BUILDING GLOBAL LEADERS. IN THE HEART OF AFRICA

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology (BS MET)

  • 4 Years / Onsite
  • Semester: Sep, Jan, May

Program Overview

The West African region his now known to be have very good potential for oil and gas discoveries at commercial quantities. The production and commercialization of recent hydrocarbon findings in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana will need practically oriented well trained scientist and engineers.

The goal of the MET major is to provide students with a well-rounded, fundamental and application-oriented education focused on the knowledge of existing and new developments in the area. Graduates of the Bachelor degree will develop the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills necessary for appropriate careers in local and national industries. To achieve this mission, the MET program is committed to attaining the following goals for all students:

  • Provide a career-oriented program that prepares students for productive
  • Emphasize the latest technological advancements in computer-aided drafting, design, and manufacturing. Students should be able to apply problem-solving techniques and critical thinking skills at the level required for their professional
  • Gain experience in the application of computer software to analyze and design mechanical systems and automated manufacturing
  • Pursue graduate degrees and life-long The programs are designed to satisfy the educational needs of the West African region by providing a climate that fosters self-awareness, personal growth, and a desire for lifelong learning.

Learning outcomes

Once our students are out in the workforce they should be able to:

  • Engage in applications oriented design, manufacturing, and management of mechanical systems, including computer‐aided design and manufacturing, and all the technical and economic variables affecting
  • Work competently in technical and professional careers related to the field of Mechanical Engineering Technology
  • Function effectively both as an individual and as a member of project
  • Use oral, written and computer‐based communication technology to make presentations, construct reports and exchange technical information about mechanical systems design and manufacturing
  • Continue growth in professional knowledge and the ability to function appropriately in a diverse and changing business environment
  • Apply the highest professional and ethical standards to their activities in the mechanical and manufacturing
  • Understand the local, national and global issues related to the development and application of mechanical systems and to be considerate of the impact of these issues in the West African cultural

Career prospects

The information on the career prospects regarding mechanical engineering graduates can be summarized as follows:

1- Aerospace (currently, unavailable in IUGB)
Aerospace engineering focuses on developing aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, satellites, and mechanical systems for national defense. It consists of two overlapping branches – aeronautic and astronautic engineering.

2- Automotive
Automotive/automobile engineering is a subdivision of vehicle engineering that designs and manufactures different automobiles. It involves intensive research and direct application of mathematical models.

3- Manufacturing
Manufacturing engineers research and develop methods to maximize efficiency when producing excellent and economically competitive products.

4- Mechatronics and Robotics
The robotics and mechatronics sector is the intersection where electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering meet. With this sector, the graduated student will have the opportunity to design control systems to develop devices and programs that boost efficiency and automation.

5- Oil & Gas
Oil and gas engineering is a branch of petroleum engineering. Engineers in this sector are responsible for designing and developing reliable machines, devices and tools such as platforms, rigs, pumps, compressors, distillation columns, reactors, heat exchangers, separators, valves, fittings, turbines, pipelines, etc. Besides that, they also search for crude oil and natural gas reservoirs.

6- Quality Assurance
In quality assurance, engineers review products or programs before its launch to detect and fix bugs and defects to ensure design quality and prevent defects.

7- Biomedical Engineering
Biomechanics is the study of human movement including the interaction between the participant and equipment. Primarily these studies are broken down into two broad areas: kinetics (the study of forces acting on the body) and kinematics (the study of movements of the body). Most of the human body systems need to be read by tools designed by mechanical engineers. The biomedical sector recognizes the need for mechanical engineers to improvise their systems and economize their tools.

8- Computer Science
A dynamic professional field, computer science/engineering offers varied career paths in both hardware engineering (e.g. microprocessors) and software development. Each can drive computing advances in industries ranging from aerospace to healthcare.

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Fatima Doumbia Koné is a Mathematics lecturer at the international University of
Grand-Bassam (IUGB). Among the courses she taught we have the following: Introduction to
Differential Equations, Elementary Statistics, Calculus(I,II,III), Transforms in Applied Math,
Introduction to Linear Algebra, Operations Research and Abstract Algebra.
She has a Bachelor degree in Mathematics (IUGB), a Master degree in Pure and Applied
Mathematics (AUST) and she is currently enrolled for a PhD in Mathematics at the African
University of Science and Tecnology (AUST), Abuja. She has also been an intern at the
Institutional Banking Group department within GTBANK CI (Garanty Trust Bank Côte
D’Ivoire).
She is a former IUGB student and she was the president of the science club in 2015.
Academically, her goal is to be a great researcher and innovator on the topics of asymptotic
theories in Fuzzy Probability Theory and their various applications to image processing. She
has good programming skills (JAVA, LaTeX, C++) and she is bilingual (French and English).
Over the years, she has been developing a method of teaching which not only put students at
the center of the learning process but also which deconstruct most of the stereotypes about the
inaccessibility of mathematical knowledge to everybody.
Regarding her research activities, she has been working since 2018 on the topic of integration
on Banach spaces and a preprint of an interesting work is available at
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.04480. She is continuing with her research on integration but now
her PhD studies focus on Random Sets Integration in Probability Theory. Professionally, she
is a very active lecturer at IUGB and she is currently the faculty advisor of the SHE CLUB,
which aims at promoting women empowerment by providing learning, leadership and
networking opportunities.

I am currently Associate Professor of computer and data science in the school of science technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at the International University of Grand-Bassam (IUGB).
From 2000 to 2018, I successively worked as a research scientist at Independent Computing Research in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Assistant Professor at the department of computer science and
engineering at Université Laval in Québec, Canada; Research Associate at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) where I also received a Ph.D. degree in computer science in March 2000. Upon receiving a master's degree in mathematical and computing science
from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) in 1990 in Japan, I worked as a research scientist at National/Panasonic, one of the most prestigious companies in Tokyo.
I am involved in research on Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Semantic Web and its applications in a wide range of fields. Besides, I designed the current Data Science program in effect
since September 2021 in STEM. In addition, I am also one the founders and current President of the
Ivorian Association of Artificial Intelligence and member of ORBICOM, the Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communication headquartered in University of Quebec in Montreal (UQUAM), Canada.

Kwame Simpe Ofori is an Assistant Professor in Finance at the school of Business and Social Sciences. He holds a doctorate degree in Finance, a master’s degree in finance and a master’s degree in Telecommunications Technology. He is also currently a PhD student at the School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He has taught courses in the areas of finance, computer science, computer and electrical engineering, and telecommunication engineering. Before joining IUGB he lectured in several universities in Ghana. He also worked with Ghana Telecommunications Company as a support engineer. His research interests are in the areas of consumer behaviour, technology adoption and trust in online systems and in recent times financial econometrics. His papers have appeared in several CABS-ranked journals such as Information Technology and People, Journal of Cleaner Productions, Quality Management Journal, Marketing Intelligence and Planning, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, Journal of African Business, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology and Society and Business Review. 

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