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ENGINEERING SYSTEMS OF CONTINENTAL RESILIENCE AND TECHNOLOGIC SOVEREIGNTY
Journal of Advanced Engineering and Technology (JAET) - ISSN 3080-0161
Vision
To serve as Africa’s leading platform for transdisciplinary engineering thought, ethical innovation, and sovereign infrastructure design—amplifying Education 6.0, STEMMA praxis, and the strategic role of technology in continental transformation.
Aims & Scope
JAET publishes original research, technical papers, applied systems models, and visionary commentaries that interrogate the future of engineering and automation in Africa and the Global South. It champions scholarship that is intersectional, strategic, and sovereignty-driven across fields such as:
⚙️ Sustainable Engineering, Infrastructure & Design Ethics
📡 Automation, Robotics & Intelligent Systems
🔬 STEMMA Technologies, Transdisciplinary Toolchains & Modular Deployment
🌍 Technologic Sovereignty, Innovation Policy & Continental Development
🧪 Environmental Systems, Planetary Engineering & Energy Futures
🏙 Urban Technology, Smart Cities & Bioarchitecture
🔐 AI Governance, Cybersecurity & Ethical Integration in Technologic Spaces
Editorial Philosophy
JAET privileges research that advances engineering as a sovereign craft—where continental resilience, ethical systems architecture, and strategic deployment guide inquiry and application. The journal welcomes disruptive scholarship from engineers, practitioners, and institutional leaders whose work redesigns infrastructure for dignity, sustainability, and geopolitical relevance.
📚 Scope of the Journal
Advancing Education 6.0 through Sovereign Engineering: Publishing Research across STEMMA, LIKEMS & SIM
⚙️ Sustainable Engineering, Infrastructure & Design Ethics
This theme explores the strategic reimagination of engineering as a sovereign craft—where sustainability, resilience, and ethical deployment guide infrastructure design and systems architecture across Africa. It emphasizes transdisciplinary innovation in smart cities, energy ecosystems, modular housing, and transport networks, with a focus on dignified technologies that respect ecological boundaries and serve civic futures. Ethical frameworks interrogate the intersection of automation, access, and environmental justice, ensuring engineered solutions reflect continental agency and planetary stewardship.
📡 Automation, Robotics & Intelligent Systems
This theme investigates the evolution of machine agency, intelligent design, and autonomous ecosystems within Africa’s sovereign development framework. It prioritizes engineering and computational innovations in robotics, AI systems, industrial automation, and cyber-physical infrastructure—advancing continentally relevant technologies for civic deployment, strategic enterprise, and ethical augmentation. Research under this domain examines algorithmic governance, human-machine collaboration, and credentialed intelligences shaped by STEMMA principles and Education 6.0. The focus is on designing intelligent systems not just for efficiency, but for sovereignty, dignity, and planetary responsibility.
🔬 STEMMA Technologies, Transdisciplinary Toolchains & Modular Deployment
This theme advances the frontier of engineering education and systems design through sovereign STEMMA frameworks, where Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, and Automation intersect to form functional, scalable, and ethically grounded toolchains. It centers innovations in modular platforms, interoperable systems, and adaptable infrastructures designed for African contexts and global relevance. Contributions explore design logics, framework architectures, and deployment protocols that enable seamless integration across disciplines—unlocking new frontiers in automation, curriculum innovation, and credentialing fidelity. Emphasis is placed on educational platforms and engineered solutions that prioritize transdisciplinarity, localization, and sovereign authorship.
🌍 Technologic Sovereignty, Innovation Policy & Continental Development
This theme articulates Africa’s sovereign stake in designing, deploying, and governing technology systems that reflect continental priorities, values, and developmental aspirations. It foregrounds research on innovation policy, national tech strategies, and digital infrastructure frameworks that empower states to co-author the rules and architectures of their own futures. Scholars investigate how credentialed innovation ecosystems intersect with trade, education, governance, and diplomacy—emphasizing institutional autonomy, cross-sectoral integration, and planetary stewardship. This domain champions African-led models of technologic authorship, where innovation becomes an instrument of sovereignty, not subordination.
🏙 Urban Technology, Smart Cities & Bioarchitecture
This theme explores the future of African urbanism through engineering, design, and ecological intelligence. It highlights innovations in smart city architecture, adaptive infrastructure, and responsive technologies that balance digital efficiency with human dignity. Research within this domain includes sensor-based public services, sustainable mobility systems, green construction, and bio-integrated spaces—where urban environments evolve as living ecosystems. Emphasis is placed on place-based design, civic resilience, and sovereign urban planning strategies that resist extractive development and restore community agency. Bioarchitecture, as an emerging field, offers ecologically attuned frameworks for designing cities that breathe, adapt, and dignify life.
🔐 AI Governance, Cybersecurity & Ethical Integration in Technologic Spaces
This theme interrogates the legal, ethical, and infrastructural frameworks required to steward intelligent systems across sovereign African contexts. It encompasses research on data protection, algorithmic accountability, digital rights, and resilient cybersecurity architectures—ensuring that AI deployment aligns with continental values, public trust, and institutional dignity. Emphasis is placed on policy innovation, risk mitigation, and Education 6.0 credentialing for tech practitioners who lead in ethical design, regulatory foresight, and civic-centric technological integration. The domain champions a technologic ethos where intelligence systems serve society without compromising sovereignty, security, or equity.
Editorial Introduction
Journal of Advanced Engineering and Technology (JAET)
As Africa advances toward technologic self-authorship, the stewardship of intelligent systems has become a matter not only of innovation, but of institutional dignity and sovereign ethics. The present issue of the Journal of Advanced Engineering and Technology (JAET) opens with a critical interrogation of the frameworks required to design, deploy, and govern AI and automation systems that serve civic needs without compromising continental values.
Contributors examine the evolving architecture of algorithmic governance, resilient cybersecurity, and digital rights protection through the lens of Education 6.0, where practitioners are credentialed not merely for technical skill—but for ethical foresight and civic responsibility. Articles explore policy models that center public trust, design protocols that anticipate social risks, and infrastructural strategies that shield institutions from extractive technologies.
JAET recognizes that intelligent systems are now embedded in health, transport, finance, and public administration. Therefore, engineering leadership in this domain must extend beyond code into constitutional principles, data sovereignty, and institutional integrity. This editorial marks a call for research that not only enables automation but humanizes it; that protects not only infrastructure but narrative; and that inscribes sovereignty directly into the digital blueprint of Africa’s future.
Springfield Research University is proud to convene this dialogue—where technology is reclaimed, ethics are engineered, and African agency becomes a technologic foundation, not a retrofit.
