NNPC Limited / TotalEnergies MIT-Empowering the Teachers Program 2023

May 5, 2023

This informs the public about the NNPC Limited TotalEnergies MIT-Empowering the Teachers Program 2023. Details about the Scholarship are given below.

About NNPC Limited TotalEnergies MIT-Empowering the Teachers Program 2023

The overarching goal of MIT-ETT is to facilitate the development of young African faculty leadership in science and engineering education who will introduce innovation and creativity into science and engineering curricular.

There are two main objectives of the MIT-ETT program: to provide young African professors with exposure to cutting-edge pedagogical methods in the highest-rated engineering and science departments in the U.S. and to provide American faculty who have a deep interest in connecting with those in their disciplines in emerging economies a concrete means of engagement.

Program Details

In an attempt to address the problems articulated above, MIT established the MIT-Empowering the Teachers (MIT-ETT) Program lead by Professor Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande (EECS).

The program invites young, brilliant and upcoming African academics, who recently completed their doctoral degree, to spend an intensive and inclusive semester at MIT in a bid to understudy the mode (& dynamics) of curricula development and content delivery at MIT.

The aim is to facilitate in African institutions improved teaching content development that is geared towards

(1) students-centered content delivery
(2) problem solving and
(3) creativity.

Eligibility

Interested in developing new curriculum and teaching methods and who consider themselves to be change-agents;
A faculty member holding a PhD and teaching in a department corresponding to Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical or Petroleum Engineering or Geophysics, at a university in Nigeria.
Unfortunately you have to complete your PhD to apply for the program.
Lecturer One rank