Engineering education in Ghana | Dr. Elsie Effah Kaufmann | TEDxOsu

Engineering education in Ghana | Dr. Elsie Effah Kaufmann | TEDxOsu

How engineering education affects the system in Ghana. Elsie Effah Kaufmann is a Ghanaian academic, biomedical engineer and quiz mistress for the National Science and Maths Quiz since 2006 till date. Kaufmann was a Research Supervisor at the Department of Chemistry at Rutgers University in New Jersey, United States of America (USA) from May 1998 to June 2001; after being a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, United States of America. She was also a Senior Lecturer and the first Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Ghana (2006-2012, 2014-2016).
Kaufmann was a Fellow of the International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation.Dr Kaufmann was awarded in 2009, as the University of Ghana’s Best Teacher Award for the Sciences.
She was the winner of the prestigious International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation Fellowship in 2011 and the 2017 Impact Africa Summit Laureate for Education in Ghana.
She is also the first female recipient of the 2018 Golden Torch Award for International Academic Leadership by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) at the 44th Annual Conference held in the United States of America (USA). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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