Industrial & Technology Education
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Item Entrepreneurial and Functional Building Technology Education as a Means of Achieving Vision 2020 in Nigeria(Journal of Education and Vocational Research, 2012) Igwe, C.O.; Puyate S.T.; Onoh, C.E.C.; Eze, C.J.Entrepreneurial and functional building technology education, if well positioned has the potentials of launching Nigeria into the first 20 world economies by the year 2020. This paper integrates the industrial, educational and entrepreneurial activities that results in increased productivity. Functional building technology career broadly categorised into professional and non-professional. The paper reviewed the entrepreneurial prospects open to the non-professional builders trained in the technical institutions equipped with the knowledge and skills to competently perform in the building construction sites as craftsmen, technicians and technologist. Also, other entrepreneurial activities in the public and private sectors at both small and medium scale capacity. The review presented inadequate budgetary allocation to the education sector, dearth of infrastructural facilities, also, the gap existing between the construction industry and the technical institutions. It recommended, increased funding and acquisition of modern equipment/machine and adequate infrastructural facilities. Also, establish a sustainable linkage between the construction industry and technical institutions. Implementation of these will result in increased productivity, robust economy and actualization of the nation’s vision 2020.Item Architect’s and Geology’s View on the Causes of Building Failures in Nigeria(Modern Applied Science, 2012) Amadi, A.N.; Eze, C.J.; Igwe, C.O.; Okunlola, I. A.; Okoye, N.OThe collapse of building in most cases is associated with loss of life and properties. The incessant failures of building nowadays are so enormous that it has become a serious concern to the professionals in the building industry, clients, governments, and the general public. Most of the times, the architect and engineer who are directly involved in the construction of such building are held responsible for building failures while the geologist's input is neglected. The frequent collapse of some buildings in major cities in Nigeria can be attributed to absence of a geotechnical report on the project site before, during and after the construction exercise. Studies have shown that geotechnical investigation report of a four storey residential building covering 420 m 2 at No. 56 Bola Street, Ebute-Metta, Lagos, that collapsed on 26 th July, 2006 was as a result of the existence of reddish brown silty clayey material and compressible waste material like wood, plastic and nylon occurring from ground surface to about 11 m on which a shallow strip foundation was used. More so, on 1 st July, 2006, another 3- Storey building collapsed along Bank road, Port-Harcourt. The result of the liquid limit, plasticity index, shrinkage potential, moisture content, tri-axial stress range and coefficient of consolidation carried out on the two locations indicates that the soil have low bearing capacity. The collapsed of these buildings were attributed to under design, improper supervision, poor quality construction, poor funding, use of sub-standard construction materials and absence of geo-technical investigation and engagement of non-professionals (quacks). This paper therefore x-rays the causes of building failures in Nigeria and discusses how the solutions to natural and man-made factors can be integrated in order to mitigate or ameliorate future building collapse in Nigeria.Item Instructional Supervisory Strategies and Quality Assurance for Technology Education Teachers in Nigeria(International Journal of Scientific Research, 2012) Igwe, C.O.; Ohize, E.J.; Atsumbe, B.N.; Onoh, C.E.C; Ibeneme, O.T.The quality of education at any level cannot be divorced from the quality of teachers in the educational system. The paper advocates that attention and priority for instructional supervisory strategies in training and retraining of teachers is essential to make reasonable and sustainable impact in teaching of students. Some of the strategies include; target setting, team training and organizational diagnosis among others. It is recommended that the government should ensure better condition of service for technical teachers in order to enhance their commitment to the job and improved funding for in service training of technical teachers thereby actualizing quality assurance in technical education system.Item ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MANAGERS OF TECHNICAL COLLEGE WORKSHOPS: A CASE OF NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA(Journal of Technical Education and Training, 2014) Umar, I.Y.; Idris, A. M.; Audu, R.; Hamza, A. B.; Igwe, C.O.; Ma’aji, S. A.This study assesses the effectiveness of managers of technical college workshops from the perspective of stakeholders in North Central Nigeria. A descriptive survey design was employed. Three research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A 35-item questionnaire developed by the researchers and validated by three experts was used to collect data from 101 administrators, 140 teachers, and 24 workshop personnel randomly sampled and stratified along trades in technical colleges. Mean was employed to answer the research questions while one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was employed to test the hypotheses using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) for data analysis. Result revealed that respondent shared similar opinions on the management of technical college workshops. It was therefore recommended that: The managers of the workshops should use alternative approaches in the management of workshop instead of waiting for government to provide everything; maintenance of tools should be a regular practice in the workshops; administrators should recommend teachers and workshop personnel to attend seminars regularly in order to update their knowledge on current practices in the management of technical college workshops among others