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Alfred Jerifanos Mamombe
The Zimbabwe National Defence University (ZNDU) is on track to holistically adopt the Education 5.0 for human and capital development that conforms to the organisation’s mandate of being the leading national defence and security institution in the region and beyond.
This was said by the Vice Chancellor and Commandant Air Vice Marshal Dr Michael Tedzani Moyo after assessing the Intelligent Data Recorder that was designed by two Faculty of Engineering students, Master Sergeants Khumalo Mthulisi and Munyanyiwa Fidelis.
The two aerospace engineering students designed an Enhanced Intelligent Flight Data Recorder for small aircraft. The system is attached with software that can read the flight data and reanimate it, showing how the aircraft flew and its altitude for the duration of the entire flight.
The developed system has the benefits of enabling non-technical investigators to fully understand what would have happened during the entirety of flight, serving the cost of hiring experts to carry out the aircraft accident investigations as well as offering a cheap, simple, practical and effective solution in retrofitting the existing aircraft platforms as compared to buying one from traditional avionics manufacturing companies.
The world of aviation has seen a series of accidents over the past years and it was observed that lightest aircraft have no flight data recorders thereby providing insufficient data to aid aircraft investigations. As such, there was insufficient information to improve air safety. An intelligent emergency locator transmitter with added functionality of system health diagnostics and an ability to predict the air crash was incorporated to the flight data recorder. The designers utilised fuzzy logic to develop such an intelligent system.
The Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Air Commodore (Dr) Engineer Edgar Kamusoko also outlined some major advances in the practical researches that are focused on enhancing disease surveillances and disaster management solutions.
President Mnangagwa has spearheaded the adoption of the Heritage-based Education 5.0 model in the country’s institutions of higher learning to help promote research and innovation in the use of local resources.
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