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Higher Institute of Technology of Central Africa

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IST-AC (Institut Supérieur de Technologie d’Afrique Centrale) is a higher education institution, part of the Catholic University of Central Africa (UCAC, whose headquarters are in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Management of IST-AC is entrusted to , a French engineering Institute (Institut Catholique d’Arts et Métiers, 3000 students, 600 Master’s Degree each year).[1]

The main objective of IST-AC is to make new generation engineers. They train technicians and engineers to be skilled and socially aware, in regard to their duties. Inspired by educational principles of Icam, IST-AC offers hands-on training, with both theoretical knowledge and practical experience, getting students ready for work and for management in companies. Responding to companies’ needs, in particular to human resources’ needs, giving young people opportunities to get better qualifications are the main features of IST-AC programs, addressed to all countries in Central Africa area : Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, CAR, DRC, Chad.[2]

Open since 2002, the campus in Pointe Noire (Republic of Congo) welcomes the first two-year cycle of the engineering training, with a program focused on Industrial Maintenance. Candidates’ applications come from all the above mentioned countries. The campus also offers a sandwich course (cooperative technician training) directed towards the job market, and training for working professionals.

Open since 2004, the campus in Douala (Republic of Cameroon) welcomes students coming from Pointe-Noire, selected for the second cycle engineering training. This program is a cooperative program, which means that students spend half of their time in school and the other half working in industry; during the period in industry, they gradually discover the tasks and duties of engineers. This three-year training is also open to external two-year Degree students in industrial (mechanical or manufacturing) engineering, and to working professionals with experience, selected from within their company. The Campus also offers companies specific professional training and studies focused on improving industrial process and tools.

IST-AC engineering training covers many fields, so that engineers may easily join any kind of industrial activity (60% of engineering disciplines, 20% in industrial management, 20% in communication and management)

About hundred engineers have already graduated (promotions 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011); 150 training contracts, with nearly one hundred companies are now running; and IST-AC welcomes in total 240 students (20% of women), with five nationalities represented; fifteen professional training sessions have been carried out.

Important human help and material means have been developed on each campus to promote development, coming from all types of organizations and companies, national and international: management jobs, space for teaching and labs, equipment for labs, dormitories for students, teaching staff…Substantial building projects are now being looked at in Douala and Pointe Noire and now, 60 engineers graduate each year, and find a job in Central Africa.

References

  1. ^ "L'Institut Supérieur de Technologie d'Afrique Centrale" (in French). Icam. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
  2. ^ "Institute of Technology in Central Africa". StarAfrica. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 2013-04-29.
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