Annual Report 2010 - Comsats

(HPLC), Spectrophotometer,
and Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) devices. The
participants were given
orientation on the following:
heating, ventilating and air
conditioning (HVAC) System;
Chromatographic System;
Spectroscopy; Microscopy; and
Molecular Pathology.
At the opening ceremony of the
th
training workshop on 18
October 2010, Mr. Mamadou
Dia, the Coordinator of the
training workshop and Head of
Scientific Division, Senegal
National Commission for
UNESCO, and Dr. Ismaila Diallo, representative of Minister of Higher Education and
Scientific Research, Senegal, briefed about the objectives of the training workshop.
Following were the objectives of the training workshop:
To provide hands-on training to the participants for improving their skills for
independently maintaining and repairing the scientific instruments;
To update the trainees' knowledge on changing technologies in scientific
equipments;
To acquaint the participants with the functioning of scientific instruments
through need-based training, as well as documentation in the repair and
maintenance of scientific equipments;
To facilitate information-exchange among scientists, researchers,
technicians, service engineers and industrialists of enhancing the existing
scientific capacity.
The closing ceremony was attended by M. Aliou Ly, Head of the Education Division,
Senegal National Commission for UNESCO, and Mr. Serigne Amadou Ndiaye, Dean
Faculty of Science, University ChiekhAnta Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
Recognizing the necessity to
develop/enhance indigenous capacity
and technical workforce, a proposal
was discussed to establish an
independent centre for repair and
maintenance of sophisticated scientific
instruments in Senegal; and ISESCO
and COMSATS agreed to undertake a
follow-up project in this regard.
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