ASHESI UNIVERSITYDoubling our Impact in Africa

In our first ten years, Ashesi University established a track record of empowering young Africans to develop the motivation and the skills to create their own solutions to Africa’s challenges. Over 95% of Ashesi graduates stay in Africa, where they launch new ventures, develop innovative and pragmatic solutions to local needs, and apply their skills to help local and global businesses to expand. We foster ethics, innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa. Now, we plan to double Ashesi’s impact—by becoming more pan-African and more diverse—recruiting and offering scholarships to top students from across Africa—expanding our student body, adding more housing, and adding new, high-impact majors in engineering, economics, and law and civil society.

Engineering a better Africa

Better infrastructure

Local expertise for industrial growth

Innovative products to meet local needs

ENGINEERINGdesign skills

ethics

creative problem-solving

systems thinking

hands-on con�dence

project leadership

entrepreneurship

Remove obstaclesto progress

Improvequality of life

Launchbusinesses,create jobs

RESULTS:

Ashesi has pioneered a combination of a core curriculum—to foster ethics, entrepreneurship, and critical thinking—with practical majors in computer science, management information systems, and business. An engineering program will add a high-impact cohort to our student and graduate teams. Top Left: The Ashesi Robotics Experience (ARX) summer program for high school students sparks critical thinking and helps prepare students for college.

Center Left: Ashesi computer science faculty member Dr. Ayorkor Korsah leads ARX workshops. She has a Ph.D. in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University, and is co-founder of the Africa Robotics Network.

Bottom Left: Ashesi student volunteers managed a multi-year service project, on behalf of the African Development Initiative (ADI), which brought fresh water and sustainable sanitation to a local village.

The Ashesi University West Coast Challenge 2012

Systems thinking for leadership engineering. Ashesi students will learn to analyze complex, interrelated systems, and to lead projects that span traditional engineering disciplines.

Design skills for creative, pragmatic solutions. Real-world design projects will challenge students to create new solutions, and to adapt existing technology for an African context.

Communication skills, teamwork and entrepreneurship. Ashesi engineers will be able to communicate effectively with everyone from business leaders to local artisans. Students will make presentations and work on projects in teams, including a year-long applied engineering project. All engineering students will learn the fundamentals of founding and running a business.

Real-world, hands-on experience. Students will gain confidence through a co-op curriculum or internships, engineering community service projects, and field work.

Industry-responsive curriculum. Leaders in African industry have asked for concentrations in electrical, computer and mechanical engineering, to provide leadership-level skills for telecom, oil and gas, and light manufacturing. Graduates will work in large and medium enterprises, in NGOs, or start their own ventures. A few will go on to the world’s top graduate engineering programs.

Ethics, leadership and service. All Ashesi students sign on to Africa’s most rigorous honor code, perform community service, and develop a commitment to the greater good.

Integrated into our world class campus The engineering building will be sited next to the existing buildings on Ashesi’s stunning 100 acre hilltop campus, overlooking Ghana’s capital city of Accra.

Uniting traditional design, world class technology and environmental best practices, the building will have classrooms, labs, and faculty offices for 300 engineering students.

Engineering for success in the developing worldAfrican engineering education is typically based on memorization and narrow subject matter. By contrast, Ashesi is adapting new curriculum models from great engineering schools to foster these values:

Gearing up for a Fall 2013 launch

$3M required by Spring, 2013to begin construction

$1.31 Mto add MechE

wing

$1. 35 M required for startup costs

by Spring, 2015

Fundraising targets for a Fall 2015 launch

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

curriculum development, accreditation

construction main bldg

Activities towards a Fall 2015 launch

leadership recruiting faculty hiring

construction MechE wingclasses begin

The Ashesi University $1.1 Million Dollar Challenge Three generous donors have made challenge grants to bring the goal of a Fall 2015 launch of Ashesi Engineering within reach. The first challenge is a $500,000 grant, with a December 31, 2012 deadline for donors from Washington, Oregon or California. The second grant of $600,000 is open to all donors with a June 1, 2013 deadline. Multi-year pledges, payable over 3 years, will be matched, if we receive the pledges by the deadlines.The completion of these successful challenges, plus the $1.1 raised to date, will bring our total amount raised to $3.3M, the cost of the main engineering building.

Main building with electrical, science, and computer labs, three classrooms and faculty offices.

Mechanical engineering wing with MechE and design labs.

As soon as we complete

these challenges, we

will begin construction.

Every gift will be

doubled IF:

• we meet the 1st

challenge of $500,000

by 12/31/2012, and

• we meet the 2nd

challenge of $600,000

by 6/1/2013.

Total Goal: $5.66 M

Engineering program start up costs: $1.35 Million

Lab equipment.....$ 0.74 M Startup costs........$ 0.61 M

Startup costs include hiring faculty, buying textbooks and subsidizing administrative expenses for the first four years. After four years, engineering, like all Ashesi programs, is projected to be operationally self-sustaining.

All cost figures include 10% to be set aside into a contingency fund, plus12% to cover administrative and fundraising expenses.

Engineering building construction costs: $4.31 Million

amount raised to date

$1.1 M challenge grants challenge met - construction beginson main building

$3.3$1.1 $4.31

total building cost including MechE wing

1414 31st Avenue South, Suite 301, Box # 11

Seattle, WA 98144 USA

www.ashesi.orgwww.ashesi.edu.gh

Contact InformationIn the United States: Ruth Warren Manager, Strategic Communications Ashesi University Foundationruth@ruthwarrendesign.com+1.206.399.5907

Joanna BargeronAssociate DirectorAshesi University Foundationjbargeron@ashesi.org+1.206.545.6988

Engineering Building Naming Opportunities

Main engineering building ...$1,500,000 A. Electrical lab .................$ 250,000B. Science lab ..................$ 250,000C. Classrooms (each) ..........$ 150,000D. Computer lab ................$ 150,000E. Server Room .................$ 100,000F. Faculty offices (each) ......$ 50,000G. Conference room ...........$ 75,000

Two story mechanical engineering wingH. MechE lab ....................$ 250,000I. Design workshop ...........$ 250,000

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Lab workbenches (each) ......$ 25,000

In Ghana:Matthew TaggartDirector of DevelopmentAshesi University Collegemtaggart@ashesi.edu.gh+233 (30) 261.0335

Ashesi University is an African-initiated private, secular, not-for-profit university in Ghana.

The Ashesi University Foundation is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports Ashesi University.