MIT international Science and Technology initiatives

MISTI AFRICA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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NEW INITIATIVE FOR NIGERIA HIGHER EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology international science and technology initiatives (MISTI) together with its corporate partners Total and Google announces a new “Empowering the Teachers” project to enable the outstanding young Nigerian faculty in science and engineering to collaborate with faculty at MIT in developing new curriculum and teaching methods.

Professor Akintunde Akinwande, professor of Electrical Engineering and computer science at MIT is the Director of the MISTI Africa “Empowering the Teachers” and he along other faculty at MIT will welcome Nigerian colleagues in their classrooms.

In its first year, “Empowering the Teachers” will select up to 10 outstanding young faculties from the disciplines of electrical engineering, computer science and computer engineering in Nigerian universities to spend a semester at MIT. They would observe instructions in their fields and works as a group to prepare innovative curricula and approaches to teaching that can be introduced into their home universities on their return. In future years, the program plans to extend into Mechanical engineering, earth and planetary sciences, Geology, Geophysics, ocean engineering and materials sciences.

“Empowering the Teachers” will cover the travel, living and instructional materials expenses of the participants. The home universities of the successful applicants will commit to provide paid leaves of absence during the of the MIT program.

During their stay, they would work on new curricula materials and teaching approaches for adoption in their own classes. They would participate regularly in at least two MIT subjects (including recitation and tutorials) that correspond to the courses the faculty members teach at their home universities. They would attend weekly Africa Fellows seminars meeting on curriculum development and meet with Professors and teaching assistants.

“Empowering the Teachers” welcomes applications from all qualified faculty.

To be eligible for selection consideration,

A faculty member must hold a PhD and teach in a department corresponding to Electrical Engineering and Computer science. Only candidates on the level of lecturer one rank would be considered.

The application form as well as other information about the program can be obtained online at:

http://web.mit.edu/misti/africa

Applications must be submitted by August 15, 2010.

An MIT committee will establish a list of top candidates. These candidates will be interviewed in Nigeria by MIT faculty in the first week of October, 2010. Up to 10 postdoctoral Fellows will be announced shortly thereafter.

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This Education opportunity was culled from The Guardian Newspaper 20^th July, 2010.

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