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NEW ERA COLLEGE PROFESSOR, KAMAN YANEV PUBLISHES
RESEARCH IN A PEER REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

New Era College of Science Arts and Technology is driven to To reward him for his ambitious achievement the Center for research
becoming an innovative and research driven institution as well management and innovation has given Professor Yanev a publication
as heed to the national call of increased research with the aim of reward as an encouragement to produce more research. This
becoming a knowledge based economy. incentive as well as possibility of promotion is aimed at encouraging
New Era College staff to take up the call to produce more research.
To meet this endeavour, the College recently launched the Center for
Research Management and Innovation. The function of the Centre Giving her remarks about the initiative, the Chairperson of the CRMI,
for Research Management and Innovation (CRMI) is to invigorate Mrs. Indira said, “Soon, our teaching will be strongly influenced by
and coordinate research and consultation activities orchestrated our research agenda.” This speaks to the ambitious plan set by the
by faculties at New Era College. This research is aimed at positively College council to become thought leaders in the field and propel it
contributing to the development of Botswana with critical scientific toward international recognition for its outstanding teaching quality.
insights and knowledge.
The Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering Sciences and
Professor Kaman Yanev, from New Era College took advantage of Technology (JMEST) is a peer reviewed international journal with a
this opportunity and undertook an intensive research project, titled, key objective to provide the academic and industrial community a
“Achieving Robustness of a Renewable Energy Light Tracker Control medium for presenting original cutting edge research related to all
System.” The essence of the research examines a system that can aspects of engineering studies and its applications.
control a solar panel to track the movement of the sun in order to
achieve the maximum amount of solar exposure. The Research paper is available online http://www.jmest.org/
vol-7-issue-4-april-2020/
This research on solar energy exposure is a welcome development
as it answers the global call to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels. New Era College is committed to bringing innovative solutions for
Botswana will benefit from this research as it explores alternative the fourth industrial revolution and have been at the fore-front of
solutions to its current power challenges. developing relevant STEM teaching and learning tools to meet this
end. The innovation lab caters for staff to “tinker” with students and
develop modern approaches to solving collective challenges we face
as society.

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