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Malawi delegation gets look at engineering's influence

Representatives of a group launching a new technical university in Africa visited the UWindsor campus to get a first-hand look at how an influential engineering school can spur economic development.

Delegates from the Working Committee and Secretariat for the Lilongwe University of Science and Technology in Malawi spent a day visiting with faculty and students from the industrial and manufacturing systems engineering department.

“They don’t really have much of an industrial or technical sector in Malawi,” said Kyle Baptista, a civil and environmental engineering major and a representative of the student group Engineers Without Borders. “They’re hoping that a new technical school will give rise to an industrial revolution in the region.”

The delegation also toured the International Truck and Engine Corporation/University of Windsor Centre for Innovation; met the director of the Centre for Career Education as well as faculty from the Odette School of Business, mechanical engineering, earth sciences departments and members of the local Engineers Without Borders chapter.

Malawi, located in south-eastern Africa, is ranked as the eleventh-poorest country in the world—54 percent of its population lives below the national poverty line of U.S. $0.11 a day.