posted on 2021-11-23, 18:25authored byDr. Kehdinga George Fomunyam
A study on engineering in sub-Saharan Africa
revealed that engineering is pivotal for economic and social
development of any country. This is profound as it underscores
the potentials embedded in engineering education for excellence
and relevance in Africa. This has not been the case in Africa, as
the region has not developed evenly with other countries from the
Global South. Hence, the impetus for chaos engineering as a
panacea to excellence and relevance in engineering education in
Africa. Chaos engineering has been defined by various authors
and one of the profound definitions is that chaos engineering is
the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system with the
intent to build confidence in the system`s capability to withstand
turbulent conditions during production. This study therefore
looked at chaos engineering, its history and applicability and
conceptualize it as a pathway for excellence and relevance in
engineering education in Africa. Findings from the that
engineering is pivotal for economic and social development of
any country but it has not resulted to such in Africa which
necessitates chaos principles. It was found out that
experimentation is a basic principle of chaos engineering while
the advanced principles are hypothesizing about steady state, vary
real-world events, run experiments in production, automate
experiments to run continuously, minimize blast radius. These all
were conceptualized as the pathway to excellence and relevance
in engineering education in Africa. The study recommended that
there is a need to intensify effort on researching more into chaos
engineering in Africa.