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Planet NI: Innovation Design Competition for Young Entrepreneurs in Africa

Makerere University has teamed up with National Instruments (NI) (www.ni.com), to bring you the 2014 Planet NI competition. The goal of the competition is to nurture innovation and entrepreneurship among future and recent engineering graduates in Africa through support towards market-ready projects that support the sustainable development of their local community. Through the Planet NI...

Makerere receives land for Kiira EV Plant

The Executive Director of Uganda Investment Authority, Eng Dr Frank Ssebowa, has, on behalf of the Government , handed over 100 acres of land to Makerere University’s Centre For Research in Transportation Technologies (CRTT). The land, in the Jinja Industrial park, is located in Kagogwa village.  CRTT will build a production plant for the Kiira...

Science Day: Ground breaking research from CEDAT

As part of the Sida Annual Planning Meeting, the College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology successfully hosted the 4th Annual Science Day. The conference and exhibition was characterised by dissemination of research in various areas such and Infrastructure and Land management, Architecture, Urbanism and Planning; Water Resources and Environmental Engineering; Engineering Materials and Applications;...

Bakkabulindi Successfully defends his PhD

Geofrey Bakkabulindi, a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has today May 9, 2014 successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Planning Of Low-Cost Electricity Distribution Networks for Rural Electrification” . Dr. Geofrey Bakkabulindi at his PhD defense The study sought to find models for planning low cost Single Wire Earth Return (SWER)...

CWRC seminar: More than just a 4th year Project

On Monday 7th April 2014, CWRC organised a seminar for Fourth Year Electrical, Telecommunications and Computer Engineering students. The seminar was entitled “Final Year Project Guidance” and the objective was to enlighten the importance of Final year project to the students and how they can carry them out for a larger goal than just for marks. The message...

Internship Opportunities Abroad

Different But One-18 and Study abroad Scholarship Opportunity from Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI), Michigan State University (MSU). MSU is a Partner University of ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) under the Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN). The Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI) Lab is a consortium led by Michigan State University (MSU), the mission...
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