By Grace Alegba
A University don, Prof. Gloria Chukwuedebe, has called for the collaboration of government, academia and industries towards evolving an implementable engineering curricular, tailored towards Nigeria’s peculiar needs for rapid growth and industrialisation.
Chukwuedebe, who is the Dean, School of Computing and Information technology, Federal University of Technology Owerri, (FUTO) made the call on Thursday at an e-symposium to commemorate 2021 World Engineering Day.
The programme was organised by the Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (NIEEE) tagged “Reforming Electrical Engineering Education’’.
She said collaboration towards the right skills for manufacturing was important for academic researches to proffer actual practical solutions to societal problems.
“We need to work together industry, government and academia,’’ she said.
She lamented that Nigeria had become a dumping ground for substandard products and…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
