Engineering education in Ghana | Dr. Elsie Effah Kaufmann | TEDxOsu
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- How engineering education affects the system in Ghana. Elsie Effah Kaufmann is a Ghanaian academic, biomedical engineer and quiz mistress for the National Science and Maths Quiz since 2006 till date. Kaufmann was a Research Supervisor at the Department of Chemistry at Rutgers University in New Jersey, United States of America (USA) from May 1998 to June 2001; after being a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, United States of America. She was also a Senior Lecturer and the first Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Ghana (2006-2012, 2014-2016).
Kaufmann was a Fellow of the International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation.Dr Kaufmann was awarded in 2009, as the University of Ghana’s Best Teacher Award for the Sciences.
She was the winner of the prestigious International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation Fellowship in 2011 and the 2017 Impact Africa Summit Laureate for Education in Ghana.
She is also the first female recipient of the 2018 Golden Torch Award for International Academic Leadership by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) at the 44th Annual Conference held in the United States of America (USA). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
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I wish the nation hears this!!
This is full wisdom. God bless you Ma’am
Video is 3 years old. I’m from the future and I’m telling you this fell on deaf ears
Finally I see what I have been seeing since I move to Ghana. I never understood why all the imports of products that can be produced Locally here. Thank you for the enlighten talk for Engineers.
Dr. Elsie God bless you for your insights and passion 😿🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
We need more of these talks on Our television and radio stations to create awareness of these issues because the ghanaian educational system is rotten
This Video must be played back on Metro TV or TV3 Ghana Limited so that people can reflect upon it.
However the entertainers are always on TV at the expense of the Smart Brains out there.
This is the type of information which should get to the Education minister, if not already.We need to take " problem solving education" seriously.Afterall,the devices we import are designed/ built by engineers,taught the SAME SUBJECTS.....but with a different approach!
There's no lie about the fact that the best students are forced into medicine even by parents... Really inspired as a Chemical Engineering student.
My contribution to this talk is that at best the system and our tutors are least motivated to help us develop. I believe this is why Foreign Governments would always award scholarships to our brilliant graduates to pursue postgraduate education and remain in their countries. Brain-drain is still in the system, let's ward it off. It's killing dreams and washing ashore many valuables.
A total paradigm shift is needed: family, society, educators, policy makers, consumers...
Oh what a wonderful story indeed. Challenges are required for that bold step!
A summary of her solutions:
1. 16:35 Partner with NGOs, Social Entrepreneurs.
2. 16:52 Reach parents to make them understand that their children may have passion for something other than what they want.
3. 17:15 Put aside the old Imported Solutions mentality and challenge the students to believe in their given talents.
4. 17:43 Focus more on practical training, government and all investors can make it happen.
5. 17:55 Let’s change the attitudes of the students to learn how to solve real life problems (not schooling to seek for jobs).
6. 18:04 Now let’s reward them when they begin to solve the problems.
7. 18:12 Now let’s change our educational system to allow those who have the real passion for engineering even when they pursued a different course.
Waow, I am encouraged and enlightened.
I wish there's thing more than like that I can give to this video. This very informative and put a challenge for us the youth. Thank you madam for such a great talk
Impressive indeed.We really need to put on our thinking caps🙌
The problem is that Engineering is also a very broad field with so many sub fields that one does not know what to do unless one gets counselling and understanding.
Always begins with the mindset of the people in the country. If a country can change it start with the people living in it.
Very insightful! Thanks for the food for thought.
The reason is that Engineering Major is not popular because of the hard Math Content and besides Medecine is very popular together with Business Courses.
So major Numbre one is Medecine.
No 2 is the Business Major.
No3 is the humanities and other courses on offer.
No4 is the language majors like French German and Spanish.
Africa as a whole has this problem!
more than two years and only 5 comments and 3,000 + views. This should tell you how Ghanaians are not interested in STEM stuffs. If you want to make Ghana great, make it the frontier of science
It's a pity. The youth aren't interested!
This is a cultural problem so how do we deal with this total lack of respect for the Engineering and the Social and Medical Sciences.
This has been happening since the 1990s and the early 2000 and early 2010s,
I really want to meet this women...... she has a lot I need
This is amazing ❤❤❤
Thank you madam
this is really good
yes Madam. It is possible and we trust that together the upcoming generation will bring in the needed transformation
Why depends on another generation when we can start making a difference now?
Great mentor
So who are the 2 people who disliked this video
Nice one ways of promoting Engineer programs
It's not about the number or curriculum. Like any system suffering from quality problems, the process is the first place to check.
I like the point about Zero tolerance. That's exactly where the issues are stemming from. People are being discouraged from SPENDING TIME to EXPERIMENT and HONE their SKILLS
Students in Ghana doing engineering often don't go for attachments.
Labs are non scoring. Etc
Thats the problem with education. We aare not trying hard enough
I dont blame them the main key is pass your courses and to be happy with the certificates that one earns.
The student culture is about chew pour and pass.
It is quite prevalent in Legon Tech and other Schools within Ghana as much as possible.
Actually even US and UK Schools have problems in their educational system.
No system is perfect and we ought to appreciate the modalities of our Educational system.
We need reform about education from the KG on to the primary School so that our young ones can have a sound Mathematical foundation as they move up the Academic ladder.
I am part of that culture and it is found in all the high Schools and Universities throughout the Land of Ghana in West Africa.
@@jamesbedukodjograham5508 agreed
@@betaman2009 Tell me more about your beliefs about Education In Ghana.
Good stuffs
if only Ghana could have more female intellectuals compared to slay queens. And if only the media lenses could focus on intellectuals, it promote and stir intellectual curiosity.
God: Here is my beloved daughter in whom I am well pleased.Listen to her.
GES: mtsweeeew
Engineers fixing irons in hospitals and prototypes being stored as artefacts in offices... Totally relatable story.
The very best students being forced into medical schools and the second best into engineering...
Totally relatable story
What's the fate of the thirds and rest?
Where do the politicians fall?
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Unfortunate that the social sciences have been left out of her definition of engineering yet a number of the challenges she recounts might be solved by the social sciences. For example the reluctance of local hospitals to try locally engineered solutions and the reason they gave ie foreign products always work. The Social sciences do address society's problems and acknowledgementof this could actually the STEM agenda..
On this score I am with you Totally.
The Engineers also need to include the Social Scientists so that problems can solved especially in the context when are our people are so keen to make money by even doing Sakawaa and the twin of the Narcotics Trade.
This is serious… about no accountability, our leaders are mostly interested in their pocket and that’s just it. They only do what they have to do to survive.
This is really bad “chew and poor sorrrr”
this story was told for about two years and a half , and are still living in a dilemma . what actually is going . Am zoglossu
Self actualization in Ghana, let stop the importation of solutions and solve our own solutions.
We’ve the engineers to solve our problems but we look down upon them, because the are not internationally accepted.
We need a president in Ghana to be our problem solver not debt accumulator like the NPP.
Mahama afa.
*UMaT? Oh nice*
Pretty fine brilliant lady
A sad story
Her intentions are good but she doesn't understand how economics factors into her ideal thoughts.
my pain about Ghana.....
A lot negative points about your own university engineering faculty. Since you been in the field for so many years, so what have you and your faculty members been doing. You and your faculty should have influenced the government, private sector and industry leaders and of course your hundreds of students. The whole Ghanian culture of innovation should challenge for a breakthrough.
They have made the system in such a way that everything innovative goes through the politician who is not interested. Got it?
Yeah our engineering education system is not helping the nation.
What about Kantanka?
i wish to meet you 1day
NPP, engineers of thieves!!
Why not invite ‘Kantanka’ to solve our transportation problems, agricultural problems eeii.
Is it because he not recognized internationally??
oooooh! A Ghanaian cannot become a billionaire??
very sad fellow
Too many Oburoni's in attendance. We shouldn't allow these people in our events.
Why shouldn't we allow them?
Common stop that Racism White people are also human beings.
White people can be invited to our events and they should be made to feel welcome.