The Student Professional Development Conference (SPDC) is an annual two tier conference of ASME to help Students develop and practice skills required in engineering workplace, network with experts, and provide a rostrum to compete and get ideas for future endeavours. Characterized by competitions, teamwork, technical and professional skill development, networking, providing leadership opportunities, the SPDC is the perfect place for engineering students who interested in getting a jump start on their career to learn and enhance their personalities. Universities from all over Africa are invited to this three day conference to widen their students’ horizons.