The new Resident Representative of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Dr Frank Bartels, has paid a working visit to The Energy Center (TEC) at the College of Engineering, KNUST. The visit was to engage fellows of TEC in a roundtable discussion on collaboration with the UNIDO Country Office. 

Welcoming Dr Bartels, the Acting Director of TEC Prof Abeeku Brew-Hammond recounted his meeting with the new UNIDO Resident Representative at a roundtable discussion in Vienna, Austria and expressed his delight at his visit to TEC and his desire for strong partnership.  

The Provost of the College of Engineering, Prof Francis Momade chaired the event. In his remarks Prof Momade said the practice of the engineering profession in the future will be shaped largely by the sources of energy that is available to humanity. He welcomed a strong partnership between the UNIDO Country office and the College of Engineering. 

Addressing Fellows of TEC, who had come from various Colleges of the University, Dr Bartels gave an overview of UNIDO’s technical co-operation activities in Ghana and proposed a tripartite partnership between KNUST, Technical University of Vienna and UNIDO in undertaking a survey on National Systems of Innovation in Ghana. He announced that his office is willing to take postgraduate students from the university on internship programmes at the UNIDO Country Office in Accra.  

There were presentations by Fellows of TEC on ongoing projects and research activities.     Dr Ahmad Addo made a presentation on the Biofuels SMEs Project supported by Trust Africa and Dr Peter Achireko spoke on the Petroleum/Petro-Chemical Engineering BSc Programmes at KNUST.  Dr (Mrs) Peggy Oti-Boateng also made a presentation on a new Technology Park being developed by KNUST in partnership with a IbisTek, a private Ghanaian company.

For copies of the PowerPoint presentations made by TEC Fellows please click here.

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