Our Mandate

C.1 Philosophy Statement

We believe in helping students recognize and articulate the need for relevant information, locate and access it, ethically use it to critique resources, facts and opinions to generate new knowledge and solve societal problems.

AND

We believe in naturing a literate engineer – a graduate engineer capable of recognizing and articulating the need for relevant information, locate and access it, ethically use it to critique resources, facts and opinions to generate new knowledge and solve societal problems.

We commit to:

  1. Help our students engage with information to solve engineering problems, thus create new understanding through active investigation and thought, instead of memorizing facts presented in-class lectures.
  2. Help our students acquire integrated skills to effectively participate in the generation and application of information for lifelong learning.
  3. Help our students to become pedagogically sophisticated through triangulated approaches, and enable them to become interdisciplinary researchers.
  4. Use multiple appropriate approaches to realize the intended learning outcomes, and enable students to do the assessment, and recognize as many learning styles and approaches as is realistically possible within the engineering discipline.
  5. Impart in students a set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how engineering information is produced and valued, and the use of engineering information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning.
  6. Impart in students a set of applied skills for negotiating the huge amount of engineering information in the modern world and instilling in engineering students the practice of objectively examining competing versions of the truth and rejecting claims for which there is no evidence.

Information Literacy Vision

A Center of Excellence for producing information literate Engineers

Information Literacy Mission

To promote excellence in engineering education and training at Busitema University through a clearly defined path of Information Literacy e-curriculum that meets the needs of our students and reflects current trends in the engineering profession