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ASHESI UNIVERSITYDoubling our Impact in Africa
In our first ten years, Ashesi University established a track record of empowering young Africans to develop the motivation and the skills to create their own solutions to Africa’s challenges. Over 95% of Ashesi graduates stay in Africa, where they launch new ventures, develop innovative and pragmatic solutions to local needs, and apply their skills to help local and global businesses to expand. We foster ethics, innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. Now, we plan to double Ashesi’s impact—by becoming more pan-African and more diverse—recruiting and offering scholarships to top students from across Africa—expanding our student body, adding more housing, and adding new, high-impact majors in engineering, economics, and law and civil society.
Engineering a better Africa
Better infrastructure
Local expertise for industrial growth
Innovative products to meet local needs
ENGINEERINGdesign skills
ethics
creative problem-solving
systems thinking
hands-on con�dence
project leadership
entrepreneurship
Remove obstaclesto progress
Improvequality of life
Launchbusinesses,create jobs
RESULTS:
Ashesi has pioneered a combination of a core curriculum—to foster ethics, entrepreneurship, and critical thinking—with practical majors in computer science, management information systems, and business. An engineering program will add a high-impact cohort to our student and graduate teams. Top Left: The Ashesi Robotics Experience (ARX) summer program for high school students sparks critical thinking and helps prepare students for college.
Center Left: Ashesi computer science faculty member Dr. Ayorkor Korsah leads ARX workshops. She has a Ph.D. in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University, and is co-founder of the Africa Robotics Network.
Bottom Left: Ashesi student volunteers managed a multi-year service project, on behalf of the African Development Initiative (ADI), which brought fresh water and sustainable sanitation to a local village.
The Ashesi University West Coast Challenge 2012
Systems thinking for leadership engineering. Ashesi students will learn to analyze complex, interrelated systems, and to lead projects that span traditional engineering disciplines.
Design skills for creative, pragmatic solutions. Real-world design projects will challenge students to create new solutions, and to adapt existing technology for an African context.
Communication skills, teamwork and entrepreneurship. Ashesi engineers will be able to communicate effectively with everyone from business leaders to local artisans. Students will make presentations and work on projects in teams, including a year-long applied engineering project. All engineering students will learn the fundamentals of founding and running a business.
Real-world, hands-on experience. Students will gain confidence through a co-op curriculum or internships, engineering community service projects, and field work.
Industry-responsive curriculum. Leaders in African industry have asked for concentrations in electrical, computer and mechanical engineering, to provide leadership-level skills for telecom, oil and gas, and light manufacturing. Graduates will work in large and medium enterprises, in NGOs, or start their own ventures. A few will go on to the world’s top graduate engineering programs.
Ethics, leadership and service. All Ashesi students sign on to Africa’s most rigorous honor code, perform community service, and develop a commitment to the greater good.
Integrated into our world class campus The engineering building will be sited next to the existing buildings on Ashesi’s stunning 100 acre hilltop campus, overlooking Ghana’s capital city of Accra.
Uniting traditional design, world class technology and environmental best practices, the building will have classrooms, labs, and faculty offices for 300 engineering students.
Engineering for success in the developing worldAfrican engineering education is typically based on memorization and narrow subject matter. By contrast, Ashesi is adapting new curriculum models from great engineering schools to foster these values:
Gearing up for a Fall 2013 launch
$3M required by Spring, 2013to begin construction
$1.31 Mto add MechE
wing
$1. 35 M required for startup costs
by Spring, 2015
Fundraising targets for a Fall 2015 launch
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
curriculum development, accreditation
construction main bldg
Activities towards a Fall 2015 launch
leadership recruiting faculty hiring
construction MechE wingclasses begin
The Ashesi University $1.1 Million Dollar Challenge Three generous donors have made challenge grants to bring the goal of a Fall 2015 launch of Ashesi Engineering within reach. The first challenge is a $500,000 grant, with a December 31, 2012 deadline for donors from Washington, Oregon or California. The second grant of $600,000 is open to all donors with a June 1, 2013 deadline. Multi-year pledges, payable over 3 years, will be matched, if we receive the pledges by the deadlines.The completion of these successful challenges, plus the $1.1 raised to date, will bring our total amount raised to $3.3M, the cost of the main engineering building.
Main building with electrical, science, and computer labs, three classrooms and faculty offices.
Mechanical engineering wing with MechE and design labs.
As soon as we complete
these challenges, we
will begin construction.
Every gift will be
doubled IF:
• we meet the 1st
challenge of $500,000
by 12/31/2012, and
• we meet the 2nd
challenge of $600,000
by 6/1/2013.
Total Goal: $5.66 M
Engineering program start up costs: $1.35 Million
Lab equipment.....$ 0.74 M Startup costs........$ 0.61 M
Startup costs include hiring faculty, buying textbooks and subsidizing administrative expenses for the first four years. After four years, engineering, like all Ashesi programs, is projected to be operationally self-sustaining.
All cost figures include 10% to be set aside into a contingency fund, plus12% to cover administrative and fundraising expenses.
Engineering building construction costs: $4.31 Million
amount raised to date
$1.1 M challenge grants challenge met - construction beginson main building
$3.3$1.1 $4.31
total building cost including MechE wing
1414 31st Avenue South, Suite 301, Box # 11
Seattle, WA 98144 USA
www.ashesi.orgwww.ashesi.edu.gh
Contact InformationIn the United States: Ruth Warren Manager, Strategic Communications Ashesi University Foundationruth@ruthwarrendesign.com+1.206.399.5907
Joanna BargeronAssociate DirectorAshesi University Foundationjbargeron@ashesi.org+1.206.545.6988
Engineering Building Naming Opportunities
Main engineering building ...$1,500,000 A. Electrical lab .................$ 250,000B. Science lab ..................$ 250,000C. Classrooms (each) ..........$ 150,000D. Computer lab ................$ 150,000E. Server Room .................$ 100,000F. Faculty offices (each) ......$ 50,000G. Conference room ...........$ 75,000
Two story mechanical engineering wingH. MechE lab ....................$ 250,000I. Design workshop ...........$ 250,000
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Lab workbenches (each) ......$ 25,000
In Ghana:Matthew TaggartDirector of DevelopmentAshesi University Collegemtaggart@ashesi.edu.gh+233 (30) 261.0335
Ashesi University is an African-initiated private, secular, not-for-profit university in Ghana.
The Ashesi University Foundation is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports Ashesi University.