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Institution of Engineers honours T-Poly best student
Mr Emmanuel Acquah (right) receiving his award from Ing. Felix N.K. Tetteh (GHIE President, Western Region), with Mrs Sylvia Oppong-Mensah, Registrar, T-Poly, (2nd right), looking on

Institution of Engineers honours T-Poly best student

The Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE) has indicated its preparedness to collaborate with the Takoradi Polytechnic to provide students the best of training that will make them fit for the industry.

In that respect, the GhIE has honoured a pledge it made at the 15th graduation ceremony of the polytechnic, and presented an award to the best graduating engineering student to motivate and encourage them to study hard while in school.  

The ceremony came off at the auditorium alongside the annual handover ceremony of the Students’ Representative Council (SRC).

Collaboration

This gesture followed the successful contacts and collaboration of the polytechnic with institutions and industries, to support the various departments by presenting awards annually to the best graduating students.  

The Registrar of the polytechnic, Mrs Sylvia Oppong-Mensah, mentioned that the GhIE presented a new Toshiba laptop to the Best Graduating Engineering student, Mr Emmanuel Acquah, of the Mechanical Engineering Department (Auto Option), to make good its earlier promise during the institution’s 15th congregation in Takoradi.

The purpose of the award, she explained, was to encourage and support the engineering students, who upon the completion of their course of study would become members of the institution.  

The presentation was jointly made by the Regional Chairman, Rev. Ing. Felix Tetteh, and Ing. Stephen Owusu, the past Regional President, who represented the Western Regional branch of the Ghana Institution of Engineering.  

Ing. Owusu, who is also the Plant Manager at Volta River Authority (VRA)/Takoradi Thermal Power Station (TTPS), reiterated the strong desire of the Institute to ensure that things were done right at the training institutions, stressing that “Ghana would get nowhere without engineers.”

He also admonished and encouraged students in the other disciplines to put in their best, since nation-building is a collaborative effort.

The Vice Rector, Mr Emmanuel Okumi Andoh, who chaired the ceremony, said as stakeholders in the operations of the polytechnic, the actions and inaction of the students would go a long way to impact on the image of the institution positively or otherwise.  

He thus admonished them to conduct themselves well in order to make meaningful contributions towards the growth and development of the institutions.  

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