The Student & The Professor: Two Perspectives on Engineering Education in Africa

IF 2.4 4区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

IEEE Spectrum Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11150677

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Abstract

JOHNSON I. EJIMANYA is a one-man pony express. Walking the exhaust-fogged streets of Owerri, Nigeria, Ejimanya, the engineering dean of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, carries with him a department's worth of communications, some handwritten, others on disk. He's delivering them to a man with a PC and an Internet connection, who converts the missives into emails and downloads the responses. To Ejimanya, broadband means lugging a big bundle of printed emails back with him to the university, which despite being one of the country's largest and most prestigious engineering schools has no reliable means of connecting to the Internet.

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学生与教授：非洲工程教育的两个视角

JOHNSON I. EJIMANYA是一个人的小马快递。走在尼日利亚奥韦里（Owerri）废气弥漫的街道上，奥韦里联邦科技大学（Federal University of Technology, Owerri）工程学院院长埃吉曼亚（Ejimanya）随身携带着整个系的通讯资料，有些是手写的，有些是存储在磁盘上的。他把信件交给一个有电脑和互联网连接的人，这个人把信件转换成电子邮件，然后下载回复。对Ejimanya来说，宽带意味着要把一大捆打印好的电子邮件带回大学，尽管这所大学是该国最大、最负盛名的工程学院之一，但却没有可靠的方式连接到互联网。

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IEEE Spectrum 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

CiteScore

2.50

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0.00%

发文量

254

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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