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The development of Technical Education in Tanzania is very much connected to the evolvement of Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology which started in 1957 as Dar es Salaam Technical Institute before it was transformed to Dar es Salaam Technical College in 1962. In 1997 the Dar es Salaam Technical College was transformed to Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology through an Act of Parliament. The book explores the basis for the evolvement of DIT and the challenges that were experienced in the existence of the predecessors of DIT. It further explores the strategies of DIT in developing marketable training programs which are competence based, the efforts of developing a culture of publishing academic work, conducting Applied Research and consultancy activities. The book explains the strategies that the Institute took to mobilize resources for its development at the time when it had insufficient academic and technical staff and poor infrastructure. The book examines the role the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology and its predecessor in fostering national and regional collaboration in Technical education as well as training, research and application of Science and Technology. The book highlights some of the good innovations that DIT noted in the course of its cooperation with its international collaborators which are worth exercising. Such good practices include establishment of professional Program Advisory committees for the teaching departments. The other exciting innovations include the Open lab concept and the Communication System Design (CSD) practiced by the KTH, curriculum innovations from Leeds Metropolitan University and the Teaching Factory concept exercised by the Nanyang Polytechnic.

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Prof. John Kondoro was the Principal of Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) between 1999 and 2016. During his tenure, Prof. Kondoro established partnership with several international Higher Learning institutions such as the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, the Royal Swedish Institute of Technology (KTH), the Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Leeds Metropolitan University, Cambrian College and Beijing Institute of Technology, among others. Before joining DIT in 1999, he worked at the Department of Physics, University of Dar es Salaam where he rose to the rank of Associate Professor of Physics. Professor Kondoro served on various local and regional professional boards. He served as a Board member of UbuntuNet Alliance for two terms until 2013. He was a member of the Board of the Engineering Registration Board (ERB) in Tanzania in 2012-2015, the Chairman and founder member of the Tanzania Education and Research Network (TERNET) as well as the Chairman of the Commonwealth Association of Polytechnics in Africa (CAPA) in 2009-2013. He was also the Chairman of the Tanzania Atomic Energy Commission (TAEC) for three years until 2011. Professor Kondoro is also a recipient of various awards and recognition. He is a recipient of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) fellowship in 1981 and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) award in 1985. Prof. Kondoro won a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Michigan, USA in 1994 and a recipient of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) research award in 1998. In 2004, He was awarded by the Tanzania Engineering Registration Board (ERB), the distinguished Allied services Award in recognition of his services to the profession. He was a visiting scholar to the University of Nanjing in China (1991), the Technical University of Munich in 1992. Professor Kondoro earned his B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics with Education, University of Dar es Salaam in 1979, M.Sc.(Physics) in 1984 at the University of Florida at Gainesville, USA and Ph.D degree from University of Saarland in Germany in 1990. He has published more than 30 papers in international journals and has co-authored a text book of Physics at undergraduate level in Quantum Mechanics, Dar es Salaam University Press, 2011.

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