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2016 MISTI Africa Empowering the Teachers Program ([email protected])
2016 Call for Application: MISTI Africa Empowering the Teachers
Empowering the Teachers is a teaching fellowship that enables
outstanding young Nigerian faculty in science and engineering to
collaborate with faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) in developing new curriculum and teaching methods.
The program is
offered by the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives
(MISTI) together with its corporate partner NNPC/ Total E& P Nigeria
ltd. The director of the program is Professor Akintunde Ibitayo
Akinwande, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at
MIT.
Descriptions
- Empowering the Teachers will select up to Nine outstanding young
faculty fellows from the disciplines of Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and
Petroleum Engineering from Nigerian Universities to spend a semester at
MIT in 2016. Selected fellows will observe instruction in their
disciplines and work as a group to prepare innovative curricula and
approaches to teaching that can be introduced into their home
universities on their return.
- Empowering the Teachers will cover the travel, living and
instructional materials expenses of the participants. The home
universities of the successful applicants will commit to provide paid
leaves of absence during the period of the MIT program.
- The young faculty selected to participate in the Empowering the
Teachers program will spend either the spring (February - May) or fall
2016 (September-December) semester at MIT observing classes similar to
ones they themselves currently teach. They will work on new curricular
materials and teaching approaches for adoption in their own classes.
- During their stay at MIT, they will participate regularly in at
least two MIT subjects (including lectures, recitations and tutorials)
that correspond to courses the faculty members teach at their home
universities.
- They will attend twice weekly empowering the Teachers Fellows
Seminar meetings, one which will focus on curriculum review and
development led by Professor Akinwande.
- Beyond the fellowship semester at MIT, Empowering the Teachers
will support online communications, periodic reunions and meetings in
Nigeria in order to build over time a community of faculty devoted to
excellence and innovation in science and engineering education.
Eligibility
- Empowering the Teachers welcomes applications from all qualified
faculty who are interested in developing new curriculum and teaching
methods and consider themselves to be change-agents.
- To be eligible for consideration for selection, a faculty member
must hold a PhD and teach in a department corresponding to Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science , Mechanical Engineering or Petroleum
Engineering at a university in Nigeria.
- Only candidates at the level of Lecturer One rank will be considered Applications will be thoroughly vetted.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should download and complete the following program application; then send the following:
a.) This completed
Application Form and,
b.) A copy of your current Curriculum Vitae (please include which coding languages you know how to use)
c.) A copy of 1 research paper and 1 conference paper
that best represents your work/your areas of interest, as attachments
in ONE email to:
[email protected]
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Note:
- Candidates will be interviewed in Abuja by MIT faculty and
representatives from NNPC/Total E & P during 17th-20th August,
2015. If selected for interviews, you will be notified of your date and
time slot the week of 10th August, 2015.
- Incomplete applications will 'not' be considered.
Application Deadline Friday, 17th July, 2015.
Interview Date 17th - 20th August, 2015