Prof. Dr. Eng. Etienne Ntagwirumugara was the Director/Leader of an African Center of Excellence in Energy for Sustainable Development at the University of Rwanda, College of Sciences and Technology which is funded by Word Bank. He was a Head of Department in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at College of Science and Technology, University of Rwanda. He has been a coordinator of Rwanda Education and Research Network (RwEdNet) which is an ICT project under the Ministry of Education and the University of Rwanda. He is a Chairman of the Rwanda National Electrotechnical committee and a Professor in Electrical, Electronics, and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Rwanda. He was director of all engineering laboratories and workshops at the College of Science and Technology former KIST, Dean Faculty of Engineering, Director of Centre for Innovations and Technology Transfer (CITT). He also held the post of Research Scientist at the University of Valenciennes, France from 2003 to 2007.