Prof. Frimpong-Boateng visits Academic City University College
The Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation is to partner the Academic City University College (ACUC) to offer training in Computer Science and Engineering, the sector Minister, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has said.
According to him, the partnership would be in the area of Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM).
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“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,” Prof. Frimpong-Boateng said when he paid a working visit to ACUC, a premium Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) and Entrepreneurial tertiary institution.
Visit
The visit was to enable the minister to familiarise himself with the university’s fully digitised state-of-the-art campus at Haatso, Accra.
The visit also afforded the minister the opportunity to have a guided tour of the Academic City’s ultra-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, Mr Oliver Boachie, were received by the President of the Academic City, Prof. Fred McBagonluri, and faculty members who took them on a tour of the university.
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 is well-positioned to be the centre of science and technology education in the country.”
Significant
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 was set to cause a paradigm shift in tertiary education in Africa through its customised teaching-learning methodology which promoted critical thinking, creativity, innovation and charged 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 centre for teaching, learning, innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship that nurtures future African leaders.