An engineer is one who deploys forensic and mathematical skills acquired during the course of his training to invent, repair, maintain, troubleshoot and solve problems of man. Therefore, an engineer is meant to be more mathematical than a mathematician, more scientific than a scientist, and more logical than a lawyer. The engineering curriculum covers virtually all topics in mathematics, sciences, humanities and management.
It is abysmally unfortunate that the graduate engineer in Nigeria has been reduced to a mere classroom teacher, artisan, trader or some unprofessional field. The prestigious engineering profession has been bastardized in Nigeria.
The medical and law profession has given her graduates the desired professional status by inducting them automatically or otherwise into their respective bodies immediately after graduation and even ensuring that they are posted to their respective fields during the mandatory national youth service corps (NYSC) unlike the engineer who will be posted to the classroom to teach physics, chemistry, mathematics, basic science, basic technology etc. thereby wasting a year of post-graduation in teaching rather than gaining industrial experience.
The medical student upon graduation is immediately inducted into the medical professional body and bears the tittle “doctor” likewise the law student after law school “barrister” but for the engineering graduate, the journey just began.
The engineering graduate spends at least five years in school and then a one-year compulsory youth service (NYSC) with the probability of serving in a classroom being 80%. He is only eligible to seat for his professional examination (Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria COREN) after 4-5 years of graduation and that’s after registering as a graduate engineer under the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE). The pre-requisite for the examination includes: a technical report on a project that the aspirant participated in and also a referee who must be a registered COREN member.
In all, to be an engineer in Nigeria takes at least ten years. According to NSE and COREN, these is to reduce quackery in the profession. with all this in place, what have we achieved other than filling our dying or non-existent industries with expatriate who milk our country dry because we lack adequate technological manpower.
To attain industrialization as a nation, engineering can never be left behind. Engineering and industrialization can never be separated. Industrialization can never take place without empowering and developing indigenous engineering/technological manpower.
The government should as a matter of urgency stop the posting of engineering graduates to schools by NYSC but rather to industries (power, ICT, manufacturing, construction, transport¬¬). Thereby providing the needed industrial experience for these young and vibrant engineering graduates. All related industries must absorb these graduates even if on a meagre pay since it is a service to fatherland. This includes the six months Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES).
Secondly, NSE and COREN should induct members immediately after graduation as the way it is done now has not improved the nation in any way. COREN as a regulatory body can then checkmate the professionalism of these young engineers.
Thirdly, the government should adopt the use of professionals for advisory and supervisory roles in engineering/technological matters examples ministers, head of agencies etc.
Finally, the government should provide credit facilities to engineers who wish to set up their own industries. By doing so, we grow our industries and even expand the capacities of these industries to absorb more engineers there by growing the nation industrially.
Unfortunate for me, despite my aspiration to gain more experience in my field of engineering and hence contribute in solving the nation’s technological problems, I am current doing my NYSC program teaching physics in the classroom.


PATRICK. C. OGUAJU
Graduate Engineer
B.Eng. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
patrick.oguaju@yahoo.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-oguaju-3408bb100
OY/17B/1430

Pato5:
An engineer is one who deploys forensic and mathematical skills acquired during the course of his training to invent, repair, maintain, troubleshoot and solve problems of man. Therefore, an engineer is meant to be more mathematical than a mathematician, more scientific than a scientist, and more logical than a lawyer. The engineering curriculum covers virtually all topics in mathematics, sciences, humanities and management.
It is abysmally unfortunate that the graduate engineer in Nigeria has been reduced to a mere classroom teacher, artisan, trader or some unprofessional field. The prestigious engineering profession has been bastardized in Nigeria.
The medical and law profession has given her graduates the desired professional status by inducting them automatically or otherwise into their respective bodies immediately after graduation and even ensuring that they are posted to their respective fields during the mandatory national youth service corps (NYSC) unlike the engineer who will be posted to the classroom to teach physics, chemistry, mathematics, basic science, basic technology etc. thereby wasting a year of post-graduation in teaching rather than gaining industrial experience.
The medical student upon graduation is immediately inducted into the medical professional body and bears the tittle “doctor” likewise the law student after law school “barrister” but for the engineering graduate, the journey just began.
The engineering graduate spends at least five years in school and then a one-year compulsory youth service (NYSC) with the probability of serving in a classroom being 80%. He is only eligible to seat for his professional examination (Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria COREN) after 4-5 years of graduation and that’s after registering as a graduate engineer under the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE). The pre-requisite for the examination includes: a technical report on a project that the aspirant participated in and also a referee who must be a registered COREN member.
In all, to be an engineer in Nigeria takes at least ten years. According to NSE and COREN, these is to reduce quackery in the profession. with all this in place, what have we achieved other than filling our dying or non-existent industries with expatriate who milk our country dry because we lack adequate technological manpower.
To attain industrialization as a nation, engineering can never be left behind. Engineering and industrialization can never be separated. Industrialization can never take place without empowering and developing indigenous engineering/technological manpower.
The government should as a matter of urgency stop the posting of engineering graduates to schools by NYSC but rather to industries (power, ICT, manufacturing, construction, transport¬¬). Thereby providing the needed industrial experience for these young and vibrant engineering graduates. All related industries must absorb these graduates even if on a meagre pay since it is a service to fatherland. This includes the six months Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES).
Secondly, NSE and COREN should induct members immediately after graduation as the way it is done now has not improved the nation in any way. COREN as a regulatory body can then checkmate the professionalism of these young engineers.
Thirdly, the government should adopt the use of professionals for advisory and supervisory roles in engineering/technological matters examples ministers, head of agencies etc.
Finally, the government should provide credit facilities to engineers who wish to set up their own industries. By doing so, we grow our industries and even expand the capacities of these industries to absorb more engineers there by growing the nation industrially.
Unfortunate for me, despite my aspiration to gain more experience in my field of engineering and hence contribute in solving the nation’s technological problems, I am current doing my NYSC program teaching physics in the classroom.


PATRICK. C. OGUAJU
Graduate Engineer
B.Eng. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
patrick.oguaju@yahoo.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-oguaju-3408bb100
OY/17B/1430

When i see engineers fron Egypt and orhers design and build solid infrastructure under Arab contractors while average Nigerian engineer cannot design a culvert withour the thing cracking and collapsing in a few weeks, i know we have severe problem with engineering training in Nigeria.
.these so called engineers are more or less maths and pbysics graduates as they have zero technical skills or technical reasoning.

Nigeria universities must redesign the curricula to make sure not every tom dick and harry are graduated as "engineers"

ChimaAgbalajob:



When i see engineers fron Egypt and orhers design and build solid infrastructure under Arab contractors while average Nigerian engineer cannot design a culvert withour the thing cracking and collapsing in a few weeks, i know we have severe problem with engineering training in Nigeria.
.these so called engineers are more or less maths and pbysics graduates as they have zero technical skills or technical reasoning.

Nigeria universities must redesign the curricula to make sure not every tom dick and harry are graduated as "engineers"

It is so because when the graduate engineer is supposed to garner field experience, he is busy teaching sciences in school in the name of NYSC

Pato5:

It is so because when the graduate engineer is suppose garner field experience, he busy teaching sciences in school in the name of NYSC

Oh see the the write up of an engineer.

...BROTHER!!! of write-ups the Engineer posted, u were only able to spot the grammatical errors and blunders!

To correct u Sir, its not mandatory the English language of an Engineer conform with its semantics and syntax, all it needed is to be disseminated and also portrays meaning.

In this part of the world, we always tend to spot the wrong things, find faults in BRAVERY, UPRIGHTNESS & SENSE.

izicooo:
Oh see the the write up of an engineer.