Astu Center of excellence reviewed the website on October 2, 2023 in the presence of all directors and reviewers.
Moreover, the reviewer commented on the website and the technical team tried to understand their needs and accepted to incorporate for final approval.
Adama Science and Technology University (ASTU) hosted a validation workshop for the consultancy project titled “Development of Geospatial Database for Manufacturing Industries in Oromia,” on August 24, 2023. The project was signed between ASTU and Oromia Investment and Industry Bureau (OIIB) on April 7, 2023. The project aims to develop a geospatial database of manufacturing industries and analyze their existing situation in three urban centers in the Oromia Region: Adama, Mojo, and Bishoftu including Dukem sub-city.
Adama Science and Technology University (ASTU) in collaboration with Construction Management Institute (CMI) organized Building Information Modeling (BIM) training which was held in ASTU from August 20, 2023 to September 4, 2023.
Twenty-two staff from School of the school of Civil Engineering and Architecture, School of Mechanical, Chemical and Materials Engineering and School of Electrical Engineering and computing, and ASTU Construction Office successfully completed the training. The trained staff members were certified by Autodesk Authorized Training Center after receiving training in BIM-Structure, BIM-Architecture, BIM-MEP and BIM-Project Management Technologies.
During the closing ceremony, Dr. Alemu Disasa, Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer, remarked that various countries in the world transformed their construction industries to digital system by adapting and innovating technologies for the economic growth of their countries. In Ethiopia, we need to urgently improve the competency of the sector through the adaptation, innovation and application of new technologies to solve the prevailing problems and achieve sustainable development of the industry. Dr. Alemu, also reiterated that digitizing construction industry and improving its role in socio-economic development of our country shall be of utmost priority nowadays. He further noted that as ASTU has become the coordinator of the eastern zone university- industry linkage, the trainees who completed this training shall share their knowledge and skill to others.
Ing. Feleke Asefa, the director of directorate for institute of technology transfer, underscored that the institute has been striving to modernize construction Industry to ensure the ever-increasing demand for infrastructure. This BIM training is one of the efforts of the Institute to implement new technologies to the construction industries. To expand and facilitate the accessibility and implementation of BIM technology in the construction industry, the role of the Universities is the key. Thus, CMI is deemed to collaborate with the Universities to realize the plan. At the end of the event, certificates were awarded to the staff members who completed the training and trainers. In addition, CMI is recognized for its willingness to work with ASTU.
ASTU-CoE website is a dynamic site aim to make all academies, researchers, industries, research
institutes, stakeholders and others using information and communication technologies to raise
communications and administrative issues in the ASTU centers, and research units. The website
also increases information exchanges between several stakeholders by implementing stable, easy
to navigate and secure website accessing mechanisms. Further, the designed and developed
website shares urgent activities, news, online registration or applications.
The motivation for the establishment of Institute for Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering (IWRIE) Center of Excellence (CoE), like with other CoEs in ASTU, stems from its contribution to achieving the Government’s targets, mainly economic development of the nation through conducting demand driven and result oriented applied research and transferring state-of-the-art technologies to support the industries. Research at IWRIE-CoE of ASTU cultivates interdisciplinary and application-oriented approach to scientific research development with a strong relation to practice. Currently,
IWRIE-CoE has re-designed research themes, sub-themes, and priority areas to be cutting-edge and interdisciplinary in terms of science, technology transfer, and innovation, while also being relevant to the needs of industries and the country at large. The re-design of its research thematic area is based on the identification and prioritization of current urgent problems at the ground level (site level) related to water resources and irrigation engineering in the country-Ethiopia at large, and in the Awash River basin in particular. The main identified problems, among others, are hydraulic structures and watercourses sedimentation, land degradation and soil erosion, flood and droughts, water quality deterioration, poor irrigation water management, risks on water infrastructure
security, and water scarcity. Research project in group and multidisciplinary research team dedicate themselves to re-designed research core themes and sub-themes with a wide variety of approaches. At this time, teams of experts from abroad and ASTU’s water resources engineering department have been initiated and lead MEGA research projects to provide scientific answer for identified and prioritized research problems in the field of water resources and irrigation engineering. Finally, I’d like to remind you that everything is possible if we work together with integrity, honesty, and fairness. Let us work together to solve the issue of water resources.
