The Laboratory of Industrial Electronics, Power Devices and New Energy Systems (LIEPNES) has collaborated with the Africa Center of Excellence for sustainable Power and Energy Development (ACE-SPED), UNN, to embark on the production of equipment needed for the prevention of the spread of Covid-19.
According to the LIEPNES Director and ACE-SPED Center Leader, Prof. Emenike Ejiogu said he organized a young Academic Covid-19 initiative consisting of a six-man research groups with a funding of Five hundred thousand Naira, to embark on the different areas to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
He said that the equipment expected to be produced by the six-man research groups are a plasma-based system for surface disinfection, a hand-held infrared thermometer, fabricated hand and foot sanitizer, a fabricated body disinfection unit and a distance control device. He said the distance control device detects when a person gets closer than a one-meter distance to another in a crowd.
Moreso, the Academic Programme Coordinator, ACE-SPED, Dr Cosmas Ogbuka, disclosed that ACE-SPED recently concluded training for Lecturers and Teaching/Research Assistants (TRAs) ahead of the scheduled commencement of online lectures for the first batch of MEng/MSc students slated for August 3rd, 2020. He said that the Center has successfully procured and installed two sets of recording equipment and that two studios have been refurbished to house the equipment within the Center’s facilities for effective recording and online content delivery.
Also, as part of the Institutional impact and commitment to capacity building of staff of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, ACE-SPED has also begun a University-wide training of staff in online course delivery. The first phase of this scheme involved the training of lecturers in the Faculty of Engineering, other faculties will follow in due course.
