Lenses Training Workshop
REMARKS:
LENSES TRAINING WORKSHOP,
CCU, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
MAY 4, 2015
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- Colleagues
- Ladies and gentlemen
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On behalf of the Vice Chancellor and the University of Nairobi fraternity, I wish to welcome our guests to the University of Nairobi.
To all participants, it is my pleasure to be with you today andbe part of this opening ceremony for the pilot course focused on locally based sustainable energy system design engineering under the Learning Networks for Sustainable Energy Systems (LeNSES) partnership.
I am also delighted that you have made time for this very important training session which is geared towards exposing students to Sustainable Product Service System (SPSS) and Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) systems and highlights available tools, systems and opportunities that can be applied to product design and systems design. It is also the objective of the course that the participants who are mainly Masters and PhD students will get to practice and enhance their visual representation and design software skills.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am informed that the course has a heavy digital component in which the lectures are uploaded onto You Tube as they occur. All the students’ work activities are uploaded on the LeNSES platform and immediate feedback is available from the wider LeNSES community.
The University of Nairobi is committed to collaborations and partnerships with like-minded institutions that add mutual benefit. It is the mandate of the University of Nairobi to generate and disseminate knowledge with positive impact on societal development and livelihoods.
The University therefore supports partnerships such as the LeNSES partnership through the School of the Arts and Design which is geared towards building capacity in effective understanding of Sustainable Product Service Systems (SPSS) and Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) for emerging economies.
Courses like this are therefore encouraged to sharpen skills among our students as it is through such courses that information flow is improved to support the generation of knowledge.
It is my hope that this training will strengthen the capacity of our postgraduate students within the School of the Arts and Design as well as in the respective schools and institutions of all the participants here today.
I do wish you an engaging training session.
Thank you.
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