghana,” he stressed.
Prof. Fred McBagonluri, described the visit by
the minister as a significant development in the university’s efforts to become
a world-class STEAM educational institution in Ghana.
According to him, Academic City is set to cause a
paradigm shift in tertiary education in Africa, through its customized
teaching-learning methodology which promotes critical thinking, creativity and
innovation and charges students to lead a revolution and rewrite Africa’s
narrative.
“We are committed to nurturing the next
generation of African leaders who are able to solve the continent’s complex
challenges in an innovative way,” he added.
Academic City is a fast developing premium STEAM
tertiary institution set to redefine university education in Ghana and
throughout the African continent. The University seeks to be a world-class
center for teaching, learning, innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship that
nurtures future African leaders.
