6th December 2010 - National Universities Commission

Delivering a paper on Innovation andInventive Engineering: Keys toSustainable Design, Professor TomaszArciszewski, George Mason University,USA, noted that building design hadmoved from an innovation age to aknowledge-driven stage that called forproactive thinking and techno-engineeringapproach if practitioners were to maintainthe best place in the field. ProfessorArciszewski stated that to be abreast withthe trend required “a combination ofwhole brain thinking” and called forcross-breeding of ideas andinternationalization of engineeringeducation training.Professor Chimay AnumbaPenn State University, USAOther papers delivered at the Workshopincluded those of Professor Ibidap-Obe onThe State of Innovation in the Nigerian Industry, Professor Chimay Anumba of the PennState University, USA, on Energy Efficient Buildings-The DOE Hub Example, ProfessorJames Garrett of the Carnegie Mellon University on Innovations in Building InformationCapture and Representation, Professor O. V. Ekechukwu, NUC Director, Research andInnovation on Sustainability and Buildings in the Nigerian Context and Professor AizeObayan, Vice-Chancellor of Covenant University, Otta, Nigeria on The Role of NigerianUniversities in Bridging the Digital Divide.Cross section of participants at the Opening CeremonyPage 11