Three industries collaborate with KNUST to train students
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with three organisations for a joint training, research and collaboration programme, at separate ceremonies at the university in Kumasi.
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The organisations are Bopp & Reuther Messtechnik of Germany, PHI Century Limited of USA and Process and Plant Automation Limited of Ghana.
Bopp & Reuther Messtechnik is a German manufacturer and provider of metrological solutions with wide expertise in scientific measurements, particularly with regard to fluids and gases.
As part of its corporate social responsibility, the company intends to support education in engineering and other industry aspects, including oil and gas. In this direction, it is furnishing the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KNUST with equipment to aid in the training of mechanical engineers .
The special collaboration between it and the KNUST will have the company provide fluid-flow instruments such as Positive Displacement Oval Wheel Metres for fluid-flow measurements and Turbine Flow Metres, among other instruments.
PHI Century Limited is a company incorporated in Ghana that conducts helicopter transport operations in support of the oil and gas industry in the West African sub-region. It is also willing to supply equipment to the Department of Mechanical Engineering to assist with the training of aerospace engineers, while the Process and Plant Automation Limited, which offers products, services and training to industrial companies in the country, is prepared to give free training to lecturers of the Mechanical Engineering Department.
Dr Jean Philippe Herzog, the Managing Director of Bopp & Reuther Messtechnik; Mr Robert Mason, the Business Development Manager of Process and Plant Automation Limited, and Mrs Essie Amo Sackey, Director of PHI Century, signed for their respective organisations. Prof. W. O. Ellis, the Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), signed on behalf of the university.
At the signing ceremony, Prof. Ellis said the university was committed to improving on its contacts with industry in order that students of the university could attain requisite practical training and skills to meet demands of industry in the country.
He said the link between the university and the three industrial concerns would strengthen practical training of students.
He lauded the companies for partnering with the university in the training of students from the university, adding that the move would accelerate the country into an industrialised nation.
Representatives from the three organisations stressed their readiness to cooperate with the university to offer quality practical training to the students.