Engineering Education and Sustainable Cities in Africa
Faculty Member: Prof. Murray Metcalfe (Engineering)
С»ÆÊéÊÓƵ Student Collaborator: Antoine Després-Bedward
The goal of this project was to explore possibilities with regard to supporting universities in Africa by providing and/or delivering University of Toronto sustainable engineering content. Antoine (the С»ÆÊéÊÓƵ research student) was tasked with gathering intelligence on various universities in sub-Saharan Africa. The initial research led to the second phase of the project where researchers, including Antoine, traveled to Africa to meet with engineering and education faculty with the hope of creating partnerships. A pilot SPOC (Small Private Online Course) entitled Engineering Sustainable Cities: An African Focus, was delivered to the African Leadership University in Spring 2017.
- Després-Bedward, A. and Newfield, K. (2017, September). Engineering Education for Sustainable Cities in Africa: Conversations form Kenya. Paper presented at SEFI 45th Annual Conference. Azores, Portugal.
- Després-Bedward, A. (2017, June). Engineering Education for Sustainable Cities in Africa: A Case for Rwanda. Paper presented at the CEEA 2017 8th Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada.
- Ibrahim, N., Metcalfe, M., Rezaie, R., Hoornweg, D., Evans, G., Drake, J.,… Després-Bedward, A. (2016, September). Engineering Education for Sustainable Cities in Africa. Paper presented at the EESD 8th Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (pp. 33-40) Bruges, Belgium.