Academics Without Borders (AWB)
Academics Without Borders (AWB)
AWB has an active partnership with MUST to strengthen its capacity building to offer quality programmes. MUST identifies areas that need to be implemented and projects are developed and implemented.
One of the projects that has been implemented was aimed at strengthening engineering education and research at Mbarara University in Uganda. In the first phase of the program, experts from Canada, Australia, Nigeria, the United States and Uganda delivered a series of instructional workshops on research topics. The second phase of the program saw the Ugandan researchers teamed up with mentors to develop research proposals. The first seeks to improve the reliability of oxygen supply to hospital patients by adding a storage capability to an oxygen generator. The second addresses professional skills in engineering education by developing a short course to prepare students just prior to an industrial internship. Seven projects have been selected by AWB for funding over the coming years.
Another project undertaken has been in collaboration with Faculty of Interdisciplinary studies in collaboration with Canadian volunteers from the Universities of Saskatchewan, Toronto, Manitoba and Alberta under the Graduate Research Supervision and Mentorship in Southwestern Ugandan Universities (GRSAMU). This was an online shortcourse in research supervision and mentorship. More information is on the link below. https://www.must.ac.ug/graduate-research-supervision-and-mentorship-project/
Through on-line interactions, the first cohort of 22 academic staff from academics in the region successfully completed the course and graduated on 11th April 2022. The participants were from: University of Saint Joseph Mbarara, Bishop Stuart University, Kabale University, Bishop Barham University, Valley University of Science and Technology, Kampala International University, Western Campus, Uganda Martyrs University, Fort Portal Campus and Mbarara University of Science and Technology.