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Student voices
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Since
coming to Konza
in February, I have
gained better understanding
of real-life working of engineering construction, operations and maintenance. Additionally, I have learnt a lot about engineering drawing – particularly the drawings and working of an engineering masterplan, the construction of power stations and structural engineering. The multi-disciplinary nature of the ongoing engineering works at Konza have broadened my personal understanding
of the engineering trade, bringing
me to appreciate the role of each facet of the art and science of engineering.
Opportunities
like this help us
establish strong linkages
between engineering academia
and industry. It fills in graduates with existing knowledge gaps and helps with curriculum improvement at the academia. These interventions are useful as they help us identify the challenges facing both the engineering industry and academia in Kenya, besides promoting professionalism of the science of engineering, and promoting membership to professional
bodies.
I have
gained immense
skills since arriving at
Konza, guided by our mentors appointed by EBK and Konza Technopolis Development Authority. The best thing about this initiative is that Konza has widened my multi-disciplinary perspectives in practical civil, electrical and mechanical engineering, all at the same time—including learning a lot in regards to the interaction between engineering and survey. I have also learnt design and review, developing an interest in Auto Card – the engineering design software; and learning how to interpret engineering drawings and designs in the process. Above all, this opportunity has helped build my personal confidence
to face the future as a career Engineer.
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are part of the
latest intake, cohort of
graduates who joined Konza
in February 2021. As graduate engineers we have had the chance of
a lifetime, with so much to share on what we have gained thus far at Konza Technopolis. In a bid to provide unlimited learning experience opportunities for young graduate engineers fresh out of college, Konza Technopolis Development Authority collaborates with the Engineering Board of Kenya (EBK)
to embed the graduates into ongoing engineering projects
from time to time.
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the magnitude of the Konza Technopolis projects. What I found intriguing is the availability of actual designs that engineers are then tasked to translate into actual works. As a young graduate engineer, and with classroom work having been more theoretical, the field activities have given me a more practical view of engineering and a rare chance
to interact with engineering equipment first hand.
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Engineering in Kenya Magazine Issue 002