Student’s perception of engineering design for competitiveness in Africa: The case of Tanzania, East Africa
Lawrence Joseph Kerefu and Juliana Zawadi Machuve
Engineering is vital for addressing basic human needs, improving the quality of life and creating opportunities for sustainable prosperity at local, regional, national and global levels. However, Africa faces a shortage of engineers arising from the declining interest and enrolment of young people in the relevant disciplines at higher education institutions. Africa is also flooded with numerous products from the five major emerging economies, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, creating challenges for local engineering solutions. In this sense, engineering design capacity practice ...
