5 Apprentice of Tumba College of Technology in EEPIS

EEPIS-Online, Monday, July 5, 2010 an initial short course training for lecturers of Tumba College of Technology Rwanda held in EEPIS. Accepted by the Assistant Director II, Aries Pratiarso, ST. MT. in New Building Courtroom EEPIS, the group consisted of five people could rapidly diffuse directly with the trainer. They are Ndacyayisaba Raymond, Mupenzi Theogene, Mugemanyi Sylvere, Kanyesheja Jean De Dieu, Mbyayingabo JMV.

"Actually this is a continuation of the Capacity Building program Streghtening Tumba The National College of Tecnology (Technical Cooperation between EEPIS and the National Tumba College of Technology (TCT))," Aries said after receiving the group from Rwanda. This collaboration is an initiative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and has been going on since last year. Not only received an internship from the TCT, EEPIS also send numbers of lecturers to the TCT Rwanda some time ago. "At least eight lecturers have been dispatched there since last year," added Aries.

This time the participants will learn about the three major, Telecommunication, Robotics Mechatronics and Electrical Industries. During implementation of internships, they are scheduled to visit the threeindustries, Semen Tuban, PT Phillips and PT Telkom. While at the end of the implementation of their apprenticeship shall make reports and Resumes Learning Outcomes. Ndacyayisaba Raymond, one participant expressed his happiness for the opportunity to study in Indonesia, which is technologically more advanced than his country.

Raymond had seen active and do not hesitate to ask his trainer. "I m glad to be here and I wish I can learn many subjects especially about robotics," he said. According to the little number of the people of Rwanda who could get education because of the high costs and the unfavorable political conditions there. TCT campus location is very remote, that is in a mountainous area with a fairly cold temperatures. Not infrequently they also complained to the temperature in Surabaya, which was recently started to heat. (humas)